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

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 103 114
Rank change year-on-year -36 +11 -8
Contract jobs citing Law 26 21 19
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.76% 1.06% 0.68%
As % of the General category 1.41% 1.80% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 16 10
10th Percentile £389 £331 £353
25th Percentile £409 £375 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £413 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% -17.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £489 £514 £544
90th Percentile £571 £531 £638
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 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 £33.85 £13.50
90th Percentile - £46.84 £27.15
England median hourly rate £22.81 £30.20 £13.00
% change year-on-year -24.47% +132.31% -38.82%

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 1,845 1,169 1,476
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 53.87% 59.07% 53.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,049 742 871
10th Percentile £256 £305 £300
25th Percentile £371 £378 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £493
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% -3.65% -1.40%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £582
90th Percentile £644 £675 £665
England median daily rate £515 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -1.90% -1.78% -2.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 100 203
10th Percentile £16.38 £13.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £25.38 £14.73 £15.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £29.01 £21.43
Median % change year-on-year +24.10% +35.37% -7.43%
75th Percentile £68.25 £59.48 £37.25
90th Percentile £85.00 £76.38 £51.70
England median hourly rate £32.50 £28.18 £31.25
% change year-on-year +15.33% -9.82% +0.81%

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 June 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 June 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 -26 21 £438 +9.38% 34
Cheshire -7 3 - - 3
Merseyside -16 1 £700 +36.59% 3
Lancashire - 1 £488 - 5
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
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Elite 3E
1 1 (3.85%) NetSuite
1 1 (3.85%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 6 (23.08%) Azure
1 6 (23.08%) Power Platform
2 5 (19.23%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (11.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 3 (11.54%) Power Automate
4 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.85%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (3.85%) Google Sheets
4 1 (3.85%) OCI
4 1 (3.85%) SaaS
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 2 (7.69%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.85%) EDRMS
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle Database
4 1 (3.85%) RDBMS
4 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.85%) Spark SQL
4 1 (3.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (19.23%) JIRA
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle Forms
General
1 9 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 8 (30.77%) Legal
3 7 (26.92%) Manufacturing
4 5 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (11.54%) Finance
6 2 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (3.85%) Electronics
7 1 (3.85%) Marketing
7 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (19.23%) Administrator
1 5 (19.23%) Technical Administrator
2 4 (15.38%) Oracle Specialist
3 2 (7.69%) Analyst
3 2 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) Data Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) Developer
3 2 (7.69%) Lead
3 2 (7.69%) Project Manager
3 2 (7.69%) Senior
4 1 (3.85%) Applications Developer
4 1 (3.85%) Business Change Manager
4 1 (3.85%) C# Developer
4 1 (3.85%) Change Manager
4 1 (3.85%) Data Analyst
4 1 (3.85%) Dynamics 365 Project Manager
4 1 (3.85%) Incident Response Lead
4 1 (3.85%) Platform Specialist
4 1 (3.85%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (3.85%) SQL Developer
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%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.85%) Operational Technology
2 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (26.92%) ERP
3 6 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (23.08%) Data Visualisation
3 6 (23.08%) Visualisation
4 5 (19.23%) Dashboard Development
5 4 (15.38%) Data Analysis
5 4 (15.38%) Data Protection
5 4 (15.38%) Decision-Making
5 4 (15.38%) ETL
5 4 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (15.38%) Workflow
6 3 (11.54%) Analytics
6 3 (11.54%) Change Management
6 3 (11.54%) Data Governance
6 3 (11.54%) Data Management
6 3 (11.54%) Data Modelling
6 3 (11.54%) ETL Development
6 3 (11.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (11.54%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (26.92%) SQL
2 3 (11.54%) T-SQL
3 2 (7.69%) C#
4 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.85%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.85%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (3.85%) APMG
2 1 (3.85%) CISSP
2 1 (3.85%) CREST Certified
2 1 (3.85%) GCFA
2 1 (3.85%) GCIA
2 1 (3.85%) PMI Certification
2 1 (3.85%) PMP
2 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (23.08%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.69%) GDPR
3 1 (3.85%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (23.08%) Oracle
1 6 (23.08%) SAP
2 3 (11.54%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.69%) HubSpot
4 1 (3.85%) Databricks
4 1 (3.85%) Epicor
4 1 (3.85%) Google
4 1 (3.85%) Reuters