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 12 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 228 220 227
Rank change year-on-year -8 +7 -74
Contract jobs citing Law 472 307 369
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.11% 1.25% 0.98%
As % of the General category 2.03% 1.95% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 169 228
10th Percentile £358 £267 £265
25th Percentile £453 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £688
90th Percentile £720 £725 £813
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 17 28
10th Percentile - £12.21 £10.42
25th Percentile £17.11 £13.46 £11.93
Median hourly rate £24.29 £30.20 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.57% +132.31% -38.82%
75th Percentile £25.77 £68.75 £27.96
90th Percentile £55.83 £81.01 £32.50
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £30.20 £16.64
% change year-on-year -14.67% +81.46% -21.68%

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 23,220 15,777 21,486
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.44% 64.35% 57.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,184 10,166 13,782
10th Percentile £313 £281 £281
25th Percentile £413 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £635 £644 £650
90th Percentile £749 £766 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £506 £525
% change year-on-year +1.28% -3.62% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,605 738 1,831
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.32 £12.88
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £28.08 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.76% -10.87% +3.14%
75th Percentile £63.75 £53.75 £52.20
90th Percentile £81.77 £75.00 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £28.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +14.29% -6.67% -6.02%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 12 June 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 +3 240 £525 +0.48% 345
North of England -41 66 £447 -0.67% 100
South East -43 56 £513 +7.89% 101
Midlands -67 43 £525 - 54
Yorkshire -28 37 £435 -22.60% 39
East of England -3 32 £488 +8.33% 39
West Midlands -61 30 £600 +9.09% 32
North West -28 25 £475 +15.15% 55
South West -17 21 £425 +88.89% 32
East Midlands -24 12 £175 -65.00% 22
North East -31 4 - - 6
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 16 (3.39%) SharePoint
2 10 (2.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.64%) Confluence
4 2 (0.42%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.21%) CMS
5 1 (0.21%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 16 (3.39%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.21%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.64%) Maximo
1 3 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (0.42%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.21%) Aareon QL
3 1 (0.21%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.21%) Hyperion Planning
3 1 (0.21%) Magento
3 1 (0.21%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (0.21%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.21%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.21%) OPENHousing
3 1 (0.21%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.21%) Orchard Housing
3 1 (0.21%) Primavera
3 1 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.21%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.21%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 65 (13.77%) Azure
2 58 (12.29%) Power Platform
3 35 (7.42%) Dynamics 365
4 32 (6.78%) AWS
5 22 (4.66%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (3.60%) GitHub
6 17 (3.60%) Microsoft Copilot
7 15 (3.18%) SaaS
8 13 (2.75%) GitHub Actions
9 12 (2.54%) Serverless
10 11 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (2.33%) GCP
10 11 (2.33%) Power Automate
11 9 (1.91%) Entra ID
12 8 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (1.69%) PowerApps
13 7 (1.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (1.48%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (1.48%) Azure Logic Apps
13 7 (1.48%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.54%) Wi-Fi
2 11 (2.33%) Firewall
3 8 (1.69%) DNS
3 8 (1.69%) SD-WAN
3 8 (1.69%) WAN
4 6 (1.27%) LAN
4 6 (1.27%) Network Security
5 5 (1.06%) Ethernet
5 5 (1.06%) MPLS
5 5 (1.06%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.06%) VPN
6 4 (0.85%) DHCP
6 4 (0.85%) Software-Defined Radio
6 4 (0.85%) Wireless
7 3 (0.64%) Cisco IPT
7 3 (0.64%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.42%) Ethernet VPN
8 2 (0.42%) Internet
8 2 (0.42%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.21%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (10.17%) Power BI
2 10 (2.12%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (1.48%) Metadata
3 7 (1.48%) SQL Server
4 4 (0.85%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 4 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (0.85%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (0.64%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.64%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (0.42%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (0.42%) Amazon QuickSight
6 2 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.42%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.21%) EDRMS
7 1 (0.21%) KDB
7 1 (0.21%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.21%) Redis
7 1 (0.21%) SAP Data Services
7 1 (0.21%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (4.66%) Jenkins
2 19 (4.03%) JIRA
3 16 (3.39%) GitLab
4 10 (2.12%) Git
4 10 (2.12%) JUnit
4 10 (2.12%) Mockito
5 7 (1.48%) Liquibase
6 6 (1.27%) Rational DOORS
7 5 (1.06%) Gradle
7 5 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.64%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.42%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.42%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.42%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.42%) Flyway
9 2 (0.42%) git-flow
10 1 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.21%) Selenium
10 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.21%) WebDriver
General
1 130 (27.54%) Finance
2 126 (26.69%) Social Skills
3 95 (20.13%) Legal
4 60 (12.71%) Analytical Skills
5 56 (11.86%) Public Sector
6 31 (6.57%) Police
7 22 (4.66%) Banking
8 21 (4.45%) Influencing Skills
9 14 (2.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (2.97%) Manufacturing
10 13 (2.75%) Marketing
11 9 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.48%) Legal Technology
13 6 (1.27%) Aviation
13 6 (1.27%) Front Office
13 6 (1.27%) Social Science
14 5 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.06%) Publishing
15 3 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 64 (13.56%) Senior
2 60 (12.71%) Lead
3 58 (12.29%) Analyst
4 56 (11.86%) Architect
5 33 (6.99%) Project Manager
6 31 (6.57%) Functional Architect
6 31 (6.57%) Lead Architect
7 30 (6.36%) Developer
7 30 (6.36%) Software Engineer
8 21 (4.45%) Consultant
9 20 (4.24%) Business Analyst
10 17 (3.60%) Senior Manager
10 17 (3.60%) Support Engineer
11 14 (2.97%) IT Trainer
11 14 (2.97%) Trainer
12 13 (2.75%) IT Analyst
12 13 (2.75%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
13 12 (2.54%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
13 12 (2.54%) Senior IT Trainer
14 11 (2.33%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.97%) Kafka
2 12 (2.54%) REST
3 10 (2.12%) React
3 10 (2.12%) Spring
3 10 (2.12%) Spring Boot
4 7 (1.48%) OpenAPI
4 7 (1.48%) RESTful
4 7 (1.48%) Swagger
5 5 (1.06%) Middleware
5 5 (1.06%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (1.06%) SOAP
5 5 (1.06%) Spring Cloud
6 4 (0.85%) JSON
7 3 (0.64%) ADO
7 3 (0.64%) FIX Protocol
8 2 (0.42%) .NET
8 2 (0.42%) CSS
8 2 (0.42%) HTML
8 2 (0.42%) JDBC
8 2 (0.42%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (3.18%) Management Information System
2 14 (2.97%) Onboarding
3 10 (2.12%) AI Agents
3 10 (2.12%) Data Centre
3 10 (2.12%) Product Ownership
3 10 (2.12%) Security Posture
4 9 (1.91%) Cloud Native
5 8 (1.69%) CCTV
5 8 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (1.48%) Algorithms
6 7 (1.48%) Robotics
6 7 (1.48%) Social Media
7 6 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (1.27%) Low-Code
8 5 (1.06%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (1.06%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.06%) FPGA
8 5 (1.06%) NHS
8 5 (1.06%) Smartphone
9 4 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 35 (7.42%) Windows
2 23 (4.87%) Linux
3 11 (2.33%) Windows Server
4 8 (1.69%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.06%) Unix
6 4 (0.85%) FreeRTOS
7 2 (0.42%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.42%) VMS
8 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (17.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 72 (15.25%) Continuous Improvement
3 69 (14.62%) Agile
4 68 (14.41%) Migration
5 67 (14.19%) Stakeholder Management
6 60 (12.71%) Problem-Solving
7 58 (12.29%) AI
8 53 (11.23%) Business Intelligence
9 46 (9.75%) User Acceptance Testing
10 45 (9.53%) Data Migration
10 45 (9.53%) ERP
11 44 (9.32%) Software Engineering
11 44 (9.32%) Translating Business Requirements
12 43 (9.11%) CI/CD
13 39 (8.26%) Change Management
14 37 (7.84%) Architectural Design
15 36 (7.63%) Procure-to-Pay
16 35 (7.42%) End-to-End Testing
17 34 (7.20%) DevOps
17 34 (7.20%) Order to Cash
Programming Languages
1 31 (6.57%) SQL
2 28 (5.93%) Java
3 22 (4.66%) Python
4 14 (2.97%) PowerShell
5 13 (2.75%) Ada
6 12 (2.54%) C
7 11 (2.33%) TypeScript
8 10 (2.12%) Bash
9 9 (1.91%) C#
10 8 (1.69%) JavaScript
11 6 (1.27%) C++
12 4 (0.85%) Embedded C
12 4 (0.85%) MATLAB
13 3 (0.64%) Go
13 3 (0.64%) Rust
13 3 (0.64%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.64%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.42%) Bicep
14 2 (0.42%) Perl
14 2 (0.42%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 98 (20.76%) Security Cleared
2 66 (13.98%) SC Cleared
3 51 (10.81%) Degree
4 24 (5.08%) DV Cleared
5 9 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.27%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.06%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.06%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.64%) CIPD
10 3 (0.64%) CISSP
10 3 (0.64%) PMP
11 2 (0.42%) CCNA
11 2 (0.42%) CEH
11 2 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.42%) CISM
11 2 (0.42%) GCIA
11 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.81%) Data Quality
2 16 (3.39%) GDPR
3 13 (2.75%) QA
4 9 (1.91%) NCSC
5 8 (1.69%) GRC
5 8 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.27%) NIST
7 5 (1.06%) Def Stans
7 5 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 4 (0.85%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.64%) IEC 61508
9 3 (0.64%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.64%) PMO
9 3 (0.64%) PSD2
9 3 (0.64%) SLA
10 2 (0.42%) ISO 22301
10 2 (0.42%) MISRA
11 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.21%) MISRA C
System Software
1 23 (4.87%) Active Directory
1 23 (4.87%) Docker
2 6 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.85%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.42%) Firmware
4 2 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.21%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.21%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 19 (4.03%) Kubernetes
2 18 (3.81%) Terraform
3 14 (2.97%) Ansible
4 9 (1.91%) Grafana
5 8 (1.69%) Prometheus
6 7 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (1.27%) SCCM
8 3 (0.64%) Cisco Prime
9 2 (0.42%) Consul
9 2 (0.42%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.42%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (0.42%) PowerCLI
9 2 (0.42%) Puppet
9 2 (0.42%) Salt
9 2 (0.42%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.21%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.21%) QRadar
Vendors
1 96 (20.34%) Microsoft
2 24 (5.08%) SAP
3 12 (2.54%) Oracle
4 11 (2.33%) Cisco
5 9 (1.91%) ServiceNow
5 9 (1.91%) Workday
6 8 (1.69%) Splunk
7 7 (1.48%) Aruba
7 7 (1.48%) Fortinet
7 7 (1.48%) IBM
8 6 (1.27%) Palo Alto
8 6 (1.27%) VMware
9 5 (1.06%) Foundry
9 5 (1.06%) iManage
10 4 (0.85%) Databricks
10 4 (0.85%) Google
10 4 (0.85%) Juniper
10 4 (0.85%) NEC
10 4 (0.85%) Solace
10 4 (0.85%) SolarWinds