Legal Contracts in the North East

Legal
England > North East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legal in contract job vacancies in the North East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legal over the 6 months leading up to 22 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 27 32
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 +28
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Legal 12 8 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 4.29% 3.36% 1.87%
As % of the General category 8.11% 6.90% 3.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 3
10th Percentile £200 £380 -
25th Percentile £213 - £255
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £400 £260
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% +53.85% -47.47%
75th Percentile £439 £500 £380
90th Percentile £445 £590 £449
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £11.60 - -
Median hourly rate £11.64 - -
75th Percentile £11.68 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £25.00 £53.75 £22.01
% change year-on-year -53.49% +144.23% -18.49%

All General Skills
North East

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 North East.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 148 116 151
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 52.86% 48.74% 56.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 63 112
10th Percentile £200 £295 £244
25th Percentile £410 £400 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -15.09%
75th Percentile £549 £590 £575
90th Percentile £600 £700 £673
England median daily rate £508 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -5.58% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 9 7
10th Percentile - £11.44 £17.60
25th Percentile £11.60 £13.75 £18.00
Median hourly rate £14.50 £19.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.68% -2.56% +18.18%
75th Percentile £19.97 £23.00 £26.13
90th Percentile £20.63 £46.04 £32.70
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £27.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +38.62% +13.61%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Legal in the North East

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Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Legal.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Legal

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legal in the North East over the 6 months to 22 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Legal in the North East

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Legal.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Legal

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DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Legal within the North East region over the 6 months to 22 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tyne and Wear -6 7 £338 -15.63% 21
Northumberland - 4 - - 1
Durham +4 1 - - 3
Legal
England

Legal
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 1 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) SaaS
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) dbt
2 1 (8.33%) Smartsheet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (8.33%) Metadata
1 1 (8.33%) Metadata Repository
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Git
General
1 9 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Marketing
2 2 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Law
3 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
3 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Support Officer
2 3 (25.00%) Deployment Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Business Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Business Operations Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Operations Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Business Project Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Content Designer
4 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Designer
4 1 (8.33%) Operations Project Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) HTML
1 1 (8.33%) Semantic HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Customer Service
1 4 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 2 (16.67%) Agile
2 2 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (16.67%) Business Strategy
2 2 (16.67%) Commercialisation
2 2 (16.67%) Deadline-Driven
2 2 (16.67%) Product Management
2 2 (16.67%) Project Management
2 2 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
2 2 (16.67%) Time Management
3 1 (8.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (8.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (8.33%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (8.33%) Due Diligence
3 1 (8.33%) Matrix Organization
3 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (8.33%) User Research
3 1 (8.33%) Value Proposition
3 1 (8.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) Python
1 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (8.33%) GDPR
1 1 (8.33%) GMP
1 1 (8.33%) ISO 9001
1 1 (8.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Databricks
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft