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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 249 238
Rank change year-on-year -13 -11 -66
Contract jobs citing Law 466 307 337
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.00% 1.10% 1.04%
As % of the General category 1.78% 1.71% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 154 139
10th Percentile £358 £230 £244
25th Percentile £459 £413 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -6.76%
75th Percentile £675 £634 £638
90th Percentile £750 £725 £741
UK median daily rate £550 £513 £500
% change year-on-year +7.32% +2.50% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 21 13
10th Percentile £13.89 £12.21 £19.28
25th Percentile £16.47 £13.46 £20.50
Median hourly rate £17.73 £17.45 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year +1.58% -35.30% +56.35%
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% +57.49%

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 26,178 17,926 18,958
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 56.23% 64.16% 58.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,313 11,375 11,385
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £533
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -6.19% -3.09%
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 2,344 1,026 885
10th Percentile £13.51 £13.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.75 £16.17 £17.50
Median hourly rate £29.50 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.30% -32.93% +29.87%
75th Percentile £56.21 £45.00 £61.43
90th Percentile £78.54 £69.65 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £28.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +13.32% -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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -21 227 £600 +4.35% 2,984
North of England -18 84 £504 +6.00% 394
East of England +2 52 £450 +5.88% 164
Yorkshire -3 46 £441 -8.36% 105
South East -54 41 £525 +7.14% 387
North West -34 34 £613 +28.95% 249
Midlands -54 30 £530 -6.28% 187
West Midlands -44 23 £575 +0.88% 115
South West -39 15 £350 -38.05% 326
East Midlands -14 7 £270 -29.87% 72
North East - 4 - - 40
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 (2.15%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.29%) Confluence
2 6 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.64%) CMS
4 2 (0.43%) 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 17 (3.65%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (2.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.64%) Acrobat
3 3 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.43%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.21%) Simulink
5 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.21%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 5 (1.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.86%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (0.64%) Elite 3E
3 3 (0.64%) Maximo
3 3 (0.64%) Oracle SCM
4 2 (0.43%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.43%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.21%) Hyperion Planning
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 61 (13.09%) Azure
2 41 (8.80%) AWS
3 30 (6.44%) Power Platform
4 27 (5.79%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (3.43%) Entra ID
5 16 (3.43%) GitHub
6 14 (3.00%) SaaS
7 13 (2.79%) Microsoft Copilot
8 12 (2.58%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (2.58%) Serverless
9 11 (2.36%) GCP
9 11 (2.36%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (2.36%) PowerApps
10 10 (2.15%) Copilot Studio
10 10 (2.15%) Power Automate
11 9 (1.93%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (1.93%) Dynamics 365
12 8 (1.72%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (1.72%) SuccessFactors
13 7 (1.50%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.36%) Wi-Fi
2 9 (1.93%) Firewall
3 7 (1.50%) DHCP
3 7 (1.50%) DNS
3 7 (1.50%) Wireless
4 6 (1.29%) Network Security
4 6 (1.29%) VPN
5 5 (1.07%) Ethernet
6 4 (0.86%) Software-Defined Radio
6 4 (0.86%) WAN
7 3 (0.64%) Broadband
7 3 (0.64%) Cisco IPT
7 3 (0.64%) LAN
7 3 (0.64%) Reverse Proxy
7 3 (0.64%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.64%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.43%) BGP
8 2 (0.43%) HTTP
8 2 (0.43%) MPLS
8 2 (0.43%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (4.72%) Power BI
2 9 (1.93%) Metadata
3 7 (1.50%) Relational Database
3 7 (1.50%) SQL Server
4 6 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (1.07%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.86%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (0.64%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.64%) KDB
7 3 (0.64%) Redis
8 2 (0.43%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.43%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.43%) Kdb+
8 2 (0.43%) Pentaho
8 2 (0.43%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (0.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.21%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 20 (4.29%) JIRA
2 16 (3.43%) Jenkins
3 13 (2.79%) GitLab
4 10 (2.15%) 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 2 (0.43%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.43%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.43%) Flyway
8 2 (0.43%) git-flow
8 2 (0.43%) Gradle
8 2 (0.43%) Rational Rhapsody
9 1 (0.21%) CppUnit
9 1 (0.21%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.21%) PVCS
9 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio
General
1 122 (26.18%) Social Skills
2 104 (22.32%) Finance
3 87 (18.67%) Legal
4 63 (13.52%) Analytical Skills
5 61 (13.09%) Public Sector
6 33 (7.08%) Police
7 22 (4.72%) Influencing Skills
8 20 (4.29%) Banking
9 16 (3.43%) Manufacturing
10 14 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (1.93%) Marketing
12 8 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (1.72%) Front Office
13 7 (1.50%) Legal Technology
13 7 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.29%) Electronics
15 5 (1.07%) Aviation
15 5 (1.07%) Military
16 4 (0.86%) Investment Banking
16 4 (0.86%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 57 (12.23%) Senior
2 55 (11.80%) Analyst
3 44 (9.44%) Lead
4 38 (8.15%) Developer
5 32 (6.87%) Project Manager
6 24 (5.15%) Consultant
6 24 (5.15%) IT Trainer
6 24 (5.15%) Trainer
7 22 (4.72%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
8 21 (4.51%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 21 (4.51%) Senior IT Trainer
9 19 (4.08%) Software Engineer
10 17 (3.65%) Architect
10 17 (3.65%) IT Manager
11 14 (3.00%) Support Engineer
12 13 (2.79%) Business Analyst
12 13 (2.79%) Support Analyst
13 12 (2.58%) Technical Support
14 11 (2.36%) Technical Engineer
14 11 (2.36%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (4.72%) REST
2 18 (3.86%) Terraform
3 10 (2.15%) React
4 9 (1.93%) Kafka
5 6 (1.29%) JSON
5 6 (1.29%) Middleware
5 6 (1.29%) RESTful
5 6 (1.29%) SOAP
5 6 (1.29%) Spring
5 6 (1.29%) Spring Boot
6 5 (1.07%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (0.86%) OpenAPI
7 4 (0.86%) Spring Cloud
7 4 (0.86%) Swagger
7 4 (0.86%) XML
8 3 (0.64%) .NET
8 3 (0.64%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (0.64%) HTML
8 3 (0.64%) Next.js
8 3 (0.64%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 20 (4.29%) Onboarding
2 19 (4.08%) Cloud Native
3 15 (3.22%) Management Information System
4 11 (2.36%) Product Ownership
5 10 (2.15%) Social Media
6 8 (1.72%) Security Posture
7 7 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (1.50%) Robotics
8 6 (1.29%) CCTV
8 6 (1.29%) Cyber Threat
9 5 (1.07%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.07%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.07%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (1.07%) FPGA
9 5 (1.07%) Low-Code
9 5 (1.07%) Smartphone
10 4 (0.86%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 39 (8.37%) Windows
2 21 (4.51%) Linux
3 20 (4.29%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.07%) FreeRTOS
4 5 (1.07%) 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 (0.21%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (19.31%) Stakeholder Management
2 74 (15.88%) Agile
3 62 (13.30%) Problem-Solving
4 51 (10.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 49 (10.52%) AI
6 47 (10.09%) Continuous Improvement
7 46 (9.87%) CI/CD
8 45 (9.66%) Migration
8 45 (9.66%) Software Engineering
9 39 (8.37%) DevOps
10 37 (7.94%) Change Management
11 34 (7.30%) Validation
12 31 (6.65%) Risk Management
13 30 (6.44%) Roadmaps
14 28 (6.01%) Digital Transformation Programme
15 27 (5.79%) Data Protection
15 27 (5.79%) Project Delivery
16 26 (5.58%) Decision-Making
17 25 (5.36%) Data Modelling
18 24 (5.15%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 45 (9.66%) Python
2 37 (7.94%) SQL
3 16 (3.43%) Java
3 16 (3.43%) PowerShell
4 15 (3.22%) C++
5 14 (3.00%) C
6 12 (2.58%) TypeScript
7 11 (2.36%) Bash
8 9 (1.93%) JavaScript
9 6 (1.29%) Ada
10 5 (1.07%) C#
11 4 (0.86%) Embedded C
11 4 (0.86%) SOQL
12 3 (0.64%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.43%) PHP
13 2 (0.43%) PromQL
14 1 (0.21%) Bicep
14 1 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.21%) Rust
14 1 (0.21%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 111 (23.82%) Security Cleared
2 84 (18.03%) SC Cleared
3 48 (10.30%) Degree
4 33 (7.08%) DV Cleared
5 9 (1.93%) CISSP
5 9 (1.93%) PMI Certification
6 8 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (1.72%) CISM
7 6 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.07%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.07%) PMP
9 4 (0.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (0.86%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (0.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.64%) IIBA
10 3 (0.64%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (5.36%) QA
2 24 (5.15%) Data Quality
3 12 (2.58%) GDPR
4 10 (2.15%) NCSC
5 9 (1.93%) GRC
6 6 (1.29%) Def Stans
7 5 (1.07%) MISRA
8 4 (0.86%) Government Security Classifications
8 4 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 4 (0.86%) NIST
9 3 (0.64%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.64%) DO-178B
9 3 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.64%) PERC
9 3 (0.64%) SLA
10 2 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.43%) MISRA C
10 2 (0.43%) PMO
11 1 (0.21%) ITGC
System Software
1 21 (4.51%) Active Directory
2 18 (3.86%) Docker
3 8 (1.72%) Hyper-V
3 8 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.86%) Firmware
4 4 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.43%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.21%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.21%) NFS
6 1 (0.21%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (4.72%) Kubernetes
2 13 (2.79%) Ansible
3 9 (1.93%) Prometheus
4 7 (1.50%) Grafana
4 7 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (1.29%) SCCM
6 2 (0.43%) Consul
6 2 (0.43%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.43%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (0.43%) Kibana
6 2 (0.43%) PowerCLI
6 2 (0.43%) Puppet
6 2 (0.43%) Salt
6 2 (0.43%) SCOM
6 2 (0.43%) Zipkin
7 1 (0.21%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.21%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.21%) Nagios
7 1 (0.21%) QRadar
Vendors
1 71 (15.24%) Microsoft
2 20 (4.29%) SAP
3 16 (3.43%) Aderant
3 16 (3.43%) ServiceNow
4 13 (2.79%) Cisco
5 9 (1.93%) Intapp
5 9 (1.93%) VMware
6 8 (1.72%) Google
6 8 (1.72%) Workday
7 7 (1.50%) Oracle
8 5 (1.07%) Databricks
8 5 (1.07%) IBM
8 5 (1.07%) iManage
8 5 (1.07%) Litera
8 5 (1.07%) Palo Alto
8 5 (1.07%) Planon
8 5 (1.07%) Solace
8 5 (1.07%) Splunk
8 5 (1.07%) UiPath
9 4 (0.86%) Foundry