Legal Contract Job Trends in London

Legal
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legal in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legal over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 117 132
Rank change year-on-year +2 +15 -1
Contract jobs citing Legal 420 298 332
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.35% 2.40% 1.90%
As % of the General category 3.94% 3.55% 3.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 201 205
10th Percentile £350 £214 £208
25th Percentile £450 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -
75th Percentile £688 £681 £625
90th Percentile £844 £813 £764
England median daily rate £503 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +0.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 22
10th Percentile £24.30 £25.01 £11.95
25th Percentile £31.25 £38.03 £12.64
Median hourly rate £54.00 £50.00 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +62.60% -35.26%
75th Percentile £67.50 £55.25 £57.50
90th Percentile £96.00 £57.65 £64.25
England median hourly rate £18.09 £22.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -19.60% -43.75% +71.60%

All General Skills
London

Legal 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 10,662 8,402 11,062
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 59.65% 67.79% 63.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,913 5,651 7,891
10th Percentile £350 £346 £338
25th Percentile £425 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.31% -1.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £673 £713 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £825
England median daily rate £513 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 141 236
10th Percentile £18.66 £15.84 £15.75
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.90 £18.13
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £27.92
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +21.78% -11.95%
75th Percentile £47.50 £51.18 £43.75
90th Percentile £67.75 £65.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £30.78 £27.50 £30.50
% change year-on-year +11.93% -9.84% -6.15%

Legal
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Legal relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Legal job vacancy trend in London

Legal
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Legal.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Legal

Legal
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legal in London over the 6 months to 15 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Legal in London

Legal
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Legal.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Legal

Legal
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Legal in London over the 6 months to 15 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Legal in London

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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 Legal within the London region over the 6 months to 15 May 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 +17 71 £513 -10.87% 154
West London -16 10 £285 +12.87% 17
South London -7 6 £594 +6.94% 5
East London -15 2 £505 -13.68% 7
North London +1 1 - -
Legal
England

Legal
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 28 (6.67%) SharePoint
2 22 (5.24%) Confluence
3 11 (2.62%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.95%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.48%) Camunda
6 2 (0.48%) Ethereum
6 2 (0.48%) Hyperledger
6 2 (0.48%) SAS
6 2 (0.48%) SharePoint 2013
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.24%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 25 (5.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (5.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 20 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (2.86%) MS Visio
5 6 (1.43%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (1.43%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.24%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.24%) InDesign
6 1 (0.24%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (1.19%) BambooHR
2 4 (0.95%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (0.71%) Oracle General Ledger
3 3 (0.71%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 3 (0.71%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 3 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.48%) Actimize
4 2 (0.48%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.24%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.24%) Endur
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.24%) Orchestrade
5 1 (0.24%) R3 Corda
5 1 (0.24%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.24%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.24%) SAP FI-GL
5 1 (0.24%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 77 (18.33%) Azure
2 32 (7.62%) Microsoft 365
3 27 (6.43%) SaaS
4 24 (5.71%) AWS
5 18 (4.29%) GCP
6 16 (3.81%) PaaS
7 15 (3.57%) Entra ID
8 14 (3.33%) Power Platform
9 11 (2.62%) IaaS
9 11 (2.62%) SuccessFactors
10 10 (2.38%) Microsoft Purview
11 8 (1.90%) OCI
12 7 (1.67%) Microsoft Copilot
13 6 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (1.43%) GitHub
14 5 (1.19%) Dagster
14 5 (1.19%) dbt
14 5 (1.19%) Google Workspace
14 5 (1.19%) Mimecast
14 5 (1.19%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 21 (5.00%) WAN
2 16 (3.81%) SD-WAN
3 12 (2.86%) Firewall
4 9 (2.14%) DNS
4 9 (2.14%) LAN
4 9 (2.14%) VPN
5 5 (1.19%) DHCP
6 4 (0.95%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (0.71%) Cisco IPT
7 3 (0.71%) FTP
7 3 (0.71%) Internet
7 3 (0.71%) MPLS
7 3 (0.71%) Network Security
8 2 (0.48%) HTTP
8 2 (0.48%) IPv4
8 2 (0.48%) IPv6
8 2 (0.48%) VLAN
8 2 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.48%) Wireless
9 1 (0.24%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.62%) Power BI
2 10 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (1.90%) Metadata
4 6 (1.43%) Tableau
5 5 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (1.19%) BigQuery
5 5 (1.19%) Looker
6 4 (0.95%) SQL Server
7 3 (0.71%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.71%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 3 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.48%) Big Data
8 2 (0.48%) Logi Info
8 2 (0.48%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.24%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.24%) Crystal Reports
9 1 (0.24%) EDRMS
9 1 (0.24%) MS Access
9 1 (0.24%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 32 (7.62%) JIRA
2 7 (1.67%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (0.95%) Git
4 2 (0.48%) JUnit
5 1 (0.24%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.24%) Postman
5 1 (0.24%) Selenium
5 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.24%) TestRail
General
1 193 (45.95%) Finance
2 132 (31.43%) Social Skills
3 66 (15.71%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (12.38%) Banking
4 52 (12.38%) Law
5 32 (7.62%) Public Sector
6 30 (7.14%) Marketing
7 15 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
7 15 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
8 14 (3.33%) Investment Banking
9 13 (3.10%) Financial Institution
9 13 (3.10%) Front Office
10 11 (2.62%) Presentation Skills
10 11 (2.62%) Retail
11 10 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
12 9 (2.14%) Military
12 9 (2.14%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.43%) Corporate Banking
13 6 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (1.19%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 58 (13.81%) Analyst
2 54 (12.86%) Architect
3 41 (9.76%) Business Analyst
4 40 (9.52%) Lead
5 39 (9.29%) Senior
6 36 (8.57%) Project Manager
7 27 (6.43%) Consultant
8 21 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
9 11 (2.62%) IT Manager
9 11 (2.62%) Programme Manager
10 10 (2.38%) Network Engineer
11 9 (2.14%) Senior Analyst
12 8 (1.90%) IT Project Manager
13 7 (1.67%) Data Migration Lead
13 7 (1.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 7 (1.67%) Programme Director
13 7 (1.67%) Security Architect
13 7 (1.67%) Senior Business Analyst
13 7 (1.67%) Senior Manager
14 6 (1.43%) Category Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (2.86%) Middleware
2 10 (2.38%) Oracle Fusion
3 9 (2.14%) REST
4 8 (1.90%) AngularJS
5 6 (1.43%) XML
6 5 (1.19%) React
7 4 (0.95%) RESTful
8 3 (0.71%) CSS
8 3 (0.71%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (0.71%) gRPC
8 3 (0.71%) HTML
8 3 (0.71%) SOAP
9 2 (0.48%) .NET
9 2 (0.48%) J2EE
9 2 (0.48%) Kafka
9 2 (0.48%) SailPoint
9 2 (0.48%) SAML
9 2 (0.48%) Spring Batch
9 2 (0.48%) Spring Boot
9 2 (0.48%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 26 (6.19%) Onboarding
2 21 (5.00%) Management Information System
3 16 (3.81%) Product Ownership
4 13 (3.10%) Cloud Native
5 11 (2.62%) Data Centre
6 10 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (2.14%) Security Posture
8 8 (1.90%) Taxonomies
9 7 (1.67%) AI Agents
10 6 (1.43%) Derivative
10 6 (1.43%) PMI
11 5 (1.19%) Credit Risk
11 5 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.19%) Data Structures
11 5 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 4 (0.95%) IoT
12 4 (0.95%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 26 (6.19%) Windows
2 12 (2.86%) Windows Server
3 5 (1.19%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (0.95%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.71%) Linux
6 2 (0.48%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.24%) Android
7 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (22.86%) Stakeholder Management
2 84 (20.00%) Agile
3 61 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
4 57 (13.57%) AI
5 55 (13.10%) Risk Management
6 51 (12.14%) Migration
7 50 (11.90%) Roadmaps
7 50 (11.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 47 (11.19%) Decision-Making
9 46 (10.95%) Data Protection
9 46 (10.95%) Project Management
10 42 (10.00%) Change Management
11 41 (9.76%) Continuous Improvement
12 38 (9.05%) Analytics
12 38 (9.05%) User Acceptance Testing
13 32 (7.62%) Project Delivery
14 31 (7.38%) Data Governance
15 29 (6.90%) Generative AI
16 28 (6.67%) PRINCE2
16 28 (6.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 28 (6.67%) SQL
2 18 (4.29%) Python
3 10 (2.38%) PowerShell
4 9 (2.14%) Java
5 6 (1.43%) TypeScript
6 2 (0.48%) Bicep
6 2 (0.48%) C#
6 2 (0.48%) PHP
6 2 (0.48%) Ruby
7 1 (0.24%) Bash
7 1 (0.24%) C++
7 1 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.24%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.24%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.24%) Scala
7 1 (0.24%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.24%) VB.NET
7 1 (0.24%) VBA
Qualifications
1 40 (9.52%) Degree
2 39 (9.29%) Security Cleared
3 26 (6.19%) SC Cleared
4 19 (4.52%) PMP
5 18 (4.29%) PMI Certification
6 12 (2.86%) Azure Certification
7 9 (2.14%) CISSP
7 9 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (1.90%) CISM
9 7 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (1.67%) CRISC
9 7 (1.67%) DV Cleared
10 5 (1.19%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 5 (1.19%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.95%) CCNP
11 4 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.95%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.95%) RIBA
12 3 (0.71%) ACCA
12 3 (0.71%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (11.67%) GDPR
2 27 (6.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (4.76%) GRC
4 17 (4.05%) NIST
5 16 (3.81%) Data Quality
5 16 (3.81%) PMO
6 12 (2.86%) QA
7 11 (2.62%) SLA
8 8 (1.90%) Accessibility
9 7 (1.67%) MiFID
10 6 (1.43%) GAAP
10 6 (1.43%) IFRS
10 6 (1.43%) IFRS 9
11 4 (0.95%) PERC
11 4 (0.95%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 3 (0.71%) COBIT
12 3 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.71%) PSD2
12 3 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (5.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.43%) Docker
3 6 (1.43%) vSphere
4 2 (0.48%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.24%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 10 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (1.67%) FortiGate
2 7 (1.67%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.43%) Terraform
4 5 (1.19%) SCCM
5 3 (0.71%) Cisco Prime
5 3 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.48%) Grafana
6 2 (0.48%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.24%) Ansible
7 1 (0.24%) Control-M
7 1 (0.24%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.24%) QRadar
7 1 (0.24%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.24%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 81 (19.29%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.14%) SAP
3 24 (5.71%) Workday
4 23 (5.48%) Oracle
5 21 (5.00%) Cisco
6 15 (3.57%) ServiceNow
7 13 (3.10%) Salesforce
8 12 (2.86%) Palo Alto
9 10 (2.38%) iManage
10 9 (2.14%) Google
11 8 (1.90%) Aruba
11 8 (1.90%) Intapp
11 8 (1.90%) VMware
12 7 (1.67%) Databricks
13 6 (1.43%) Meraki
14 5 (1.19%) Adobe
14 5 (1.19%) Dell
14 5 (1.19%) OpenAI
14 5 (1.19%) Zscaler
15 4 (0.95%) Bloomberg