Legal Contracts in South Wales

Legal
Wales > South Wales

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legal in contract job vacancies in South Wales. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legal over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 33 48
Rank change year-on-year +3 +15 +19
Contract jobs citing Legal 5 8 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 2.10% 2.40% 1.69%
As % of the General category 3.91% 5.48% 3.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 7
10th Percentile - £113 £180
25th Percentile £230 £118 £243
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £120 £325
Median % change year-on-year +233.33% -63.08% -33.33%
75th Percentile £450 £122 £613
90th Percentile £765 £125 £618
Wales median daily rate £315 £120 £310
% change year-on-year +162.50% -61.29% -36.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £87.80 -
Wales median hourly rate - £87.80 -

All General Skills
South Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 128 146 222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 53.78% 43.71% 46.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 75 155
10th Percentile £180 £121 £182
25th Percentile £291 £143 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £365 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.59% -27.00% -
75th Percentile £481 £551 £588
90th Percentile £588 £625 £638
Wales median daily rate £400 £425 £481
% change year-on-year -5.88% -11.69% -3.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 22 13
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.10 -
25th Percentile £14.23 £15.49 -
Median hourly rate £16.00 £36.68 £10.92
Median % change year-on-year -56.38% +235.90% -51.47%
75th Percentile £41.25 £62.19 £18.09
90th Percentile £45.00 £87.52 £45.56
Wales median hourly rate £16.00 £25.27 £11.56
% change year-on-year -36.68% +118.60% -53.76%

Legal
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Legal in South Wales

Legal
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Legal in South Wales

Legal
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legal in South Wales over the 6 months to 11 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Legal in South Wales

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Legal in South Wales

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Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 11 June 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
Newport +4 2 £700 - 10
Cardiff +2 2 £230 +91.67% 10
Torfaen - 1 £400 - 1
Legal
Wales

Legal
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) ChatGPT
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (20.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Deployment Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Coordinator
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Trainer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Linked Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) ITSM
2 2 (40.00%) Service Management
3 1 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) Server Management
3 1 (20.00%) Statistics
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Actionable Recommendations
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Remedy
1 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow