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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 60 55
Rank change year-on-year +31 -5 -1
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Legal 8 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 2.89% 0.22% 0.21%
As % of the General category 5.13% 0.47% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £184 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £207 - -
75th Percentile £229 - -
90th Percentile £436 - -
South West median daily rate £207 £350 £513
% change year-on-year -41.00% -31.71% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £27.28 - -
South West median hourly rate £15.96 £25.28 £13.50
% change year-on-year -36.85% +87.22% -

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 156 212 188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 56.32% 47.11% 39.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 106 121
10th Percentile £184 £325 £356
25th Percentile £278 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £566 £638 £675
90th Percentile £688 £750 £738
South West median daily rate £500 £513 £538
% change year-on-year -2.44% -4.65% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 26 14
10th Percentile - £22.50 £20.23
25th Percentile £13.50 £28.00 £26.06
Median hourly rate £22.19 £33.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.76% -7.04% +9.40%
75th Percentile £58.00 £68.31 £43.64
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.63
South West median hourly rate £22.50 £64.25 £56.30
% change year-on-year -64.98% +14.12% +12.38%

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

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Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Legal

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Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legal in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Legal in Gloucestershire

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Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Legal

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DemandTrendContract 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 28 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
Cheltenham - 1 £715 - 4
Gloucester - 1 £200 - 1
Legal
South West

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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 (62.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
General
1 5 (62.50%) Local Government
2 1 (12.50%) Law
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (12.50%) Deployment Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) CSS
1 5 (62.50%) HTML
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Computer Science
2 1 (12.50%) Data Governance
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
2 1 (12.50%) Information Assurance
2 1 (12.50%) Information Governance
2 1 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (12.50%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (12.50%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (12.50%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Python
1 5 (62.50%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) DBS Check
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Apple
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft