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 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 85 80
Rank change year-on-year +2 -5 +27
Contract jobs citing Legal 37 20 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 2.40% 1.33% 1.80%
As % of the General category 3.79% 2.48% 2.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 13 31
10th Percentile £200 £404 £222
25th Percentile £369 £500 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.28% -10.42% +26.32%
75th Percentile £570 £600 £675
90th Percentile £611 £650 £750
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £11.60 - -
Median hourly rate £11.64 - -
75th Percentile £11.68 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £24.00 £53.75 £22.50
% change year-on-year -55.35% +138.89% -15.89%

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 975 805 1,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 63.15% 53.52% 60.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 623 447 791
10th Percentile £220 £310 £275
25th Percentile £363 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £619
90th Percentile £638 £675 £700
England median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 41 29
10th Percentile £14.54 £12.15 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.48 £14.06 £14.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £19.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% - +1.60%
75th Percentile £25.11 £38.75 £22.25
90th Percentile £81.25 £42.50 £30.46
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.85 £27.50
% change year-on-year -35.26% +41.27% +10.93%

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

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 18 September 2025.

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
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 18 September 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 -7 19 £450 -16.28% 43
South Yorkshire -6 9 £490 - 17
North Yorkshire +4 3 £575 - 12
East Yorkshire -7 1 £200 -69.23% 2
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 7 (18.92%) CMS
2 6 (16.22%) CICS
3 2 (5.41%) Confluence
4 1 (2.70%) Apache
4 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) InVision
1 1 (2.70%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (16.22%) VisionPLUS
2 1 (2.70%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 5 (13.51%) Azure
2 2 (5.41%) AWS
2 2 (5.41%) Entra ID
2 2 (5.41%) GCP
2 2 (5.41%) OCI
3 1 (2.70%) Adobe Creative Cloud
3 1 (2.70%) Figma
3 1 (2.70%) Google Analytics
3 1 (2.70%) Google Data Studio
3 1 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.70%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.41%) Firewall
2 1 (2.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (2.70%) Geospatial Data
1 1 (2.70%) GIS
1 1 (2.70%) Power BI
1 1 (2.70%) Power Query
1 1 (2.70%) QlikView
1 1 (2.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (8.11%) JIRA
General
1 23 (62.16%) Social Skills
2 13 (35.14%) Finance
3 5 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.81%) Banking
4 4 (10.81%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (10.81%) Retail
5 3 (8.11%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (8.11%) Public Sector
5 3 (8.11%) Retail Banking
6 2 (5.41%) Law
6 2 (5.41%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.70%) Back Office
7 1 (2.70%) Digital Health
7 1 (2.70%) Games
7 1 (2.70%) Local Government
7 1 (2.70%) Marketing
7 1 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.70%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 7 (18.92%) Developer
2 4 (10.81%) Deployment Engineer
3 3 (8.11%) Project Manager
3 3 (8.11%) Senior
3 3 (8.11%) Support Officer
4 2 (5.41%) Analyst
4 2 (5.41%) Consultant
4 2 (5.41%) Designer
4 2 (5.41%) Implementation Specialist
4 2 (5.41%) IT Manager
4 2 (5.41%) Senior Manager
5 1 (2.70%) CMS Developer
5 1 (2.70%) GIS Manager
5 1 (2.70%) Information Governance Specialist
5 1 (2.70%) Information Specialist
5 1 (2.70%) Project Implementation Manager
5 1 (2.70%) Security Project Manager
5 1 (2.70%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 1 (2.70%) Senior Procurement Manager
5 1 (2.70%) UX Designer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.22%) VSAM
2 4 (10.81%) Mainframe
3 2 (5.41%) CMDB
3 2 (5.41%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (5.41%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.41%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.70%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.70%) Learning Management System
4 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.70%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 6 (16.22%) Windows
2 1 (2.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (35.14%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (24.32%) Continuous Improvement
3 8 (21.62%) Risk Management
4 7 (18.92%) DevOps
4 7 (18.92%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (16.22%) SDLC
6 5 (13.51%) Agile
6 5 (13.51%) Data Protection
6 5 (13.51%) ITIL
7 4 (10.81%) Customer Service
7 4 (10.81%) Decision-Making
7 4 (10.81%) Migration
8 3 (8.11%) Business Continuity
8 3 (8.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (8.11%) IT Asset Management
8 3 (8.11%) Requirements Gathering
8 3 (8.11%) Runbook
8 3 (8.11%) Service Delivery
8 3 (8.11%) User Experience
8 3 (8.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (16.22%) COBOL
1 6 (16.22%) JCL
2 2 (5.41%) Python
2 2 (5.41%) SQL
3 1 (2.70%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.70%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.70%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (5.41%) Degree
1 2 (5.41%) PMI Certification
1 2 (5.41%) PMP
2 1 (2.70%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) COBIT
2 1 (2.70%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.70%) ISO 22301
2 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.70%) NIST
2 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 4 (10.81%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.70%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (10.81%) SCCM
2 2 (5.41%) Ansible
2 2 (5.41%) Terraform
3 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (8.11%) Microsoft
1 3 (8.11%) ServiceNow
2 2 (5.41%) CheckPoint
2 2 (5.41%) Dell
2 2 (5.41%) Dynatrace
2 2 (5.41%) F5
2 2 (5.41%) HP
2 2 (5.41%) Oracle
3 1 (2.70%) Adobe
3 1 (2.70%) Databricks
3 1 (2.70%) ESRI
3 1 (2.70%) Google
3 1 (2.70%) NEC
3 1 (2.70%) SAP
3 1 (2.70%) Splunk
3 1 (2.70%) Veritas