Law Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Law
UK > Northern Ireland

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

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 - 26
Rank change year-on-year - - +6
Contract jobs citing Law 2 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 0.82% - 1.74%
As % of the General category 1.20% - 2.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -21.05%
75th Percentile - - £475
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £538
% change year-on-year -2.33% - +2.38%

All General Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 167 118 121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 68.16% 63.44% 70.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 49 63
10th Percentile £200 £143 £157
25th Percentile £313 £167 £318
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £338 £400
Median % change year-on-year +40.74% -15.63% -19.15%
75th Percentile £575 £488 £516
90th Percentile £631 £578 £575
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 22 10
10th Percentile £12.31 - £11.08
25th Percentile £13.36 £15.48 £13.23
Median hourly rate £15.05 £22.56 £13.69
Median % change year-on-year -33.29% +64.85% +24.69%
75th Percentile £15.75 £24.18 £13.91
90th Percentile £24.50 - £18.08
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £36.48 £27.50
% change year-on-year -31.06% +32.66% +12.24%

Law
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing Law as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for Law in Northern Ireland

Law
Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Law.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Law

Law
Hourly Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Law.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Law

Law
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Law within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 16 September 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
County Antrim - 2 £410 - 22
Law
UK

Law
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 2 (100.00%) Apache
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Spark
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 2 (100.00%) Big Data
1 2 (100.00%) HBase
1 2 (100.00%) Impala
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Financial Institution
1 2 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Spark Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Avro
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 2 (100.00%) SOA
1 2 (100.00%) Storyboarding
1 2 (100.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) HDFS
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle