Legal Contract Job Trends in Staffordshire

Legal
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legal in contract job vacancies in Staffordshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legal over the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 17 21
Rank change year-on-year +8 +4 -
Contract jobs citing Legal 4 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Staffordshire 5.97% 1.09% 0.76%
As % of the General category 10.81% 2.44% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £200 £200
75th Percentile £250 - -
90th Percentile £280 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £584 £425
% change year-on-year -18.63% +37.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £30.00 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £43.25 £23.60 £18.50
% change year-on-year +83.26% +27.57% -14.11%

All General Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 37 41 57
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 55.22% 44.57% 43.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 23 41
10th Percentile £146 £165 £325
25th Percentile £190 £319 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £375 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -25.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £446 £488 £638
90th Percentile £575 £540 £745
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 0
10th Percentile £25.20 - -
25th Percentile £27.00 £17.00 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £26.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +13.21% - -
75th Percentile £35.13 £37.19 -
90th Percentile £38.20 £41.13 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £19.50 £23.82 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.14% +5.87% +32.86%

Legal
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Legal job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

Legal
Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Legal.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Legal

Legal
Hourly Rate Trend in Staffordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Legal.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Legal

Legal
Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Legal within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Stoke-on-Trent +7 3 £200 - 5
Stafford - 1 - - 1
Legal
West Midlands

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DHCP
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) AdminStudio
1 1 (25.00%) InstallShield
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) MSI
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Environmental Health
2 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Deployment Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Desktop Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) SCCM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (25.00%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (25.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (25.00%) Inventory Management
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile Device Management
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Software Deployment
2 1 (25.00%) Software Distribution
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
1 1 (25.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) A+ Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) MCP
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) COSHH
1 1 (25.00%) ISO 14001
1 1 (25.00%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) SCCM
2 1 (25.00%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (25.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Apple
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow