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 10 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 202 170
Rank change year-on-year -58 -32 +1
Contract jobs citing Law 349 315 532
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.96% 1.27% 1.40%
As % of the General category 1.66% 2.02% 2.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 191 310
10th Percentile £313 £238 £248
25th Percentile £425 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £675 £603 £636
90th Percentile £750 £715 £731
UK median daily rate £564 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +12.75% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 24
10th Percentile £21.68 £31.58 £10.42
25th Percentile £28.75 £56.81 £11.87
Median hourly rate £37.00 £68.69 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.13% +428.37% -33.33%
75th Percentile £39.00 £76.32 £23.69
90th Percentile - £81.01 £35.13
UK median hourly rate £34.75 £65.00 £13.00
% change year-on-year -46.54% +400.00% -33.33%

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 20,990 15,632 22,320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 58.00% 63.14% 58.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,292 9,992 14,576
10th Percentile £300 £300 £266
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £756
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,299 561 1,673
10th Percentile £14.12 £15.06 £13.05
25th Percentile £17.50 £19.91 £15.29
Median hourly rate £25.00 £30.21 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.25% +16.19% -20.00%
75th Percentile £57.25 £60.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £75.79 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £24.03 £29.07 £25.75
% change year-on-year -17.34% +12.89% -20.77%

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 10 March 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 10 March 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 10 March 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 -9 188 £588 +13.53% 165
Midlands -87 42 £525 +5.00% 55
South East -29 36 £525 +5.58% 101
West Midlands -69 32 £550 +7.32% 31
North of England -57 31 £425 +3.03% 99
East of England -22 24 £375 - 27
South West -26 22 £588 +161.11% 17
North West -33 18 £450 +12.50% 65
Yorkshire -53 13 £412 -12.13% 29
East Midlands -44 10 £175 -65.00% 24
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 (3.44%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.15%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (0.86%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.86%) CMS
5 1 (0.29%) Apache
5 1 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.29%) Confluence
5 1 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 17 (4.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.87%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.29%) PTC Creo
5 1 (0.29%) Simulink
5 1 (0.29%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 9 (2.58%) Elite 3E
2 5 (1.43%) Oracle Receivables
3 4 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.57%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.57%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.29%) Aareon QL
5 1 (0.29%) MIS ActiveH
5 1 (0.29%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.29%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.29%) OPENHousing
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.29%) Orchard Housing
5 1 (0.29%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.29%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.29%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 56 (16.05%) Azure
2 26 (7.45%) AWS
3 20 (5.73%) Power Platform
3 20 (5.73%) SaaS
4 19 (5.44%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (4.01%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (3.15%) GCP
7 9 (2.58%) Azure Logic Apps
8 8 (2.29%) Entra ID
8 8 (2.29%) Microsoft Copilot
8 8 (2.29%) Power Automate
9 7 (2.01%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (1.72%) GitHub
11 5 (1.43%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (1.43%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (0.86%) AWS KMS
12 3 (0.86%) Azure Key Vault
12 3 (0.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 3 (0.86%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.01%) Firewall
1 7 (2.01%) VPN
2 6 (1.72%) SD-WAN
2 6 (1.72%) WAN
3 5 (1.43%) DNS
3 5 (1.43%) LAN
3 5 (1.43%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.15%) Cisco IPT
4 4 (1.15%) Intranet
4 4 (1.15%) MPLS
5 3 (0.86%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (0.86%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.57%) DHCP
6 2 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.29%) Internet
7 1 (0.29%) Network Security
7 1 (0.29%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.29%) VLAN
7 1 (0.29%) VoIP
7 1 (0.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.30%) Power BI
2 6 (1.72%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (1.43%) Metadata
4 4 (1.15%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.86%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.86%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.57%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.57%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.57%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.29%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.29%) HBase
7 1 (0.29%) KDB
7 1 (0.29%) MySQL
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.29%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.29%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 17 (4.87%) JIRA
2 10 (2.87%) Git
3 5 (1.43%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.15%) GitLab
4 4 (1.15%) Rational DOORS
5 3 (0.86%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.57%) Eclipse
6 2 (0.57%) Rational Rhapsody
6 2 (0.57%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.29%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.29%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.29%) Gradle
7 1 (0.29%) Maven
7 1 (0.29%) MLflow
7 1 (0.29%) PVCS
7 1 (0.29%) QUnit
7 1 (0.29%) Selenium
7 1 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.29%) TestRail
7 1 (0.29%) WebDriver
General
1 125 (35.82%) Social Skills
2 93 (26.65%) Legal
3 90 (25.79%) Finance
4 39 (11.17%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (11.17%) Public Sector
5 17 (4.87%) Marketing
6 12 (3.44%) Police
7 11 (3.15%) Billing
8 10 (2.87%) Banking
8 10 (2.87%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (2.58%) Electronics
9 9 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (2.29%) Front Office
10 8 (2.29%) Publishing
11 7 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (1.72%) General Ledger
12 6 (1.72%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.72%) Telecoms
13 5 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (1.15%) Retail
Job Titles
1 43 (12.32%) Analyst
2 33 (9.46%) Senior
3 29 (8.31%) Project Manager
4 28 (8.02%) Architect
5 26 (7.45%) Consultant
6 25 (7.16%) Software Engineer
7 22 (6.30%) Developer
8 18 (5.16%) Lead
9 15 (4.30%) Business Analyst
10 11 (3.15%) Support Engineer
11 10 (2.87%) Commercial Manager
11 10 (2.87%) Solutions Architect
12 9 (2.58%) Senior Manager
13 8 (2.29%) Business Manager
14 7 (2.01%) Embedded Engineer
14 7 (2.01%) Embedded Software Engineer
15 6 (1.72%) Data Analyst
15 6 (1.72%) Desktop Engineer
15 6 (1.72%) Java Developer
15 6 (1.72%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.15%) Middleware
2 7 (2.01%) REST
3 6 (1.72%) SOAP
4 5 (1.43%) Kafka
5 4 (1.15%) ARM Templates
5 4 (1.15%) FIX Protocol
5 4 (1.15%) Node.js
6 3 (0.86%) JSON
6 3 (0.86%) PySpark
6 3 (0.86%) React
6 3 (0.86%) Spring
6 3 (0.86%) Web Services
7 2 (0.57%) Express.js
7 2 (0.57%) Flash
7 2 (0.57%) IDoc
7 2 (0.57%) Next.js
7 2 (0.57%) Qt
7 2 (0.57%) SAP ALE
7 2 (0.57%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.29%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 15 (4.30%) Management Information System
2 13 (3.72%) Product Ownership
3 12 (3.44%) Onboarding
4 7 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (2.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (1.72%) AI Agents
5 6 (1.72%) Data Centre
5 6 (1.72%) Security Posture
5 6 (1.72%) Smartphone
6 5 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.43%) Taxonomies
7 4 (1.15%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.15%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.15%) Low-Code
7 4 (1.15%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (0.86%) Digital Wallet
8 3 (0.86%) Embedded Systems
8 3 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (7.16%) Windows
2 19 (5.44%) Linux
3 11 (3.15%) Windows 10
4 5 (1.43%) Unix
5 3 (0.86%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.29%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.29%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.29%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.29%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (17.77%) Stakeholder Management
2 54 (15.47%) Agile
3 45 (12.89%) Problem-Solving
4 37 (10.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 35 (10.03%) Migration
6 33 (9.46%) Software Engineering
7 31 (8.88%) AI
8 29 (8.31%) Change Management
9 25 (7.16%) CI/CD
9 25 (7.16%) DevOps
10 24 (6.88%) Continuous Improvement
10 24 (6.88%) Data Modelling
10 24 (6.88%) Workflow
11 22 (6.30%) ITIL
12 21 (6.02%) User Acceptance Testing
13 19 (5.44%) Data Protection
14 18 (5.16%) Business Intelligence
14 18 (5.16%) Project Delivery
15 17 (4.87%) Project Management
16 16 (4.58%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (8.60%) SQL
2 17 (4.87%) Python
3 16 (4.58%) C++
3 16 (4.58%) Java
4 15 (4.30%) Ada
5 14 (4.01%) C
6 9 (2.58%) C#
7 8 (2.29%) JavaScript
7 8 (2.29%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.15%) Bicep
8 4 (1.15%) Rust
8 4 (1.15%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.86%) Bash
9 3 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (0.86%) Go
9 3 (0.86%) MATLAB
9 3 (0.86%) T-SQL
9 3 (0.86%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.57%) ABAP
10 2 (0.57%) Perl
Qualifications
1 71 (20.34%) Security Cleared
2 46 (13.18%) SC Cleared
3 45 (12.89%) Degree
4 17 (4.87%) DV Cleared
5 9 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.29%) CIPD
7 6 (1.72%) ACCA
7 6 (1.72%) CIMA
8 5 (1.43%) CISSP
8 5 (1.43%) PMP
9 3 (0.86%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.57%) CISM
10 2 (0.57%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.57%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.57%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.29%) CEH
11 1 (0.29%) IIBA
11 1 (0.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.29%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (6.02%) GDPR
2 13 (3.72%) Data Quality
2 13 (3.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (3.72%) QA
3 10 (2.87%) NCSC
4 8 (2.29%) NIST
5 7 (2.01%) Def Stans
6 6 (1.72%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.72%) GRC
6 6 (1.72%) SLA
7 5 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 4 (1.15%) IEC 61508
8 4 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 4 (1.15%) MISRA
9 3 (0.86%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.86%) PSD2
10 2 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.57%) DO-178B
10 2 (0.57%) MISRA C
10 2 (0.57%) PMO
System Software
1 19 (5.44%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.29%) Docker
3 4 (1.15%) Firmware
4 2 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.29%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (3.15%) Terraform
2 7 (2.01%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.01%) SCCM
3 5 (1.43%) Ansible
4 3 (0.86%) Cisco Prime
4 3 (0.86%) Grafana
4 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.57%) FortiGate
5 2 (0.57%) Kibana
6 1 (0.29%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.29%) Nmap
Vendors
1 51 (14.61%) Microsoft
2 16 (4.58%) SAP
3 15 (4.30%) ServiceNow
4 12 (3.44%) Oracle
5 10 (2.87%) Intapp
6 8 (2.29%) Databricks
7 6 (1.72%) Aruba
7 6 (1.72%) Cisco
7 6 (1.72%) iManage
8 5 (1.43%) Aderant
8 5 (1.43%) HubSpot
8 5 (1.43%) IBM
8 5 (1.43%) Palo Alto
8 5 (1.43%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.43%) Workday
9 4 (1.15%) Splunk
9 4 (1.15%) Xero
10 3 (0.86%) Fortinet
10 3 (0.86%) MuleSoft
10 3 (0.86%) SolarWinds