Legal Contracts 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 91 82
Rank change year-on-year +13 -9 +31
Contract jobs citing Legal 23 15 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.79% 0.87% 1.48%
As % of the General category 2.83% 1.56% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 12 28
10th Percentile £200 £333 £274
25th Percentile £220 £400 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £548
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -8.68% +15.26%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £646
90th Percentile £600 £650 £750
England median daily rate £503 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +0.50% -6.98% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £11.60 - -
Median hourly rate £11.64 - -
75th Percentile £11.68 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £25.00 £40.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -37.50% +77.78% -16.67%

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 common skills in Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 813 963 1,322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 63.42% 55.66% 61.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 493 540 881
10th Percentile £254 £215 £269
25th Percentile £375 £400 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.20% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £638 £645 £700
England median daily rate £519 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -3.08% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 78 21
10th Percentile £12.96 - £12.00
25th Percentile £17.29 £12.15 £13.16
Median hourly rate £22.14 £14.63 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.38% -23.03% +1.60%
75th Percentile £23.63 £17.52 £21.31
90th Percentile £62.53 £40.00 £30.00
England median hourly rate £27.38 £32.90 £30.00
% change year-on-year -16.78% +9.65% +26.04%

Legal
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Legal as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Legal in Yorkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Legal in Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Legal in Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legal in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Legal in Yorkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Legal in Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Legal in Yorkshire

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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 3 July 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
West Yorkshire +10 10 £488 -2.50% 89
South Yorkshire +2 4 £465 - 37
North Yorkshire - 3 £575 - 11
East Yorkshire -3 1 £200 -69.23% 9
Legal
England

Legal
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (8.70%) CICS
1 2 (8.70%) CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (8.70%) VisionPLUS
2 1 (4.35%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.35%) Azure
1 1 (4.35%) Entra ID
1 1 (4.35%) Figma
1 1 (4.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) Geospatial Data
1 1 (4.35%) GIS
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 16 (69.57%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Finance
3 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.35%) Banking
4 1 (4.35%) Digital Health
4 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Games
4 1 (4.35%) Law
4 1 (4.35%) Marketing
4 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Publishing
4 1 (4.35%) Retail
4 1 (4.35%) Retail Banking
4 1 (4.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (17.39%) Deployment Engineer
1 4 (17.39%) Developer
1 4 (17.39%) Support Officer
2 3 (13.04%) Senior
3 2 (8.70%) Consultant
3 2 (8.70%) Project Manager
3 2 (8.70%) Senior Manager
3 2 (8.70%) ServiceNow Developer
4 1 (4.35%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (4.35%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) CMS Developer
4 1 (4.35%) GIS Manager
4 1 (4.35%) IT Manager
4 1 (4.35%) Procurement Manager
4 1 (4.35%) Security Manager
4 1 (4.35%) Security Project Manager
4 1 (4.35%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 1 (4.35%) Senior Procurement Manager
4 1 (4.35%) Support Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) JDBC
1 1 (4.35%) REST
1 1 (4.35%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Mainframe
1 2 (8.70%) Onboarding
1 2 (8.70%) VSAM
2 1 (4.35%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (26.09%) Customer Service
2 5 (21.74%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (21.74%) Service Delivery
3 3 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (13.04%) Data Protection
3 3 (13.04%) DevOps
3 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (13.04%) Risk Management
3 3 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (8.70%) Agile
4 2 (8.70%) Change Management
4 2 (8.70%) Contract Management
4 2 (8.70%) Cost Reduction
4 2 (8.70%) Data Governance
4 2 (8.70%) ITSM
4 2 (8.70%) Migration
4 2 (8.70%) Project Management
4 2 (8.70%) SDLC
4 2 (8.70%) Service Management
4 2 (8.70%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.70%) COBOL
1 2 (8.70%) JCL
2 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) PMI Certification
1 2 (8.70%) PMP
2 1 (4.35%) Degree
2 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) ISO 22301
1 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.35%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (13.04%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (8.70%) ServiceNow
2 1 (4.35%) ESRI
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.35%) Veritas