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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 255 247 232
Rank change year-on-year -8 -15 -64
Contract jobs citing Law 464 304 336
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.00% 1.09% 1.04%
As % of the General category 1.78% 1.70% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 159 139
10th Percentile £358 £253 £244
25th Percentile £463 £413 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -7.48%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £628
90th Percentile £750 £725 £728
UK median daily rate £550 £530 £498
% change year-on-year +3.77% +6.53% -7.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 21 13
10th Percentile £13.06 £12.21 £19.28
25th Percentile £16.05 £13.46 £20.50
Median hourly rate £17.73 £16.96 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year +4.51% -37.12% +49.83%
75th Percentile £25.77 £40.46 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £68.75 £71.85
UK median hourly rate £17.73 £50.00 £26.97
% change year-on-year -64.55% +85.39% +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 26,131 17,889 18,997
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 56.49% 63.93% 58.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,215 11,356 11,412
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% -3.64%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,413 1,048 844
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.61 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.50 £16.30 £17.49
Median hourly rate £29.00 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.31% -28.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £55.00 £45.75 £61.60
90th Percentile £78.10 £70.05 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £25.08 £33.00
% change year-on-year +9.67% -24.02% +20.00%

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 8 October 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 -28 225 £600 +4.35% 3,686
North of England -4 86 £504 +8.86% 352
Yorkshire +7 50 £495 +2.75% 91
East of England -10 50 £435 +2.35% 157
South East -54 39 £525 +7.14% 397
North West -32 32 £525 +13.51% 209
Midlands -53 31 £530 -6.28% 155
West Midlands -50 23 £575 +0.88% 94
South West -41 16 £350 -38.05% 179
East Midlands -10 8 £316 -17.86% 61
North East - 4 - - 52
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 (1.72%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.29%) Confluence
3 4 (0.86%) CMS
3 4 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.65%) nginx
5 2 (0.43%) Apache
5 2 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.22%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.22%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.22%) IIS
6 1 (0.22%) Mendix
6 1 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 19 (4.09%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (2.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.65%) Acrobat
3 3 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.43%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.22%) Simulink
5 1 (0.22%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 5 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.65%) Elite 3E
2 3 (0.65%) Maximo
2 3 (0.65%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 3 (0.65%) Oracle SCM
3 2 (0.43%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.43%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.22%) Hyperion Planning
4 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.22%) Primavera
4 1 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 61 (13.15%) Azure
2 43 (9.27%) AWS
3 31 (6.68%) Power Platform
4 26 (5.60%) Microsoft 365
5 17 (3.66%) GitHub
6 16 (3.45%) Entra ID
7 13 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (2.80%) Microsoft Copilot
7 13 (2.80%) PowerApps
7 13 (2.80%) SaaS
7 13 (2.80%) Serverless
8 11 (2.37%) GCP
8 11 (2.37%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (2.16%) Copilot Studio
10 9 (1.94%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
10 9 (1.94%) Power Automate
11 8 (1.72%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (1.72%) SuccessFactors
12 7 (1.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.16%) Wi-Fi
2 8 (1.72%) Firewall
3 7 (1.51%) DHCP
3 7 (1.51%) DNS
3 7 (1.51%) VPN
4 6 (1.29%) Wireless
5 5 (1.08%) Network Security
6 4 (0.86%) Ethernet
7 3 (0.65%) Broadband
7 3 (0.65%) Cisco IPT
7 3 (0.65%) Reverse Proxy
7 3 (0.65%) Software-Defined Radio
7 3 (0.65%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.65%) WAN
8 2 (0.43%) BGP
8 2 (0.43%) HTTP
8 2 (0.43%) LAN
8 2 (0.43%) OpenVPN
8 2 (0.43%) OSPF
8 2 (0.43%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (4.74%) Power BI
2 10 (2.16%) Metadata
3 7 (1.51%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (1.51%) Relational Database
3 7 (1.51%) SQL Server
4 5 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.65%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.65%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.65%) KDB
5 3 (0.65%) Redis
6 2 (0.43%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (0.43%) Amazon QuickSight
6 2 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.43%) Kdb+
6 2 (0.43%) Pentaho
6 2 (0.43%) Power Query
6 2 (0.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 19 (4.09%) JIRA
2 18 (3.88%) Jenkins
3 15 (3.23%) GitLab
4 10 (2.16%) Git
5 8 (1.72%) Rational DOORS
6 6 (1.29%) JUnit
6 6 (1.29%) Mockito
7 4 (0.86%) Liquibase
7 4 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.65%) Rational Rhapsody
9 2 (0.43%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.43%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.43%) Flyway
9 2 (0.43%) git-flow
9 2 (0.43%) Gradle
9 2 (0.43%) JMeter
10 1 (0.22%) CppUnit
10 1 (0.22%) Postman
10 1 (0.22%) PVCS
10 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 122 (26.29%) Social Skills
2 104 (22.41%) Finance
3 88 (18.97%) Legal
4 64 (13.79%) Public Sector
5 63 (13.58%) Analytical Skills
6 38 (8.19%) Police
7 22 (4.74%) Influencing Skills
8 20 (4.31%) Banking
9 17 (3.66%) Manufacturing
10 14 (3.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (1.94%) Marketing
12 8 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (1.72%) Front Office
12 8 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (1.51%) Legal Technology
14 6 (1.29%) Electronics
15 5 (1.08%) Aviation
15 5 (1.08%) Military
16 4 (0.86%) Investment Banking
16 4 (0.86%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 58 (12.50%) Senior
2 55 (11.85%) Analyst
3 46 (9.91%) Lead
4 40 (8.62%) Developer
5 30 (6.47%) Project Manager
6 25 (5.39%) Consultant
7 24 (5.17%) IT Trainer
7 24 (5.17%) Trainer
8 22 (4.74%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
9 21 (4.53%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 21 (4.53%) Senior IT Trainer
10 18 (3.88%) Software Engineer
11 17 (3.66%) Architect
12 16 (3.45%) IT Manager
13 14 (3.02%) Support Engineer
14 13 (2.80%) Business Analyst
14 13 (2.80%) Support Analyst
15 12 (2.59%) Technical Support
16 11 (2.37%) Systems Analyst
16 11 (2.37%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (4.96%) REST
2 20 (4.31%) Terraform
3 12 (2.59%) React
4 9 (1.94%) Kafka
5 6 (1.29%) JSON
5 6 (1.29%) Middleware
5 6 (1.29%) RESTful
5 6 (1.29%) Spring
5 6 (1.29%) Spring Boot
6 5 (1.08%) .NET
6 5 (1.08%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (1.08%) SOAP
7 4 (0.86%) HTML
7 4 (0.86%) HTML5 Canvas
7 4 (0.86%) OpenAPI
7 4 (0.86%) Spring Cloud
7 4 (0.86%) Swagger
7 4 (0.86%) XML
7 4 (0.86%) YAML
8 3 (0.65%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 20 (4.31%) Cloud Native
1 20 (4.31%) Onboarding
2 15 (3.23%) Management Information System
3 11 (2.37%) Product Ownership
4 9 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (1.94%) Security Posture
4 9 (1.94%) Social Media
5 7 (1.51%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (1.29%) Cyber Threat
6 6 (1.29%) Robotics
7 5 (1.08%) CCTV
7 5 (1.08%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.08%) Fixed Income
7 5 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 5 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.08%) Smartphone
8 4 (0.86%) Algorithms
8 4 (0.86%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 40 (8.62%) Windows
2 24 (5.17%) Linux
3 20 (4.31%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.08%) FreeRTOS
4 5 (1.08%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.86%) Unix
6 2 (0.43%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.43%) VMS
6 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.22%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (19.83%) Stakeholder Management
2 78 (16.81%) Agile
3 57 (12.28%) Problem-Solving
4 50 (10.78%) AI
4 50 (10.78%) CI/CD
4 50 (10.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 47 (10.13%) Continuous Improvement
6 46 (9.91%) Software Engineering
7 45 (9.70%) Migration
8 43 (9.27%) DevOps
9 40 (8.62%) Change Management
10 34 (7.33%) Risk Management
11 33 (7.11%) Validation
12 32 (6.90%) Roadmaps
13 29 (6.25%) Digital Transformation Programme
14 27 (5.82%) Project Delivery
15 26 (5.60%) Data Protection
15 26 (5.60%) Decision-Making
16 25 (5.39%) Data Modelling
17 24 (5.17%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 49 (10.56%) Python
2 37 (7.97%) SQL
3 16 (3.45%) C++
3 16 (3.45%) Java
3 16 (3.45%) PowerShell
4 13 (2.80%) C
5 12 (2.59%) JavaScript
5 12 (2.59%) TypeScript
6 11 (2.37%) Bash
7 7 (1.51%) Ada
7 7 (1.51%) C#
8 4 (0.86%) SOQL
9 3 (0.65%) Embedded C
10 2 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.43%) Groovy
10 2 (0.43%) PHP
10 2 (0.43%) PromQL
11 1 (0.22%) Go
11 1 (0.22%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 112 (24.14%) Security Cleared
2 87 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 48 (10.34%) Degree
4 31 (6.68%) DV Cleared
5 9 (1.94%) CISSP
6 8 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (1.72%) CISM
7 7 (1.51%) PMI Certification
8 6 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.08%) AWS Certification
9 5 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.08%) PMP
10 4 (0.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (0.86%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.65%) IIBA
11 3 (0.65%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (5.39%) QA
2 22 (4.74%) Data Quality
3 12 (2.59%) GDPR
4 10 (2.16%) NCSC
5 9 (1.94%) GRC
6 6 (1.29%) Def Stans
7 5 (1.08%) MISRA
8 4 (0.86%) Government Security Classifications
8 4 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 4 (0.86%) NIST
9 3 (0.65%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.65%) DO-178B
9 3 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.65%) PERC
9 3 (0.65%) SLA
10 2 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.43%) MISRA C
10 2 (0.43%) PMO
11 1 (0.22%) ITGC
System Software
1 20 (4.31%) Active Directory
1 20 (4.31%) Docker
2 8 (1.72%) Hyper-V
2 8 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.86%) Firmware
3 4 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.43%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.22%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.22%) NFS
5 1 (0.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (4.74%) Kubernetes
2 13 (2.80%) Ansible
3 9 (1.94%) Prometheus
4 7 (1.51%) Grafana
5 6 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (1.29%) SCCM
6 4 (0.86%) Kibana
7 2 (0.43%) Consul
7 2 (0.43%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.43%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (0.43%) PowerCLI
7 2 (0.43%) Puppet
7 2 (0.43%) Salt
7 2 (0.43%) SCOM
7 2 (0.43%) Zipkin
8 1 (0.22%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.22%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.22%) Nagios
8 1 (0.22%) QRadar
Vendors
1 73 (15.73%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.09%) SAP
2 19 (4.09%) ServiceNow
3 18 (3.88%) Aderant
4 12 (2.59%) Cisco
5 9 (1.94%) Intapp
5 9 (1.94%) VMware
6 8 (1.72%) Google
6 8 (1.72%) Workday
7 5 (1.08%) Databricks
7 5 (1.08%) IBM
7 5 (1.08%) iManage
7 5 (1.08%) Litera
7 5 (1.08%) Oracle
7 5 (1.08%) Palo Alto
7 5 (1.08%) Planon
7 5 (1.08%) Solace
7 5 (1.08%) Splunk
7 5 (1.08%) UiPath
8 4 (0.86%) Foundry