Legal Contracts in Gloucestershire

Legal
South West > Gloucestershire

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

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 51 60
Rank change year-on-year +15 +9 +1
Contract jobs citing Legal 7 7 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 2.56% 1.66% 0.42%
As % of the General category 5.43% 3.61% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 2
10th Percentile - - £142
25th Percentile £184 £675 £202
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £700 £328
Median % change year-on-year -57.14% +113.74% -34.99%
75th Percentile £419 £725 £477
90th Percentile £622 - £551
South West median daily rate £433 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -13.50% +5.26% +1.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £40.00 -
South West median hourly rate £60.00 £47.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year +26.32% +171.43% -

All General Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 129 194 222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 47.25% 45.97% 46.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 93 158
10th Percentile £184 £300 £268
25th Percentile £361 £425 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £553 £625 £588
90th Percentile £658 £688 £675
South West median daily rate £505 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -3.76% -4.37% +11.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 30 7
10th Percentile £28.78 £14.00 £36.23
25th Percentile £54.44 £18.15 £39.55
Median hourly rate £67.50 £40.00 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.75% -21.57% +57.41%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.75 £60.25
90th Percentile - £72.63 £79.20
South West median hourly rate £60.00 £46.39 £60.00
% change year-on-year +29.34% -22.68% +34.83%

Legal
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Legal in Gloucestershire

Legal
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Legal in Gloucestershire

Legal
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legal in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 6 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Legal in Gloucestershire

Legal
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for Legal in Gloucestershire

Legal
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Legal within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 6 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Filton -1 2 £300 - 1
Cheltenham +12 1 £715 +2.14% 6
Legal
South West

Legal
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 5 (71.43%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) LAN
1 2 (28.57%) SAN
1 2 (28.57%) VLAN
1 2 (28.57%) VPN
1 2 (28.57%) WAN
General
1 3 (42.86%) Local Government
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) CSS
1 3 (42.86%) HTML
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Computer Science
1 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Server Management
3 1 (14.29%) Information Assurance
3 1 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (14.29%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (14.29%) Project Management
3 1 (14.29%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (14.29%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
1 3 (42.86%) VBA
2 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) DBS Check
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Certification
2 2 (28.57%) MCSE
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Hyper-V
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) Apple
3 2 (28.57%) Veeam
3 2 (28.57%) VMware