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 1 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 231 213 232
Rank change year-on-year -18 +19 -74
Contract jobs citing Law 467 329 384
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.07% 1.28% 1.03%
As % of the General category 1.94% 2.00% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 173 225
10th Percentile £363 £260 £263
25th Percentile £463 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £688
90th Percentile £718 £725 £814
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +2.50% -6.98% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 23 27
10th Percentile - £12.21 £11.87
25th Percentile £17.11 £13.46 £11.95
Median hourly rate £24.29 £27.64 £18.97
Median % change year-on-year -12.12% +45.70% -10.73%
75th Percentile £25.77 £59.62 £27.96
90th Percentile £55.83 £78.56 £34.00
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £30.20 £21.00
% change year-on-year -14.67% +43.81% +5.00%

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 24,066 16,417 21,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.91% 64.04% 57.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,570 10,548 13,565
10th Percentile £313 £281 £295
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £518 £535
Median % change year-on-year +1.28% -3.11% -2.73%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £745 £763 £775
UK median daily rate £517 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.34% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,728 812 1,796
10th Percentile £14.24 £13.26 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £16.54 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.50 £32.70
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.90% +8.99%
75th Percentile £63.38 £52.00 £53.81
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £68.82
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £27.39 £31.61
% change year-on-year +16.84% -13.34% +4.48%

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 1 July 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 1 July 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 1 July 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 -18 239 £550 +4.76% 635
North of England -53 62 £475 +8.57% 122
South East -36 54 £525 +13.51% 135
Midlands -62 40 £540 +2.81% 55
East of England -2 35 £488 +8.33% 40
Yorkshire -29 33 £495 -12.09% 43
West Midlands -56 30 £600 +9.09% 40
North West -41 25 £450 +12.50% 67
South West -26 20 £425 +88.89% 34
East Midlands -13 9 £200 -58.97% 15
North East -29 4 - - 12
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 (3.43%) 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 (3.43%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.07%) 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%) Elite 3E
2 2 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (0.43%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.21%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.21%) Hyperion Planning
3 1 (0.21%) Magento
3 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.21%) Oracle Financials
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 (13.70%) Azure
2 61 (13.06%) Power Platform
3 36 (7.71%) Dynamics 365
4 29 (6.21%) AWS
5 18 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
5 18 (3.85%) Microsoft Copilot
6 15 (3.21%) GitHub
7 14 (3.00%) SaaS
8 12 (2.57%) Serverless
9 11 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (2.36%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (2.36%) Power Automate
10 9 (1.93%) Entra ID
10 9 (1.93%) GCP
10 9 (1.93%) PowerApps
11 8 (1.71%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (1.71%) Copilot Studio
12 7 (1.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (1.50%) Azure AI
12 7 (1.50%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.57%) Wi-Fi
2 8 (1.71%) Firewall
3 7 (1.50%) SD-WAN
3 7 (1.50%) WAN
4 6 (1.28%) Network Security
5 5 (1.07%) DNS
5 5 (1.07%) Ethernet
5 5 (1.07%) LAN
5 5 (1.07%) MPLS
5 5 (1.07%) VPN
6 4 (0.86%) DHCP
6 4 (0.86%) Software-Defined Radio
6 4 (0.86%) Wireless
7 3 (0.64%) Cisco IPT
8 2 (0.43%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.43%) Ethernet VPN
8 2 (0.43%) Internet
8 2 (0.43%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.43%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.21%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (10.71%) Power BI
2 7 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (1.28%) Metadata
3 6 (1.28%) SQL Server
4 5 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (0.86%) Azure SQL 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 (4.28%) Jenkins
2 16 (3.43%) JIRA
3 14 (3.00%) 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
1 124 (26.55%) Finance
1 124 (26.55%) Social Skills
2 94 (20.13%) Legal
3 62 (13.28%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (11.13%) Public Sector
5 33 (7.07%) Police
6 22 (4.71%) Influencing Skills
7 19 (4.07%) Banking
8 15 (3.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (3.00%) Manufacturing
10 13 (2.78%) Marketing
11 9 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.50%) Legal Technology
12 7 (1.50%) Social Science
13 6 (1.28%) Aviation
13 6 (1.28%) Front Office
14 5 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.86%) Electronics
16 3 (0.64%) Military
16 3 (0.64%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 65 (13.92%) Senior
2 60 (12.85%) Lead
3 54 (11.56%) Analyst
4 53 (11.35%) Architect
5 33 (7.07%) Developer
5 33 (7.07%) Project Manager
6 31 (6.64%) Functional Architect
6 31 (6.64%) Lead Architect
6 31 (6.64%) Software Engineer
7 22 (4.71%) Consultant
8 18 (3.85%) Business Analyst
9 17 (3.64%) Senior Manager
10 16 (3.43%) IT Trainer
10 16 (3.43%) Trainer
11 14 (3.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
12 13 (2.78%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
12 13 (2.78%) IT Analyst
12 13 (2.78%) Senior IT Trainer
12 13 (2.78%) Support Engineer
13 11 (2.36%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (2.78%) REST
2 12 (2.57%) 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%) Middleware
6 6 (1.28%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (1.07%) SOAP
7 5 (1.07%) Spring Cloud
8 4 (0.86%) JSON
9 3 (0.64%) ADO
9 3 (0.64%) LangChain
9 3 (0.64%) PySpark
10 2 (0.43%) ARM Templates
10 2 (0.43%) AWS CDK
10 2 (0.43%) Hugging Face
10 2 (0.43%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 14 (3.00%) Onboarding
2 13 (2.78%) Management Information System
3 11 (2.36%) Cloud Native
4 10 (2.14%) AI Agents
4 10 (2.14%) Product Ownership
5 9 (1.93%) Security Posture
6 8 (1.71%) CCTV
6 8 (1.71%) Data Centre
6 8 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (1.50%) Algorithms
7 7 (1.50%) Robotics
7 7 (1.50%) Social Media
8 6 (1.28%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.28%) Low-Code
9 5 (1.07%) Cyber Threat
9 5 (1.07%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (1.07%) FPGA
9 5 (1.07%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 29 (6.21%) Windows
2 21 (4.50%) Linux
3 11 (2.36%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.07%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.86%) 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 81 (17.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 73 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
3 69 (14.78%) Stakeholder Management
4 68 (14.56%) Agile
5 66 (14.13%) Migration
6 62 (13.28%) AI
7 57 (12.21%) Problem-Solving
8 55 (11.78%) Business Intelligence
9 45 (9.64%) Data Migration
9 45 (9.64%) ERP
9 45 (9.64%) Software Engineering
9 45 (9.64%) User Acceptance Testing
10 44 (9.42%) CI/CD
11 43 (9.21%) Translating Business Requirements
12 39 (8.35%) Change Management
13 37 (7.92%) Architectural Design
14 36 (7.71%) Procure-to-Pay
15 35 (7.49%) DevOps
15 35 (7.49%) End-to-End Testing
16 34 (7.28%) Order to Cash
Programming Languages
1 27 (5.78%) SQL
2 23 (4.93%) Java
3 22 (4.71%) Python
4 16 (3.43%) C
5 14 (3.00%) Ada
6 11 (2.36%) TypeScript
7 10 (2.14%) C++
7 10 (2.14%) PowerShell
8 8 (1.71%) JavaScript
9 7 (1.50%) Bash
9 7 (1.50%) C#
10 4 (0.86%) Embedded C
10 4 (0.86%) SOQL
11 3 (0.64%) MATLAB
11 3 (0.64%) Rust
11 3 (0.64%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.43%) Bicep
12 2 (0.43%) PromQL
13 1 (0.21%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.21%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 97 (20.77%) Security Cleared
2 66 (14.13%) SC Cleared
3 52 (11.13%) Degree
4 23 (4.93%) DV Cleared
5 10 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.28%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.07%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.07%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.64%) CIPD
10 3 (0.64%) CISSP
11 2 (0.43%) CBAP
11 2 (0.43%) CCNA
11 2 (0.43%) CEH
11 2 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.43%) GCIA
11 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.43%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.85%) Data Quality
2 14 (3.00%) GDPR
2 14 (3.00%) QA
3 9 (1.93%) NCSC
4 8 (1.71%) GRC
4 8 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.50%) Def Stans
6 6 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 6 (1.28%) NIST
7 4 (0.86%) MISRA
8 3 (0.64%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.64%) DO-178B
8 3 (0.64%) IEC 61508
8 3 (0.64%) PMO
9 2 (0.43%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.43%) ISO 22301
9 2 (0.43%) PSD2
10 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.21%) MISRA C
System Software
1 21 (4.50%) Docker
2 20 (4.28%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.86%) Firmware
4 4 (0.86%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.43%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.21%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 17 (3.64%) Kubernetes
2 15 (3.21%) Terraform
3 11 (2.36%) Ansible
4 8 (1.71%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (1.71%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.28%) Grafana
6 4 (0.86%) SCCM
7 2 (0.43%) Cisco Prime
7 2 (0.43%) Consul
7 2 (0.43%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.43%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (0.43%) PowerCLI
7 2 (0.43%) Puppet
7 2 (0.43%) Salt
7 2 (0.43%) Zipkin
8 1 (0.21%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.21%) QRadar
Vendors
1 94 (20.13%) Microsoft
2 23 (4.93%) SAP
3 10 (2.14%) Cisco
4 9 (1.93%) Workday
5 8 (1.71%) Oracle
6 6 (1.28%) Aruba
6 6 (1.28%) Fortinet
6 6 (1.28%) Foundry
6 6 (1.28%) Google
6 6 (1.28%) IBM
6 6 (1.28%) ServiceNow
6 6 (1.28%) UiPath
6 6 (1.28%) VMware
7 5 (1.07%) Databricks
7 5 (1.07%) iManage
7 5 (1.07%) Palo Alto
7 5 (1.07%) Solace
7 5 (1.07%) Splunk
8 4 (0.86%) Black Duck
8 4 (0.86%) Intapp