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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 28 43
Rank change year-on-year +1 +15 +12
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Legal 9 13 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 3.56% 3.90% 1.72%
As % of the General category 5.84% 7.10% 3.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 6
10th Percentile £177 £114 £378
25th Percentile £218 - £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £265 £120 £625
Median % change year-on-year +120.83% -80.80% -3.85%
75th Percentile £413 - £650
90th Percentile £555 £125 -
Wales median daily rate £230 £120 £625
% change year-on-year +91.67% -80.80% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £86.40 -
Wales median hourly rate - £86.40 -

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 154 183 189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 60.87% 54.95% 46.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 86 130
10th Percentile £213 £121 £182
25th Percentile £293 £161 £285
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% -11.11% -10.15%
75th Percentile £480 £518 £600
90th Percentile £540 £600 £650
Wales median daily rate £393 £400 £425
% change year-on-year -1.88% -5.88% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 25 18
10th Percentile £12.99 £16.57 -
25th Percentile £13.08 £20.12 £10.92
Median hourly rate £14.61 £45.00 £21.25
Median % change year-on-year -67.53% +111.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £16.25 £53.75 £35.69
90th Percentile £23.52 £70.25 £52.59
Wales median hourly rate £16.00 £26.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -39.62% +32.50% -

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
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

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

Legal
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legal in South Wales over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Legal in South Wales

Legal
Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

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

Legal
DemandTrendContract 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 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cardiff +6 6 £230 +91.67% 8
Newport +13 1 £450 - 5
Torfaen - 1 £400 - 1
Caerphilly - 1 - - 5
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:

Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) ChatGPT
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
2 1 (11.11%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) DNS
1 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
1 1 (11.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Database
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Law
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Deployment Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) 1st Line Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) 1st Line Support
2 1 (11.11%) 1st Line Support Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Data Centre Operator
2 1 (11.11%) E-Discovery Manager
2 1 (11.11%) IT Support
2 1 (11.11%) IT Support Technician
2 1 (11.11%) IT Technician
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Support Technician
2 1 (11.11%) Trainer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Data Centre
1 2 (22.22%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
2 2 (22.22%) Windows 10
3 1 (11.11%) Linux
3 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Service Management
2 3 (33.33%) ITSM
3 2 (22.22%) Migration
3 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (11.11%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (11.11%) Asset Management
4 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (11.11%) Case Management
4 1 (11.11%) Change Control
4 1 (11.11%) Change Management
4 1 (11.11%) E-Discovery
4 1 (11.11%) Event-Driven
4 1 (11.11%) Incident Response
4 1 (11.11%) Information Governance
4 1 (11.11%) ITIL
4 1 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (11.11%) Server Management
4 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery
4 1 (11.11%) Software Asset Management
4 1 (11.11%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) JCL
1 1 (11.11%) Korn
1 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Control-M
1 1 (11.11%) SCOM
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 3 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 2 (22.22%) Remedy
3 1 (11.11%) BMC
3 1 (11.11%) BT
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle
3 1 (11.11%) Xerox