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 7 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 267 213 156
Rank change year-on-year -54 -57 +22
Contract jobs citing Law 304 331 574
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.96% 1.21% 1.59%
As % of the General category 1.58% 1.95% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 152 380
10th Percentile £230 £246 £247
25th Percentile £425 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £508 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.21% -7.59% +4.76%
75th Percentile £651 £638 £638
90th Percentile £724 £720 £730
UK median daily rate £550 £521 £534
% change year-on-year +5.52% -2.34% +1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 9
10th Percentile £19.23 £22.50 £10.42
25th Percentile £24.88 £31.13 £11.87
Median hourly rate £37.00 £65.00 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -43.08% +319.35% -19.69%
75th Percentile £39.00 £69.28 £16.75
90th Percentile £56.38 £74.04 £28.31
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year -23.08% +319.35% -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 general skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 19,286 16,953 21,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 60.94% 61.99% 59.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,266 10,242 14,341
10th Percentile £285 £300 £275
25th Percentile £402 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £656
90th Percentile £738 £775 £753
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.31% -1.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,202 572 1,030
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.54 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.00 £18.37 £16.25
Median hourly rate £23.58 £30.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.42% -9.09% +28.11%
75th Percentile £47.38 £57.62 £58.94
90th Percentile £71.50 £74.99 £70.51
UK median hourly rate £23.58 £27.50 £32.41
% change year-on-year -14.27% -15.15% +29.64%

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 7 January 2026.

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 7 January 2026.

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 7 January 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
London -5 162 £575 +9.52% 187
Midlands -60 38 £525 - 54
South East -35 35 £500 -5.53% 123
East of England -5 28 £400 +6.67% 41
West Midlands -38 28 £550 - 32
North of England -53 24 £447 -10.60% 88
South West -14 15 £675 +200.00% 41
North West -25 13 £475 -5.00% 52
Yorkshire -53 11 £412 -18.64% 24
East Midlands -43 10 £175 -65.00% 22
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 11 (3.62%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.64%) Oracle Workflow
3 4 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.66%) CMS
5 1 (0.33%) Apache
5 1 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.33%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.33%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 17 (5.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (3.95%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.64%) Simulink
4 4 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.32%) Windchill
5 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.33%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 8 (2.63%) Elite 3E
2 5 (1.64%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.66%) SAP PLM
3 2 (0.66%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.33%) Aareon QL
4 1 (0.33%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle SCM
4 1 (0.33%) Orchard Housing
4 1 (0.33%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.33%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.33%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.33%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.33%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 50 (16.45%) Azure
2 28 (9.21%) AWS
3 18 (5.92%) SaaS
4 17 (5.59%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (5.59%) Power Platform
5 14 (4.61%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (4.61%) GCP
6 9 (2.96%) Azure Logic Apps
6 9 (2.96%) Entra ID
7 8 (2.63%) Power Automate
8 6 (1.97%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (1.64%) GitHub
9 5 (1.64%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (1.32%) Azure AKS
10 4 (1.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (1.32%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (0.99%) AWS KMS
11 3 (0.99%) OCI
11 3 (0.99%) Snowflake
11 3 (0.99%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.96%) DNS
2 8 (2.63%) Firewall
2 8 (2.63%) TCP/IP
3 7 (2.30%) VPN
4 5 (1.64%) Internet
5 4 (1.32%) SD-WAN
5 4 (1.32%) WAN
6 3 (0.99%) Ethernet
6 3 (0.99%) Intranet
6 3 (0.99%) LAN
6 3 (0.99%) Network Security
6 3 (0.99%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (0.66%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (0.66%) DHCP
7 2 (0.66%) VLAN
8 1 (0.33%) FTP
8 1 (0.33%) Skype
8 1 (0.33%) SSL
8 1 (0.33%) VoIP
8 1 (0.33%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.28%) Power BI
2 5 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (1.64%) Metadata
2 5 (1.64%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (1.32%) MongoDB
4 3 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.66%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
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
5 2 (0.66%) Tableau
6 1 (0.33%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.33%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.33%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.33%) Pinecone
6 1 (0.33%) Power Query
6 1 (0.33%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 16 (5.26%) JIRA
2 10 (3.29%) Git
3 5 (1.64%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.64%) Rational DOORS
4 4 (1.32%) GitLab
5 3 (0.99%) CircleCI
5 3 (0.99%) Rational Rhapsody
5 3 (0.99%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.66%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.33%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.33%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.33%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.33%) Gradle
7 1 (0.33%) Maven
7 1 (0.33%) MLflow
7 1 (0.33%) PVCS
7 1 (0.33%) QUnit
7 1 (0.33%) Selenium
7 1 (0.33%) TestRail
7 1 (0.33%) WebDriver
General
1 113 (37.17%) Social Skills
2 82 (26.97%) Finance
3 64 (21.05%) Legal
4 35 (11.51%) Public Sector
5 32 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (3.62%) Billing
6 11 (3.62%) Marketing
7 10 (3.29%) Police
8 8 (2.63%) Front Office
8 8 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (2.30%) Banking
9 7 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.30%) Electronics
9 7 (2.30%) Publishing
10 6 (1.97%) General Ledger
11 5 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.64%) Military
11 5 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.64%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.32%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (12.17%) Analyst
2 23 (7.57%) Consultant
3 22 (7.24%) Developer
4 21 (6.91%) Project Manager
5 20 (6.58%) Senior
6 19 (6.25%) Lead
6 19 (6.25%) Software Engineer
7 17 (5.59%) Architect
8 14 (4.61%) Support Engineer
9 13 (4.28%) Business Analyst
10 9 (2.96%) Commercial Manager
10 9 (2.96%) Solutions Architect
11 8 (2.63%) IT Support
12 7 (2.30%) Change Manager
13 6 (1.97%) Desktop Support
13 6 (1.97%) Java Developer
13 6 (1.97%) Security Analyst
14 5 (1.64%) Desktop Engineer
14 5 (1.64%) Desktop Support Engineer
14 5 (1.64%) Procurement Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.30%) Middleware
1 7 (2.30%) Node.js
1 7 (2.30%) REST
2 6 (1.97%) React
2 6 (1.97%) SOAP
3 5 (1.64%) Kafka
4 4 (1.32%) Express.js
4 4 (1.32%) FIX Protocol
4 4 (1.32%) Next.js
5 3 (0.99%) Spring
5 3 (0.99%) Web Services
6 2 (0.66%) .NET
6 2 (0.66%) ARM Templates
6 2 (0.66%) CSS
6 2 (0.66%) Flash
6 2 (0.66%) HTML
6 2 (0.66%) JSON
6 2 (0.66%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (0.66%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.33%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.61%) Management Information System
2 9 (2.96%) Onboarding
2 9 (2.96%) Product Ownership
3 8 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (2.30%) Data Centre
4 7 (2.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (1.97%) Freedom of Information Act
5 6 (1.97%) Smartphone
6 5 (1.64%) Cyber Threat
6 5 (1.64%) Freedom of Information
7 4 (1.32%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.32%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.32%) Cybercrime
7 4 (1.32%) FPGA
7 4 (1.32%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.32%) Security Posture
7 4 (1.32%) VHDL
8 3 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 24 (7.89%) Windows
2 12 (3.95%) Linux
2 12 (3.95%) Windows 10
3 5 (1.64%) Unix
3 5 (1.64%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.99%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (0.99%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.33%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (0.33%) Kali Linux
5 1 (0.33%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (18.42%) Stakeholder Management
2 46 (15.13%) Agile
3 38 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 31 (10.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 28 (9.21%) Migration
6 26 (8.55%) Software Engineering
7 25 (8.22%) DevOps
8 23 (7.57%) Change Management
8 23 (7.57%) ITIL
9 21 (6.91%) CI/CD
9 21 (6.91%) Workflow
10 20 (6.58%) Risk Management
11 19 (6.25%) Data Protection
12 18 (5.92%) Continuous Improvement
12 18 (5.92%) Project Delivery
13 17 (5.59%) Customer Service
14 16 (5.26%) Data Modelling
14 16 (5.26%) Project Management
15 15 (4.93%) PRINCE2
15 15 (4.93%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 24 (7.89%) SQL
2 16 (5.26%) C++
2 16 (5.26%) Python
3 15 (4.93%) Java
4 9 (2.96%) C
4 9 (2.96%) C#
5 8 (2.63%) JavaScript
5 8 (2.63%) PowerShell
6 6 (1.97%) MATLAB
6 6 (1.97%) TypeScript
7 5 (1.64%) Ada
7 5 (1.64%) Bicep
8 4 (1.32%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.99%) Bash
9 3 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (0.99%) Go
10 2 (0.66%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.66%) Perl
10 2 (0.66%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.66%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 66 (21.71%) Security Cleared
2 45 (14.80%) SC Cleared
3 36 (11.84%) Degree
4 18 (5.92%) DV Cleared
5 8 (2.63%) CIPD
6 7 (2.30%) CISSP
7 6 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.97%) PMP
8 5 (1.64%) ACCA
8 5 (1.64%) CEH
8 5 (1.64%) CIMA
8 5 (1.64%) CompTIA CySA+
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 25 (8.22%) GDPR
2 13 (4.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (4.28%) QA
3 8 (2.63%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.63%) NCSC
3 8 (2.63%) SLA
4 7 (2.30%) NIST
5 6 (1.97%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 4 (1.32%) GRC
7 4 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.66%) Def Stans
8 2 (0.66%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.66%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.66%) JSP 440
8 2 (0.66%) MISRA
8 2 (0.66%) PMO
8 2 (0.66%) PSD2
9 1 (0.33%) DO-178B
9 1 (0.33%) RMADS
System Software
1 20 (6.58%) Active Directory
2 11 (3.62%) Docker
3 5 (1.64%) Firmware
3 5 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.32%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.99%) Terminal Services
6 2 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (3.29%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.96%) Terraform
3 7 (2.30%) SCCM
4 6 (1.97%) Ansible
5 4 (1.32%) Kibana
6 3 (0.99%) Grafana
7 2 (0.66%) Cisco Prime
7 2 (0.66%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.33%) EnCase
8 1 (0.33%) FTK
8 1 (0.33%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.33%) Nmap
Vendors
1 37 (12.17%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.59%) ServiceNow
3 14 (4.61%) SAP
4 11 (3.62%) Oracle
5 9 (2.96%) Intapp
6 6 (1.97%) Workday
7 5 (1.64%) Databricks
7 5 (1.64%) IBM
7 5 (1.64%) iManage
7 5 (1.64%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.64%) VMware
8 4 (1.32%) Aruba
8 4 (1.32%) Cisco
8 4 (1.32%) HubSpot
8 4 (1.32%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.32%) Splunk
8 4 (1.32%) Xero
9 3 (0.99%) Aderant
9 3 (0.99%) Guidewire
9 3 (0.99%) MuleSoft