Legal Contract Job Trends, Contractor Rates & Related Skills in Leicestershire

Legal
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legal in contract job vacancies in Leicestershire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legal over the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

	6 months to 29 Dec 2025	Same period 2024	Same period 2023
Rank	-	16	-
Rank change year-on-year	-	-	-
Contract jobs citing Legal	0	1	0
As % of all contract jobs in Leicestershire	-	1.18%	-
As % of the General category	-	2.04%	-
Number of daily rates quoted	0	1	0
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	-	£375	-
East Midlands median daily rate	£448	£425	£370
% change year-on-year	+5.29%	+15.02%	-20.43%

All General Skills
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills	90	49	68
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire	52.94%	57.65%	39.77%
Number of daily rates quoted	60	36	50
10^th Percentile	£190	£250	£160
25^th Percentile	£360	£275	£256
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£418	£458	£353
Median % change year-on-year	-8.79%	+29.86%	-17.30%
75^th Percentile	£506	£638	£469
90^th Percentile	£638	£715	£579
East Midlands median daily rate	£420	£430	£450
% change year-on-year	-2.38%	-4.39%	-5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted	5	2	3
10^th Percentile	£16.50	£22.13	£13.85
25^th Percentile	£20.50	£23.44	£16.63
Median hourly rate	£25.00	£26.25	£22.50
Median % change year-on-year	-4.76%	+16.67%	+32.35%
75^th Percentile	£26.50	£28.44	£44.38
90^th Percentile	£30.39	£29.38	£56.75
East Midlands median hourly rate	£22.27	£18.32	£22.50
% change year-on-year	+21.53%	-18.58%	+40.89%