Legal Contracts in Wales

Legal
UK > Wales

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legal in contract job vacancies in Wales. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legal over the 6 months leading up to 22 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 30 48
Rank change year-on-year 0 +18 +16
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Legal 8 13 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 2.29% 3.26% 1.23%
As % of the General category 4.19% 5.91% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 5
10th Percentile £194 £115 £413
25th Percentile £223 - £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £265 £120 £650
Median % change year-on-year +120.83% -81.54% -
75th Percentile £413 £126 -
90th Percentile £555 £129 -
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £86.40 -
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £55.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -54.55% +144.44% -16.67%

All General Skills
Wales

Legal 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 Wales.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 191 220 228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 54.73% 55.14% 46.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 105 151
10th Percentile £213 £127 £163
25th Percentile £293 £161 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £396 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -5.88% -15.00%
75th Percentile £488 £518 £600
90th Percentile £569 £595 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 40 17
10th Percentile £13.08 £11.75 -
25th Percentile £13.65 £18.97 £10.92
Median hourly rate £15.00 £25.48 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.13% +59.25% -20.00%
75th Percentile £21.50 £51.94 £26.50
90th Percentile £24.69 £56.00 £46.08
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -29.15% +29.09% +14.58%

Legal
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing Legal as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Legal in Wales

Legal
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Legal.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Legal

Legal
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legal in Wales over the 6 months to 22 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Legal in Wales

Legal
Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Legal.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Legal

Legal
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Legal within the Wales region over the 6 months to 22 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
South Wales +3 7 £300 +150.00% 22
Legal
UK

Legal
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) ChatGPT
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
2 1 (12.50%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
1 1 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database
1 1 (12.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Law
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Deployment Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) 1st Line Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) 1st Line Support
2 1 (12.50%) 1st Line Support Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre Operator
2 1 (12.50%) E-Discovery Manager
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Trainer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (12.50%) Linux
3 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) ITSM
1 3 (37.50%) Service Management
2 2 (25.00%) Migration
2 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (12.50%) Batch Processing
3 1 (12.50%) Batch Scheduling
3 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (12.50%) Case Management
3 1 (12.50%) Change Control
3 1 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (12.50%) E-Discovery
3 1 (12.50%) Event-Driven
3 1 (12.50%) Incident Response
3 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (12.50%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) JCL
1 1 (12.50%) Korn
1 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Actionable Recommendations
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Control-M
1 1 (12.50%) SCCM
1 1 (12.50%) SCOM
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
1 3 (37.50%) ServiceNow
2 2 (25.00%) Remedy
3 1 (12.50%) BMC
3 1 (12.50%) BT
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) Xerox