Legal Contracts in the North West

Legal
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legal in contract job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legal over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 73 82
Rank change year-on-year +18 +9 +28
Contract jobs citing Legal 75 63 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 3.83% 2.37% 2.44%
As % of the General category 6.65% 4.42% 4.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 43 55
10th Percentile £303 £265 £378
25th Percentile £375 £381 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +15.00% +33.33%
75th Percentile £619 £600 £600
90th Percentile £716 £850 £709
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 14 2
10th Percentile £13.35 £14.43 £16.89
25th Percentile £16.00 £25.50 £17.30
Median hourly rate £20.41 £26.33 £18.66
Median % change year-on-year -22.48% +41.10% -22.65%
75th Percentile £24.82 £57.50 £20.69
90th Percentile £27.47 - £21.51
England median hourly rate £22.50 £40.00 £23.31
% change year-on-year -43.75% +71.60% -32.19%

All General Skills
North West

Legal 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 1,127 1,424 1,617
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 57.62% 53.59% 52.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 696 870 1,113
10th Percentile £250 £300 £309
25th Percentile £375 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £576 £588 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 190 75
10th Percentile £13.00 £12.50 £15.83
25th Percentile £17.44 £14.50 £17.49
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.86 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.97% -31.31% +8.58%
75th Percentile £56.51 £36.95 £36.17
90th Percentile £77.13 £51.91 £53.20
England median hourly rate £27.25 £30.16 £32.50
% change year-on-year -9.65% -7.20% +51.16%

Legal
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Legal as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Legal in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Legal in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Legal in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legal in the North West over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Legal in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Legal in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Legal in the North West

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Legal in the North West over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Legal 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 Legal within the North West region over the 6 months to 16 May 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 +7 29 £525 -8.70% 166
Cheshire +8 20 £429 +42.83% 29
Lancashire +15 19 £530 -11.67% 89
Cumbria - 4 £210 - 9
Merseyside -5 3 - - 19
Legal
England

Legal
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (6.67%) SharePoint
2 4 (5.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (5.33%) Chatbot
2 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.33%) InVision
3 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.33%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.33%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 3 (4.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.67%) Elite 3E
3 1 (1.33%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 19 (25.33%) Azure
2 13 (17.33%) AWS
3 11 (14.67%) GCP
4 5 (6.67%) Entra ID
4 5 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (5.33%) Anthropic Claude
5 4 (5.33%) Azure AI
5 4 (5.33%) Figma
5 4 (5.33%) Google Gemini
5 4 (5.33%) OneDrive
6 3 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.67%) SaaS
8 1 (1.33%) Akamai
8 1 (1.33%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.33%) Boomi
8 1 (1.33%) Google Ads
8 1 (1.33%) Google Analytics
8 1 (1.33%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.33%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.00%) Firewall
2 5 (6.67%) Network Security
3 4 (5.33%) SAN
4 3 (4.00%) WAN
5 2 (2.67%) DWDM
5 2 (2.67%) Ethernet
5 2 (2.67%) Internet
5 2 (2.67%) VPN
6 1 (1.33%) BGP
6 1 (1.33%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (1.33%) Cisco Wireless
6 1 (1.33%) EIGRP
6 1 (1.33%) LAN
6 1 (1.33%) MPLS
6 1 (1.33%) OSPF
6 1 (1.33%) SD-WAN
6 1 (1.33%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (1.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.33%) Neo4j
2 1 (1.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.33%) EDRMS
2 1 (1.33%) GIS
2 1 (1.33%) Power BI
2 1 (1.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (5.33%) Git
1 4 (5.33%) JIRA
2 1 (1.33%) Axure RP
General
1 35 (46.67%) Finance
2 32 (42.67%) Social Skills
3 25 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (13.33%) Manufacturing
4 10 (13.33%) Pharmaceutical
5 8 (10.67%) Banking
6 7 (9.33%) Marketing
6 7 (9.33%) Telecoms
7 5 (6.67%) Law
8 2 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.67%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.33%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.33%) Local Government
9 1 (1.33%) Military
9 1 (1.33%) Multimedia
9 1 (1.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 15 (20.00%) Architect
2 11 (14.67%) Project Manager
3 10 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
4 6 (8.00%) Analyst
4 6 (8.00%) Business Analyst
4 6 (8.00%) Senior
5 4 (5.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 4 (5.33%) Designer
5 4 (5.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (5.33%) IT Manager
5 4 (5.33%) IT Project Manager
5 4 (5.33%) Lead
6 3 (4.00%) Content Designer
6 3 (4.00%) Data Migration Expert
6 3 (4.00%) Dynamics 365 Project Manager
6 3 (4.00%) UX Designer
7 2 (2.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 2 (2.67%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (2.67%) Banking Project Manager
7 2 (2.67%) Customer Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.33%) PyTorch
1 4 (5.33%) TensorFlow
2 2 (2.67%) Kafka
3 1 (1.33%) CSS
3 1 (1.33%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.33%) HTML
3 1 (1.33%) OLE
3 1 (1.33%) RESTful
3 1 (1.33%) SailPoint
3 1 (1.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.67%) Onboarding
1 5 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.33%) Algorithms
2 4 (5.33%) Data Centre
2 4 (5.33%) Management Information System
2 4 (5.33%) Social Media
3 3 (4.00%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.67%) CMDB
4 2 (2.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.67%) Operational Technology
4 2 (2.67%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.33%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.33%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (1.33%) Graphic Design
5 1 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.33%) Photography
5 1 (1.33%) PMI
5 1 (1.33%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.33%) Windows
2 4 (5.33%) Linux
2 4 (5.33%) Unix
2 4 (5.33%) Windows Server
2 4 (5.33%) Windows Server 2012
2 4 (5.33%) Windows Server 2016
2 4 (5.33%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (1.33%) Android
3 1 (1.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (29.33%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (28.00%) Project Management
3 14 (18.67%) Decision-Making
4 13 (17.33%) Agile
4 13 (17.33%) Migration
5 12 (16.00%) Business Analysis
6 11 (14.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (12.00%) Cybersecurity
7 9 (12.00%) Identity Access Management
8 8 (10.67%) Artificial Intelligence
8 8 (10.67%) Computer Science
8 8 (10.67%) Data Protection
9 7 (9.33%) Change Management
9 7 (9.33%) Customer Service
9 7 (9.33%) Data Migration
9 7 (9.33%) Software Engineering
10 6 (8.00%) Containerisation
10 6 (8.00%) Project Planning
10 6 (8.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 6 (8.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 4 (5.33%) Python
2 3 (4.00%) Scala
3 2 (2.67%) Java
4 1 (1.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.33%) R
4 1 (1.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 12 (16.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (14.67%) Degree
3 10 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 10 (13.33%) Security Cleared
4 8 (10.67%) AWS Certification
4 8 (10.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (9.33%) Azure Certification
5 7 (9.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (6.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (5.33%) MCSE
8 3 (4.00%) APMG
8 3 (4.00%) PMI Certification
9 2 (2.67%) CCNA
9 2 (2.67%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (2.67%) DBS Check
9 2 (2.67%) Network+ Certification
9 2 (2.67%) PMP
10 1 (1.33%) CISM
10 1 (1.33%) CISSP
10 1 (1.33%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.00%) QA
2 4 (5.33%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.00%) GDPR
4 1 (1.33%) GRC
4 1 (1.33%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.33%) NIST
4 1 (1.33%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.33%) PMO
4 1 (1.33%) PSD2
System Software
1 6 (8.00%) Docker
2 5 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.33%) Active Directory
3 4 (5.33%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (5.33%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (8.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.33%) vCenter Server
2 4 (5.33%) WSUS
3 2 (2.67%) Ansible
3 2 (2.67%) Terraform
4 1 (1.33%) CASB
4 1 (1.33%) Cisco Prime
4 1 (1.33%) Grafana
4 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.33%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 22 (29.33%) Microsoft
2 10 (13.33%) Google
3 6 (8.00%) SAP
3 6 (8.00%) VMware
4 5 (6.67%) Citrix
5 2 (2.67%) Cisco
5 2 (2.67%) Palo Alto
5 2 (2.67%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.67%) Zscaler
6 1 (1.33%) Adobe
6 1 (1.33%) Ariba
6 1 (1.33%) Aruba
6 1 (1.33%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (1.33%) F5
6 1 (1.33%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.33%) Genesys
6 1 (1.33%) Intapp
6 1 (1.33%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.33%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.33%) YouTube