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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 272 207 169
Rank change year-on-year -65 -38 -1
Contract jobs citing Law 331 329 549
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.96% 1.27% 1.46%
As % of the General category 1.62% 2.04% 2.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 175 336
10th Percentile £287 £251 £248
25th Percentile £425 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +0.77%
75th Percentile £649 £619 £625
90th Percentile £725 £715 £706
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £515
% change year-on-year +10.00% -2.91% -1.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 24
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 £16.00
90th Percentile - £74.16 £32.50
UK median hourly rate £46.00 £65.00 £13.00
% change year-on-year -29.23% +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 20,480 16,151 22,201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 59.22% 62.56% 58.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,989 9,855 14,596
10th Percentile £300 £298 £265
25th Percentile £405 £411 £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 1,284 513 1,528
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.62 £13.05
25th Percentile £16.82 £20.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £23.00 £30.45 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.48% +17.12% -10.34%
75th Percentile £50.00 £60.00 £51.66
90th Percentile £72.35 £75.00 £67.29
UK median hourly rate £22.81 £29.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -21.34% +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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -12 180 £575 +9.52% 162
Midlands -67 46 £525 - 44
West Midlands -48 36 £550 - 25
South East -36 34 £550 +3.92% 99
East of England -14 25 £375 - 28
North of England -60 23 £447 -3.35% 101
South West -26 18 £563 +150.00% 18
North West -29 14 £463 +15.63% 68
East Midlands -37 10 £175 -65.00% 19
Yorkshire -55 9 £424 -9.60% 21
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 EBS
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 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%) Power Platform
5 15 (4.53%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (3.93%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (3.32%) GCP
8 8 (2.42%) Azure Logic Apps
8 8 (2.42%) Entra ID
8 8 (2.42%) Microsoft Copilot
9 6 (1.81%) Azure Data Factory
9 6 (1.81%) Power Automate
10 5 (1.51%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (1.51%) GitHub
10 5 (1.51%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (1.21%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (1.21%) Serverless
11 4 (1.21%) SuccessFactors
12 3 (0.91%) Azure API Management
12 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.11%) Firewall
2 6 (1.81%) Internet
2 6 (1.81%) SD-WAN
2 6 (1.81%) VPN
2 6 (1.81%) WAN
3 5 (1.51%) DNS
3 5 (1.51%) LAN
4 4 (1.21%) Intranet
4 4 (1.21%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.91%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.60%) DHCP
6 2 (0.60%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.60%) MPLS
6 2 (0.60%) Network Security
6 2 (0.60%) VLAN
6 2 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.30%) Cisco IPT
7 1 (0.30%) Skype
7 1 (0.30%) Unified Communications
7 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%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.30%) Power Query
7 1 (0.30%) Weaviate
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 86 (25.98%) Finance
2 86 (25.98%) Legal
3 41 (12.39%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (11.18%) Public Sector
5 18 (5.44%) Marketing
6 11 (3.32%) Billing
7 10 (3.02%) Banking
8 9 (2.72%) Police
9 8 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (2.42%) Electronics
9 8 (2.42%) Front Office
9 8 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (2.42%) Publishing
10 7 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.81%) General Ledger
11 6 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.81%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.21%) Military
12 4 (1.21%) Retail
Job Titles
1 44 (13.29%) Analyst
2 30 (9.06%) Senior
3 28 (8.46%) Consultant
4 25 (7.55%) Project Manager
5 24 (7.25%) Developer
6 23 (6.95%) Architect
7 22 (6.65%) Software Engineer
8 17 (5.14%) Lead
9 15 (4.53%) Business Analyst
10 14 (4.23%) Support Engineer
11 10 (3.02%) Commercial Manager
11 10 (3.02%) Solutions Architect
12 8 (2.42%) Business Manager
12 8 (2.42%) Senior Manager
13 7 (2.11%) Embedded Engineer
13 7 (2.11%) Embedded Software Engineer
14 6 (1.81%) Desktop Support
14 6 (1.81%) Java Developer
14 6 (1.81%) Product Owner
15 5 (1.51%) Change Manager
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%) Cyber Threat
5 6 (1.81%) Cybercrime
5 6 (1.81%) Data Centre
5 6 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (1.81%) Smartphone
6 5 (1.51%) Data Structures
6 5 (1.51%) Security Posture
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 20 (6.04%) Windows
2 14 (4.23%) Linux
3 9 (2.72%) 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 60 (18.13%) Stakeholder Management
2 49 (14.80%) Agile
3 47 (14.20%) Problem-Solving
4 32 (9.67%) Migration
5 30 (9.06%) Software Engineering
5 30 (9.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 26 (7.85%) Workflow
7 25 (7.55%) Change Management
7 25 (7.55%) DevOps
8 24 (7.25%) AI
8 24 (7.25%) CI/CD
9 23 (6.95%) Data Modelling
9 23 (6.95%) ITIL
10 21 (6.34%) Continuous Improvement
11 19 (5.74%) Project Delivery
12 17 (5.14%) Actionable Insight
12 17 (5.14%) Customer Service
13 16 (4.83%) Process Improvement
13 16 (4.83%) Project Management
13 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 11 (3.32%) 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%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.60%) Perl
10 2 (0.60%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 67 (20.24%) Security Cleared
2 42 (12.69%) SC Cleared
3 38 (11.48%) Degree
4 17 (5.14%) 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%) CEH
8 5 (1.51%) CISSP
8 5 (1.51%) CompTIA CySA+
8 5 (1.51%) PMP
9 4 (1.21%) GIAC
9 4 (1.21%) GREM
9 4 (1.21%) OSCP
10 2 (0.60%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.60%) CISM
10 2 (0.60%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.60%) PMI Certification
11 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 16 (4.83%) 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 3 (0.91%) Cisco Prime
4 3 (0.91%) Grafana
5 2 (0.60%) FortiGate
5 2 (0.60%) Kibana
5 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.30%) EnCase
6 1 (0.30%) FTK
6 1 (0.30%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.30%) Nmap
Vendors
1 42 (12.69%) 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 6 (1.81%) Aruba
6 6 (1.81%) Cisco
6 6 (1.81%) iManage
7 5 (1.51%) Aderant
7 5 (1.51%) HubSpot
7 5 (1.51%) IBM
7 5 (1.51%) Palo Alto
7 5 (1.51%) Workday
8 4 (1.21%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.21%) Splunk
8 4 (1.21%) Xero
9 3 (0.91%) Fortinet
9 3 (0.91%) MuleSoft
9 3 (0.91%) SolarWinds