Legal Contract Job Trends in York

Legal
North Yorkshire > York

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legal in contract job vacancies in York. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legal over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Legal 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in York 3.23% - -
As % of the General category 5.13% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £320 - -
25th Percentile £350 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
75th Percentile £450 - -
90th Percentile £480 - -
North Yorkshire median daily rate £400 £398 -
% change year-on-year +0.63% - -

All General Skills
York

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 general skills in York.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 39 11 27
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in York 62.90% 44.00% 65.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 6 19
10th Percentile £143 £259 £106
25th Percentile £196 £355 £130
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £150
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +216.67% -65.91%
75th Percentile £725 £603 £300
90th Percentile £856 £638 £530
North Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile £21.41 - £11.15
25th Percentile £21.52 - £11.30
Median hourly rate £22.46 - £14.40
Median % change year-on-year - - -36.03%
75th Percentile £23.74 - £18.75
90th Percentile £24.07 - -
North Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.81 £18.25 £13.50
% change year-on-year +24.99% +35.19% -32.11%

Legal
Job Vacancy Trend in York

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Legal relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in York.

Legal job vacancy trend in York

Legal
Daily Rate Trend in York

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in York citing Legal

Legal
Daily Rate Histogram in York

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legal in York over the 6 months to 23 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Legal in York

Legal
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in York by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Change Control
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (50.00%) Service Management
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks