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 8 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 98 104
Rank change year-on-year -50 +6 +4
Contract jobs citing Law 26 28 26
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.72% 1.32% 0.95%
As % of the General category 1.34% 2.26% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 16 14
10th Percentile £318 £331 £263
25th Percentile £381 £372 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £491 £495 £525
90th Percentile £596 £531 £543
England median daily rate £503 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +0.50% -9.09% +4.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.25 - £12.50
Median hourly rate £16.50 £12.21 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.14% -6.08% -33.54%
75th Percentile £16.75 - £13.50
90th Percentile - £33.85 £27.15
England median hourly rate £24.29 £27.64 £19.74
% change year-on-year -12.12% +40.06% -1.33%

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 1,934 1,241 1,491
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 53.23% 58.62% 54.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,094 789 882
10th Percentile £263 £299 £300
25th Percentile £393 £375 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £460 £493
Median % change year-on-year +3.26% -6.65% -1.45%
75th Percentile £580 £575 £576
90th Percentile £650 £675 £663
England median daily rate £525 £517 £533
% change year-on-year +1.55% -3.00% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 209 114 190
10th Percentile £16.50 £12.87 £13.00
25th Percentile £25.38 £15.44 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.55 £29.27 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +21.46% +22.98% +2.81%
75th Percentile £69.50 £57.57 £43.05
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.88 £51.91
England median hourly rate £32.81 £27.17 £33.00
% change year-on-year +20.75% -17.67% +10.00%

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 8 July 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 8 July 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 -37 21 £401 +0.13% 61
Cheshire -8 3 - - 10
Lancashire -6 1 £488 - 15
Merseyside -18 1 £700 +36.59% 8
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 (3.85%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (3.85%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 5 (19.23%) Azure
1 5 (19.23%) Power Platform
2 4 (15.38%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (11.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 3 (11.54%) Power Automate
4 1 (3.85%) Google Sheets
4 1 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) VPN
1 1 (3.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (19.23%) Power BI
2 3 (11.54%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 3 (11.54%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (11.54%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (11.54%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (3.85%) Spark SQL
3 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (19.23%) JIRA
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle Forms
General
1 7 (26.92%) Legal
1 7 (26.92%) Manufacturing
1 7 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 5 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Finance
4 2 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Electronics
5 1 (3.85%) Legal Technology
5 1 (3.85%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (19.23%) Administrator
1 5 (19.23%) Technical Administrator
2 4 (15.38%) Oracle Specialist
3 3 (11.54%) Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Data Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Lead
4 2 (7.69%) Project Manager
4 2 (7.69%) Senior
5 1 (3.85%) 2nd Line Service Desk Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Data Governance Specialist
5 1 (3.85%) Data Integration Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Dynamics 365 Project Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Incident Response Lead
5 1 (3.85%) Platform Specialist
5 1 (3.85%) Product Owner
5 1 (3.85%) Service Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) SQL Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Tableau Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) .NET
1 1 (3.85%) ARM Templates
1 1 (3.85%) PySpark
1 1 (3.85%) REST
1 1 (3.85%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.85%) Blackberry
2 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.85%) Operational Technology
2 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.85%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Windows
1 1 (3.85%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (23.08%) Data Visualisation
2 6 (23.08%) Visualisation
3 5 (19.23%) Dashboard Development
3 5 (19.23%) Data Protection
3 5 (19.23%) ERP
4 4 (15.38%) Data Analysis
4 4 (15.38%) Data Governance
4 4 (15.38%) Decision-Making
4 4 (15.38%) ETL
4 4 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (15.38%) Workflow
5 3 (11.54%) Actionable Insight
5 3 (11.54%) Analytics
5 3 (11.54%) Data Management
5 3 (11.54%) Data Modelling
5 3 (11.54%) ETL Development
5 3 (11.54%) Validation
6 2 (7.69%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 6 (23.08%) SQL
2 3 (11.54%) T-SQL
3 1 (3.85%) C#
3 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.85%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (3.85%) CISSP
1 1 (3.85%) CREST Certified
1 1 (3.85%) Degree
1 1 (3.85%) GCFA
1 1 (3.85%) GCIA
1 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (23.08%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (19.23%) SAP
2 4 (15.38%) Oracle
3 2 (7.69%) HubSpot
3 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.85%) Adobe
4 1 (3.85%) Cisco
4 1 (3.85%) Databricks
4 1 (3.85%) Google
4 1 (3.85%) iManage
4 1 (3.85%) Intapp
4 1 (3.85%) Litera
4 1 (3.85%) Reuters
4 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow