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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 223 227
Rank change year-on-year -16 +4 -73
Contract jobs citing Law 446 286 383
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.07% 1.20% 1.04%
As % of the General category 1.96% 1.86% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 168 241
10th Percentile £353 £266 £263
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% -9.05% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £609 £675
90th Percentile £719 £725 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 12 27
10th Percentile £17.03 £27.78 £10.42
25th Percentile £17.11 £29.75 £11.91
Median hourly rate £20.27 £40.59 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.07% +212.25% -35.00%
75th Percentile £25.77 £71.82 £27.96
90th Percentile £38.63 £81.01 £32.50
UK median hourly rate £22.81 £52.99 £14.32
% change year-on-year -56.96% +270.19% -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 22,705 15,358 21,219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.29% 64.19% 57.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,918 9,924 13,665
10th Percentile £313 £285 £281
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,555 691 1,804
10th Percentile £14.18 £13.35 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.32 £16.94 £15.50
Median hourly rate £31.16 £27.50 £30.27
Median % change year-on-year +13.29% -9.14% -5.18%
75th Percentile £61.18 £53.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £80.03 £75.00 £66.92
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -7.41%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -4 222 £525 - 642
North of England -44 61 £450 -1.37% 95
South East -31 51 £500 -0.10% 99
Midlands -58 47 £438 -16.67% 52
East of England -7 31 £469 -10.71% 38
Yorkshire -36 30 £447 -20.53% 28
West Midlands -61 29 £600 +9.09% 34
North West -25 27 £463 +8.82% 59
South West -24 20 £500 +122.22% 29
East Midlands -26 17 £175 -65.00% 18
North East -24 4 - - 8
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 (3.59%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.67%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.45%) Confluence
4 2 (0.45%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.22%) Apache
5 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.22%) CMS
5 1 (0.22%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 16 (3.59%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.45%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.67%) Maximo
2 3 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.45%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.45%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.22%) Aareon QL
4 1 (0.22%) Hyperion Planning
4 1 (0.22%) Magento
4 1 (0.22%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.22%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.22%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.22%) OPENHousing
4 1 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.22%) Orchard Housing
4 1 (0.22%) Primavera
4 1 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.22%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 58 (13.00%) Power Platform
2 57 (12.78%) Azure
3 34 (7.62%) Dynamics 365
4 26 (5.83%) AWS
5 24 (5.38%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (3.59%) SaaS
7 14 (3.14%) Microsoft Copilot
8 11 (2.47%) Power Automate
9 9 (2.02%) GitHub
10 8 (1.79%) Azure Data Factory
10 8 (1.79%) Entra ID
10 8 (1.79%) GCP
11 7 (1.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 7 (1.57%) Serverless
12 6 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (1.35%) Azure Logic Apps
12 6 (1.35%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (1.12%) IaaS
13 5 (1.12%) PaaS
13 5 (1.12%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.47%) Firewall
1 11 (2.47%) Wi-Fi
2 9 (2.02%) DNS
3 8 (1.79%) SD-WAN
3 8 (1.79%) WAN
4 6 (1.35%) LAN
4 6 (1.35%) Network Security
4 6 (1.35%) VPN
5 5 (1.12%) DHCP
5 5 (1.12%) Ethernet
5 5 (1.12%) MPLS
5 5 (1.12%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.90%) Software-Defined Radio
6 4 (0.90%) Wireless
7 3 (0.67%) Cisco IPT
7 3 (0.67%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.45%) Ethernet VPN
8 2 (0.45%) Internet
8 2 (0.45%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.45%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (10.99%) Power BI
2 10 (2.24%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (1.57%) SQL Server
4 6 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (1.35%) Metadata
5 5 (1.12%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.90%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (0.90%) Snowflake Schema
7 3 (0.67%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.45%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.45%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.45%) Spark SQL
9 1 (0.22%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.22%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.22%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.22%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.22%) SAP Data Services
9 1 (0.22%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (3.59%) JIRA
2 14 (3.14%) Jenkins
3 11 (2.47%) Git
4 9 (2.02%) JUnit
4 9 (2.02%) Mockito
5 8 (1.79%) GitLab
6 7 (1.57%) Liquibase
7 6 (1.35%) Rational DOORS
8 5 (1.12%) Gradle
8 5 (1.12%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.67%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.45%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.45%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.45%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.45%) Flyway
10 2 (0.45%) git-flow
11 1 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
11 1 (0.22%) Selenium
11 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.22%) WebDriver
General
1 121 (27.13%) Finance
2 114 (25.56%) Social Skills
3 94 (21.08%) Legal
4 54 (12.11%) Analytical Skills
5 53 (11.88%) Public Sector
6 29 (6.50%) Police
7 18 (4.04%) Banking
7 18 (4.04%) Influencing Skills
8 14 (3.14%) Manufacturing
9 13 (2.91%) Marketing
10 9 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (1.35%) Aviation
13 5 (1.12%) Front Office
13 5 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.12%) Publishing
14 4 (0.90%) Billing
14 4 (0.90%) Military
14 4 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 59 (13.23%) Lead
2 58 (13.00%) Architect
3 56 (12.56%) Analyst
3 56 (12.56%) Senior
4 31 (6.95%) Functional Architect
4 31 (6.95%) Lead Architect
5 30 (6.73%) Project Manager
6 29 (6.50%) Software Engineer
7 26 (5.83%) Developer
8 20 (4.48%) Business Analyst
9 19 (4.26%) Consultant
10 18 (4.04%) Support Engineer
11 16 (3.59%) Senior Manager
12 13 (2.91%) IT Analyst
13 11 (2.47%) Business Manager
13 11 (2.47%) Java Engineer
13 11 (2.47%) Java Software Engineer
14 10 (2.24%) Administrator
14 10 (2.24%) Commercial Manager
14 10 (2.24%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (2.69%) Kafka
2 9 (2.02%) React
2 9 (2.02%) REST
2 9 (2.02%) Spring
2 9 (2.02%) Spring Boot
3 8 (1.79%) Middleware
4 7 (1.57%) OpenAPI
4 7 (1.57%) Swagger
5 5 (1.12%) RESTful
5 5 (1.12%) SOAP
6 4 (0.90%) Spring Cloud
7 3 (0.67%) JSON
7 3 (0.67%) PySpark
7 3 (0.67%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (0.45%) Drools
8 2 (0.45%) FIX Protocol
8 2 (0.45%) JPA
8 2 (0.45%) OAuth
8 2 (0.45%) Spring MVC
8 2 (0.45%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 15 (3.36%) Management Information System
2 14 (3.14%) Onboarding
3 10 (2.24%) AI Agents
3 10 (2.24%) Data Centre
4 9 (2.02%) Product Ownership
5 8 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (1.79%) Security Posture
5 8 (1.79%) Smartphone
6 7 (1.57%) Robotics
6 7 (1.57%) Social Media
7 6 (1.35%) CCTV
7 6 (1.35%) FPGA
8 5 (1.12%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.12%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (1.12%) Low-Code
9 4 (0.90%) Data Structures
9 4 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (0.90%) Operational Technology
9 4 (0.90%) PCIe
Operating Systems
1 36 (8.07%) Windows
2 20 (4.48%) Linux
3 11 (2.47%) Windows 10
4 9 (2.02%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.12%) Unix
6 4 (0.90%) FreeRTOS
7 2 (0.45%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.45%) VMS
8 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (17.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 70 (15.70%) Continuous Improvement
3 69 (15.47%) Migration
4 66 (14.80%) Agile
5 61 (13.68%) Problem-Solving
6 57 (12.78%) Stakeholder Management
7 54 (12.11%) Business Intelligence
8 48 (10.76%) AI
9 46 (10.31%) ERP
10 45 (10.09%) Data Migration
10 45 (10.09%) Translating Business Requirements
11 43 (9.64%) User Acceptance Testing
12 39 (8.74%) Software Engineering
13 38 (8.52%) Architectural Design
14 36 (8.07%) Order to Cash
14 36 (8.07%) Procure-to-Pay
15 35 (7.85%) Change Management
16 34 (7.62%) End-to-End Testing
16 34 (7.62%) Record to Report
17 31 (6.95%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 33 (7.40%) SQL
2 23 (5.16%) Java
3 16 (3.59%) Python
4 14 (3.14%) PowerShell
5 13 (2.91%) Ada
5 13 (2.91%) C
6 10 (2.24%) TypeScript
7 9 (2.02%) C#
8 8 (1.79%) JavaScript
9 6 (1.35%) Bash
10 5 (1.12%) C++
11 4 (0.90%) Embedded C
11 4 (0.90%) MATLAB
11 4 (0.90%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.67%) Go
12 3 (0.67%) Rust
12 3 (0.67%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.45%) Perl
13 2 (0.45%) PromQL
13 2 (0.45%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 90 (20.18%) Security Cleared
2 61 (13.68%) SC Cleared
3 51 (11.43%) Degree
4 22 (4.93%) DV Cleared
5 8 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.35%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.35%) PMI Certification
7 4 (0.90%) CISSP
8 3 (0.67%) CIPD
8 3 (0.67%) CISM
8 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.67%) PMP
9 2 (0.45%) CCNA
9 2 (0.45%) CEH
9 2 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.45%) GCIA
9 2 (0.45%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.22%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.22%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.04%) Data Quality
2 16 (3.59%) GDPR
3 11 (2.47%) QA
4 9 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (2.02%) NCSC
5 8 (1.79%) GRC
6 6 (1.35%) NIST
7 5 (1.12%) Def Stans
8 4 (0.90%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.67%) IEC 61508
9 3 (0.67%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.67%) PMO
9 3 (0.67%) PSD2
9 3 (0.67%) SLA
10 2 (0.45%) ISO 22301
10 2 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 2 (0.45%) MISRA
11 1 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.22%) MISRA C
System Software
1 25 (5.61%) Active Directory
2 18 (4.04%) Docker
3 7 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.12%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.45%) Firmware
5 2 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.22%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 12 (2.69%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.47%) Ansible
2 11 (2.47%) Terraform
3 8 (1.79%) Grafana
3 8 (1.79%) SCCM
4 7 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (1.12%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.67%) Cisco Prime
7 2 (0.45%) Consul
7 2 (0.45%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.45%) PowerCLI
7 2 (0.45%) Puppet
7 2 (0.45%) Salt
7 2 (0.45%) Zipkin
8 1 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.22%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.22%) QRadar
Vendors
1 94 (21.08%) Microsoft
2 23 (5.16%) SAP
3 15 (3.36%) Oracle
4 11 (2.47%) Cisco
5 10 (2.24%) ServiceNow
6 9 (2.02%) Workday
7 7 (1.57%) Aruba
7 7 (1.57%) Fortinet
7 7 (1.57%) Splunk
7 7 (1.57%) VMware
8 6 (1.35%) IBM
8 6 (1.35%) iManage
8 6 (1.35%) Palo Alto
9 5 (1.12%) Databricks
9 5 (1.12%) Intapp
10 4 (0.90%) Black Duck
10 4 (0.90%) Juniper
10 4 (0.90%) MuleSoft
10 4 (0.90%) Salesforce
10 4 (0.90%) Solace