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 29 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 109 113
Rank change year-on-year -25 +4 +2
Contract jobs citing Law 27 19 20
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.81% 0.98% 0.74%
As % of the General category 1.48% 1.67% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 15 13
10th Percentile £389 £330 £370
25th Percentile £409 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% -15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £489 £516 £638
90th Percentile £571 £533 -
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -0.05% -9.05% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - £15.64 -
25th Percentile £16.25 £20.78 £12.50
Median hourly rate £16.50 £31.60 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.78% +143.06% -21.78%
75th Percentile £16.75 £44.67 £13.50
90th Percentile - £51.16 £27.15
England median hourly rate £20.27 £40.59 £13.00
% change year-on-year -50.07% +212.25% -35.00%

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 1,823 1,140 1,439
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 54.76% 58.61% 53.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,034 713 871
10th Percentile £243 £281 £288
25th Percentile £370 £385 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £493
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -3.65% -1.40%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £585
90th Percentile £640 £675 £670
England median daily rate £515 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -1.90% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 102 195
10th Percentile £16.23 £13.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £22.76 £16.36 £14.75
Median hourly rate £35.50 £28.75 £19.18
Median % change year-on-year +23.48% +49.90% -26.23%
75th Percentile £63.31 £57.81 £37.18
90th Percentile £83.88 £76.13 £51.54
England median hourly rate £31.16 £27.50 £30.27
% change year-on-year +13.29% -9.14% -5.18%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 -34 22 £438 +9.38% 45
Cheshire -10 3 - - 2
Merseyside -20 1 £700 +36.59% 6
Lancashire - 1 £488 - 7
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 (3.70%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Elite 3E
1 1 (3.70%) NetSuite
1 1 (3.70%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 7 (25.93%) Azure
1 7 (25.93%) Power Platform
2 6 (22.22%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (14.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 4 (14.81%) Power Automate
4 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (3.70%) Google Sheets
4 1 (3.70%) OCI
4 1 (3.70%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (22.22%) Power BI
2 4 (14.81%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 4 (14.81%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (14.81%) Snowflake Schema
3 3 (11.11%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.70%) EDRMS
5 1 (3.70%) Oracle Database
5 1 (3.70%) RDBMS
5 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.70%) Spark SQL
5 1 (3.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (18.52%) JIRA
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle Forms
General
1 9 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 8 (29.63%) Legal
3 7 (25.93%) Manufacturing
4 5 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (11.11%) Finance
6 2 (7.41%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (3.70%) Electronics
7 1 (3.70%) Marketing
7 1 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (18.52%) Administrator
1 5 (18.52%) Technical Administrator
2 4 (14.81%) Oracle Specialist
3 3 (11.11%) Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Azure Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Data Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Lead
4 2 (7.41%) Project Manager
4 2 (7.41%) Senior
5 1 (3.70%) Applications Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Data Integration Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Dynamics 365 Project Manager
5 1 (3.70%) Incident Response Lead
5 1 (3.70%) Integration Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Platform Specialist
5 1 (3.70%) Product Owner
5 1 (3.70%) SQL Analyst
5 1 (3.70%) Tableau Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.70%) .NET
1 1 (3.70%) ARM Templates
1 1 (3.70%) PySpark
1 1 (3.70%) REST
1 1 (3.70%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.70%) Operational Technology
2 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (40.74%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (25.93%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (25.93%) Data Visualisation
2 7 (25.93%) ERP
2 7 (25.93%) Visualisation
3 5 (18.52%) Dashboard Development
3 5 (18.52%) ETL
3 5 (18.52%) Performance Tuning
3 5 (18.52%) Workflow
4 4 (14.81%) Actionable Insight
4 4 (14.81%) Analytics
4 4 (14.81%) Data Analysis
4 4 (14.81%) Data Modelling
4 4 (14.81%) Data Protection
4 4 (14.81%) Decision-Making
4 4 (14.81%) ETL Development
5 3 (11.11%) Change Management
5 3 (11.11%) Data Management
5 3 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (11.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (29.63%) SQL
2 4 (14.81%) T-SQL
3 2 (7.41%) C#
4 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.70%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.70%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (7.41%) Degree
2 1 (3.70%) APMG
2 1 (3.70%) CISSP
2 1 (3.70%) CREST Certified
2 1 (3.70%) GCFA
2 1 (3.70%) GCIA
2 1 (3.70%) PMI Certification
2 1 (3.70%) PMP
2 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (25.93%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.41%) GDPR
3 1 (3.70%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (22.22%) Oracle
1 6 (22.22%) SAP
2 3 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.41%) HubSpot
4 1 (3.70%) Databricks
4 1 (3.70%) Epicor
4 1 (3.70%) Google
4 1 (3.70%) Reuters