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 19 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 273 214 165
Rank change year-on-year -59 -49 +3
Contract jobs citing Law 331 327 547
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.95% 1.26% 1.46%
As % of the General category 1.61% 2.02% 2.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 175 335
10th Percentile £285 £251 £249
25th Percentile £425 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +0.38%
75th Percentile £653 £619 £625
90th Percentile £725 £715 £709
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £515
% change year-on-year +10.00% -2.91% -1.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 23
10th Percentile £22.37 £31.13 £10.42
25th Percentile £30.49 £40.44 £11.87
Median hourly rate £37.00 £65.00 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.08% +400.00% -33.33%
75th Percentile £39.00 £71.42 £16.25
90th Percentile - £74.16 £32.50
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £65.00 £13.00
% change year-on-year -43.08% +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 20,563 16,215 22,061
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 59.23% 62.59% 58.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,016 9,949 14,501
10th Percentile £300 £297 £265
25th Percentile £405 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,295 516 1,527
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.62 £13.05
25th Percentile £16.93 £20.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £23.00 £30.45 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.47% +17.12% -10.34%
75th Percentile £51.53 £60.00 £51.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £67.10
UK median hourly rate £23.00 £29.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -20.69% +11.54% -3.70%

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 19 February 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 19 February 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 19 February 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 -22 179 £575 +9.52% 197
Midlands -77 46 £525 - 45
West Midlands -59 36 £550 - 24
South East -34 34 £550 +3.92% 100
East of England -13 25 £375 - 28
North of England -74 24 £447 -3.35% 101
South West -24 18 £675 +200.00% 18
North West -28 14 £463 +15.63% 70
East Midlands -38 10 £175 -65.00% 21
Yorkshire -57 10 £424 -9.60% 19
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 9 (2.72%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.51%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (0.91%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.91%) CMS
4 1 (0.30%) Apache
4 1 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.30%) Confluence
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.30%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 17 (5.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.60%) Simulink
4 2 (0.60%) Windchill
5 1 (0.30%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 9 (2.72%) Elite 3E
2 5 (1.51%) Oracle Receivables
3 4 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.60%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.30%) Aareon QL
5 1 (0.30%) MIS ActiveH
5 1 (0.30%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.30%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.30%) OPENHousing
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.30%) Orchard Housing
5 1 (0.30%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.30%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.30%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.30%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.30%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 53 (16.01%) Azure
2 27 (8.16%) AWS
3 19 (5.74%) SaaS
4 16 (4.83%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (4.83%) Power Platform
5 13 (3.93%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (3.32%) GCP
7 8 (2.42%) Azure Logic Apps
7 8 (2.42%) Entra ID
7 8 (2.42%) Microsoft Copilot
8 6 (1.81%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (1.81%) Power Automate
9 5 (1.51%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (1.51%) GitHub
9 5 (1.51%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (1.21%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (1.21%) Serverless
10 4 (1.21%) SuccessFactors
11 3 (0.91%) AWS KMS
11 3 (0.91%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.42%) Firewall
2 7 (2.11%) SD-WAN
2 7 (2.11%) VPN
2 7 (2.11%) WAN
3 6 (1.81%) LAN
4 5 (1.51%) DNS
4 5 (1.51%) Internet
5 4 (1.21%) Cisco Nexus
5 4 (1.21%) Intranet
5 4 (1.21%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.91%) MPLS
7 2 (0.60%) DHCP
7 2 (0.60%) Ethernet
7 2 (0.60%) Network Security
7 2 (0.60%) VLAN
7 2 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.30%) Cisco IPT
8 1 (0.30%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.30%) VoIP
8 1 (0.30%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.32%) Power BI
2 6 (1.81%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.51%) Metadata
4 4 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.21%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.60%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.60%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.60%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 2 (0.60%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.60%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.60%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (0.60%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.30%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.30%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.30%) Kdb+
7 1 (0.30%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.30%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.30%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 16 (4.83%) JIRA
2 10 (3.02%) Git
3 4 (1.21%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.21%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (0.91%) CircleCI
4 3 (0.91%) GitLab
5 2 (0.60%) Rational Rhapsody
6 1 (0.30%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.30%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.30%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.30%) Gradle
6 1 (0.30%) Maven
6 1 (0.30%) MLflow
6 1 (0.30%) PVCS
6 1 (0.30%) QUnit
6 1 (0.30%) Selenium
6 1 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.30%) TestRail
6 1 (0.30%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.30%) WebDriver
General
1 122 (36.86%) Social Skills
2 87 (26.28%) Legal
3 85 (25.68%) Finance
4 40 (12.08%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (11.18%) Public Sector
6 18 (5.44%) Marketing
7 11 (3.32%) Billing
8 10 (3.02%) Banking
9 9 (2.72%) Police
10 8 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (2.42%) Electronics
10 8 (2.42%) Front Office
10 8 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (2.42%) Publishing
11 7 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (1.81%) General Ledger
12 6 (1.81%) Telecoms
13 5 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (1.21%) Military
14 4 (1.21%) Retail
Job Titles
1 43 (12.99%) Analyst
2 30 (9.06%) Senior
3 27 (8.16%) Consultant
4 25 (7.55%) Project Manager
5 24 (7.25%) Developer
6 23 (6.95%) Architect
6 23 (6.95%) Software Engineer
7 15 (4.53%) Business Analyst
7 15 (4.53%) Lead
8 14 (4.23%) Support Engineer
9 10 (3.02%) Commercial Manager
9 10 (3.02%) Solutions Architect
10 8 (2.42%) Business Manager
10 8 (2.42%) Senior Manager
11 7 (2.11%) Embedded Engineer
11 7 (2.11%) Embedded Software Engineer
12 6 (1.81%) Desktop Engineer
12 6 (1.81%) Desktop Support
12 6 (1.81%) Java Developer
12 6 (1.81%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.02%) Middleware
2 8 (2.42%) REST
3 7 (2.11%) SOAP
4 5 (1.51%) Kafka
5 4 (1.21%) ARM Templates
5 4 (1.21%) FIX Protocol
6 3 (0.91%) Node.js
6 3 (0.91%) PySpark
6 3 (0.91%) React
6 3 (0.91%) Spring
7 2 (0.60%) Express.js
7 2 (0.60%) Flash
7 2 (0.60%) IDoc
7 2 (0.60%) JSON
7 2 (0.60%) Next.js
7 2 (0.60%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (0.60%) Qt
7 2 (0.60%) SAP ALE
7 2 (0.60%) Spring Boot
7 2 (0.60%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.23%) Management Information System
2 13 (3.93%) Onboarding
3 12 (3.63%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (1.81%) AI Agents
5 6 (1.81%) Data Centre
5 6 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (1.81%) Security Posture
5 6 (1.81%) Smartphone
6 5 (1.51%) Cyber Threat
6 5 (1.51%) Cybercrime
6 5 (1.51%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.21%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.21%) FPGA
7 4 (1.21%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.21%) Taxonomies
7 4 (1.21%) VHDL
8 3 (0.91%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 21 (6.34%) Windows
2 15 (4.53%) Linux
3 10 (3.02%) Windows 10
4 5 (1.51%) Unix
5 2 (0.60%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.30%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.30%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.30%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.30%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (17.82%) Stakeholder Management
2 49 (14.80%) Agile
3 47 (14.20%) Problem-Solving
4 33 (9.97%) Migration
5 31 (9.37%) Software Engineering
6 30 (9.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 26 (7.85%) Change Management
8 25 (7.55%) DevOps
8 25 (7.55%) Workflow
9 24 (7.25%) AI
9 24 (7.25%) CI/CD
9 24 (7.25%) ITIL
10 22 (6.65%) Data Modelling
11 21 (6.34%) Continuous Improvement
12 18 (5.44%) Project Delivery
13 17 (5.14%) Actionable Insight
13 17 (5.14%) Customer Service
14 16 (4.83%) Project Management
14 16 (4.83%) Risk Management
14 16 (4.83%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 30 (9.06%) SQL
2 17 (5.14%) Python
3 15 (4.53%) C++
3 15 (4.53%) Java
4 14 (4.23%) C
5 12 (3.63%) Ada
6 8 (2.42%) C#
7 7 (2.11%) JavaScript
7 7 (2.11%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.21%) Bicep
8 4 (1.21%) Rust
8 4 (1.21%) Shell Script
8 4 (1.21%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.91%) Bash
9 3 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (0.91%) Go
9 3 (0.91%) MATLAB
10 2 (0.60%) ABAP
10 2 (0.60%) Perl
10 2 (0.60%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 67 (20.24%) Security Cleared
2 43 (12.99%) SC Cleared
3 38 (11.48%) Degree
4 16 (4.83%) DV Cleared
5 10 (3.02%) CIPD
6 7 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.81%) ACCA
7 6 (1.81%) CIMA
8 5 (1.51%) CISSP
8 5 (1.51%) PMP
9 4 (1.21%) CEH
9 4 (1.21%) CompTIA CySA+
10 3 (0.91%) GIAC
10 3 (0.91%) GREM
10 3 (0.91%) OSCP
11 2 (0.60%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.60%) CISM
11 2 (0.60%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.60%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.30%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.14%) GDPR
2 12 (3.63%) QA
3 11 (3.32%) Data Quality
4 10 (3.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (2.72%) NCSC
6 6 (1.81%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.81%) Def Stans
6 6 (1.81%) SLA
7 5 (1.51%) GRC
7 5 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 5 (1.51%) NIST
8 4 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 4 (1.21%) MISRA
9 3 (0.91%) IEC 61508
9 3 (0.91%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.91%) PSD2
10 2 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.60%) DO-178B
10 2 (0.60%) MISRA C
10 2 (0.60%) PMO
System Software
1 17 (5.14%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.42%) Docker
3 4 (1.21%) Firmware
4 2 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.30%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (3.32%) Terraform
2 7 (2.11%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.11%) SCCM
3 5 (1.51%) Ansible
4 4 (1.21%) Cisco Prime
5 3 (0.91%) Grafana
5 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.60%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.60%) Kibana
7 1 (0.30%) EnCase
7 1 (0.30%) FTK
7 1 (0.30%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.30%) Nmap
Vendors
1 43 (12.99%) Microsoft
2 16 (4.83%) SAP
2 16 (4.83%) ServiceNow
3 12 (3.63%) Oracle
4 10 (3.02%) Intapp
5 8 (2.42%) Databricks
6 7 (2.11%) Aruba
6 7 (2.11%) Cisco
7 6 (1.81%) iManage
7 6 (1.81%) Palo Alto
8 5 (1.51%) Aderant
8 5 (1.51%) HubSpot
8 5 (1.51%) IBM
8 5 (1.51%) Workday
9 4 (1.21%) Fortinet
9 4 (1.21%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.21%) SolarWinds
9 4 (1.21%) Splunk
9 4 (1.21%) Xero
10 3 (0.91%) MuleSoft