Law Contract Job Trends in England

Law
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Law in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Law over the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 270 207 156
Rank change year-on-year -63 -51 +26
Contract jobs citing Law 304 348 599
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.96% 1.22% 1.62%
As % of the General category 1.56% 1.98% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 163 403
10th Percentile £233 £246 £241
25th Percentile £420 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £663 £631 £638
90th Percentile £725 £715 £730
UK median daily rate £550 £504 £538
% change year-on-year +9.13% -6.23% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 11
10th Percentile £16.66 £17.73 £10.42
25th Percentile £21.50 £27.63 £12.50
Median hourly rate £37.00 £49.75 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.63% +220.97% -19.69%
75th Percentile £40.46 £67.14 £18.13
90th Percentile £47.12 £73.92 £20.00
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £49.75 £15.50
% change year-on-year +0.50% +220.97% -20.51%

All General Skills
England

Law 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 19,476 17,602 21,947
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 61.26% 61.71% 59.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,325 10,663 14,818
10th Percentile £282 £300 £280
25th Percentile £402 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £626 £650 £663
90th Percentile £738 £775 £760
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,249 610 1,034
10th Percentile £14.22 £15.62 £14.20
25th Percentile £16.96 £18.42 £16.64
Median hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.67% -9.09% +32.00%
75th Percentile £46.00 £58.20 £59.38
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.85 £70.37
UK median hourly rate £23.58 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -14.27% -15.38% +30.00%

Law
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Law relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Law job vacancy trend in England

Law
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Law.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Law

Law
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Law in England over the 6 months to 27 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Law in England

Law
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Law.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Law

Law
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Law in England over the 6 months to 27 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Law in England

Law
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Law within the England region over the 6 months to 27 December 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
London +5 159 £575 +9.52% 313
Midlands -61 40 £550 +10.00% 200
South East -39 33 £490 -7.42% 319
East of England -3 31 £400 +6.67% 147
West Midlands -31 31 £550 +4.76% 108
North of England -55 24 £447 -5.89% 272
South West -16 15 £675 +200.00% 121
North West -18 14 £463 -2.63% 155
Yorkshire -49 10 £424 +2.73% 93
East Midlands -39 9 £175 -65.00% 81
Law
UK

Law
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (3.95%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.64%) Oracle Workflow
3 4 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.99%) CMS
5 1 (0.33%) Apache
5 1 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.33%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.33%) Confluence
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.33%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 17 (5.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (4.61%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (2.30%) Simulink
4 6 (1.97%) Windchill
5 4 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.66%) PTC Creo
8 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (2.96%) Elite 3E
2 5 (1.64%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (0.99%) SAP PLM
4 2 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.66%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.33%) Aareon QL
5 1 (0.33%) MIS ActiveH
5 1 (0.33%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.33%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.33%) OPENHousing
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.33%) Orchard Housing
5 1 (0.33%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.33%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.33%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.33%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 51 (16.78%) Azure
2 27 (8.88%) AWS
3 18 (5.92%) SaaS
4 17 (5.59%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (5.59%) Power Platform
5 15 (4.93%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (4.61%) GCP
7 10 (3.29%) Azure Logic Apps
8 9 (2.96%) Entra ID
9 8 (2.63%) Power Automate
10 6 (1.97%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (1.64%) GitHub
11 5 (1.64%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (1.32%) Azure AKS
12 4 (1.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 4 (1.32%) Azure Data Factory
13 3 (0.99%) AWS KMS
13 3 (0.99%) Azure API Management
13 3 (0.99%) OCI
13 3 (0.99%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.29%) DNS
2 9 (2.96%) TCP/IP
3 8 (2.63%) Firewall
4 7 (2.30%) VPN
5 5 (1.64%) Internet
6 4 (1.32%) Network Security
6 4 (1.32%) Remote Desktop
7 3 (0.99%) Ethernet
7 3 (0.99%) Intranet
8 2 (0.66%) DHCP
8 2 (0.66%) LAN
8 2 (0.66%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.66%) VLAN
8 2 (0.66%) WAN
9 1 (0.33%) Cisco IPT
9 1 (0.33%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (0.33%) Skype
9 1 (0.33%) WebEx
9 1 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.28%) Power BI
2 5 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (1.64%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (1.32%) MongoDB
4 3 (0.99%) Metadata
4 3 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (0.99%) Tableau
5 2 (0.66%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.66%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.66%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.66%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 2 (0.66%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (0.66%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.66%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.33%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.33%) HBase
6 1 (0.33%) Kdb+
6 1 (0.33%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 18 (5.92%) JIRA
2 10 (3.29%) Git
3 6 (1.97%) Rational DOORS
4 5 (1.64%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.32%) GitLab
5 4 (1.32%) Rational Rhapsody
6 3 (0.99%) CircleCI
6 3 (0.99%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.66%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.33%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.33%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.33%) Gradle
8 1 (0.33%) Maven
8 1 (0.33%) MLflow
8 1 (0.33%) PVCS
8 1 (0.33%) QUnit
8 1 (0.33%) TestRail
General
1 114 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 84 (27.63%) Finance
3 70 (23.03%) Legal
4 31 (10.20%) Public Sector
5 30 (9.87%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (3.62%) Billing
6 11 (3.62%) Police
7 10 (3.29%) Marketing
8 8 (2.63%) Electronics
8 8 (2.63%) Front Office
8 8 (2.63%) Telecoms
9 7 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.30%) General Ledger
9 7 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.97%) Banking
10 6 (1.97%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.97%) Publishing
11 5 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.64%) Military
11 5 (1.64%) Retail
Job Titles
1 38 (12.50%) Analyst
2 23 (7.57%) Consultant
2 23 (7.57%) Project Manager
3 22 (7.24%) Developer
4 20 (6.58%) Lead
5 18 (5.92%) Senior
5 18 (5.92%) Software Engineer
6 15 (4.93%) Business Analyst
7 13 (4.28%) Support Engineer
8 12 (3.95%) Architect
9 9 (2.96%) Commercial Manager
9 9 (2.96%) IT Support
10 7 (2.30%) Change Manager
10 7 (2.30%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (1.97%) Design Engineer
11 6 (1.97%) Java Developer
11 6 (1.97%) Security Analyst
12 5 (1.64%) Contracts Manager
12 5 (1.64%) Procurement Manager
12 5 (1.64%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.30%) Middleware
1 7 (2.30%) Node.js
1 7 (2.30%) REST
2 6 (1.97%) Kafka
2 6 (1.97%) React
2 6 (1.97%) SOAP
3 4 (1.32%) Express.js
3 4 (1.32%) FIX Protocol
3 4 (1.32%) Next.js
4 3 (0.99%) ARM Templates
4 3 (0.99%) Flash
4 3 (0.99%) Spring
4 3 (0.99%) Web Services
5 2 (0.66%) .NET
5 2 (0.66%) CSS
5 2 (0.66%) HTML
5 2 (0.66%) JSON
5 2 (0.66%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (0.66%) Spring Boot
5 2 (0.66%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (4.28%) Management Information System
2 9 (2.96%) Product Ownership
3 8 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (2.63%) Onboarding
4 7 (2.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (1.97%) Data Centre
5 6 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (1.97%) Freedom of Information Act
6 5 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (1.64%) Cyber Threat
6 5 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.64%) FPGA
6 5 (1.64%) Freedom of Information
6 5 (1.64%) Smartphone
6 5 (1.64%) VHDL
7 4 (1.32%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.32%) Cybercrime
7 4 (1.32%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.32%) Public Cloud
8 3 (0.99%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 23 (7.57%) Windows
2 13 (4.28%) Linux
3 12 (3.95%) Windows 10
4 6 (1.97%) Unix
4 6 (1.97%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.32%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (1.32%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.33%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.33%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.33%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (17.76%) Stakeholder Management
2 40 (13.16%) Agile
3 38 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 32 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 30 (9.87%) Migration
6 26 (8.55%) DevOps
7 25 (8.22%) Software Engineering
8 23 (7.57%) Change Management
9 22 (7.24%) CI/CD
9 22 (7.24%) ITIL
10 21 (6.91%) Data Protection
11 20 (6.58%) Workflow
12 18 (5.92%) Risk Management
13 17 (5.59%) Continuous Improvement
13 17 (5.59%) Project Delivery
14 16 (5.26%) Customer Service
15 15 (4.93%) Decision-Making
15 15 (4.93%) PRINCE2
15 15 (4.93%) Project Management
16 14 (4.61%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 24 (7.89%) SQL
2 18 (5.92%) C++
2 18 (5.92%) Python
3 15 (4.93%) Java
4 11 (3.62%) C
5 8 (2.63%) JavaScript
5 8 (2.63%) PowerShell
6 7 (2.30%) C#
6 7 (2.30%) MATLAB
7 6 (1.97%) Bicep
7 6 (1.97%) TypeScript
8 4 (1.32%) Ada
8 4 (1.32%) Bash
8 4 (1.32%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (0.99%) Go
10 2 (0.66%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.66%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.66%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.33%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 62 (20.39%) Security Cleared
2 41 (13.49%) SC Cleared
3 39 (12.83%) Degree
4 19 (6.25%) DV Cleared
5 8 (2.63%) CIPD
6 7 (2.30%) CISSP
7 6 (1.97%) ACCA
7 6 (1.97%) CIMA
7 6 (1.97%) PMP
8 5 (1.64%) CEH
8 5 (1.64%) CompTIA CySA+
8 5 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.64%) GIAC
9 4 (1.32%) CISM
9 4 (1.32%) GREM
9 4 (1.32%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.32%) OSCP
10 3 (0.99%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.66%) CISA
11 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (9.21%) GDPR
2 13 (4.28%) QA
3 12 (3.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (2.96%) Data Quality
5 8 (2.63%) SLA
6 6 (1.97%) NCSC
6 6 (1.97%) NIST
7 4 (1.32%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.32%) GRC
7 4 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 4 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 3 (0.99%) PERC
9 2 (0.66%) Def Stans
9 2 (0.66%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.66%) JSP 440
9 2 (0.66%) MISRA
9 2 (0.66%) PMO
10 1 (0.33%) DO-178B
10 1 (0.33%) IEC 61508
10 1 (0.33%) Solvency II
System Software
1 20 (6.58%) Active Directory
2 11 (3.62%) Docker
3 7 (2.30%) Firmware
4 6 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.64%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.32%) Terminal Services
7 3 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (3.29%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.96%) Terraform
3 6 (1.97%) Ansible
3 6 (1.97%) SCCM
4 4 (1.32%) Kibana
5 3 (0.99%) Grafana
6 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.33%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (0.33%) EnCase
7 1 (0.33%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.33%) FTK
7 1 (0.33%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.33%) Nmap
Vendors
1 36 (11.84%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.59%) ServiceNow
3 15 (4.93%) SAP
4 11 (3.62%) Oracle
5 9 (2.96%) Intapp
6 7 (2.30%) Workday
7 6 (1.97%) VMware
8 5 (1.64%) Aderant
8 5 (1.64%) Databricks
8 5 (1.64%) iManage
8 5 (1.64%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.32%) Citrix
9 4 (1.32%) Guidewire
9 4 (1.32%) HubSpot
9 4 (1.32%) IBM
9 4 (1.32%) Splunk
9 4 (1.32%) Xero
10 3 (0.99%) Google
10 3 (0.99%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.66%) Aruba