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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 207 174
Rank change year-on-year -58 -33 -2
Contract jobs citing Law 366 307 534
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.99% 1.25% 1.41%
As % of the General category 1.72% 1.98% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 197 314
10th Percentile £322 £233 £248
25th Percentile £452 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £653 £600 £638
90th Percentile £729 £715 £723
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £515
% change year-on-year +10.00% -2.91% -1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 24
10th Percentile £17.05 £29.29 £10.42
25th Percentile £22.93 £31.69 £11.87
Median hourly rate £37.00 £68.69 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.13% +428.37% -39.53%
75th Percentile £39.00 £76.32 £23.69
90th Percentile £47.40 £81.01 £35.13
UK median hourly rate £34.75 £60.00 £13.00
% change year-on-year -42.08% +361.54% -39.53%

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 21,266 15,486 22,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 57.58% 63.20% 58.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,416 10,011 14,532
10th Percentile £300 £300 £269
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,331 580 1,667
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.00 £13.03
25th Percentile £17.69 £19.96 £15.38
Median hourly rate £25.00 £30.79 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.81% +18.43% -23.12%
75th Percentile £59.00 £60.94 £50.00
90th Percentile £77.00 £76.25 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £24.55 £30.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -18.17% +15.38% -23.53%

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 18 March 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 18 March 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 18 March 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 -1 202 £575 +9.52% 250
Midlands -77 42 £506 +1.25% 45
South East -31 38 £525 +5.58% 109
North of England -57 33 £436 +9.00% 101
West Midlands -66 31 £550 +10.00% 20
East of England -12 25 £375 - 22
South West -25 20 £500 +122.22% 17
North West -35 20 £463 +15.63% 62
Yorkshire -55 13 £412 -12.13% 32
East Midlands -47 11 £175 -65.00% 25
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 (3.83%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.09%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (0.82%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.82%) CMS
5 1 (0.27%) Apache
5 1 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.27%) Confluence
5 1 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 14 (3.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.73%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.27%) PTC Creo
5 1 (0.27%) Simulink
5 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.27%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 9 (2.46%) Elite 3E
2 5 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.37%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.55%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.55%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.27%) Aareon QL
4 1 (0.27%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.27%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.27%) OPENHousing
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle SCM
4 1 (0.27%) Orchard Housing
4 1 (0.27%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.27%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.27%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 54 (14.75%) Azure
2 32 (8.74%) Power Platform
3 27 (7.38%) AWS
4 21 (5.74%) SaaS
5 20 (5.46%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (4.64%) Dynamics 365
7 13 (3.55%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (2.73%) Azure Logic Apps
8 10 (2.73%) Power Automate
9 9 (2.46%) GCP
10 8 (2.19%) Microsoft Copilot
11 7 (1.91%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (1.64%) Entra ID
12 6 (1.64%) GitHub
13 5 (1.37%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (1.09%) Serverless
14 4 (1.09%) SuccessFactors
15 3 (0.82%) IaaS
15 3 (0.82%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.91%) Firewall
1 7 (1.91%) VPN
2 6 (1.64%) SD-WAN
2 6 (1.64%) WAN
3 5 (1.37%) DNS
3 5 (1.37%) LAN
3 5 (1.37%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.09%) Intranet
4 4 (1.09%) MPLS
5 3 (0.82%) Cisco IPT
5 3 (0.82%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (0.82%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.55%) DHCP
6 2 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.27%) Internet
7 1 (0.27%) Network Security
7 1 (0.27%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.27%) VLAN
7 1 (0.27%) VoIP
7 1 (0.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (6.83%) Power BI
2 5 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (1.37%) Metadata
2 5 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (1.37%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.09%) MongoDB
4 3 (0.82%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 3 (0.82%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (0.55%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (0.55%) Spark SQL
6 1 (0.27%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.27%) EDRMS
6 1 (0.27%) HBase
6 1 (0.27%) KDB
6 1 (0.27%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.27%) MySQL
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.27%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.27%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 17 (4.64%) JIRA
2 10 (2.73%) Git
3 7 (1.91%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.09%) GitLab
4 4 (1.09%) Rational DOORS
5 3 (0.82%) CircleCI
5 3 (0.82%) Gradle
6 2 (0.55%) Eclipse
6 2 (0.55%) JUnit
6 2 (0.55%) Liquibase
6 2 (0.55%) Mockito
6 2 (0.55%) Rational Rhapsody
6 2 (0.55%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.27%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.27%) Maven
7 1 (0.27%) PVCS
7 1 (0.27%) QUnit
7 1 (0.27%) Selenium
7 1 (0.27%) TestRail
7 1 (0.27%) WebDriver
General
1 127 (34.70%) Social Skills
2 99 (27.05%) Finance
3 96 (26.23%) Legal
4 39 (10.66%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (10.66%) Public Sector
5 17 (4.64%) Marketing
6 13 (3.55%) Police
7 11 (3.01%) Billing
7 11 (3.01%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (2.46%) Banking
8 9 (2.46%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (2.19%) Electronics
9 8 (2.19%) Front Office
9 8 (2.19%) Publishing
10 7 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (1.64%) General Ledger
11 6 (1.64%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.64%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 43 (11.75%) Analyst
2 41 (11.20%) Architect
3 36 (9.84%) Senior
4 30 (8.20%) Lead
5 28 (7.65%) Project Manager
6 26 (7.10%) Consultant
6 26 (7.10%) Software Engineer
7 22 (6.01%) Developer
8 15 (4.10%) Business Analyst
9 13 (3.55%) Functional Architect
9 13 (3.55%) Lead Architect
10 11 (3.01%) Commercial Manager
11 10 (2.73%) Senior Manager
11 10 (2.73%) Solutions Architect
12 9 (2.46%) Support Engineer
13 8 (2.19%) Business Manager
14 7 (1.91%) Embedded Engineer
14 7 (1.91%) Embedded Software Engineer
15 6 (1.64%) Data Analyst
15 6 (1.64%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.01%) Middleware
2 7 (1.91%) Kafka
2 7 (1.91%) REST
3 6 (1.64%) SOAP
4 5 (1.37%) Spring
5 4 (1.09%) ARM Templates
5 4 (1.09%) FIX Protocol
5 4 (1.09%) Spring Boot
6 3 (0.82%) JSON
6 3 (0.82%) PySpark
6 3 (0.82%) React
6 3 (0.82%) Web Services
7 2 (0.55%) .NET
7 2 (0.55%) IDoc
7 2 (0.55%) Node.js
7 2 (0.55%) OpenAPI
7 2 (0.55%) Qt
7 2 (0.55%) SAP ALE
7 2 (0.55%) Swagger
8 1 (0.27%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 17 (4.64%) Management Information System
2 14 (3.83%) Onboarding
3 13 (3.55%) Product Ownership
4 8 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (1.91%) Data Centre
5 7 (1.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (1.64%) AI Agents
6 6 (1.64%) Security Posture
6 6 (1.64%) Smartphone
7 5 (1.37%) Algorithms
7 5 (1.37%) Taxonomies
8 4 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.09%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.09%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.09%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (0.82%) Digital Wallet
9 3 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (0.82%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 25 (6.83%) Windows
2 18 (4.92%) Linux
3 11 (3.01%) Windows 10
4 5 (1.37%) Unix
5 3 (0.82%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.27%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.27%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.27%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (17.21%) Stakeholder Management
2 53 (14.48%) Agile
3 50 (13.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 47 (12.84%) Migration
5 44 (12.02%) Problem-Solving
6 35 (9.56%) Continuous Improvement
7 32 (8.74%) Software Engineering
8 31 (8.47%) AI
8 31 (8.47%) User Acceptance Testing
9 30 (8.20%) Change Management
10 29 (7.92%) Business Intelligence
11 28 (7.65%) CI/CD
12 26 (7.10%) Workflow
13 25 (6.83%) Data Migration
14 24 (6.56%) DevOps
14 24 (6.56%) Translating Business Requirements
15 23 (6.28%) Data Modelling
15 23 (6.28%) ERP
16 21 (5.74%) Data Protection
16 21 (5.74%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 31 (8.47%) SQL
2 18 (4.92%) Java
3 16 (4.37%) Python
4 15 (4.10%) Ada
5 14 (3.83%) C++
6 12 (3.28%) C
7 10 (2.73%) C#
8 8 (2.19%) JavaScript
8 8 (2.19%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.09%) MATLAB
9 4 (1.09%) Rust
10 3 (0.82%) Bash
10 3 (0.82%) Go
10 3 (0.82%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.82%) T-SQL
10 3 (0.82%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.55%) ABAP
11 2 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.55%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.55%) Perl
Qualifications
1 72 (19.67%) Security Cleared
2 46 (12.57%) SC Cleared
3 44 (12.02%) Degree
4 18 (4.92%) DV Cleared
5 9 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.19%) CIPD
7 6 (1.64%) ACCA
7 6 (1.64%) CIMA
8 5 (1.37%) CISSP
8 5 (1.37%) PMP
9 4 (1.09%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.55%) CISM
10 2 (0.55%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.55%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.55%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.27%) CEH
11 1 (0.27%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.27%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.74%) GDPR
2 15 (4.10%) Data Quality
2 15 (4.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (3.28%) QA
4 10 (2.73%) NCSC
5 8 (2.19%) NIST
6 7 (1.91%) Def Stans
6 7 (1.91%) GRC
7 6 (1.64%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.64%) SLA
8 5 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 4 (1.09%) IEC 61508
9 4 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 4 (1.09%) MISRA
10 3 (0.82%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.82%) PSD2
11 2 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.55%) DO-178B
11 2 (0.55%) MISRA C
11 2 (0.55%) PMO
System Software
1 17 (4.64%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.19%) Docker
3 3 (0.82%) Firmware
4 2 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.27%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (3.01%) Terraform
2 7 (1.91%) SCCM
3 5 (1.37%) Ansible
3 5 (1.37%) Kubernetes
4 3 (0.82%) Cisco Prime
4 3 (0.82%) Grafana
4 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.55%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.27%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.27%) Nmap
Vendors
1 62 (16.94%) Microsoft
2 17 (4.64%) SAP
3 13 (3.55%) Oracle
3 13 (3.55%) ServiceNow
4 10 (2.73%) Intapp
5 8 (2.19%) Databricks
6 7 (1.91%) iManage
7 6 (1.64%) Aruba
7 6 (1.64%) Cisco
7 6 (1.64%) IBM
8 5 (1.37%) Aderant
8 5 (1.37%) HubSpot
8 5 (1.37%) Palo Alto
8 5 (1.37%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.37%) Workday
9 4 (1.09%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.09%) Splunk
9 4 (1.09%) Xero
10 3 (0.82%) Fortinet
10 3 (0.82%) SolarWinds