Legal Contract Job Trends 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 2 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 56 53
Rank change year-on-year -24 -3 +11
Contract jobs citing Legal 4 10 16
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.35% 1.42% 1.84%
As % of the General category 0.71% 2.32% 3.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 3
10th Percentile £354 £311 £185
25th Percentile £361 £347 £238
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £372 £359 £350
Median % change year-on-year +3.48% +2.57% -39.55%
75th Percentile £382 £469 £463
90th Percentile £389 £518 £515
England median daily rate £525 £503 £500
% change year-on-year +4.48% +0.50% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £21.70
25th Percentile - - £23.13
Median hourly rate - - £26.00
75th Percentile - - £26.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +75.84% -37.50% +77.78%

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 general skills in the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 563 431 452
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 49.60% 61.13% 52.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 310 286 280
10th Percentile £263 £213 £185
25th Percentile £400 £320 £259
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £402 £425
Median % change year-on-year +24.38% -5.41% -10.53%
75th Percentile £575 £488 £575
90th Percentile £663 £547 £638
England median daily rate £525 £520 £535
% change year-on-year +0.96% -2.80% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 30 57
10th Percentile £12.95 £15.12 £12.22
25th Percentile £14.65 £18.26 £13.50
Median hourly rate £18.75 £21.39 £16.63
Median % change year-on-year -12.34% +28.62% -38.38%
75th Percentile £25.77 £25.15 £35.00
90th Percentile £59.73 £40.06 £51.91
England median hourly rate £32.50 £27.50 £32.90
% change year-on-year +18.18% -16.40% +9.65%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Legal relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Legal job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Legal.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Legal

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Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Legal.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Legal

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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 2 July 2026. 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 -6 2 £350 -22.65% 4
Northamptonshire +2 1 £393 +9.47% 2
Leicestershire - 1 - - 6
Legal
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Power Automate
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (25.00%) Local Government
2 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Implementation Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Information Assurance Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Information Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) Lead Business Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) JSON
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Low-Code
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (25.00%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (50.00%) Process Improvement
1 2 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Content Management
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) Document Management
2 1 (25.00%) Information Security
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Release Management
2 1 (25.00%) Strategic Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Supplier Management
2 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CISM
1 1 (25.00%) CISSP
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GRC
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Laserfiche
1 1 (25.00%) OneTrust
1 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow