Legal Contract Job Trends, Contractor Rates & Related Skills in Walsall

Legal
West Midlands > Walsall

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legal in contract job vacancies in Walsall. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legal over the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

	6 months to 20 Dec 2025	Same period 2024	Same period 2023
Rank	-	-	3
Rank change year-on-year	-	-	-
Contract jobs citing Legal	0	0	1
As % of all contract jobs in Walsall	-	-	12.50%
As % of the General category	-	-	20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted	0	0	1
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	-	-	£150
West Midlands median daily rate	£450	£594	£425
% change year-on-year	-24.21%	+39.71%	-

All General Skills
Walsall

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 Walsall.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills	6	8	5
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Walsall	85.71%	47.06%	62.50%
Number of daily rates quoted	2	3	4
10^th Percentile	£177	£270	£184
25^th Percentile	£203	£356	£234
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£249	£500	£325
Median % change year-on-year	-50.25%	+53.85%	+109.68%
75^th Percentile	£298	£525	£403
90^th Percentile	£325	£540	£454
West Midlands median daily rate	£493	£510	£500
% change year-on-year	-3.31%	+2.00%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	2	0	0
Median hourly rate	£13.69	-	-
West Midlands median hourly rate	£22.01	£23.82	£18.25
% change year-on-year	-7.60%	+30.52%	+3.58%