Law Contract Job Trends in the North West

Law
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Law in contract job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Law over the 6 months leading up to 18 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 107 93
Rank change year-on-year -25 -14 +32
Contract jobs citing Law 15 13 45
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.59% 0.63% 1.64%
As % of the General category 0.98% 1.08% 3.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 38
10th Percentile £374 £244 £248
25th Percentile £395 £344 £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +25.00% -23.81%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £553
90th Percentile £644 £569 £641
England median daily rate £550 £513 £534
% change year-on-year +7.32% -3.98% +1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.25 £65.00 £12.50
Median hourly rate £72.50 £68.69 £13.13
Median % change year-on-year +5.55% +423.03% -34.34%
75th Percentile £73.75 £73.86 £14.31
90th Percentile - £74.39 £15.78
England median hourly rate £37.00 £65.00 £13.00
% change year-on-year -43.08% +400.00% -32.99%

All General Skills
North West

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 general skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,536 1,209 1,492
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 60.66% 58.38% 54.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 999 649 962
10th Percentile £198 £267 £257
25th Percentile £350 £360 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £676 £700
England median daily rate £500 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -6.54% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 90 132
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.86 £12.55
25th Percentile £18.50 £19.06 £14.93
Median hourly rate £29.60 £27.26 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.60% +26.77% +2.14%
75th Percentile £45.46 £37.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £67.84 £65.32 £52.70
England median hourly rate £23.00 £30.00 £28.96
% change year-on-year -23.33% +3.59% +12.64%

Law
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Law job vacancy trend in the North West

Law
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Law.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Law

Law
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Law in the North West over the 6 months to 18 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Law in the North West

Law
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Law.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Law

Law
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Law within the North West region over the 6 months to 18 January 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
Manchester -6 12 £450 -10.00% 39
Merseyside -18 2 £650 +225.00% 5
Cheshire - 1 - - 9
Law
England

Law
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Elite 3E
1 1 (6.67%) NetSuite
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) Azure
2 5 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 4 (26.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (20.00%) Power Automate
5 2 (13.33%) AWS
5 2 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (13.33%) AWS CodePipeline
5 2 (13.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (13.33%) GitHub
5 2 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (6.67%) OCI
6 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) Power BI
2 3 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (13.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 2 (13.33%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (6.67%) EDRMS
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle Database
4 1 (6.67%) RDBMS
4 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) JIRA
General
1 6 (40.00%) Legal
1 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Electronics
4 1 (6.67%) Local Government
4 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
4 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) Azure Developer
1 3 (20.00%) Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Contracts Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Data Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Data Warehouse Developer
2 2 (13.33%) ERP Implementation Manager
2 2 (13.33%) ERP Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Implementation Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Lead
2 2 (13.33%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (6.67%) Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Applications Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Business Change Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Business Manager
3 1 (6.67%) C# Application Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Change Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Procurement Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Risk Manager
3 1 (6.67%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) ARM Templates
2 1 (6.67%) REST
2 1 (6.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (26.67%) Agile
2 4 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (26.67%) ERP
2 4 (26.67%) ETL
2 4 (26.67%) Mentoring
3 3 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
3 3 (20.00%) Change Management
3 3 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (20.00%) DevOps
3 3 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (13.33%) Analytics
4 2 (13.33%) Change Control
4 2 (13.33%) Coaching
4 2 (13.33%) Contract Management
4 2 (13.33%) ETL Development
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) SQL
2 2 (13.33%) T-SQL
3 1 (6.67%) C#
3 1 (6.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (6.67%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) Master's Degree
3 1 (6.67%) APMG
3 1 (6.67%) PMI Certification
3 1 (6.67%) PMP
3 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Data Quality
1 2 (13.33%) GDPR
1 2 (13.33%) QA
1 2 (13.33%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Ansible
1 2 (13.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle
2 1 (6.67%) Epicor
2 1 (6.67%) HubSpot
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Reuters
2 1 (6.67%) SAP