Law Contracts in the UK excluding London

Law
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Law in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Law over the 6 months leading up to 2 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 202 206 155
Rank change year-on-year +4 -51 +15
Contract jobs citing Law 145 204 369
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.12% 0.98% 1.62%
As % of the General category 1.78% 1.82% 2.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 122 268
10th Percentile £239 £364 £205
25th Percentile £410 £450 £346
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.76% +1.45%
75th Percentile £564 £669 £675
90th Percentile £634 £848 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 17 21
10th Percentile £13.75 £11.29 £12.00
25th Percentile £28.66 £11.87 £16.25
Median hourly rate £30.20 £13.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +132.31% -42.22% +36.36%
75th Percentile £71.82 £32.50 £57.76
90th Percentile £81.01 £34.00 £64.50
UK median hourly rate £50.99 £16.64 £21.25
% change year-on-year +206.35% -21.68% +21.43%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,130 11,199 12,807
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 62.59% 53.77% 56.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,996 6,339 8,696
10th Percentile £210 £205 £228
25th Percentile £359 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 612 1,693 722
10th Percentile £13.25 £12.50 £13.31
25th Percentile £15.62 £15.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £24.34 £28.42 £27.84
Median % change year-on-year -14.36% +2.08% +42.77%
75th Percentile £51.93 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.38 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £27.97 £30.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year -6.77% -7.12% +43.56%

Law
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Law as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Law in the UK excluding London

Law
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Law in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Law in the UK excluding London

Law
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Law in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Law in the UK excluding London

Law
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Law in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Law in the UK excluding London

Law
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Law in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Law in the UK excluding London

Law
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Law within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Midlands -12 47 £525 -12.50% 1,428
North of England +13 34 £450 -10.00% 1,615
West Midlands -15 30 £550 -8.33% 753
South East +21 26 £488 -18.71% 1,980
North West +10 21 £413 -17.50% 739
East Midlands +18 17 £500 - 585
South West +31 14 £225 -61.21% 899
Yorkshire +10 12 £563 +196.05% 679
East of England +25 10 £525 +50.00% 1,119
Scotland +8 7 £450 +12.50% 384
Channel Islands - 5 £425 - 15
Northern Ireland -8 2 £410 - 160
North East +2 1 - - 198
Law
UK

Law
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.38%) Apache
1 2 (1.38%) Apache Spark
1 2 (1.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (1.38%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.69%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (5.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.14%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.76%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.38%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.38%) Oracle Financials
1 2 (1.38%) Primavera
1 2 (1.38%) SAP PS
1 2 (1.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.69%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.69%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.69%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.69%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 21 (14.48%) Azure
2 15 (10.34%) AWS
3 7 (4.83%) Power Platform
4 6 (4.14%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (2.07%) Entra ID
5 3 (2.07%) SaaS
6 1 (0.69%) Azure API Management
6 1 (0.69%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (0.69%) GitHub
6 1 (0.69%) Google Sheets
6 1 (0.69%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.14%) DNS
2 4 (2.76%) FTP
2 4 (2.76%) HTTP
2 4 (2.76%) Network Security
2 4 (2.76%) SMTP
2 4 (2.76%) SSL
2 4 (2.76%) VPN
2 4 (2.76%) WAN
3 3 (2.07%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (2.07%) Firewall
3 3 (2.07%) LAN
3 3 (2.07%) MPLS
3 3 (2.07%) SD-WAN
4 2 (1.38%) Internet
4 2 (1.38%) Intranet
4 2 (1.38%) OSPF
4 2 (1.38%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.38%) VLAN
5 1 (0.69%) BGP
5 1 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.14%) Power BI
2 4 (2.76%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.07%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.38%) Apache Hive
4 2 (1.38%) Big Data
4 2 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.38%) HBase
4 2 (1.38%) Impala
4 2 (1.38%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.38%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (0.69%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.69%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.69%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.69%) DB2
5 1 (0.69%) EDRMS
5 1 (0.69%) Metadata
5 1 (0.69%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (0.69%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.69%) Pentaho
5 1 (0.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (6.21%) Jenkins
1 9 (6.21%) JIRA
2 8 (5.52%) Cucumber
2 8 (5.52%) GitLab
2 8 (5.52%) REST Assured
2 8 (5.52%) Selenium
2 8 (5.52%) SonarQube
3 2 (1.38%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.69%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.69%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.69%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.69%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 59 (40.69%) Social Skills
2 36 (24.83%) Finance
3 23 (15.86%) Legal
4 21 (14.48%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (10.34%) Public Sector
6 14 (9.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (5.52%) Police
8 6 (4.14%) Local Government
8 6 (4.14%) Manufacturing
9 5 (3.45%) Telecoms
10 4 (2.76%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.38%) Automotive
12 2 (1.38%) Financial Institution
12 2 (1.38%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.69%) Back Office
13 1 (0.69%) French Language
13 1 (0.69%) German Language
13 1 (0.69%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 32 (22.07%) Analyst
2 16 (11.03%) Developer
3 9 (6.21%) Senior
4 8 (5.52%) Architect
4 8 (5.52%) IT Support
4 8 (5.52%) Software Engineer
5 7 (4.83%) Business Analyst
5 7 (4.83%) Lead
6 6 (4.14%) Java Developer
6 6 (4.14%) PMO Analyst
6 6 (4.14%) Project Manager
7 5 (3.45%) 1st Line Support
7 5 (3.45%) Commercial Manager
7 5 (3.45%) Consultant
7 5 (3.45%) Java Engineer
7 5 (3.45%) Java Software Engineer
8 4 (2.76%) Integration Developer
8 4 (2.76%) IT Analyst
8 4 (2.76%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 4 (2.76%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.52%) ARM Templates
1 8 (5.52%) Java EE
1 8 (5.52%) REST
2 4 (2.76%) .NET
2 4 (2.76%) LDAP
3 3 (2.07%) .NET Core
3 3 (2.07%) ADO
3 3 (2.07%) AngularJS
3 3 (2.07%) JSON
3 3 (2.07%) Middleware
3 3 (2.07%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (1.38%) Apache Avro
4 2 (1.38%) Kafka
4 2 (1.38%) Qt
4 2 (1.38%) Web Services
5 1 (0.69%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.69%) BAPI
5 1 (0.69%) SAP Smart Forms
5 1 (0.69%) Web Dynpro
5 1 (0.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.83%) Management Information System
2 6 (4.14%) Driving Licence
3 5 (3.45%) Data Centre
4 4 (2.76%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (2.76%) Cyberattack
4 4 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.76%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.07%) CSOC
5 3 (2.07%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.07%) Freedom of Information
5 3 (2.07%) Freedom of Information Act
5 3 (2.07%) Security Operations Centre
5 3 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.38%) CMDB
6 2 (1.38%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.38%) NHS
6 2 (1.38%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.38%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 15 (10.34%) Linux
2 14 (9.66%) Windows
3 6 (4.14%) Windows 10
4 5 (3.45%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.76%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (2.07%) Unix
7 2 (1.38%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (13.79%) ITIL
1 20 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (12.41%) Software Engineering
3 15 (10.34%) Agile
3 15 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
4 14 (9.66%) Customer Service
5 13 (8.97%) Migration
6 12 (8.28%) DevOps
7 11 (7.59%) Configuration Management
8 10 (6.90%) Project Management
8 10 (6.90%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (6.21%) Analytics
9 9 (6.21%) Collaborative Working
9 9 (6.21%) Continuous Integration
9 9 (6.21%) Software Architecture
10 8 (5.52%) Contract Management
10 8 (5.52%) Cybersecurity
10 8 (5.52%) Decision-Making
10 8 (5.52%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (5.52%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 14 (9.66%) SQL
2 12 (8.28%) Java
3 6 (4.14%) C++
4 5 (3.45%) Ada
5 4 (2.76%) C#
5 4 (2.76%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.38%) C
6 2 (1.38%) PHP
6 2 (1.38%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.69%) ABAP
7 1 (0.69%) Python
7 1 (0.69%) RPG
7 1 (0.69%) RPG/400
7 1 (0.69%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.69%) VB
Qualifications
1 21 (14.48%) Security Cleared
2 19 (13.10%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.14%) Degree
4 5 (3.45%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.38%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.69%) APMG
6 1 (0.69%) CIPD
6 1 (0.69%) CISMP
6 1 (0.69%) ISEB
6 1 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.14%) PMO
2 5 (3.45%) GDPR
2 5 (3.45%) HL7
3 3 (2.07%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.07%) Def Stans
3 3 (2.07%) IEC 61508
4 2 (1.38%) DO-254
4 2 (1.38%) ISO 9001
4 2 (1.38%) MISRA
4 2 (1.38%) MISRA C
4 2 (1.38%) SLA
5 1 (0.69%) COBIT
5 1 (0.69%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.69%) GMP
5 1 (0.69%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.69%) ISO 14001
5 1 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.69%) NEBOSH
5 1 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (6.21%) Active Directory
2 8 (5.52%) Docker
3 2 (1.38%) HDFS
3 2 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.69%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (5.52%) Ansible
1 8 (5.52%) Docker Swarm
1 8 (5.52%) Kubernetes
1 8 (5.52%) Podman
1 8 (5.52%) Terraform
2 2 (1.38%) Cisco Prime
3 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.69%) SCOM
Vendors
1 16 (11.03%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.90%) Oracle
3 8 (5.52%) ServiceNow
4 6 (4.14%) Red Hat
4 6 (4.14%) SAP
4 6 (4.14%) VMware
5 4 (2.76%) Cisco
5 4 (2.76%) iManage
6 3 (2.07%) Palo Alto
6 3 (2.07%) SolarWinds
7 2 (1.38%) Aruba
7 2 (1.38%) CyberArk
7 2 (1.38%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.38%) IBM
8 1 (0.69%) BMC
8 1 (0.69%) EMC
8 1 (0.69%) JD Edwards
8 1 (0.69%) Juniper
8 1 (0.69%) Remedy
8 1 (0.69%) Sage