Legal Contracts in the North of England

Legal
England > North of England

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

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 101 110
Rank change year-on-year +24 +9 +12
Contract jobs citing Legal 96 86 118
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.91% 1.83% 2.03%
As % of the General category 4.91% 3.35% 3.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 60 93
10th Percentile £225 £297 £313
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £538 £513
Median % change year-on-year -5.58% +4.88% +28.13%
75th Percentile £591 £609 £625
90th Percentile £700 £790 £718
England median daily rate £510 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +2.00% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 14 2
10th Percentile £11.60 £14.43 £16.89
25th Percentile £11.60 £25.50 £17.30
Median hourly rate £11.64 £26.33 £18.66
Median % change year-on-year -55.79% +41.10% -22.65%
75th Percentile £11.68 £57.50 £20.69
90th Percentile £13.44 - £21.51
England median hourly rate £24.00 £40.00 £22.16
% change year-on-year -40.00% +80.51% -40.01%

All General Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,954 2,571 3,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 59.27% 54.78% 55.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,203 1,514 2,218
10th Percentile £254 £256 £300
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £582 £600
90th Percentile £662 £670 £688
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 310 94
10th Percentile £13.00 £12.11 £14.34
25th Percentile £16.31 £13.30 £17.37
Median hourly rate £26.28 £16.06 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.62% -37.02% +35.51%
75th Percentile £44.22 £28.56 £38.39
90th Percentile £72.25 £48.75 £53.24
England median hourly rate £27.57 £30.16 £32.30
% change year-on-year -8.59% -6.63% +50.23%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Legal in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Legal in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Legal in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legal in the North of England over the 6 months to 6 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Legal in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Legal in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Legal in the North of England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Legal in the North of England over the 6 months to 6 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Legal in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 6 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
North West +19 72 £525 -8.70% 217
Yorkshire +19 13 £450 -14.29% 112
North East +2 11 £440 +3.53% 35
Legal
England

Legal
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 5 (5.21%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.08%) Confluence
4 1 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (3.13%) Chatbot
1 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.04%) InVision
3 1 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.04%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.04%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 3 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.08%) Elite 3E
3 1 (1.04%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 19 (19.79%) Azure
2 14 (14.58%) AWS
3 11 (11.46%) GCP
4 6 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (5.21%) Entra ID
6 4 (4.17%) Anthropic Claude
6 4 (4.17%) Azure AI
6 4 (4.17%) Figma
6 4 (4.17%) Google Gemini
6 4 (4.17%) OneDrive
6 4 (4.17%) SaaS
7 3 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.04%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.04%) Boomi
8 1 (1.04%) dbt
8 1 (1.04%) Google Ads
8 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (1.04%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.04%) Serverless
8 1 (1.04%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.25%) Firewall
2 5 (5.21%) Network Security
3 4 (4.17%) SAN
4 3 (3.13%) VPN
4 3 (3.13%) WAN
4 3 (3.13%) Wireless
5 2 (2.08%) BGP
5 2 (2.08%) Cisco Wireless
5 2 (2.08%) DWDM
5 2 (2.08%) EIGRP
5 2 (2.08%) Ethernet
5 2 (2.08%) Internet
5 2 (2.08%) OSPF
5 2 (2.08%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (1.04%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (1.04%) LAN
6 1 (1.04%) MPLS
6 1 (1.04%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.17%) Neo4j
2 2 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.04%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.04%) EDRMS
3 1 (1.04%) GIS
3 1 (1.04%) Metadata
3 1 (1.04%) Metadata Repository
3 1 (1.04%) Power BI
3 1 (1.04%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (5.21%) Git
2 4 (4.17%) JIRA
3 1 (1.04%) Axure RP
General
1 47 (48.96%) Social Skills
2 38 (39.58%) Finance
3 25 (26.04%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (11.46%) Manufacturing
5 10 (10.42%) Marketing
5 10 (10.42%) Pharmaceutical
6 8 (8.33%) Banking
6 8 (8.33%) Telecoms
7 7 (7.29%) Law
8 4 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (4.17%) Public Sector
9 3 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.04%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.04%) Local Government
10 1 (1.04%) Military
10 1 (1.04%) Multimedia
10 1 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.04%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 16 (16.67%) Architect
2 12 (12.50%) Project Manager
3 10 (10.42%) Solutions Architect
4 8 (8.33%) Support Officer
5 6 (6.25%) Analyst
5 6 (6.25%) Business Analyst
5 6 (6.25%) Senior
6 5 (5.21%) IT Manager
6 5 (5.21%) Lead
7 4 (4.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 4 (4.17%) Business Manager
7 4 (4.17%) Content Designer
7 4 (4.17%) Designer
7 4 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (4.17%) IT Project Manager
8 3 (3.13%) Data Migration Expert
8 3 (3.13%) Deployment Engineer
8 3 (3.13%) Dynamics 365 Project Manager
8 3 (3.13%) Support Engineer
8 3 (3.13%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.17%) PyTorch
1 4 (4.17%) TensorFlow
2 2 (2.08%) Kafka
3 1 (1.04%) CSS
3 1 (1.04%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.04%) HTML
3 1 (1.04%) JDBC
3 1 (1.04%) OLE
3 1 (1.04%) REST
3 1 (1.04%) RESTful
3 1 (1.04%) SailPoint
3 1 (1.04%) SOAP
3 1 (1.04%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.21%) Onboarding
1 5 (5.21%) Product Ownership
2 4 (4.17%) Algorithms
2 4 (4.17%) Data Centre
2 4 (4.17%) Social Media
3 3 (3.13%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.13%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.08%) CMDB
4 2 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.08%) Operational Technology
4 2 (2.08%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.04%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.04%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (1.04%) Graphic Design
5 1 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.04%) Photography
5 1 (1.04%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.04%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.04%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.38%) Windows
2 4 (4.17%) Linux
2 4 (4.17%) Unix
2 4 (4.17%) Windows Server
2 4 (4.17%) Windows Server 2012
2 4 (4.17%) Windows Server 2016
2 4 (4.17%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (1.04%) Android
3 1 (1.04%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (28.13%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (22.92%) Project Management
3 16 (16.67%) Customer Service
4 14 (14.58%) Agile
4 14 (14.58%) Decision-Making
5 13 (13.54%) Business Analysis
5 13 (13.54%) Stakeholder Management
6 12 (12.50%) Migration
7 10 (10.42%) Service Delivery
8 9 (9.38%) Cybersecurity
8 9 (9.38%) Identity Access Management
9 8 (8.33%) Change Management
9 8 (8.33%) Computer Science
9 8 (8.33%) Data Protection
10 7 (7.29%) Artificial Intelligence
10 7 (7.29%) Collaborative Working
10 7 (7.29%) Data Migration
10 7 (7.29%) Project Planning
10 7 (7.29%) Software Engineering
10 7 (7.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 5 (5.21%) Python
2 3 (3.13%) Scala
3 2 (2.08%) Java
3 2 (2.08%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.04%) R
4 1 (1.04%) SQL
4 1 (1.04%) VB
Qualifications
1 13 (13.54%) Degree
2 12 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 12 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 12 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 8 (8.33%) AWS Certification
3 8 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 7 (7.29%) Azure Certification
4 7 (7.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (5.21%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 4 (4.17%) MCSE
7 3 (3.13%) APMG
7 3 (3.13%) PMI Certification
8 2 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (2.08%) CCNA
8 2 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (2.08%) DBS Check
8 2 (2.08%) Network+ Certification
8 2 (2.08%) PMP
9 1 (1.04%) CBAP
9 1 (1.04%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.38%) QA
2 5 (5.21%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.13%) GDPR
4 1 (1.04%) GMP
4 1 (1.04%) GRC
4 1 (1.04%) ISO 9001
4 1 (1.04%) PMO
4 1 (1.04%) PSD2
4 1 (1.04%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (7.29%) Docker
2 5 (5.21%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (4.17%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.04%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.17%) vCenter Server
2 4 (4.17%) WSUS
3 3 (3.13%) SCCM
4 2 (2.08%) Ansible
4 2 (2.08%) Terraform
5 1 (1.04%) CASB
5 1 (1.04%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (1.04%) Grafana
5 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.04%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 24 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.42%) Google
3 6 (6.25%) SAP
3 6 (6.25%) VMware
4 5 (5.21%) Citrix
5 3 (3.13%) Cisco
5 3 (3.13%) Palo Alto
6 2 (2.08%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.08%) Zscaler
7 1 (1.04%) Adobe
7 1 (1.04%) Ariba
7 1 (1.04%) Aruba
7 1 (1.04%) F5
7 1 (1.04%) Facebook
7 1 (1.04%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.04%) Intapp
7 1 (1.04%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.04%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.04%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.04%) Twitter