Law Contracts 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 21 28
Rank change year-on-year -6 +7 +4
Contract jobs citing Law 5 3 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 3.14% 2.01% 2.48%
As % of the General category 3.85% 4.00% 4.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 - £450
75th Percentile - - £475
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £501 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.00% +4.76% -

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 130 75 123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 81.76% 50.34% 60.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 36 62
10th Percentile £153 £193 £174
25th Percentile £273 £278 £278
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £418 £413
Median % change year-on-year -1.80% +1.21% -
75th Percentile £528 £545 £497
90th Percentile £625 £650 £579
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 22 9
10th Percentile £15.61 - £13.88
25th Percentile £22.92 £12.25 £13.91
Median hourly rate £26.59 £14.66 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +81.38% -5.42% +11.59%
75th Percentile £48.48 £22.50 £16.88
90th Percentile £78.47 £23.54 £18.16
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.33% -14.29% +59.31%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Law in Northern Ireland.

Daily rate trend for Law in Northern Ireland

Law
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Law in Northern Ireland.

Hourly rate trend for Law in Northern Ireland

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 1 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
County Antrim -8 5 £410 - 39
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 (40.00%) Apache
1 2 (40.00%) Apache Spark
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Amazon ECS
1 3 (60.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Flink
2 2 (40.00%) Apache Hive
2 2 (40.00%) Big Data
2 2 (40.00%) HBase
2 2 (40.00%) Impala
2 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
General
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
1 5 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
1 5 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Apache Spark Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) Kafka
2 2 (40.00%) Apache Avro
2 2 (40.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Credit Risk
1 3 (60.00%) Equities
1 3 (60.00%) Fixed Income
2 2 (40.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Clean Code
2 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (60.00%) Data Management
2 3 (60.00%) High Availability
2 3 (60.00%) Microservices
3 2 (40.00%) Low Latency
3 2 (40.00%) Multithreading
3 2 (40.00%) SOA
3 2 (40.00%) Storyboarding
3 2 (40.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
2 2 (40.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle