Legal Contract Job Trends in Leicester

Legal
Leicestershire > Leicester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legal in contract job vacancies in Leicester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legal over the 6 months leading up to 30 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Legal 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leicester 0.94% - -
As % of the General category 1.47% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
Leicestershire median daily rate £500 - £375
% change year-on-year - - -42.31%

All General Skills
Leicester

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 general skills in Leicester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 68 41 38
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicester 64.15% 49.40% 45.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 20 29
10th Percentile £302 £126 £250
25th Percentile £349 £235 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £360 £418
Median % change year-on-year +38.89% -13.88% -7.11%
75th Percentile £575 £453 £500
90th Percentile £675 £530 £643
Leicestershire median daily rate £525 £360 £375
% change year-on-year +45.83% -4.00% -11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 1 0
10th Percentile £12.34 - -
25th Percentile £13.20 - -
Median hourly rate £16.46 £13.84 -
Median % change year-on-year +18.93% - -
75th Percentile £17.24 - -
90th Percentile £22.00 - -
Leicestershire median hourly rate £16.37 £20.50 -
% change year-on-year -20.16% - -

Legal
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Legal relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicester.

Legal job vacancy trend in Leicester

Legal
Daily Rate Trend in Leicester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing Legal

Legal
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicester 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:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation