Legal Contracts in England

Legal
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legal in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Legal over the 6 months to 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 140 157
Rank change year-on-year +19 +17 +46
Contract jobs citing Legal 697 883 1,268
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.90% 1.86% 1.80%
As % of the General category 3.28% 3.14% 3.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 386 597 787
10th Percentile £205 £253 £291
25th Percentile £363 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £625
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 42 21
10th Percentile £11.95 £13.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £23.28 £17.65 £20.09
Median hourly rate £40.00 £23.31 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year +71.60% -14.46% +41.56%
75th Percentile £57.50 £58.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £72.38 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £26.33 £23.31 £27.25
% change year-on-year +12.96% -14.46% +47.30%

All General Skills
England

Legal is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21,227 28,145 40,252
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 57.72% 59.23% 57.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,648 19,787 28,194
10th Percentile £281 £315 £319
25th Percentile £413 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £794 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,806 902 1,304
10th Percentile £13.00 £13.42 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.73 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.44 £32.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.89% +48.84% -
75th Percentile £52.50 £60.41 £46.56
90th Percentile £66.87 £70.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% +44.44% +2.27%

Legal
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Legal as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Legal in England

Legal
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Legal in England.

Daily rate trend for Legal in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legal in England over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Legal in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Legal in England.

Hourly rate trend for Legal in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Legal in England over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Legal in England

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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 Legal within the England region over the 6 months to 29 May 2024. 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 -25 307 £525 - 608
South East +27 153 £500 -6.98% 292
North of England +14 83 £525 +2.44% 305
North West +24 63 £575 +15.00% 173
Midlands +29 62 £400 -20.00% 200
South West +29 61 £500 +5.26% 189
West Midlands +19 43 £425 -8.11% 128
East of England +5 20 £350 -28.21% 124
East Midlands +15 19 £275 -52.50% 71
Yorkshire -4 13 £500 -13.04% 98
North East +12 7 £425 +6.25% 39
Legal
UK

Legal
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 38 (5.45%) SharePoint
2 19 (2.73%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.00%) CMS
4 6 (0.86%) Confluence
5 5 (0.72%) IIS
6 4 (0.57%) Apache
6 4 (0.57%) Apache Solr
6 4 (0.57%) nginx
6 4 (0.57%) Skype for Business
6 4 (0.57%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.43%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.43%) SAS
8 2 (0.29%) Drupal
Applications
1 62 (8.90%) Microsoft Office
2 57 (8.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 35 (5.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (2.73%) Simulink
4 19 (2.73%) Stateflow
5 7 (1.00%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.72%) Adobe Premiere
6 5 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.43%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (0.43%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.43%) InDesign
7 3 (0.43%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.29%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.29%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.29%) FileZilla
9 1 (0.14%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.14%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 12 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.86%) SAP GTS
3 4 (0.57%) SAP SD
4 2 (0.29%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.29%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.29%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (0.29%) Relativity
4 2 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.29%) Veritas eDiscovery
4 2 (0.29%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.14%) Aareon QL
5 1 (0.14%) MIS ActiveH
5 1 (0.14%) OPENHousing
5 1 (0.14%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.14%) SAP CX
5 1 (0.14%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 71 (10.19%) Azure
2 66 (9.47%) Microsoft 365
3 40 (5.74%) SaaS
4 39 (5.60%) Power Platform
5 30 (4.30%) AWS
6 18 (2.58%) IaaS
7 17 (2.44%) Snowflake
8 16 (2.30%) Google Workspace
9 14 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (1.87%) PaaS
11 12 (1.72%) OneDrive
11 12 (1.72%) PowerApps
12 11 (1.58%) Microsoft Purview
13 10 (1.43%) GCP
14 9 (1.29%) Dynamics 365
14 9 (1.29%) Entra ID
15 8 (1.15%) Power Automate
16 7 (1.00%) Figma
17 6 (0.86%) Smartsheet
18 5 (0.72%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 29 (4.16%) Firewall
2 17 (2.44%) VPN
3 13 (1.87%) Internet
4 11 (1.58%) Intranet
4 11 (1.58%) Wireless
5 10 (1.43%) LAN
5 10 (1.43%) TCP/IP
6 8 (1.15%) FTP
7 7 (1.00%) 5G
7 7 (1.00%) H.323
7 7 (1.00%) Network Security
7 7 (1.00%) SAN
7 7 (1.00%) WAN
8 6 (0.86%) DNS
9 5 (0.72%) HTTP
10 4 (0.57%) HTTPS
10 4 (0.57%) IPsec
10 4 (0.57%) Skype
10 4 (0.57%) Software-Defined Networking
10 4 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (3.59%) Power BI
2 24 (3.44%) Tableau
3 14 (2.01%) SQL Server
4 9 (1.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 8 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (1.00%) MySQL
6 7 (1.00%) NoSQL
7 6 (0.86%) Data Lake
7 6 (0.86%) Metadata
7 6 (0.86%) MS Access
8 5 (0.72%) Big Data
9 4 (0.57%) BusinessObjects
9 4 (0.57%) Couchbase
9 4 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.57%) SAP HANA
10 3 (0.43%) EDRMS
11 2 (0.29%) Bigtable
11 2 (0.29%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.29%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (0.29%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 17 (2.44%) JIRA
2 6 (0.86%) Artifactory
2 6 (0.86%) SonarQube
3 5 (0.72%) Visual Studio
4 4 (0.57%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.57%) LoadRunner
4 4 (0.57%) NeoLoad
5 3 (0.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.29%) Git
6 2 (0.29%) GitLab
6 2 (0.29%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.14%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.14%) Subversion
General
1 222 (31.85%) Social Skills
2 203 (29.12%) Finance
3 97 (13.92%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (12.20%) Law
5 48 (6.89%) Telecoms
6 41 (5.88%) Marketing
7 35 (5.02%) Public Sector
8 30 (4.30%) Retail
9 27 (3.87%) Organisational Skills
10 26 (3.73%) Influencing Skills
11 25 (3.59%) Automotive
12 24 (3.44%) Banking
13 18 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
14 12 (1.72%) Advertising
15 11 (1.58%) Billing
16 9 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 9 (1.29%) Manufacturing
17 7 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
18 6 (0.86%) German Language
18 6 (0.86%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 113 (16.21%) Analyst
2 62 (8.90%) Project Manager
3 57 (8.18%) Lead
4 43 (6.17%) Architect
4 43 (6.17%) Senior
5 32 (4.59%) Data Analyst
6 30 (4.30%) IT Manager
7 28 (4.02%) Consultant
8 24 (3.44%) Delivery Manager
9 21 (3.01%) Business Analyst
9 21 (3.01%) Senior Manager
10 20 (2.87%) Software Engineer
11 19 (2.73%) Programme Manager
12 18 (2.58%) Network Engineer
13 17 (2.44%) Support Engineer
14 16 (2.30%) Administrator
15 14 (2.01%) Developer
15 14 (2.01%) Procurement Manager
15 14 (2.01%) Service Manager
16 13 (1.87%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.43%) YAML
2 9 (1.29%) Node.js
3 5 (0.72%) .NET
3 5 (0.72%) JSON
3 5 (0.72%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (0.57%) LEMP Stack
4 4 (0.57%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (0.43%) CSS
5 3 (0.43%) EDI
5 3 (0.43%) HTML5 Canvas
5 3 (0.43%) jQuery
5 3 (0.43%) Kafka
5 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Graph
5 3 (0.43%) OAuth
5 3 (0.43%) SAML
6 2 (0.29%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.29%) Apache Avro
6 2 (0.29%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (0.29%) OpenID
6 2 (0.29%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 56 (8.03%) Management Information System
2 29 (4.16%) Self-Motivation
3 22 (3.16%) Virtual Team
4 21 (3.01%) Algorithms
4 21 (3.01%) Data Protection Act
5 16 (2.30%) Credit Risk
6 15 (2.15%) Product Ownership
7 12 (1.72%) Freedom of Information
7 12 (1.72%) Mobile App
8 11 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (1.29%) Onboarding
10 8 (1.15%) Public Cloud
10 8 (1.15%) Security Posture
11 7 (1.00%) Blackberry
11 7 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (0.86%) CMDB
12 6 (0.86%) Photography
12 6 (0.86%) Replication
12 6 (0.86%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 58 (8.32%) Windows
2 28 (4.02%) Linux
3 19 (2.73%) Windows 10
4 18 (2.58%) Apple iOS
4 18 (2.58%) Windows Server
5 11 (1.58%) Mac OS X
6 9 (1.29%) Android
7 5 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.57%) AIX
8 4 (0.57%) CentOS
8 4 (0.57%) Unix
9 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.14%) Solaris
9 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (19.51%) Project Management
2 109 (15.64%) Data Protection
3 108 (15.49%) Problem-Solving
4 99 (14.20%) Agile
5 90 (12.91%) Stakeholder Management
6 66 (9.47%) Migration
6 66 (9.47%) Risk Management
7 64 (9.18%) Change Management
8 62 (8.90%) Analytics
9 61 (8.75%) Continuous Improvement
10 55 (7.89%) Roadmaps
11 53 (7.60%) Information Security
12 52 (7.46%) Computer Science
13 49 (7.03%) Decision-Making
14 46 (6.60%) ITIL
15 44 (6.31%) Cybersecurity
16 42 (6.03%) DevOps
17 36 (5.16%) Customer Service
18 32 (4.59%) Coaching
18 32 (4.59%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 29 (4.16%) SQL
2 26 (3.73%) PowerShell
3 19 (2.73%) MATLAB
4 18 (2.58%) Python
5 12 (1.72%) JavaScript
6 10 (1.43%) C#
7 8 (1.15%) Bash
7 8 (1.15%) Swift
8 6 (0.86%) C++
8 6 (0.86%) T-SQL
9 4 (0.57%) PHP
10 2 (0.29%) Java
10 2 (0.29%) U-SQL
11 1 (0.14%) ABAP
11 1 (0.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.14%) Perl
11 1 (0.14%) R
11 1 (0.14%) Ruby
11 1 (0.14%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.14%) VBA
Qualifications
1 117 (16.79%) Degree
2 75 (10.76%) Security Cleared
3 54 (7.75%) SC Cleared
4 22 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.87%) PMI Certification
5 20 (2.87%) PMP
6 14 (2.01%) APMP
6 14 (2.01%) Master's Degree
7 13 (1.87%) ITIL Certification
8 8 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (1.15%) CISSP
9 7 (1.00%) DBS Check
9 7 (1.00%) ISEB
10 6 (0.86%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.72%) CCIE
11 5 (0.72%) CEH
11 5 (0.72%) CIPD
11 5 (0.72%) CISM
11 5 (0.72%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 5 (0.72%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (11.91%) GDPR
2 44 (6.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (3.59%) NIST
3 25 (3.59%) QA
4 19 (2.73%) Accessibility
4 19 (2.73%) Data Quality
5 16 (2.30%) HIPAA
5 16 (2.30%) SLA
6 13 (1.87%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 13 (1.87%) PMO
7 4 (0.57%) GRC
7 4 (0.57%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.29%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (0.29%) NCSC
9 2 (0.29%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.29%) Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
System Software
1 30 (4.30%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.15%) Docker
3 6 (0.86%) VMware NSX
4 4 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.29%) vSphere
7 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.14%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 15 (2.15%) Ansible
1 15 (2.15%) Terraform
2 9 (1.29%) SCCM
3 8 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (1.15%) PingFederate
4 6 (0.86%) Kubernetes
5 5 (0.72%) vCenter Server
6 2 (0.29%) Ambari
6 2 (0.29%) CEMLI
6 2 (0.29%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.29%) Oozie
7 1 (0.14%) Avamar
7 1 (0.14%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle Identity Management
7 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (0.14%) SCOM
7 1 (0.14%) SELinux
7 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.14%) vRealize
Vendors
1 148 (21.23%) Microsoft
2 43 (6.17%) Oracle
3 37 (5.31%) SAP
4 29 (4.16%) Google
5 20 (2.87%) Alteryx
6 19 (2.73%) VMware
7 17 (2.44%) iManage
8 16 (2.30%) ServiceNow
9 15 (2.15%) Cisco
10 12 (1.72%) Salesforce
11 11 (1.58%) Citrix
12 9 (1.29%) Okta
13 8 (1.15%) Adobe
13 8 (1.15%) Palo Alto
13 8 (1.15%) Splunk
14 7 (1.00%) Apple
14 7 (1.00%) Cadence
14 7 (1.00%) CheckPoint
14 7 (1.00%) Intapp
15 6 (0.86%) Reuters