Legal Contracts in the Midlands

Legal
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legal in contract job vacancies in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legal over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 71 116
Rank change year-on-year +15 +45 +22
Contract jobs citing Legal 58 62 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.03% 2.25% 1.48%
As % of the General category 4.86% 4.10% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 31 39
10th Percentile £200 £200 £368
25th Percentile £325 £238 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -20.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £678 £469 £550
90th Percentile £700 £550 £600
England median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 1
Median hourly rate - £26.00 £12.50
Median % change year-on-year - +108.00% -
England median hourly rate £26.62 £37.75 £22.16
% change year-on-year -29.50% +70.35% -40.01%

All General Skills
Midlands

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 common skills in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,194 1,513 1,920
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 62.38% 54.88% 55.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 778 1,034 1,359
10th Percentile £190 £207 £213
25th Percentile £343 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £488 £480
Median % change year-on-year -4.10% +1.56% +2.67%
75th Percentile £550 £611 £588
90th Percentile £650 £738 £688
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 167 83
10th Percentile £13.98 £11.75 £11.80
25th Percentile £14.16 £13.90 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.88 £17.50 £20.32
Median % change year-on-year +7.90% -13.88% +14.80%
75th Percentile £30.00 £38.13 £32.13
90th Percentile £34.24 £53.80 £51.50
England median hourly rate £27.50 £30.16 £33.82
% change year-on-year -8.82% -10.82% +57.30%

Legal
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Legal as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Legal in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Legal in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Legal in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legal in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Legal in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Legal in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Legal in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Legal within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
West Midlands +18 49 £475 +11.76% 110
East Midlands -2 6 £443 +121.25% 52
Legal
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (6.90%) IIS
2 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (5.17%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.72%) Apache
3 1 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Project
1 3 (5.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (8.62%) AWS
1 5 (8.62%) Azure
2 4 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (5.17%) Asana
3 3 (5.17%) OneDrive
4 2 (3.45%) GCP
5 1 (1.72%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (1.72%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.34%) Firewall
2 4 (6.90%) Network Security
3 2 (3.45%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.45%) VPN
4 1 (1.72%) Internet
4 1 (1.72%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.90%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.17%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.72%) Big Data
3 1 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.72%) Flink
3 1 (1.72%) Metadata
3 1 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.72%) JIRA
General
1 21 (36.21%) Social Skills
2 13 (22.41%) Finance
3 11 (18.97%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.90%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (5.17%) Banking
5 3 (5.17%) Local Government
5 3 (5.17%) Manufacturing
5 3 (5.17%) Retail
6 2 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.45%) International Banking
6 2 (3.45%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.45%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.72%) Digital Economy
7 1 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.72%) Games
7 1 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (18.97%) Project Manager
2 6 (10.34%) Consultant
3 5 (8.62%) Coordinator
3 5 (8.62%) Project Coordinator
4 4 (6.90%) Analyst
4 4 (6.90%) Applications Engineer
4 4 (6.90%) Architect
4 4 (6.90%) GDPR Project Manager
4 4 (6.90%) Lead
5 3 (5.17%) Applications Manager
5 3 (5.17%) Applications Support
5 3 (5.17%) Applications Support Engineer
5 3 (5.17%) Business Analyst
5 3 (5.17%) Deployment Engineer
5 3 (5.17%) Field Engineer
5 3 (5.17%) Information Manager
5 3 (5.17%) IT Engineer
5 3 (5.17%) IT Manager
5 3 (5.17%) Security Architect
5 3 (5.17%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.90%) HTML
1 4 (6.90%) Middleware
2 3 (5.17%) .NET
3 1 (1.72%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (1.72%) ASP.NET
3 1 (1.72%) Kafka
3 1 (1.72%) Keycloak
3 1 (1.72%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.72%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.17%) Industry 4.0
1 3 (5.17%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.45%) Credit Risk
2 2 (3.45%) Operational Technology
3 1 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.72%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.72%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (18.97%) Windows
2 3 (5.17%) Linux
2 3 (5.17%) Windows 10
2 3 (5.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (17.24%) Risk Management
3 8 (13.79%) Project Delivery
3 8 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (10.34%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (10.34%) ITIL
4 6 (10.34%) Migration
4 6 (10.34%) Root Cause Analysis
4 6 (10.34%) Service Management
5 5 (8.62%) Business Strategy
5 5 (8.62%) Incident Management
5 5 (8.62%) Information Security
5 5 (8.62%) Project Management
6 4 (6.90%) Agile
6 4 (6.90%) Budget Management
6 4 (6.90%) Data Governance
6 4 (6.90%) Decision-Making
6 4 (6.90%) Due Diligence
6 4 (6.90%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (6.90%) Resource Allocation
Programming Languages
1 8 (13.79%) SQL
2 6 (10.34%) JavaScript
3 5 (8.62%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.45%) Python
5 1 (1.72%) C#
Qualifications
1 12 (20.69%) Security Cleared
2 10 (17.24%) Degree
3 9 (15.52%) DV Cleared
4 5 (8.62%) CISA
4 5 (8.62%) CISM
4 5 (8.62%) CISSP
5 4 (6.90%) SC Cleared
6 3 (5.17%) Chartered Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) GIAC
6 3 (5.17%) MRICS
6 3 (5.17%) PMI Certification
6 3 (5.17%) PMP
7 2 (3.45%) Azure Certification
7 2 (3.45%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (1.72%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.62%) GDPR
2 4 (6.90%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (6.90%) NIST
3 3 (5.17%) NIST 800
4 2 (3.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.72%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.72%) Basel III
5 1 (1.72%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.72%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.72%) MiFID
5 1 (1.72%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (13.79%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.72%) Docker
2 1 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (6.90%) SCCM
2 3 (5.17%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (8.62%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.45%) BMC
2 2 (3.45%) Remedy
2 2 (3.45%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.72%) Google
3 1 (1.72%) Oracle
3 1 (1.72%) SAP
3 1 (1.72%) Veeam
3 1 (1.72%) VMware