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 31 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 207 217 253
Rank change year-on-year +10 +36 -73
Contract jobs citing Law 255 160 135
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.27% 1.18% 0.82%
As % of the General category 2.10% 1.72% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 82 73
10th Percentile £425 £260 £222
25th Percentile £500 £364 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% -5.65% +5.50%
75th Percentile £645 £693 £719
90th Percentile £730 £773 £810
England median daily rate £511 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +2.20% -9.05% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - £21.97
25th Percentile - £61.25 £24.55
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year - +131.74% -30.85%
75th Percentile - £63.75 £27.96
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £22.81 £28.32 £26.97
% change year-on-year -19.46% +5.01% +34.85%

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 12,167 9,296 10,260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.62% 68.34% 62.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,761 6,202 7,258
10th Percentile £350 £325 £336
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £825
England median daily rate £525 £512 £538
% change year-on-year +2.54% -4.74% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 181 153
10th Percentile £18.50 £15.84 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.93 £24.50 £22.34
Median hourly rate £28.55 £30.81 £33.75
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% -8.73% -3.57%
75th Percentile £43.75 £50.50 £51.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £68.60
England median hourly rate £33.99 £25.32 £38.12
% change year-on-year +34.24% -33.58% +27.07%

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 31 July 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 31 July 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 +24 70 £600 +9.09% 95
West London - 2 - - 14
North London - 1 - -
South London - 1 £550 - 4
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 13 (5.10%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.96%) Confluence
4 2 (0.78%) Apache
5 1 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.39%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.39%) CMS
5 1 (0.39%) Mendix
5 1 (0.39%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 7 (2.75%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.39%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.18%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 3 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.78%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.78%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.39%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.39%) Hyperion Planning
3 1 (0.39%) Magento
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.39%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.39%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 43 (16.86%) Power Platform
2 34 (13.33%) Dynamics 365
3 31 (12.16%) Azure
4 25 (9.80%) AWS
5 12 (4.71%) GitHub
5 12 (4.71%) GitHub Actions
5 12 (4.71%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (3.92%) GCP
7 8 (3.14%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (3.14%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (3.14%) Serverless
8 7 (2.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 7 (2.75%) Amazon S3
9 6 (2.35%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (2.35%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (2.35%) SaaS
10 5 (1.96%) PaaS
10 5 (1.96%) Power Automate
10 5 (1.96%) SuccessFactors
10 5 (1.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.75%) Firewall
2 5 (1.96%) VPN
2 5 (1.96%) WAN
3 4 (1.57%) Cisco IPT
3 4 (1.57%) LAN
3 4 (1.57%) MPLS
3 4 (1.57%) SD-WAN
4 3 (1.18%) Network Security
5 2 (0.78%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.78%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (0.78%) Internet
5 2 (0.78%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.39%) BGP
6 1 (0.39%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.39%) DNS
6 1 (0.39%) Multicast
6 1 (0.39%) OSPF
6 1 (0.39%) TACACS
6 1 (0.39%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (16.08%) Power BI
2 6 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.18%) Redis
3 3 (1.18%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.78%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (0.78%) Amazon QuickSight
4 2 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.78%) Metadata
4 2 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.39%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.39%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.39%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.39%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.39%) KDB
5 1 (0.39%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 16 (6.27%) Jenkins
2 11 (4.31%) GitLab
3 9 (3.53%) JIRA
4 8 (3.14%) JUnit
4 8 (3.14%) Mockito
5 5 (1.96%) Gradle
5 5 (1.96%) Liquibase
6 3 (1.18%) Git
7 2 (0.78%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.39%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.39%) JMeter
8 1 (0.39%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.39%) Vite
General
1 82 (32.16%) Finance
2 62 (24.31%) Legal
3 50 (19.61%) Social Skills
4 27 (10.59%) Public Sector
5 21 (8.24%) Police
6 17 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (4.31%) Banking
8 9 (3.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (3.14%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (2.35%) Front Office
10 6 (2.35%) Marketing
11 3 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.18%) German Language
11 3 (1.18%) Legal Technology
11 3 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.78%) Billing
12 2 (0.78%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.78%) Publishing
12 2 (0.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 53 (20.78%) Senior
2 51 (20.00%) Lead
3 43 (16.86%) Architect
4 31 (12.16%) Functional Architect
4 31 (12.16%) Lead Architect
5 24 (9.41%) Project Manager
6 18 (7.06%) Developer
7 17 (6.67%) IT Trainer
7 17 (6.67%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 17 (6.67%) Trainer
8 16 (6.27%) Analyst
8 16 (6.27%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
8 16 (6.27%) Senior IT Trainer
9 15 (5.88%) Consultant
10 13 (5.10%) Senior Manager
11 9 (3.53%) HR Advisor
11 9 (3.53%) Java Engineer
11 9 (3.53%) Java Software Engineer
11 9 (3.53%) Software Engineer
12 7 (2.75%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.71%) Kafka
2 8 (3.14%) Spring
2 8 (3.14%) Spring Boot
3 7 (2.75%) React
4 6 (2.35%) RESTful
5 5 (1.96%) OpenAPI
5 5 (1.96%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (1.96%) REST
5 5 (1.96%) Swagger
6 4 (1.57%) Middleware
7 3 (1.18%) JSON
7 3 (1.18%) LangChain
7 3 (1.18%) Spring Cloud
8 2 (0.78%) AWS CDK
8 2 (0.78%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (0.78%) FIX Protocol
8 2 (0.78%) Hugging Face
8 2 (0.78%) PyTorch
8 2 (0.78%) TensorFlow
8 2 (0.78%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.06%) Onboarding
2 12 (4.71%) Cloud Native
3 10 (3.92%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.14%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.14%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (3.14%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (3.14%) Management Information System
5 6 (2.35%) Security Posture
6 5 (1.96%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.96%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.57%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.57%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (1.18%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.18%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.18%) FMCG
8 3 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.18%) PMI
9 2 (0.78%) e-Learning
9 2 (0.78%) Learning Management System
9 2 (0.78%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.14%) Windows
2 7 (2.75%) Linux
3 4 (1.57%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.78%) Unix
5 1 (0.39%) VMS
5 1 (0.39%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (23.14%) Migration
2 54 (21.18%) Continuous Improvement
3 53 (20.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 43 (16.86%) User Acceptance Testing
5 42 (16.47%) Business Intelligence
5 42 (16.47%) Data Migration
6 40 (15.69%) Agile
7 37 (14.51%) ERP
8 36 (14.12%) AI
8 36 (14.12%) Architectural Design
8 36 (14.12%) Procure-to-Pay
8 36 (14.12%) Stakeholder Management
9 34 (13.33%) Order to Cash
9 34 (13.33%) Translating Business Requirements
10 33 (12.94%) End-to-End Testing
10 33 (12.94%) Record to Report
11 30 (11.76%) CI/CD
12 23 (9.02%) Change Management
12 23 (9.02%) DevOps
13 20 (7.84%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 21 (8.24%) Python
2 19 (7.45%) SQL
3 18 (7.06%) Java
4 9 (3.53%) TypeScript
5 7 (2.75%) Bash
5 7 (2.75%) PowerShell
6 4 (1.57%) JavaScript
6 4 (1.57%) SOQL
7 1 (0.39%) ABAP
7 1 (0.39%) Bicep
7 1 (0.39%) C#
7 1 (0.39%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.39%) Ruby
7 1 (0.39%) Scala
7 1 (0.39%) VBA
Qualifications
1 41 (16.08%) Security Cleared
2 34 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 27 (10.59%) Degree
4 17 (6.67%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.35%) PMI Certification
6 5 (1.96%) CISM
6 5 (1.96%) CISSP
7 4 (1.57%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.57%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.18%) PMP
9 2 (0.78%) CEH
9 2 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.39%) ACCA
10 1 (0.39%) CCNA
10 1 (0.39%) ISEB
10 1 (0.39%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.31%) QA
2 7 (2.75%) GDPR
3 6 (2.35%) NIST
4 5 (1.96%) GRC
4 5 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.57%) Government Security Classifications
6 3 (1.18%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.78%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 2 (0.78%) NCSC
7 2 (0.78%) PMO
8 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.39%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.39%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.39%) P3O
8 1 (0.39%) PERC
8 1 (0.39%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (6.67%) Docker
2 5 (1.96%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.78%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (5.10%) Kubernetes
2 11 (4.31%) Terraform
3 7 (2.75%) Ansible
4 6 (2.35%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.57%) Grafana
6 2 (0.78%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.78%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (0.78%) Puppet
6 2 (0.78%) Salt
7 1 (0.39%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.39%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.39%) QRadar
7 1 (0.39%) SCCM
Vendors
1 66 (25.88%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.71%) SAP
3 7 (2.75%) Cisco
3 7 (2.75%) ServiceNow
4 6 (2.35%) Google
4 6 (2.35%) Intapp
5 5 (1.96%) Fortinet
5 5 (1.96%) iManage
5 5 (1.96%) Splunk
6 4 (1.57%) Aruba
6 4 (1.57%) Juniper
6 4 (1.57%) Oracle
6 4 (1.57%) UiPath
7 3 (1.18%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.18%) Litera
7 3 (1.18%) NEC
7 3 (1.18%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.18%) Solace
8 2 (0.78%) Aderant
8 2 (0.78%) Zscaler