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 16 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 76 88
Rank change year-on-year -11 +12 -7
Contract jobs citing Legal 66 25 16
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.32% 1.86% 0.95%
As % of the General category 4.34% 2.95% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 19 12
10th Percentile £400 £200 £400
25th Percentile £475 £285 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% -8.68%
75th Percentile £600 £572 £613
90th Percentile £648 £600 £650
England median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 0
10th Percentile £24.87 - -
25th Percentile £34.41 £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 £26.14 £40.00
% change year-on-year +68.17% -34.65% +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 1,522 847 943
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 53.53% 62.97% 55.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 948 522 524
10th Percentile £313 £254 £263
25th Percentile £406 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.50% -6.10% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £568 £575
90th Percentile £688 £638 £650
England median daily rate £525 £513 £530
% change year-on-year +2.44% -3.30% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 37 77
10th Percentile £16.55 £13.64 £12.15
25th Percentile £19.34 £17.33 £12.53
Median hourly rate £25.77 £22.14 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year +16.40% +51.38% -23.03%
75th Percentile £36.61 - £20.74
90th Percentile £46.25 £53.18 £40.00
England median hourly rate £34.00 £26.48 £33.75
% change year-on-year +28.42% -21.56% +10.51%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 16 July 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 +1 42 £525 +23.53% 23
South Yorkshire -20 21 £520 +11.72% 4
North Yorkshire -11 3 £500 -13.04% 1
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 6 (9.09%) SharePoint
2 5 (7.58%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (6.06%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.03%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (1.52%) Maple
2 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (15.15%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (13.64%) AWS
2 9 (13.64%) Microsoft Purview
3 8 (12.12%) OpenShift
4 7 (10.61%) Azure
5 5 (7.58%) OneDrive
6 4 (6.06%) Power Platform
7 3 (4.55%) Azure AI
7 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.03%) Azure Functions
8 2 (3.03%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (3.03%) Azure Storage
8 2 (3.03%) Copilot Studio
8 2 (3.03%) Entra ID
8 2 (3.03%) GCP
8 2 (3.03%) PowerApps
8 2 (3.03%) SaaS
8 2 (3.03%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (13.64%) SSL
2 7 (10.61%) Network Security
3 1 (1.52%) BGP
3 1 (1.52%) Broadband
3 1 (1.52%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (1.52%) DMVPN
3 1 (1.52%) EIGRP
3 1 (1.52%) IPsec
3 1 (1.52%) LTE
3 1 (1.52%) MPLS
3 1 (1.52%) OSPF
3 1 (1.52%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.52%) VPN
3 1 (1.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.55%) DTS
2 3 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (4.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (3.03%) DocumentDB
3 2 (3.03%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.52%) Metadata
4 1 (1.52%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (7.58%) GitLab
1 5 (7.58%) Jenkins
1 5 (7.58%) Sonatype Nexus
2 4 (6.06%) Flyway
2 4 (6.06%) Git
2 4 (6.06%) JIRA
General
1 42 (63.64%) Finance
2 26 (39.39%) Social Skills
3 17 (25.76%) Banking
4 9 (13.64%) Organisational Skills
5 8 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (9.09%) Law
7 3 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (4.55%) Public Sector
8 2 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (3.03%) Social Science
9 1 (1.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (13.64%) Administrator
1 9 (13.64%) Analyst
2 5 (7.58%) Architect
2 5 (7.58%) Data Analyst
2 5 (7.58%) DBA
2 5 (7.58%) Linux Engineer
2 5 (7.58%) Microsoft 365 Architect
2 5 (7.58%) Senior
2 5 (7.58%) Senior Linux Engineer
2 5 (7.58%) SQL DBA
3 4 (6.06%) Project Manager
4 3 (4.55%) Data Protection Analyst
4 3 (4.55%) HR Analyst
4 3 (4.55%) Lead
5 2 (3.03%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
5 2 (3.03%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (3.03%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (3.03%) Database Engineer
5 2 (3.03%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (3.03%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (13.64%) ISPF
1 9 (13.64%) Middleware
2 5 (7.58%) AWS CDK
3 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (3.03%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.52%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 16 (24.24%) Mainframe
2 9 (13.64%) Clustering
3 5 (7.58%) Podcast
3 5 (7.58%) Virtual Team
3 5 (7.58%) Web Conferencing
4 2 (3.03%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (3.03%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.03%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.03%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.52%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.52%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.52%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 9 (13.64%) zOS
2 7 (10.61%) Linux
2 7 (10.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (6.06%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (28.79%) ITIL
2 14 (21.21%) Data Protection
3 13 (19.70%) Continuous Improvement
4 12 (18.18%) Agile
5 10 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (15.15%) Runbook
5 10 (15.15%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (13.64%) Performance Optimisation
7 8 (12.12%) Change Management
7 8 (12.12%) Data Loss Prevention
7 8 (12.12%) Migration
8 7 (10.61%) CI/CD
8 7 (10.61%) Customer Service
8 7 (10.61%) Database Migration
8 7 (10.61%) E-Discovery
8 7 (10.61%) Records Management
8 7 (10.61%) Risk Management
9 6 (9.09%) AI
9 6 (9.09%) DevOps
9 6 (9.09%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 10 (15.15%) Python
2 7 (10.61%) Bash
2 7 (10.61%) PowerShell
3 5 (7.58%) SQL
3 5 (7.58%) TypeScript
4 2 (3.03%) Bicep
4 2 (3.03%) Java
4 2 (3.03%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 6 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (4.55%) Degree
2 3 (4.55%) SC Cleared
2 3 (4.55%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.52%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.52%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.52%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.64%) GDPR
2 5 (7.58%) FINRA
2 5 (7.58%) MiFID
3 4 (6.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (6.06%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 3 (4.55%) NIST
5 2 (3.03%) GRC
5 2 (3.03%) PMO
5 2 (3.03%) SLA
6 1 (1.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (1.52%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.52%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (13.64%) RACF
1 9 (13.64%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.52%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (13.64%) OMEGAMON
2 5 (7.58%) Ansible
3 3 (4.55%) Foglight
4 2 (3.03%) Terraform
5 1 (1.52%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (25.76%) IBM
2 14 (21.21%) Microsoft
3 5 (7.58%) Black Duck
4 4 (6.06%) Databricks
4 4 (6.06%) Foundry
4 4 (6.06%) ServiceNow
5 3 (4.55%) OpenAI
6 2 (3.03%) Alibaba
6 2 (3.03%) Facebook
6 2 (3.03%) Google
7 1 (1.52%) Cisco
7 1 (1.52%) Meraki
7 1 (1.52%) Splunk