Legal Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Legal
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legal in contract job vacancies in Oxfordshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legal over the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 15 22
Rank change year-on-year -6 +7 +6
Contract jobs citing Legal 7 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 3.83% 2.02% 2.22%
As % of the General category 6.67% 3.64% 3.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 1
10th Percentile £400 - -
25th Percentile £463 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £160 £475
Median % change year-on-year +228.13% -66.32% +4.68%
75th Percentile £600 - £488
90th Percentile £735 - -
South East median daily rate £425 £512 £525
% change year-on-year -16.95% -2.52% -

All General Skills
Oxfordshire

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 general skills in Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 105 55 103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 57.38% 55.56% 57.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 33 70
10th Percentile £222 £166 £150
25th Percentile £322 £388 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% -5.56%
75th Percentile £547 £638 £537
90th Percentile £600 £673 £650
South East median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 5 12
10th Percentile £15.54 - £17.13
25th Percentile £17.31 £23.50 £25.19
Median hourly rate £22.27 £25.99 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.33% -0.04% +8.33%
75th Percentile £28.13 £47.50 £32.32
90th Percentile £89.63 £59.50 £47.11
South East median hourly rate £20.79 £42.50 £51.06
% change year-on-year -51.08% -16.76% +56.90%

Legal
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Legal job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Legal
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Legal

Legal
Daily Rate Histogram in Oxfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legal in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Legal in Oxfordshire

Legal
Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Legal.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Legal

Legal
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Legal within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 31 December 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
Oxford 0 6 £525 +228.13% 2
Legal
South East

Legal
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 (42.86%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco IPT
1 2 (28.57%) VPN
2 1 (14.29%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) VLAN
General
1 2 (28.57%) Marketing
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Migration Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Data Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Officer
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
2 1 (14.29%) UI Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (14.29%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Data Protection
2 3 (42.86%) SIEM
3 2 (28.57%) Case Management
3 2 (28.57%) Due Diligence
3 2 (28.57%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Transformation
3 2 (28.57%) Migration
3 2 (28.57%) RBAC
3 2 (28.57%) Risk Management
3 2 (28.57%) Risk Register
3 2 (28.57%) Runbook
4 1 (14.29%) Blue Team
4 1 (14.29%) Cyber Resilience
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Network Segmentation
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Purple Team
4 1 (14.29%) Red Team
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (28.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (28.57%) EU AI Act
1 2 (28.57%) GDPR
1 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (28.57%) PCI DSS
1 2 (28.57%) PERC
2 1 (14.29%) GRC
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 2 (28.57%) Sophos
2 1 (14.29%) UiPath
2 1 (14.29%) VMware