Legal Contracts in Surrey

Legal
South East > Surrey

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legal in contract job vacancies in Surrey. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legal over the 6 months leading up to 31 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 52 63
Rank change year-on-year +12 +11 -23
Contract jobs citing Legal 2 7 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 0.65% 1.19% 0.84%
As % of the General category 1.12% 2.22% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 6
10th Percentile £230 £468 £325
25th Percentile £261 £484 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £318 £525 £638
Median % change year-on-year -39.52% -17.65% +21.43%
75th Percentile £381 £556 £816
90th Percentile £415 £568 £838
South East median daily rate £450 £500 £540
% change year-on-year -10.00% -7.41% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
South East median hourly rate £75.00 £67.50 £66.69
% change year-on-year +11.11% +1.22% +433.16%

All General Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 178 315 432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 57.61% 53.66% 60.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 228 353
10th Percentile £185 £203 £225
25th Percentile £269 £300 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +14.71% -19.05% -
75th Percentile £545 £566 £694
90th Percentile £647 £675 £800
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 20 18
10th Percentile £13.50 £18.35 £15.87
25th Percentile £15.38 £27.31 £34.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.11% - -
75th Percentile £32.77 £70.00 £55.63
90th Percentile £53.75 £71.00 £62.53
South East median hourly rate £18.85 £54.02 £50.00
% change year-on-year -65.11% +8.03% +138.10%

Legal
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Job postings citing Legal as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Job vacancy trend for Legal in Surrey

Legal
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Legal in Surrey.

Daily rate trend for Legal in Surrey

Legal
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legal in Surrey over the 6 months to 31 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Legal in Surrey

Legal
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Legal in Surrey.

Hourly rate trend for Legal in Surrey

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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 Legal within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 31 July 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Staines - 1 £425 - 1
Legal
South East

Legal
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) MLflow
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (50.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Vision
1 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (50.00%) DataOps
1 1 (50.00%) Deep Learning
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Major Incident Management
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) MLOps
1 1 (50.00%) Model Validation
1 1 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (50.00%) Open Source
1 1 (50.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (50.00%) Rapid Prototyping
1 1 (50.00%) Service Management
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubeflow
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes