Legal Contracts in the UK excluding London

Legal
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legal 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 Legal over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 93 144 157
Rank change year-on-year +51 +13 +27
Contract jobs citing Legal 442 425 516
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.14% 1.78% 1.67%
As % of the General category 3.92% 3.15% 3.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 302 313
10th Percentile £200 £251 £210
25th Percentile £363 £400 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -1.37%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £650 £710 £669
UK median daily rate £500 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 36 15
10th Percentile £11.50 £12.88 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.74 £17.22 £20.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £22.16 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.33% -19.42% +48.65%
75th Percentile £57.50 £46.25 £42.02
90th Percentile £70.09 £71.89 £54.00
UK median hourly rate £26.33 £22.16 £32.19
% change year-on-year +18.82% -31.15% +57.01%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

Legal 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 11,278 13,477 17,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 54.64% 56.43% 55.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,441 9,211 11,855
10th Percentile £205 £230 £210
25th Percentile £363 £400 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,653 776 1,041
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £28.25 £29.00 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +54.67% -4.79%
75th Percentile £53.75 £60.57 £35.00
90th Percentile £66.25 £68.75 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.60 £22.00
% change year-on-year -7.96% +48.16% -2.22%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Legal in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Legal in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legal in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Legal in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Legal in the UK excluding London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Legal in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Legal in the UK excluding London

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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 Legal within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 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
South East +32 148 £500 -9.09% 295
North of England +5 87 £538 +4.88% 286
South West +51 72 £500 +5.26% 194
North West +14 67 £575 +12.20% 185
Midlands +39 61 £413 -17.50% 199
West Midlands +25 43 £425 -15.00% 128
Scotland +20 40 £525 +14.63% 56
East of England +5 20 £350 -30.00% 120
East Midlands +22 18 £200 -65.46% 71
Yorkshire -2 13 £525 -4.55% 74
Northern Ireland +9 12 £248 -45.00% 12
North East +16 7 £425 -15.63% 31
Wales +10 6 £500 +57.48% 47
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UK

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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 12 (2.71%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.36%) IIS
3 5 (1.13%) Apache
3 5 (1.13%) Tomcat
4 4 (0.90%) Apache Solr
4 4 (0.90%) Confluence
4 4 (0.90%) nginx
5 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.23%) Liferay
Applications
1 43 (9.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (8.37%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (2.94%) Simulink
4 13 (2.94%) Stateflow
5 7 (1.58%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.90%) Acrobat
7 3 (0.68%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (1.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.45%) Dynamics GP
3 2 (0.45%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.45%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.45%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.45%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.23%) Avolution ABACUS
4 1 (0.23%) iTrent
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.23%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.23%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.23%) SAP EHS
4 1 (0.23%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.23%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.23%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 41 (9.28%) Azure
2 29 (6.56%) SaaS
3 25 (5.66%) Microsoft 365
3 25 (5.66%) Power Platform
4 23 (5.20%) Snowflake
5 18 (4.07%) AWS
6 12 (2.71%) IaaS
7 9 (2.04%) Google Workspace
7 9 (2.04%) PaaS
8 8 (1.81%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (1.81%) Dynamics 365
8 8 (1.81%) WhatsApp
9 6 (1.36%) Smartsheet
10 5 (1.13%) GCP
11 4 (0.90%) OCI
11 4 (0.90%) Power Automate
12 3 (0.68%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (0.68%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (0.68%) Entra ID
12 3 (0.68%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 25 (5.66%) Firewall
2 12 (2.71%) VPN
3 10 (2.26%) TCP/IP
4 9 (2.04%) LAN
4 9 (2.04%) Wireless
5 7 (1.58%) Intranet
5 7 (1.58%) SAN
5 7 (1.58%) WAN
6 6 (1.36%) 5G
6 6 (1.36%) HTTP
6 6 (1.36%) Internet
7 5 (1.13%) H.323
7 5 (1.13%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.90%) Cisco ISE
8 4 (0.90%) DNS
8 4 (0.90%) FTP
8 4 (0.90%) HTTPS
8 4 (0.90%) IPsec
8 4 (0.90%) Network Security
9 3 (0.68%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (6.33%) Tableau
2 22 (4.98%) Power BI
3 5 (1.13%) NoSQL
4 4 (0.90%) BusinessObjects
4 4 (0.90%) Couchbase
4 4 (0.90%) MS Access
4 4 (0.90%) MySQL
5 3 (0.68%) Metadata
5 3 (0.68%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.45%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.23%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.23%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.23%) GIS
7 1 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.23%) PowerPivot
7 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (2.71%) JIRA
2 6 (1.36%) Artifactory
2 6 (1.36%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.23%) Fiddler
3 1 (0.23%) Git
3 1 (0.23%) GitLab
3 1 (0.23%) Subversion
General
1 130 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 116 (26.24%) Finance
3 85 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (8.60%) Law
5 34 (7.69%) Telecoms
6 28 (6.33%) Public Sector
7 24 (5.43%) Organisational Skills
8 18 (4.07%) Retail
9 17 (3.85%) Automotive
10 14 (3.17%) Marketing
11 12 (2.71%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (2.49%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 6 (1.36%) Local Government
14 6 (1.36%) Mandarin Language
14 6 (1.36%) Manufacturing
15 5 (1.13%) Banking
15 5 (1.13%) Billing
15 5 (1.13%) German Language
16 3 (0.68%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 84 (19.00%) Analyst
2 44 (9.95%) Lead
3 30 (6.79%) Data Analyst
4 26 (5.88%) Project Manager
5 25 (5.66%) IT Manager
6 20 (4.52%) Architect
7 19 (4.30%) Senior
8 16 (3.62%) Network Engineer
9 14 (3.17%) Software Engineer
10 13 (2.94%) Support Engineer
11 12 (2.71%) Administrator
11 12 (2.71%) Lead Data Analyst
11 12 (2.71%) Telecoms Manager
12 11 (2.49%) Delivery Manager
12 11 (2.49%) Procurement Manager
12 11 (2.49%) Service Manager
12 11 (2.49%) SOC Analyst
13 10 (2.26%) Business Analyst
13 10 (2.26%) Deployment Engineer
14 9 (2.04%) Service Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.26%) YAML
2 6 (1.36%) Node.js
3 5 (1.13%) JSON
4 4 (0.90%) .NET
4 4 (0.90%) LEMP Stack
4 4 (0.90%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (0.90%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (0.68%) REST
6 2 (0.45%) OLE
7 1 (0.23%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.23%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.23%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.23%) BAPI
7 1 (0.23%) Flash
7 1 (0.23%) Kafka
7 1 (0.23%) PostGIS
7 1 (0.23%) SAML
7 1 (0.23%) SAP ALE
7 1 (0.23%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 41 (9.28%) Management Information System
2 22 (4.98%) Credit Risk
3 18 (4.07%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (3.62%) Virtual Team
5 13 (2.94%) Algorithms
6 11 (2.49%) Freedom of Information
6 11 (2.49%) Mobile App
7 10 (2.26%) Product Ownership
8 8 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (1.81%) NHS
9 7 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.36%) CMDB
10 6 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.36%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.36%) Replication
11 5 (1.13%) Cloud Native
11 5 (1.13%) Data Centre
11 5 (1.13%) IVR
11 5 (1.13%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.13%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 37 (8.37%) Windows
2 29 (6.56%) Linux
3 15 (3.39%) Apple iOS
4 11 (2.49%) Mac OS X
5 10 (2.26%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.36%) Android
6 6 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.36%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.90%) AIX
7 4 (0.90%) CentOS
7 4 (0.90%) Unix
8 1 (0.23%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (19.00%) Problem-Solving
2 75 (16.97%) Data Protection
3 64 (14.48%) Project Management
4 54 (12.22%) Agile
5 53 (11.99%) Stakeholder Management
6 52 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
7 46 (10.41%) Decision-Making
7 46 (10.41%) Risk Management
8 43 (9.73%) Migration
9 40 (9.05%) Information Security
10 36 (8.14%) Analytics
11 35 (7.92%) Cybersecurity
11 35 (7.92%) Roadmaps
12 33 (7.47%) Change Management
13 30 (6.79%) Computer Science
14 27 (6.11%) Customer Service
15 25 (5.66%) Actionable Insight
15 25 (5.66%) DevOps
15 25 (5.66%) Validation
16 23 (5.20%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (3.85%) SQL
2 13 (2.94%) MATLAB
3 9 (2.04%) Python
4 8 (1.81%) JavaScript
4 8 (1.81%) PowerShell
4 8 (1.81%) Swift
5 7 (1.58%) Bash
6 5 (1.13%) C++
7 4 (0.90%) PHP
8 3 (0.68%) C#
9 1 (0.23%) ABAP
9 1 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.23%) Java
9 1 (0.23%) Perl
9 1 (0.23%) R
9 1 (0.23%) VBA
Qualifications
1 82 (18.55%) Degree
2 69 (15.61%) Security Cleared
3 47 (10.63%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.39%) PMI Certification
4 15 (3.39%) PMP
5 11 (2.49%) CISSP
6 9 (2.04%) APMP
7 8 (1.81%) CISM
7 8 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (1.58%) DBS Check
8 7 (1.58%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.58%) ISEB
9 6 (1.36%) HNC
9 6 (1.36%) NVQ Level 3
10 5 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (1.13%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.90%) CCIE
11 4 (0.90%) CREST Certified
11 4 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (12.22%) GDPR
2 24 (5.43%) NIST
3 23 (5.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (3.62%) HIPAA
5 15 (3.39%) QA
6 14 (3.17%) Data Quality
7 12 (2.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 10 (2.26%) PMO
9 9 (2.04%) Accessibility
10 7 (1.58%) SLA
11 3 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.45%) COBIT
12 2 (0.45%) ISO 14001
12 2 (0.45%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 2 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.45%) NCSC
13 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
13 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (3.62%) Active Directory
2 9 (2.04%) Docker
3 6 (1.36%) VMware NSX
4 4 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.45%) vSphere
6 1 (0.23%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.23%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 12 (2.71%) Terraform
2 11 (2.49%) Ansible
3 7 (1.58%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.58%) SCCM
4 5 (1.13%) vCenter Server
5 2 (0.45%) CEMLI
5 2 (0.45%) FortiGate
5 2 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.23%) Avamar
6 1 (0.23%) Grafana
6 1 (0.23%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (0.23%) SCOM
6 1 (0.23%) SELinux
6 1 (0.23%) vRealize
Vendors
1 79 (17.87%) Microsoft
2 38 (8.60%) Oracle
3 27 (6.11%) Alteryx
4 21 (4.75%) SAP
5 20 (4.52%) Google
6 14 (3.17%) VMware
7 13 (2.94%) ServiceNow
8 11 (2.49%) Cisco
9 9 (2.04%) Salesforce
10 8 (1.81%) Apple
10 8 (1.81%) Okta
11 7 (1.58%) HP
11 7 (1.58%) Splunk
12 6 (1.36%) CheckPoint
12 6 (1.36%) Palo Alto
12 6 (1.36%) Red Hat
12 6 (1.36%) Reuters
13 5 (1.13%) Avaya
13 5 (1.13%) Verint
13 5 (1.13%) Workday
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