Law Contract Job Trends in Reading

Law
Berkshire > Reading

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Law in contract job vacancies in Reading. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Law over the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 74 80
Rank change year-on-year +15 +6 +11
Contract jobs citing Law 5 21 6
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.84% 1.92% 0.55%
As % of the General category 1.37% 3.51% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £538 £550 £850
% change year-on-year -2.27% -35.29% +74.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66.25 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 - -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £67.50 - -

All General Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 365 598 677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 61.34% 54.76% 61.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 279 400
10th Percentile £273 £265 £212
25th Percentile £425 £450 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £620 £638 £617
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £488
% change year-on-year -4.76% +7.58% +0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 17 9
10th Percentile - £14.50 £49.37
25th Percentile £14.75 £20.75 £58.75
Median hourly rate £37.28 £61.06 £63.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.95% -3.84% +15.45%
75th Percentile £58.00 £63.41 £67.75
90th Percentile £67.25 £79.92 £74.25
Berkshire median hourly rate £34.80 £58.49 £60.00
% change year-on-year -40.51% -2.52% +45.65%

Law
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Law job vacancy trend in Reading

Law
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Law.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Law

Law
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Law.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Law

Law
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (20.00%) Selenium
1 1 (20.00%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Local Government
2 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (20.00%) Legal
3 1 (20.00%) Police
3 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Commercial Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Java Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Procurement Officer
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (20.00%) Java EE
1 1 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Information Management
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (20.00%) Contract Management
2 1 (20.00%) Customer-Centricity
2 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Management
2 1 (20.00%) Software Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Docker Swarm
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Podman
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle