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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 245 234 233
Rank change year-on-year -11 -1 -61
Contract jobs citing Law 509 311 345
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.10% 1.12% 1.05%
As % of the General category 1.97% 1.73% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 152 160
10th Percentile £358 £216 £263
25th Percentile £463 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.86% -4.55% +3.04%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £688
90th Percentile £750 £725 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 25 10
10th Percentile £14.13 £12.21 £18.20
25th Percentile £17.11 £13.46 £20.50
Median hourly rate £20.27 £27.28 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% +24.00% +22.22%
75th Percentile £27.70 £40.46 £27.96
90th Percentile £65.25 £68.75 £29.38
UK median hourly rate £20.27 £45.23 £22.00
% change year-on-year -55.19% +105.59% +23.94%

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 25,858 17,927 19,154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.79% 64.43% 58.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,258 11,341 11,794
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £423 £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 2,165 1,015 1,013
10th Percentile £13.67 £13.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.11 £16.17 £18.00
Median hourly rate £31.16 £25.15 £38.85
Median % change year-on-year +23.88% -35.26% +41.27%
75th Percentile £56.44 £49.13 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £71.80 £71.45
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +19.28% -32.93% +36.36%

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 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 12 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 12 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 +9 262 £560 -2.61% 2,358
North of England -25 82 £495 +4.11% 215
East of England +7 50 £450 - 100
South East -45 48 £525 +7.14% 281
Yorkshire -12 44 £441 -21.60% 49
Midlands -49 37 £525 -8.70% 102
North West -35 34 £525 +13.51% 134
West Midlands -51 26 £575 - 73
South West -45 14 £350 -48.53% 174
East Midlands -15 10 £130 -66.23% 29
North East -42 4 - - 33
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 14 (2.75%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.18%) Confluence
4 2 (0.39%) Apache
4 2 (0.39%) CMS
5 1 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.20%) IIS
5 1 (0.20%) Mendix
5 1 (0.20%) nginx
5 1 (0.20%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 18 (3.54%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (2.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.59%) Acrobat
4 3 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.39%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.20%) Simulink
6 1 (0.20%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 5 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.79%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (0.59%) Maximo
3 3 (0.59%) Oracle SCM
4 2 (0.39%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.39%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.20%) Hyperion Planning
5 1 (0.20%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.20%) Magento
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.20%) Primavera
5 1 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 69 (13.56%) Azure
2 58 (11.39%) Power Platform
3 45 (8.84%) AWS
4 33 (6.48%) Dynamics 365
5 27 (5.30%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (3.34%) SaaS
7 16 (3.14%) GitHub
8 15 (2.95%) Entra ID
9 13 (2.55%) Microsoft Copilot
9 13 (2.55%) Serverless
10 12 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (2.36%) GCP
10 12 (2.36%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (2.16%) Power Automate
12 10 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (1.96%) PowerApps
13 9 (1.77%) Copilot Studio
13 9 (1.77%) SuccessFactors
14 8 (1.57%) Amazon ECS
15 7 (1.38%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.16%) Wi-Fi
2 9 (1.77%) Firewall
3 7 (1.38%) DNS
3 7 (1.38%) Wireless
4 6 (1.18%) DHCP
4 6 (1.18%) VPN
5 5 (0.98%) Ethernet
5 5 (0.98%) Network Security
6 4 (0.79%) Software-Defined Radio
6 4 (0.79%) WAN
7 3 (0.59%) Broadband
7 3 (0.59%) Cisco IPT
7 3 (0.59%) LAN
7 3 (0.59%) Reverse Proxy
7 3 (0.59%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.39%) BGP
8 2 (0.39%) MPLS
8 2 (0.39%) OSPF
8 2 (0.39%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.39%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (9.82%) Power BI
2 10 (1.96%) Metadata
3 7 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (1.38%) Relational Database
4 6 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (0.98%) SQL Server
6 4 (0.79%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (0.59%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.59%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (0.59%) Redis
8 2 (0.39%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.39%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (0.39%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.39%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.20%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.20%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.20%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 21 (4.13%) JIRA
2 19 (3.73%) Jenkins
3 14 (2.75%) GitLab
4 11 (2.16%) Git
5 9 (1.77%) JUnit
5 9 (1.77%) Mockito
6 8 (1.57%) Rational DOORS
7 6 (1.18%) Liquibase
8 4 (0.79%) Gradle
8 4 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.39%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.39%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.39%) Flyway
9 2 (0.39%) git-flow
9 2 (0.39%) Rational Rhapsody
10 1 (0.20%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.20%) Postman
10 1 (0.20%) PVCS
10 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio
General
1 133 (26.13%) Finance
2 129 (25.34%) Social Skills
3 92 (18.07%) Legal
4 68 (13.36%) Analytical Skills
5 64 (12.57%) Public Sector
6 38 (7.47%) Police
7 24 (4.72%) Influencing Skills
8 17 (3.34%) Banking
8 17 (3.34%) Manufacturing
9 14 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (2.16%) Marketing
11 9 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.38%) Front Office
13 6 (1.18%) Aviation
13 6 (1.18%) Electronics
13 6 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (1.18%) Social Science
14 5 (0.98%) Legal Technology
15 4 (0.79%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 66 (12.97%) Lead
2 61 (11.98%) Senior
3 59 (11.59%) Analyst
4 44 (8.64%) Architect
5 39 (7.66%) Developer
6 30 (5.89%) Project Manager
7 26 (5.11%) Functional Architect
7 26 (5.11%) Lead Architect
8 24 (4.72%) Consultant
8 24 (4.72%) Software Engineer
9 22 (4.32%) IT Trainer
9 22 (4.32%) Trainer
10 20 (3.93%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
11 19 (3.73%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
11 19 (3.73%) Senior IT Trainer
12 16 (3.14%) Business Analyst
13 15 (2.95%) IT Manager
14 14 (2.75%) Support Analyst
14 14 (2.75%) Support Engineer
15 13 (2.55%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.93%) REST
2 18 (3.54%) Terraform
3 13 (2.55%) React
4 12 (2.36%) Kafka
5 9 (1.77%) Spring
5 9 (1.77%) Spring Boot
6 8 (1.57%) RESTful
7 6 (1.18%) OpenAPI
7 6 (1.18%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (1.18%) SOAP
7 6 (1.18%) Swagger
8 5 (0.98%) JSON
8 5 (0.98%) Spring Cloud
9 4 (0.79%) .NET
9 4 (0.79%) Middleware
9 4 (0.79%) Next.js
10 3 (0.59%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (0.59%) LangChain
10 3 (0.59%) Oracle Fusion
10 3 (0.59%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 19 (3.73%) Cloud Native
2 18 (3.54%) Onboarding
3 16 (3.14%) Management Information System
4 12 (2.36%) Product Ownership
5 10 (1.96%) Social Media
6 9 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (1.57%) CCTV
7 8 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (1.38%) Robotics
9 6 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.18%) Security Posture
10 5 (0.98%) AI Agents
10 5 (0.98%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (0.98%) Data Centre
10 5 (0.98%) Fixed Income
10 5 (0.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (0.98%) FPGA
10 5 (0.98%) Low-Code
10 5 (0.98%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 39 (7.66%) Windows
2 19 (3.73%) Linux
3 17 (3.34%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.18%) Windows 10
5 5 (0.98%) FreeRTOS
6 3 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.39%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.39%) Unix
7 2 (0.39%) VMS
7 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (17.09%) Stakeholder Management
2 82 (16.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 80 (15.72%) Agile
4 74 (14.54%) Continuous Improvement
5 73 (14.34%) Migration
6 62 (12.18%) Problem-Solving
7 52 (10.22%) AI
8 51 (10.02%) Business Intelligence
9 50 (9.82%) CI/CD
10 48 (9.43%) Software Engineering
11 44 (8.64%) Data Migration
12 41 (8.06%) DevOps
12 41 (8.06%) ERP
13 38 (7.47%) Change Management
13 38 (7.47%) User Acceptance Testing
13 38 (7.47%) Validation
14 36 (7.07%) Translating Business Requirements
15 33 (6.48%) Risk Management
16 31 (6.09%) Data Protection
16 31 (6.09%) Procure-to-Pay
Programming Languages
1 43 (8.45%) Python
2 34 (6.68%) SQL
3 21 (4.13%) Java
4 14 (2.75%) C
4 14 (2.75%) C++
4 14 (2.75%) TypeScript
5 13 (2.55%) PowerShell
6 11 (2.16%) Bash
7 9 (1.77%) JavaScript
8 6 (1.18%) Ada
8 6 (1.18%) C#
9 4 (0.79%) Embedded C
9 4 (0.79%) SOQL
10 3 (0.59%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.39%) MATLAB
11 2 (0.39%) PromQL
12 1 (0.20%) Bicep
12 1 (0.20%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.20%) SystemVerilog
12 1 (0.20%) VBA
Qualifications
1 115 (22.59%) Security Cleared
2 87 (17.09%) SC Cleared
3 49 (9.63%) Degree
4 35 (6.88%) DV Cleared
5 9 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (1.77%) PMI Certification
6 7 (1.38%) CISSP
7 6 (1.18%) AWS Certification
7 6 (1.18%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.18%) CISM
7 6 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (0.98%) PMP
9 4 (0.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.59%) IIBA
11 2 (0.39%) CBAP
11 2 (0.39%) CEH
11 2 (0.39%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (5.30%) Data Quality
2 24 (4.72%) QA
3 14 (2.75%) GDPR
4 9 (1.77%) GRC
4 9 (1.77%) NCSC
5 6 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 5 (0.98%) Def Stans
6 5 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.98%) NIST
7 4 (0.79%) Government Security Classifications
7 4 (0.79%) MISRA
8 3 (0.59%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.59%) DO-178B
8 3 (0.59%) PERC
9 2 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 2 (0.39%) PMO
10 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.20%) MISRA C
System Software
1 22 (4.32%) Docker
2 21 (4.13%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.57%) Hyper-V
3 8 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.79%) Firmware
4 4 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.39%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.20%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.20%) NFS
Systems Management
1 22 (4.32%) Kubernetes
2 14 (2.75%) Ansible
3 9 (1.77%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (1.77%) Prometheus
4 7 (1.38%) Grafana
5 6 (1.18%) SCCM
6 2 (0.39%) Consul
6 2 (0.39%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.39%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (0.39%) Kibana
6 2 (0.39%) PowerCLI
6 2 (0.39%) Puppet
6 2 (0.39%) Salt
6 2 (0.39%) SCOM
6 2 (0.39%) Zipkin
7 1 (0.20%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.20%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.20%) QRadar
Vendors
1 99 (19.45%) Microsoft
2 21 (4.13%) SAP
3 16 (3.14%) ServiceNow
4 13 (2.55%) Cisco
5 12 (2.36%) Aderant
6 10 (1.96%) Intapp
7 9 (1.77%) Oracle
7 9 (1.77%) Workday
8 8 (1.57%) Google
8 8 (1.57%) iManage
8 8 (1.57%) VMware
9 6 (1.18%) Foundry
9 6 (1.18%) IBM
9 6 (1.18%) Litera
9 6 (1.18%) Palo Alto
10 5 (0.98%) Fortinet
10 5 (0.98%) Solace
10 5 (0.98%) Splunk
10 5 (0.98%) UiPath
11 4 (0.79%) Black Duck