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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 249 235 227
Rank change year-on-year -14 -8 -60
Contract jobs citing Law 500 307 346
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.08% 1.12% 1.06%
As % of the General category 1.94% 1.74% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 149 155
10th Percentile £358 £216 £263
25th Percentile £463 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -4.55% +2.80%
75th Percentile £642 £638 £681
90th Percentile £750 £725 £795
UK median daily rate £530 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +0.86% -4.55% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 24 11
10th Percentile £14.13 £12.21 £18.97
25th Percentile £17.11 £13.46 £20.50
Median hourly rate £20.27 £25.14 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.38% +14.27% +22.22%
75th Percentile £27.70 £44.22 £27.96
90th Percentile £65.25 £68.75 £42.25
UK median hourly rate £20.27 £50.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -59.47% +127.27% +23.94%

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 25,770 17,637 18,944
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.74% 64.46% 58.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,199 11,153 11,617
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £415
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 2,176 1,003 989
10th Percentile £13.68 £13.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.08 £16.17 £17.50
Median hourly rate £31.16 £25.15 £38.85
Median % change year-on-year +23.88% -35.26% +41.27%
75th Percentile £57.00 £47.31 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.13 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £37.28
% change year-on-year +19.28% -32.54% +35.56%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -2 258 £573 -0.43% 4,386
North of England -21 81 £504 +0.70% 439
East of England -3 49 £450 - 199
South East -52 47 £525 +7.14% 452
Yorkshire +3 45 £441 -21.60% 103
Midlands -44 36 £525 -8.70% 219
North West -34 32 £613 +25.64% 298
West Midlands -54 25 £575 - 139
South West -52 13 £350 -48.53% 330
East Midlands -9 10 £130 -66.23% 80
North East -35 4 - - 39
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 (2.80%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.60%) 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%) nginx
5 1 (0.20%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 18 (3.60%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.60%) Acrobat
5 2 (0.40%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
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%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
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 68 (13.60%) Azure
2 53 (10.60%) Power Platform
3 43 (8.60%) AWS
4 29 (5.80%) Dynamics 365
5 28 (5.60%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (3.20%) GitHub
6 16 (3.20%) SaaS
7 15 (3.00%) Entra ID
8 13 (2.60%) Microsoft Copilot
9 12 (2.40%) GCP
9 12 (2.40%) GitHub Actions
9 12 (2.40%) Serverless
10 11 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (2.20%) Power Automate
11 10 (2.00%) PowerApps
12 9 (1.80%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (1.80%) Copilot Studio
12 9 (1.80%) SuccessFactors
13 8 (1.60%) Amazon ECS
14 7 (1.40%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.20%) Wi-Fi
2 9 (1.80%) Firewall
3 7 (1.40%) DNS
3 7 (1.40%) Wireless
4 6 (1.20%) DHCP
4 6 (1.20%) VPN
5 5 (1.00%) Ethernet
5 5 (1.00%) Network Security
6 4 (0.80%) Software-Defined Radio
6 4 (0.80%) WAN
7 3 (0.60%) Broadband
7 3 (0.60%) Cisco IPT
7 3 (0.60%) LAN
7 3 (0.60%) Reverse Proxy
7 3 (0.60%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.40%) BGP
8 2 (0.40%) MPLS
8 2 (0.40%) OSPF
8 2 (0.40%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.40%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (9.00%) Power BI
2 10 (2.00%) Metadata
3 7 (1.40%) Relational Database
4 6 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.00%) SQL Server
6 4 (0.80%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (0.60%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.60%) Redis
8 2 (0.40%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.40%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.40%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.20%) KDB
9 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.20%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (4.20%) JIRA
2 18 (3.60%) Jenkins
3 14 (2.80%) GitLab
4 11 (2.20%) Git
5 8 (1.60%) JUnit
5 8 (1.60%) Mockito
5 8 (1.60%) Rational DOORS
6 5 (1.00%) Liquibase
7 4 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.60%) Gradle
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%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.20%) Postman
10 1 (0.20%) PVCS
10 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio
General
1 129 (25.80%) Finance
2 128 (25.60%) Social Skills
3 91 (18.20%) Legal
4 68 (13.60%) Analytical Skills
5 64 (12.80%) Public Sector
6 38 (7.60%) Police
7 24 (4.80%) Influencing Skills
8 17 (3.40%) Banking
8 17 (3.40%) Manufacturing
9 14 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (2.20%) Marketing
11 9 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.40%) 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 4 (0.80%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 62 (12.40%) Lead
2 59 (11.80%) Analyst
2 59 (11.80%) Senior
3 40 (8.00%) Architect
4 38 (7.60%) Developer
5 30 (6.00%) Project Manager
6 24 (4.80%) Consultant
7 22 (4.40%) Functional Architect
7 22 (4.40%) IT Trainer
7 22 (4.40%) Lead Architect
7 22 (4.40%) Software Engineer
7 22 (4.40%) Trainer
8 20 (4.00%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
8 20 (4.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 19 (3.80%) Senior IT Trainer
10 16 (3.20%) Business Analyst
10 16 (3.20%) IT Manager
11 14 (2.80%) Support Analyst
11 14 (2.80%) Support Engineer
12 13 (2.60%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (4.00%) REST
2 18 (3.60%) Terraform
3 12 (2.40%) React
4 11 (2.20%) Kafka
5 8 (1.60%) RESTful
5 8 (1.60%) Spring
5 8 (1.60%) Spring Boot
6 6 (1.20%) RabbitMQ
6 6 (1.20%) SOAP
7 5 (1.00%) JSON
7 5 (1.00%) OpenAPI
7 5 (1.00%) Spring Cloud
7 5 (1.00%) Swagger
8 4 (0.80%) Middleware
8 4 (0.80%) Next.js
9 3 (0.60%) .NET
9 3 (0.60%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (0.60%) LangChain
9 3 (0.60%) Oracle Fusion
9 3 (0.60%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 19 (3.80%) Cloud Native
2 18 (3.60%) Onboarding
3 16 (3.20%) Management Information System
4 12 (2.40%) Product Ownership
5 10 (2.00%) Social Media
6 9 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (1.60%) CCTV
7 8 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (1.40%) Robotics
9 6 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
9 6 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.20%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.00%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.00%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.00%) Fixed Income
10 5 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (1.00%) FPGA
10 5 (1.00%) Low-Code
10 5 (1.00%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 39 (7.80%) Windows
2 19 (3.80%) Linux
3 17 (3.40%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.20%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.00%) FreeRTOS
6 3 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.40%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.40%) Unix
7 2 (0.40%) VMS
7 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (17.60%) Stakeholder Management
2 78 (15.60%) Agile
3 76 (15.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 69 (13.80%) Continuous Improvement
5 68 (13.60%) Migration
6 62 (12.40%) Problem-Solving
7 53 (10.60%) AI
8 48 (9.60%) CI/CD
9 46 (9.20%) Business Intelligence
9 46 (9.20%) Software Engineering
10 40 (8.00%) Data Migration
10 40 (8.00%) DevOps
11 38 (7.60%) Change Management
12 37 (7.40%) ERP
12 37 (7.40%) Validation
13 34 (6.80%) User Acceptance Testing
14 33 (6.60%) Risk Management
15 31 (6.20%) Translating Business Requirements
16 29 (5.80%) Decision-Making
16 29 (5.80%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 43 (8.60%) Python
2 33 (6.60%) SQL
3 20 (4.00%) Java
4 14 (2.80%) C
4 14 (2.80%) C++
5 13 (2.60%) PowerShell
5 13 (2.60%) TypeScript
6 11 (2.20%) Bash
7 8 (1.60%) JavaScript
8 5 (1.00%) Ada
8 5 (1.00%) C#
9 4 (0.80%) Embedded C
9 4 (0.80%) SOQL
10 3 (0.60%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.40%) PromQL
12 1 (0.20%) Bicep
12 1 (0.20%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.20%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.20%) SystemVerilog
12 1 (0.20%) VBA
Qualifications
1 114 (22.80%) Security Cleared
2 86 (17.20%) SC Cleared
3 50 (10.00%) Degree
4 34 (6.80%) DV Cleared
5 9 (1.80%) PMI Certification
6 8 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (1.40%) CISSP
8 6 (1.20%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.20%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.20%) CISM
8 6 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (1.00%) PMP
10 4 (0.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.60%) IIBA
11 3 (0.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (0.40%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (5.00%) Data Quality
2 24 (4.80%) QA
3 14 (2.80%) GDPR
4 10 (2.00%) NCSC
5 9 (1.80%) GRC
6 6 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 5 (1.00%) Def Stans
7 5 (1.00%) NIST
8 4 (0.80%) Government Security Classifications
8 4 (0.80%) MISRA
9 3 (0.60%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.60%) DO-178B
9 3 (0.60%) PERC
10 2 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
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 21 (4.20%) Active Directory
1 21 (4.20%) Docker
2 8 (1.60%) Hyper-V
2 8 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.80%) Firmware
3 4 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.40%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.20%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.20%) NFS
Systems Management
1 22 (4.40%) Kubernetes
2 14 (2.80%) Ansible
3 9 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (1.80%) Prometheus
4 7 (1.40%) 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 95 (19.00%) Microsoft
2 21 (4.20%) SAP
3 16 (3.20%) ServiceNow
4 13 (2.60%) Cisco
5 12 (2.40%) Aderant
6 10 (2.00%) Intapp
7 9 (1.80%) Workday
8 8 (1.60%) Google
8 8 (1.60%) iManage
8 8 (1.60%) Oracle
8 8 (1.60%) VMware
9 6 (1.20%) Foundry
9 6 (1.20%) Litera
9 6 (1.20%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.00%) Fortinet
10 5 (1.00%) IBM
10 5 (1.00%) Solace
10 5 (1.00%) Splunk
10 5 (1.00%) UiPath
11 4 (0.80%) Salesforce