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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 223 238
Rank change year-on-year -15 +15 -75
Contract jobs citing Law 504 332 339
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.10% 1.20% 1.03%
As % of the General category 1.99% 1.86% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 166 166
10th Percentile £358 £216 £263
25th Percentile £463 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £511 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.69% -7.05% +3.29%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £675
90th Percentile £750 £725 £794
UK median daily rate £525 £501 £550
% change year-on-year +4.90% -9.00% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 26 10
10th Percentile £14.62 £12.21 £18.20
25th Percentile £17.11 £13.97 £20.50
Median hourly rate £17.73 £27.46 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.45% +24.82% +22.22%
75th Percentile £25.77 £51.73 £27.96
90th Percentile £59.20 £71.25 £29.38
UK median hourly rate £20.27 £40.46 £26.97
% change year-on-year -49.91% +50.02% +49.83%

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 25,304 17,849 19,109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.30% 64.32% 57.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,988 11,346 11,997
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £424 £400 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £538
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -6.88% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £651
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 2,057 993 1,076
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.50 £14.50
25th Percentile £17.50 £16.25 £18.00
Median hourly rate £31.56 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +25.47% -34.02% +38.62%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £79.25 £72.90 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £31.16 £25.15 £37.04
% change year-on-year +23.88% -32.10% +34.69%

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 31 August 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 31 August 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 31 August 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 +13 265 £550 - 1,400
North of England -26 83 £485 +7.72% 163
South East -55 49 £525 +8.81% 186
East of England +5 44 £450 - 63
Yorkshire -12 44 £388 -31.11% 41
North West -39 35 £525 +23.53% 94
Midlands -56 35 £438 -20.45% 70
West Midlands -55 23 £600 +7.62% 49
South West -44 13 £350 -33.65% 172
East Midlands -10 11 £200 -48.05% 21
North East -33 4 - - 29
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 15 (2.98%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.99%) Confluence
4 2 (0.40%) Apache
4 2 (0.40%) CMS
5 1 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.20%) Mendix
5 1 (0.20%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 20 (3.97%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (2.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.60%) Acrobat
4 3 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.40%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.20%) Simulink
6 1 (0.20%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 5 (0.99%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 5 (0.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.60%) Maximo
2 3 (0.60%) Oracle SCM
3 2 (0.40%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.40%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.20%) Hyperion Planning
4 1 (0.20%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.20%) Magento
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.20%) Primavera
4 1 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 69 (13.69%) Azure
2 64 (12.70%) Power Platform
3 43 (8.53%) AWS
4 36 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
5 26 (5.16%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (2.98%) GitHub
6 15 (2.98%) SaaS
7 14 (2.78%) Entra ID
7 14 (2.78%) Power Automate
8 13 (2.58%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (2.58%) Microsoft Copilot
9 12 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
9 12 (2.38%) Serverless
10 11 (2.18%) GCP
11 10 (1.98%) PowerApps
12 9 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (1.79%) Copilot Studio
12 9 (1.79%) SuccessFactors
13 8 (1.59%) Azure Data Factory
13 8 (1.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.18%) Wi-Fi
2 9 (1.79%) Firewall
3 7 (1.39%) DNS
3 7 (1.39%) Wireless
4 6 (1.19%) DHCP
4 6 (1.19%) VPN
5 5 (0.99%) Network Security
6 4 (0.79%) Cisco IPT
6 4 (0.79%) Ethernet
6 4 (0.79%) Software-Defined Radio
6 4 (0.79%) WAN
7 3 (0.60%) LAN
7 3 (0.60%) MPLS
7 3 (0.60%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.40%) BGP
8 2 (0.40%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (0.40%) Ethernet VPN
8 2 (0.40%) OSPF
8 2 (0.40%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.40%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (10.71%) Power BI
2 10 (1.98%) Metadata
3 8 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (1.19%) Relational Database
6 5 (0.99%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 5 (0.99%) SQL Server
7 3 (0.60%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.60%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (0.60%) Redis
7 3 (0.60%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (0.40%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.40%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.20%) KDB
9 1 (0.20%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.20%) SAP Data Services
9 1 (0.20%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (4.17%) JIRA
2 19 (3.77%) Jenkins
3 13 (2.58%) GitLab
4 10 (1.98%) Git
4 10 (1.98%) JUnit
4 10 (1.98%) Mockito
5 7 (1.39%) Liquibase
5 7 (1.39%) Rational DOORS
6 5 (0.99%) Gradle
7 4 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.40%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.40%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.40%) Flyway
8 2 (0.40%) git-flow
8 2 (0.40%) Rational Rhapsody
9 1 (0.20%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.20%) JMeter
9 1 (0.20%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.20%) Postman
General
1 134 (26.59%) Finance
2 127 (25.20%) Social Skills
3 94 (18.65%) Legal
4 70 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
5 60 (11.90%) Public Sector
6 38 (7.54%) Police
7 26 (5.16%) Influencing Skills
8 17 (3.37%) Manufacturing
9 16 (3.17%) Banking
10 14 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 10 (1.98%) Marketing
12 9 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.19%) Aviation
14 6 (1.19%) Electronics
14 6 (1.19%) Front Office
14 6 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (1.19%) Social Science
15 5 (0.99%) Legal Technology
16 3 (0.60%) German Language
Job Titles
1 71 (14.09%) Lead
2 62 (12.30%) Analyst
3 58 (11.51%) Senior
4 44 (8.73%) Architect
5 38 (7.54%) Developer
6 30 (5.95%) Functional Architect
6 30 (5.95%) Lead Architect
6 30 (5.95%) Project Manager
7 23 (4.56%) Consultant
7 23 (4.56%) Software Engineer
8 19 (3.77%) IT Trainer
8 19 (3.77%) Trainer
9 17 (3.37%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
10 16 (3.17%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
10 16 (3.17%) Senior IT Trainer
11 15 (2.98%) Business Analyst
11 15 (2.98%) IT Manager
12 14 (2.78%) IT Analyst
12 14 (2.78%) Support Analyst
12 14 (2.78%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.77%) REST
2 15 (2.98%) Terraform
3 13 (2.58%) Kafka
4 12 (2.38%) React
5 10 (1.98%) Spring
5 10 (1.98%) Spring Boot
6 8 (1.59%) RESTful
7 7 (1.39%) OpenAPI
7 7 (1.39%) Swagger
8 6 (1.19%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (1.19%) SOAP
9 5 (0.99%) Spring Cloud
10 4 (0.79%) JSON
10 4 (0.79%) Middleware
10 4 (0.79%) Next.js
11 3 (0.60%) .NET
11 3 (0.60%) LangChain
11 3 (0.60%) Oracle Fusion
11 3 (0.60%) PySpark
12 2 (0.40%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 19 (3.77%) Onboarding
2 17 (3.37%) Cloud Native
3 16 (3.17%) Management Information System
4 11 (2.18%) Product Ownership
5 9 (1.79%) Social Media
6 8 (1.59%) CCTV
6 8 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (1.39%) Data Centre
7 7 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (1.39%) Robotics
8 5 (0.99%) AI Agents
8 5 (0.99%) Algorithms
8 5 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (0.99%) Fixed Income
8 5 (0.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (0.99%) FPGA
8 5 (0.99%) Low-Code
8 5 (0.99%) Security Posture
8 5 (0.99%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 36 (7.14%) Windows
2 18 (3.57%) Linux
3 16 (3.17%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.19%) Windows 10
5 5 (0.99%) FreeRTOS
6 2 (0.40%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.40%) Unix
6 2 (0.40%) VMS
6 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (17.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 79 (15.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 78 (15.48%) Agile
3 78 (15.48%) Migration
4 77 (15.28%) Continuous Improvement
5 62 (12.30%) Problem-Solving
6 56 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
7 52 (10.32%) AI
8 48 (9.52%) CI/CD
8 48 (9.52%) Data Migration
9 46 (9.13%) ERP
10 43 (8.53%) User Acceptance Testing
11 42 (8.33%) Software Engineering
12 41 (8.13%) DevOps
13 40 (7.94%) Change Management
13 40 (7.94%) Translating Business Requirements
14 36 (7.14%) Validation
15 35 (6.94%) Procure-to-Pay
16 34 (6.75%) Architectural Design
17 33 (6.55%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 37 (7.34%) Python
2 34 (6.75%) SQL
3 21 (4.17%) Java
4 14 (2.78%) C
5 13 (2.58%) C++
5 13 (2.58%) TypeScript
6 12 (2.38%) PowerShell
7 10 (1.98%) Bash
8 7 (1.39%) JavaScript
9 6 (1.19%) Ada
10 5 (0.99%) C#
11 4 (0.79%) Embedded C
11 4 (0.79%) SOQL
11 4 (0.79%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.40%) MATLAB
12 2 (0.40%) PromQL
13 1 (0.20%) Bicep
13 1 (0.20%) Rust
13 1 (0.20%) SystemVerilog
13 1 (0.20%) VBA
Qualifications
1 107 (21.23%) Security Cleared
2 82 (16.27%) SC Cleared
3 50 (9.92%) Degree
4 31 (6.15%) DV Cleared
5 9 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (1.59%) PMI Certification
7 7 (1.39%) CISSP
8 6 (1.19%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.19%) CISM
8 6 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (0.99%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.79%) PMP
11 3 (0.60%) IIBA
12 2 (0.40%) CBAP
12 2 (0.40%) CEH
12 2 (0.40%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 24 (4.76%) QA
3 14 (2.78%) GDPR
4 9 (1.79%) GRC
5 8 (1.59%) NCSC
6 6 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 5 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.99%) NIST
8 4 (0.79%) Def Stans
8 4 (0.79%) Government Security Classifications
8 4 (0.79%) MISRA
9 3 (0.60%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.60%) DO-178B
10 2 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.40%) PERC
10 2 (0.40%) PMO
11 1 (0.20%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.20%) MISRA C
11 1 (0.20%) Solvency II
System Software
1 21 (4.17%) Docker
2 20 (3.97%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.39%) Hyper-V
4 6 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.79%) Firmware
6 2 (0.40%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.20%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 20 (3.97%) Kubernetes
2 14 (2.78%) Ansible
3 9 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (1.59%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.19%) Grafana
5 6 (1.19%) SCCM
6 2 (0.40%) Consul
6 2 (0.40%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.40%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (0.40%) Kibana
6 2 (0.40%) PowerCLI
6 2 (0.40%) Puppet
6 2 (0.40%) Salt
6 2 (0.40%) SCOM
6 2 (0.40%) Zipkin
7 1 (0.20%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.20%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.20%) QRadar
Vendors
1 102 (20.24%) Microsoft
2 22 (4.37%) SAP
3 16 (3.17%) ServiceNow
4 13 (2.58%) Cisco
5 10 (1.98%) Aderant
5 10 (1.98%) Intapp
5 10 (1.98%) Oracle
6 9 (1.79%) Workday
7 8 (1.59%) iManage
8 7 (1.39%) Google
9 6 (1.19%) Foundry
9 6 (1.19%) IBM
9 6 (1.19%) Litera
9 6 (1.19%) Palo Alto
9 6 (1.19%) VMware
10 5 (0.99%) Fortinet
10 5 (0.99%) Salesforce
10 5 (0.99%) Solace
10 5 (0.99%) Splunk
10 5 (0.99%) UiPath