Legal Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Legal
England > Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legal in contract job vacancies in Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legal over the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 71 91
Rank change year-on-year -8 +20 -6
Contract jobs citing Legal 72 20 14
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.64% 1.70% 0.80%
As % of the General category 4.90% 2.68% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 14 12
10th Percentile £400 £200 £333
25th Percentile £475 £213 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £561 £613
90th Percentile £618 £584 £650
England median daily rate £514 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.80% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 0
10th Percentile £18.50 - -
25th Percentile £24.87 £11.60 -
Median hourly rate £43.96 £11.64 -
Median % change year-on-year +277.66% - -
75th Percentile - £11.68 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +75.84% -37.50% +77.78%

All General Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,468 745 961
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 53.79% 63.24% 55.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 934 443 535
10th Percentile £313 £236 £198
25th Percentile £408 £365 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -7.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £569 £575
90th Percentile £688 £638 £645
England median daily rate £520 £520 £533
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 33 85
10th Percentile £16.01 £12.28 -
25th Percentile £19.97 £17.25 £12.15
Median hourly rate £25.77 £22.14 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year +16.40% +51.38% -18.11%
75th Percentile £36.61 - £18.27
90th Percentile £68.75 £33.38 £34.33
England median hourly rate £32.50 £27.97 £31.97
% change year-on-year +16.20% -12.51% +6.57%

Legal
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Legal job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Legal
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Legal

Legal
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legal in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 19 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Legal in Yorkshire

Legal
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Legal

Legal
Hourly Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Legal in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 19 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Legal in Yorkshire

Legal
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 Legal within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 19 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
West Yorkshire +8 40 £525 +7.69% 23
South Yorkshire -19 29 £525 +12.90% 8
North Yorkshire -6 3 £400 +0.63% 3
Legal
England

Legal
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 14 (19.44%) SharePoint
2 12 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (5.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.39%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 18 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 16 (22.22%) Microsoft Purview
3 12 (16.67%) OneDrive
4 10 (13.89%) AWS
5 8 (11.11%) Azure
6 7 (9.72%) OpenShift
7 5 (6.94%) Power Platform
8 3 (4.17%) Azure AI
8 3 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (4.17%) Azure Functions
8 3 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (4.17%) Azure Storage
8 3 (4.17%) GCP
8 3 (4.17%) Microsoft Copilot
8 3 (4.17%) Serverless
9 2 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (2.78%) Copilot Studio
9 2 (2.78%) Entra ID
9 2 (2.78%) PowerApps
9 2 (2.78%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.72%) SSL
2 6 (8.33%) Network Security
3 2 (2.78%) Intranet
4 1 (1.39%) BGP
4 1 (1.39%) Broadband
4 1 (1.39%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (1.39%) DMVPN
4 1 (1.39%) EIGRP
4 1 (1.39%) IPsec
4 1 (1.39%) LTE
4 1 (1.39%) MPLS
4 1 (1.39%) OSPF
4 1 (1.39%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.39%) VPN
4 1 (1.39%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.72%) SQL Server
2 6 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (4.17%) DTS
3 3 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (4.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (2.78%) DocumentDB
4 2 (2.78%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.78%) Power BI
5 1 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.39%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 5 (6.94%) Git
1 5 (6.94%) GitLab
1 5 (6.94%) Jenkins
1 5 (6.94%) Sonatype Nexus
2 4 (5.56%) Flyway
2 4 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 37 (51.39%) Finance
2 24 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 16 (22.22%) Banking
4 10 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (9.72%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (8.33%) Law
7 5 (6.94%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.78%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.78%) Social Science
9 1 (1.39%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (16.67%) Architect
1 12 (16.67%) Microsoft 365 Architect
2 9 (12.50%) Analyst
3 7 (9.72%) Administrator
4 5 (6.94%) DBA
4 5 (6.94%) Senior
4 5 (6.94%) SQL DBA
5 4 (5.56%) Data Analyst
5 4 (5.56%) Linux Engineer
5 4 (5.56%) Project Manager
5 4 (5.56%) Senior Linux Engineer
6 3 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (4.17%) Data Protection Analyst
6 3 (4.17%) HR Analyst
6 3 (4.17%) Lead
7 2 (2.78%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
7 2 (2.78%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 2 (2.78%) Business Change Specialist
7 2 (2.78%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (2.78%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (13.89%) Microsoft Graph
2 7 (9.72%) ISPF
2 7 (9.72%) Middleware
3 5 (6.94%) AWS CDK
4 3 (4.17%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.39%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 13 (18.06%) Mainframe
2 7 (9.72%) Clustering
3 5 (6.94%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.17%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.17%) Podcast
4 3 (4.17%) Virtual Team
4 3 (4.17%) Web Conferencing
5 2 (2.78%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.78%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.78%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.39%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.39%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.39%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.50%) Windows
2 7 (9.72%) zOS
3 6 (8.33%) Linux
3 6 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (22.22%) ITIL
1 16 (22.22%) Runbook
2 15 (20.83%) Data Loss Prevention
3 14 (19.44%) Agile
3 14 (19.44%) CI/CD
3 14 (19.44%) Continuous Improvement
3 14 (19.44%) Data Protection
3 14 (19.44%) E-Discovery
3 14 (19.44%) Records Management
4 13 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (16.67%) Information Governance
6 11 (15.28%) Case Management
6 11 (15.28%) Stakeholder Management
7 10 (13.89%) Data Architecture
7 10 (13.89%) Internal Audit
8 9 (12.50%) Change Management
9 8 (11.11%) Incident Response
9 8 (11.11%) Migration
10 7 (9.72%) Database Migration
10 7 (9.72%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (20.83%) PowerShell
2 11 (15.28%) Python
3 9 (12.50%) Kusto Query Language
4 7 (9.72%) Bash
5 6 (8.33%) SQL
6 5 (6.94%) TypeScript
7 3 (4.17%) Bicep
8 2 (2.78%) Java
9 1 (1.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 4 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (4.17%) Degree
2 3 (4.17%) SC Cleared
2 3 (4.17%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.39%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.39%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.39%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (22.22%) GDPR
2 12 (16.67%) FINRA
2 12 (16.67%) MiFID
3 4 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 3 (4.17%) NIST
5 2 (2.78%) GRC
5 2 (2.78%) PMO
6 1 (1.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (1.39%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.39%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (1.39%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (9.72%) RACF
3 1 (1.39%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (9.72%) OMEGAMON
2 4 (5.56%) Ansible
3 3 (4.17%) Foglight
3 3 (4.17%) Terraform
4 1 (1.39%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 23 (31.94%) Microsoft
2 14 (19.44%) IBM
3 5 (6.94%) Black Duck
3 5 (6.94%) Databricks
4 4 (5.56%) Foundry
4 4 (5.56%) OpenAI
4 4 (5.56%) ServiceNow
5 3 (4.17%) Alibaba
5 3 (4.17%) Google
6 1 (1.39%) Cisco
6 1 (1.39%) Facebook
6 1 (1.39%) Meraki
6 1 (1.39%) Splunk