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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 209 233
Rank change year-on-year -13 +24 -76
Contract jobs citing Law 468 308 380
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.09% 1.24% 1.01%
As % of the General category 1.99% 1.93% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 169 228
10th Percentile £358 £262 £263
25th Percentile £463 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £544
Median % change year-on-year - -8.05% +3.57%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £688
90th Percentile £725 £705 £813
UK median daily rate £500 £494 £525
% change year-on-year +1.27% -5.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 18 30
10th Percentile - £12.21 £10.42
25th Percentile £17.11 £13.46 £11.95
Median hourly rate £24.29 £30.10 £13.66
Median % change year-on-year -19.30% +120.39% -35.73%
75th Percentile £25.77 £67.50 £27.96
90th Percentile £55.83 £81.01 £32.88
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £30.20 £19.74
% change year-on-year -14.67% +53.03% -1.33%

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 23,488 15,968 21,563
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.64% 64.36% 57.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,306 10,292 13,773
10th Percentile £313 £285 £281
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £520 £533
Median % change year-on-year - -2.35% -3.18%
75th Percentile £638 £640 £650
90th Percentile £749 £763 £775
UK median daily rate £514 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +2.29% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,641 771 1,839
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.35 £12.88
25th Percentile £18.75 £16.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £28.00 £31.97
Median % change year-on-year +16.07% -12.42% +6.57%
75th Percentile £63.75 £53.75 £52.64
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £27.70 £30.50
% change year-on-year +15.52% -9.18% -0.07%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +7 240 £550 +8.11% 286
North of England -46 62 £425 -5.56% 55
South East -25 56 £513 +7.89% 76
Midlands -56 42 £525 - 44
Yorkshire -39 34 £400 -28.89% 22
East of England -8 32 £488 +8.33% 23
West Midlands -54 30 £600 +9.09% 23
North West -36 24 £450 +9.09% 27
South West -16 21 £425 +88.89% 19
East Midlands -22 11 £175 -64.10% 21
North East -33 4 - - 6
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 (3.42%) SharePoint
2 10 (2.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.64%) Confluence
4 2 (0.43%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.21%) CMS
5 1 (0.21%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 16 (3.42%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 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 Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (0.43%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.21%) Aareon QL
3 1 (0.21%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.21%) Elite 3E
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%) OPENHousing
3 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.21%) Oracle Financials
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 64 (13.68%) Azure
2 59 (12.61%) Power Platform
3 35 (7.48%) Dynamics 365
4 30 (6.41%) AWS
5 21 (4.49%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (3.63%) Microsoft Copilot
7 15 (3.21%) GitHub
8 14 (2.99%) SaaS
9 12 (2.56%) Serverless
10 11 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (2.35%) GitHub Actions
10 11 (2.35%) Power Automate
11 9 (1.92%) Entra ID
11 9 (1.92%) GCP
12 8 (1.71%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (1.71%) PowerApps
13 7 (1.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (1.50%) Azure Logic Apps
13 7 (1.50%) Copilot Studio
14 6 (1.28%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.56%) Wi-Fi
2 9 (1.92%) Firewall
2 9 (1.92%) SD-WAN
2 9 (1.92%) WAN
3 6 (1.28%) LAN
3 6 (1.28%) MPLS
3 6 (1.28%) Network Security
4 5 (1.07%) DNS
4 5 (1.07%) Ethernet
4 5 (1.07%) VPN
5 4 (0.85%) DHCP
5 4 (0.85%) Software-Defined Radio
5 4 (0.85%) Wireless
6 3 (0.64%) Cisco IPT
6 3 (0.64%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (0.43%) Ethernet VPN
7 2 (0.43%) Internet
7 2 (0.43%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.43%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.21%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (10.47%) Power BI
2 8 (1.71%) Metadata
3 7 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (1.28%) SQL Server
5 4 (0.85%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 4 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.64%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (0.64%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (0.43%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (0.43%) Amazon QuickSight
7 2 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.43%) Redis
7 2 (0.43%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.21%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.21%) KDB
8 1 (0.21%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.21%) SAP Data Services
8 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.21%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (4.27%) Jenkins
2 16 (3.42%) JIRA
3 14 (2.99%) GitLab
4 10 (2.14%) JUnit
4 10 (2.14%) Mockito
5 7 (1.50%) Git
5 7 (1.50%) Liquibase
6 6 (1.28%) Rational DOORS
7 5 (1.07%) Gradle
7 5 (1.07%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.43%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.43%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.43%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.43%) Flyway
8 2 (0.43%) git-flow
9 1 (0.21%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.21%) Selenium
9 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.21%) WebDriver
General
1 127 (27.14%) Finance
2 123 (26.28%) Social Skills
3 94 (20.09%) Legal
4 61 (13.03%) Analytical Skills
5 55 (11.75%) Public Sector
6 32 (6.84%) Police
7 21 (4.49%) Influencing Skills
8 19 (4.06%) Banking
9 15 (3.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (2.99%) Manufacturing
11 13 (2.78%) Marketing
12 9 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (1.50%) Legal Technology
14 6 (1.28%) Aviation
14 6 (1.28%) Front Office
14 6 (1.28%) Social Science
15 5 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (1.07%) Publishing
16 4 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
17 3 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 66 (14.10%) Senior
2 59 (12.61%) Lead
3 57 (12.18%) Analyst
4 56 (11.97%) Architect
5 35 (7.48%) Project Manager
6 31 (6.62%) Developer
6 31 (6.62%) Functional Architect
6 31 (6.62%) Lead Architect
7 30 (6.41%) Software Engineer
8 21 (4.49%) Consultant
9 20 (4.27%) Business Analyst
10 17 (3.63%) Senior Manager
11 16 (3.42%) Support Engineer
12 14 (2.99%) IT Trainer
12 14 (2.99%) Trainer
13 13 (2.78%) IT Analyst
13 13 (2.78%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
14 12 (2.56%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
14 12 (2.56%) Senior IT Trainer
15 11 (2.35%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (2.78%) REST
2 12 (2.56%) Kafka
3 10 (2.14%) React
3 10 (2.14%) Spring
3 10 (2.14%) Spring Boot
4 8 (1.71%) RESTful
5 7 (1.50%) OpenAPI
5 7 (1.50%) Swagger
6 6 (1.28%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (1.07%) Middleware
7 5 (1.07%) SOAP
7 5 (1.07%) Spring Cloud
8 4 (0.85%) JSON
9 3 (0.64%) ADO
9 3 (0.64%) FIX Protocol
9 3 (0.64%) LangChain
9 3 (0.64%) PySpark
10 2 (0.43%) AWS CDK
10 2 (0.43%) Hugging Face
10 2 (0.43%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 15 (3.21%) Management Information System
2 13 (2.78%) Onboarding
3 10 (2.14%) AI Agents
3 10 (2.14%) Cloud Native
3 10 (2.14%) Product Ownership
3 10 (2.14%) Security Posture
4 9 (1.92%) Data Centre
5 8 (1.71%) Algorithms
5 8 (1.71%) CCTV
5 8 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (1.50%) Robotics
6 7 (1.50%) Social Media
7 6 (1.28%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.28%) Low-Code
8 5 (1.07%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (1.07%) FPGA
8 5 (1.07%) NHS
9 4 (0.85%) Fixed Income
9 4 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 31 (6.62%) Windows
2 20 (4.27%) Linux
3 11 (2.35%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.50%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.85%) FreeRTOS
6 2 (0.43%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.43%) Unix
6 2 (0.43%) VMS
7 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (17.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 73 (15.60%) Continuous Improvement
3 69 (14.74%) Agile
4 68 (14.53%) Migration
5 67 (14.32%) Stakeholder Management
6 59 (12.61%) AI
6 59 (12.61%) Problem-Solving
7 54 (11.54%) Business Intelligence
8 46 (9.83%) User Acceptance Testing
9 45 (9.62%) Data Migration
10 44 (9.40%) ERP
10 44 (9.40%) Software Engineering
10 44 (9.40%) Translating Business Requirements
11 41 (8.76%) CI/CD
12 38 (8.12%) Change Management
13 37 (7.91%) Architectural Design
14 36 (7.69%) Procure-to-Pay
15 35 (7.48%) End-to-End Testing
16 34 (7.26%) Order to Cash
16 34 (7.26%) Record to Report
Programming Languages
1 27 (5.77%) SQL
2 26 (5.56%) Java
3 21 (4.49%) Python
4 13 (2.78%) Ada
5 12 (2.56%) C
6 11 (2.35%) PowerShell
6 11 (2.35%) TypeScript
7 9 (1.92%) C#
8 8 (1.71%) JavaScript
9 7 (1.50%) Bash
10 6 (1.28%) C++
11 4 (0.85%) Embedded C
11 4 (0.85%) MATLAB
12 3 (0.64%) Rust
12 3 (0.64%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.43%) Bicep
13 2 (0.43%) Perl
13 2 (0.43%) PromQL
13 2 (0.43%) SOQL
14 1 (0.21%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 98 (20.94%) Security Cleared
2 67 (14.32%) SC Cleared
3 50 (10.68%) Degree
4 24 (5.13%) DV Cleared
5 9 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.07%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.07%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.07%) PMI Certification
8 4 (0.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.64%) CIPD
9 3 (0.64%) CISSP
10 2 (0.43%) CCNA
10 2 (0.43%) CEH
10 2 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.43%) CISM
10 2 (0.43%) GCIA
10 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.43%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.85%) Data Quality
2 15 (3.21%) GDPR
3 12 (2.56%) QA
4 9 (1.92%) NCSC
5 8 (1.71%) GRC
5 8 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
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
10 2 (0.43%) ISO 22301
10 2 (0.43%) MISRA
11 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 1 (0.21%) MISRA C
System Software
1 22 (4.70%) Active Directory
2 21 (4.49%) Docker
3 6 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.85%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.43%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.43%) Firmware
5 2 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.21%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 17 (3.63%) Kubernetes
2 15 (3.21%) Terraform
3 11 (2.35%) Ansible
4 8 (1.71%) Prometheus
5 7 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (1.28%) Grafana
7 5 (1.07%) SCCM
8 3 (0.64%) Cisco Prime
8 3 (0.64%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.43%) Consul
9 2 (0.43%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (0.43%) PowerCLI
9 2 (0.43%) Puppet
9 2 (0.43%) Salt
9 2 (0.43%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.21%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.21%) QRadar
Vendors
1 94 (20.09%) Microsoft
2 23 (4.91%) SAP
3 12 (2.56%) Cisco
4 9 (1.92%) Workday
5 8 (1.71%) Aruba
5 8 (1.71%) Oracle
6 7 (1.50%) Fortinet
6 7 (1.50%) IBM
6 7 (1.50%) Palo Alto
7 6 (1.28%) ServiceNow
7 6 (1.28%) VMware
8 5 (1.07%) Databricks
8 5 (1.07%) Foundry
8 5 (1.07%) iManage
8 5 (1.07%) Splunk
9 4 (0.85%) Black Duck
9 4 (0.85%) Juniper
9 4 (0.85%) NEC
9 4 (0.85%) Solace
9 4 (0.85%) UiPath