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 18 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 201 243
Rank change year-on-year +7 +42 -88
Contract jobs citing Law 240 164 169
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.27% 1.32% 0.95%
As % of the General category 2.11% 1.94% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 96 106
10th Percentile £425 £263 £231
25th Percentile £500 £405 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £509 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% +1.70% -3.80%
75th Percentile £669 £628 £688
90th Percentile £750 £758 £800
England median daily rate £500 £500 £544
% change year-on-year - -8.05% +3.57%
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 £24.29 £30.10 £13.66
% change year-on-year -19.30% +120.39% -35.73%

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 11,372 8,458 11,109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.05% 68.08% 62.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,294 5,660 7,925
10th Percentile £350 £336 £334
25th Percentile £435 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £825
England median daily rate £520 £520 £533
% change year-on-year - -2.35% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 157 240
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.24 £15.95
25th Percentile £22.29 £24.66 £18.25
Median hourly rate £32.81 £34.00 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% +12.73% -1.92%
75th Percentile £45.22 £51.25 £47.50
90th Percentile £69.88 £65.23 £66.20
England median hourly rate £32.50 £28.00 £31.97
% change year-on-year +16.07% -12.42% +6.57%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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 +3 59 £625 +35.14% 60
West London - 3 - - 4
South London -7 1 - - 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 (4.58%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.25%) Confluence
4 1 (0.42%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 6 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.83%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 2 (0.83%) SAP ERP
1 2 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.42%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.42%) Hyperion Planning
2 1 (0.42%) Magento
2 1 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.42%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.42%) SAP SD
2 1 (0.42%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 39 (16.25%) Power Platform
2 32 (13.33%) Dynamics 365
3 27 (11.25%) Azure
4 21 (8.75%) AWS
5 11 (4.58%) GitHub
5 11 (4.58%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (3.33%) GCP
8 7 (2.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 7 (2.92%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (2.92%) Serverless
9 6 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (2.50%) Amazon S3
9 6 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (2.50%) SaaS
9 6 (2.50%) SuccessFactors
10 5 (2.08%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (2.08%) IaaS
10 5 (2.08%) PaaS
11 4 (1.67%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.33%) Firewall
1 8 (3.33%) SD-WAN
1 8 (3.33%) WAN
2 6 (2.50%) MPLS
3 5 (2.08%) LAN
3 5 (2.08%) VPN
4 3 (1.25%) Cisco IPT
4 3 (1.25%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (1.25%) Network Security
5 2 (0.83%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (0.83%) Internet
5 2 (0.83%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.42%) DNS
6 1 (0.42%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.42%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (15.42%) Power BI
2 5 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.25%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.83%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (0.83%) Amazon QuickSight
4 2 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (0.83%) Redis
5 1 (0.42%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.42%) KDB
5 1 (0.42%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 16 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 11 (4.58%) GitLab
3 8 (3.33%) JUnit
3 8 (3.33%) Mockito
4 7 (2.92%) JIRA
5 5 (2.08%) Gradle
5 5 (2.08%) Liquibase
6 3 (1.25%) Git
7 2 (0.83%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.42%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.42%) JMeter
8 1 (0.42%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.42%) Vite
General
1 84 (35.00%) Finance
2 54 (22.50%) Legal
3 49 (20.42%) Social Skills
4 28 (11.67%) Public Sector
5 19 (7.92%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (7.08%) Police
7 14 (5.83%) Banking
8 10 (4.17%) Marketing
9 9 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (2.92%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (2.50%) Front Office
12 5 (2.08%) Legal Technology
13 4 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (1.25%) German Language
14 3 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.83%) Billing
15 2 (0.83%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.83%) Military
15 2 (0.83%) Publishing
15 2 (0.83%) Retail
Job Titles
1 53 (22.08%) Senior
2 49 (20.42%) Architect
3 46 (19.17%) Lead
4 31 (12.92%) Functional Architect
4 31 (12.92%) Lead Architect
5 24 (10.00%) Project Manager
6 18 (7.50%) Analyst
7 15 (6.25%) Senior Manager
8 13 (5.42%) Consultant
8 13 (5.42%) Developer
8 13 (5.42%) IT Trainer
8 13 (5.42%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 13 (5.42%) Trainer
9 12 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
9 12 (5.00%) Senior IT Trainer
10 10 (4.17%) Business Manager
11 9 (3.75%) Java Engineer
11 9 (3.75%) Java Software Engineer
11 9 (3.75%) Software Engineer
12 8 (3.33%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.58%) Kafka
2 8 (3.33%) Spring
2 8 (3.33%) Spring Boot
3 7 (2.92%) React
4 6 (2.50%) RESTful
5 5 (2.08%) OpenAPI
5 5 (2.08%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (2.08%) Swagger
6 3 (1.25%) ADO
6 3 (1.25%) FIX Protocol
6 3 (1.25%) JSON
6 3 (1.25%) LangChain
6 3 (1.25%) Spring Cloud
7 2 (0.83%) CSS
7 2 (0.83%) Ehcache
7 2 (0.83%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (0.83%) HTML
7 2 (0.83%) Middleware
7 2 (0.83%) scikit-learn
7 2 (0.83%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.17%) Onboarding
2 9 (3.75%) Product Ownership
2 9 (3.75%) Security Posture
3 8 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (2.92%) Cloud Native
4 7 (2.92%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (2.50%) Data Centre
5 6 (2.50%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.67%) AI Agents
6 4 (1.67%) Cloud Security Posture
6 4 (1.67%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.67%) Fixed Income
6 4 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.67%) Taxonomies
7 3 (1.25%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.25%) Digital Wallet
7 3 (1.25%) FMCG
7 3 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.25%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 2 (0.83%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.75%) Windows
2 7 (2.92%) Linux
3 4 (1.67%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.83%) Unix
5 1 (0.42%) VMS
5 1 (0.42%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (23.33%) Migration
2 51 (21.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 49 (20.42%) Continuous Improvement
4 43 (17.92%) User Acceptance Testing
5 41 (17.08%) Data Migration
6 38 (15.83%) Business Intelligence
7 37 (15.42%) Agile
7 37 (15.42%) ERP
7 37 (15.42%) Stakeholder Management
8 36 (15.00%) Procure-to-Pay
9 35 (14.58%) Architectural Design
9 35 (14.58%) Translating Business Requirements
10 34 (14.17%) Order to Cash
10 34 (14.17%) Record to Report
11 33 (13.75%) End-to-End Testing
12 32 (13.33%) AI
13 26 (10.83%) CI/CD
14 21 (8.75%) Change Management
14 21 (8.75%) Problem-Solving
15 18 (7.50%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 18 (7.50%) Java
2 16 (6.67%) Python
3 12 (5.00%) SQL
4 8 (3.33%) TypeScript
5 7 (2.92%) Bash
6 6 (2.50%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.25%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.83%) Bicep
8 2 (0.83%) SOQL
9 1 (0.42%) ABAP
9 1 (0.42%) C#
9 1 (0.42%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.42%) Ruby
9 1 (0.42%) VBA
Qualifications
1 35 (14.58%) Security Cleared
2 30 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 22 (9.17%) Degree
4 9 (3.75%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.67%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 4 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (1.67%) Azure Certification
5 4 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.67%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.83%) CEH
6 2 (0.83%) CISM
6 2 (0.83%) CISSP
6 2 (0.83%) PMP
7 1 (0.42%) CIMA
7 1 (0.42%) CIPD
7 1 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.42%) GCIA
7 1 (0.42%) GIAC
7 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.50%) GRC
1 6 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.08%) NIST
2 5 (2.08%) QA
3 4 (1.67%) GDPR
4 3 (1.25%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.25%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.25%) ISO 20022
4 3 (1.25%) NCSC
4 3 (1.25%) PMO
4 3 (1.25%) PSD2
5 1 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.42%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 1 (0.42%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.42%) P3O
5 1 (0.42%) RMADS
5 1 (0.42%) Solvency II
5 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (7.08%) Docker
2 5 (2.08%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.83%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (5.42%) Kubernetes
2 12 (5.00%) Terraform
3 7 (2.92%) Ansible
4 6 (2.50%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.67%) Grafana
6 3 (1.25%) Cisco Prime
6 3 (1.25%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.83%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (0.83%) Puppet
7 2 (0.83%) Salt
8 1 (0.42%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.42%) QRadar
Vendors
1 62 (25.83%) Microsoft
2 15 (6.25%) SAP
3 10 (4.17%) Cisco
4 8 (3.33%) Aruba
5 6 (2.50%) Fortinet
5 6 (2.50%) Palo Alto
6 5 (2.08%) iManage
6 5 (2.08%) Splunk
7 4 (1.67%) Juniper
7 4 (1.67%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.25%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.25%) Intapp
8 3 (1.25%) Litera
8 3 (1.25%) NEC
8 3 (1.25%) Oracle
8 3 (1.25%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.83%) Aderant
9 2 (0.83%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.83%) Workday
9 2 (0.83%) Zscaler