Law Contracts in England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Law in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Law over the 3 months to 24 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Law UK / England
Location	3 months to 24 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	263	263	239
Rank change year-on-year	0	-24
Contract jobs citing Law	378	449	492
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England	0.89%	0.91%	0.96%
As % of the General category	2.27%	2.50%	2.47%
Number of daily rates quoted	210	278	315
Median daily rate	£450	£450	£375
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-	+20.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£275	£234	£194
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£609	£706	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£400	£376
% change year-on-year	-	+6.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted	2	30	19
Median hourly rate	£76.00	£17.75	£16.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+328.16%	+7.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£28.80	£16.50	£13.90
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£123.20	£19.00	£21.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate	-	£17.45	£16.50
% change year-on-year	-	+5.72%

Law is in the common skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for common skills.

General Skills England
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for common skills	16622	17963	19919
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England	39.14%	36.38%	39.03%
Number of daily rates quoted	11010	12219	13079
Median daily rate	£475	£450	£450
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.55%	-
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£300	£288	£285
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£650	£650	£625
UK excluding London median daily rate	£415	£400	£400
% change year-on-year	+3.75%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	371	436	492
Median hourly rate	£25.00	£22.50	£22.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+11.11%	-
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£13.50	£11.00	£11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.00	£47.50	£47.67
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£30.00	£24.38	£22.67
% change year-on-year	+23.07%	+7.54%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in England citing Law as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the General category.

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Law in England.

Contractor daily rate trend for Law in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in England

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Law in England over the 3 months to 24 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Law in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Law in England.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Law in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram in England

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Law in England over the 3 months to 24 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for Law in England

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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 3 months to 24 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
London	-10	252	£474	+5.33%	253
East of England	+1	38	£413	-	2
South East	+26	35	£575	+91.66%	37
North West	+33	33	£325	-35.80%	27
Yorkshire	-16	11	£300	-27.71%	5
South West	+3	4	£275	-21.42%	10
East Midlands	-6	3	£313	-40.47%
North East	+66	1	£168	-58.12%	6
West Midlands	+20	1	-	-	7
Law UK

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Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in England

For the 6 months to 24 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Law also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the England region with a requirement for Law.

1	238 (33.29%)	Legal
2	171 (23.92%)	Finance
3	130 (18.18%)	Agile Software Development
4	114 (15.94%)	Windows
5	111 (15.52%)	Project Management
6	110 (15.38%)	Microsoft
7	88 (12.31%)	Security Cleared
8	86 (12.03%)	Data Centre
9	84 (11.75%)	SQL
10	79 (11.05%)	SC Cleared
11	73 (10.21%)	Programme Delivery
12	65 (9.09%)	Stakeholder Management
12	65 (9.09%)	ITIL
13	59 (8.25%)	PRINCE2
14	56 (7.83%)	Degree

15	55 (7.69%)	Microsoft Office
16	53 (7.41%)	Active Directory
17	52 (7.27%)	Migration
18	50 (6.99%)	SQL Server
19	47 (6.57%)	Business Analysis
20	44 (6.15%)	VMware
20	44 (6.15%)	Java
20	44 (6.15%)	Service Management
21	43 (6.01%)	Banking
22	42 (5.87%)	Risk Management
23	41 (5.73%)	JavaScript
23	41 (5.73%)	Waterfall
23	41 (5.73%)	Analytical Skills
24	39 (5.45%)	Linux
25	38 (5.31%)	C#

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Co-occurring IT Skills in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	19 (2.66%)	Skype for Business
2	18 (2.52%)	MS Exchange
3	14 (1.96%)	Exchange Server 2010
3	14 (1.96%)	SharePoint
4	12 (1.68%)	Blackberry Enterprise Server
5	9 (1.26%)	CMS
5	9 (1.26%)	IIS
6	6 (0.84%)	Exchange Server 2013
7	5 (0.70%)	Apache
7	5 (0.70%)	JBoss
7	5 (0.70%)	WebSphere
7	5 (0.70%)	WebSphere Application Server
8	4 (0.56%)	Confluence
8	4 (0.56%)	Mule
9	3 (0.42%)	Apache Spark
9	3 (0.42%)	BizTalk Server
9	3 (0.42%)	Office Communications Server
10	2 (0.28%)	nginx
10	2 (0.28%)	Tomcat
10	2 (0.28%)	WebLogic

Applications
1	55 (7.69%)	Microsoft Office
2	35 (4.90%)	Microsoft Excel
3	19 (2.66%)	Microsoft Project
4	15 (2.10%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
5	13 (1.82%)	MS Visio
6	2 (0.28%)	Spreadsheet

Business Applications
1	13 (1.82%)	Dynamics CRM
2	7 (0.98%)	SAP Oil and Gas
3	4 (0.56%)	SAP ERP
4	3 (0.42%)	Relativity
5	2 (0.28%)	Adobe Campaign
5	2 (0.28%)	Dynamics AX
5	2 (0.28%)	Payment Gateway
6	1 (0.14%)	PeopleSoft HCM
6	1 (0.14%)	SAP CO
6	1 (0.14%)	SAP FI
6	1 (0.14%)	SAP FI/CO
6	1 (0.14%)	Visualfiles

Cloud Services
1	23 (3.22%)	Microsoft Azure
2	14 (1.96%)	Amazon AWS
3	13 (1.82%)	Dynamics 365
4	12 (1.68%)	IaaS
4	12 (1.68%)	Office 365
5	11 (1.54%)	PaaS
6	7 (0.98%)	SaaS
7	6 (0.84%)	Mimecast
8	2 (0.28%)	Slack
9	1 (0.14%)	Adobe Analytics
9	1 (0.14%)	Amazon EC2
9	1 (0.14%)	AWS CloudFormation
9	1 (0.14%)	GitHub
9	1 (0.14%)	IBM Blueworks
9	1 (0.14%)	OneDrive
9	1 (0.14%)	Yammer

Communications & Networking
1	22 (3.08%)	TCP/IP
2	18 (2.52%)	Firewall
3	16 (2.24%)	Unified Communications
4	15 (2.10%)	Skype
5	14 (1.96%)	VPN
6	13 (1.82%)	Network Security
7	11 (1.54%)	Internet
7	11 (1.54%)	SAN
7	11 (1.54%)	WAN
8	10 (1.40%)	Cisco ASA
8	10 (1.40%)	HTTP
9	9 (1.26%)	VoIP
10	8 (1.12%)	DNS
11	7 (0.98%)	Cisco Nexus
12	6 (0.84%)	BIG-IP
12	6 (0.84%)	Extranet
13	5 (0.70%)	Cisco IOS
13	5 (0.70%)	LAN
14	4 (0.56%)	Remote Desktop
14	4 (0.56%)	WebEx

Database & Business Intelligence
1	50 (6.99%)	SQL Server
2	28 (3.92%)	SQL Server Integration Services
3	21 (2.94%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
4	17 (2.38%)	Relational Database
5	16 (2.24%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
6	12 (1.68%)	Power BI
6	12 (1.68%)	SQL Server 2012
7	11 (1.54%)	PostgreSQL
7	11 (1.54%)	SQL Server 2016
8	10 (1.40%)	SQL Server 2008
9	9 (1.26%)	RDBMS
10	8 (1.12%)	MongoDB
11	7 (0.98%)	Apache Hive
11	7 (0.98%)	Hadoop
12	6 (0.84%)	Big Data
12	6 (0.84%)	Data Warehouse
13	5 (0.70%)	Apache Cassandra
13	5 (0.70%)	NoSQL
13	5 (0.70%)	SQL Server 2005
14	4 (0.56%)	NewSQL

Development Applications
1	14 (1.96%)	Jenkins
2	13 (1.82%)	JIRA
3	10 (1.40%)	Maven
4	9 (1.26%)	Git (software)
4	9 (1.26%)	Team Foundation Server
5	7 (0.98%)	Visual Studio
6	6 (0.84%)	IDA Disassembler
6	6 (0.84%)	Metasploit
6	6 (0.84%)	OllyDbg
6	6 (0.84%)	Selenium
7	4 (0.56%)	HP UFT
8	3 (0.42%)	Rational Application Developer
8	3 (0.42%)	TeamCity
8	3 (0.42%)	WebDriver
9	2 (0.28%)	Babel
9	2 (0.28%)	Hudson
9	2 (0.28%)	IBM UrbanCode
9	2 (0.28%)	SpecFlow
9	2 (0.28%)	Vagrant
9	2 (0.28%)	webpack

General
1	238 (33.29%)	Legal
2	171 (23.92%)	Finance
3	43 (6.01%)	Banking
4	22 (3.08%)	Marketing
5	17 (2.38%)	Retail
6	16 (2.24%)	Telecoms
7	11 (1.54%)	Billing
8	10 (1.40%)	Publishing
8	10 (1.40%)	Retail Banking
9	8 (1.12%)	Manufacturing
10	7 (0.98%)	Electronics
11	6 (0.84%)	Digital Economy
12	4 (0.56%)	General Ledger
12	4 (0.56%)	Local Government
13	3 (0.42%)	Financial Institution
14	2 (0.28%)	Advertising
14	2 (0.28%)	French Language
14	2 (0.28%)	Investment Banking
15	1 (0.14%)	Mandarin Language
15	1 (0.14%)	Prime Brokerage

Job Titles
1	142 (19.86%)	Analyst
2	87 (12.17%)	Developer
3	78 (10.91%)	Consultant
3	78 (10.91%)	Project Manager
4	69 (9.65%)	Architect
5	55 (7.69%)	Business Analyst
6	37 (5.17%)	Security Consultant
7	27 (3.78%)	Trainer
8	25 (3.50%)	Service Analyst
9	24 (3.36%)	Support Analyst
10	23 (3.22%)	Java Developer
11	22 (3.08%)	IT Manager
12	21 (2.94%)	Legal Analyst
13	20 (2.80%)	Service Desk Analyst
14	19 (2.66%)	Administrator
14	19 (2.66%)	Commercial Manager
15	18 (2.52%)	.NET Developer
16	17 (2.38%)	Applications Consultant
16	17 (2.38%)	C# Developer
17	16 (2.24%)	IT Trainer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	34 (4.76%)	HTML
2	28 (3.92%)	CSS
3	27 (3.78%)	.NET
4	23 (3.22%)	XML
5	18 (2.52%)	REST
5	18 (2.52%)	Spring
5	18 (2.52%)	Web Services
6	15 (2.10%)	JSON
7	14 (1.96%)	AngularJS
8	13 (1.82%)	SOAP
9	12 (1.68%)	ASP.NET
9	12 (1.68%)	XSLT
10	11 (1.54%)	RSS
11	10 (1.40%)	RESTful
12	9 (1.26%)	.NET Framework
12	9 (1.26%)	MDX
13	8 (1.12%)	J2EE
13	8 (1.12%)	jQuery
13	8 (1.12%)	PostGIS
14	7 (0.98%)	Spring Boot

Miscellaneous
1	86 (12.03%)	Data Centre
2	41 (5.73%)	Analytical Skills
3	33 (4.62%)	Management Information System
4	20 (2.80%)	Blackberry
5	12 (1.68%)	e-Learning
5	12 (1.68%)	Greenfield Project
6	11 (1.54%)	Web 2.0
7	10 (1.40%)	Clustering
7	10 (1.40%)	Video Conferencing
8	8 (1.12%)	Cybercrime
9	7 (0.98%)	Fintech
9	7 (0.98%)	Private Cloud
9	7 (0.98%)	User Experience
10	6 (0.84%)	BYOD
10	6 (0.84%)	Cyberthreat
10	6 (0.84%)	Hybrid Cloud
11	5 (0.70%)	Data Protection Act
11	5 (0.70%)	Enterprise Software
11	5 (0.70%)	iPad
11	5 (0.70%)	Replication

Operating Systems
1	114 (15.94%)	Windows
2	39 (5.45%)	Linux
3	38 (5.31%)	Windows Server
4	35 (4.90%)	Windows 7
5	33 (4.62%)	Windows 10
6	21 (2.94%)	Windows Server 2012
7	17 (2.38%)	CentOS
8	16 (2.24%)	Ubuntu
9	13 (1.82%)	Windows Server 2008
10	11 (1.54%)	VMS
10	11 (1.54%)	Windows 8
11	8 (1.12%)	Android
11	8 (1.12%)	Apple iOS
11	8 (1.12%)	Unix
12	7 (0.98%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13	6 (0.84%)	Windows XP
14	5 (0.70%)	Windows Phone
15	3 (0.42%)	Solaris
16	2 (0.28%)	Kali Linux
16	2 (0.28%)	OpenVMS

Processes & Methodologies
1	130 (18.18%)	Agile Software Development
2	111 (15.52%)	Project Management
3	73 (10.21%)	Programme Delivery
4	65 (9.09%)	ITIL
4	65 (9.09%)	Stakeholder Management
5	59 (8.25%)	PRINCE2
6	52 (7.27%)	Migration
7	47 (6.57%)	Business Analysis
8	44 (6.15%)	Service Management
9	42 (5.87%)	Risk Management
10	41 (5.73%)	Waterfall
11	38 (5.31%)	Stakeholder Engagement
12	36 (5.03%)	Business Intelligence
13	35 (4.90%)	Information Security
14	33 (4.62%)	DevOps
14	33 (4.62%)	Document Management
15	31 (4.34%)	Scrum
16	27 (3.78%)	Practice Management
17	26 (3.64%)	Microservices
18	25 (3.50%)	Information Management

Programming Languages
1	84 (11.75%)	SQL
2	44 (6.15%)	Java
3	41 (5.73%)	JavaScript
4	38 (5.31%)	C#
5	35 (4.90%)	Python
6	30 (4.20%)	PowerShell
7	19 (2.66%)	C
8	14 (1.96%)	PHP
9	12 (1.68%)	Perl
10	10 (1.40%)	Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
11	6 (0.84%)	Scala
11	6 (0.84%)	T-SQL
12	4 (0.56%)	ES6
12	4 (0.56%)	VBA
13	3 (0.42%)	C++
13	3 (0.42%)	Tcl
14	2 (0.28%)	Assembly Language
15	1 (0.14%)	Ruby
15	1 (0.14%)	Shell Script
15	1 (0.14%)	VB.NET

Qualifications
1	88 (12.31%)	Security Cleared
2	79 (11.05%)	SC Cleared
3	56 (7.83%)	Degree
4	22 (3.08%)	DV Cleared
5	20 (2.80%)	PRINCE2 Practitioner
6	19 (2.66%)	PMI Certification
7	18 (2.52%)	PMP
8	16 (2.24%)	Microsoft Certification
9	11 (1.54%)	Cisco Certification
10	10 (1.40%)	CISSP
10	10 (1.40%)	MCSE
10	10 (1.40%)	VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11	9 (1.26%)	CISM
11	9 (1.26%)	ISEB
12	7 (0.98%)	MCP
13	5 (0.70%)	CCNP
13	5 (0.70%)	ITIL Certification
13	5 (0.70%)	Microsoft Certified Architect
14	4 (0.56%)	PRINCE2 Certification
15	3 (0.42%)	ITIL Foundation Certificate

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	18 (2.52%)	SLA
2	14 (1.96%)	GDPR
2	14 (1.96%)	QA
3	13 (1.82%)	NIST 800
4	12 (1.68%)	ISO/IEC 27001
5	10 (1.40%)	PMO
6	4 (0.56%)	Data Quality
7	3 (0.42%)	P3O
7	3 (0.42%)	PCI DSS
8	2 (0.28%)	COBIT
8	2 (0.28%)	Disclosure Scotland
9	1 (0.14%)	NEBOSH
9	1 (0.14%)	PMBOK

System Software
1	53 (7.41%)	Active Directory
2	28 (3.92%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	12 (1.68%)	Hyper-V
4	11 (1.54%)	Docker
4	11 (1.54%)	VirtualBox
5	6 (0.84%)	XenApp
6	3 (0.42%)	Apache Flume
6	3 (0.42%)	HDFS
6	3 (0.42%)	Microsoft App-V
6	3 (0.42%)	vSphere
6	3 (0.42%)	XenDesktop
7	2 (0.28%)	RACF
7	2 (0.28%)	vCloud
8	1 (0.14%)	RHEV
8	1 (0.14%)	Virtual Machines
8	1 (0.14%)	Xen

Systems Management
1	9 (1.26%)	Microsoft Clustering
1	9 (1.26%)	Opscode Chef
1	9 (1.26%)	Puppet
1	9 (1.26%)	SCCM
1	9 (1.26%)	Tivoli
2	7 (0.98%)	Cisco CUCM
3	6 (0.84%)	EnCase
3	6 (0.84%)	PowerCLI
3	6 (0.84%)	Symantec Endpoint Protection
4	4 (0.56%)	AirWatch
4	4 (0.56%)	Symantec Enterprise Vault
5	3 (0.42%)	Ansible
5	3 (0.42%)	BMC PATROL
5	3 (0.42%)	NetBackup
5	3 (0.42%)	Oozie
5	3 (0.42%)	Oracle Identity Management
5	3 (0.42%)	Oracle Identity Manager
6	2 (0.28%)	Graphite
6	2 (0.28%)	Kubernetes
6	2 (0.28%)	Nagios

Vendors
1	110 (15.38%)	Microsoft
2	44 (6.15%)	VMware
3	33 (4.62%)	Citrix
4	28 (3.92%)	Cisco
5	21 (2.94%)	HP
5	21 (2.94%)	Oracle
6	20 (2.80%)	iManage
7	19 (2.66%)	Red Hat
7	19 (2.66%)	SAP
8	17 (2.38%)	Symantec
9	10 (1.40%)	NetIQ
9	10 (1.40%)	Splunk
10	9 (1.26%)	IBM
11	8 (1.12%)	ServiceNow
12	6 (0.84%)	Ariba
12	6 (0.84%)	F5
12	6 (0.84%)	Lumension
12	6 (0.84%)	Reuters
12	6 (0.84%)	SolarWinds
13	5 (0.70%)	Apple