Legal Contract Job Trends in Stoke-on-Trent

Legal
Staffordshire > Stoke-on-Trent

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legal in contract job vacancies in Stoke-on-Trent. 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 3 10 14
Rank change year-on-year +7 +4 -
Contract jobs citing Legal 3 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Stoke-on-Trent 20.00% 2.78% 1.89%
As % of the General category 33.33% 7.69% 5.88%
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 - -
Staffordshire median daily rate £200 £200 £200

All General Skills
Stoke-on-Trent

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 Stoke-on-Trent.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 9 13 17
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent 60.00% 36.11% 32.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 13
10th Percentile £200 £360 £305
25th Percentile £215 £374 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £319 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year -20.31% -20.00% +150.00%
75th Percentile £419 £488 £625
90th Percentile £434 £498 £635
Staffordshire median daily rate £325 £375 £500
% change year-on-year -13.33% -25.00% +5.26%

Legal
Job Vacancy Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Legal relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent.

Legal job vacancy trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Legal
Daily Rate Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Stoke-on-Trent citing Legal.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Stoke-on-Trent citing Legal

Legal
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stoke-on-Trent 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 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) AdminStudio
1 1 (33.33%) InstallShield
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) MSI
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Deployment Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Desktop Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (33.33%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows 10
2 1 (33.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Customer Service
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (33.33%) Inventory Management
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Mobile Device Management
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Software Deployment
2 1 (33.33%) Software Distribution
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) A+ Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) MCP
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) SCCM
2 1 (33.33%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (33.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Apple
2 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow