Law Contract Job Trends in London

Law
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Law in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Law over the 6 months leading up to 18 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 206 205 182
Rank change year-on-year -1 -23 -6
Contract jobs citing Law 202 152 234
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.23% 1.19% 1.28%
As % of the General category 1.97% 1.78% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 106 173
10th Percentile £393 £344 £263
25th Percentile £500 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -3.67% +1.40%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £638
90th Percentile £770 £800 £719
England median daily rate £550 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 9
10th Percentile - - £10.42
25th Percentile - £32.25 -
Median hourly rate - £34.50 £11.95
Median % change year-on-year - +188.70% -38.08%
75th Percentile - £36.75 £15.50
90th Percentile - - £28.91
England median hourly rate £37.00 £68.69 £13.00
% change year-on-year -46.13% +428.37% -39.53%

All General Skills
London

Law 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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 10,263 8,522 11,570
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 62.47% 66.48% 63.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,659 5,691 8,265
10th Percentile £350 £338 £331
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £696
90th Percentile £781 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 128 260
10th Percentile £17.50 £19.76 £15.95
25th Percentile £20.82 £24.73 £18.95
Median hourly rate £29.02 £35.00 £30.08
Median % change year-on-year -17.09% +16.36% -7.45%
75th Percentile £48.50 £55.25 £47.90
90th Percentile £72.50 £78.40 £72.53
England median hourly rate £25.00 £30.79 £26.00
% change year-on-year -18.81% +18.43% -23.12%

Law
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Law job vacancy trend in London

Law
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Law.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Law

Law
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Law in London over the 6 months to 18 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Law in London

Law
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Law.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Law

Law
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Law within the London region over the 6 months to 18 March 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
Central London +7 41 £625 +28.21% 92
West London -15 3 £188 - 3
East London - 2 £900 - 9
South London -18 1 - - 1
Law
England

Law
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (4.95%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.97%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.98%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (0.99%) CMS
5 1 (0.50%) Apache
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (3.47%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (3.47%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (2.97%) Elite 3E
2 5 (2.48%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.99%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.99%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle SCM
4 1 (0.50%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.50%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 23 (11.39%) Azure
2 20 (9.90%) Power Platform
3 15 (7.43%) Dynamics 365
4 12 (5.94%) AWS
5 9 (4.46%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (3.96%) SaaS
7 5 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.98%) SuccessFactors
9 3 (1.49%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (1.49%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (1.49%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (1.49%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.49%) GCP
9 3 (1.49%) IaaS
9 3 (1.49%) PaaS
9 3 (1.49%) Power Automate
9 3 (1.49%) Snowflake
10 2 (0.99%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (0.99%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.97%) SD-WAN
1 6 (2.97%) WAN
2 5 (2.48%) LAN
2 5 (2.48%) VPN
3 4 (1.98%) Firewall
3 4 (1.98%) MPLS
4 3 (1.49%) Cisco IPT
4 3 (1.49%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.99%) Intranet
6 1 (0.50%) DHCP
6 1 (0.50%) DNS
6 1 (0.50%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.50%) Internet
6 1 (0.50%) Network Security
6 1 (0.50%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.50%) VoIP
6 1 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.91%) Power BI
2 2 (0.99%) NoSQL
2 2 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (0.99%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.50%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.50%) Delta Lake
3 1 (0.50%) HBase
3 1 (0.50%) KDB
3 1 (0.50%) Kdb+
3 1 (0.50%) MariaDB
3 1 (0.50%) Metadata
3 1 (0.50%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.50%) MySQL
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (0.50%) Pinecone
3 1 (0.50%) Star Schema
3 1 (0.50%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 5 (2.48%) JIRA
2 4 (1.98%) Git
3 3 (1.49%) Gradle
3 3 (1.49%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.99%) JUnit
4 2 (0.99%) Liquibase
4 2 (0.99%) Mockito
5 1 (0.50%) Maven
5 1 (0.50%) MLflow
5 1 (0.50%) QUnit
5 1 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.50%) TestRail
General
1 71 (35.15%) Finance
2 59 (29.21%) Legal
3 56 (27.72%) Social Skills
4 21 (10.40%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (9.41%) Public Sector
6 14 (6.93%) Marketing
7 11 (5.45%) Billing
8 8 (3.96%) Front Office
8 8 (3.96%) Police
9 6 (2.97%) Banking
9 6 (2.97%) General Ledger
9 6 (2.97%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (2.48%) Publishing
10 5 (2.48%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.49%) Retail
13 2 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.50%) Corporate Banking
14 1 (0.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 36 (17.82%) Architect
2 28 (13.86%) Senior
3 21 (10.40%) Analyst
4 19 (9.41%) Project Manager
5 17 (8.42%) Lead
6 15 (7.43%) Consultant
6 15 (7.43%) Developer
7 13 (6.44%) Functional Architect
7 13 (6.44%) Lead Architect
8 10 (4.95%) Solutions Architect
9 9 (4.46%) Senior Manager
10 7 (3.47%) Business Analyst
10 7 (3.47%) Business Manager
11 6 (2.97%) Java Developer
11 6 (2.97%) Senior Consultant
12 5 (2.48%) Functional Consultant
12 5 (2.48%) Senior Developer
13 4 (1.98%) Development Manager
13 4 (1.98%) IT Manager
13 4 (1.98%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.47%) Middleware
2 5 (2.48%) Spring
3 4 (1.98%) FIX Protocol
3 4 (1.98%) Kafka
3 4 (1.98%) REST
3 4 (1.98%) Spring Boot
4 3 (1.49%) React
4 3 (1.49%) SOAP
5 2 (0.99%) IDoc
5 2 (0.99%) JSON
5 2 (0.99%) OpenAPI
5 2 (0.99%) SAP ALE
5 2 (0.99%) Swagger
6 1 (0.50%) Faiss
6 1 (0.50%) LangChain
6 1 (0.50%) LangGraph
6 1 (0.50%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (0.50%) PySpark
6 1 (0.50%) PyTorch
6 1 (0.50%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.95%) Management Information System
1 10 (4.95%) Onboarding
1 10 (4.95%) Product Ownership
2 7 (3.47%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (3.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (2.97%) Data Centre
3 6 (2.97%) Security Posture
4 5 (2.48%) Taxonomies
5 3 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.49%) Digital Wallet
5 3 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (1.49%) Operational Technology
5 3 (1.49%) Public Cloud
5 3 (1.49%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (0.99%) Algorithms
6 2 (0.99%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (0.99%) Data Structures
6 2 (0.99%) Private Cloud
6 2 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.46%) Windows
2 3 (1.49%) Linux
3 2 (0.99%) Unix
3 2 (0.99%) Windows 10
3 2 (0.99%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.50%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.50%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (19.31%) Stakeholder Management
2 36 (17.82%) Migration
3 28 (13.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 28 (13.86%) User Acceptance Testing
4 27 (13.37%) Agile
5 23 (11.39%) Data Migration
6 22 (10.89%) Change Management
7 20 (9.90%) Order to Cash
7 20 (9.90%) Translating Business Requirements
8 19 (9.41%) Architectural Design
8 19 (9.41%) Business Intelligence
8 19 (9.41%) ERP
9 18 (8.91%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (8.42%) AI
10 17 (8.42%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (8.42%) Procure-to-Pay
11 16 (7.92%) End-to-End Testing
11 16 (7.92%) Record to Report
12 15 (7.43%) ITIL
13 14 (6.93%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 16 (7.92%) SQL
2 11 (5.45%) Java
3 7 (3.47%) Python
4 5 (2.48%) C++
5 3 (1.49%) C#
6 2 (0.99%) ABAP
6 2 (0.99%) Bicep
6 2 (0.99%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.99%) Kotlin
6 2 (0.99%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.99%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.50%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.50%) Clojure
7 1 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.50%) PHP
7 1 (0.50%) Ruby
7 1 (0.50%) Rust
7 1 (0.50%) Scala
7 1 (0.50%) VBA
Qualifications
1 34 (16.83%) Security Cleared
2 28 (13.86%) SC Cleared
3 20 (9.90%) Degree
4 6 (2.97%) ACCA
4 6 (2.97%) CIMA
5 5 (2.48%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.98%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.98%) PMP
7 3 (1.49%) CISSP
7 3 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.99%) CIPD
9 1 (0.50%) CISM
9 1 (0.50%) IIBA
9 1 (0.50%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.50%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.50%) PhD
9 1 (0.50%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.50%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (3.47%) NIST
3 6 (2.97%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.97%) GDPR
3 6 (2.97%) GRC
3 6 (2.97%) NCSC
4 5 (2.48%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 3 (1.49%) ISO 20022
6 3 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 3 (1.49%) PSD2
7 2 (0.99%) PMO
7 2 (0.99%) QA
8 1 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.50%) EMIR
8 1 (0.50%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.50%) P3O
8 1 (0.50%) RMADS
System Software
1 6 (2.97%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (1.98%) Terraform
2 3 (1.49%) Cisco Prime
3 2 (0.99%) FortiGate
3 2 (0.99%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.99%) SCCM
4 1 (0.50%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 39 (19.31%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.45%) SAP
3 9 (4.46%) Intapp
4 6 (2.97%) Aruba
4 6 (2.97%) Cisco
4 6 (2.97%) iManage
4 6 (2.97%) Oracle
4 6 (2.97%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.48%) Aderant
5 5 (2.48%) Databricks
5 5 (2.48%) Palo Alto
5 5 (2.48%) Workday
6 4 (1.98%) HubSpot
6 4 (1.98%) Xero
7 3 (1.49%) Fortinet
7 3 (1.49%) SolarWinds
8 2 (0.99%) Juniper
8 2 (0.99%) OpenText
8 2 (0.99%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.50%) HP