Law Contracts

Law
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Law in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Law over the 6 months leading up to 24 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 234 256 194
Rank change year-on-year +22 -62 +31
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Law 383 376 700
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.16% 0.97% 1.37%
As % of the General category 1.83% 1.69% 2.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 187 517
10th Percentile £243 £263 £232
25th Percentile £410 £413 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% +2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £625 £681 £650
90th Percentile £725 £812 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 15 26
10th Percentile £12.59 £19.58 £12.00
25th Percentile £20.49 £21.25 £14.96
Median hourly rate £45.23 £26.97 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.70% +49.83% -18.18%
75th Percentile £57.50 £40.75 £27.50
90th Percentile £67.25 - £62.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.28 £22.00 £17.75
% change year-on-year +24.00% +23.94% -4.05%

All General Skills
UK

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 20,982 22,297 30,208
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 63.51% 57.40% 58.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,030 13,856 20,618
10th Percentile £275 £288 £312
25th Percentile £400 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £626 £650 £675
90th Percentile £749 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,171 1,270 1,050
10th Percentile £13.46 £14.06 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.21 £16.67 £16.61
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.36 £27.74
Median % change year-on-year -28.87% +27.47% +15.46%
75th Percentile £50.00 £59.95 £59.44
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.26 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.14 £35.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -36.74% +34.62% +30.00%

Law
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Law as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Law in the UK

Law
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Law.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Law

Law
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Law over the 6 months to 24 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Law in the UK

Law
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Law.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Law

Law
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Law over the 6 months to 24 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Law in the UK

Law
Top 18 DemandTrendContract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 24 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +4 329 £513 -6.82% 2,243
UK excluding London -26 177 £500 -9.09% 1,173
London +57 161 £563 -2.17% 1,426
Work from Home +67 140 £500 -9.09% 1,117
Midlands -43 41 £550 -8.33% 126
North of England -20 40 £463 +8.82% 271
South East -9 36 £475 -26.92% 471
West Midlands -40 33 £558 -7.08% 74
North West +2 27 £450 +5.88% 177
East of England +16 21 £450 +45.16% 68
South West +30 18 £528 +17.22% 64
Yorkshire -16 12 £563 +32.35% 75
Scotland +3 11 £750 +47.06% 78
East Midlands -10 8 £385 -23.00% 52
Channel Islands - 6 £444 -
Wales +10 3 £631 - 18
Northern Ireland - 2 £410 - 82
North East - 1 - - 21

Law
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 10 (2.61%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.31%) Apache
2 5 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.04%) Confluence
4 3 (0.78%) JBoss
5 2 (0.52%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.52%) CMS
5 2 (0.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.52%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.26%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.26%) Resin
Applications
1 18 (4.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (4.44%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (2.09%) Simulink
4 7 (1.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.83%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (1.31%) Windchill
6 3 (0.78%) AutoCAD
6 3 (0.78%) Revit
7 2 (0.52%) PTC Creo
7 2 (0.52%) Trello
8 1 (0.26%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.04%) SAP PLM
2 3 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.52%) Elite 3E
3 2 (0.52%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (0.52%) SAP CO
3 2 (0.52%) SAP FI
3 2 (0.52%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (0.52%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.26%) Primavera
4 1 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.26%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.26%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.26%) SAP PS
4 1 (0.26%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 56 (14.62%) Azure
2 23 (6.01%) AWS
3 21 (5.48%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (4.96%) Power Platform
5 11 (2.87%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (2.61%) Entra ID
7 8 (2.09%) Azure Logic Apps
8 7 (1.83%) Azure API Management
8 7 (1.83%) Azure Key Vault
9 6 (1.57%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (1.57%) Azure Service Bus
10 5 (1.31%) Azure Storage
10 5 (1.31%) SaaS
11 4 (1.04%) GCP
11 4 (1.04%) OneDrive
11 4 (1.04%) Power Automate
12 3 (0.78%) PowerApps
12 3 (0.78%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 3 (0.78%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 2 (0.52%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.66%) Firewall
1 14 (3.66%) VPN
2 13 (3.39%) DNS
3 11 (2.87%) Network Security
4 8 (2.09%) SD-WAN
5 7 (1.83%) Cisco Nexus
5 7 (1.83%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.83%) WAN
6 6 (1.57%) Internet
6 6 (1.57%) LAN
7 5 (1.31%) MPLS
7 5 (1.31%) Remote Desktop
7 5 (1.31%) SMTP
8 3 (0.78%) FTP
8 3 (0.78%) HTTP
8 3 (0.78%) SSL
8 3 (0.78%) WebEx
9 2 (0.52%) DMZ
9 2 (0.52%) Ethernet
9 2 (0.52%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.18%) Power BI
2 7 (1.83%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.31%) Big Data
3 5 (1.31%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.04%) Metadata
4 4 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.04%) Tableau
5 3 (0.78%) Crystal Reports
6 2 (0.52%) Apache Hive
6 2 (0.52%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.52%) HBase
6 2 (0.52%) Impala
6 2 (0.52%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.52%) SAP Data Services
7 1 (0.26%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.26%) Looker
7 1 (0.26%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.26%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 20 (5.22%) JIRA
2 13 (3.39%) Jenkins
3 11 (2.87%) SonarQube
4 10 (2.61%) GitLab
5 8 (2.09%) Cucumber
5 8 (2.09%) REST Assured
5 8 (2.09%) Selenium
6 5 (1.31%) Rational DOORS
6 5 (1.31%) Rational Rhapsody
7 4 (1.04%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.78%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.52%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.26%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.26%) Toad
General
1 112 (29.24%) Social Skills
2 101 (26.37%) Finance
3 87 (22.72%) Legal
4 65 (16.97%) Public Sector
5 35 (9.14%) Police
6 34 (8.88%) Analytical Skills
7 30 (7.83%) Local Government
8 23 (6.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (3.13%) Telecoms
10 10 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (2.35%) Retail
12 7 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (1.83%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.57%) Banking
14 5 (1.31%) Military
14 5 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.31%) Publishing
15 4 (1.04%) Automotive
15 4 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (1.04%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 52 (13.58%) Analyst
2 37 (9.66%) Senior
3 27 (7.05%) Architect
3 27 (7.05%) Lead
4 24 (6.27%) Project Manager
5 23 (6.01%) Consultant
6 22 (5.74%) Developer
7 21 (5.48%) Business Analyst
8 17 (4.44%) IT Support
9 13 (3.39%) Solutions Architect
10 11 (2.87%) Administrator
10 11 (2.87%) Software Engineer
11 10 (2.61%) Support Officer
12 8 (2.09%) Delivery Manager
13 7 (1.83%) Cloud Engineer
13 7 (1.83%) DevOps Engineer
13 7 (1.83%) Network Engineer
13 7 (1.83%) PMO Analyst
13 7 (1.83%) Telecoms Manager
14 6 (1.57%) Compliance Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.66%) ARM Templates
2 10 (2.61%) REST
3 8 (2.09%) Java EE
4 7 (1.83%) ADO
4 7 (1.83%) React
5 6 (1.57%) YAML
6 5 (1.31%) .NET
6 5 (1.31%) Middleware
6 5 (1.31%) Node.js
7 4 (1.04%) CSS
7 4 (1.04%) HTML
8 3 (0.78%) Apache NiFi
8 3 (0.78%) ASP.NET
8 3 (0.78%) ASP.NET Core
8 3 (0.78%) JSON
8 3 (0.78%) Kafka
8 3 (0.78%) LDAP
8 3 (0.78%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (0.78%) SOAP
8 3 (0.78%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (2.87%) Freedom of Information
1 11 (2.87%) Management Information System
2 9 (2.35%) Freedom of Information Act
3 8 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
3 8 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (2.09%) Product Ownership
4 7 (1.83%) Cyber Threat
4 7 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (1.83%) Mobile App
5 6 (1.57%) Driving Licence
5 6 (1.57%) Security Posture
6 5 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (1.31%) Cybercrime
6 5 (1.31%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.31%) Data Structures
6 5 (1.31%) Renewable Energy
7 4 (1.04%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.04%) Onboarding
8 3 (0.78%) Cyberattack
8 3 (0.78%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 34 (8.88%) Windows
2 29 (7.57%) Linux
3 15 (3.92%) Windows Server
4 12 (3.13%) Windows 10
5 6 (1.57%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (1.31%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (1.04%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (0.78%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.78%) CentOS
8 3 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.78%) Unix
9 2 (0.52%) Android
9 2 (0.52%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (13.05%) Problem-Solving
2 45 (11.75%) Change Management
3 39 (10.18%) Stakeholder Management
4 35 (9.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 33 (8.62%) Migration
6 31 (8.09%) DevOps
7 30 (7.83%) Agile
7 30 (7.83%) Data Protection
7 30 (7.83%) Risk Management
8 27 (7.05%) Continuous Improvement
8 27 (7.05%) ITIL
9 25 (6.53%) Project Management
10 22 (5.74%) Decision-Making
10 22 (5.74%) Software Engineering
11 21 (5.48%) Analytics
12 20 (5.22%) Mentoring
13 18 (4.70%) Cybersecurity
13 18 (4.70%) Infrastructure as Code
13 18 (4.70%) Process Improvement
13 18 (4.70%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 15 (3.92%) Python
1 15 (3.92%) SQL
2 13 (3.39%) Java
3 12 (3.13%) C++
4 11 (2.87%) PowerShell
5 9 (2.35%) C#
5 9 (2.35%) JavaScript
6 8 (2.09%) Bash
6 8 (2.09%) Bicep
6 8 (2.09%) MATLAB
7 7 (1.83%) C
8 4 (1.04%) Ada
9 3 (0.78%) Apex Code
9 3 (0.78%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.52%) PHP
10 2 (0.52%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.26%) ABAP
11 1 (0.26%) Perl
11 1 (0.26%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.26%) VB
Qualifications
1 75 (19.58%) Security Cleared
2 59 (15.40%) SC Cleared
3 33 (8.62%) Degree
4 20 (5.22%) DV Cleared
5 6 (1.57%) CISM
5 6 (1.57%) CISSP
6 5 (1.31%) CompTIA CySA+
6 5 (1.31%) DBS Check
6 5 (1.31%) GIAC
7 4 (1.04%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.04%) CEH
7 4 (1.04%) GREM
7 4 (1.04%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.04%) OSCP
7 4 (1.04%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.04%) PMP
8 2 (0.52%) CISA
8 2 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.52%) GSEC
8 2 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (7.31%) GDPR
2 12 (3.13%) QA
3 10 (2.61%) PMO
4 8 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.09%) NIST
5 5 (1.31%) HL7
5 5 (1.31%) NCSC
5 5 (1.31%) SLA
6 4 (1.04%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.04%) PSD2
7 3 (0.78%) PERC
8 2 (0.52%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.52%) Def Stans
8 2 (0.52%) DO-254
8 2 (0.52%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.52%) IEC 61508
8 2 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 2 (0.52%) MISRA C
8 2 (0.52%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.52%) SEPA
System Software
1 23 (6.01%) Active Directory
2 17 (4.44%) Docker
3 8 (2.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (2.09%) vSphere
4 7 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.31%) Firmware
5 5 (1.31%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.31%) Terminal Services
6 3 (0.78%) vCloud
6 3 (0.78%) VMware Workstation
7 2 (0.52%) HDFS
7 2 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 17 (4.44%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.39%) Terraform
3 12 (3.13%) Ansible
4 8 (2.09%) Docker Swarm
4 8 (2.09%) Podman
5 7 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (1.31%) Cisco Prime
6 5 (1.31%) Kibana
7 2 (0.52%) EnCase
7 2 (0.52%) FTK
8 1 (0.26%) AirWatch
8 1 (0.26%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.26%) Grafana
8 1 (0.26%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.26%) QRadar
8 1 (0.26%) SCOM
8 1 (0.26%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
Vendors
1 43 (11.23%) Microsoft
2 16 (4.18%) SAP
3 13 (3.39%) VMware
4 11 (2.87%) ServiceNow
5 10 (2.61%) Cisco
6 9 (2.35%) Palo Alto
7 6 (1.57%) Fortinet
7 6 (1.57%) Oracle
7 6 (1.57%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.31%) Aruba
8 5 (1.31%) Citrix
8 5 (1.31%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.31%) SolarWinds
9 4 (1.04%) Dell
9 4 (1.04%) Google
9 4 (1.04%) iManage
9 4 (1.04%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.04%) Workday
10 3 (0.78%) Autodesk
10 3 (0.78%) Civica