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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 225 205 188
Rank change year-on-year -20 -17 -14
Contract jobs citing Law 196 151 231
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.20% 1.17% 1.27%
As % of the General category 1.91% 1.76% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 104 170
10th Percentile £380 £341 £284
25th Percentile £500 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £548
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.11% +1.86%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £638
90th Percentile £775 £800 £719
England median daily rate £550 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 9
10th Percentile - - £10.42
25th Percentile - £32.25 -
Median hourly rate - £34.50 £11.95
Median % change year-on-year - +188.70% -38.08%
75th Percentile - £36.75 £15.50
90th Percentile - - £28.91
England median hourly rate £37.00 £68.69 £13.00
% change year-on-year -46.13% +428.37% -34.18%

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 10,258 8,601 11,579
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 62.71% 66.46% 63.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,678 5,706 8,263
10th Percentile £350 £336 £331
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £700 £691
90th Percentile £784 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 124 265
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.14 £16.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £24.73 £18.33
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% +16.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £50.00 £55.25 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £78.40 £71.30
England median hourly rate £25.00 £30.90 £26.00
% change year-on-year -19.10% +18.86% -22.39%

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 March 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 March 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 +5 40 £625 +28.21% 96
West London -15 3 £188 - 3
East London - 2 £900 - 10
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 8 (4.08%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.04%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (1.02%) CMS
5 1 (0.51%) Apache
5 1 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.51%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.51%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (4.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (3.06%) Elite 3E
2 5 (2.55%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (1.02%) SAP ERP
3 2 (1.02%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle SCM
4 1 (0.51%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.51%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 22 (11.22%) Azure
2 16 (8.16%) Power Platform
3 12 (6.12%) AWS
4 10 (5.10%) Dynamics 365
5 8 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (3.57%) SaaS
7 5 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.53%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (1.53%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (1.53%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (1.53%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.53%) GCP
8 3 (1.53%) Snowflake
8 3 (1.53%) SuccessFactors
9 2 (1.02%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.02%) IaaS
9 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (1.02%) PaaS
9 2 (1.02%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.02%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.06%) SD-WAN
1 6 (3.06%) WAN
2 5 (2.55%) LAN
2 5 (2.55%) VPN
3 4 (2.04%) Cisco IPT
3 4 (2.04%) Firewall
3 4 (2.04%) MPLS
4 3 (1.53%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (1.02%) Intranet
6 1 (0.51%) DHCP
6 1 (0.51%) DNS
6 1 (0.51%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.51%) Internet
6 1 (0.51%) Network Security
6 1 (0.51%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.51%) VoIP
6 1 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.51%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.14%) Power BI
2 3 (1.53%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.02%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.51%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.51%) HBase
4 1 (0.51%) KDB
4 1 (0.51%) Kdb+
4 1 (0.51%) MariaDB
4 1 (0.51%) Metadata
4 1 (0.51%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.51%) MySQL
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (0.51%) Power Query
4 1 (0.51%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (0.51%) Star Schema
4 1 (0.51%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 5 (2.55%) JIRA
2 4 (2.04%) Git
3 3 (1.53%) Gradle
3 3 (1.53%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.02%) JUnit
4 2 (1.02%) Liquibase
4 2 (1.02%) Mockito
5 1 (0.51%) Maven
5 1 (0.51%) MLflow
5 1 (0.51%) QUnit
5 1 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.51%) TestRail
General
1 67 (34.18%) Finance
2 59 (30.10%) Legal
3 57 (29.08%) Social Skills
4 21 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (9.69%) Public Sector
6 14 (7.14%) Marketing
7 11 (5.61%) Billing
8 8 (4.08%) Front Office
9 7 (3.57%) Banking
9 7 (3.57%) Police
10 6 (3.06%) General Ledger
10 6 (3.06%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (2.55%) Publishing
11 5 (2.55%) Telecoms
12 4 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (1.53%) Retail
14 2 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.51%) Corporate Banking
15 1 (0.51%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 30 (15.31%) Architect
2 28 (14.29%) Senior
3 21 (10.71%) Analyst
4 19 (9.69%) Project Manager
5 16 (8.16%) Developer
6 15 (7.65%) Consultant
7 12 (6.12%) Lead
8 10 (5.10%) Solutions Architect
9 9 (4.59%) Senior Manager
10 8 (4.08%) Functional Architect
10 8 (4.08%) Lead Architect
11 7 (3.57%) Business Analyst
11 7 (3.57%) Business Manager
12 6 (3.06%) Java Developer
12 6 (3.06%) Senior Consultant
13 5 (2.55%) Functional Consultant
13 5 (2.55%) Senior Developer
14 4 (2.04%) Development Manager
14 4 (2.04%) IT Manager
14 4 (2.04%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.57%) Middleware
2 5 (2.55%) Spring
3 4 (2.04%) FIX Protocol
3 4 (2.04%) Kafka
3 4 (2.04%) REST
3 4 (2.04%) Spring Boot
4 3 (1.53%) React
4 3 (1.53%) SOAP
5 2 (1.02%) IDoc
5 2 (1.02%) JSON
5 2 (1.02%) OpenAPI
5 2 (1.02%) SAP ALE
5 2 (1.02%) Swagger
6 1 (0.51%) Faiss
6 1 (0.51%) LangChain
6 1 (0.51%) LangGraph
6 1 (0.51%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (0.51%) PySpark
6 1 (0.51%) PyTorch
6 1 (0.51%) ReactiveX
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.10%) Management Information System
1 10 (5.10%) Product Ownership
2 9 (4.59%) Onboarding
3 7 (3.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (3.06%) Data Centre
4 6 (3.06%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (3.06%) Security Posture
5 5 (2.55%) Taxonomies
6 3 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.53%) Digital Wallet
6 3 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.53%) Operational Technology
6 3 (1.53%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.53%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 2 (1.02%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.02%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (1.02%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.02%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.59%) Windows
2 3 (1.53%) Linux
3 2 (1.02%) Unix
3 2 (1.02%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.02%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.51%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.51%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (19.90%) Stakeholder Management
2 31 (15.82%) Migration
3 28 (14.29%) Agile
4 24 (12.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 23 (11.73%) User Acceptance Testing
6 22 (11.22%) Change Management
7 19 (9.69%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (9.18%) Data Migration
9 17 (8.67%) AI
10 15 (7.65%) Business Intelligence
10 15 (7.65%) ITIL
10 15 (7.65%) Order to Cash
10 15 (7.65%) Translating Business Requirements
11 14 (7.14%) CI/CD
11 14 (7.14%) ERP
12 13 (6.63%) Architectural Design
12 13 (6.63%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (6.63%) Workflow
13 12 (6.12%) Procure-to-Pay
13 12 (6.12%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (8.67%) SQL
2 11 (5.61%) Java
3 7 (3.57%) Python
4 5 (2.55%) C++
5 3 (1.53%) C#
6 2 (1.02%) ABAP
6 2 (1.02%) Bicep
6 2 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (1.02%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.02%) Kotlin
6 2 (1.02%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.02%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.51%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.51%) Clojure
7 1 (0.51%) PHP
7 1 (0.51%) Ruby
7 1 (0.51%) Rust
7 1 (0.51%) Scala
7 1 (0.51%) VBA
Qualifications
1 33 (16.84%) Security Cleared
2 27 (13.78%) SC Cleared
3 20 (10.20%) Degree
4 6 (3.06%) ACCA
4 6 (3.06%) CIMA
5 5 (2.55%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.04%) PMP
7 3 (1.53%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.53%) CISSP
7 3 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.02%) CIPD
9 1 (0.51%) CISM
9 1 (0.51%) IIBA
9 1 (0.51%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.51%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.51%) PhD
9 1 (0.51%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.51%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (3.57%) GDPR
2 7 (3.57%) NIST
3 6 (3.06%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.06%) NCSC
4 5 (2.55%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.55%) GRC
5 4 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 3 (1.53%) ISO 20022
6 3 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 3 (1.53%) PSD2
6 3 (1.53%) QA
7 2 (1.02%) PMO
8 1 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.51%) EMIR
8 1 (0.51%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.51%) P3O
8 1 (0.51%) RMADS
System Software
1 6 (3.06%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (2.04%) Terraform
2 3 (1.53%) Cisco Prime
3 2 (1.02%) FortiGate
3 2 (1.02%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.02%) SCCM
4 1 (0.51%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 34 (17.35%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.10%) SAP
3 8 (4.08%) Intapp
4 6 (3.06%) Aruba
4 6 (3.06%) Cisco
4 6 (3.06%) Oracle
4 6 (3.06%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.55%) Aderant
5 5 (2.55%) Databricks
5 5 (2.55%) iManage
5 5 (2.55%) Palo Alto
5 5 (2.55%) Workday
6 4 (2.04%) HubSpot
6 4 (2.04%) Xero
7 3 (1.53%) Fortinet
7 3 (1.53%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.02%) Juniper
8 2 (1.02%) OpenText
8 2 (1.02%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.51%) HP