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 20 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 262 206 160
Rank change year-on-year -56 -46 +29
Contract jobs citing Law 312 355 607
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.99% 1.23% 1.63%
As % of the General category 1.60% 2.00% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 165 410
10th Percentile £214 £241 £239
25th Percentile £419 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £670 £625 £638
90th Percentile £753 £715 £730
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £545
% change year-on-year +10.00% -8.26% +3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 7 8
10th Percentile £15.48 £16.80 £13.44
25th Percentile £16.96 £26.38 £14.83
Median hourly rate £27.28 £65.00 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.03% +306.25% -17.10%
75th Percentile £39.00 £69.28 £19.63
90th Percentile £40.46 £74.04 £32.46
UK median hourly rate £45.23 £65.00 £16.00
% change year-on-year -30.42% +306.25% -17.95%

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 common skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 19,441 17,763 22,199
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 61.74% 61.50% 59.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,279 10,768 15,032
10th Percentile £280 £300 £285
25th Percentile £402 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £627 £650 £663
90th Percentile £738 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,270 609 999
10th Percentile £14.05 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.77 £18.40 £17.18
Median hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.67% -9.09% +32.00%
75th Percentile £45.68 £58.27 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.60 £70.65
UK median hourly rate £23.58 £27.37 £33.00
% change year-on-year -13.86% -17.07% +32.00%

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 20 December 2025.

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 20 December 2025.

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 20 December 2025. 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 +19 165 £575 +10.05% 154
Midlands -61 39 £550 +7.32% 51
East of England -1 33 £400 +6.67% 18
West Midlands -35 31 £550 +4.76% 28
South East -44 31 £483 -8.83% 97
North of England -57 26 £449 -5.58% 94
North West -22 17 £463 -2.63% 65
South West -17 16 £675 +200.00% 21
Yorkshire -60 9 £435 +5.55% 20
East Midlands -38 8 £225 -55.00% 23
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 13 (4.17%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.60%) Oracle Workflow
3 4 (1.28%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.96%) CMS
5 1 (0.32%) Apache
5 1 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.32%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.32%) Confluence
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.32%) Resin
5 1 (0.32%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 19 (6.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (5.13%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (2.88%) Simulink
4 7 (2.24%) Windchill
5 5 (1.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.96%) PTC Creo
7 1 (0.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (2.88%) Elite 3E
2 5 (1.60%) Oracle Receivables
3 4 (1.28%) SAP PLM
4 2 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.64%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.32%) Aareon QL
5 1 (0.32%) MIS ActiveH
5 1 (0.32%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.32%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.32%) OPENHousing
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.32%) Orchard Housing
5 1 (0.32%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.32%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.32%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.32%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 54 (17.31%) Azure
2 27 (8.65%) AWS
3 18 (5.77%) SaaS
4 17 (5.45%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (5.45%) Power Platform
5 15 (4.81%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (4.49%) GCP
7 10 (3.21%) Azure Logic Apps
8 9 (2.88%) Entra ID
9 8 (2.56%) Power Automate
10 6 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (1.60%) GitHub
11 5 (1.60%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (1.28%) Azure AKS
12 4 (1.28%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 4 (1.28%) Azure Data Factory
13 3 (0.96%) AWS KMS
13 3 (0.96%) Azure API Management
13 3 (0.96%) OCI
13 3 (0.96%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.85%) DNS
2 10 (3.21%) Firewall
2 10 (3.21%) TCP/IP
2 10 (3.21%) VPN
3 5 (1.60%) Internet
3 5 (1.60%) Remote Desktop
4 4 (1.28%) Network Security
5 3 (0.96%) Ethernet
5 3 (0.96%) Intranet
6 2 (0.64%) DHCP
6 2 (0.64%) LAN
6 2 (0.64%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.64%) VLAN
6 2 (0.64%) WAN
7 1 (0.32%) Cisco IPT
7 1 (0.32%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.32%) Skype
7 1 (0.32%) WebEx
7 1 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.32%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.17%) Power BI
2 5 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (1.60%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (1.28%) MongoDB
4 3 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (0.96%) Tableau
5 2 (0.64%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.64%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.64%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.64%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 2 (0.64%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (0.64%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.64%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.32%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.32%) Kdb+
6 1 (0.32%) Metadata
6 1 (0.32%) Pinecone
6 1 (0.32%) Power Query
6 1 (0.32%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 19 (6.09%) JIRA
2 10 (3.21%) Git
3 7 (2.24%) Rational DOORS
4 5 (1.60%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.60%) Rational Rhapsody
5 4 (1.28%) GitLab
6 3 (0.96%) CircleCI
6 3 (0.96%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.64%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.32%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.32%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.32%) Gradle
8 1 (0.32%) Maven
8 1 (0.32%) MLflow
8 1 (0.32%) PVCS
8 1 (0.32%) QUnit
8 1 (0.32%) TestRail
General
1 115 (36.86%) Social Skills
2 86 (27.56%) Finance
3 77 (24.68%) Legal
4 31 (9.94%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (9.62%) Public Sector
6 14 (4.49%) Telecoms
7 12 (3.85%) Police
8 11 (3.53%) Billing
8 11 (3.53%) Marketing
9 8 (2.56%) Electronics
9 8 (2.56%) Front Office
10 7 (2.24%) General Ledger
11 6 (1.92%) Banking
11 6 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.92%) Military
11 6 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.92%) Retail
12 5 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (11.54%) Analyst
2 24 (7.69%) Project Manager
3 23 (7.37%) Consultant
4 22 (7.05%) Lead
5 21 (6.73%) Developer
6 17 (5.45%) Senior
7 16 (5.13%) Software Engineer
8 14 (4.49%) Business Analyst
9 12 (3.85%) Support Engineer
10 10 (3.21%) Architect
10 10 (3.21%) IT Support
11 8 (2.56%) Commercial Manager
11 8 (2.56%) Delivery Manager
11 8 (2.56%) Telecoms Manager
12 7 (2.24%) Change Manager
13 6 (1.92%) Design Engineer
13 6 (1.92%) Java Developer
13 6 (1.92%) Security Analyst
13 6 (1.92%) Solutions Architect
13 6 (1.92%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.24%) Middleware
1 7 (2.24%) Node.js
1 7 (2.24%) REST
2 6 (1.92%) Kafka
2 6 (1.92%) React
2 6 (1.92%) SOAP
3 4 (1.28%) Express.js
3 4 (1.28%) Next.js
4 3 (0.96%) ARM Templates
4 3 (0.96%) FIX Protocol
4 3 (0.96%) Flash
4 3 (0.96%) Spring
4 3 (0.96%) Web Services
5 2 (0.64%) .NET
5 2 (0.64%) CSS
5 2 (0.64%) HTML
5 2 (0.64%) JSON
5 2 (0.64%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (0.64%) Spring Boot
5 2 (0.64%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (3.85%) Management Information System
2 11 (3.53%) Product Ownership
3 8 (2.56%) Onboarding
4 7 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (1.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (1.92%) Freedom of Information Act
6 5 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (1.60%) Cyber Threat
6 5 (1.60%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.60%) FPGA
6 5 (1.60%) Freedom of Information
6 5 (1.60%) VHDL
7 4 (1.28%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.28%) Cybercrime
7 4 (1.28%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.28%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.28%) Smartphone
7 4 (1.28%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 23 (7.37%) Windows
2 14 (4.49%) Linux
3 12 (3.85%) Windows 10
4 7 (2.24%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.92%) Unix
6 5 (1.60%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (1.60%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.32%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.32%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.32%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.32%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (17.95%) Stakeholder Management
2 41 (13.14%) Problem-Solving
3 37 (11.86%) Agile
4 36 (11.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 28 (8.97%) Migration
6 27 (8.65%) Change Management
7 26 (8.33%) DevOps
8 24 (7.69%) Software Engineering
9 23 (7.37%) ITIL
10 22 (7.05%) CI/CD
11 21 (6.73%) Data Protection
12 19 (6.09%) Continuous Improvement
12 19 (6.09%) Workflow
13 18 (5.77%) Project Delivery
14 17 (5.45%) Risk Management
15 16 (5.13%) Customer Service
16 15 (4.81%) CRM
16 15 (4.81%) Decision-Making
16 15 (4.81%) PRINCE2
16 15 (4.81%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (7.37%) SQL
2 19 (6.09%) C++
3 18 (5.77%) Python
4 13 (4.17%) Java
5 12 (3.85%) C
6 8 (2.56%) JavaScript
6 8 (2.56%) MATLAB
7 7 (2.24%) PowerShell
8 6 (1.92%) Bicep
8 6 (1.92%) C#
8 6 (1.92%) TypeScript
9 4 (1.28%) Bash
9 4 (1.28%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.96%) Ada
10 3 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.96%) Go
11 2 (0.64%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.64%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.64%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.32%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 66 (21.15%) Security Cleared
2 41 (13.14%) Degree
3 40 (12.82%) SC Cleared
4 24 (7.69%) DV Cleared
5 8 (2.56%) CIPD
6 7 (2.24%) CISSP
7 6 (1.92%) ACCA
7 6 (1.92%) CIMA
7 6 (1.92%) PMP
8 5 (1.60%) CEH
8 5 (1.60%) CompTIA CySA+
8 5 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.60%) GIAC
9 4 (1.28%) CISM
9 4 (1.28%) GREM
9 4 (1.28%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.28%) OSCP
10 3 (0.96%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.64%) CISA
11 2 (0.64%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (9.29%) GDPR
2 15 (4.81%) QA
3 12 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (2.88%) Data Quality
4 9 (2.88%) SLA
5 6 (1.92%) NCSC
5 6 (1.92%) NIST
6 4 (1.28%) GRC
6 4 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 4 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 3 (0.96%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.96%) PERC
8 2 (0.64%) Def Stans
8 2 (0.64%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.64%) JSP 440
8 2 (0.64%) MISRA
8 2 (0.64%) PMO
9 1 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.32%) IFRS
9 1 (0.32%) SOC 2
System Software
1 20 (6.41%) Active Directory
2 11 (3.53%) Docker
3 8 (2.56%) Firmware
4 7 (2.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (1.92%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.60%) Terminal Services
7 3 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (3.21%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.88%) Terraform
3 6 (1.92%) Ansible
4 5 (1.60%) SCCM
5 4 (1.28%) Kibana
6 3 (0.96%) Grafana
7 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.32%) Cisco Prime
8 1 (0.32%) EnCase
8 1 (0.32%) FTK
8 1 (0.32%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.32%) Nmap
Vendors
1 38 (12.18%) Microsoft
2 18 (5.77%) SAP
3 17 (5.45%) ServiceNow
4 11 (3.53%) Oracle
5 9 (2.88%) Intapp
6 7 (2.24%) VMware
6 7 (2.24%) Workday
7 5 (1.60%) Aderant
7 5 (1.60%) Citrix
7 5 (1.60%) Databricks
7 5 (1.60%) iManage
7 5 (1.60%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.28%) Guidewire
8 4 (1.28%) HubSpot
8 4 (1.28%) Splunk
8 4 (1.28%) Xero
9 3 (0.96%) Google
9 3 (0.96%) IBM
9 3 (0.96%) MuleSoft
9 3 (0.96%) Palo Alto