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 1 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 201 180
Rank change year-on-year +5 -21 -6
Contract jobs citing Law 234 150 237
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.39% 1.19% 1.31%
As % of the General category 2.24% 1.78% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 105 167
10th Percentile £463 £355 £246
25th Percentile £500 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £564 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.38% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £800 £738
England median daily rate £519 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +3.75% -9.09% +6.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 9
10th Percentile - £35.15 £10.42
25th Percentile - £39.50 -
Median hourly rate - £48.50 £11.95
Median % change year-on-year - +305.86% -43.50%
75th Percentile - £57.00 £15.50
90th Percentile - £61.05 £28.91
England median hourly rate £37.00 £30.20 £13.00
% change year-on-year +22.52% +132.31% -45.83%

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 10,469 8,437 11,446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 61.97% 66.83% 63.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,829 5,713 8,163
10th Percentile £350 £336 £330
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £700
90th Percentile £782 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 139 254
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.85 £15.65
25th Percentile £20.82 £24.66 £18.39
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £47.75 £55.13 £49.77
90th Percentile £72.50 £77.68 £72.13
England median hourly rate £25.77 £30.00 £26.03
% change year-on-year -14.10% +15.25% -25.63%

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 1 April 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 1 April 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 +4 46 £600 +29.73% 110
West London -19 3 £188 - 3
East London - 2 £900 - 9
South London -15 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 12 (5.13%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.99%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.71%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (0.85%) CMS
5 1 (0.43%) Apache
5 1 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.43%) Confluence
5 1 (0.43%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 8 (3.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (2.56%) Elite 3E
2 5 (2.14%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.85%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.85%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.85%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.43%) Magento
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle SCM
4 1 (0.43%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.43%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.43%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 40 (17.09%) Power Platform
2 32 (13.68%) Dynamics 365
3 24 (10.26%) Azure
4 14 (5.98%) AWS
5 10 (4.27%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (3.85%) SaaS
7 4 (1.71%) GCP
7 4 (1.71%) IaaS
7 4 (1.71%) PaaS
7 4 (1.71%) SuccessFactors
8 3 (1.28%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.28%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (1.28%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (1.28%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.28%) Power Automate
8 3 (1.28%) Snowflake
9 2 (0.85%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (0.85%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (0.85%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.99%) SD-WAN
1 7 (2.99%) WAN
2 6 (2.56%) LAN
2 6 (2.56%) VPN
3 5 (2.14%) Firewall
3 5 (2.14%) MPLS
4 3 (1.28%) Cisco IPT
4 3 (1.28%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.85%) DNS
5 2 (0.85%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (0.85%) Internet
5 2 (0.85%) Intranet
5 2 (0.85%) Network Security
5 2 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.43%) DHCP
6 1 (0.43%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.43%) VoIP
6 1 (0.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (16.24%) Power BI
2 3 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.85%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.43%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.43%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.43%) Metadata
4 1 (0.43%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (0.43%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (1.71%) Git
1 4 (1.71%) Jenkins
1 4 (1.71%) JIRA
1 4 (1.71%) JUnit
1 4 (1.71%) Mockito
2 3 (1.28%) Gradle
2 3 (1.28%) Liquibase
3 1 (0.43%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.43%) GitLab
3 1 (0.43%) MLflow
3 1 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.43%) TestRail
3 1 (0.43%) Vite
General
1 89 (38.03%) Finance
2 58 (24.79%) Legal
3 52 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 22 (9.40%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (8.97%) Public Sector
6 14 (5.98%) Marketing
7 12 (5.13%) Billing
8 11 (4.70%) Police
9 6 (2.56%) Banking
9 6 (2.56%) Front Office
9 6 (2.56%) General Ledger
9 6 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.56%) Publishing
10 5 (2.14%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.28%) Retail
13 1 (0.43%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.43%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 56 (23.93%) Architect
2 37 (15.81%) Lead
3 36 (15.38%) Senior
4 31 (13.25%) Functional Architect
4 31 (13.25%) Lead Architect
5 21 (8.97%) Analyst
6 20 (8.55%) Project Manager
7 15 (6.41%) Developer
8 13 (5.56%) Consultant
8 13 (5.56%) Senior Manager
9 10 (4.27%) Solutions Architect
10 8 (3.42%) Business Analyst
10 8 (3.42%) Business Manager
11 6 (2.56%) Java Developer
11 6 (2.56%) Senior Consultant
11 6 (2.56%) Software Engineer
12 5 (2.14%) Business Development Manager
12 5 (2.14%) Development Manager
12 5 (2.14%) Network Engineer
12 5 (2.14%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.99%) Middleware
2 6 (2.56%) Spring
2 6 (2.56%) Spring Boot
3 5 (2.14%) Kafka
3 5 (2.14%) React
4 3 (1.28%) FIX Protocol
4 3 (1.28%) OpenAPI
4 3 (1.28%) REST
4 3 (1.28%) Swagger
5 2 (0.85%) IDoc
5 2 (0.85%) RESTful
5 2 (0.85%) SAP ALE
5 2 (0.85%) SOAP
6 1 (0.43%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.43%) Jest
6 1 (0.43%) Material-UI
6 1 (0.43%) Next.js
6 1 (0.43%) PySpark
6 1 (0.43%) Redux
6 1 (0.43%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.13%) Management Information System
2 10 (4.27%) Onboarding
3 9 (3.85%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.42%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (2.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 7 (2.99%) Security Posture
6 6 (2.56%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.14%) Taxonomies
8 4 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.28%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.28%) Digital Wallet
9 3 (1.28%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.28%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.28%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 2 (0.85%) Cloud Security Posture
10 2 (0.85%) Cyber Defence
10 2 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.85%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.43%) New Media
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.27%) Windows
2 3 (1.28%) Windows 10
2 3 (1.28%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.85%) Linux
4 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.43%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (24.79%) Migration
2 48 (20.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 46 (19.66%) User Acceptance Testing
4 42 (17.95%) Data Migration
4 42 (17.95%) Stakeholder Management
5 39 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
5 39 (16.67%) Order to Cash
6 38 (16.24%) Architectural Design
6 38 (16.24%) Continuous Improvement
6 38 (16.24%) Translating Business Requirements
7 37 (15.81%) ERP
8 36 (15.38%) Procure-to-Pay
9 35 (14.96%) Record to Report
10 34 (14.53%) End-to-End Testing
11 30 (12.82%) Agile
12 21 (8.97%) Change Management
13 20 (8.55%) AI
14 19 (8.12%) Problem-Solving
15 16 (6.84%) Workflow
16 15 (6.41%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 16 (6.84%) SQL
2 14 (5.98%) Java
3 6 (2.56%) Python
4 5 (2.14%) TypeScript
5 3 (1.28%) C++
5 3 (1.28%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.85%) ABAP
6 2 (0.85%) Bicep
6 2 (0.85%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.43%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.43%) C#
7 1 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.43%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.43%) Ruby
7 1 (0.43%) VBA
Qualifications
1 38 (16.24%) Security Cleared
2 31 (13.25%) SC Cleared
3 17 (7.26%) Degree
4 7 (2.99%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.56%) ACCA
5 6 (2.56%) CIMA
6 5 (2.14%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.71%) PMP
8 3 (1.28%) CISSP
8 3 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.85%) CIPD
10 1 (0.43%) CCNA
10 1 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.43%) CISM
10 1 (0.43%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.43%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (3.42%) NIST
3 6 (2.56%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.56%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.56%) GDPR
3 6 (2.56%) GRC
3 6 (2.56%) NCSC
4 4 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 3 (1.28%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 3 (1.28%) PSD2
6 2 (0.85%) PMO
7 1 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.43%) P3O
7 1 (0.43%) QA
7 1 (0.43%) RMADS
7 1 (0.43%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (2.99%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (1.28%) Cisco Prime
1 3 (1.28%) Terraform
2 2 (0.85%) FortiGate
2 2 (0.85%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.85%) SCCM
3 1 (0.43%) Ansible
3 1 (0.43%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 57 (24.36%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.13%) SAP
3 10 (4.27%) Intapp
4 8 (3.42%) Cisco
4 8 (3.42%) iManage
5 7 (2.99%) Aruba
5 7 (2.99%) Oracle
6 6 (2.56%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.14%) Aderant
7 5 (2.14%) Databricks
7 5 (2.14%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.71%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.71%) Juniper
8 4 (1.71%) SolarWinds
8 4 (1.71%) Workday
8 4 (1.71%) Xero
9 2 (0.85%) HubSpot
9 2 (0.85%) OpenText
9 2 (0.85%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.85%) Zscaler