Law Contracts 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 207 190 164
Rank change year-on-year -17 -26 +64
Contract jobs citing Law 149 221 438
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.19% 1.24% 1.62%
As % of the General category 1.76% 1.96% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 153 303
10th Percentile £363 £231 £237
25th Percentile £461 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -1.87%
75th Percentile £700 £653 £675
90th Percentile £804 £762 £775
England median daily rate £513 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 11 8
10th Percentile - £10.42 £16.35
25th Percentile £61.25 - £17.65
Median hourly rate £62.50 £11.95 £30.88
Median % change year-on-year +423.01% -61.30% -20.32%
75th Percentile £63.75 £24.35 £41.63
90th Percentile - £27.96 £52.35
England median hourly rate £30.20 £13.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +132.31% -48.00% +42.86%

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 common skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,480 11,281 17,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 67.55% 63.22% 63.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,731 8,058 12,397
10th Percentile £340 £336 £375
25th Percentile £450 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £713 £700 £725
90th Percentile £825 £813 £825
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 245 220
10th Percentile £15.84 £16.00 £16.59
25th Percentile £22.90 £18.25 £21.24
Median hourly rate £34.50 £28.50 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -10.94% -12.33%
75th Percentile £52.00 £43.75 £58.19
90th Percentile £65.00 £65.45 £70.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £30.00 £33.91
% change year-on-year -6.67% -11.53% +57.72%

Law
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Law as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Law in London

Law
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Law in London.

Daily rate trend for Law in London

Law
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Law in London over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Law in London

Law
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Law in London.

Hourly rate trend for Law in London

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 30 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -25 30 £475 -20.83% 52
North London - 1 £405 - 3
South London - 1 £625 - 4
Law
England

Law
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (6.71%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.68%) CMS
2 4 (2.68%) Confluence
2 4 (2.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.01%) Apache
4 2 (1.34%) Anypoint
Applications
1 6 (4.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.34%) Trello
4 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (2.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.01%) SAP GTS
3 2 (1.34%) FLEXCUBE
3 2 (1.34%) Misys Midas
3 2 (1.34%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.67%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.67%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.67%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.67%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.67%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.67%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 36 (24.16%) Azure
2 18 (12.08%) AWS
3 13 (8.72%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (2.68%) Power Platform
5 3 (2.01%) Entra ID
5 3 (2.01%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 3 (2.01%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 3 (2.01%) Snowflake
6 2 (1.34%) Boomi
6 2 (1.34%) IaaS
6 2 (1.34%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.67%) Attraqt
7 1 (0.67%) Azure Stack
7 1 (0.67%) Mimecast
7 1 (0.67%) OCI
7 1 (0.67%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.67%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.67%) SaaS
7 1 (0.67%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.36%) Firewall
2 4 (2.68%) SAN
3 3 (2.01%) DNS
3 3 (2.01%) Intranet
3 3 (2.01%) LAN
3 3 (2.01%) SD-WAN
3 3 (2.01%) VPN
4 2 (1.34%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (1.34%) DMZ
4 2 (1.34%) MPLS
4 2 (1.34%) WAN
5 1 (0.67%) Network Security
5 1 (0.67%) Skype
5 1 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.03%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.01%) Big Data
2 3 (2.01%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (2.01%) Power BI
3 2 (1.34%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.67%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 10 (6.71%) JIRA
2 5 (3.36%) Cypress.io
2 5 (3.36%) JMeter
3 4 (2.68%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.01%) Bitbucket
4 3 (2.01%) SonarQube
4 3 (2.01%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.67%) GitLab
5 1 (0.67%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 48 (32.21%) Finance
2 35 (23.49%) Legal
3 23 (15.44%) Social Skills
4 22 (14.77%) Public Sector
5 15 (10.07%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (10.07%) Police
6 7 (4.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.36%) Banking
8 4 (2.68%) Marketing
8 4 (2.68%) Publishing
9 3 (2.01%) Retail
10 2 (1.34%) Dutch Language
10 2 (1.34%) French Language
10 2 (1.34%) Military
10 2 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.67%) Front Office
11 1 (0.67%) German Language
11 1 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (14.77%) Analyst
2 18 (12.08%) Architect
3 17 (11.41%) Consultant
4 15 (10.07%) Senior
5 14 (9.40%) Project Manager
6 11 (7.38%) Lead
7 9 (6.04%) Business Analyst
7 9 (6.04%) Developer
8 7 (4.70%) Migration Engineer
8 7 (4.70%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (4.03%) IT Analyst
10 5 (3.36%) AWS DevOps
10 5 (3.36%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 5 (3.36%) AWS Engineer
10 5 (3.36%) Azure Engineer
10 5 (3.36%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (3.36%) DevOps Engineer
10 5 (3.36%) Process Analyst
10 5 (3.36%) SAP Consultant
10 5 (3.36%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.36%) CSS
1 5 (3.36%) HTML
2 4 (2.68%) .NET
3 3 (2.01%) Apache NiFi
3 3 (2.01%) ASP.NET
3 3 (2.01%) ASP.NET Core
3 3 (2.01%) DCOM
3 3 (2.01%) Lightning Web Components
3 3 (2.01%) NumPy
3 3 (2.01%) Pandas
3 3 (2.01%) PySpark
3 3 (2.01%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (2.01%) React
4 2 (1.34%) Middleware
4 2 (1.34%) Visualforce
5 1 (0.67%) Django
5 1 (0.67%) MIDP
5 1 (0.67%) RESTful
5 1 (0.67%) SOAP
5 1 (0.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.03%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (2.68%) Hedge funds
2 4 (2.68%) Legacy Applications
2 4 (2.68%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.01%) Data Centre
3 3 (2.01%) Digital Media
3 3 (2.01%) Freedom of Information
3 3 (2.01%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.01%) Private Cloud
3 3 (2.01%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.34%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.34%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (1.34%) Derivative
4 2 (1.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.34%) Replication
4 2 (1.34%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.67%) Blockchain
5 1 (0.67%) Hackathon
5 1 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.67%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 16 (10.74%) Windows
2 6 (4.03%) Windows Server
3 5 (3.36%) Windows 10
4 4 (2.68%) Linux
5 3 (2.01%) CentOS
5 3 (2.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.34%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.34%) VMS
7 1 (0.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (18.12%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (16.11%) Change Management
3 18 (12.08%) DevOps
3 18 (12.08%) Migration
4 16 (10.74%) ITIL
4 16 (10.74%) Risk Management
5 14 (9.40%) Data Protection
6 13 (8.72%) Artificial Intelligence
6 13 (8.72%) Project Management
7 12 (8.05%) Agile
7 12 (8.05%) Information Security
7 12 (8.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 11 (7.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (7.38%) Stakeholder Management
9 10 (6.71%) CI/CD
10 9 (6.04%) Service Management
11 8 (5.37%) Cybersecurity
11 8 (5.37%) Mentoring
12 7 (4.70%) ERP
12 7 (4.70%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 10 (6.71%) SQL
2 7 (4.70%) Python
3 4 (2.68%) PowerShell
4 3 (2.01%) ABAP
4 3 (2.01%) C#
4 3 (2.01%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.34%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.67%) Bash
Qualifications
1 34 (22.82%) Security Cleared
2 32 (21.48%) SC Cleared
3 14 (9.40%) Degree
4 5 (3.36%) CISM
5 4 (2.68%) CISSP
5 4 (2.68%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (2.01%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.01%) EnCE
7 2 (1.34%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.34%) PMP
8 1 (0.67%) ACCA
8 1 (0.67%) CCAB
8 1 (0.67%) CCNP
8 1 (0.67%) CIMA
8 1 (0.67%) CIPD
8 1 (0.67%) CIPFA
8 1 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.67%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.04%) GDPR
2 4 (2.68%) NIST
3 3 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 17025
3 3 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.01%) PMO
3 3 (2.01%) PSD2
4 2 (1.34%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.34%) NCSC
4 2 (1.34%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.34%) QA
5 1 (0.67%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.67%) P3O
5 1 (0.67%) SLA
5 1 (0.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (5.37%) Active Directory
1 8 (5.37%) Docker
1 8 (5.37%) vSphere
2 4 (2.68%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.01%) vCloud
3 3 (2.01%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.01%) VMware Workstation
4 2 (1.34%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (6.04%) Kubernetes
1 9 (6.04%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (4.70%) Terraform
3 5 (3.36%) Ansible
4 3 (2.01%) EnCase
4 3 (2.01%) FTK
4 3 (2.01%) Kibana
4 3 (2.01%) SCCM
5 2 (1.34%) AirWatch
5 2 (1.34%) Cisco Prime
5 2 (1.34%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
6 1 (0.67%) Grafana
6 1 (0.67%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.67%) SCOM
Vendors
1 22 (14.77%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.04%) Salesforce
2 9 (6.04%) SAP
3 5 (3.36%) Dell
3 5 (3.36%) Oracle
4 4 (2.68%) Bloomberg
4 4 (2.68%) MuleSoft
4 4 (2.68%) Workday
5 3 (2.01%) Cellebrite
5 3 (2.01%) Fortinet
5 3 (2.01%) Nuix
5 3 (2.01%) Refinitiv
5 3 (2.01%) Reuters
5 3 (2.01%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.01%) VMware
6 2 (1.34%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.34%) HP
6 2 (1.34%) Pure Storage
6 2 (1.34%) Sage
6 2 (1.34%) SolarWinds