Law Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Law
South East > Surrey

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Law in contract job vacancies in Surrey. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Law over the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 - 68
Rank change year-on-year - - +1
Contract jobs citing Law 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 0.24% - 0.31%
As % of the General category 0.45% - 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £186
25th Percentile £413 - £241
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £338
Median % change year-on-year - - -44.33%
75th Percentile £438 - £441
90th Percentile - - £499
South East median daily rate £500 £539 £425
% change year-on-year -7.24% +26.82% -

All General Skills
Surrey

Law 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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 220 239 331
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 51.76% 61.76% 51.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 143 255
10th Percentile £204 £203 £208
25th Percentile £221 £254 £299
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £460 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.26% -8.00% -1.48%
75th Percentile £582 £538 £595
90th Percentile £688 £638 £675
South East median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.75% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 8 15
10th Percentile - £13.25 £12.78
25th Percentile £25.15 £15.59 £14.64
Median hourly rate £29.00 £20.00 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +45.00% -2.44% -54.44%
75th Percentile £75.00 £24.39 £50.00
90th Percentile - £26.28 £66.50
South East median hourly rate £21.25 £39.93 £50.00
% change year-on-year -46.78% -20.15% +39.27%

Law
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Law job vacancy trend in Surrey

Law
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Law.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Law

Law
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Law.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Law

Law
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Law within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 12 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
Staines - 1 £425 -
Law
South East

Law
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Product Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) A/B Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Due Diligence
1 1 (100.00%) E-Discovery
1 1 (100.00%) Human-in-the-Loop
1 1 (100.00%) Information Retrieval
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Ontologies
1 1 (100.00%) Product Management
1 1 (100.00%) Product Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) Product Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) EU AI Act
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) SOC 2