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 19 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 71 93
Rank change year-on-year -52 +22 -10
Contract jobs citing Law 9 20 20
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.48% 1.72% 1.10%
As % of the General category 0.81% 3.15% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 11
10th Percentile £262 £324 £185
25th Percentile £371 £341 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £413 £400
Median % change year-on-year +5.55% +3.13% -20.00%
75th Percentile £478 £502 £469
90th Percentile £574 £527 £580
England median daily rate £550 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £18.65
25th Percentile - £20.50 £18.88
Median hourly rate - £21.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% +2.63%
75th Percentile - £21.50 £19.88
90th Percentile - - £19.95
England median hourly rate £27.28 £65.00 £16.00
% change year-on-year -58.03% +306.25% -17.10%

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 common skills in Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,114 634 1,043
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 59.76% 54.56% 57.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 755 354 663
10th Percentile £251 £253 £263
25th Percentile £384 £375 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £497 £513
Median % change year-on-year -1.81% -3.12% -1.44%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £644 £672 £688
England median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 23 21
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.64 £13.57
25th Percentile £15.25 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £21.30 £22.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +18.42% -
75th Percentile £52.38 £40.13 £21.97
90th Percentile £81.25 £42.50 £32.00
England median hourly rate £23.58 £30.31 £33.00
% change year-on-year -22.21% -8.17% +32.00%

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 19 December 2025.

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 19 December 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
South Yorkshire -48 6 £442 - 31
West Yorkshire -23 3 £370 -31.21% 43
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 (11.11%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) AWS
2 4 (44.44%) AWS CloudFormation
2 4 (44.44%) GCP
3 3 (33.33%) AWS KMS
3 3 (33.33%) GitHub
3 3 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (22.22%) SaaS
5 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
5 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (11.11%) OneDrive
5 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) DNS
1 3 (33.33%) Firewall
1 3 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (11.11%) VPN
2 1 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 3 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (11.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Jenkins
2 3 (33.33%) CircleCI
2 3 (33.33%) Git
2 3 (33.33%) GitLab
2 3 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Finance
3 3 (33.33%) Banking
3 3 (33.33%) Legal
4 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (11.11%) Marketing
5 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (11.11%) Police
5 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (11.11%) Private Banking
5 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Lead
2 1 (11.11%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Business Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Business Systems Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Commercial Contracts Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Commercial Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Communications Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Contracts Manager
2 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Legal Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Project Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Quality Manager
2 1 (11.11%) SaaS Project Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Service Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
1 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
2 3 (33.33%) Linux
2 3 (33.33%) Unix
3 1 (11.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
1 4 (44.44%) DevOps
1 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
2 3 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 3 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
2 3 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 3 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 3 (33.33%) Key Management
2 3 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 3 (33.33%) Observability
2 3 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
2 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (33.33%) Process Improvement
2 3 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
2 3 (33.33%) Secrets Management
2 3 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 3 (33.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Java
1 4 (44.44%) Python
2 3 (33.33%) Bash
2 3 (33.33%) Go
2 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 3 (33.33%) Shell Script
2 3 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Ansible
1 4 (44.44%) Terraform
2 3 (33.33%) Grafana
2 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Oracle
1 3 (33.33%) ServiceNow
1 3 (33.33%) Splunk
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) AppDynamics
3 1 (11.11%) Google
3 1 (11.11%) NEC