Legal Contracts in the East Midlands

Legal
England > East Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legal in contract job vacancies in the East Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legal over the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 48 70
Rank change year-on-year -2 +22 +10
Contract jobs citing Legal 7 19 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.21% 2.48% 1.48%
As % of the General category 1.96% 4.69% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 11
10th Percentile £326 £165 £275
25th Percentile £347 £188 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £275 £579
Median % change year-on-year +45.55% -52.50% +36.24%
75th Percentile £469 £419 £625
90th Percentile £479 £498 £650
England median daily rate £503 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.50% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £26.00 -
England median hourly rate £22.50 £40.00 £23.31
% change year-on-year -43.75% +71.60% -30.16%

All General Skills
East Midlands

Legal falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 358 405 539
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 61.94% 52.80% 53.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 275 420
10th Percentile £205 £167 £213
25th Percentile £311 £254 £329
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £400 £466
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -14.21% +5.97%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £600
90th Percentile £554 £633 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 55 34
10th Percentile £14.81 £12.19 £12.21
25th Percentile £17.81 £13.75 £16.72
Median hourly rate £22.75 £17.00 £22.38
Median % change year-on-year +33.82% -24.04% -3.74%
75th Percentile £30.67 £34.13 £51.50
90th Percentile £38.38 £51.91 -
England median hourly rate £27.50 £30.14 £32.15
% change year-on-year -8.76% -6.25% +47.38%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Legal as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Legal in the East Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Legal in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Legal in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legal in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Legal in the East Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Legal in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Legal in the East Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Legal within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Derbyshire +8 4 £325 -13.33% 17
Northamptonshire -1 3 £443 +77.00% 10
Legal
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Firewall
1 3 (42.86%) Network Security
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
1 3 (42.86%) Manufacturing
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Information Assurance Manager
1 3 (42.86%) Information Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Finance Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Finance Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) IT Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Industry 4.0
1 3 (42.86%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Risk Management
2 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (42.86%) Information Assurance
2 3 (42.86%) Information Security
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Budget Management
3 2 (28.57%) Business Strategy
3 2 (28.57%) Project Delivery
3 2 (28.57%) Waterfall
4 1 (14.29%) Budgeting
4 1 (14.29%) Business Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) Change Management
4 1 (14.29%) Conflict Resolution
4 1 (14.29%) Customer Experience
4 1 (14.29%) Kanban
4 1 (14.29%) PRINCE2
4 1 (14.29%) Project Governance
4 1 (14.29%) Project Management
4 1 (14.29%) Scrum
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) CISA
1 3 (42.86%) CISM
1 3 (42.86%) CISSP
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
1 3 (42.86%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (42.86%) NIST
1 3 (42.86%) NIST 800
2 1 (14.29%) Basel III
2 1 (14.29%) MiFID
2 1 (14.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley