Law Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Law
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Law in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Law over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 178 195 211
Rank change year-on-year +17 +16 +75
Contract jobs citing Law 128 165 300
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.29% 1.07% 1.16%
As % of the General category 2.07% 1.82% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 102 194
10th Percentile £373 £363 £255
25th Percentile £410 £425 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -
75th Percentile £600 £650 £669
90th Percentile £690 £693 £768
UK median daily rate £503 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -8.59% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 5
10th Percentile - - £19.25
25th Percentile £52.50 - £23.22
Median hourly rate £55.00 £10.42 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +427.83% -58.32% -
75th Percentile £57.50 - £53.75
90th Percentile - £33.13 £59.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £14.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year +284.21% -42.74% +42.86%

All General Skills
Work from Home

Law falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 6,187 9,044 15,095
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 62.42% 58.82% 58.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,164 5,919 10,637
10th Percentile £325 £330 £363
25th Percentile £418 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £800 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 185 473 346
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.01 £19.03
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.61 £30.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £38.12 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.74% -25.25% +67.21%
75th Percentile £65.00 £53.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £86.00 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% -14.29% +59.71%

Law
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Law as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Law trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Law
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Law.

Law daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Law
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Law over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Law daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Law
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Law.

Law hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Law
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (2.34%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.56%) Anypoint
2 2 (1.56%) Apache
2 2 (1.56%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.56%) Confluence
2 2 (1.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.78%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.56%) Trello
3 1 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (2.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.56%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.78%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.78%) Primavera
3 1 (0.78%) SAP GTS
3 1 (0.78%) SAP PP
3 1 (0.78%) SAP PS
3 1 (0.78%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 27 (21.09%) Azure
2 19 (14.84%) AWS
3 4 (3.13%) Entra ID
3 4 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (2.34%) SuccessFactors
5 2 (1.56%) Boomi
6 1 (0.78%) Azure Stack
6 1 (0.78%) IaaS
6 1 (0.78%) OCI
6 1 (0.78%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.78%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.91%) Cisco Nexus
1 5 (3.91%) Firewall
1 5 (3.91%) MPLS
1 5 (3.91%) SD-WAN
1 5 (3.91%) VPN
1 5 (3.91%) WAN
2 4 (3.13%) LAN
3 2 (1.56%) Internet
3 2 (1.56%) SAN
4 1 (0.78%) BGP
4 1 (0.78%) DNS
4 1 (0.78%) NGFW
4 1 (0.78%) OSPF
4 1 (0.78%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.78%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.34%) Crystal Reports
1 3 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (2.34%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (2.34%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.56%) Apache Hive
2 2 (1.56%) Big Data
2 2 (1.56%) Data Lake
2 2 (1.56%) HBase
2 2 (1.56%) Impala
2 2 (1.56%) Metadata
2 2 (1.56%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.78%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.78%) Data Mining
3 1 (0.78%) DB2
3 1 (0.78%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.78%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (0.78%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.78%) Pentaho
3 1 (0.78%) Power BI
3 1 (0.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (8.59%) JIRA
2 5 (3.91%) Cucumber
2 5 (3.91%) GitLab
2 5 (3.91%) Jenkins
2 5 (3.91%) REST Assured
2 5 (3.91%) Selenium
2 5 (3.91%) SonarQube
3 4 (3.13%) Cypress.io
3 4 (3.13%) JMeter
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle Forms
General
1 47 (36.72%) Finance
2 36 (28.13%) Social Skills
3 19 (14.84%) Legal
4 14 (10.94%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (10.94%) Public Sector
5 12 (9.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (7.03%) Police
7 7 (5.47%) Local Government
8 3 (2.34%) Marketing
9 2 (1.56%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.56%) French Language
9 2 (1.56%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.56%) Retail
9 2 (1.56%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.78%) Automotive
10 1 (0.78%) Front Office
10 1 (0.78%) German Language
10 1 (0.78%) Italian Language
10 1 (0.78%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 18 (14.06%) Consultant
2 17 (13.28%) Analyst
3 12 (9.38%) Developer
4 10 (7.81%) Architect
5 9 (7.03%) Project Manager
6 7 (5.47%) Lead
6 7 (5.47%) Senior
7 5 (3.91%) Business Analyst
7 5 (3.91%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (3.91%) IT Support
7 5 (3.91%) Migration Engineer
7 5 (3.91%) ServiceNow Consultant
8 4 (3.13%) 1st Line Support
8 4 (3.13%) Java Engineer
8 4 (3.13%) Java Software Engineer
8 4 (3.13%) Network Engineer
8 4 (3.13%) Programme Manager
8 4 (3.13%) SAP Consultant
8 4 (3.13%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 4 (3.13%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.91%) ARM Templates
1 5 (3.91%) Java EE
1 5 (3.91%) REST
2 3 (2.34%) .NET
2 3 (2.34%) DCOM
2 3 (2.34%) Middleware
2 3 (2.34%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (1.56%) .NET Core
3 2 (1.56%) AngularJS
3 2 (1.56%) Apache Avro
3 2 (1.56%) JSON
3 2 (1.56%) Kafka
4 1 (0.78%) Blazor
4 1 (0.78%) CSS
4 1 (0.78%) HTML
4 1 (0.78%) RESTful
4 1 (0.78%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.78%) Web Dynpro
4 1 (0.78%) Web Services
4 1 (0.78%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.91%) CMDB
2 4 (3.13%) Product Ownership
2 4 (3.13%) Security Posture
3 3 (2.34%) Data Structures
3 3 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.34%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.56%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.56%) NHS
4 2 (1.56%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.78%) AS400
5 1 (0.78%) Blockchain
5 1 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.78%) Driving Licence
5 1 (0.78%) Housing Association
5 1 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.78%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.78%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.78%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 13 (10.16%) Linux
2 7 (5.47%) Windows
3 6 (4.69%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.13%) Amazon Linux
5 3 (2.34%) Unix
6 1 (0.78%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (14.84%) ITIL
3 17 (13.28%) Change Management
4 13 (10.16%) Continuous Improvement
5 12 (9.38%) Collaborative Working
5 12 (9.38%) DevOps
6 11 (8.59%) Configuration Management
6 11 (8.59%) Mentoring
6 11 (8.59%) Migration
7 10 (7.81%) Problem Management
7 10 (7.81%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (7.03%) Agile
8 9 (7.03%) Data Protection
8 9 (7.03%) Project Management
8 9 (7.03%) Technical Leadership
8 9 (7.03%) Test Automation
9 8 (6.25%) Continuous Integration
9 8 (6.25%) Customer Service
9 8 (6.25%) Project Delivery
9 8 (6.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 18 (14.06%) SQL
2 7 (5.47%) Java
3 3 (2.34%) ABAP
4 2 (1.56%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.56%) Python
5 1 (0.78%) Ada
5 1 (0.78%) C
5 1 (0.78%) C++
5 1 (0.78%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.78%) RPG
5 1 (0.78%) RPG/400
5 1 (0.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (14.06%) Security Cleared
2 17 (13.28%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.69%) Degree
4 2 (1.56%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.56%) ISEB
4 2 (1.56%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.78%) ACCA
5 1 (0.78%) CCAB
5 1 (0.78%) CIMA
5 1 (0.78%) CIPFA
5 1 (0.78%) CISMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.47%) HL7
2 3 (2.34%) GDPR
2 3 (2.34%) NIST
3 1 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.78%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.78%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.78%) NCSC
3 1 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.78%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (3.91%) Docker
1 5 (3.91%) vSphere
2 3 (2.34%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.56%) HDFS
3 2 (1.56%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.78%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (3.91%) Ansible
1 5 (3.91%) Docker Swarm
1 5 (3.91%) Kubernetes
1 5 (3.91%) Podman
1 5 (3.91%) Terraform
2 4 (3.13%) Cisco Prime
3 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.78%) SCCM
4 1 (0.78%) SCOM
Vendors
1 12 (9.38%) Oracle
2 10 (7.81%) SAP
3 9 (7.03%) Microsoft
4 7 (5.47%) ServiceNow
5 5 (3.91%) Cisco
5 5 (3.91%) Palo Alto
5 5 (3.91%) Red Hat
5 5 (3.91%) VMware
6 4 (3.13%) Aruba
6 4 (3.13%) Fortinet
6 4 (3.13%) MuleSoft
6 4 (3.13%) SolarWinds
7 3 (2.34%) Civica
8 2 (1.56%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.56%) CyberArk
8 2 (1.56%) Dell
8 2 (1.56%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.56%) Workday
9 1 (0.78%) Databricks
9 1 (0.78%) IFS