Law Contracts in the South East

Law
England > South East

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

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 137 126
Rank change year-on-year +1 -11 +71
Contract jobs citing Law 27 67 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.82% 1.18% 1.56%
As % of the General category 1.36% 2.41% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 24 79
10th Percentile £153 £463 £201
25th Percentile £175 £516 £246
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £613 £425
Median % change year-on-year -26.53% +44.29% -3.41%
75th Percentile £501 £688 £614
90th Percentile - - £755
England median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 4
10th Percentile - - £14.37
25th Percentile £66.25 £27.50 £15.58
Median hourly rate £67.50 £30.00 £21.25
Median % change year-on-year +125.00% +41.18% +82.87%
75th Percentile £68.75 £32.50 £33.19
90th Percentile - - £47.93
England median hourly rate £27.64 £19.74 £20.00
% change year-on-year +40.06% -1.33% +14.29%

All General Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,979 2,776 3,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 60.19% 48.87% 58.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,232 1,511 2,292
10th Percentile £205 £213 £245
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £595 £608 £628
90th Percentile £675 £688 £721
England median daily rate £518 £533 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% -3.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 331 165
10th Percentile £13.00 £12.88 £15.21
25th Percentile £14.42 £18.35 £22.38
Median hourly rate £18.87 £45.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.07% -10.00% +150.00%
75th Percentile £52.30 £61.60 £64.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.33 £73.73
England median hourly rate £27.25 £33.00 £30.52
% change year-on-year -17.44% +8.13% +31.38%

Law
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Law as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Law in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Law in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Law in the South East

Law
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Law in the South East over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Law in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Law in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Law in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Law within the South East region over the 6 months to 6 July 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
Thames Valley -11 17 £501 -23.00% 116
Berkshire -7 16 £501 -23.00% 74
Kent +2 3 £155 -52.31% 16
East Sussex - 3 £475 - 8
Hampshire +29 2 £175 -68.04% 40
Surrey +13 1 - - 37
Oxfordshire -3 1 - - 21
Home Counties - 1 - -
Law
England

Law
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (7.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 8 (29.63%) AWS
1 8 (29.63%) Azure
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.70%) SaaS
3 1 (3.70%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.41%) DNS
1 2 (7.41%) Firewall
1 2 (7.41%) Remote Desktop
1 2 (7.41%) TCP/IP
1 2 (7.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.70%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 8 (29.63%) Cucumber
1 8 (29.63%) GitLab
1 8 (29.63%) Jenkins
1 8 (29.63%) JIRA
1 8 (29.63%) REST Assured
1 8 (29.63%) Selenium
1 8 (29.63%) SonarQube
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle Forms
General
1 14 (51.85%) Social Skills
2 11 (40.74%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (22.22%) Legal
4 4 (14.81%) Police
5 3 (11.11%) Manufacturing
5 3 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 3 (11.11%) Telecoms
6 2 (7.41%) Finance
6 2 (7.41%) Local Government
7 1 (3.70%) Automotive
7 1 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (3.70%) Retail
7 1 (3.70%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 5 (18.52%) Developer
2 4 (14.81%) Java Developer
2 4 (14.81%) Java Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) Java Software Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) Senior
2 4 (14.81%) Software Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Analyst
3 3 (11.11%) Commercial Manager
4 2 (7.41%) Hardware Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Help Desk Officer
4 2 (7.41%) Help Desk Support
4 2 (7.41%) IT Support
4 2 (7.41%) Senior Hardware Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Service Desk Officer
4 2 (7.41%) Service Desk Support
4 2 (7.41%) Support Officer
5 1 (3.70%) Digital Hardware Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Information Governance Officer
5 1 (3.70%) Procurement Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (29.63%) ARM Templates
1 8 (29.63%) Java EE
1 8 (29.63%) REST
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) Driving Licence
1 2 (7.41%) Onboarding
1 2 (7.41%) Smartphone
2 1 (3.70%) ASIC
2 1 (3.70%) FPGA
2 1 (3.70%) Freedom of Information
2 1 (3.70%) Freedom of Information Act
2 1 (3.70%) NHS
2 1 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (3.70%) State Machine
2 1 (3.70%) Verilog
2 1 (3.70%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.81%) Windows
1 4 (14.81%) Windows 10
2 2 (7.41%) Windows Server
2 2 (7.41%) Windows Server 2012
2 2 (7.41%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (29.63%) Configuration Management
1 8 (29.63%) Containerisation
1 8 (29.63%) Continuous Integration
1 8 (29.63%) DevOps
1 8 (29.63%) Infrastructure as Code
1 8 (29.63%) Software Architecture
1 8 (29.63%) Software Engineering
1 8 (29.63%) Technical Leadership
1 8 (29.63%) Test Automation
2 7 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (18.52%) Decision-Making
4 4 (14.81%) ITIL
5 3 (11.11%) Contract Management
5 3 (11.11%) CRM
6 2 (7.41%) Creative Problem-Solving
6 2 (7.41%) Customer Experience
6 2 (7.41%) Customer Requirements
6 2 (7.41%) Customer-Centricity
6 2 (7.41%) Preventative Maintenance
6 2 (7.41%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 8 (29.63%) Java
2 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (37.04%) SC Cleared
1 10 (37.04%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) CISMP
2 1 (3.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) GDPR
2 2 (7.41%) DO-254
2 2 (7.41%) SLA
3 1 (3.70%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (3.70%) GRC
3 1 (3.70%) HIPAA
3 1 (3.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (29.63%) Docker
2 2 (7.41%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.41%) Hyper-V
2 2 (7.41%) Terminal Services
2 2 (7.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (29.63%) Ansible
1 8 (29.63%) Docker Swarm
1 8 (29.63%) Kubernetes
1 8 (29.63%) Podman
1 8 (29.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (14.81%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.11%) Oracle
3 2 (7.41%) Citrix
3 2 (7.41%) ServiceNow
3 2 (7.41%) VMware
4 1 (3.70%) EMC
4 1 (3.70%) SAP
4 1 (3.70%) Workday