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 12 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 77 85
Rank change year-on-year -18 +8 -8
Contract jobs citing Legal 64 37 19
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.23% 2.40% 1.26%
As % of the General category 4.19% 3.81% 2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 28 13
10th Percentile £374 £200 £404
25th Percentile £423 £369 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £450 £538
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -16.28% -10.42%
75th Percentile £600 £570 £600
90th Percentile £635 £611 £650
England median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 0
10th Percentile £26.78 - -
25th Percentile - £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 £24.00 £53.75
% change year-on-year +83.17% -55.35% +149.83%

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 1,528 972 811
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 53.31% 63.16% 53.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 976 620 453
10th Percentile £313 £235 £313
25th Percentile £406 £362 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £469 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.61% -6.20% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £588
90th Percentile £675 £633 £675
England median daily rate £525 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 36 44
10th Percentile £13.79 £14.43 £12.15
25th Percentile £16.62 £17.48 £14.06
Median hourly rate £24.00 £22.14 £18.64
Median % change year-on-year +8.40% +18.81% -1.92%
75th Percentile £36.61 £31.33 £35.00
90th Percentile £43.96 £81.25 £42.50
England median hourly rate £31.16 £25.15 £38.85
% change year-on-year +23.88% -35.26% +41.27%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 12 September 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 +3 48 £513 +13.89% 52
South Yorkshire -22 13 £513 +4.59% 15
North Yorkshire -8 3 £500 -13.04% 13
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 3 (4.69%) Confluence
2 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.56%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.56%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (1.56%) Maple
Cloud Services
1 8 (12.50%) OpenShift
2 6 (9.38%) Azure
3 5 (7.81%) AWS
3 5 (7.81%) Microsoft Copilot
4 4 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (4.69%) Azure AI
5 3 (4.69%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (3.13%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (3.13%) Copilot Studio
6 2 (3.13%) GitHub
6 2 (3.13%) GitHub Copilot
6 2 (3.13%) IaaS
6 2 (3.13%) PowerApps
6 2 (3.13%) SaaS
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.56%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.56%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (14.06%) SSL
2 8 (12.50%) Network Security
3 2 (3.13%) DNS
3 2 (3.13%) Firewall
4 1 (1.56%) BGP
4 1 (1.56%) Broadband
4 1 (1.56%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (1.56%) DMVPN
4 1 (1.56%) EIGRP
4 1 (1.56%) IPsec
4 1 (1.56%) LTE
4 1 (1.56%) MPLS
4 1 (1.56%) OSPF
4 1 (1.56%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.56%) VPN
4 1 (1.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.13%) DocumentDB
2 2 (3.13%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.56%) DTS
3 1 (1.56%) Metadata
3 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (7.81%) JIRA
2 4 (6.25%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (4.69%) GitLab
3 3 (4.69%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.13%) Flyway
4 2 (3.13%) Git
General
1 45 (70.31%) Finance
2 29 (45.31%) Social Skills
3 17 (26.56%) Banking
4 15 (23.44%) Organisational Skills
5 9 (14.06%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (9.38%) Law
7 3 (4.69%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (4.69%) Public Sector
8 2 (3.13%) Games
8 2 (3.13%) Social Science
9 1 (1.56%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (14.06%) Administrator
1 9 (14.06%) Analyst
2 6 (9.38%) Senior
3 5 (7.81%) Data Analyst
3 5 (7.81%) Linux Engineer
3 5 (7.81%) Senior Linux Engineer
4 3 (4.69%) Data Protection Analyst
4 3 (4.69%) DBA
4 3 (4.69%) HR Analyst
4 3 (4.69%) Lead
4 3 (4.69%) Project Manager
4 3 (4.69%) SQL DBA
5 2 (3.13%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
5 2 (3.13%) Database Engineer
5 2 (3.13%) Exchange Engineer
5 2 (3.13%) Security Analyst
5 2 (3.13%) SQL Server DBA
6 1 (1.56%) Delivery Manager
6 1 (1.56%) Network Manager
6 1 (1.56%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (14.06%) ISPF
1 9 (14.06%) Middleware
2 3 (4.69%) AWS CDK
3 2 (3.13%) CSS
3 2 (3.13%) HTML
4 1 (1.56%) Jakarta EE
4 1 (1.56%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 16 (25.00%) Mainframe
2 10 (15.63%) Podcast
2 10 (15.63%) Virtual Team
2 10 (15.63%) Web Conferencing
3 9 (14.06%) Clustering
4 2 (3.13%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.13%) Educational Technology
4 2 (3.13%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.13%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.13%) Robotics
4 2 (3.13%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.56%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.56%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 9 (14.06%) zOS
2 8 (12.50%) Linux
3 7 (10.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.13%) Android
4 2 (3.13%) Apple iOS
4 2 (3.13%) Windows
5 1 (1.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (26.56%) ITIL
2 15 (23.44%) Continuous Improvement
3 12 (18.75%) Customer Service
3 12 (18.75%) Data Protection
3 12 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (17.19%) Agile
4 11 (17.19%) Stakeholder Management
5 9 (14.06%) Change Management
5 9 (14.06%) Performance Optimisation
5 9 (14.06%) Runbook
6 8 (12.50%) Migration
7 7 (10.94%) AI
8 6 (9.38%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (9.38%) DevOps
8 6 (9.38%) Disaster Recovery
8 6 (9.38%) Risk Management
8 6 (9.38%) Vulnerability Remediation
9 5 (7.81%) Database Migration
9 5 (7.81%) High Availability
9 5 (7.81%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (17.19%) Python
2 6 (9.38%) Bash
3 4 (6.25%) PowerShell
4 3 (4.69%) Java
4 3 (4.69%) SQL
4 3 (4.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (15.63%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (3.13%) DBS Check
2 2 (3.13%) SC Cleared
2 2 (3.13%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.56%) APMP
3 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.56%) Degree
3 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.56%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.56%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 42001
2 3 (4.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.69%) NIST
3 2 (3.13%) GDPR
3 2 (3.13%) GRC
3 2 (3.13%) SLA
4 1 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.56%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.56%) PMO
System Software
1 9 (14.06%) RACF
1 9 (14.06%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (3.13%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (14.06%) OMEGAMON
2 5 (7.81%) Ansible
3 2 (3.13%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.56%) Foglight
Vendors
1 17 (26.56%) IBM
2 6 (9.38%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.25%) Black Duck
3 4 (6.25%) Foundry
4 3 (4.69%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.13%) Databricks
5 2 (3.13%) Facebook
6 1 (1.56%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.56%) BT
6 1 (1.56%) Cisco
6 1 (1.56%) Meraki
6 1 (1.56%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.56%) Oracle
6 1 (1.56%) Splunk