Legal Contract Job Trends 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 20 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 32 35
Rank change year-on-year -11 +3 +18
Contract jobs citing Legal 6 2 5
As % of all contract jobs in South London 2.06% 0.99% 1.99%
As % of the General category 3.59% 1.34% 3.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 4
10th Percentile £466 £448 £127
25th Percentile £495 £481 £137
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 £550 £163
Median % change year-on-year +7.91% +238.46% -67.50%
75th Percentile £826 £606 £188
90th Percentile £863 £633 £203
London median daily rate £588 £550 £500
% change year-on-year +6.82% +10.00% -3.85%

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 general skills in South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 167 149 141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 57.39% 73.40% 56.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 94 87
10th Percentile £300 £354 £183
25th Percentile £450 £453 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £475
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +26.32% -13.64%
75th Percentile £550 £650 £588
90th Percentile £639 £907 £638
London median daily rate £537 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.61% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 17
10th Percentile £62.13 - £16.37
25th Percentile £62.69 - £17.25
Median hourly rate £64.75 £15.84 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +308.78% -32.60% -35.55%
75th Percentile £66.19 £78.40 £83.25
90th Percentile £66.38 £79.36 £83.75
London median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £30.16
% change year-on-year -17.14% +16.05% -7.20%

Legal
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Legal job vacancy trend in South London

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Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Legal.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Legal

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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 20 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Legal in South London

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Hourly Rate Trend in South London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Legal.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Legal

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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 20 March 2026. 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 -7 5 £637 +15.82% 2
Bromley - 1 £550 - 6
Legal
London

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Datadog
1 2 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) IPv4
1 2 (33.33%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
4 1 (16.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Business Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) AML Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Banking Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Banking Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Programme Director
2 1 (16.67%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (33.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (50.00%) Workflow
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 2 (33.33%) CRM
3 2 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 2 (33.33%) GitOps
3 2 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (33.33%) Project Management
3 2 (33.33%) Scrum
3 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (16.67%) Business Strategy
4 1 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (33.33%) Degree
3 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) GDPR
1 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (33.33%) NIST
2 1 (16.67%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Grafana
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (33.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft