Law Contracts in the South West

Law
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Law in contract job vacancies advertised in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Law over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 108 124
Rank change year-on-year -14 +16 -8
Contract jobs citing Law 28 60 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.88% 1.63% 1.15%
As % of the General category 1.70% 3.30% 2.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 42 32
10th Percentile £452 £194 £317
25th Percentile £490 £444 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £636 £522
Median % change year-on-year -7.66% +22.00% +15.89%
75th Percentile £634 £682 £613
90th Percentile £638 £793 £676
England median daily rate £550 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.76% - +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 0
Median hourly rate £11.87 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -84.17% - -
England median hourly rate £13.00 £24.11 £17.50
% change year-on-year -46.08% +37.77% -58.82%

All General Skills
South West

Law is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,648 1,820 1,915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 51.60% 49.42% 51.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,005 1,323 1,331
10th Percentile £215 £263 £229
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £480
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +12.50% +3.23%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £588
90th Percentile £700 £713 £675
England median daily rate £538 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -2.27% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 141 132
10th Percentile £13.69 £17.50 -
25th Percentile £17.50 £39.55 £15.90
Median hourly rate £45.00 £61.50 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.83% +46.43% +5.22%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.80 £54.88
90th Percentile £75.00 £87.50 £63.60
England median hourly rate £28.75 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -17.86% +62.79% -4.44%

Law
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Law in the South West

Law
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Law in the South West

Law
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Law in the South West over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Law in the South West

Law
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Law in the South West

Law
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. 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
Bristol +9 10 £625 -3.85% 32
Somerset -9 8 £575 -14.31% 8
Dorset - 3 - - 1
Gloucestershire +6 1 - - 7
Devon -2 1 - - 11
Wiltshire -4 1 - - 10
Law
England

Law
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (3.57%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (3.57%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (3.57%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (3.57%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (3.57%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (3.57%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (21.43%) OCI
2 2 (7.14%) GitHub
3 1 (3.57%) AWS
3 1 (3.57%) Azure
3 1 (3.57%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.57%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) GitLab
1 1 (3.57%) GoogleTest
1 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.57%) JIRA
1 1 (3.57%) NUnit
1 1 (3.57%) Rational Rhapsody
1 1 (3.57%) SpecFlow
General
1 8 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.86%) Finance
2 5 (17.86%) Legal
3 1 (3.57%) Back Office
3 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.57%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 5 (17.86%) Cloud Specialist
1 5 (17.86%) Oracle Payroll Specialist
1 5 (17.86%) Oracle Specialist
2 4 (14.29%) Developer
2 4 (14.29%) Lead
2 4 (14.29%) Service Manager
2 4 (14.29%) Service Transition Manager
2 4 (14.29%) Transition Manager
3 3 (10.71%) Administrator
3 3 (10.71%) Coordinator
4 2 (7.14%) Change Manager
4 2 (7.14%) Consultant
4 2 (7.14%) Software Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) .NET Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Analytics Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Business Change Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Embedded Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) IT Change Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) .NET
2 1 (3.57%) .NET Core
2 1 (3.57%) ASP.NET
2 1 (3.57%) CSS
2 1 (3.57%) HTML
2 1 (3.57%) jQuery
2 1 (3.57%) JSON
2 1 (3.57%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (3.57%) Node.js
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (3.57%) Qt
2 1 (3.57%) Razor View Engine
2 1 (3.57%) SOAP
2 1 (3.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Housing Association
2 1 (3.57%) ARM Cortex
2 1 (3.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (3.57%) FPGA
2 1 (3.57%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) FreeRTOS
1 1 (3.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (21.43%) Artificial Intelligence
1 6 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (17.86%) Agile
2 5 (17.86%) Change Management
2 5 (17.86%) Creative Thinking
2 5 (17.86%) Data Protection
2 5 (17.86%) Data Reconciliation
2 5 (17.86%) Data Strategy
2 5 (17.86%) ITIL
2 5 (17.86%) ITSM
2 5 (17.86%) Knowledge Transfer
2 5 (17.86%) Service Management
2 5 (17.86%) System Integration Testing
2 5 (17.86%) User Acceptance Testing
2 5 (17.86%) Validation
3 4 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
3 4 (14.29%) Conflict Resolution
3 4 (14.29%) Customer Service
3 4 (14.29%) Generative AI
3 4 (14.29%) Work Breakdown Structure
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.14%) C
2 1 (3.57%) Ada
2 1 (3.57%) Ada 95
2 1 (3.57%) C#
2 1 (3.57%) C++
2 1 (3.57%) Embedded C
2 1 (3.57%) Java
2 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
2 1 (3.57%) MATLAB
2 1 (3.57%) SQL
2 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 8 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (3.57%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.29%) GDPR
2 1 (3.57%) ISO 9000
2 1 (3.57%) MISRA
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Docker
1 1 (3.57%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) Oracle
2 1 (3.57%) Google
2 1 (3.57%) IBM
2 1 (3.57%) Lauterbach
2 1 (3.57%) Salesforce
2 1 (3.57%) Xilinx