Legal Contracts in South London

Legal
London > South London

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

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 38 44
Rank change year-on-year +3 +6 +9
Contract jobs citing Legal 3 1 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 1.76% 0.46% 1.62%
As % of the General category 2.73% 0.83% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 6
10th Percentile £451 - £128
25th Percentile £490 - £154
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 - £250
Median % change year-on-year - - -54.55%
75th Percentile £603 - £480
90th Percentile £631 - £569
London median daily rate £550 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +4.76% -2.33% -

All General Skills
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 110 120 253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 64.71% 55.05% 68.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 76 193
10th Percentile £303 £206 £313
25th Percentile £450 £408 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +18.95% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £675 £564 £675
90th Percentile £938 £619 £840
London median daily rate £560 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -2.61% -4.17% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 14 12
10th Percentile - £15.90 £18.75
25th Percentile - £17.06 £19.69
Median hourly rate £15.84 £23.50 £50.42
Median % change year-on-year -32.60% -53.39% +12.04%
75th Percentile £20.38 £69.13 £51.06
90th Percentile £73.96 £83.75 £55.50
London median hourly rate £34.00 £30.00 £31.50
% change year-on-year +13.33% -4.76% -11.27%

Legal
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Job postings citing Legal as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South London.

Job vacancy trend for Legal in South London

Legal
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Legal in South London.

Daily rate trend for Legal in South London

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Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legal in South London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Legal in South London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Legal in South London.

Hourly rate trend for Legal in South London

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Contract Job Locations in South London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Legal within the South London region over the 6 months to 31 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
Croydon - 3 £555 - 2
Legal
London

Legal
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 1 (33.33%) IaaS
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (33.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) NAS
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
1 1 (33.33%) SD-WAN
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Designer
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Interaction Designer
1 1 (33.33%) IT Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Analytics
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (33.33%) Compliance Management
2 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Resilience
2 1 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (33.33%) FinOps
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Interaction Design
2 1 (33.33%) IT Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Log Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Remediation Plan
2 1 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Service Design
2 1 (33.33%) User Research
2 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) Dell
1 1 (33.33%) EMC
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto
1 1 (33.33%) SonicWALL
1 1 (33.33%) VMware