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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 261 200 162
Rank change year-on-year -61 -38 +7
Contract jobs citing Law 327 342 566
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.98% 1.30% 1.49%
As % of the General category 1.64% 2.08% 2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 177 355
10th Percentile £308 £255 £236
25th Percentile £425 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £653 £625 £625
90th Percentile £724 £717 £730
UK median daily rate £550 £516 £525
% change year-on-year +6.59% -1.71% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 23
10th Percentile £18.78 £31.13 £10.42
25th Percentile £21.50 £40.44 £11.87
Median hourly rate £37.00 £65.00 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.08% +400.00% -32.64%
75th Percentile £39.00 £71.42 £15.62
90th Percentile - £74.16 £30.15
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £13.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +400.00% -32.64%

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 19,926 16,442 22,367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 59.64% 62.59% 58.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,671 9,942 14,826
10th Percentile £294 £297 £265
25th Percentile £404 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,243 526 1,489
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.62 £13.23
25th Percentile £16.50 £19.98 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.81 £30.41 £25.71
Median % change year-on-year -24.98% +18.26% -2.98%
75th Percentile £48.75 £58.63 £53.86
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £22.80 £29.00 £25.61
% change year-on-year -21.38% +13.26% -0.41%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 -9 176 £575 +9.52% 244
Midlands -68 44 £550 +4.76% 55
South East -38 38 £510 -5.38% 124
West Midlands -44 34 £550 -4.35% 30
East of England -14 25 £375 - 39
North of England -60 23 £447 -5.89% 113
South West -24 18 £675 +200.00% 25
North West -29 13 £463 -2.63% 74
East Midlands -43 10 £175 -65.00% 25
Yorkshire -60 10 £424 -10.79% 27
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 8 (2.45%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.53%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (0.92%) CMS
4 2 (0.61%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.31%) Apache
5 1 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.31%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 17 (5.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.14%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.61%) Simulink
4 2 (0.61%) Windchill
5 1 (0.31%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 9 (2.75%) Elite 3E
2 5 (1.53%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.61%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.31%) Aareon QL
4 1 (0.31%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.31%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.31%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.31%) OPENHousing
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle SCM
4 1 (0.31%) Orchard Housing
4 1 (0.31%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.31%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.31%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 53 (16.21%) Azure
2 29 (8.87%) AWS
3 19 (5.81%) SaaS
4 15 (4.59%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (4.59%) Power Platform
5 14 (4.28%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (3.98%) GCP
7 11 (3.36%) Entra ID
8 9 (2.75%) Azure Logic Apps
9 7 (2.14%) Power Automate
10 5 (1.53%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (1.53%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (1.53%) GitHub
10 5 (1.53%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (1.53%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (1.22%) Azure AKS
11 4 (1.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 4 (1.22%) Serverless
11 4 (1.22%) SuccessFactors
12 3 (0.92%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.83%) Firewall
2 5 (1.53%) DNS
2 5 (1.53%) Internet
2 5 (1.53%) SD-WAN
2 5 (1.53%) VPN
2 5 (1.53%) WAN
3 4 (1.22%) Intranet
3 4 (1.22%) LAN
3 4 (1.22%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.92%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.61%) DHCP
5 2 (0.61%) Ethernet
5 2 (0.61%) MPLS
5 2 (0.61%) VLAN
6 1 (0.31%) Cisco IPT
6 1 (0.31%) Network Security
6 1 (0.31%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.31%) VoIP
6 1 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.31%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.67%) Power BI
2 6 (1.83%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.53%) Metadata
4 4 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (1.22%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.61%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.61%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.61%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 2 (0.61%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.61%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.61%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.31%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.31%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.31%) Pinecone
7 1 (0.31%) Power Query
7 1 (0.31%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.31%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 15 (4.59%) JIRA
2 10 (3.06%) Git
3 4 (1.22%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.22%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (0.92%) CircleCI
4 3 (0.92%) GitLab
5 2 (0.61%) Rational Rhapsody
6 1 (0.31%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.31%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.31%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.31%) Gradle
6 1 (0.31%) Maven
6 1 (0.31%) MLflow
6 1 (0.31%) PVCS
6 1 (0.31%) QUnit
6 1 (0.31%) Selenium
6 1 (0.31%) TestRail
6 1 (0.31%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.31%) WebDriver
General
1 117 (35.78%) Social Skills
2 86 (26.30%) Finance
3 80 (24.46%) Legal
4 39 (11.93%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (11.62%) Public Sector
6 17 (5.20%) Marketing
7 11 (3.36%) Billing
8 10 (3.06%) Banking
9 9 (2.75%) Police
10 8 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (2.45%) Electronics
10 8 (2.45%) Front Office
10 8 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (2.45%) Publishing
11 6 (1.83%) General Ledger
11 6 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.53%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.22%) Military
13 4 (1.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (11.93%) Analyst
2 26 (7.95%) Consultant
3 25 (7.65%) Senior
4 24 (7.34%) Architect
4 24 (7.34%) Developer
5 23 (7.03%) Software Engineer
6 22 (6.73%) Project Manager
7 21 (6.42%) Lead
8 14 (4.28%) Support Engineer
9 13 (3.98%) Business Analyst
10 10 (3.06%) Commercial Manager
10 10 (3.06%) Solutions Architect
11 8 (2.45%) Business Manager
12 6 (1.83%) Desktop Support
12 6 (1.83%) Embedded Engineer
12 6 (1.83%) Embedded Software Engineer
12 6 (1.83%) Java Developer
12 6 (1.83%) Product Owner
13 5 (1.53%) Data Engineer
13 5 (1.53%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.45%) Middleware
1 8 (2.45%) REST
2 7 (2.14%) SOAP
3 5 (1.53%) Kafka
3 5 (1.53%) Node.js
3 5 (1.53%) React
4 4 (1.22%) Express.js
4 4 (1.22%) FIX Protocol
4 4 (1.22%) Next.js
5 3 (0.92%) ARM Templates
5 3 (0.92%) Spring
6 2 (0.61%) Flash
6 2 (0.61%) JSON
6 2 (0.61%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (0.61%) PySpark
6 2 (0.61%) Qt
6 2 (0.61%) Spring Boot
6 2 (0.61%) Web Services
7 1 (0.31%) Swing
7 1 (0.31%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (3.98%) Management Information System
2 11 (3.36%) Product Ownership
3 10 (3.06%) Onboarding
4 7 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (2.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (1.83%) Data Centre
5 6 (1.83%) Freedom of Information Act
5 6 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (1.83%) Smartphone
6 5 (1.53%) AI Agents
6 5 (1.53%) Data Structures
6 5 (1.53%) Freedom of Information
6 5 (1.53%) Security Posture
7 4 (1.22%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.22%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (1.22%) Cybercrime
7 4 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.22%) FPGA
7 4 (1.22%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.22%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 21 (6.42%) Windows
2 13 (3.98%) Linux
3 9 (2.75%) Windows 10
4 5 (1.53%) Unix
5 2 (0.61%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.31%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.31%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.31%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.31%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (18.65%) Stakeholder Management
2 48 (14.68%) Agile
3 42 (12.84%) Problem-Solving
4 33 (10.09%) Migration
5 31 (9.48%) Software Engineering
6 29 (8.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 26 (7.95%) DevOps
8 24 (7.34%) Workflow
9 23 (7.03%) Change Management
9 23 (7.03%) CI/CD
9 23 (7.03%) ITIL
10 21 (6.42%) AI
10 21 (6.42%) Data Modelling
10 21 (6.42%) Data Protection
11 20 (6.12%) Continuous Improvement
12 18 (5.50%) Project Delivery
12 18 (5.50%) Risk Management
13 17 (5.20%) Customer Service
13 17 (5.20%) Project Management
14 16 (4.89%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 29 (8.87%) SQL
2 16 (4.89%) Java
2 16 (4.89%) Python
3 15 (4.59%) C++
4 13 (3.98%) C
5 10 (3.06%) Ada
6 8 (2.45%) C#
6 8 (2.45%) PowerShell
7 7 (2.14%) JavaScript
8 6 (1.83%) Bicep
8 6 (1.83%) TypeScript
9 4 (1.22%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.92%) Bash
10 3 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.92%) Go
10 3 (0.92%) MATLAB
10 3 (0.92%) Rust
11 2 (0.61%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.61%) Perl
11 2 (0.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 71 (21.71%) Security Cleared
2 47 (14.37%) SC Cleared
3 38 (11.62%) Degree
4 21 (6.42%) DV Cleared
5 10 (3.06%) CIPD
6 7 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.83%) CISSP
8 5 (1.53%) ACCA
8 5 (1.53%) CEH
8 5 (1.53%) CIMA
8 5 (1.53%) CompTIA CySA+
8 5 (1.53%) GIAC
8 5 (1.53%) PMP
9 4 (1.22%) GREM
9 4 (1.22%) OSCP
10 3 (0.92%) CISM
10 3 (0.92%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.61%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.61%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.34%) GDPR
2 12 (3.67%) QA
3 11 (3.36%) Data Quality
3 11 (3.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.14%) NCSC
4 7 (2.14%) SLA
5 6 (1.83%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.83%) Def Stans
5 6 (1.83%) GRC
6 5 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 5 (1.53%) NIST
7 4 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 4 (1.22%) MISRA
8 3 (0.92%) IEC 61508
8 3 (0.92%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.92%) PMO
8 3 (0.92%) PSD2
9 2 (0.61%) DO-178B
9 2 (0.61%) MISRA C
10 1 (0.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 19 (5.81%) Active Directory
2 10 (3.06%) Docker
3 4 (1.22%) Firmware
4 2 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.31%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 10 (3.06%) Terraform
2 9 (2.75%) Kubernetes
3 7 (2.14%) SCCM
4 5 (1.53%) Ansible
5 4 (1.22%) Kibana
6 3 (0.92%) Cisco Prime
6 3 (0.92%) Grafana
7 2 (0.61%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.31%) EnCase
8 1 (0.31%) FTK
8 1 (0.31%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.31%) Nmap
Vendors
1 41 (12.54%) Microsoft
2 16 (4.89%) ServiceNow
3 14 (4.28%) SAP
4 12 (3.67%) Oracle
5 10 (3.06%) Intapp
6 7 (2.14%) Databricks
7 6 (1.83%) iManage
7 6 (1.83%) Workday
8 5 (1.53%) Aderant
8 5 (1.53%) Aruba
8 5 (1.53%) Cisco
8 5 (1.53%) HubSpot
8 5 (1.53%) IBM
8 5 (1.53%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.22%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.22%) Splunk
9 4 (1.22%) Xero
10 3 (0.92%) Guidewire
10 3 (0.92%) MuleSoft
10 3 (0.92%) SolarWinds