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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 224 226
Rank change year-on-year -8 +2 -76
Contract jobs citing Law 456 287 381
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.09% 1.19% 1.04%
As % of the General category 2.00% 1.86% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 169 238
10th Percentile £350 £267 £263
25th Percentile £425 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £606 £675
90th Percentile £713 £725 £804
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 12 27
10th Percentile £17.03 £27.78 £10.42
25th Percentile £17.11 £29.75 £11.91
Median hourly rate £20.27 £40.59 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.07% +212.25% -35.00%
75th Percentile £25.77 £71.82 £27.96
90th Percentile £38.63 £81.01 £32.50
UK median hourly rate £22.81 £52.99 £14.32
% change year-on-year -56.96% +270.19% -28.43%

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 22,831 15,405 21,227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.35% 64.12% 57.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,997 9,950 13,648
10th Percentile £313 £285 £281
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,561 695 1,806
10th Percentile £14.10 £13.41 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.32 £16.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £30.81 £27.76 £30.44
Median % change year-on-year +10.99% -8.79% -4.89%
75th Percentile £61.18 £53.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £66.87
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.85 £30.00
% change year-on-year +7.72% -7.17% -7.69%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 30 May 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 +6 231 £525 - 188
North of England -47 62 £450 -1.37% 55
South East -43 51 £500 -0.10% 74
Midlands -60 47 £438 -16.67% 29
East of England -10 31 £469 -10.71% 13
Yorkshire -45 31 £447 -20.53% 18
West Midlands -69 29 £600 +9.09% 14
North West -38 27 £463 +8.82% 32
South West -29 20 £500 +122.22% 18
East Midlands -23 17 £175 -65.00% 15
North East -21 4 - - 5
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 17 (3.73%) SharePoint
2 10 (2.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.66%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.44%) Confluence
4 2 (0.44%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.22%) Apache
5 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.22%) CMS
5 1 (0.22%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 16 (3.51%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.44%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.66%) Maximo
2 3 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.44%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.44%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.44%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.22%) Aareon QL
4 1 (0.22%) Hyperion Planning
4 1 (0.22%) Magento
4 1 (0.22%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.22%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.22%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.22%) OPENHousing
4 1 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.22%) Orchard Housing
4 1 (0.22%) Primavera
4 1 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.22%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 60 (13.16%) Azure
2 59 (12.94%) Power Platform
3 34 (7.46%) Dynamics 365
4 28 (6.14%) AWS
5 25 (5.48%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (3.51%) SaaS
7 15 (3.29%) Microsoft Copilot
8 12 (2.63%) Power Automate
9 11 (2.41%) GitHub
10 9 (1.97%) Entra ID
10 9 (1.97%) GCP
10 9 (1.97%) Serverless
11 8 (1.75%) Azure Data Factory
11 8 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (1.75%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (1.54%) Azure Logic Apps
12 7 (1.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 6 (1.32%) SuccessFactors
14 5 (1.10%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (1.10%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.41%) Firewall
1 11 (2.41%) Wi-Fi
2 9 (1.97%) DNS
3 8 (1.75%) SD-WAN
3 8 (1.75%) WAN
4 6 (1.32%) LAN
4 6 (1.32%) Network Security
4 6 (1.32%) VPN
5 5 (1.10%) DHCP
5 5 (1.10%) Ethernet
5 5 (1.10%) MPLS
5 5 (1.10%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.88%) Software-Defined Radio
6 4 (0.88%) Wireless
7 3 (0.66%) Cisco IPT
7 3 (0.66%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.44%) Ethernet VPN
8 2 (0.44%) Internet
8 2 (0.44%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.44%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (10.96%) Power BI
2 10 (2.19%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (1.75%) SQL Server
4 6 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (1.32%) Metadata
5 5 (1.10%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.88%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (0.88%) Snowflake Schema
7 3 (0.66%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.44%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.44%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.44%) Spark SQL
9 1 (0.22%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.22%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.22%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.22%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.22%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.22%) SAP Data Services
9 1 (0.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (3.51%) Jenkins
1 16 (3.51%) JIRA
2 11 (2.41%) Git
3 9 (1.97%) GitLab
3 9 (1.97%) JUnit
3 9 (1.97%) Mockito
4 7 (1.54%) Liquibase
5 6 (1.32%) Rational DOORS
6 5 (1.10%) Gradle
6 5 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.66%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.44%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.44%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.44%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.44%) Flyway
8 2 (0.44%) git-flow
9 1 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.22%) Selenium
9 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.22%) WebDriver
General
1 126 (27.63%) Finance
2 121 (26.54%) Social Skills
3 99 (21.71%) Legal
4 54 (11.84%) Analytical Skills
5 53 (11.62%) Public Sector
6 29 (6.36%) Police
7 20 (4.39%) Banking
7 20 (4.39%) Influencing Skills
8 14 (3.07%) Manufacturing
9 13 (2.85%) Marketing
10 11 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (1.32%) Aviation
12 6 (1.32%) Front Office
13 5 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.10%) Publishing
14 4 (0.88%) Billing
14 4 (0.88%) Military
14 4 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 60 (13.16%) Lead
2 58 (12.72%) Architect
3 56 (12.28%) Analyst
3 56 (12.28%) Senior
4 33 (7.24%) Project Manager
5 31 (6.80%) Functional Architect
5 31 (6.80%) Lead Architect
6 29 (6.36%) Software Engineer
7 27 (5.92%) Developer
8 20 (4.39%) Business Analyst
8 20 (4.39%) Consultant
9 18 (3.95%) Support Engineer
10 16 (3.51%) Senior Manager
11 13 (2.85%) IT Analyst
12 11 (2.41%) Business Manager
12 11 (2.41%) Java Engineer
12 11 (2.41%) Java Software Engineer
13 10 (2.19%) Administrator
13 10 (2.19%) Commercial Manager
13 10 (2.19%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (2.63%) Kafka
2 10 (2.19%) React
2 10 (2.19%) REST
3 9 (1.97%) Spring
3 9 (1.97%) Spring Boot
4 8 (1.75%) Middleware
5 7 (1.54%) OpenAPI
5 7 (1.54%) Swagger
6 5 (1.10%) RESTful
6 5 (1.10%) SOAP
7 4 (0.88%) Spring Cloud
8 3 (0.66%) FIX Protocol
8 3 (0.66%) JSON
8 3 (0.66%) PySpark
8 3 (0.66%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (0.44%) Drools
9 2 (0.44%) JPA
9 2 (0.44%) OAuth
9 2 (0.44%) Spring MVC
9 2 (0.44%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 15 (3.29%) Management Information System
2 14 (3.07%) Onboarding
3 10 (2.19%) AI Agents
3 10 (2.19%) Data Centre
4 9 (1.97%) Product Ownership
4 9 (1.97%) Security Posture
5 8 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (1.75%) Smartphone
6 7 (1.54%) Robotics
6 7 (1.54%) Social Media
7 6 (1.32%) CCTV
7 6 (1.32%) FPGA
8 5 (1.10%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (1.10%) Low-Code
9 4 (0.88%) Data Structures
9 4 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (0.88%) Operational Technology
9 4 (0.88%) PCIe
Operating Systems
1 37 (8.11%) Windows
2 21 (4.61%) Linux
3 11 (2.41%) Windows 10
4 10 (2.19%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.10%) Unix
6 4 (0.88%) FreeRTOS
7 2 (0.44%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.44%) VMS
8 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (18.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 71 (15.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 70 (15.35%) Migration
4 66 (14.47%) Agile
5 62 (13.60%) Problem-Solving
5 62 (13.60%) Stakeholder Management
6 55 (12.06%) Business Intelligence
7 51 (11.18%) AI
8 46 (10.09%) ERP
9 45 (9.87%) Data Migration
9 45 (9.87%) Translating Business Requirements
10 44 (9.65%) User Acceptance Testing
11 39 (8.55%) Software Engineering
12 38 (8.33%) Architectural Design
13 37 (8.11%) Change Management
14 36 (7.89%) Order to Cash
14 36 (7.89%) Procure-to-Pay
15 34 (7.46%) CI/CD
15 34 (7.46%) End-to-End Testing
15 34 (7.46%) Record to Report
Programming Languages
1 33 (7.24%) SQL
2 24 (5.26%) Java
3 19 (4.17%) Python
4 16 (3.51%) PowerShell
5 13 (2.85%) Ada
5 13 (2.85%) C
6 11 (2.41%) TypeScript
7 9 (1.97%) Bash
7 9 (1.97%) C#
8 8 (1.75%) JavaScript
9 5 (1.10%) C++
10 4 (0.88%) Embedded C
10 4 (0.88%) MATLAB
10 4 (0.88%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.66%) Go
11 3 (0.66%) Rust
11 3 (0.66%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.44%) Bicep
12 2 (0.44%) Perl
12 2 (0.44%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 90 (19.74%) Security Cleared
2 61 (13.38%) SC Cleared
3 54 (11.84%) Degree
4 22 (4.82%) DV Cleared
5 9 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.32%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.32%) PMI Certification
8 4 (0.88%) CISSP
9 3 (0.66%) CIPD
9 3 (0.66%) CISM
9 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.66%) PMP
10 2 (0.44%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.44%) CCNA
10 2 (0.44%) CEH
10 2 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.44%) GCIA
10 2 (0.44%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.22%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.95%) Data Quality
2 16 (3.51%) GDPR
3 12 (2.63%) QA
4 9 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (1.97%) NCSC
5 8 (1.75%) GRC
6 6 (1.32%) NIST
7 5 (1.10%) Def Stans
8 4 (0.88%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.66%) IEC 61508
9 3 (0.66%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.66%) PMO
9 3 (0.66%) PSD2
9 3 (0.66%) SLA
10 2 (0.44%) ISO 22301
10 2 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 2 (0.44%) MISRA
11 1 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.22%) MISRA C
System Software
1 25 (5.48%) Active Directory
2 19 (4.17%) Docker
3 7 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.10%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.44%) Firmware
5 2 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.22%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 14 (3.07%) Kubernetes
1 14 (3.07%) Terraform
2 12 (2.63%) Ansible
3 9 (1.97%) Grafana
4 8 (1.75%) SCCM
5 7 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (1.54%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.66%) Cisco Prime
7 2 (0.44%) Consul
7 2 (0.44%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.44%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (0.44%) PowerCLI
7 2 (0.44%) Puppet
7 2 (0.44%) Salt
7 2 (0.44%) Zipkin
8 1 (0.22%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.22%) QRadar
Vendors
1 95 (20.83%) Microsoft
2 24 (5.26%) SAP
3 15 (3.29%) Oracle
4 11 (2.41%) Cisco
5 10 (2.19%) ServiceNow
6 9 (1.97%) Workday
7 8 (1.75%) Splunk
8 7 (1.54%) Aruba
8 7 (1.54%) Fortinet
8 7 (1.54%) VMware
9 6 (1.32%) Databricks
9 6 (1.32%) IBM
9 6 (1.32%) iManage
9 6 (1.32%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.10%) Intapp
11 4 (0.88%) Black Duck
11 4 (0.88%) Juniper
11 4 (0.88%) MuleSoft
11 4 (0.88%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.88%) Solace