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 21 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 208 206
Rank change year-on-year +7 -2 -49
Contract jobs citing Law 216 141 193
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.20% 1.14% 1.10%
As % of the General category 2.01% 1.69% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 92 123
10th Percentile £423 £351 £231
25th Percentile £500 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £795
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 11
10th Percentile - - £10.42
25th Percentile - £61.25 -
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £11.95
Median % change year-on-year - +423.01% -33.61%
75th Percentile - £63.75 £24.35
90th Percentile - - £27.96
England median hourly rate £17.73 £30.20 £13.00
% change year-on-year -41.31% +132.31% -35.00%

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 10,746 8,365 11,026
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 59.53% 67.71% 63.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,960 5,601 7,877
10th Percentile £350 £349 £336
25th Percentile £430 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% -1.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £706 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £825
England median daily rate £513 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 147 233
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £15.60
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.99 £18.13
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +21.43% -6.67%
75th Percentile £46.56 £50.75 £44.75
90th Percentile £67.40 £65.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £30.78 £27.25 £30.16
% change year-on-year +12.95% -9.65% -5.75%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 +14 53 £600 +29.73% 67
West London - 2 - - 4
South London -15 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 11 (5.09%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.39%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (0.93%) Confluence
5 1 (0.46%) Apache
5 1 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.46%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.46%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 6 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.39%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (0.93%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (0.93%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.46%) Magento
3 1 (0.46%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.46%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.46%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 40 (18.52%) Power Platform
2 32 (14.81%) Dynamics 365
3 21 (9.72%) Azure
4 13 (6.02%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (5.56%) AWS
6 6 (2.78%) SaaS
7 5 (2.31%) IaaS
7 5 (2.31%) PaaS
8 4 (1.85%) GCP
8 4 (1.85%) Microsoft Copilot
8 4 (1.85%) SuccessFactors
9 3 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.39%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.39%) Power Automate
9 3 (1.39%) Serverless
10 2 (0.93%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (0.93%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.93%) GitHub
10 2 (0.93%) OneDrive
10 2 (0.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.24%) Firewall
1 7 (3.24%) SD-WAN
1 7 (3.24%) WAN
2 5 (2.31%) LAN
2 5 (2.31%) MPLS
2 5 (2.31%) VPN
3 3 (1.39%) Cisco IPT
3 3 (1.39%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (1.39%) Network Security
4 2 (0.93%) Ethernet VPN
4 2 (0.93%) Internet
4 2 (0.93%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.46%) DNS
5 1 (0.46%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.46%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (17.59%) Power BI
2 4 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.93%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (0.93%) Amazon QuickSight
3 2 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.46%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.46%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.46%) KDB
4 1 (0.46%) Metadata
4 1 (0.46%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.46%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (2.78%) Jenkins
1 6 (2.78%) JUnit
1 6 (2.78%) Mockito
2 5 (2.31%) JIRA
3 4 (1.85%) Git
3 4 (1.85%) GitLab
3 4 (1.85%) Gradle
3 4 (1.85%) Liquibase
4 2 (0.93%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.46%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.46%) MLflow
5 1 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.46%) TestRail
5 1 (0.46%) Vite
General
1 78 (36.11%) Finance
2 51 (23.61%) Legal
3 36 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 26 (12.04%) Public Sector
5 13 (6.02%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (6.02%) Police
6 10 (4.63%) Marketing
7 9 (4.17%) Banking
8 5 (2.31%) Billing
8 5 (2.31%) Front Office
8 5 (2.31%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.39%) German Language
9 3 (1.39%) Retail
10 2 (0.93%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.93%) Military
10 2 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.93%) Publishing
10 2 (0.93%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 52 (24.07%) Architect
2 44 (20.37%) Senior
3 40 (18.52%) Lead
4 31 (14.35%) Functional Architect
4 31 (14.35%) Lead Architect
5 18 (8.33%) Analyst
6 16 (7.41%) Project Manager
7 15 (6.94%) Senior Manager
8 11 (5.09%) Business Manager
8 11 (5.09%) Consultant
8 11 (5.09%) Developer
9 8 (3.70%) Business Analyst
9 8 (3.70%) IT Trainer
9 8 (3.70%) Java Engineer
9 8 (3.70%) Java Software Engineer
9 8 (3.70%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 8 (3.70%) Software Engineer
9 8 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
9 8 (3.70%) Trainer
10 7 (3.24%) Senior IT Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.24%) Kafka
2 6 (2.78%) Middleware
2 6 (2.78%) React
2 6 (2.78%) Spring
2 6 (2.78%) Spring Boot
3 4 (1.85%) OpenAPI
3 4 (1.85%) Swagger
4 3 (1.39%) FIX Protocol
4 3 (1.39%) RESTful
5 2 (0.93%) CSS
5 2 (0.93%) HTML
5 2 (0.93%) JSON
5 2 (0.93%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (0.93%) Spring Cloud
6 1 (0.46%) CSS3
6 1 (0.46%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.46%) IDoc
6 1 (0.46%) Jest
6 1 (0.46%) PySpark
6 1 (0.46%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.17%) Onboarding
2 8 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
2 8 (3.70%) Security Posture
3 7 (3.24%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.78%) Data Centre
4 6 (2.78%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (1.85%) Taxonomies
6 3 (1.39%) AI Agents
6 3 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.39%) Digital Wallet
6 3 (1.39%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 2 (0.93%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (0.93%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.93%) Learning Management System
7 2 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.93%) Operational Technology
7 2 (0.93%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.63%) Windows
2 5 (2.31%) Linux
3 3 (1.39%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.93%) Unix
4 2 (0.93%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.46%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (23.61%) Migration
2 46 (21.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 42 (19.44%) Continuous Improvement
4 41 (18.98%) User Acceptance Testing
5 39 (18.06%) Data Migration
6 38 (17.59%) Business Intelligence
7 37 (17.13%) ERP
7 37 (17.13%) Order to Cash
7 37 (17.13%) Translating Business Requirements
8 36 (16.67%) Architectural Design
8 36 (16.67%) Procure-to-Pay
9 34 (15.74%) Record to Report
10 33 (15.28%) End-to-End Testing
11 30 (13.89%) Agile
12 29 (13.43%) Stakeholder Management
13 24 (11.11%) AI
14 18 (8.33%) Change Management
15 15 (6.94%) Problem-Solving
16 14 (6.48%) Scrum
17 13 (6.02%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 13 (6.02%) Java
2 12 (5.56%) SQL
3 8 (3.70%) Python
4 7 (3.24%) TypeScript
5 3 (1.39%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.39%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.93%) Bash
7 1 (0.46%) ABAP
7 1 (0.46%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.46%) Bicep
7 1 (0.46%) C#
7 1 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.46%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.46%) Ruby
7 1 (0.46%) VBA
Qualifications
1 32 (14.81%) Security Cleared
2 26 (12.04%) SC Cleared
3 20 (9.26%) Degree
4 7 (3.24%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.31%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.39%) CISM
6 3 (1.39%) CISSP
6 3 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.39%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.93%) CEH
8 1 (0.46%) ACCA
8 1 (0.46%) CCNA
8 1 (0.46%) CIMA
8 1 (0.46%) CIPD
8 1 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.46%) GCIA
8 1 (0.46%) GIAC
8 1 (0.46%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.46%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.78%) NIST
3 5 (2.31%) GDPR
4 4 (1.85%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.85%) GRC
5 3 (1.39%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.39%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.39%) NCSC
5 3 (1.39%) PSD2
6 2 (0.93%) PMO
6 2 (0.93%) QA
7 1 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.46%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.46%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 1 (0.46%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.46%) P3O
7 1 (0.46%) RMADS
7 1 (0.46%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.46%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (4.17%) Docker
2 7 (3.24%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (1.85%) Ansible
1 4 (1.85%) Kubernetes
1 4 (1.85%) Terraform
2 3 (1.39%) Cisco Prime
3 2 (0.93%) FortiGate
3 2 (0.93%) Grafana
3 2 (0.93%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.93%) Puppet
3 2 (0.93%) Salt
4 1 (0.46%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.46%) QRadar
4 1 (0.46%) SCCM
Vendors
1 61 (28.24%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.56%) SAP
3 8 (3.70%) Cisco
4 7 (3.24%) Aruba
5 6 (2.78%) Fortinet
5 6 (2.78%) iManage
6 5 (2.31%) Intapp
6 5 (2.31%) Oracle
6 5 (2.31%) Palo Alto
7 4 (1.85%) Juniper
7 4 (1.85%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.85%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.39%) Databricks
8 3 (1.39%) Splunk
9 2 (0.93%) Aderant
9 2 (0.93%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.93%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.93%) Solace
9 2 (0.93%) Workday
9 2 (0.93%) Zscaler