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 19 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 215 247 172
Rank change year-on-year +32 -75 +33
Contract jobs citing Law 174 139 295
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.23% 0.89% 1.48%
As % of the General category 1.81% 1.42% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 65 242
10th Percentile £293 £246 £225
25th Percentile £463 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.58% -5.45% -1.08%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £638
90th Percentile £771 £688 £738
England median daily rate £550 £495 £538
% change year-on-year +11.11% -7.91% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £23.50 £61.53
Median % change year-on-year - -61.81% +167.52%
England median hourly rate £17.45 £38.00 £17.75
% change year-on-year -54.08% +114.08% -8.03%

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 9,628 9,817 12,978
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 68.33% 62.94% 65.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,293 6,293 9,393
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £673 £695 £700
90th Percentile £787 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 112 171
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.55 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.82 £27.38 £21.38
Median hourly rate £27.25 £37.79 £35.63
Median % change year-on-year -27.88% +6.05% +15.87%
75th Percentile £45.44 £54.06 £59.38
90th Percentile £70.20 £76.13 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.00 £32.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -21.88% -1.54% +26.41%

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 19 November 2025.

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 19 November 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 +5 35 £606 +51.56% 183
East London - 2 £900 - 12
West London -11 1 £188 - 9
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 6 (3.45%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.15%) CMS
3 2 (1.15%) Confluence
3 2 (1.15%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 12 (6.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (4.60%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (2.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.57%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.57%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (4.02%) Elite 3E
2 2 (1.15%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.57%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.57%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.57%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.57%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.57%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.57%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 30 (17.24%) Azure
2 14 (8.05%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (7.47%) AWS
4 10 (5.75%) Azure Logic Apps
5 9 (5.17%) Power Platform
6 8 (4.60%) Azure Key Vault
6 8 (4.60%) Azure Service Bus
6 8 (4.60%) Entra ID
6 8 (4.60%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (4.02%) Azure Monitor
8 6 (3.45%) Azure API Management
9 5 (2.87%) Azure Storage
10 4 (2.30%) GCP
10 4 (2.30%) Power Automate
10 4 (2.30%) SaaS
11 3 (1.72%) PowerApps
12 2 (1.15%) Azure AKS
12 2 (1.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 2 (1.15%) Snowflake
12 2 (1.15%) Tessian
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.17%) Network Security
2 5 (2.87%) Firewall
2 5 (2.87%) Internet
2 5 (2.87%) VPN
3 4 (2.30%) Cisco Nexus
3 4 (2.30%) LAN
3 4 (2.30%) SD-WAN
3 4 (2.30%) WAN
4 2 (1.15%) DMARC
4 2 (1.15%) DNS
4 2 (1.15%) Intranet
4 2 (1.15%) Skype
4 2 (1.15%) SMTP
4 2 (1.15%) WebEx
5 1 (0.57%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.57%) Cisco IPT
5 1 (0.57%) DHCP
5 1 (0.57%) VLAN
5 1 (0.57%) VoIP
5 1 (0.57%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.45%) Power BI
2 2 (1.15%) Data Lake
2 2 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (1.15%) Metadata
2 2 (1.15%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.15%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 2 (1.15%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.15%) Tableau
3 1 (0.57%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (0.57%) HBase
3 1 (0.57%) KDB
3 1 (0.57%) MariaDB
3 1 (0.57%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.57%) MySQL
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.57%) Pinecone
3 1 (0.57%) Power Query
3 1 (0.57%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (0.57%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 4 (2.30%) JIRA
2 3 (1.72%) Git
3 1 (0.57%) Gradle
3 1 (0.57%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.57%) Maven
3 1 (0.57%) QUnit
General
1 52 (29.89%) Finance
2 51 (29.31%) Social Skills
3 38 (21.84%) Legal
4 20 (11.49%) Public Sector
5 19 (10.92%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (5.75%) Telecoms
7 9 (5.17%) Marketing
8 8 (4.60%) General Ledger
8 8 (4.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (4.02%) Billing
9 7 (4.02%) Front Office
9 7 (4.02%) Police
10 4 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (2.30%) Publishing
11 3 (1.72%) Banking
11 3 (1.72%) Military
11 3 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.72%) Retail
12 2 (1.15%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 24 (13.79%) Analyst
2 20 (11.49%) Consultant
3 16 (9.20%) Project Manager
4 14 (8.05%) Developer
5 13 (7.47%) Business Analyst
6 12 (6.90%) Senior
7 11 (6.32%) Lead
8 8 (4.60%) Telecoms Manager
9 7 (4.02%) Architect
10 6 (3.45%) Delivery Manager
11 5 (2.87%) Java Developer
11 5 (2.87%) Senior Consultant
12 4 (2.30%) Change Manager
12 4 (2.30%) CRM Consultant
12 4 (2.30%) Financial Controller
12 4 (2.30%) Functional Consultant
12 4 (2.30%) Network Engineer
12 4 (2.30%) Product Owner
12 4 (2.30%) Support Engineer
12 4 (2.30%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.02%) YAML
2 6 (3.45%) ADO
2 6 (3.45%) ARM Templates
3 5 (2.87%) REST
4 4 (2.30%) SOAP
5 3 (1.72%) Kafka
5 3 (1.72%) Middleware
5 3 (1.72%) React
5 3 (1.72%) Spring
6 2 (1.15%) Express.js
6 2 (1.15%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (1.15%) JSON
6 2 (1.15%) Next.js
6 2 (1.15%) Node.js
6 2 (1.15%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (1.15%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.57%) HTML5
7 1 (0.57%) OpenID
7 1 (0.57%) RESTful
7 1 (0.57%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.32%) Product Ownership
2 8 (4.60%) Management Information System
3 6 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (3.45%) Onboarding
4 5 (2.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (2.30%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (2.30%) Cybercrime
6 3 (1.72%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.72%) Derivative
6 3 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.72%) Equities
6 3 (1.72%) Fixed Income
6 3 (1.72%) Legacy Code
6 3 (1.72%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.72%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.15%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.15%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.15%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.87%) Windows
2 3 (1.72%) Linux
2 3 (1.72%) Unix
3 1 (0.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (18.39%) Stakeholder Management
2 25 (14.37%) Agile
3 22 (12.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 21 (12.07%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (9.77%) Change Management
5 17 (9.77%) DevOps
6 16 (9.20%) Migration
7 14 (8.05%) CI/CD
7 14 (8.05%) Project Management
7 14 (8.05%) Workflow
8 12 (6.90%) Analytics
9 11 (6.32%) ITIL
10 10 (5.75%) Cybersecurity
11 9 (5.17%) API Management
11 9 (5.17%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (5.17%) Decision-Making
11 9 (5.17%) Infrastructure as Code
11 9 (5.17%) Project Delivery
11 9 (5.17%) User Acceptance Testing
12 8 (4.60%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 14 (8.05%) Python
1 14 (8.05%) SQL
2 9 (5.17%) Bicep
2 9 (5.17%) PowerShell
3 7 (4.02%) Java
4 6 (3.45%) Bash
5 5 (2.87%) C++
6 2 (1.15%) Apex Code
6 2 (1.15%) C#
6 2 (1.15%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.15%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.57%) ABAP
7 1 (0.57%) Clojure
7 1 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.57%) Groovy
7 1 (0.57%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.57%) Perl
7 1 (0.57%) PHP
7 1 (0.57%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.57%) Rust
Qualifications
1 40 (22.99%) Security Cleared
2 26 (14.94%) SC Cleared
3 16 (9.20%) Degree
4 13 (7.47%) DV Cleared
5 6 (3.45%) ACCA
5 6 (3.45%) CIMA
6 5 (2.87%) CISSP
6 5 (2.87%) GIAC
7 4 (2.30%) CEH
7 4 (2.30%) CompTIA CySA+
7 4 (2.30%) GREM
7 4 (2.30%) OSCP
7 4 (2.30%) PMP
8 3 (1.72%) CIPD
9 2 (1.15%) CISA
9 2 (1.15%) CISM
9 2 (1.15%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (1.15%) GSEC
9 2 (1.15%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.57%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (3.45%) QA
3 5 (2.87%) GDPR
4 4 (2.30%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.30%) NCSC
4 4 (2.30%) NIST
5 3 (1.72%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.72%) GRC
5 3 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 3 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 1 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.57%) EMIR
6 1 (0.57%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.57%) IFRS
6 1 (0.57%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.57%) PMO
6 1 (0.57%) Solvency II
System Software
1 9 (5.17%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.87%) Docker
2 5 (2.87%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (2.30%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.72%) Terraform
3 2 (1.15%) Cisco Prime
3 2 (1.15%) Kibana
3 2 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.57%) EnCase
4 1 (0.57%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.57%) FTK
4 1 (0.57%) QRadar
4 1 (0.57%) SCCM
Vendors
1 19 (10.92%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.02%) Workday
3 6 (3.45%) Palo Alto
3 6 (3.45%) SAP
3 6 (3.45%) ServiceNow
4 5 (2.87%) Aderant
4 5 (2.87%) Cisco
4 5 (2.87%) Intapp
5 4 (2.30%) HubSpot
5 4 (2.30%) iManage
5 4 (2.30%) Xero
6 2 (1.15%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (1.15%) Databricks
6 2 (1.15%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.15%) OpenText
6 2 (1.15%) Oracle
6 2 (1.15%) Polycom
6 2 (1.15%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.15%) SolarWinds
6 2 (1.15%) Veeam