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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 233 211 236
Rank change year-on-year -22 +25 -83
Contract jobs citing Law 468 303 367
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.10% 1.24% 0.99%
As % of the General category 2.03% 1.94% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 169 226
10th Percentile £356 £267 £263
25th Percentile £447 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £688
90th Percentile £711 £725 £814
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £535
% change year-on-year - -6.54% +0.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 16 28
10th Percentile - £12.21 £10.42
25th Percentile £17.11 £24.10 £11.93
Median hourly rate £24.29 £30.20 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.57% +132.31% -38.82%
75th Percentile £25.77 £68.75 £27.96
90th Percentile £55.83 £81.01 £32.50
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £40.59 £16.64
% change year-on-year -36.52% +143.91% -21.68%

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 23,088 15,652 21,315
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.44% 64.22% 57.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,118 10,057 13,646
10th Percentile £313 £281 £281
25th Percentile £413 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% -1.57% -3.03%
75th Percentile £630 £645 £650
90th Percentile £745 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,596 729 1,825
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.25 £12.88
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £28.15 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.45% -10.63% +3.14%
75th Percentile £63.75 £53.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £67.45
UK median hourly rate £31.46 £28.00 £30.06
% change year-on-year +12.36% -6.85% -5.83%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 9 June 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 -8 235 £518 - 266
North of England -41 67 £449 -0.33% 91
South East -28 56 £513 +7.89% 86
Midlands -62 45 £513 -2.38% 50
Yorkshire -35 37 £435 -22.60% 42
East of England -12 31 £469 +4.17% 19
West Midlands -60 30 £600 +9.09% 30
North West -31 26 £463 +12.12% 44
South West -22 20 £425 +88.89% 25
East Midlands -29 14 £175 -65.00% 20
North East -22 4 - - 5
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 17 (3.63%) SharePoint
2 11 (2.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.64%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.64%) Confluence
4 1 (0.21%) Apache
4 1 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.21%) CMS
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.21%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 16 (3.42%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.21%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.64%) Maximo
1 3 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (0.43%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.21%) Aareon QL
3 1 (0.21%) Hyperion Planning
3 1 (0.21%) Magento
3 1 (0.21%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (0.21%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.21%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.21%) OPENHousing
3 1 (0.21%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.21%) Orchard Housing
3 1 (0.21%) Primavera
3 1 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.21%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.21%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 62 (13.25%) Azure
2 59 (12.61%) Power Platform
3 34 (7.26%) Dynamics 365
4 29 (6.20%) AWS
5 24 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (3.63%) Microsoft Copilot
7 15 (3.21%) SaaS
8 12 (2.56%) GitHub
9 11 (2.35%) Power Automate
10 10 (2.14%) Entra ID
10 10 (2.14%) GCP
10 10 (2.14%) Serverless
11 8 (1.71%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (1.71%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (1.71%) PowerApps
12 7 (1.50%) Azure Data Factory
12 7 (1.50%) Azure Logic Apps
12 7 (1.50%) Copilot Studio
13 6 (1.28%) Azure AI
13 6 (1.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.56%) Wi-Fi
2 11 (2.35%) Firewall
3 9 (1.92%) DNS
4 8 (1.71%) SD-WAN
4 8 (1.71%) WAN
5 6 (1.28%) LAN
5 6 (1.28%) Network Security
5 6 (1.28%) VPN
6 5 (1.07%) DHCP
6 5 (1.07%) Ethernet
6 5 (1.07%) MPLS
6 5 (1.07%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.85%) Software-Defined Radio
7 4 (0.85%) Wireless
8 3 (0.64%) Cisco IPT
8 3 (0.64%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.43%) Ethernet VPN
9 2 (0.43%) Internet
9 2 (0.43%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.43%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (10.26%) Power BI
2 10 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (1.71%) SQL Server
4 7 (1.50%) Metadata
5 5 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.85%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.85%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (0.64%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.64%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (0.43%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.43%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.43%) Spark SQL
9 1 (0.21%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.21%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.21%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.21%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.21%) SAP Data Services
9 1 (0.21%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (3.85%) Jenkins
1 18 (3.85%) JIRA
2 12 (2.56%) GitLab
3 11 (2.35%) Git
4 9 (1.92%) JUnit
4 9 (1.92%) Mockito
5 7 (1.50%) Liquibase
6 6 (1.28%) Rational DOORS
7 5 (1.07%) Gradle
7 5 (1.07%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.64%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.43%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.43%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.43%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.43%) Flyway
9 2 (0.43%) git-flow
10 1 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.21%) Selenium
10 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.21%) WebDriver
General
1 131 (27.99%) Finance
2 125 (26.71%) Social Skills
3 99 (21.15%) Legal
4 58 (12.39%) Analytical Skills
5 55 (11.75%) Public Sector
6 30 (6.41%) Police
7 21 (4.49%) Banking
7 21 (4.49%) Influencing Skills
8 14 (2.99%) Manufacturing
9 13 (2.78%) Marketing
10 12 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (1.28%) Aviation
12 6 (1.28%) Front Office
12 6 (1.28%) Social Science
13 5 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.07%) Publishing
14 4 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.64%) Military
Job Titles
1 60 (12.82%) Lead
1 60 (12.82%) Senior
2 58 (12.39%) Analyst
2 58 (12.39%) Architect
3 33 (7.05%) Project Manager
4 31 (6.62%) Functional Architect
4 31 (6.62%) Lead Architect
5 29 (6.20%) Software Engineer
6 28 (5.98%) Developer
7 21 (4.49%) Consultant
8 20 (4.27%) Business Analyst
9 18 (3.85%) Support Engineer
10 17 (3.63%) Senior Manager
11 13 (2.78%) IT Analyst
12 12 (2.56%) IT Trainer
12 12 (2.56%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
12 12 (2.56%) Trainer
13 11 (2.35%) Java Software Engineer
13 11 (2.35%) Technical Engineer
13 11 (2.35%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (2.56%) Kafka
2 10 (2.14%) React
3 9 (1.92%) REST
3 9 (1.92%) Spring
3 9 (1.92%) Spring Boot
4 7 (1.50%) OpenAPI
4 7 (1.50%) Swagger
5 6 (1.28%) Middleware
6 5 (1.07%) RESTful
7 4 (0.85%) SOAP
7 4 (0.85%) Spring Cloud
8 3 (0.64%) FIX Protocol
8 3 (0.64%) JSON
8 3 (0.64%) PySpark
8 3 (0.64%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (0.43%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (0.43%) Gherkin
9 2 (0.43%) Loki
9 2 (0.43%) SailPoint
9 2 (0.43%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 15 (3.21%) Management Information System
2 14 (2.99%) Onboarding
3 10 (2.14%) AI Agents
3 10 (2.14%) Data Centre
3 10 (2.14%) Security Posture
4 9 (1.92%) Product Ownership
5 8 (1.71%) CCTV
5 8 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (1.50%) Robotics
6 7 (1.50%) Social Media
7 6 (1.28%) Cloud Native
7 6 (1.28%) Smartphone
8 5 (1.07%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.07%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (1.07%) FPGA
8 5 (1.07%) Low-Code
8 5 (1.07%) NHS
9 4 (0.85%) Cloud Security Posture
9 4 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (0.85%) PCIe
Operating Systems
1 37 (7.91%) Windows
2 23 (4.91%) Linux
3 11 (2.35%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.92%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.07%) Unix
6 4 (0.85%) FreeRTOS
7 2 (0.43%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.43%) VMS
8 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (17.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 71 (15.17%) Continuous Improvement
3 68 (14.53%) Agile
3 68 (14.53%) Migration
4 64 (13.68%) Stakeholder Management
5 61 (13.03%) Problem-Solving
6 56 (11.97%) AI
7 53 (11.32%) Business Intelligence
8 46 (9.83%) ERP
9 45 (9.62%) Data Migration
9 45 (9.62%) User Acceptance Testing
10 43 (9.19%) Translating Business Requirements
11 39 (8.33%) Software Engineering
12 38 (8.12%) Architectural Design
12 38 (8.12%) Change Management
13 37 (7.91%) CI/CD
14 36 (7.69%) Procure-to-Pay
15 35 (7.48%) End-to-End Testing
15 35 (7.48%) Order to Cash
16 34 (7.26%) Record to Report
Programming Languages
1 32 (6.84%) SQL
2 25 (5.34%) Java
3 19 (4.06%) Python
4 15 (3.21%) PowerShell
5 13 (2.78%) Ada
6 12 (2.56%) C
7 11 (2.35%) TypeScript
8 10 (2.14%) Bash
9 9 (1.92%) C#
10 8 (1.71%) JavaScript
11 5 (1.07%) C++
12 4 (0.85%) Embedded C
12 4 (0.85%) MATLAB
13 3 (0.64%) Go
13 3 (0.64%) Rust
13 3 (0.64%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.64%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.43%) Bicep
14 2 (0.43%) Perl
14 2 (0.43%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 96 (20.51%) Security Cleared
2 63 (13.46%) SC Cleared
3 54 (11.54%) Degree
4 22 (4.70%) DV Cleared
5 10 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.28%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.28%) PMI Certification
8 4 (0.85%) CISSP
9 3 (0.64%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.64%) CIPD
9 3 (0.64%) CISM
9 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.64%) PMP
10 2 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.43%) CCNA
10 2 (0.43%) CEH
10 2 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.43%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.06%) Data Quality
2 18 (3.85%) GDPR
3 13 (2.78%) QA
4 9 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (1.92%) NCSC
5 8 (1.71%) GRC
6 6 (1.28%) NIST
7 5 (1.07%) Def Stans
7 5 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 4 (0.85%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.64%) IEC 61508
9 3 (0.64%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.64%) PMO
9 3 (0.64%) PSD2
9 3 (0.64%) SLA
10 2 (0.43%) ISO 22301
10 2 (0.43%) MISRA
11 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.21%) MISRA C
11 1 (0.21%) P3O
System Software
1 24 (5.13%) Active Directory
2 19 (4.06%) Docker
3 7 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.07%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.43%) Firmware
5 2 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.21%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 15 (3.21%) Kubernetes
1 15 (3.21%) Terraform
2 13 (2.78%) Ansible
3 9 (1.92%) Grafana
4 8 (1.71%) Prometheus
5 7 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (1.28%) SCCM
7 3 (0.64%) Cisco Prime
8 2 (0.43%) Consul
8 2 (0.43%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.43%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.43%) PowerCLI
8 2 (0.43%) Puppet
8 2 (0.43%) Salt
8 2 (0.43%) Zipkin
9 1 (0.21%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.21%) QRadar
Vendors
1 97 (20.73%) Microsoft
2 24 (5.13%) SAP
3 14 (2.99%) Oracle
4 11 (2.35%) Cisco
5 10 (2.14%) ServiceNow
6 9 (1.92%) Workday
7 8 (1.71%) Splunk
8 7 (1.50%) Aruba
8 7 (1.50%) Fortinet
8 7 (1.50%) IBM
8 7 (1.50%) VMware
9 6 (1.28%) iManage
9 6 (1.28%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.07%) Databricks
10 5 (1.07%) Foundry
10 5 (1.07%) Intapp
11 4 (0.85%) Black Duck
11 4 (0.85%) Juniper
11 4 (0.85%) Solace
11 4 (0.85%) SolarWinds