Law Contracts in the Thames Valley

Law
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Law in contract job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Law over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 81 93
Rank change year-on-year +1 +12 +22
Contract jobs citing Law 22 65 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.46% 2.42% 2.01%
As % of the General category 2.28% 4.38% 3.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 15 51
10th Percentile £455 £543 £250
25th Percentile £500 £575 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £650 £520
Median % change year-on-year -23.00% +25.12% +22.24%
75th Percentile £501 £688 £675
90th Percentile £560 - £788
South East median daily rate £501 £613 £421
% change year-on-year -18.29% +45.57% -2.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £17.13
25th Percentile - - £18.44
Median hourly rate - - £21.25
75th Percentile - - £23.44
90th Percentile - - £24.38
South East median hourly rate - £30.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year - +20.00% +115.15%

All General Skills
Thames Valley

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 common skills in the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 963 1,485 1,831
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 63.73% 55.29% 62.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 584 787 1,231
10th Percentile £265 £205 £303
25th Percentile £409 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.68% -5.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £613 £588 £601
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 137 41
10th Percentile - £17.86 £18.50
25th Percentile £14.20 £22.61 £22.50
Median hourly rate £26.38 £48.40 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year -45.50% +49.85% +84.57%
75th Percentile £61.37 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.71 £75.24 £75.75
South East median hourly rate £23.34 £45.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -48.13% -5.26% +137.50%

Law
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Law as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Law in the Thames Valley

Law
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Law in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Law in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Law in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Law in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Law within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Berkshire -12 21 £501 -23.00% 73
Buckinghamshire - 1 £583 - 18
Law
South East

Law
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (40.91%) AWS
1 9 (40.91%) Azure
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) BGP
1 1 (4.55%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (4.55%) DNS
1 1 (4.55%) MPLS
1 1 (4.55%) NGFW
1 1 (4.55%) OSPF
1 1 (4.55%) SD-WAN
1 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
1 1 (4.55%) VLAN
1 1 (4.55%) VPN
1 1 (4.55%) WAN
Development Applications
1 8 (36.36%) Cucumber
1 8 (36.36%) GitLab
1 8 (36.36%) Jenkins
1 8 (36.36%) JIRA
1 8 (36.36%) REST Assured
1 8 (36.36%) Selenium
1 8 (36.36%) SonarQube
General
1 13 (59.09%) Social Skills
2 10 (45.45%) Telecoms
3 9 (40.91%) Legal
4 8 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (18.18%) Police
6 3 (13.64%) Marketing
7 2 (9.09%) Finance
8 1 (4.55%) Automotive
8 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (22.73%) Commercial Manager
2 4 (18.18%) Developer
2 4 (18.18%) Java Developer
2 4 (18.18%) Java Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Java Software Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Software Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Compliance Specialist
4 2 (9.09%) Data Protection Officer
5 1 (4.55%) Architect
5 1 (4.55%) HR Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Information Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Information Security Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Security Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Senior
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Technical Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Technical Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (36.36%) ARM Templates
1 8 (36.36%) Java EE
1 8 (36.36%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (9.09%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.55%) PKI
3 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) Configuration Management
1 8 (36.36%) Containerisation
1 8 (36.36%) Continuous Integration
1 8 (36.36%) DevOps
1 8 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
1 8 (36.36%) Software Architecture
1 8 (36.36%) Software Engineering
1 8 (36.36%) Technical Leadership
1 8 (36.36%) Test Automation
2 5 (22.73%) Contract Management
2 5 (22.73%) Decision-Making
3 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (18.18%) Project Management
4 3 (13.64%) B2C
4 3 (13.64%) Change Control
4 3 (13.64%) Data Privacy
4 3 (13.64%) Data Protection
4 3 (13.64%) Impact Assessments
4 3 (13.64%) Risk Management
5 2 (9.09%) Data Loss Prevention
Programming Languages
1 8 (36.36%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (40.91%) SC Cleared
1 9 (40.91%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.64%) ISEB
3 2 (9.09%) Degree
4 1 (4.55%) CISMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) GRC
2 1 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (4.55%) GDPR
2 1 (4.55%) HIPAA
2 1 (4.55%) NCSC
2 1 (4.55%) NIST
2 1 (4.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (36.36%) Docker
2 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.55%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (36.36%) Ansible
1 8 (36.36%) Docker Swarm
1 8 (36.36%) Kubernetes
1 8 (36.36%) Podman
1 8 (36.36%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (4.55%) Cisco
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
1 1 (4.55%) Palo Alto
1 1 (4.55%) VMware