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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 235 241 235
Rank change year-on-year +6 -6 -67
Contract jobs citing Law 502 310 339
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.10% 1.14% 1.04%
As % of the General category 1.98% 1.77% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 153 166
10th Percentile £358 £225 £263
25th Percentile £463 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +3.29%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £675
90th Percentile £750 £725 £794
UK median daily rate £525 £511 £550
% change year-on-year +2.69% -7.05% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 25 10
10th Percentile £13.89 £12.21 £18.20
25th Percentile £17.11 £13.46 £20.50
Median hourly rate £17.73 £27.28 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.03% +24.00% +22.22%
75th Percentile £25.77 £40.46 £27.96
90th Percentile £59.00 £68.75 £29.38
UK median hourly rate £17.73 £40.46 £24.49
% change year-on-year -56.19% +65.24% +36.03%

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 25,305 17,531 18,851
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.45% 64.41% 57.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,011 11,116 11,810
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £423 £400 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
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 2,046 981 1,038
10th Percentile £13.99 £13.46 £14.55
25th Percentile £17.25 £16.17 £18.00
Median hourly rate £31.50 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +25.25% -34.02% +38.62%
75th Percentile £57.00 £50.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £72.50 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £30.50 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +21.27% -32.93% +36.36%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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 4 September 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 -4 260 £550 -2.22% 3,528
North of England -28 84 £495 +6.92% 339
South East -58 48 £525 +7.14% 336
East of England +6 46 £450 - 168
Yorkshire -8 45 £441 -21.60% 76
Midlands -46 37 £438 -23.25% 176
North West -36 35 £525 +16.67% 229
West Midlands -49 25 £600 +4.35% 96
South West -48 12 £350 -33.65% 307
East Midlands -18 11 £200 -48.05% 80
North East -34 4 - - 35
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 (2.79%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.20%) 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%) IIS
5 1 (0.20%) Mendix
5 1 (0.20%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 19 (3.78%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.80%) 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 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.80%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (0.60%) Maximo
3 3 (0.60%) Oracle SCM
4 2 (0.40%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.40%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.20%) Hyperion Planning
5 1 (0.20%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.20%) Magento
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.20%) Primavera
5 1 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 70 (13.94%) Azure
2 64 (12.75%) Power Platform
3 44 (8.76%) AWS
4 35 (6.97%) Dynamics 365
5 27 (5.38%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (3.39%) SaaS
7 16 (3.19%) GitHub
8 15 (2.99%) Entra ID
9 13 (2.59%) Microsoft Copilot
9 13 (2.59%) Power Automate
9 13 (2.59%) Serverless
10 12 (2.39%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (2.39%) GCP
10 12 (2.39%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (1.99%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (1.99%) PowerApps
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 (2.19%) Wi-Fi
2 9 (1.79%) Firewall
3 7 (1.39%) DNS
3 7 (1.39%) Wireless
4 6 (1.20%) DHCP
4 6 (1.20%) VPN
5 5 (1.00%) Network Security
6 4 (0.80%) Cisco IPT
6 4 (0.80%) Ethernet
6 4 (0.80%) Software-Defined Radio
6 4 (0.80%) WAN
7 3 (0.60%) Broadband
7 3 (0.60%) LAN
7 3 (0.60%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.40%) BGP
8 2 (0.40%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (0.40%) MPLS
8 2 (0.40%) OSPF
8 2 (0.40%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.40%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (10.76%) Power BI
2 10 (1.99%) Metadata
3 8 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (1.20%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 5 (1.00%) 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%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.20%) KDB
9 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.20%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (4.18%) JIRA
2 19 (3.78%) Jenkins
3 13 (2.59%) GitLab
4 11 (2.19%) Git
5 10 (1.99%) JUnit
5 10 (1.99%) Mockito
6 7 (1.39%) Liquibase
6 7 (1.39%) Rational DOORS
7 5 (1.00%) Gradle
8 4 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.40%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.40%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.40%) Flyway
9 2 (0.40%) git-flow
9 2 (0.40%) Rational Rhapsody
10 1 (0.20%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.20%) JMeter
10 1 (0.20%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.20%) Postman
General
1 132 (26.29%) Finance
2 126 (25.10%) Social Skills
3 93 (18.53%) Legal
4 68 (13.55%) Analytical Skills
5 60 (11.95%) Public Sector
6 37 (7.37%) Police
7 25 (4.98%) Influencing Skills
8 17 (3.39%) Banking
8 17 (3.39%) Manufacturing
9 14 (2.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (2.19%) Marketing
11 9 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.39%) Front Office
13 6 (1.20%) Aviation
13 6 (1.20%) Electronics
13 6 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (1.20%) Social Science
14 5 (1.00%) Legal Technology
15 3 (0.60%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 69 (13.75%) Lead
2 59 (11.75%) Analyst
3 57 (11.35%) Senior
4 45 (8.96%) Architect
5 39 (7.77%) Developer
6 30 (5.98%) Project Manager
7 29 (5.78%) Functional Architect
7 29 (5.78%) Lead Architect
8 23 (4.58%) Software Engineer
9 22 (4.38%) Consultant
10 19 (3.78%) IT Trainer
10 19 (3.78%) Trainer
11 17 (3.39%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
12 16 (3.19%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
12 16 (3.19%) Senior IT Trainer
13 15 (2.99%) IT Manager
14 14 (2.79%) Business Analyst
14 14 (2.79%) Support Analyst
14 14 (2.79%) Support Engineer
15 13 (2.59%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.98%) REST
2 16 (3.19%) Terraform
3 13 (2.59%) Kafka
4 12 (2.39%) React
5 10 (1.99%) Spring
5 10 (1.99%) Spring Boot
6 8 (1.59%) RESTful
7 7 (1.39%) OpenAPI
7 7 (1.39%) Swagger
8 6 (1.20%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (1.20%) SOAP
9 5 (1.00%) JSON
9 5 (1.00%) Spring Cloud
10 4 (0.80%) Middleware
10 4 (0.80%) 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%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 19 (3.78%) Onboarding
2 18 (3.59%) Cloud Native
3 15 (2.99%) Management Information System
4 12 (2.39%) Product Ownership
5 10 (1.99%) Social Media
6 9 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (1.59%) CCTV
7 8 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (1.39%) Robotics
9 6 (1.20%) Data Centre
9 6 (1.20%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.00%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.00%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.00%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.00%) Fixed Income
10 5 (1.00%) FPGA
10 5 (1.00%) Low-Code
10 5 (1.00%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 38 (7.57%) Windows
2 17 (3.39%) Linux
2 17 (3.39%) Windows Server
3 6 (1.20%) Windows 10
4 5 (1.00%) FreeRTOS
5 2 (0.40%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.40%) Unix
5 2 (0.40%) VMS
5 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (16.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 81 (16.14%) Stakeholder Management
3 79 (15.74%) Agile
4 77 (15.34%) Continuous Improvement
5 75 (14.94%) Migration
6 63 (12.55%) Problem-Solving
7 56 (11.16%) Business Intelligence
8 53 (10.56%) AI
9 49 (9.76%) CI/CD
10 46 (9.16%) Data Migration
11 44 (8.76%) ERP
11 44 (8.76%) Software Engineering
12 41 (8.17%) DevOps
13 40 (7.97%) User Acceptance Testing
14 39 (7.77%) Change Management
14 39 (7.77%) Translating Business Requirements
15 36 (7.17%) Validation
16 33 (6.57%) Architectural Design
16 33 (6.57%) Procure-to-Pay
17 32 (6.37%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (8.17%) Python
2 35 (6.97%) SQL
3 21 (4.18%) Java
4 13 (2.59%) C
4 13 (2.59%) PowerShell
4 13 (2.59%) TypeScript
5 12 (2.39%) C++
6 10 (1.99%) Bash
7 7 (1.39%) JavaScript
8 6 (1.20%) Ada
9 5 (1.00%) C#
10 4 (0.80%) Embedded C
10 4 (0.80%) SOQL
10 4 (0.80%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.40%) PromQL
12 1 (0.20%) Bicep
12 1 (0.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.20%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.20%) Rust
12 1 (0.20%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 108 (21.51%) Security Cleared
2 82 (16.33%) SC Cleared
3 48 (9.56%) Degree
4 34 (6.77%) DV Cleared
5 9 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (1.79%) PMI Certification
6 7 (1.39%) CISSP
7 6 (1.20%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.20%) CISM
8 5 (1.00%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.00%) PMP
9 4 (0.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.60%) IIBA
11 2 (0.40%) CBAP
11 2 (0.40%) CEH
11 2 (0.40%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (5.78%) Data Quality
2 24 (4.78%) QA
3 14 (2.79%) GDPR
4 9 (1.79%) GRC
5 8 (1.59%) NCSC
6 6 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 6 (1.20%) NIST
7 5 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.80%) Def Stans
8 4 (0.80%) Government Security Classifications
8 4 (0.80%) 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%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.20%) MISRA C
System Software
1 22 (4.38%) Active Directory
2 21 (4.18%) Docker
3 8 (1.59%) Hyper-V
4 7 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.80%) Firmware
6 3 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.40%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.20%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.20%) NFS
Systems Management
1 21 (4.18%) Kubernetes
2 14 (2.79%) Ansible
3 9 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (1.59%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.20%) Grafana
5 6 (1.20%) 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
1 101 (20.12%) Microsoft
2 21 (4.18%) SAP
3 16 (3.19%) ServiceNow
4 13 (2.59%) Cisco
5 10 (1.99%) Aderant
5 10 (1.99%) Intapp
6 9 (1.79%) Oracle
6 9 (1.79%) Workday
7 8 (1.59%) Google
7 8 (1.59%) iManage
8 7 (1.39%) VMware
9 6 (1.20%) Foundry
9 6 (1.20%) IBM
9 6 (1.20%) Litera
9 6 (1.20%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.00%) Fortinet
10 5 (1.00%) Solace
10 5 (1.00%) Splunk
10 5 (1.00%) UiPath
11 4 (0.80%) Salesforce