Legal Contracts in Northern Ireland

Legal
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legal in contract job vacancies in Northern Ireland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legal over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 12 19
Rank change year-on-year -15 +7 +7
Contract jobs citing Legal 6 12 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 3.51% 8.39% 5.08%
As % of the General category 4.38% 17.14% 8.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 7
10th Percentile - £204 £267
25th Percentile £200 £209 £298
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £238 £248 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -45.00% +114.29%
75th Percentile £339 £288 £475
90th Percentile £431 £322 -
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Median hourly rate - £12.25 -
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £26.33 £23.31
% change year-on-year -14.55% +12.96% -27.58%

All General Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 137 70 117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 80.12% 48.95% 59.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 31 56
10th Percentile £155 £200 £156
25th Percentile £275 £288 £254
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £435 £438
Median % change year-on-year -2.30% -0.57% +6.06%
75th Percentile £547 £584 £503
90th Percentile £625 £650 £601
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 21 9
10th Percentile £13.50 - £13.88
25th Percentile £18.64 £12.25 £13.91
Median hourly rate £24.18 £15.38 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.22% -0.77% +11.59%
75th Percentile £44.65 £23.00 £16.88
90th Percentile £78.47 £23.54 £18.16
UK median hourly rate £27.45 £30.00 £32.60
% change year-on-year -8.50% -7.96% +44.87%

Legal
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for Legal in Northern Ireland

Legal
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Daily rate trend for Legal in Northern Ireland

Legal
Daily Rate Histogram in Northern Ireland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legal in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Legal in Northern Ireland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Hourly rate trend for Legal in Northern Ireland

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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 Legal within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 17 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 6 £238 -4.04% 42
Legal
UK

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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:

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) UniData
General
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Deployment Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Information Manager
1 2 (33.33%) Information Security Manager
1 2 (33.33%) Security Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Applications Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Applications Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Security Posture
2 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (16.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (33.33%) Compliance Management
2 2 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 2 (33.33%) Information Security
2 2 (33.33%) Information Security Governance
2 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 2 (33.33%) Risk Register
3 1 (16.67%) Business Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
3 1 (16.67%) Line Management
3 1 (16.67%) Project Management
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) UniBasic
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) CISM
1 2 (33.33%) CISSP
1 2 (33.33%) CRISC
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 2 (33.33%) GDPR
1 2 (33.33%) GRC
1 2 (33.33%) HIPAA
1 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (33.33%) NIST
1 2 (33.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft