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 3 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 97 80
Rank change year-on-year -29 -17 +49
Contract jobs citing Law 18 21 53
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.73% 0.93% 2.00%
As % of the General category 1.19% 1.61% 3.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 47
10th Percentile £369 £175 £248
25th Percentile £379 £288 £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +13.53% +6.25% -23.81%
75th Percentile £641 £538 £525
90th Percentile £646 £575 £557
England median daily rate £563 £495 £545
% change year-on-year +13.64% -9.17% +3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 2
10th Percentile - - £13.44
25th Percentile - £65.00 £13.91
Median hourly rate £12.21 £68.69 £14.88
Median % change year-on-year -82.22% +361.53% -24.65%
75th Percentile £27.60 £73.86 £15.91
90th Percentile £55.29 £74.39 £16.41
England median hourly rate £17.45 £41.50 £16.50
% change year-on-year -57.95% +151.52% -14.51%

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 common skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,518 1,306 1,471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 61.53% 57.92% 55.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 997 691 963
10th Percentile £213 £263 £256
25th Percentile £358 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -4.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £673 £700
England median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 104 107
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.00 £15.74
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.03 £17.14
Median hourly rate £29.60 £29.12 £23.61
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% +23.32% +18.05%
75th Percentile £45.46 £43.94 £45.88
90th Percentile £72.03 £63.50 £57.89
England median hourly rate £24.00 £30.59 £33.00
% change year-on-year -21.54% -7.30% +28.35%

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 3 December 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Law in the North West over the 6 months to 3 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Law in the North West

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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 3 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
Manchester -9 10 £390 -17.89% 58
Merseyside -4 5 £650 +266.07% 3
Lancashire -14 1 - - 31
Cheshire -21 1 - - 3
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.56%) CMS
1 1 (5.56%) Resin
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (5.56%) PTC Creo
Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) Azure
1 4 (22.22%) Power Platform
2 2 (11.11%) AWS
2 2 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (11.11%) AWS CodePipeline
2 2 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (11.11%) GitHub
2 2 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (11.11%) Power Automate
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (5.56%) dbt
3 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (5.56%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) Power BI
2 3 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.56%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.56%) BigQuery
3 1 (5.56%) Looker
3 1 (5.56%) Power Query
3 1 (5.56%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 8 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Local Government
3 3 (16.67%) Finance
3 3 (16.67%) Legal
3 3 (16.67%) Police
4 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Manufacturing
4 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.56%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 3 (16.67%) Lead
1 3 (16.67%) Support Officer
2 2 (11.11%) Contracts Manager
2 2 (11.11%) ERP Implementation Manager
2 2 (11.11%) ERP Manager
2 2 (11.11%) Implementation Manager
2 2 (11.11%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (5.56%) Administrator
3 1 (5.56%) Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Developer
3 1 (5.56%) Data Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Developer
3 1 (5.56%) Due Diligence Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Procurement Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Report Specialist
3 1 (5.56%) Risk Manager
3 1 (5.56%) SAP Administrator
3 1 (5.56%) SAP Support
3 1 (5.56%) Senior
3 1 (5.56%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) 3D Printing
1 1 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (5.56%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (22.22%) Mentoring
3 3 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
3 3 (16.67%) Agile
3 3 (16.67%) Change Management
3 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 3 (16.67%) Customer Service
3 3 (16.67%) Data Modelling
4 2 (11.11%) Analytics
4 2 (11.11%) Budgeting
4 2 (11.11%) Change Control
4 2 (11.11%) Coaching
4 2 (11.11%) Configuration Management
4 2 (11.11%) Contract Management
4 2 (11.11%) DevOps
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (11.11%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (11.11%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 2 (11.11%) SQL
2 1 (5.56%) Python
2 1 (5.56%) T-SQL
2 1 (5.56%) X++
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) DBS Check
2 2 (11.11%) Degree
2 2 (11.11%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) SLA
2 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.56%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Ansible
1 2 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (5.56%) Google
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
1 1 (5.56%) SAP