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 advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Law over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 199 154 158
Rank change year-on-year -45 +4 +34
Contract jobs citing Law 202 371 491
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.00% 1.61% 1.61%
As % of the General category 1.83% 2.84% 2.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 265 330
10th Percentile £368 £206 £263
25th Percentile £450 £350 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.87% +3.90% +21.95%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £580
90th Percentile £840 £750 £700
UK median daily rate £538 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +2.38% - +23.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 18 20
10th Percentile £11.15 £12.00 £10.50
25th Percentile £11.87 £16.31 £14.63
Median hourly rate £13.00 £21.61 £16.75
Median % change year-on-year -39.84% +29.01% -60.59%
75th Percentile £32.50 £57.57 £20.69
90th Percentile £34.38 £68.40 £43.49
UK median hourly rate £14.32 £21.61 £17.50
% change year-on-year -33.76% +23.49% -58.82%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

Law is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,025 13,053 16,954
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 54.40% 56.60% 55.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,300 8,910 11,675
10th Percentile £206 £230 £213
25th Percentile £363 £400 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £596 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £693 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,642 748 1,038
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.22 £14.00
Median hourly rate £28.25 £29.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +52.63% -4.76%
75th Percentile £53.75 £61.25 £35.00
90th Percentile £66.97 £69.13 £55.73
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £33.60 £22.45
% change year-on-year -10.72% +49.68% -0.22%

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 15 May 2024.

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 15 May 2024.

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 15 May 2024. 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 +17 68 £600 +9.09% 98
West Midlands +16 62 £600 +9.09% 51
South East -19 54 £600 +43.03% 93
North of England -41 36 £500 -4.76% 155
South West -17 25 £578 -11.15% 53
North West -3 20 £500 +11.11% 82
Yorkshire 0 15 £190 -62.00% 60
East of England +1 14 £425 +67.32% 35
Scotland +51 7 £400 +6.67% 31
East Midlands +8 6 £500 +42.86% 47
Northern Ireland +4 3 - - 5
Wales +23 1 - - 9
North East -14 1 £283 -51.29% 13
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 1 (0.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (3.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.98%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.98%) Simulink
3 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.99%) Stateflow
4 1 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.49%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (1.49%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.99%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.99%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.99%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.50%) Exstream
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 25 (12.38%) Azure
2 10 (4.95%) AWS
2 10 (4.95%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (4.46%) OCI
3 9 (4.46%) Power Platform
4 5 (2.48%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (0.99%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (0.99%) GitHub
5 2 (0.99%) IaaS
5 2 (0.99%) PaaS
5 2 (0.99%) SaaS
6 1 (0.50%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (0.50%) GCP
6 1 (0.50%) OneDrive
6 1 (0.50%) Power Automate
6 1 (0.50%) PowerApps
6 1 (0.50%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.97%) 5G
2 5 (2.48%) Firewall
3 4 (1.98%) Network Security
3 4 (1.98%) VPN
4 3 (1.49%) BIG-IP
4 3 (1.49%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 3 (1.49%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 3 (1.49%) Internet
5 2 (0.99%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (0.99%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (0.99%) LAN
5 2 (0.99%) WAN
5 2 (0.99%) Wireless
6 1 (0.50%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.97%) Power BI
2 5 (2.48%) Metadata
3 4 (1.98%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (0.99%) DB2
4 2 (0.99%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.99%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.50%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.50%) Data Vault
5 1 (0.50%) PowerPivot
5 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 24 (11.88%) Jenkins
2 21 (10.40%) Selenium
3 20 (9.90%) Cucumber
4 19 (9.41%) REST Assured
4 19 (9.41%) SonarQube
5 12 (5.94%) GitLab
5 12 (5.94%) JIRA
6 2 (0.99%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.99%) Rational DOORS
6 2 (0.99%) Rational Team Concert
7 1 (0.50%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.50%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.50%) Git
7 1 (0.50%) GoogleTest
7 1 (0.50%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.50%) Rational Rhapsody
7 1 (0.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 72 (35.64%) Social Skills
2 44 (21.78%) Finance
3 38 (18.81%) Legal
4 27 (13.37%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (6.44%) Police
6 11 (5.45%) Telecoms
7 9 (4.46%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (3.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (3.47%) Marketing
9 5 (2.48%) Local Government
9 5 (2.48%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.49%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.99%) Advertising
12 1 (0.50%) Back Office
12 1 (0.50%) Billing
12 1 (0.50%) Electronics
12 1 (0.50%) Military
12 1 (0.50%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 18 (8.91%) Senior
2 17 (8.42%) Developer
2 17 (8.42%) Java Engineer
3 15 (7.43%) Consultant
4 12 (5.94%) Analyst
4 12 (5.94%) Project Manager
5 11 (5.45%) Software Engineer
6 10 (4.95%) Commercial Manager
6 10 (4.95%) IT Manager
6 10 (4.95%) Network Engineer
7 9 (4.46%) Procurement Manager
8 8 (3.96%) Development Manager
9 7 (3.47%) Data Centre Manager
9 7 (3.47%) Lead
9 7 (3.47%) Programme Manager
10 6 (2.97%) Java Software Engineer
10 6 (2.97%) Network Manager
10 6 (2.97%) Procurement Consultant
10 6 (2.97%) Vendor Manager
11 5 (2.48%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (9.90%) Java EE
1 20 (9.90%) REST
2 8 (3.96%) ARM Templates
3 5 (2.48%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (1.98%) .NET
5 3 (1.49%) HTML
5 3 (1.49%) Node.js
6 2 (0.99%) CSS
6 2 (0.99%) Middleware
6 2 (0.99%) Spring
6 2 (0.99%) Web Services
7 1 (0.50%) jQuery
7 1 (0.50%) JSON
7 1 (0.50%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (0.50%) Qt
7 1 (0.50%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 25 (12.38%) Data Centre
2 8 (3.96%) Management Information System
3 7 (3.47%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (2.97%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.49%) Housing Association
7 2 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.99%) FPGA
7 2 (0.99%) Freedom of Information
7 2 (0.99%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.99%) Replication
7 2 (0.99%) SCADA
7 2 (0.99%) VHDL
8 1 (0.50%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.50%) Life Science
8 1 (0.50%) NHS
8 1 (0.50%) PMI
8 1 (0.50%) Verilog
8 1 (0.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.44%) Windows
2 8 (3.96%) Windows 10
3 4 (1.98%) Linux
3 4 (1.98%) Unix
4 2 (0.99%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.50%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (21.78%) Problem-Solving
2 38 (18.81%) Stakeholder Management
3 27 (13.37%) Decision-Making
3 27 (13.37%) Software Engineering
4 26 (12.87%) DevOps
5 24 (11.88%) Project Management
6 23 (11.39%) Agile
7 22 (10.89%) Test Automation
8 21 (10.40%) Continuous Integration
9 20 (9.90%) Software Architecture
9 20 (9.90%) Technical Leadership
10 18 (8.91%) Customer Service
11 16 (7.92%) Migration
12 15 (7.43%) Data Management
13 14 (6.93%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 14 (6.93%) Information Security
14 13 (6.44%) Continuous Improvement
14 13 (6.44%) Cost Reduction
14 13 (6.44%) Data Protection
15 12 (5.94%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 24 (11.88%) Java
2 8 (3.96%) SQL
3 6 (2.97%) C
4 5 (2.48%) C#
5 4 (1.98%) C++
6 3 (1.49%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.49%) MATLAB
7 2 (0.99%) Fortran
7 2 (0.99%) Shell Script
7 2 (0.99%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.50%) ABAP
8 1 (0.50%) Ada
8 1 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.50%) Embedded C
8 1 (0.50%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.50%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.50%) SystemVerilog
8 1 (0.50%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.50%) VBA
Qualifications
1 33 (16.34%) Security Cleared
2 31 (15.35%) SC Cleared
3 25 (12.38%) Degree
4 7 (3.47%) ISEB
5 4 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.98%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.49%) CCNP
6 3 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.99%) CCSA
7 2 (0.99%) JNCIA
7 2 (0.99%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.99%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.50%) APMG
8 1 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.50%) CCNA
8 1 (0.50%) CIPD
8 1 (0.50%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.50%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.50%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (9.90%) GDPR
2 8 (3.96%) PMO
3 7 (3.47%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.48%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.98%) QA
6 3 (1.49%) SLA
7 1 (0.50%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.50%) HL7
7 1 (0.50%) MISRA
7 1 (0.50%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (4.46%) Active Directory
1 9 (4.46%) Docker
2 2 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.50%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (9.41%) Ansible
2 9 (4.46%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.46%) Terraform
3 8 (3.96%) Docker Swarm
3 8 (3.96%) Podman
4 6 (2.97%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.99%) CEMLI
Vendors
1 16 (7.92%) Microsoft
1 16 (7.92%) Oracle
2 6 (2.97%) iManage
3 5 (2.48%) F5
3 5 (2.48%) Reuters
4 3 (1.49%) CA
4 3 (1.49%) Cisco
4 3 (1.49%) IBM
4 3 (1.49%) Juniper
5 2 (0.99%) Blue Coat
5 2 (0.99%) BMC
5 2 (0.99%) CheckPoint
5 2 (0.99%) Google
5 2 (0.99%) Greenplum
5 2 (0.99%) Guidewire
5 2 (0.99%) MathWorks
5 2 (0.99%) Palo Alto
5 2 (0.99%) ServiceNow
5 2 (0.99%) SolarWinds
5 2 (0.99%) Xilinx