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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 225 232
Rank change year-on-year -13 +7 -65
Contract jobs citing Law 501 330 339
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.10% 1.20% 1.03%
As % of the General category 1.98% 1.86% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 164 166
10th Percentile £358 £216 £263
25th Percentile £463 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.20% -5.68% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £675
90th Percentile £750 £725 £794
UK median daily rate £525 £501 £550
% change year-on-year +4.90% -9.00% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 26 10
10th Percentile £14.62 £12.21 £18.20
25th Percentile £17.11 £13.97 £20.50
Median hourly rate £17.73 £27.46 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.45% +24.82% +22.22%
75th Percentile £25.77 £51.73 £27.96
90th Percentile £59.20 £71.25 £29.38
UK median hourly rate £20.27 £40.46 £26.97
% change year-on-year -49.91% +50.02% +49.83%

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 25,277 17,733 19,119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.35% 64.31% 57.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,970 11,266 11,992
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £424 £400 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £538
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -6.88% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £651
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,056 987 1,075
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.50 £14.50
25th Percentile £17.45 £16.21 £18.00
Median hourly rate £31.93 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +26.94% -34.02% +38.62%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £72.70 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £31.16 £25.15 £36.50
% change year-on-year +23.88% -31.10% +32.73%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 1 September 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 -4 263 £550 - 3,297
North of England -25 83 £485 +7.72% 338
South East -50 48 £525 +8.81% 316
East of England -2 44 £450 - 147
Yorkshire -4 44 £388 -31.11% 81
North West -46 35 £525 +23.53% 221
Midlands -60 35 £438 -21.52% 166
West Midlands -59 23 £600 +6.19% 97
South West -41 13 £350 -33.65% 292
East Midlands -11 11 £200 -48.05% 69
North East -42 4 - - 37
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 14 (2.79%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.00%) Confluence
4 2 (0.40%) Apache
4 2 (0.40%) CMS
5 1 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.20%) Mendix
5 1 (0.20%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 19 (3.79%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.60%) Acrobat
4 3 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.40%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.20%) Simulink
6 1 (0.20%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 5 (1.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 5 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.60%) Maximo
2 3 (0.60%) Oracle SCM
3 2 (0.40%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.40%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.20%) Hyperion Planning
4 1 (0.20%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.20%) Magento
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.20%) Primavera
4 1 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 69 (13.77%) Azure
2 64 (12.77%) Power Platform
3 43 (8.58%) AWS
4 36 (7.19%) Dynamics 365
5 26 (5.19%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (3.19%) GitHub
6 16 (3.19%) SaaS
7 14 (2.79%) Entra ID
8 13 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (2.59%) Microsoft Copilot
8 13 (2.59%) Power Automate
9 12 (2.40%) GCP
9 12 (2.40%) GitHub Actions
9 12 (2.40%) Serverless
10 10 (2.00%) PowerApps
11 9 (1.80%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (1.80%) Copilot Studio
11 9 (1.80%) SuccessFactors
12 8 (1.60%) Azure Data Factory
12 8 (1.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.20%) Wi-Fi
2 9 (1.80%) Firewall
3 7 (1.40%) DNS
3 7 (1.40%) Wireless
4 6 (1.20%) DHCP
4 6 (1.20%) VPN
5 5 (1.00%) Network Security
6 4 (0.80%) Cisco IPT
6 4 (0.80%) Ethernet
6 4 (0.80%) Software-Defined Radio
6 4 (0.80%) WAN
7 3 (0.60%) Broadband
7 3 (0.60%) LAN
7 3 (0.60%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.40%) BGP
8 2 (0.40%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (0.40%) MPLS
8 2 (0.40%) OSPF
8 2 (0.40%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.40%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (10.78%) Power BI
2 10 (2.00%) Metadata
3 8 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (1.20%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 5 (1.00%) SQL Server
7 3 (0.60%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.60%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (0.60%) Redis
7 3 (0.60%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (0.40%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.40%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.20%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.20%) KDB
9 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.20%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (4.19%) JIRA
2 19 (3.79%) Jenkins
3 13 (2.59%) GitLab
4 10 (2.00%) Git
4 10 (2.00%) JUnit
4 10 (2.00%) Mockito
5 7 (1.40%) Liquibase
5 7 (1.40%) Rational DOORS
6 5 (1.00%) Gradle
7 4 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.40%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.40%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.40%) Flyway
8 2 (0.40%) git-flow
8 2 (0.40%) Rational Rhapsody
9 1 (0.20%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.20%) JMeter
9 1 (0.20%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.20%) Postman
General
1 133 (26.55%) Finance
2 124 (24.75%) Social Skills
3 93 (18.56%) Legal
4 69 (13.77%) Analytical Skills
5 60 (11.98%) Public Sector
6 38 (7.58%) Police
7 25 (4.99%) Influencing Skills
8 17 (3.39%) Banking
8 17 (3.39%) Manufacturing
9 14 (2.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (2.20%) Marketing
11 9 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (1.40%) Front Office
14 6 (1.20%) Aviation
14 6 (1.20%) Electronics
14 6 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (1.20%) Social Science
15 5 (1.00%) Legal Technology
16 3 (0.60%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 71 (14.17%) Lead
2 61 (12.18%) Analyst
3 57 (11.38%) Senior
4 43 (8.58%) Architect
5 39 (7.78%) Developer
6 30 (5.99%) Functional Architect
6 30 (5.99%) Lead Architect
7 29 (5.79%) Project Manager
8 23 (4.59%) Software Engineer
9 22 (4.39%) Consultant
10 19 (3.79%) IT Trainer
10 19 (3.79%) Trainer
11 17 (3.39%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
12 16 (3.19%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
12 16 (3.19%) Senior IT Trainer
13 14 (2.79%) Business Analyst
13 14 (2.79%) IT Analyst
13 14 (2.79%) IT Manager
13 14 (2.79%) Support Analyst
13 14 (2.79%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.79%) REST
2 16 (3.19%) Terraform
3 13 (2.59%) Kafka
4 12 (2.40%) React
5 10 (2.00%) Spring
5 10 (2.00%) Spring Boot
6 8 (1.60%) RESTful
7 7 (1.40%) OpenAPI
7 7 (1.40%) Swagger
8 6 (1.20%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (1.20%) SOAP
9 5 (1.00%) Spring Cloud
10 4 (0.80%) JSON
10 4 (0.80%) Middleware
10 4 (0.80%) Next.js
11 3 (0.60%) .NET
11 3 (0.60%) LangChain
11 3 (0.60%) Oracle Fusion
11 3 (0.60%) PySpark
12 2 (0.40%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 18 (3.59%) Onboarding
2 17 (3.39%) Cloud Native
3 15 (2.99%) Management Information System
4 11 (2.20%) Product Ownership
5 10 (2.00%) Social Media
6 9 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (1.60%) CCTV
7 8 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (1.40%) Robotics
9 6 (1.20%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.00%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.00%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.00%) Fixed Income
10 5 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (1.00%) FPGA
10 5 (1.00%) Low-Code
10 5 (1.00%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.00%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 36 (7.19%) Windows
2 18 (3.59%) Linux
3 16 (3.19%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.20%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.00%) FreeRTOS
6 2 (0.40%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.40%) Unix
6 2 (0.40%) VMS
6 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (16.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 78 (15.57%) Agile
2 78 (15.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 77 (15.37%) Continuous Improvement
3 77 (15.37%) Migration
4 62 (12.38%) Problem-Solving
5 56 (11.18%) Business Intelligence
6 52 (10.38%) AI
7 49 (9.78%) CI/CD
8 48 (9.58%) Data Migration
9 46 (9.18%) ERP
10 43 (8.58%) Software Engineering
11 42 (8.38%) User Acceptance Testing
12 41 (8.18%) DevOps
13 40 (7.98%) Translating Business Requirements
14 39 (7.78%) Change Management
15 36 (7.19%) Validation
16 35 (6.99%) Procure-to-Pay
17 34 (6.79%) Architectural Design
18 33 (6.59%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 39 (7.78%) Python
2 34 (6.79%) SQL
3 21 (4.19%) Java
4 14 (2.79%) C
5 13 (2.59%) C++
5 13 (2.59%) TypeScript
6 12 (2.40%) PowerShell
7 10 (2.00%) Bash
8 7 (1.40%) JavaScript
9 6 (1.20%) Ada
10 5 (1.00%) C#
11 4 (0.80%) Embedded C
11 4 (0.80%) SOQL
11 4 (0.80%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.40%) MATLAB
12 2 (0.40%) PromQL
13 1 (0.20%) Bicep
13 1 (0.20%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.20%) SystemVerilog
13 1 (0.20%) VBA
Qualifications
1 105 (20.96%) Security Cleared
2 81 (16.17%) SC Cleared
3 48 (9.58%) Degree
4 31 (6.19%) DV Cleared
5 9 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (1.60%) PMI Certification
7 7 (1.40%) CISSP
8 6 (1.20%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.20%) CISM
9 5 (1.00%) AWS Certification
9 5 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.80%) PMP
11 3 (0.60%) IIBA
12 2 (0.40%) CBAP
12 2 (0.40%) CEH
12 2 (0.40%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (5.59%) Data Quality
2 24 (4.79%) QA
3 14 (2.79%) GDPR
4 8 (1.60%) GRC
4 8 (1.60%) NCSC
5 6 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 5 (1.00%) NIST
7 4 (0.80%) Def Stans
7 4 (0.80%) Government Security Classifications
7 4 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.80%) MISRA
8 3 (0.60%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.60%) DO-178B
9 2 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 2 (0.40%) PERC
9 2 (0.40%) PMO
10 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.20%) MISRA C
System Software
1 21 (4.19%) Docker
2 20 (3.99%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.40%) Hyper-V
4 6 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.80%) Firmware
6 2 (0.40%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.20%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 21 (4.19%) Kubernetes
2 14 (2.79%) Ansible
3 9 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (1.60%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.20%) Grafana
5 6 (1.20%) SCCM
6 2 (0.40%) Consul
6 2 (0.40%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.40%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (0.40%) Kibana
6 2 (0.40%) PowerCLI
6 2 (0.40%) Puppet
6 2 (0.40%) Salt
6 2 (0.40%) SCOM
6 2 (0.40%) Zipkin
7 1 (0.20%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.20%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.20%) QRadar
Vendors
1 101 (20.16%) Microsoft
2 22 (4.39%) SAP
3 16 (3.19%) ServiceNow
4 13 (2.59%) Cisco
5 10 (2.00%) Aderant
5 10 (2.00%) Intapp
5 10 (2.00%) Oracle
6 9 (1.80%) Workday
7 8 (1.60%) Google
7 8 (1.60%) iManage
8 6 (1.20%) Foundry
8 6 (1.20%) IBM
8 6 (1.20%) Litera
8 6 (1.20%) Palo Alto
8 6 (1.20%) VMware
9 5 (1.00%) Fortinet
9 5 (1.00%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.00%) Solace
9 5 (1.00%) Splunk
9 5 (1.00%) UiPath