Legal Contracts in the West Midlands

Legal
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legal in contract job vacancies in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legal over the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 74 94
Rank change year-on-year +21 +20 +23
Contract jobs citing Legal 46 42 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.36% 2.20% 1.73%
As % of the General category 5.36% 3.89% 2.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 26 32
10th Percentile £200 £200 £369
25th Percentile £296 £298 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £425 £495
Median % change year-on-year +14.71% -14.14% -1.00%
75th Percentile £656 £483 £538
90th Percentile £708 £544 £575
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 2
10th Percentile - - £13.88
25th Percentile £15.13 £13.50 £15.94
Median hourly rate £15.25 £20.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.75% - -
75th Percentile £15.38 £26.50 £24.69
90th Percentile - - £27.13
England median hourly rate £24.00 £40.00 £23.31
% change year-on-year -40.00% +71.60% -36.89%

All General Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 858 1,079 1,336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 62.58% 56.49% 57.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 556 748 941
10th Percentile £184 £260 £228
25th Percentile £363 £389 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +2.50% +4.17%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 111 42
10th Percentile £13.98 £11.06 £11.10
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.90 £12.50
Median hourly rate £18.07 £19.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.92% -2.56% +18.18%
75th Percentile £24.81 £38.13 £28.56
90th Percentile £34.24 £56.25 £56.63
England median hourly rate £27.50 £30.75 £32.50
% change year-on-year -10.57% -5.38% +51.16%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Legal as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Legal in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Legal in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Legal in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legal in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Legal in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Legal in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Legal in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Legal within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Birmingham +10 25 £550 +25.71% 41
Shropshire -1 5 £210 -19.23% 4
Coventry - 5 £475 - 10
Warwickshire -3 4 £600 - 18
Staffordshire - 3 £200 - 35
Solihull - 1 £375 - 4
Legal
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (6.52%) IIS
2 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.35%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.17%) Apache
3 1 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Project
1 3 (6.52%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (2.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (10.87%) Azure
2 4 (8.70%) AWS
3 3 (6.52%) Asana
3 3 (6.52%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (4.35%) GCP
4 2 (4.35%) OneDrive
5 1 (2.17%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (2.17%) OCI
5 1 (2.17%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.52%) Firewall
2 2 (4.35%) TCP/IP
2 2 (4.35%) Unified Communications
2 2 (4.35%) Wireless
3 1 (2.17%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (2.17%) Internet
3 1 (2.17%) LAN
3 1 (2.17%) MPLS
3 1 (2.17%) Network Security
3 1 (2.17%) SD-WAN
3 1 (2.17%) Telepresence
3 1 (2.17%) VoIP
3 1 (2.17%) VPN
3 1 (2.17%) WAN
3 1 (2.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.52%) NoSQL
1 3 (6.52%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.17%) Big Data
2 1 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.17%) Flink
2 1 (2.17%) Metadata
2 1 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.17%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (2.17%) JIRA
General
1 20 (43.48%) Social Skills
2 10 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (8.70%) Finance
3 4 (8.70%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Digital Economy
5 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Games
5 1 (2.17%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.17%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (13.04%) Project Manager
2 5 (10.87%) Lead
3 4 (8.70%) Architect
3 4 (8.70%) Coordinator
3 4 (8.70%) GDPR Project Manager
3 4 (8.70%) Project Coordinator
4 3 (6.52%) Analyst
4 3 (6.52%) Applications Engineer
4 3 (6.52%) Applications Manager
4 3 (6.52%) Consultant
4 3 (6.52%) Deployment Engineer
4 3 (6.52%) Field Engineer
4 3 (6.52%) IT Engineer
4 3 (6.52%) Support Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Application Development Manager
5 2 (4.35%) Applications Support
5 2 (4.35%) Business Analyst
5 2 (4.35%) Development Manager
5 2 (4.35%) IT Manager
5 2 (4.35%) Project Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.52%) .NET
1 3 (6.52%) HTML
1 3 (6.52%) Middleware
2 1 (2.17%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (2.17%) ASP.NET
2 1 (2.17%) Kafka
2 1 (2.17%) Keycloak
2 1 (2.17%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (2.17%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.35%) Operational Technology
2 1 (2.17%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.17%) NHS
2 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.17%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (19.57%) Windows
2 3 (6.52%) Windows 10
3 2 (4.35%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.17%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (32.61%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (13.04%) ITIL
2 6 (13.04%) Service Management
3 5 (10.87%) Migration
3 5 (10.87%) Project Management
3 5 (10.87%) Risk Management
3 5 (10.87%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (8.70%) Collaborative Working
4 4 (8.70%) Data Governance
4 4 (8.70%) Incident Management
4 4 (8.70%) Release Management
4 4 (8.70%) Resource Allocation
4 4 (8.70%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (6.52%) Agile
5 3 (6.52%) Change Management
5 3 (6.52%) Data Protection
5 3 (6.52%) Deadline-Driven
5 3 (6.52%) ITSM
5 3 (6.52%) Project Delivery
5 3 (6.52%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (15.22%) SQL
2 5 (10.87%) JavaScript
3 4 (8.70%) PowerShell
4 2 (4.35%) Python
5 1 (2.17%) C#
Qualifications
1 10 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 8 (17.39%) DV Cleared
3 6 (13.04%) Degree
4 3 (6.52%) PMI Certification
4 3 (6.52%) PMP
4 3 (6.52%) SC Cleared
5 2 (4.35%) Azure Certification
5 2 (4.35%) CISA
5 2 (4.35%) CISM
5 2 (4.35%) CISSP
5 2 (4.35%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (2.17%) CCIE
6 1 (2.17%) CEH
6 1 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.87%) GDPR
2 1 (2.17%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.17%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.17%) HIPAA
2 1 (2.17%) ISO 9001
2 1 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.17%) NIST
2 1 (2.17%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (13.04%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.17%) Docker
2 1 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (8.70%) SCCM
2 3 (6.52%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.17%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (10.87%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.35%) BMC
2 2 (4.35%) Cisco
2 2 (4.35%) Remedy
2 2 (4.35%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.17%) Fortinet
3 1 (2.17%) Google
3 1 (2.17%) Meraki
3 1 (2.17%) Oracle
3 1 (2.17%) SAP
3 1 (2.17%) Veeam
3 1 (2.17%) VMware