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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 269 244 240
Rank change year-on-year -25 -4 -64
Contract jobs citing Law 465 304 339
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.99% 1.08% 1.06%
As % of the General category 1.74% 1.69% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 158 144
10th Percentile £358 £249 £247
25th Percentile £459 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -7.69%
75th Percentile £667 £639 £628
90th Percentile £750 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £495
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -7.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 21 12
10th Percentile £12.83 £12.21 £19.12
25th Percentile £13.89 £13.46 £20.50
Median hourly rate £17.73 £16.96 £30.74
Median % change year-on-year +4.51% -44.82% +70.75%
75th Percentile £25.77 £40.46 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £68.75 £72.71
UK median hourly rate £17.73 £50.00 £30.74
% change year-on-year -64.55% +62.68% +70.75%

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 26,662 18,038 18,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 56.95% 63.95% 58.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,529 11,459 11,342
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,538 1,080 797
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.80 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.36 £16.45 £17.50
Median hourly rate £28.00 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -28.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile £55.00 £45.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £78.51 £70.27 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £26.84 £25.00 £32.00
% change year-on-year +7.36% -21.88% +7.56%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -35 223 £593 +3.04% 167
North of England -2 93 £495 +9.89% 70
Yorkshire +13 55 £495 -3.51% 20
East of England -7 47 £435 +8.75% 15
South East -45 40 £525 +7.14% 62
North West -32 33 £463 +18.59% 41
Midlands -55 30 £527 -4.14% 18
West Midlands -56 21 £545 -2.29% 14
South West -38 16 £350 -38.05% 41
East Midlands -2 9 £316 -17.86% 4
North East - 5 - - 9
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
3 4 (0.86%) CMS
3 4 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.65%) nginx
5 2 (0.43%) Apache
5 2 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.22%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.22%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.22%) IIS
6 1 (0.22%) Mendix
6 1 (0.22%) SAS
6 1 (0.22%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 21 (4.52%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.65%) Acrobat
3 3 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.43%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.22%) Simulink
5 1 (0.22%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 5 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.65%) Elite 3E
2 3 (0.65%) Maximo
2 3 (0.65%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 3 (0.65%) Oracle SCM
3 2 (0.43%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.43%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.22%) Hyperion Planning
4 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.22%) Primavera
4 1 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.22%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 64 (13.76%) Azure
2 42 (9.03%) AWS
3 33 (7.10%) Power Platform
4 28 (6.02%) Microsoft 365
5 17 (3.66%) GitHub
6 15 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (3.23%) Entra ID
7 14 (3.01%) Microsoft Copilot
7 14 (3.01%) PowerApps
8 13 (2.80%) SaaS
9 11 (2.37%) Copilot Studio
9 11 (2.37%) Dynamics 365
9 11 (2.37%) GCP
9 11 (2.37%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (2.37%) Serverless
10 10 (2.15%) Power Automate
11 8 (1.72%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (1.72%) SuccessFactors
12 7 (1.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (1.51%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.15%) Wi-Fi
2 7 (1.51%) DHCP
2 7 (1.51%) DNS
2 7 (1.51%) VPN
3 6 (1.29%) Firewall
4 5 (1.08%) Network Security
4 5 (1.08%) Wireless
5 3 (0.65%) Broadband
5 3 (0.65%) Cisco IPT
5 3 (0.65%) Ethernet
5 3 (0.65%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.65%) WAN
6 2 (0.43%) BGP
6 2 (0.43%) HTTP
6 2 (0.43%) LAN
6 2 (0.43%) OpenVPN
6 2 (0.43%) OSPF
6 2 (0.43%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.43%) Software-Defined Radio
7 1 (0.22%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (4.95%) Power BI
2 12 (2.58%) Metadata
3 7 (1.51%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (1.51%) Relational Database
3 7 (1.51%) SQL Server
4 6 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.65%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.65%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.65%) KDB
6 3 (0.65%) Redis
7 2 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.43%) Kdb+
7 2 (0.43%) Pentaho
7 2 (0.43%) Power Query
7 2 (0.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.22%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.22%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (3.87%) Jenkins
1 18 (3.87%) JIRA
2 13 (2.80%) GitLab
3 8 (1.72%) Git
4 6 (1.29%) JUnit
4 6 (1.29%) Mockito
4 6 (1.29%) Rational DOORS
5 4 (0.86%) Liquibase
5 4 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (0.65%) Rational Rhapsody
7 2 (0.43%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.43%) Flyway
7 2 (0.43%) git-flow
7 2 (0.43%) Gradle
7 2 (0.43%) JMeter
7 2 (0.43%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.22%) CppUnit
8 1 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.22%) PVCS
8 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
General
1 125 (26.88%) Social Skills
2 102 (21.94%) Finance
3 91 (19.57%) Legal
4 66 (14.19%) Public Sector
5 63 (13.55%) Analytical Skills
6 38 (8.17%) Police
7 23 (4.95%) Influencing Skills
8 21 (4.52%) Banking
9 18 (3.87%) Manufacturing
10 14 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (1.94%) Marketing
11 9 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (1.72%) Front Office
13 7 (1.51%) Legal Technology
14 6 (1.29%) Electronics
15 5 (1.08%) Aviation
15 5 (1.08%) Local Government
16 4 (0.86%) Aerospace
16 4 (0.86%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 55 (11.83%) Analyst
2 54 (11.61%) Senior
3 47 (10.11%) Lead
4 42 (9.03%) Developer
5 27 (5.81%) Project Manager
6 25 (5.38%) Consultant
7 23 (4.95%) IT Trainer
7 23 (4.95%) Trainer
8 21 (4.52%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
9 20 (4.30%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 20 (4.30%) Senior IT Trainer
10 18 (3.87%) Architect
11 17 (3.66%) IT Manager
11 17 (3.66%) Software Engineer
12 14 (3.01%) Business Analyst
12 14 (3.01%) Support Engineer
13 12 (2.58%) Technical Support
14 11 (2.37%) Support Analyst
14 11 (2.37%) Systems Analyst
14 11 (2.37%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (4.95%) REST
2 18 (3.87%) Terraform
3 12 (2.58%) React
4 9 (1.94%) Kafka
5 7 (1.51%) .NET
6 6 (1.29%) JSON
6 6 (1.29%) Middleware
6 6 (1.29%) RESTful
6 6 (1.29%) Spring
6 6 (1.29%) Spring Boot
7 5 (1.08%) HTML
7 5 (1.08%) HTML5 Canvas
7 5 (1.08%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (1.08%) SOAP
8 4 (0.86%) ADO
8 4 (0.86%) OpenAPI
8 4 (0.86%) Spring Cloud
8 4 (0.86%) Swagger
8 4 (0.86%) XML
8 4 (0.86%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (4.52%) Onboarding
2 20 (4.30%) Cloud Native
3 17 (3.66%) Management Information System
4 11 (2.37%) Product Ownership
5 9 (1.94%) Social Media
6 8 (1.72%) Security Posture
7 7 (1.51%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.29%) Cyber Threat
8 6 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.29%) Robotics
8 6 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.08%) CCTV
9 5 (1.08%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.08%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (1.08%) Smartphone
10 4 (0.86%) Algorithms
10 4 (0.86%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 41 (8.82%) Windows
2 24 (5.16%) Linux
3 21 (4.52%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.08%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.86%) FreeRTOS
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 (0.22%) macOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (20.43%) Stakeholder Management
2 80 (17.20%) Agile
3 59 (12.69%) Problem-Solving
4 57 (12.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 49 (10.54%) AI
5 49 (10.54%) CI/CD
6 46 (9.89%) Continuous Improvement
7 45 (9.68%) Software Engineering
8 43 (9.25%) DevOps
8 43 (9.25%) Migration
9 40 (8.60%) Change Management
10 33 (7.10%) Risk Management
10 33 (7.10%) Validation
11 32 (6.88%) Roadmaps
12 29 (6.24%) Data Modelling
12 29 (6.24%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 28 (6.02%) Data Protection
13 28 (6.02%) Decision-Making
14 27 (5.81%) Project Delivery
15 25 (5.38%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 49 (10.54%) Python
2 40 (8.60%) SQL
3 18 (3.87%) PowerShell
4 16 (3.44%) C++
4 16 (3.44%) Java
5 14 (3.01%) JavaScript
6 12 (2.58%) C
6 12 (2.58%) TypeScript
7 9 (1.94%) Bash
7 9 (1.94%) C#
8 7 (1.51%) Ada
9 4 (0.86%) SOQL
10 3 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.43%) Embedded C
11 2 (0.43%) Groovy
11 2 (0.43%) PHP
11 2 (0.43%) PromQL
12 1 (0.22%) Bicep
12 1 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.22%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 109 (23.44%) Security Cleared
2 84 (18.06%) SC Cleared
3 48 (10.32%) Degree
4 31 (6.67%) DV Cleared
5 9 (1.94%) CISSP
6 8 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (1.72%) CISM
7 7 (1.51%) PMI Certification
8 6 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.08%) AWS Certification
9 5 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.08%) PMP
10 4 (0.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (0.86%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.65%) IIBA
11 3 (0.65%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.16%) QA
2 23 (4.95%) Data Quality
3 12 (2.58%) GDPR
4 10 (2.15%) NCSC
5 9 (1.94%) GRC
6 6 (1.29%) Def Stans
7 5 (1.08%) MISRA
8 4 (0.86%) Government Security Classifications
8 4 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 3 (0.65%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.65%) DO-178B
9 3 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.65%) NIST
9 3 (0.65%) PERC
9 3 (0.65%) SLA
10 2 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.43%) MISRA C
10 2 (0.43%) PMO
11 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 19 (4.09%) Active Directory
2 18 (3.87%) Docker
3 9 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.72%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.86%) Firmware
5 4 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.43%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.22%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.22%) NFS
7 1 (0.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (4.30%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.37%) Ansible
3 7 (1.51%) Prometheus
3 7 (1.51%) SCCM
4 6 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (1.08%) Grafana
6 4 (0.86%) Kibana
7 2 (0.43%) Consul
7 2 (0.43%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.43%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (0.43%) PowerCLI
7 2 (0.43%) SCOM
7 2 (0.43%) Zipkin
8 1 (0.22%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.22%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.22%) Nagios
8 1 (0.22%) QRadar
Vendors
1 78 (16.77%) Microsoft
2 20 (4.30%) ServiceNow
3 18 (3.87%) Aderant
3 18 (3.87%) SAP
4 12 (2.58%) Cisco
5 10 (2.15%) VMware
6 9 (1.94%) Intapp
7 8 (1.72%) Google
8 7 (1.51%) Databricks
9 6 (1.29%) Workday
10 5 (1.08%) IBM
10 5 (1.08%) iManage
10 5 (1.08%) Litera
10 5 (1.08%) Oracle
10 5 (1.08%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.08%) Planon
10 5 (1.08%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.08%) Solace
10 5 (1.08%) Splunk
10 5 (1.08%) UiPath