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 2 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 80 83
Rank change year-on-year -42 +3 +9
Contract jobs citing Law 18 12 16
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.74% 1.17% 0.95%
As % of the General category 1.35% 1.89% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 3 9
10th Percentile £284 £438 -
25th Percentile £344 £447 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £190
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +150.00% -62.00%
75th Percentile £454 £566 £538
90th Percentile £495 £609 -
England median daily rate £500 £505 £550
% change year-on-year -0.99% -8.18% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
Median hourly rate £25.77 - £22.00
England median hourly rate £20.27 £30.20 £13.00
% change year-on-year -32.89% +132.31% -48.00%

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 1,332 635 961
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 54.77% 62.07% 57.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 870 374 554
10th Percentile £283 £251 £198
25th Percentile £400 £360 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £469 £479
Median % change year-on-year +2.35% -2.04% -8.81%
75th Percentile £565 £575 £575
90th Percentile £669 £649 £645
England median daily rate £503 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.29% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 25 79
10th Percentile £14.25 £11.60 £12.07
25th Percentile £17.04 £16.50 £12.15
Median hourly rate £22.81 £18.55 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year +22.96% +26.84% -18.11%
75th Percentile £56.69 £22.14 £15.19
90th Percentile £68.75 £38.68 £23.37
England median hourly rate £30.50 £27.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +10.91% -8.33% -11.76%

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 2 May 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 2 May 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 - 12 £400 - 7
West Yorkshire -31 6 £370 -20.05% 25
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 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) Azure
2 3 (16.67%) AWS
2 3 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (16.67%) AWS KMS
2 3 (16.67%) GCP
2 3 (16.67%) GitHub
2 3 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
2 3 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 2 (11.11%) Azure AI
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.56%) Copilot Studio
4 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.56%) OneDrive
4 1 (5.56%) PowerApps
4 1 (5.56%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) DNS
1 3 (16.67%) Firewall
1 3 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (5.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 3 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.56%) Metadata
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (5.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) JIRA
2 3 (16.67%) CircleCI
2 3 (16.67%) Git
2 3 (16.67%) GitLab
2 3 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 2 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (55.56%) Finance
1 10 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Public Sector
3 4 (22.22%) Legal
4 3 (16.67%) Banking
4 3 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (11.11%) Marketing
5 2 (11.11%) Social Science
6 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (5.56%) Local Government
6 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (5.56%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (16.67%) Lead
1 3 (16.67%) Project Manager
2 2 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Communications Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Data Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Data Quality Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Deployment Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Hardware Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) IT Manager
3 1 (5.56%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (5.56%) IT Technician
3 1 (5.56%) Product Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Quality Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Quality Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Service Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
1 1 (5.56%) NHS
1 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (33.33%) Windows
2 3 (16.67%) Linux
2 3 (16.67%) Unix
2 3 (16.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Agile
2 6 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (27.78%) DevOps
3 5 (27.78%) DevSecOps
4 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (22.22%) Observability
4 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (16.67%) Business Strategy
5 3 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture
5 3 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (16.67%) Key Management
5 3 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 3 (16.67%) Performance Metrics
5 3 (16.67%) Regulatory Compliance
5 3 (16.67%) Secrets Management
5 3 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (16.67%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) Bash
1 3 (16.67%) Go
1 3 (16.67%) Java
1 3 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 3 (16.67%) Python
1 3 (16.67%) Shell Script
1 3 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) ISTQB
2 1 (5.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) SLA
2 2 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 2 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 1 (5.56%) GDPR
3 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 3 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Ansible
1 3 (16.67%) Grafana
1 3 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 3 (16.67%) Terraform
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 3 (16.67%) Oracle
2 3 (16.67%) ServiceNow
2 3 (16.67%) Splunk
3 2 (11.11%) Black Duck
3 2 (11.11%) Foundry
4 1 (5.56%) AppDynamics
4 1 (5.56%) Salesforce