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 9 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 246 213 226
Rank change year-on-year -33 +13 -74
Contract jobs citing Law 475 338 395
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.06% 1.25% 1.06%
As % of the General category 1.92% 1.96% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 174 233
10th Percentile £363 £229 £263
25th Percentile £463 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -9.09% +4.02%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £688
90th Percentile £725 £725 £810
UK median daily rate £508 £500 £530
% change year-on-year +1.50% -5.66% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 25 28
10th Percentile - £12.21 £11.87
25th Percentile £17.11 £13.46 £11.95
Median hourly rate £24.29 £27.64 £19.74
Median % change year-on-year -12.12% +40.06% -1.33%
75th Percentile £25.77 £55.49 £27.96
90th Percentile £55.83 £76.11 £33.63
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £30.20 £21.00
% change year-on-year -14.67% +43.81% +7.69%

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 24,687 17,210 21,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.21% 63.78% 57.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,906 11,035 13,658
10th Percentile £313 £282 £300
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £533
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -3.38% -3.09%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £775
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,786 874 1,756
10th Percentile £14.50 £13.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.01 £16.37 £15.92
Median hourly rate £33.06 £27.13 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.88% -17.80% +10.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £52.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.38 £69.75
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £27.13 £31.97
% change year-on-year +19.82% -15.15% +6.57%

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 9 July 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 9 July 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 9 July 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 -10 243 £540 +2.81% 626
North of England -56 64 £450 +5.88% 115
South East -29 53 £525 +16.67% 148
Midlands -65 41 £540 +0.42% 49
East of England -5 37 £488 +8.33% 36
Yorkshire -28 34 £495 -12.09% 38
West Midlands -69 31 £600 +9.09% 30
North West -43 26 £425 +6.25% 64
South West -31 20 £425 +88.89% 34
East Midlands -14 9 £200 -58.97% 19
North East -29 4 - - 13
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 (3.79%) SharePoint
2 11 (2.32%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.84%) Confluence
4 2 (0.42%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.42%) CMS
5 1 (0.21%) Apache
5 1 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.21%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 16 (3.37%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.21%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.21%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.63%) Maximo
2 3 (0.63%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 3 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.42%) Elite 3E
3 2 (0.42%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.21%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.21%) Hyperion Planning
4 1 (0.21%) Magento
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle SCM
4 1 (0.21%) Primavera
4 1 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.21%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.21%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 66 (13.89%) Azure
2 63 (13.26%) Power Platform
3 38 (8.00%) Dynamics 365
4 29 (6.11%) AWS
5 21 (4.42%) Microsoft 365
6 18 (3.79%) Microsoft Copilot
7 15 (3.16%) GitHub
7 15 (3.16%) SaaS
8 12 (2.53%) Power Automate
8 12 (2.53%) Serverless
9 11 (2.32%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (2.32%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (2.11%) Entra ID
10 10 (2.11%) GCP
10 10 (2.11%) PowerApps
11 8 (1.68%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (1.68%) Copilot Studio
12 7 (1.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (1.47%) Azure AI
12 7 (1.47%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.53%) Wi-Fi
2 8 (1.68%) Firewall
3 6 (1.26%) Network Security
3 6 (1.26%) SD-WAN
3 6 (1.26%) VPN
3 6 (1.26%) WAN
4 5 (1.05%) DNS
4 5 (1.05%) Ethernet
4 5 (1.05%) LAN
4 5 (1.05%) MPLS
4 5 (1.05%) Wireless
5 4 (0.84%) Cisco IPT
5 4 (0.84%) DHCP
5 4 (0.84%) Software-Defined Radio
6 2 (0.42%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.42%) Ethernet VPN
6 2 (0.42%) Internet
6 2 (0.42%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.42%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.21%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (10.74%) Power BI
2 7 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (1.26%) SQL Server
4 5 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.05%) Metadata
5 4 (0.84%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.63%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (0.63%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (0.42%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (0.42%) Amazon QuickSight
7 2 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.42%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.42%) Redis
7 2 (0.42%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.21%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.21%) KDB
8 1 (0.21%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.21%) SAP Data Services
8 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 20 (4.21%) Jenkins
2 17 (3.58%) JIRA
3 14 (2.95%) GitLab
4 10 (2.11%) JUnit
4 10 (2.11%) Mockito
5 7 (1.47%) Git
5 7 (1.47%) Liquibase
6 6 (1.26%) Rational DOORS
7 5 (1.05%) Gradle
7 5 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.42%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.42%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.42%) Flyway
8 2 (0.42%) git-flow
9 1 (0.21%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.21%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.21%) JMeter
9 1 (0.21%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio
General
1 128 (26.95%) Finance
2 124 (26.11%) Social Skills
3 100 (21.05%) Legal
4 62 (13.05%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (10.32%) Public Sector
6 34 (7.16%) Police
7 24 (5.05%) Influencing Skills
8 18 (3.79%) Banking
9 15 (3.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (2.95%) Manufacturing
11 12 (2.53%) Marketing
12 9 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.68%) Legal Technology
14 7 (1.47%) Social Science
15 6 (1.26%) Aviation
15 6 (1.26%) Front Office
16 5 (1.05%) Electronics
16 5 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
17 3 (0.63%) Aerospace
17 3 (0.63%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 65 (13.68%) Senior
2 61 (12.84%) Lead
3 55 (11.58%) Analyst
4 48 (10.11%) Architect
5 35 (7.37%) Developer
6 34 (7.16%) Project Manager
7 33 (6.95%) Software Engineer
8 31 (6.53%) Functional Architect
8 31 (6.53%) Lead Architect
9 25 (5.26%) Consultant
10 17 (3.58%) Business Analyst
10 17 (3.58%) IT Trainer
10 17 (3.58%) Trainer
11 16 (3.37%) Senior Manager
12 15 (3.16%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
13 14 (2.95%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
13 14 (2.95%) Senior IT Trainer
14 13 (2.74%) IT Analyst
14 13 (2.74%) Support Engineer
15 12 (2.53%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.95%) REST
2 13 (2.74%) Kafka
3 10 (2.11%) React
3 10 (2.11%) Spring
3 10 (2.11%) Spring Boot
4 8 (1.68%) RESTful
5 7 (1.47%) OpenAPI
5 7 (1.47%) Swagger
6 6 (1.26%) Middleware
6 6 (1.26%) RabbitMQ
6 6 (1.26%) SOAP
7 5 (1.05%) Spring Cloud
8 4 (0.84%) JSON
8 4 (0.84%) PySpark
9 3 (0.63%) ADO
9 3 (0.63%) LangChain
10 2 (0.42%) ARM Templates
10 2 (0.42%) JWT
10 2 (0.42%) OpenTelemetry
10 2 (0.42%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 15 (3.16%) Onboarding
2 13 (2.74%) Cloud Native
2 13 (2.74%) Management Information System
3 11 (2.32%) Product Ownership
4 10 (2.11%) AI Agents
5 9 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (1.68%) CCTV
6 8 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (1.68%) Security Posture
7 7 (1.47%) Data Centre
7 7 (1.47%) Robotics
7 7 (1.47%) Social Media
8 6 (1.26%) Algorithms
8 6 (1.26%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.26%) Low-Code
9 5 (1.05%) Cyber Threat
9 5 (1.05%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (1.05%) FPGA
9 5 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 30 (6.32%) Windows
2 22 (4.63%) Linux
3 12 (2.53%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.26%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.84%) FreeRTOS
6 2 (0.42%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.42%) Unix
6 2 (0.42%) VMS
6 2 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (17.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 73 (15.37%) Continuous Improvement
3 72 (15.16%) Stakeholder Management
4 68 (14.32%) Migration
5 66 (13.89%) Agile
6 64 (13.47%) AI
7 58 (12.21%) Business Intelligence
7 58 (12.21%) Problem-Solving
8 47 (9.89%) Software Engineering
8 47 (9.89%) User Acceptance Testing
9 46 (9.68%) Data Migration
9 46 (9.68%) ERP
10 44 (9.26%) CI/CD
11 43 (9.05%) Translating Business Requirements
12 41 (8.63%) Change Management
13 37 (7.79%) Architectural Design
13 37 (7.79%) DevOps
13 37 (7.79%) Procure-to-Pay
14 35 (7.37%) End-to-End Testing
15 34 (7.16%) Order to Cash
Programming Languages
1 29 (6.11%) SQL
2 24 (5.05%) Java
3 23 (4.84%) Python
4 19 (4.00%) C
5 15 (3.16%) Ada
6 13 (2.74%) C++
7 11 (2.32%) TypeScript
8 10 (2.11%) PowerShell
9 8 (1.68%) JavaScript
10 7 (1.47%) Bash
11 6 (1.26%) C#
12 4 (0.84%) Embedded C
12 4 (0.84%) Rust
12 4 (0.84%) SOQL
13 3 (0.63%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.42%) Bicep
14 2 (0.42%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.42%) PromQL
14 2 (0.42%) VBA
15 1 (0.21%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 95 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 65 (13.68%) SC Cleared
3 54 (11.37%) Degree
4 25 (5.26%) DV Cleared
5 10 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.26%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.05%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.05%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.84%) CISSP
10 3 (0.63%) CIPD
10 3 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.63%) CISM
11 2 (0.42%) CBAP
11 2 (0.42%) CEH
11 2 (0.42%) GCIA
11 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.42%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.00%) Data Quality
2 15 (3.16%) GDPR
2 15 (3.16%) QA
3 8 (1.68%) Def Stans
3 8 (1.68%) GRC
3 8 (1.68%) NCSC
4 7 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 6 (1.26%) NIST
6 5 (1.05%) MISRA
7 4 (0.84%) DO-178B
8 3 (0.63%) IEC 61508
8 3 (0.63%) PMO
9 2 (0.42%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.21%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.21%) MISRA C
10 1 (0.21%) PSD2
System Software
1 21 (4.42%) Active Directory
1 21 (4.42%) Docker
2 6 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.05%) Firmware
4 4 (0.84%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.42%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.21%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 17 (3.58%) Kubernetes
2 15 (3.16%) Terraform
3 11 (2.32%) Ansible
4 8 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (1.68%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.26%) Grafana
6 4 (0.84%) SCCM
7 2 (0.42%) Cisco Prime
7 2 (0.42%) Consul
7 2 (0.42%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (0.42%) PowerCLI
7 2 (0.42%) Puppet
7 2 (0.42%) Salt
7 2 (0.42%) Zipkin
8 1 (0.21%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.21%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.21%) QRadar
Vendors
1 98 (20.63%) Microsoft
2 23 (4.84%) SAP
3 10 (2.11%) Cisco
4 9 (1.89%) Oracle
4 9 (1.89%) ServiceNow
4 9 (1.89%) Workday
5 7 (1.47%) Google
6 6 (1.26%) Fortinet
6 6 (1.26%) Foundry
6 6 (1.26%) iManage
6 6 (1.26%) Intapp
6 6 (1.26%) UiPath
6 6 (1.26%) VMware
7 5 (1.05%) Aruba
7 5 (1.05%) Databricks
7 5 (1.05%) IBM
7 5 (1.05%) Solace
7 5 (1.05%) Splunk
8 4 (0.84%) Juniper
8 4 (0.84%) Palo Alto