Law Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Law
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Law in contract job vacancies in Manchester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Law over the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 72 60
Rank change year-on-year -12 -12 +42
Contract jobs citing Law 13 9 44
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 1.09% 0.83% 2.86%
As % of the General category 1.79% 1.38% 5.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 41
10th Percentile £372 £363 £248
25th Percentile £385 £419 £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +25.00% -31.33%
75th Percentile £488 £538 £553
90th Percentile £578 £556 £638
North West median daily rate £463 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +2.78% +5.88% -19.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.25 - £16.25
Median hourly rate £72.50 £65.00 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% +293.94% -17.50%
75th Percentile £73.75 - £16.75
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £42.36 £68.69 £14.88
% change year-on-year -38.34% +361.53% -25.59%

All General Skills
Manchester

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 common skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 728 652 816
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 60.82% 60.37% 53.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 495 375 551
10th Percentile £302 £294 £256
25th Percentile £378 £390 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £642 £688 £700
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 38 36
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.97 £15.21
25th Percentile £18.26 £21.25 £16.28
Median hourly rate £22.00 £32.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.31% +66.67% -2.82%
75th Percentile £31.40 £36.19 £43.75
90th Percentile £62.00 £61.50 £63.75
North West median hourly rate £29.60 £27.13 £23.61
% change year-on-year +9.12% +14.89% +18.05%

Law
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Law job vacancy trend in Manchester

Law
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Law.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Law

Law
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Law in Manchester over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Law in Manchester

Law
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Law.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Law

Law
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Law within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 19 December 2025. 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
Bolton - 3 - - 21
Law
North West

Law
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (7.69%) CMS
1 1 (7.69%) Resin
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (7.69%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) NetSuite
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) Azure Data Factory
2 4 (30.77%) Power Platform
3 3 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (23.08%) Power Automate
4 2 (15.38%) AWS
4 2 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (15.38%) AWS CodePipeline
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (15.38%) GitHub
4 2 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (7.69%) OCI
5 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (23.08%) Power BI
2 2 (15.38%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 2 (15.38%) Snowflake Schema
2 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.69%) EDRMS
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database
3 1 (7.69%) RDBMS
3 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) JIRA
General
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Legal
3 2 (15.38%) Finance
3 2 (15.38%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Manufacturing
4 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Electronics
4 1 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Azure Developer
1 3 (23.08%) Developer
1 3 (23.08%) Lead
2 2 (15.38%) Data Warehouse Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) Administrator
3 1 (7.69%) Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Applications Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Business Change Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Business Manager
3 1 (7.69%) C# Application Developer
3 1 (7.69%) C# Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Change Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Data Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Integration Developer
3 1 (7.69%) SAP Administrator
3 1 (7.69%) SAP Support
3 1 (7.69%) SQL Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) 3D Printing
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Mentoring
1 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (23.08%) Actionable Insight
2 3 (23.08%) Agile
2 3 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (23.08%) Data Modelling
2 3 (23.08%) DevOps
2 3 (23.08%) ETL
2 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (15.38%) Analytics
3 2 (15.38%) Change Management
3 2 (15.38%) Coaching
3 2 (15.38%) Configuration Management
3 2 (15.38%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (15.38%) ERP
3 2 (15.38%) ETL Development
3 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (15.38%) Visualisation
3 2 (15.38%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) SQL
2 2 (15.38%) T-SQL
3 1 (7.69%) C#
3 1 (7.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (7.69%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Degree
2 2 (15.38%) Master's Degree
3 1 (7.69%) APMG
3 1 (7.69%) PMI Certification
3 1 (7.69%) PMP
3 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Data Quality
1 2 (15.38%) GDPR
1 2 (15.38%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Ansible
1 2 (15.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle
1 2 (15.38%) SAP
2 1 (7.69%) Epicor