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 14 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 211 217 261
Rank change year-on-year +6 +44 -82
Contract jobs citing Law 253 159 132
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.26% 1.18% 0.81%
As % of the General category 2.07% 1.71% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 82 69
10th Percentile £450 £260 £221
25th Percentile £500 £377 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% -5.65% +4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £719
90th Percentile £725 £775 £815
England median daily rate £525 £501 £550
% change year-on-year +4.90% -9.00% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - £15.67
25th Percentile - £61.25 £22.30
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year - +131.74% -5.37%
75th Percentile - £63.75 £27.96
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £20.27 £27.64 £26.97
% change year-on-year -26.67% +2.48% +41.95%

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 12,197 9,297 10,131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.72% 68.72% 62.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,765 6,173 7,111
10th Percentile £350 £325 £338
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% -4.83% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 187 146
10th Percentile £18.45 £15.84 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £24.50 £23.80
Median hourly rate £26.89 £30.00 £35.61
Median % change year-on-year -10.37% -15.74% +1.73%
75th Percentile £43.75 £49.63 £51.75
90th Percentile £63.88 £63.75 £67.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +29.22% -34.02% +38.62%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 +16 70 £600 +14.29% 125
South London - 2 £593 - 5
West London - 1 - - 22
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 12 (4.74%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.98%) Confluence
4 2 (0.79%) Apache
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.40%) CMS
5 1 (0.40%) Mendix
5 1 (0.40%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 7 (2.77%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.58%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 3 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.79%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.79%) Oracle SCM
4 1 (0.40%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.40%) Hyperion Planning
4 1 (0.40%) Magento
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.40%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.40%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 43 (17.00%) Power Platform
2 34 (13.44%) Dynamics 365
3 33 (13.04%) Azure
4 27 (10.67%) AWS
5 13 (5.14%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (4.74%) GitHub
6 12 (4.74%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (3.95%) GCP
8 8 (3.16%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (3.16%) Serverless
9 7 (2.77%) Amazon S3
10 6 (2.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (2.37%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (2.37%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (2.37%) SaaS
11 5 (1.98%) PaaS
11 5 (1.98%) Power Automate
11 5 (1.98%) SuccessFactors
11 5 (1.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.77%) Firewall
2 5 (1.98%) VPN
2 5 (1.98%) WAN
3 4 (1.58%) Cisco IPT
3 4 (1.58%) LAN
3 4 (1.58%) MPLS
3 4 (1.58%) SD-WAN
4 3 (1.19%) Network Security
5 2 (0.79%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.79%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (0.79%) Internet
5 2 (0.79%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.40%) BGP
6 1 (0.40%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.40%) DNS
6 1 (0.40%) Multicast
6 1 (0.40%) OSPF
6 1 (0.40%) TACACS
6 1 (0.40%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (16.21%) Power BI
2 6 (2.37%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.19%) Redis
3 3 (1.19%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (0.79%) Amazon QuickSight
4 2 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.79%) Metadata
4 2 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.40%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.40%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.40%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.40%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.40%) KDB
5 1 (0.40%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 16 (6.32%) Jenkins
2 11 (4.35%) GitLab
3 9 (3.56%) JIRA
4 8 (3.16%) JUnit
4 8 (3.16%) Mockito
5 5 (1.98%) Gradle
5 5 (1.98%) Liquibase
6 3 (1.19%) Git
7 2 (0.79%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.40%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.40%) JMeter
8 1 (0.40%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.40%) Vite
General
1 81 (32.02%) Finance
2 58 (22.92%) Legal
3 51 (20.16%) Social Skills
4 26 (10.28%) Public Sector
5 20 (7.91%) Police
6 16 (6.32%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (4.35%) Banking
8 9 (3.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (3.16%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (2.37%) Front Office
11 3 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.19%) German Language
11 3 (1.19%) Marketing
11 3 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.79%) Billing
12 2 (0.79%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.79%) Legal Technology
12 2 (0.79%) Military
12 2 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.40%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 51 (20.16%) Lead
2 49 (19.37%) Senior
3 43 (17.00%) Architect
4 31 (12.25%) Functional Architect
4 31 (12.25%) Lead Architect
5 23 (9.09%) Project Manager
6 19 (7.51%) Developer
7 18 (7.11%) Analyst
8 17 (6.72%) IT Trainer
8 17 (6.72%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 17 (6.72%) Trainer
9 16 (6.32%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
9 16 (6.32%) Senior IT Trainer
10 15 (5.93%) Consultant
11 11 (4.35%) Senior Manager
12 9 (3.56%) HR Advisor
12 9 (3.56%) Java Engineer
12 9 (3.56%) Java Software Engineer
12 9 (3.56%) Software Engineer
13 6 (2.37%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.74%) Kafka
2 8 (3.16%) Spring
2 8 (3.16%) Spring Boot
3 7 (2.77%) React
3 7 (2.77%) REST
4 6 (2.37%) RESTful
5 5 (1.98%) OpenAPI
5 5 (1.98%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (1.98%) Swagger
6 3 (1.19%) JSON
6 3 (1.19%) LangChain
6 3 (1.19%) Middleware
6 3 (1.19%) Spring Cloud
7 2 (0.79%) ADO
7 2 (0.79%) CSS
7 2 (0.79%) FIX Protocol
7 2 (0.79%) HTML
7 2 (0.79%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (0.79%) SOAP
7 2 (0.79%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.11%) Onboarding
2 13 (5.14%) Cloud Native
3 10 (3.95%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.16%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (3.16%) Management Information System
5 6 (2.37%) Security Posture
6 5 (1.98%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.98%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.58%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.58%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (1.19%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.19%) FMCG
8 3 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.19%) PMI
9 2 (0.79%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.79%) Learning Management System
9 2 (0.79%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.56%) Windows
2 7 (2.77%) Linux
3 4 (1.58%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.79%) Unix
5 1 (0.40%) VMS
5 1 (0.40%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (22.92%) Migration
2 54 (21.34%) Continuous Improvement
3 53 (20.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 42 (16.60%) Business Intelligence
4 42 (16.60%) User Acceptance Testing
5 41 (16.21%) Data Migration
6 40 (15.81%) Agile
7 37 (14.62%) ERP
8 36 (14.23%) Architectural Design
9 35 (13.83%) Procure-to-Pay
10 34 (13.44%) AI
10 34 (13.44%) Stakeholder Management
10 34 (13.44%) Translating Business Requirements
11 33 (13.04%) Order to Cash
11 33 (13.04%) Record to Report
12 32 (12.65%) End-to-End Testing
13 30 (11.86%) CI/CD
14 25 (9.88%) DevOps
15 23 (9.09%) Change Management
16 19 (7.51%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 22 (8.70%) Python
2 19 (7.51%) SQL
3 17 (6.72%) Java
4 9 (3.56%) TypeScript
5 7 (2.77%) Bash
5 7 (2.77%) PowerShell
6 4 (1.58%) JavaScript
6 4 (1.58%) SOQL
7 1 (0.40%) Bicep
7 1 (0.40%) C#
7 1 (0.40%) Ruby
7 1 (0.40%) Scala
7 1 (0.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 47 (18.58%) Security Cleared
2 40 (15.81%) SC Cleared
3 27 (10.67%) Degree
4 19 (7.51%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.37%) CISM
5 6 (2.37%) CISSP
5 6 (2.37%) PMI Certification
6 4 (1.58%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (1.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (1.58%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.19%) PMP
8 2 (0.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (0.79%) CEH
8 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.40%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.40%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.74%) QA
2 7 (2.77%) GDPR
3 6 (2.37%) NIST
4 5 (1.98%) GRC
4 5 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.58%) Government Security Classifications
6 3 (1.19%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.19%) NCSC
7 2 (0.79%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 2 (0.79%) PMO
8 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.40%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.40%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.40%) P3O
8 1 (0.40%) PERC
8 1 (0.40%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (6.72%) Docker
2 5 (1.98%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.79%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (5.14%) Kubernetes
2 11 (4.35%) Terraform
3 7 (2.77%) Ansible
4 6 (2.37%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.58%) Grafana
6 2 (0.79%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.79%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (0.79%) Puppet
6 2 (0.79%) Salt
7 1 (0.40%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.40%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.40%) QRadar
7 1 (0.40%) SCCM
Vendors
1 67 (26.48%) Microsoft
2 10 (3.95%) SAP
3 9 (3.56%) ServiceNow
4 7 (2.77%) Cisco
5 6 (2.37%) Google
5 6 (2.37%) Intapp
6 5 (1.98%) Fortinet
6 5 (1.98%) iManage
6 5 (1.98%) Oracle
6 5 (1.98%) Splunk
7 4 (1.58%) Aderant
7 4 (1.58%) Aruba
7 4 (1.58%) Juniper
7 4 (1.58%) UiPath
8 3 (1.19%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.19%) Litera
8 3 (1.19%) NEC
8 3 (1.19%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.19%) Solace
9 2 (0.79%) OpenAI