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 25 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 237 218 273
Rank change year-on-year -19 +55 -110
Contract jobs citing Law 242 156 125
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.19% 1.16% 0.77%
As % of the General category 1.93% 1.68% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 84 49
10th Percentile £425 £230 £221
25th Percentile £500 £420 £258
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £575 £480
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% +19.79% -11.93%
75th Percentile £675 £696 £663
90th Percentile £750 £768 £780
England median daily rate £550 £535 £525
% change year-on-year +2.80% +1.90% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £15.67
25th Percentile - - £22.30
Median hourly rate - - £26.97
75th Percentile - - £27.96
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £20.27 £23.00 £26.97
% change year-on-year -11.88% -14.72% +54.11%

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 12,515 9,279 10,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 61.57% 68.88% 62.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,999 6,117 6,650
10th Percentile £350 £325 £330
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 £675 £700
90th Percentile £788 £788 £825
England median daily rate £525 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 268 180 121
10th Percentile £16.70 £17.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £20.97 £24.61 £25.23
Median hourly rate £28.40 £31.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% -11.28% +29.09%
75th Percentile £47.50 £48.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £65.00 £66.00
England median hourly rate £30.50 £25.15 £38.85
% change year-on-year +21.27% -35.26% +41.27%

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 62 £600 +2.13% 253
South London - 2 £593 - 8
West London - 1 - - 106
North London - 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 6 (2.48%) Confluence
2 5 (2.07%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.83%) Apache
3 2 (0.83%) CMS
3 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.41%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.41%) Mendix
4 1 (0.41%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (2.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.65%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 3 (1.24%) Elite 3E
2 3 (1.24%) Oracle SCM
2 3 (1.24%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.83%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.41%) Hyperion Planning
4 1 (0.41%) Magento
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.41%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 34 (14.05%) Azure
2 28 (11.57%) AWS
3 20 (8.26%) Power Platform
4 14 (5.79%) Dynamics 365
5 13 (5.37%) GitHub
6 11 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
6 11 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (4.13%) GCP
8 9 (3.72%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (3.72%) Serverless
9 8 (3.31%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (3.31%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (2.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (2.89%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (2.89%) Amazon S3
11 6 (2.48%) Microsoft Copilot
11 6 (2.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 5 (2.07%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (2.07%) PowerApps
13 4 (1.65%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.48%) Firewall
2 4 (1.65%) Network Security
2 4 (1.65%) WAN
3 3 (1.24%) LAN
3 3 (1.24%) Reverse Proxy
3 3 (1.24%) SD-WAN
3 3 (1.24%) VPN
4 2 (0.83%) Cisco IPT
4 2 (0.83%) DNS
4 2 (0.83%) MPLS
5 1 (0.41%) BGP
5 1 (0.41%) DHCP
5 1 (0.41%) Internet
5 1 (0.41%) OSPF
5 1 (0.41%) TACACS
5 1 (0.41%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.41%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.41%) VLAN
5 1 (0.41%) VoIP
5 1 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.02%) Power BI
2 3 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (1.24%) Metadata
2 3 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (1.24%) Redis
2 3 (1.24%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.83%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (0.83%) Amazon QuickSight
3 2 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (0.83%) Data Lake
3 2 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (0.83%) KDB
3 2 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.41%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.41%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.41%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.41%) Kdb+
4 1 (0.41%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.41%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (5.37%) Jenkins
2 12 (4.96%) JIRA
3 11 (4.55%) GitLab
4 4 (1.65%) JUnit
4 4 (1.65%) Mockito
5 3 (1.24%) Git
6 2 (0.83%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.83%) Gradle
6 2 (0.83%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.41%) JMeter
7 1 (0.41%) LoadRunner
General
1 69 (28.51%) Finance
2 61 (25.21%) Social Skills
3 53 (21.90%) Legal
4 33 (13.64%) Public Sector
5 22 (9.09%) Police
6 17 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (5.79%) Banking
8 9 (3.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (3.31%) Front Office
10 7 (2.89%) Legal Technology
11 5 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.24%) Investment Banking
12 3 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.83%) German Language
13 2 (0.83%) Marketing
13 2 (0.83%) Military
13 2 (0.83%) Social Housing
14 1 (0.41%) Local Government
14 1 (0.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 42 (17.36%) Senior
2 31 (12.81%) Lead
3 24 (9.92%) Analyst
3 24 (9.92%) Project Manager
4 23 (9.50%) Consultant
5 22 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
5 22 (9.09%) IT Trainer
5 22 (9.09%) Trainer
6 21 (8.68%) Architect
6 21 (8.68%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 21 (8.68%) Senior IT Trainer
7 20 (8.26%) Developer
8 9 (3.72%) HR Advisor
9 8 (3.31%) Business Analyst
9 8 (3.31%) Functional Architect
9 8 (3.31%) Lead Architect
10 7 (2.89%) Financial Analyst
10 7 (2.89%) Systems Analyst
11 6 (2.48%) Business Manager
11 6 (2.48%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.79%) Terraform
2 8 (3.31%) Kafka
2 8 (3.31%) REST
3 5 (2.07%) React
4 4 (1.65%) JSON
4 4 (1.65%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (1.65%) RESTful
4 4 (1.65%) Spring
4 4 (1.65%) Spring Boot
5 3 (1.24%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (1.24%) HTML
5 3 (1.24%) HTML5 Canvas
5 3 (1.24%) LangChain
5 3 (1.24%) Middleware
5 3 (1.24%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (0.83%) AWS CDK
6 2 (0.83%) Hugging Face
6 2 (0.83%) OpenAPI
6 2 (0.83%) PyTorch
6 2 (0.83%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.61%) Cloud Native
2 15 (6.20%) Onboarding
3 11 (4.55%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (2.89%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.07%) Fixed Income
7 5 (2.07%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.65%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.65%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (1.65%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.24%) Cloud Security Posture
9 3 (1.24%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.24%) FMCG
9 3 (1.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.24%) PMI
9 3 (1.24%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.83%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.83%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.83%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.37%) Windows
2 10 (4.13%) Linux
3 5 (2.07%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.24%) Unix
5 1 (0.41%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.41%) VMS
5 1 (0.41%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (21.07%) Stakeholder Management
2 41 (16.94%) Agile
3 33 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
3 33 (13.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 32 (13.22%) Migration
5 30 (12.40%) CI/CD
6 28 (11.57%) AI
7 26 (10.74%) DevOps
8 24 (9.92%) Change Management
8 24 (9.92%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (8.26%) Roadmaps
10 19 (7.85%) Data Migration
10 19 (7.85%) Risk Management
11 18 (7.44%) Business Intelligence
11 18 (7.44%) User Acceptance Testing
12 16 (6.61%) Workshop Facilitation
13 15 (6.20%) Case Management
13 15 (6.20%) Project Delivery
13 15 (6.20%) Software Engineering
14 14 (5.79%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 29 (11.98%) Python
2 18 (7.44%) SQL
3 12 (4.96%) Java
4 8 (3.31%) Bash
4 8 (3.31%) PowerShell
5 7 (2.89%) TypeScript
6 6 (2.48%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.65%) SOQL
8 1 (0.41%) Bicep
8 1 (0.41%) C#
8 1 (0.41%) Go
8 1 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.41%) Scala
8 1 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 60 (24.79%) Security Cleared
2 52 (21.49%) SC Cleared
3 24 (9.92%) Degree
3 24 (9.92%) DV Cleared
4 8 (3.31%) PMI Certification
5 7 (2.89%) CISM
5 7 (2.89%) CISSP
6 5 (2.07%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (2.07%) PMP
7 4 (1.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.83%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.83%) CEH
9 2 (0.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.41%) CCSP
10 1 (0.41%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.37%) QA
2 7 (2.89%) GDPR
2 7 (2.89%) NCSC
3 5 (2.07%) GRC
4 4 (1.65%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.65%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (0.83%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.83%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 2 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.83%) NIST
6 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.41%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.41%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.41%) PERC
6 1 (0.41%) PMO
System Software
1 14 (5.79%) Docker
2 5 (2.07%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.83%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (6.20%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.89%) Prometheus
3 6 (2.48%) Ansible
4 5 (2.07%) Grafana
5 3 (1.24%) SCCM
6 2 (0.83%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.83%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (0.83%) Kibana
6 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.83%) Puppet
6 2 (0.83%) Salt
6 2 (0.83%) SCOM
7 1 (0.41%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.41%) QRadar
Vendors
1 46 (19.01%) Microsoft
2 15 (6.20%) Aderant
3 9 (3.72%) ServiceNow
4 8 (3.31%) SAP
5 7 (2.89%) Google
6 6 (2.48%) Cisco
7 5 (2.07%) Intapp
7 5 (2.07%) Oracle
7 5 (2.07%) Splunk
8 4 (1.65%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.65%) UiPath
9 3 (1.24%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.24%) iManage
9 3 (1.24%) NEC
9 3 (1.24%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.24%) Solace
10 2 (0.83%) Aruba
10 2 (0.83%) Databricks
10 2 (0.83%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.83%) Workday