Law Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Law
England > Yorkshire

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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 77 88
Rank change year-on-year -40 +11 +2
Contract jobs citing Law 36 13 13
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 1.34% 1.19% 0.77%
As % of the General category 2.47% 1.89% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 3 8
10th Percentile £299 £456 -
25th Percentile £366 £494 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £563 £190
Median % change year-on-year -22.60% +196.05% -62.00%
75th Percentile £509 £603 £509
90th Percentile £517 £624 £538
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 2
Median hourly rate £25.77 - £22.00
England median hourly rate £22.81 £30.20 £13.00
% change year-on-year -24.47% +132.31% -38.82%

All General Skills
Yorkshire

Law 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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,457 688 960
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 54.22% 62.72% 56.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 931 403 541
10th Percentile £313 £235 £200
25th Percentile £407 £357 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £490
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -5.61% -6.67%
75th Percentile £571 £572 £575
90th Percentile £688 £635 £638
England median daily rate £515 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -1.90% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 29 85
10th Percentile £16.01 £11.60 -
25th Percentile £20.66 £17.25 £12.15
Median hourly rate £24.89 £22.14 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year +12.40% +51.38% -18.75%
75th Percentile £46.25 - £18.27
90th Percentile £68.75 £31.06 £34.33
England median hourly rate £32.00 £28.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year +14.29% -9.68% -2.88%

Law
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Law job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Law
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Law.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Law

Law
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Law in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 6 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Law in Yorkshire

Law
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Law.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Law

Law
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Law within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 6 June 2026. 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
South Yorkshire -31 22 £442 - 8
West Yorkshire -25 13 £300 -41.46% 29
Law
England

Law
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 13 (36.11%) Azure
2 7 (19.44%) Microsoft Copilot
2 7 (19.44%) Power Platform
3 6 (16.67%) Copilot Studio
3 6 (16.67%) PowerApps
4 5 (13.89%) Azure AI
4 5 (13.89%) GitHub
5 4 (11.11%) AWS
5 4 (11.11%) GCP
5 4 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (8.33%) AWS KMS
6 3 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (8.33%) Entra ID
6 3 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (8.33%) Serverless
7 2 (5.56%) Azure Functions
7 2 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (5.56%) OneDrive
7 2 (5.56%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (8.33%) DNS
2 3 (8.33%) Firewall
2 3 (8.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.78%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.89%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (8.33%) MongoDB
3 2 (5.56%) Metadata
3 2 (5.56%) Power BI
4 1 (2.78%) Neo4j
4 1 (2.78%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 6 (16.67%) Git
2 5 (13.89%) Jenkins
2 5 (13.89%) JIRA
3 4 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (8.33%) CircleCI
4 3 (8.33%) GitLab
5 2 (5.56%) Cucumber
5 2 (5.56%) Flyway
5 2 (5.56%) git-flow
5 2 (5.56%) JUnit
5 2 (5.56%) Liquibase
5 2 (5.56%) Mockito
General
1 18 (50.00%) Finance
2 15 (41.67%) Social Skills
3 8 (22.22%) Banking
4 6 (16.67%) Legal
4 6 (16.67%) Public Sector
5 5 (13.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (13.89%) Social Science
6 4 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (5.56%) Local Government
9 1 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (2.78%) Marketing
9 1 (2.78%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (16.67%) Developer
2 5 (13.89%) IT Technician
3 4 (11.11%) Analyst
3 4 (11.11%) Lead
4 3 (8.33%) Project Manager
4 3 (8.33%) Senior
5 2 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 2 (5.56%) Designer
5 2 (5.56%) Java Developer
5 2 (5.56%) Microsoft 365 Developer
5 2 (5.56%) Senior Developer
5 2 (5.56%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (5.56%) Support Analyst
6 1 (2.78%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
6 1 (2.78%) Communications Specialist
6 1 (2.78%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Infrastructure Support
6 1 (2.78%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Product Developer
6 1 (2.78%) Salesforce Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.89%) REST
2 4 (11.11%) Kafka
3 3 (8.33%) React
4 2 (5.56%) Gherkin
4 2 (5.56%) HATEOAS
4 2 (5.56%) Jasypt
4 2 (5.56%) JWT
4 2 (5.56%) Loki
4 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (5.56%) OAuth2
4 2 (5.56%) OpenAPI
4 2 (5.56%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (5.56%) RESTful
4 2 (5.56%) SPFx
4 2 (5.56%) Spring Batch
4 2 (5.56%) Spring Boot
4 2 (5.56%) Spring Cloud
4 2 (5.56%) Spring MVC
4 2 (5.56%) Spring Security
4 2 (5.56%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.56%) NHS
3 1 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.78%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.78%) PKI
3 1 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (22.22%) Windows
2 4 (11.11%) Linux
3 3 (8.33%) Unix
4 2 (5.56%) Windows 10
4 2 (5.56%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.78%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (41.67%) Agile
2 12 (33.33%) DevOps
3 9 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 8 (22.22%) DevSecOps
4 8 (22.22%) Mentoring
4 8 (22.22%) Observability
5 7 (19.44%) AI
5 7 (19.44%) Computer Science
6 6 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
6 6 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (13.89%) Business Case
7 5 (13.89%) Commercial Awareness
7 5 (13.89%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (13.89%) Prototyping
7 5 (13.89%) Risk Management
7 5 (13.89%) Secrets Management
7 5 (13.89%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.89%) Java
1 5 (13.89%) PowerShell
1 5 (13.89%) SQL
2 4 (11.11%) Python
3 3 (8.33%) Bash
3 3 (8.33%) Go
3 3 (8.33%) Shell Script
4 2 (5.56%) PromQL
4 2 (5.56%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.78%) C#
5 1 (2.78%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 5 (13.89%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.56%) Degree
4 1 (2.78%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.89%) ISO/IEC 42001
2 4 (11.11%) Data Quality
3 3 (8.33%) SLA
4 2 (5.56%) QA
5 1 (2.78%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (19.44%) Docker
2 4 (11.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.78%) BitLocker
3 1 (2.78%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (19.44%) Ansible
1 7 (19.44%) Kubernetes
2 5 (13.89%) Grafana
3 4 (11.11%) Terraform
4 2 (5.56%) Consul
4 2 (5.56%) Prometheus
4 2 (5.56%) Zipkin
5 1 (2.78%) Kustomize
5 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.78%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.89%) Foundry
3 4 (11.11%) Black Duck
4 3 (8.33%) Oracle
4 3 (8.33%) ServiceNow
4 3 (8.33%) Splunk
5 2 (5.56%) Solace
6 1 (2.78%) AppDynamics
6 1 (2.78%) Apple
6 1 (2.78%) HP
6 1 (2.78%) McAfee
6 1 (2.78%) MobileIron
6 1 (2.78%) Remedy
6 1 (2.78%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.78%) Sitecore