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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 248 235 231
Rank change year-on-year -13 -4 -58
Contract jobs citing Law 486 310 345
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.04% 1.11% 1.05%
As % of the General category 1.86% 1.73% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 153 142
10th Percentile £358 £226 £258
25th Percentile £459 £413 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £523
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +0.48% -2.56%
75th Percentile £663 £638 £647
90th Percentile £750 £725 £754
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £520
% change year-on-year +4.76% +0.96% -3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 22 13
10th Percentile £14.01 £12.21 £19.28
25th Percentile £16.68 £13.46 £20.50
Median hourly rate £17.73 £20.23 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year -12.36% -25.01% +54.11%
75th Percentile £25.77 £40.46 £42.25
90th Percentile £77.50 £68.75 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £17.73 £50.00 £26.97
% change year-on-year -64.55% +85.39% +55.22%

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 26,112 17,927 19,170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 56.09% 64.16% 58.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,307 11,369 11,549
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
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 2,307 1,031 924
10th Percentile £13.51 £13.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.77 £16.17 £17.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year +19.28% -33.38% +32.46%
75th Percentile £56.25 £46.47 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £69.65 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £29.01 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +15.35% -28.14% +27.27%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -18 239 £588 +2.17% 3,415
North of England -17 86 £504 +3.28% 413
East of England -7 51 £450 +5.88% 179
Yorkshire -3 48 £441 -21.60% 105
South East -62 44 £525 +7.14% 434
North West -30 34 £613 +28.95% 271
Midlands -49 32 £530 -6.28% 210
West Midlands -50 24 £568 -0.44% 131
South West -42 15 £350 -48.53% 322
East Midlands -14 8 £270 -29.87% 79
North East - 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 10 (2.06%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.23%) Confluence
2 6 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.62%) CMS
4 2 (0.41%) Apache
5 1 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.21%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.21%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.21%) IIS
5 1 (0.21%) Mendix
5 1 (0.21%) nginx
5 1 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 18 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (2.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.62%) Acrobat
3 3 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.41%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.21%) Simulink
5 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.21%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 5 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.82%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (0.62%) Elite 3E
3 3 (0.62%) Maximo
3 3 (0.62%) Oracle SCM
4 2 (0.41%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.21%) Hyperion Planning
5 1 (0.21%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.21%) Magento
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.21%) Primavera
5 1 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.21%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 66 (13.58%) Azure
2 41 (8.44%) AWS
3 39 (8.02%) Power Platform
4 27 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (3.29%) Dynamics 365
5 16 (3.29%) Entra ID
5 16 (3.29%) GitHub
6 15 (3.09%) Microsoft Copilot
7 14 (2.88%) SaaS
8 12 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (2.47%) PowerApps
8 12 (2.47%) Serverless
9 11 (2.26%) Copilot Studio
9 11 (2.26%) GCP
9 11 (2.26%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (2.06%) Power Automate
11 9 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (1.65%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (1.65%) SuccessFactors
13 7 (1.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.26%) Wi-Fi
2 9 (1.85%) Firewall
3 8 (1.65%) DNS
4 7 (1.44%) DHCP
4 7 (1.44%) Wireless
5 6 (1.23%) Network Security
5 6 (1.23%) VPN
6 5 (1.03%) Ethernet
7 4 (0.82%) Software-Defined Radio
7 4 (0.82%) WAN
8 3 (0.62%) Broadband
8 3 (0.62%) Cisco IPT
8 3 (0.62%) LAN
8 3 (0.62%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (0.62%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.62%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.41%) BGP
9 2 (0.41%) HTTP
9 2 (0.41%) MPLS
9 2 (0.41%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (5.97%) Power BI
2 10 (2.06%) Metadata
3 7 (1.44%) Relational Database
3 7 (1.44%) SQL Server
4 6 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.82%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (0.62%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.62%) Redis
8 2 (0.41%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.41%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.41%) KDB
8 2 (0.41%) Pentaho
8 2 (0.41%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (0.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.21%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 20 (4.12%) JIRA
2 16 (3.29%) Jenkins
3 13 (2.67%) GitLab
4 10 (2.06%) Git
5 8 (1.65%) Rational DOORS
6 6 (1.23%) JUnit
6 6 (1.23%) Mockito
7 4 (0.82%) Liquibase
7 4 (0.82%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.41%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.41%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.41%) Flyway
8 2 (0.41%) git-flow
8 2 (0.41%) Gradle
8 2 (0.41%) Rational Rhapsody
9 1 (0.21%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.21%) Postman
9 1 (0.21%) PVCS
9 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio
General
1 127 (26.13%) Social Skills
2 112 (23.05%) Finance
3 90 (18.52%) Legal
4 67 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
5 62 (12.76%) Public Sector
6 35 (7.20%) Police
7 24 (4.94%) Influencing Skills
8 19 (3.91%) Banking
9 16 (3.29%) Manufacturing
10 14 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 10 (2.06%) Marketing
12 9 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.65%) Front Office
14 7 (1.44%) Legal Technology
14 7 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (1.23%) Electronics
15 6 (1.23%) Social Science
16 5 (1.03%) Aviation
16 5 (1.03%) Military
16 5 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 58 (11.93%) Analyst
2 57 (11.73%) Senior
3 50 (10.29%) Lead
4 39 (8.02%) Developer
5 32 (6.58%) Project Manager
6 24 (4.94%) Architect
6 24 (4.94%) Consultant
6 24 (4.94%) IT Trainer
6 24 (4.94%) Trainer
7 22 (4.53%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
8 21 (4.32%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 21 (4.32%) Senior IT Trainer
9 19 (3.91%) Software Engineer
10 17 (3.50%) IT Manager
11 15 (3.09%) Business Analyst
12 14 (2.88%) Support Engineer
13 13 (2.67%) Support Analyst
14 12 (2.47%) Senior Manager
14 12 (2.47%) Technical Support
15 11 (2.26%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (4.53%) REST
2 18 (3.70%) Terraform
3 10 (2.06%) React
4 9 (1.85%) Kafka
5 7 (1.44%) JSON
6 6 (1.23%) Middleware
6 6 (1.23%) RESTful
6 6 (1.23%) SOAP
6 6 (1.23%) Spring
6 6 (1.23%) Spring Boot
7 5 (1.03%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (0.82%) OpenAPI
8 4 (0.82%) Spring Cloud
8 4 (0.82%) Swagger
8 4 (0.82%) XML
9 3 (0.62%) .NET
9 3 (0.62%) HTML
9 3 (0.62%) LangChain
9 3 (0.62%) Oracle Fusion
9 3 (0.62%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (4.12%) Cloud Native
1 20 (4.12%) Onboarding
2 15 (3.09%) Management Information System
3 12 (2.47%) Product Ownership
4 10 (2.06%) Social Media
5 8 (1.65%) CCTV
5 8 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (1.65%) Security Posture
6 7 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (1.44%) Robotics
7 6 (1.23%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (1.03%) AI Agents
8 5 (1.03%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.03%) Fixed Income
8 5 (1.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (1.03%) FPGA
8 5 (1.03%) Low-Code
8 5 (1.03%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 41 (8.44%) Windows
2 21 (4.32%) Linux
2 21 (4.32%) Windows Server
3 6 (1.23%) Windows 10
4 5 (1.03%) FreeRTOS
5 4 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.62%) Unix
7 2 (0.41%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.41%) VMS
7 2 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.21%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (19.14%) Stakeholder Management
2 78 (16.05%) Agile
3 65 (13.37%) Problem-Solving
4 59 (12.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 55 (11.32%) Continuous Improvement
6 53 (10.91%) Migration
7 52 (10.70%) AI
8 47 (9.67%) CI/CD
9 45 (9.26%) Software Engineering
10 40 (8.23%) DevOps
11 39 (8.02%) Change Management
12 36 (7.41%) Validation
13 34 (7.00%) Risk Management
14 31 (6.38%) Business Intelligence
15 30 (6.17%) Data Protection
15 30 (6.17%) Roadmaps
16 29 (5.97%) Digital Transformation Programme
17 27 (5.56%) Data Migration
17 27 (5.56%) Decision-Making
17 27 (5.56%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 46 (9.47%) Python
2 37 (7.61%) SQL
3 16 (3.29%) Java
3 16 (3.29%) PowerShell
4 15 (3.09%) C++
5 14 (2.88%) C
6 13 (2.67%) TypeScript
7 11 (2.26%) Bash
8 10 (2.06%) JavaScript
9 6 (1.23%) Ada
10 5 (1.03%) C#
11 4 (0.82%) Embedded C
11 4 (0.82%) SOQL
12 3 (0.62%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.41%) PHP
13 2 (0.41%) PromQL
14 1 (0.21%) Bicep
14 1 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.21%) SystemVerilog
14 1 (0.21%) VBA
Qualifications
1 115 (23.66%) Security Cleared
2 86 (17.70%) SC Cleared
3 51 (10.49%) Degree
4 35 (7.20%) DV Cleared
5 9 (1.85%) CISSP
5 9 (1.85%) PMI Certification
6 8 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (1.65%) CISM
7 6 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.03%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.03%) PMP
9 4 (0.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (0.82%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (0.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (0.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (0.62%) IIBA
10 3 (0.62%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (5.14%) QA
2 24 (4.94%) Data Quality
3 14 (2.88%) GDPR
4 11 (2.26%) NCSC
5 9 (1.85%) GRC
6 6 (1.23%) Def Stans
6 6 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 5 (1.03%) MISRA
8 4 (0.82%) Government Security Classifications
8 4 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.82%) NIST
9 3 (0.62%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.62%) DO-178B
9 3 (0.62%) PERC
9 3 (0.62%) SLA
10 2 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.41%) MISRA C
10 2 (0.41%) PMO
11 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 23 (4.73%) Active Directory
2 18 (3.70%) Docker
3 8 (1.65%) Hyper-V
3 8 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.82%) Firmware
4 4 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.41%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.21%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.21%) NFS
6 1 (0.21%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (4.53%) Kubernetes
2 13 (2.67%) Ansible
3 9 (1.85%) Prometheus
4 8 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (1.44%) Grafana
6 6 (1.23%) SCCM
7 2 (0.41%) Consul
7 2 (0.41%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.41%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (0.41%) Kibana
7 2 (0.41%) PowerCLI
7 2 (0.41%) Puppet
7 2 (0.41%) Salt
7 2 (0.41%) SCOM
7 2 (0.41%) Zipkin
8 1 (0.21%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.21%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.21%) Nagios
8 1 (0.21%) QRadar
Vendors
1 82 (16.87%) Microsoft
2 20 (4.12%) SAP
3 16 (3.29%) ServiceNow
4 15 (3.09%) Aderant
5 14 (2.88%) Cisco
6 9 (1.85%) Intapp
6 9 (1.85%) VMware
6 9 (1.85%) Workday
7 8 (1.65%) Google
8 7 (1.44%) Oracle
9 6 (1.23%) Foundry
9 6 (1.23%) iManage
10 5 (1.03%) Databricks
10 5 (1.03%) IBM
10 5 (1.03%) Litera
10 5 (1.03%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.03%) Solace
10 5 (1.03%) Splunk
10 5 (1.03%) UiPath
11 4 (0.82%) Planon