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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 236 227 240
Rank change year-on-year -9 +13 -73
Contract jobs citing Law 493 332 338
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.08% 1.19% 1.02%
As % of the General category 1.95% 1.86% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 164 179
10th Percentile £358 £229 £263
25th Percentile £463 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £503 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -8.59% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £688
90th Percentile £725 £725 £815
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 27 12
10th Percentile £14.62 £12.21 £19.12
25th Percentile £17.11 £14.47 £20.50
Median hourly rate £17.73 £27.64 £24.49
Median % change year-on-year -35.87% +12.89% +32.35%
75th Percentile £25.77 £59.62 £29.09
90th Percentile £49.30 £76.66 £35.88
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 25,294 17,865 19,087
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.35% 64.26% 57.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,068 11,346 12,263
10th Percentile £313 £276 £300
25th Percentile £419 £400 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -5.20% -2.18%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £660
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 2,019 974 1,202
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.25 £14.48
25th Percentile £17.75 £16.36 £18.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -34.02% +38.62%
75th Percentile £61.18 £50.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.37 £75.00 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £31.56 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +25.47% -34.02% +38.62%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 17 August 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 +1 254 £550 +1.38% 1,887
North of England -32 80 £425 -2.86% 242
South East -51 49 £525 +10.53% 210
East of England +4 45 £450 - 96
Yorkshire -2 44 £388 -31.11% 61
Midlands -52 35 £438 -21.52% 113
North West -36 32 £450 +5.88% 160
West Midlands -62 23 £600 +6.19% 59
South West -43 16 £425 -37.50% 128
East Midlands -13 11 £200 -48.05% 54
North East -39 4 - - 22
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 (3.65%) SharePoint
2 10 (2.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.01%) Confluence
4 2 (0.41%) Apache
4 2 (0.41%) 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 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.61%) Acrobat
3 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.20%) Simulink
5 1 (0.20%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 5 (1.01%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 5 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.61%) Maximo
2 3 (0.61%) Oracle SCM
3 2 (0.41%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.20%) 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%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 70 (14.20%) Azure
2 66 (13.39%) Power Platform
3 42 (8.52%) AWS
4 37 (7.51%) Dynamics 365
5 28 (5.68%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (3.25%) GitHub
6 16 (3.25%) SaaS
7 15 (3.04%) Power Automate
8 13 (2.64%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (2.64%) Entra ID
8 13 (2.64%) Microsoft Copilot
9 12 (2.43%) GitHub Actions
9 12 (2.43%) Serverless
10 11 (2.23%) GCP
10 11 (2.23%) PowerApps
11 9 (1.83%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (1.83%) Copilot Studio
11 9 (1.83%) SuccessFactors
12 8 (1.62%) Azure Logic Apps
12 8 (1.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.43%) Wi-Fi
2 11 (2.23%) Firewall
3 8 (1.62%) VPN
4 7 (1.42%) Wireless
5 6 (1.22%) DNS
5 6 (1.22%) Network Security
5 6 (1.22%) WAN
6 5 (1.01%) DHCP
6 5 (1.01%) Ethernet
6 5 (1.01%) LAN
6 5 (1.01%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.81%) Cisco IPT
7 4 (0.81%) MPLS
7 4 (0.81%) Software-Defined Radio
8 2 (0.41%) BGP
8 2 (0.41%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (0.41%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.41%) Ethernet VPN
8 2 (0.41%) OSPF
8 2 (0.41%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (11.36%) Power BI
2 8 (1.62%) Metadata
2 8 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (1.22%) Relational Database
4 5 (1.01%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.01%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.61%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (0.61%) Redis
5 3 (0.61%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (0.41%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (0.41%) Amazon QuickSight
6 2 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.41%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.20%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.20%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.20%) KDB
7 1 (0.20%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 20 (4.06%) Jenkins
2 17 (3.45%) JIRA
3 14 (2.84%) GitLab
4 10 (2.03%) Git
4 10 (2.03%) JUnit
4 10 (2.03%) Mockito
5 7 (1.42%) Liquibase
6 6 (1.22%) Rational DOORS
7 5 (1.01%) Gradle
8 4 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.41%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.41%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.41%) Flyway
9 2 (0.41%) git-flow
10 1 (0.20%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.20%) Postman
10 1 (0.20%) Rational Rhapsody
10 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.20%) Vite
General
1 133 (26.98%) Finance
2 123 (24.95%) Social Skills
3 93 (18.86%) Legal
4 63 (12.78%) Analytical Skills
5 55 (11.16%) Public Sector
6 35 (7.10%) Police
7 25 (5.07%) Influencing Skills
8 17 (3.45%) Manufacturing
9 16 (3.25%) Banking
10 14 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (1.83%) Marketing
12 7 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.42%) Social Science
13 6 (1.22%) Aviation
13 6 (1.22%) Front Office
14 5 (1.01%) Electronics
14 5 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.81%) Military
16 3 (0.61%) German Language
Job Titles
1 69 (14.00%) Lead
2 59 (11.97%) Senior
3 58 (11.76%) Analyst
4 46 (9.33%) Architect
5 39 (7.91%) Developer
6 33 (6.69%) Project Manager
7 31 (6.29%) Functional Architect
7 31 (6.29%) Lead Architect
8 27 (5.48%) Software Engineer
9 19 (3.85%) IT Trainer
9 19 (3.85%) Trainer
10 18 (3.65%) Consultant
11 17 (3.45%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
12 16 (3.25%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
12 16 (3.25%) Senior IT Trainer
13 15 (3.04%) IT Manager
14 14 (2.84%) Business Analyst
14 14 (2.84%) IT Analyst
14 14 (2.84%) Support Analyst
14 14 (2.84%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.85%) REST
2 13 (2.64%) Kafka
3 12 (2.43%) React
4 10 (2.03%) Spring
4 10 (2.03%) Spring Boot
5 8 (1.62%) RESTful
6 7 (1.42%) OpenAPI
6 7 (1.42%) Swagger
7 6 (1.22%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (1.22%) SOAP
8 5 (1.01%) Middleware
8 5 (1.01%) Spring Cloud
9 4 (0.81%) JSON
9 4 (0.81%) Next.js
10 3 (0.61%) .NET
10 3 (0.61%) LangChain
10 3 (0.61%) Oracle Fusion
10 3 (0.61%) PySpark
11 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Graph
11 2 (0.41%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 19 (3.85%) Onboarding
2 17 (3.45%) Cloud Native
3 15 (3.04%) Management Information System
4 11 (2.23%) Product Ownership
5 9 (1.83%) Social Media
6 8 (1.62%) CCTV
6 8 (1.62%) Data Centre
6 8 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (1.42%) Robotics
7 7 (1.42%) Security Posture
8 6 (1.22%) Low-Code
9 5 (1.01%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.01%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.01%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (1.01%) FPGA
9 5 (1.01%) Smartphone
10 4 (0.81%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 36 (7.30%) Windows
2 21 (4.26%) Linux
3 15 (3.04%) Windows Server
4 8 (1.62%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.81%) FreeRTOS
6 2 (0.41%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.41%) Unix
6 2 (0.41%) VMS
6 2 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (17.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 79 (16.02%) Migration
3 78 (15.82%) Agile
4 76 (15.42%) Continuous Improvement
5 68 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
6 59 (11.97%) Problem-Solving
7 58 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
8 54 (10.95%) AI
9 51 (10.34%) Data Migration
10 47 (9.53%) CI/CD
10 47 (9.53%) ERP
11 45 (9.13%) Software Engineering
11 45 (9.13%) User Acceptance Testing
12 41 (8.32%) Translating Business Requirements
13 40 (8.11%) DevOps
14 37 (7.51%) Change Management
14 37 (7.51%) Validation
15 36 (7.30%) Architectural Design
15 36 (7.30%) Procure-to-Pay
16 34 (6.90%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 35 (7.10%) SQL
2 34 (6.90%) Python
3 22 (4.46%) Java
4 14 (2.84%) C
5 13 (2.64%) C++
5 13 (2.64%) TypeScript
6 11 (2.23%) PowerShell
7 10 (2.03%) Bash
8 9 (1.83%) Ada
9 8 (1.62%) JavaScript
10 6 (1.22%) C#
11 4 (0.81%) Embedded C
11 4 (0.81%) SOQL
11 4 (0.81%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.41%) MATLAB
12 2 (0.41%) PromQL
13 1 (0.20%) Bicep
13 1 (0.20%) Ruby
13 1 (0.20%) Rust
13 1 (0.20%) VBA
Qualifications
1 103 (20.89%) Security Cleared
2 78 (15.82%) SC Cleared
3 47 (9.53%) Degree
4 29 (5.88%) DV Cleared
5 9 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (1.42%) CISSP
6 7 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.42%) PMI Certification
7 6 (1.22%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.22%) CISM
8 5 (1.01%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.61%) IIBA
10 3 (0.61%) PMP
11 2 (0.41%) CBAP
11 2 (0.41%) CEH
11 2 (0.41%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (5.27%) Data Quality
2 24 (4.87%) QA
3 14 (2.84%) GDPR
4 7 (1.42%) GRC
4 7 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.42%) NCSC
4 7 (1.42%) NIST
5 6 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 5 (1.01%) Def Stans
7 4 (0.81%) Government Security Classifications
8 3 (0.61%) DO-178B
8 3 (0.61%) MISRA
8 3 (0.61%) PMO
9 2 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.20%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.20%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.20%) P3O
10 1 (0.20%) Solvency II
System Software
1 21 (4.26%) Active Directory
1 21 (4.26%) Docker
2 7 (1.42%) Hyper-V
3 6 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.81%) Firmware
5 2 (0.41%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.20%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 20 (4.06%) Kubernetes
2 15 (3.04%) Terraform
3 14 (2.84%) Ansible
4 9 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (1.62%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.22%) Grafana
7 4 (0.81%) SCCM
8 2 (0.41%) Consul
8 2 (0.41%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.41%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.41%) PowerCLI
8 2 (0.41%) Puppet
8 2 (0.41%) Salt
8 2 (0.41%) Zipkin
9 1 (0.20%) Cisco Prime
9 1 (0.20%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.20%) QRadar
Vendors
1 103 (20.89%) Microsoft
2 22 (4.46%) SAP
3 16 (3.25%) ServiceNow
4 15 (3.04%) Cisco
5 10 (2.03%) Intapp
5 10 (2.03%) Oracle
6 9 (1.83%) Workday
7 8 (1.62%) iManage
8 7 (1.42%) Google
8 7 (1.42%) Palo Alto
9 6 (1.22%) Fortinet
9 6 (1.22%) Foundry
9 6 (1.22%) Litera
9 6 (1.22%) UiPath
9 6 (1.22%) VMware
10 5 (1.01%) Aderant
10 5 (1.01%) IBM
10 5 (1.01%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.01%) Solace
10 5 (1.01%) Splunk