Legal Contracts in Essex

Legal
East of England > Essex

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legal in contract job vacancies in Essex. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legal over the 6 months leading up to 20 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 - 34
Rank change year-on-year - - +19
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Legal 4 0 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 3.57% - 2.86%
As % of the General category 6.78% - 4.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £233 - £171
25th Percentile £281 - £173
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 - £177
Median % change year-on-year - - -60.67%
75th Percentile £444 - £181
90th Percentile £493 - £183
East of England median daily rate £200 £319 £523
% change year-on-year -37.25% -39.00% +16.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £15.46 - £73.25
25th Percentile £16.38 - £74.38
Median hourly rate £17.92 - £77.50
75th Percentile £19.46 - £79.38
90th Percentile £20.38 - £79.75
East of England median hourly rate £17.50 - £77.50
% change year-on-year - - +187.04%

All General Skills
Essex

Legal falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in Essex.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 59 74 164
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 52.68% 57.81% 58.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 43 109
10th Percentile £153 £263 £213
25th Percentile £225 £303 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -20.00% +1.21%
75th Percentile £474 £534 £575
90th Percentile £520 £598 £618
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 8 7
10th Percentile - £18.79 £21.77
25th Percentile £13.25 £21.88 £31.67
Median hourly rate £21.75 £50.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.93% -22.31% +111.38%
75th Percentile £48.30 £64.25 £78.75
90th Percentile £73.95 £66.95 £83.78
East of England median hourly rate £39.32 £38.12 £17.72
% change year-on-year +3.15% +115.12% -10.55%

Legal
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Legal in Essex

Legal
Daily Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Legal.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Legal

Legal
Daily Rate Histogram in Essex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legal in Essex over the 6 months to 20 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Legal in Essex

Legal
Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Legal.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Legal

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DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Legal within the Essex region over the 6 months to 20 August 2025. 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Benfleet - 1 - -
Southend-on-Sea - 1 £200 - 1
Legal
East of England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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:

Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (25.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) LAN
1 1 (25.00%) WAN
1 1 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Automotive
3 1 (25.00%) Back Office
3 1 (25.00%) General Ledger
3 1 (25.00%) Law
3 1 (25.00%) Local Government
3 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 1 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Administrator
1 1 (25.00%) Executive Assistant
1 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (25.00%) Freedom of Information
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (25.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (25.00%) Case Management
2 1 (25.00%) Data Privacy
2 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) ITSM
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Regulatory Change
2 1 (25.00%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Adobe
2 1 (25.00%) VMware