Legal Contract Job Trends 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 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 28 - 19
Rank change year-on-year - - +8
Contract jobs citing Legal 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Leicestershire 1.04% - 1.80%
As % of the General category 1.65% - 4.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £375
Median % change year-on-year - - -42.31%
East Midlands median daily rate £451 £358 £425
% change year-on-year +25.98% -15.76% -32.00%

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 121 77 49
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire 63.02% 56.20% 44.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 45 38
10th Percentile £280 £153 £197
25th Percentile £313 £250 £283
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £360 £375
Median % change year-on-year +45.83% -4.00% -11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £488 £500
90th Percentile £646 £560 £713
East Midlands median daily rate £475 £403 £449
% change year-on-year +18.01% -10.36% -10.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 5 0
10th Percentile £12.74 £15.70 -
25th Percentile £13.22 £18.50 -
Median hourly rate £16.37 £20.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.16% - -
75th Percentile £22.00 £21.30 -
90th Percentile £29.77 £24.42 -
East Midlands median hourly rate £17.50 £21.39 £17.66
% change year-on-year -18.19% +21.12% -35.78%

Legal
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Legal job vacancy trend in Leicestershire

Legal
Daily Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing Legal

Legal
Hourly Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing Legal

Legal
Contract Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Legal within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 30 September 2026. 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
Leicester - 1 £500 - 8
Loughborough - 1 - - 1
Legal
East Midlands

Legal
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicestershire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (50.00%) Power Automate
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Local Government
1 1 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) JSON
2 1 (50.00%) Middleware
2 1 (50.00%) SOAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) ERP
1 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Release Management
1 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) SDLC
1 1 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree