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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 240 215 176
Rank change year-on-year -25 -39 -12
Contract jobs citing Law 415 297 515
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.06% 1.22% 1.37%
As % of the General category 1.88% 1.92% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 191 305
10th Percentile £323 £260 £248
25th Percentile £456 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £535
% change year-on-year - -6.54% +2.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 24
10th Percentile £16.65 £28.59 £10.42
25th Percentile £28.75 £29.75 £11.87
Median hourly rate £37.00 £30.20 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.52% +132.31% -32.64%
75th Percentile £39.00 £68.07 £22.00
90th Percentile £60.00 £81.01 £32.50
UK median hourly rate £33.50 £42.60 £13.00
% change year-on-year -21.36% +227.69% -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 22,078 15,508 21,855
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 56.29% 63.69% 58.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,908 10,112 14,156
10th Percentile £304 £300 £275
25th Percentile £408 £413 £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 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,398 633 1,743
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £18.13 £15.38
Median hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +5.45% -21.43%
75th Percentile £61.18 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £28.75 £27.00
% change year-on-year -7.83% +6.48% -22.86%

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 April 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 April 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 April 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 +12 232 £550 +4.76% 266
Midlands -77 48 £463 -11.90% 53
South East -36 43 £500 +2.51% 122
North of England -60 42 £436 -1.75% 104
West Midlands -74 32 £575 +9.52% 25
North West -20 26 £463 +15.63% 63
East of England -22 24 £375 - 28
South West -26 18 £588 +161.11% 15
East Midlands -36 15 £175 -65.00% 28
Yorkshire -48 15 £412 -13.29% 33
North East -17 1 - - 9
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 18 (4.34%) SharePoint
2 10 (2.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.96%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (0.72%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.72%) CMS
5 1 (0.24%) Apache
5 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.24%) Confluence
5 1 (0.24%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 14 (3.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.65%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.24%) PTC Creo
5 1 (0.24%) Simulink
5 1 (0.24%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 9 (2.17%) Elite 3E
2 5 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.20%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.48%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.48%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.48%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.24%) Aareon QL
4 1 (0.24%) Magento
4 1 (0.24%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.24%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.24%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.24%) OPENHousing
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle SCM
4 1 (0.24%) Orchard Housing
4 1 (0.24%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.24%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 66 (15.90%) Azure
2 58 (13.98%) Power Platform
3 35 (8.43%) Dynamics 365
4 31 (7.47%) AWS
5 23 (5.54%) Microsoft 365
6 21 (5.06%) SaaS
7 11 (2.65%) Microsoft Copilot
7 11 (2.65%) Power Automate
8 10 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (2.41%) GCP
9 9 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
9 9 (2.17%) Azure Logic Apps
10 8 (1.93%) Entra ID
11 7 (1.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 7 (1.69%) GitHub
12 6 (1.45%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (1.20%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (1.20%) Serverless
14 4 (0.96%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (0.96%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.65%) Firewall
2 8 (1.93%) SD-WAN
2 8 (1.93%) VPN
2 8 (1.93%) WAN
3 7 (1.69%) LAN
4 6 (1.45%) DNS
5 5 (1.20%) MPLS
5 5 (1.20%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.96%) Ethernet
6 4 (0.96%) Intranet
7 3 (0.72%) Cisco IPT
7 3 (0.72%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (0.72%) Network Security
7 3 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.48%) DHCP
8 2 (0.48%) Ethernet VPN
8 2 (0.48%) Internet
8 2 (0.48%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.48%) VLAN
8 2 (0.48%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (11.81%) Power BI
2 7 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (1.45%) Metadata
3 6 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.20%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.20%) SQL Server
5 4 (0.96%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (0.96%) Snowflake Schema
6 3 (0.72%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.48%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (0.48%) Amazon QuickSight
7 2 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.48%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.24%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.24%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.24%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (0.24%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.24%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.24%) SAP Data Services
8 1 (0.24%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (4.34%) JIRA
2 12 (2.89%) Git
3 8 (1.93%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.69%) GitLab
5 5 (1.20%) Rational DOORS
6 4 (0.96%) JUnit
6 4 (0.96%) Mockito
7 3 (0.72%) CircleCI
7 3 (0.72%) Gradle
7 3 (0.72%) Liquibase
8 2 (0.48%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.48%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.48%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.48%) Rational Rhapsody
8 2 (0.48%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.24%) MLflow
9 1 (0.24%) PVCS
9 1 (0.24%) Selenium
9 1 (0.24%) Vite
9 1 (0.24%) WebDriver
General
1 130 (31.33%) Social Skills
2 119 (28.67%) Finance
3 98 (23.61%) Legal
4 46 (11.08%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (10.60%) Public Sector
6 20 (4.82%) Police
7 16 (3.86%) Marketing
8 12 (2.89%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (2.17%) Banking
9 9 (2.17%) Billing
9 9 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (1.93%) Manufacturing
11 7 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (1.69%) Publishing
12 6 (1.45%) Military
13 5 (1.20%) Electronics
13 5 (1.20%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.96%) General Ledger
14 4 (0.96%) Retail
Job Titles
1 61 (14.70%) Architect
2 50 (12.05%) Lead
3 49 (11.81%) Analyst
4 45 (10.84%) Senior
5 31 (7.47%) Functional Architect
5 31 (7.47%) Lead Architect
5 31 (7.47%) Project Manager
6 28 (6.75%) Software Engineer
7 21 (5.06%) Developer
8 20 (4.82%) Consultant
9 18 (4.34%) Business Analyst
10 16 (3.86%) Senior Manager
11 14 (3.37%) Commercial Manager
12 10 (2.41%) Business Manager
12 10 (2.41%) Solutions Architect
13 9 (2.17%) Support Engineer
14 8 (1.93%) Data Engineer
14 8 (1.93%) IT Analyst
15 7 (1.69%) Azure Engineer
15 7 (1.69%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (2.65%) Middleware
2 7 (1.69%) Kafka
2 7 (1.69%) REST
3 6 (1.45%) SOAP
4 5 (1.20%) Spring
4 5 (1.20%) Spring Boot
5 4 (0.96%) ARM Templates
5 4 (0.96%) React
6 3 (0.72%) FIX Protocol
6 3 (0.72%) OpenAPI
6 3 (0.72%) PySpark
6 3 (0.72%) Swagger
6 3 (0.72%) Web Services
7 2 (0.48%) IDoc
7 2 (0.48%) JSON
7 2 (0.48%) Node.js
7 2 (0.48%) Qt
7 2 (0.48%) RESTful
7 2 (0.48%) SailPoint
7 2 (0.48%) SAP ALE
Miscellaneous
1 19 (4.58%) Management Information System
2 14 (3.37%) Onboarding
3 11 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (2.41%) Product Ownership
5 8 (1.93%) AI Agents
6 7 (1.69%) Data Centre
6 7 (1.69%) Security Posture
7 6 (1.45%) Smartphone
8 5 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.20%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.20%) Low-Code
8 5 (1.20%) Taxonomies
9 4 (0.96%) Algorithms
9 4 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (0.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (0.72%) CCTV
10 3 (0.72%) e-Learning
10 3 (0.72%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 30 (7.23%) Windows
2 17 (4.10%) Linux
3 12 (2.89%) Windows 10
4 4 (0.96%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.72%) Unix
6 2 (0.48%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.24%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.24%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (17.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 69 (16.63%) Migration
3 66 (15.90%) Stakeholder Management
4 58 (13.98%) Agile
4 58 (13.98%) Continuous Improvement
5 52 (12.53%) Business Intelligence
5 52 (12.53%) Problem-Solving
6 49 (11.81%) User Acceptance Testing
7 44 (10.60%) Data Migration
7 44 (10.60%) ERP
8 43 (10.36%) Translating Business Requirements
9 39 (9.40%) Architectural Design
9 39 (9.40%) Order to Cash
10 38 (9.16%) AI
11 36 (8.67%) Procure-to-Pay
12 35 (8.43%) End-to-End Testing
12 35 (8.43%) Record to Report
12 35 (8.43%) Software Engineering
13 31 (7.47%) CI/CD
13 31 (7.47%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 32 (7.71%) SQL
2 20 (4.82%) Java
3 15 (3.61%) Ada
4 13 (3.13%) Python
5 11 (2.65%) C
6 9 (2.17%) C++
7 8 (1.93%) C#
7 8 (1.93%) JavaScript
7 8 (1.93%) PowerShell
8 6 (1.45%) TypeScript
9 5 (1.20%) Bash
10 4 (0.96%) MATLAB
10 4 (0.96%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.72%) Go
11 3 (0.72%) Rust
11 3 (0.72%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.48%) ABAP
12 2 (0.48%) Bicep
12 2 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.48%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 84 (20.24%) Security Cleared
2 53 (12.77%) SC Cleared
3 44 (10.60%) Degree
4 24 (5.78%) DV Cleared
5 9 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.69%) CIPD
7 6 (1.45%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.20%) CISSP
9 4 (0.96%) ACCA
9 4 (0.96%) CIMA
9 4 (0.96%) PMI Certification
9 4 (0.96%) PMP
10 2 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.48%) CCNA
10 2 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.48%) CISM
10 2 (0.48%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.48%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.24%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.30%) GDPR
2 20 (4.82%) Data Quality
3 15 (3.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (3.37%) QA
5 10 (2.41%) NCSC
6 9 (2.17%) NIST
7 7 (1.69%) Accessibility
7 7 (1.69%) GRC
8 6 (1.45%) Def Stans
9 5 (1.20%) SLA
10 4 (0.96%) IEC 61508
10 4 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 3 (0.72%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.72%) MISRA
11 3 (0.72%) PSD2
12 2 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 2 (0.48%) MISRA C
12 2 (0.48%) PMO
System Software
1 24 (5.78%) Active Directory
2 11 (2.65%) Docker
3 2 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.24%) Firmware
4 1 (0.24%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (2.89%) Terraform
2 8 (1.93%) Ansible
3 7 (1.69%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (1.69%) SCCM
4 5 (1.20%) Grafana
5 3 (0.72%) Cisco Prime
6 2 (0.48%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.48%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.48%) Puppet
6 2 (0.48%) Salt
7 1 (0.24%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.24%) Nmap
Vendors
1 92 (22.17%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.58%) SAP
3 16 (3.86%) Oracle
4 13 (3.13%) ServiceNow
5 11 (2.65%) Intapp
6 9 (2.17%) Cisco
6 9 (2.17%) iManage
7 7 (1.69%) Aruba
7 7 (1.69%) Databricks
7 7 (1.69%) Fortinet
8 6 (1.45%) IBM
8 6 (1.45%) Palo Alto
9 5 (1.20%) Aderant
9 5 (1.20%) MuleSoft
9 5 (1.20%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.20%) Workday
10 4 (0.96%) Juniper
10 4 (0.96%) SolarWinds
10 4 (0.96%) Splunk
11 3 (0.72%) MathWorks