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

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 207 184
Rank change year-on-year -31 -23 -26
Contract jobs citing Law 414 307 481
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.04% 1.25% 1.29%
As % of the General category 1.87% 1.96% 2.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 190 288
10th Percentile £325 £262 £261
25th Percentile £425 £413 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £509 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.72% -7.50% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £768
UK median daily rate £500 £501 £550
% change year-on-year -0.10% -9.00% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 9 27
10th Percentile £16.42 £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% -46.08%
75th Percentile £36.25 £81.01 £27.96
90th Percentile £55.80 £81.08 £32.50
UK median hourly rate £17.73 £55.00 £14.32
% change year-on-year -67.77% +284.21% -40.63%

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 22,084 15,674 21,735
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.27% 64.06% 58.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,833 10,196 14,043
10th Percentile £305 £300 £275
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,432 674 1,773
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.08 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.26 £17.44 £15.39
Median hourly rate £30.08 £28.18 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.72% -6.07% -13.82%
75th Percentile £61.31 £58.71 £51.25
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £28.17 £28.50
% change year-on-year +2.96% -1.18% -18.57%

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 26 April 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 26 April 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 26 April 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 -3 221 £525 - 224
Midlands -71 46 £456 -13.10% 35
North of England -51 45 £436 -3.11% 91
South East -55 42 £500 -0.10% 101
West Midlands -69 30 £588 +11.90% 24
East of England -16 29 £431 -17.86% 27
North West -24 27 £475 +15.15% 54
South West -26 20 £525 +133.33% 23
Yorkshire -54 17 £400 -15.79% 28
East Midlands -41 15 £175 -65.00% 11
North East -18 1 - - 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 18 (4.35%) SharePoint
2 10 (2.42%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.97%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (0.72%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.72%) CMS
5 1 (0.24%) Apache
5 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.24%) Confluence
5 1 (0.24%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 13 (3.14%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (2.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.24%) PTC Creo
5 1 (0.24%) Simulink
5 1 (0.24%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 6 (1.45%) Elite 3E
2 5 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.21%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.48%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.48%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.48%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.24%) Aareon QL
4 1 (0.24%) Magento
4 1 (0.24%) Maximo
4 1 (0.24%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.24%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.24%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.24%) OPENHousing
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle SCM
4 1 (0.24%) Orchard Housing
4 1 (0.24%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.24%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 62 (14.98%) Azure
2 57 (13.77%) Power Platform
3 35 (8.45%) Dynamics 365
4 27 (6.52%) AWS
5 23 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (3.62%) SaaS
7 11 (2.66%) Microsoft Copilot
8 10 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (2.42%) Power Automate
9 8 (1.93%) Azure Data Factory
9 8 (1.93%) Azure Logic Apps
9 8 (1.93%) Entra ID
9 8 (1.93%) GCP
10 7 (1.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 7 (1.69%) GitHub
11 6 (1.45%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (1.21%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (1.21%) Serverless
13 4 (0.97%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (0.97%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.66%) Firewall
2 8 (1.93%) DNS
2 8 (1.93%) SD-WAN
2 8 (1.93%) VPN
2 8 (1.93%) WAN
3 7 (1.69%) LAN
4 5 (1.21%) Ethernet
4 5 (1.21%) MPLS
4 5 (1.21%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.97%) DHCP
5 4 (0.97%) Intranet
5 4 (0.97%) Network Security
5 4 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (0.97%) Wireless
6 3 (0.72%) Cisco IPT
6 3 (0.72%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (0.72%) Software-Defined Radio
7 2 (0.48%) Ethernet VPN
7 2 (0.48%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.48%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (11.59%) Power BI
2 6 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (1.45%) Metadata
2 6 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (1.21%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 4 (0.97%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (0.97%) Snowflake Schema
4 4 (0.97%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.72%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.48%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (0.48%) Amazon QuickSight
6 2 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.48%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.24%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.24%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.24%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.24%) SAP Data Services
7 1 (0.24%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (4.59%) JIRA
2 11 (2.66%) Git
3 8 (1.93%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.69%) GitLab
5 6 (1.45%) Rational DOORS
6 4 (0.97%) JUnit
6 4 (0.97%) Mockito
7 3 (0.72%) CircleCI
7 3 (0.72%) Gradle
7 3 (0.72%) Liquibase
7 3 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.48%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.48%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.48%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.48%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.24%) PVCS
9 1 (0.24%) Rational Rhapsody
9 1 (0.24%) Selenium
9 1 (0.24%) TestRail
9 1 (0.24%) WebDriver
General
1 118 (28.50%) Social Skills
2 117 (28.26%) Finance
3 95 (22.95%) Legal
4 46 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 20 (4.83%) Police
6 15 (3.62%) Marketing
7 13 (3.14%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (2.66%) Manufacturing
9 9 (2.17%) Banking
9 9 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.45%) Billing
12 5 (1.21%) Military
12 5 (1.21%) Publishing
13 4 (0.97%) Retail
14 3 (0.72%) Electronics
14 3 (0.72%) German Language
14 3 (0.72%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 61 (14.73%) Architect
2 51 (12.32%) Analyst
3 49 (11.84%) Lead
4 44 (10.63%) Senior
5 31 (7.49%) Functional Architect
5 31 (7.49%) Lead Architect
6 29 (7.00%) Software Engineer
7 25 (6.04%) Project Manager
8 22 (5.31%) Developer
9 20 (4.83%) Consultant
10 17 (4.11%) Business Analyst
11 16 (3.86%) Senior Manager
12 11 (2.66%) Business Manager
12 11 (2.66%) Commercial Manager
12 11 (2.66%) IT Analyst
12 11 (2.66%) Support Engineer
13 10 (2.42%) Solutions Architect
14 9 (2.17%) Java Engineer
14 9 (2.17%) Java Software Engineer
15 8 (1.93%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.42%) Middleware
2 7 (1.69%) Kafka
2 7 (1.69%) REST
3 6 (1.45%) SOAP
4 5 (1.21%) Spring
4 5 (1.21%) Spring Boot
5 4 (0.97%) ARM Templates
5 4 (0.97%) React
6 3 (0.72%) FIX Protocol
6 3 (0.72%) OpenAPI
6 3 (0.72%) PySpark
6 3 (0.72%) Swagger
6 3 (0.72%) Web Services
7 2 (0.48%) IDoc
7 2 (0.48%) JSON
7 2 (0.48%) Node.js
7 2 (0.48%) RESTful
7 2 (0.48%) SailPoint
7 2 (0.48%) SAP ALE
8 1 (0.24%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 18 (4.35%) Management Information System
2 14 (3.38%) Onboarding
3 11 (2.66%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (1.93%) AI Agents
4 8 (1.93%) Security Posture
5 7 (1.69%) Data Centre
5 7 (1.69%) Product Ownership
6 6 (1.45%) Smartphone
7 5 (1.21%) Algorithms
7 5 (1.21%) Low-Code
8 4 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (0.97%) CCTV
8 4 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (0.97%) Data Structures
8 4 (0.97%) FPGA
8 4 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (0.97%) Social Media
8 4 (0.97%) Taxonomies
9 3 (0.72%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 32 (7.73%) Windows
2 16 (3.86%) Linux
3 12 (2.90%) Windows 10
4 6 (1.45%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.72%) FreeRTOS
5 3 (0.72%) Unix
6 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.24%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (17.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 68 (16.43%) Migration
3 61 (14.73%) Continuous Improvement
4 56 (13.53%) Agile
4 56 (13.53%) Stakeholder Management
5 53 (12.80%) Problem-Solving
6 51 (12.32%) Business Intelligence
7 48 (11.59%) User Acceptance Testing
8 45 (10.87%) ERP
9 43 (10.39%) Data Migration
9 43 (10.39%) Translating Business Requirements
10 39 (9.42%) AI
10 39 (9.42%) Order to Cash
11 38 (9.18%) Architectural Design
11 38 (9.18%) Software Engineering
12 36 (8.70%) Procure-to-Pay
13 35 (8.45%) Record to Report
14 34 (8.21%) End-to-End Testing
15 32 (7.73%) Change Management
16 31 (7.49%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 31 (7.49%) SQL
2 22 (5.31%) Java
3 13 (3.14%) Ada
4 12 (2.90%) C
4 12 (2.90%) Python
5 9 (2.17%) C#
6 8 (1.93%) JavaScript
6 8 (1.93%) PowerShell
7 7 (1.69%) C++
8 6 (1.45%) TypeScript
9 5 (1.21%) Bash
10 4 (0.97%) MATLAB
10 4 (0.97%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.72%) Embedded C
11 3 (0.72%) Go
11 3 (0.72%) Rust
11 3 (0.72%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.48%) ABAP
12 2 (0.48%) Bicep
12 2 (0.48%) Perl
Qualifications
1 82 (19.81%) Security Cleared
2 55 (13.29%) SC Cleared
3 49 (11.84%) Degree
4 19 (4.59%) DV Cleared
5 9 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.45%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.21%) CIPD
7 5 (1.21%) CISSP
8 3 (0.72%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.48%) ACCA
9 2 (0.48%) CCNA
9 2 (0.48%) CIMA
9 2 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.48%) CISM
9 2 (0.48%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.48%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.24%) CompTIA CySA+
10 1 (0.24%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.59%) Data Quality
2 18 (4.35%) GDPR
3 12 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (2.90%) QA
4 9 (2.17%) NIST
5 8 (1.93%) NCSC
6 7 (1.69%) GRC
7 6 (1.45%) Accessibility
8 5 (1.21%) Def Stans
9 4 (0.97%) SLA
10 3 (0.72%) IEC 61508
10 3 (0.72%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.72%) PSD2
11 2 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 2 (0.48%) MISRA
11 2 (0.48%) PMO
12 1 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.24%) EU AI Act
12 1 (0.24%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.24%) MISRA C
System Software
1 25 (6.04%) Active Directory
2 11 (2.66%) Docker
3 4 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.72%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.24%) Firmware
5 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (2.90%) Terraform
2 8 (1.93%) Ansible
3 7 (1.69%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (1.69%) SCCM
4 5 (1.21%) Grafana
5 3 (0.72%) Cisco Prime
6 2 (0.48%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.48%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.48%) Puppet
6 2 (0.48%) Salt
7 1 (0.24%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 90 (21.74%) Microsoft
2 21 (5.07%) SAP
3 16 (3.86%) Oracle
4 13 (3.14%) ServiceNow
5 11 (2.66%) Intapp
6 9 (2.17%) Cisco
6 9 (2.17%) iManage
7 7 (1.69%) Aruba
7 7 (1.69%) Fortinet
7 7 (1.69%) Workday
8 6 (1.45%) Databricks
8 6 (1.45%) IBM
8 6 (1.45%) Palo Alto
9 5 (1.21%) Aderant
9 5 (1.21%) MuleSoft
9 5 (1.21%) Salesforce
10 4 (0.97%) Juniper
10 4 (0.97%) SolarWinds
10 4 (0.97%) VMware
11 3 (0.72%) MathWorks