Legal Contract Job Trends in Oxford

Legal
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legal in contract job vacancies in Oxford. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legal over the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 10 13
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 +12
Contract jobs citing Legal 4 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in Oxford 7.41% 3.70% 3.13%
As % of the General category 12.12% 9.52% 8.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 2
10th Percentile - - £468
25th Percentile £400 - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £160 £500
Median % change year-on-year +212.50% -68.00% +62.60%
75th Percentile £600 - £525
90th Percentile - - £533
Oxfordshire median daily rate £600 £160 £500
% change year-on-year +275.00% -68.00% -9.09%

All General Skills
Oxford

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 Oxford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 33 21 36
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxford 61.11% 38.89% 37.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 14 28
10th Percentile - £160 £150
25th Percentile £222 £198 £192
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £438 £375
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% +16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £463 £475 £488
90th Percentile £558 £538 £658
Oxfordshire median daily rate £425 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -5.56% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £25.59 - -
25th Percentile £26.25 - -
Median hourly rate £77.00 - -
75th Percentile £89.63 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Oxfordshire median hourly rate £25.15 £25.99 £26.00
% change year-on-year -3.23% -0.04% +64.56%

Legal
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Legal relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxford.

Legal job vacancy trend in Oxford

Legal
Daily Rate Trend in Oxford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing Legal.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing Legal

Legal
Daily Rate Histogram in Oxford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legal in Oxford over the 6 months to 4 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Legal in Oxford

Legal
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxford 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) VLAN
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Migration Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
2 1 (25.00%) UI Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) SIEM
2 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) RBAC
2 2 (50.00%) Runbook
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Network Segmentation
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
3 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Sophos
2 1 (25.00%) UiPath
2 1 (25.00%) VMware