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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 237 209 218
Rank change year-on-year -28 +9 -61
Contract jobs citing Law 430 292 388
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.05% 1.20% 1.07%
As % of the General category 1.93% 1.88% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 175 245
10th Percentile £350 £265 £263
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £616 £675
90th Percentile £725 £745 £808
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 9 27
10th Percentile £16.85 £28.73 £10.42
25th Percentile £17.11 £30.00 £11.91
Median hourly rate £17.73 £30.20 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.31% +132.31% -35.00%
75th Percentile £25.77 £81.01 £27.96
90th Percentile £43.38 £81.08 £32.50
UK median hourly rate £17.73 £55.00 £14.32
% change year-on-year -67.77% +284.21% -28.43%

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 22,227 15,558 21,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.06% 64.07% 58.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,740 10,063 13,655
10th Percentile £310 £290 £281
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £510 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -1.45% -1.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,470 682 1,778
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.79 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.01 £16.95 £15.44
Median hourly rate £30.58 £27.50 £30.14
Median % change year-on-year +11.20% -8.76% -6.25%
75th Percentile £61.18 £55.25 £51.91
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £66.40
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -7.69%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 May 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 +13 217 £525 - 298
South East -43 53 £500 -0.10% 84
North of England -42 52 £449 -3.03% 70
Midlands -74 45 £425 -19.05% 46
East of England -11 29 £488 -7.14% 24
West Midlands -59 27 £600 +9.09% 30
North West -31 26 £463 +8.82% 43
Yorkshire -47 22 £435 -16.07% 18
South West -32 20 £500 +122.22% 19
East Midlands -32 17 £175 -65.00% 16
North East -20 4 - - 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 16 (3.72%) SharePoint
2 10 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.93%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (0.70%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.47%) Confluence
6 1 (0.23%) Apache
6 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.23%) CMS
6 1 (0.23%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 15 (3.49%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.47%) Simulink
5 1 (0.23%) PTC Creo
5 1 (0.23%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 4 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.93%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (0.47%) Maximo
2 2 (0.47%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (0.47%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.23%) Aareon QL
3 1 (0.23%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.23%) Magento
3 1 (0.23%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (0.23%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.23%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.23%) OPENHousing
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.23%) Orchard Housing
3 1 (0.23%) Primavera
3 1 (0.23%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 57 (13.26%) Power Platform
2 56 (13.02%) Azure
3 34 (7.91%) Dynamics 365
4 26 (6.05%) Microsoft 365
5 23 (5.35%) AWS
6 15 (3.49%) SaaS
7 14 (3.26%) Microsoft Copilot
8 11 (2.56%) Power Automate
9 8 (1.86%) Azure Data Factory
9 8 (1.86%) Entra ID
9 8 (1.86%) GCP
10 7 (1.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 7 (1.63%) Serverless
11 6 (1.40%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (1.40%) Azure Logic Apps
11 6 (1.40%) GitHub
12 5 (1.16%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (1.16%) IaaS
12 5 (1.16%) PaaS
13 4 (0.93%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.56%) Firewall
2 9 (2.09%) DNS
3 8 (1.86%) SD-WAN
3 8 (1.86%) WAN
3 8 (1.86%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (1.40%) LAN
4 6 (1.40%) Network Security
4 6 (1.40%) VPN
5 5 (1.16%) DHCP
5 5 (1.16%) Ethernet
5 5 (1.16%) MPLS
5 5 (1.16%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.93%) Software-Defined Radio
6 4 (0.93%) Wireless
7 3 (0.70%) Cisco IPT
7 3 (0.70%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.47%) Internet
8 2 (0.47%) Intranet
8 2 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.47%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (11.16%) Power BI
2 7 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (1.40%) Metadata
4 5 (1.16%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 4 (0.93%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (0.93%) Snowflake Schema
5 4 (0.93%) SQL Server
6 3 (0.70%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.47%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (0.47%) Amazon QuickSight
7 2 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.47%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.23%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.23%) KDB
8 1 (0.23%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.23%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.23%) SAP Data Services
8 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (3.95%) JIRA
2 10 (2.33%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.86%) Git
3 8 (1.86%) GitLab
4 6 (1.40%) JUnit
4 6 (1.40%) Mockito
4 6 (1.40%) Rational DOORS
5 4 (0.93%) Gradle
5 4 (0.93%) Liquibase
6 3 (0.70%) CircleCI
6 3 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.47%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.47%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.23%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.23%) MLflow
8 1 (0.23%) Rational Rhapsody
8 1 (0.23%) Selenium
8 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.23%) Vite
8 1 (0.23%) WebDriver
General
1 116 (26.98%) Finance
2 113 (26.28%) Social Skills
3 93 (21.63%) Legal
4 54 (12.56%) Analytical Skills
5 52 (12.09%) Public Sector
6 28 (6.51%) Police
7 18 (4.19%) Influencing Skills
8 15 (3.49%) Manufacturing
9 14 (3.26%) Banking
10 13 (3.02%) Marketing
11 7 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (1.40%) Aviation
12 6 (1.40%) Billing
13 5 (1.16%) Front Office
13 5 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.16%) Publishing
14 4 (0.93%) Military
14 4 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 59 (13.72%) Architect
2 55 (12.79%) Analyst
3 53 (12.33%) Lead
4 52 (12.09%) Senior
5 31 (7.21%) Functional Architect
5 31 (7.21%) Lead Architect
6 28 (6.51%) Software Engineer
7 26 (6.05%) Project Manager
8 24 (5.58%) Developer
9 20 (4.65%) Consultant
10 19 (4.42%) Business Analyst
11 17 (3.95%) Support Engineer
12 16 (3.72%) Senior Manager
13 13 (3.02%) IT Analyst
14 12 (2.79%) Business Manager
15 11 (2.56%) Commercial Manager
16 10 (2.33%) Administrator
16 10 (2.33%) IT Support
16 10 (2.33%) Java Engineer
16 10 (2.33%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (2.56%) Kafka
2 10 (2.33%) Middleware
3 7 (1.63%) React
4 6 (1.40%) Spring
4 6 (1.40%) Spring Boot
5 5 (1.16%) REST
6 4 (0.93%) OpenAPI
6 4 (0.93%) SOAP
6 4 (0.93%) Swagger
7 3 (0.70%) FIX Protocol
7 3 (0.70%) JSON
7 3 (0.70%) PySpark
7 3 (0.70%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (0.70%) RESTful
8 2 (0.47%) ARM Templates
8 2 (0.47%) CSS
8 2 (0.47%) HTML
8 2 (0.47%) SailPoint
8 2 (0.47%) Spring Cloud
8 2 (0.47%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (3.72%) Management Information System
2 13 (3.02%) Onboarding
3 9 (2.09%) AI Agents
3 9 (2.09%) Security Posture
4 8 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (1.86%) Product Ownership
4 8 (1.86%) Smartphone
5 7 (1.63%) Data Centre
5 7 (1.63%) Social Media
6 6 (1.40%) CCTV
6 6 (1.40%) FPGA
6 6 (1.40%) Robotics
7 5 (1.16%) Algorithms
7 5 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (0.93%) Data Structures
8 4 (0.93%) e-Learning
8 4 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (0.93%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 35 (8.14%) Windows
2 19 (4.42%) Linux
3 13 (3.02%) Windows 10
4 8 (1.86%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.16%) Unix
6 4 (0.93%) FreeRTOS
7 3 (0.70%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.23%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (17.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 67 (15.58%) Continuous Improvement
3 64 (14.88%) Migration
4 60 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
5 57 (13.26%) Agile
5 57 (13.26%) Stakeholder Management
6 52 (12.09%) Business Intelligence
7 47 (10.93%) Translating Business Requirements
8 46 (10.70%) AI
8 46 (10.70%) ERP
9 44 (10.23%) User Acceptance Testing
10 43 (10.00%) Data Migration
11 38 (8.84%) Architectural Design
11 38 (8.84%) Order to Cash
11 38 (8.84%) Software Engineering
12 36 (8.37%) Procure-to-Pay
13 34 (7.91%) Change Management
13 34 (7.91%) End-to-End Testing
13 34 (7.91%) Record to Report
14 28 (6.51%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 30 (6.98%) SQL
2 21 (4.88%) Java
3 15 (3.49%) Python
4 13 (3.02%) Ada
4 13 (3.02%) C
5 11 (2.56%) PowerShell
6 9 (2.09%) TypeScript
7 8 (1.86%) C#
8 7 (1.63%) JavaScript
9 5 (1.16%) Bash
9 5 (1.16%) C++
10 4 (0.93%) Embedded C
10 4 (0.93%) MATLAB
10 4 (0.93%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.70%) Go
11 3 (0.70%) Rust
11 3 (0.70%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.47%) Perl
12 2 (0.47%) SystemVerilog
13 1 (0.23%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 86 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 56 (13.02%) SC Cleared
3 50 (11.63%) Degree
4 23 (5.35%) DV Cleared
5 7 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.40%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.16%) PMI Certification
8 4 (0.93%) CISSP
9 3 (0.70%) CIPD
9 3 (0.70%) CISM
9 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.47%) CCNA
10 2 (0.47%) CEH
10 2 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.47%) GCIA
10 2 (0.47%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.47%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.47%) PMP
11 1 (0.23%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.42%) GDPR
2 18 (4.19%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (2.33%) QA
4 9 (2.09%) NCSC
5 7 (1.63%) NIST
6 6 (1.40%) GRC
7 5 (1.16%) Def Stans
8 4 (0.93%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.70%) IEC 61508
9 3 (0.70%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.70%) PSD2
9 3 (0.70%) SLA
10 2 (0.47%) ISO 22301
10 2 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 2 (0.47%) MISRA
10 2 (0.47%) PMO
11 1 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.23%) EU AI Act
11 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 27 (6.28%) Active Directory
2 14 (3.26%) Docker
3 5 (1.16%) Hyper-V
3 5 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.23%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (2.33%) Terraform
2 9 (2.09%) Ansible
2 9 (2.09%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.86%) SCCM
4 7 (1.63%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (1.16%) Grafana
6 3 (0.70%) Cisco Prime
7 2 (0.47%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.47%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.47%) Puppet
7 2 (0.47%) Salt
8 1 (0.23%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.23%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.23%) QRadar
Vendors
1 92 (21.40%) Microsoft
2 21 (4.88%) SAP
3 15 (3.49%) Oracle
4 9 (2.09%) Cisco
4 9 (2.09%) ServiceNow
4 9 (2.09%) Workday
5 7 (1.63%) Aruba
5 7 (1.63%) Fortinet
6 6 (1.40%) iManage
6 6 (1.40%) Palo Alto
6 6 (1.40%) Splunk
7 5 (1.16%) Databricks
7 5 (1.16%) IBM
7 5 (1.16%) Intapp
7 5 (1.16%) VMware
8 4 (0.93%) Juniper
8 4 (0.93%) MuleSoft
8 4 (0.93%) Salesforce
8 4 (0.93%) SolarWinds
9 3 (0.70%) MathWorks