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 4 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 82 83
Rank change year-on-year -22 +1 -6
Contract jobs citing Legal 58 40 19
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.02% 2.46% 1.29%
As % of the General category 3.65% 4.00% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 33 11
10th Percentile £356 £200 £380
25th Percentile £430 £350 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +14.22% -10.00% -15.37%
75th Percentile £600 £569 £522
90th Percentile £650 £630 £556
England median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 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 £25.00 £58.38
% change year-on-year +75.84% -57.17% +215.54%

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 1,588 1,000 787
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 55.22% 61.58% 53.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 998 655 431
10th Percentile £313 £235 £300
25th Percentile £410 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £576 £550 £580
90th Percentile £675 £645 £665
England median daily rate £525 £500 £530
% change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 32 32
10th Percentile £13.45 £15.00 £13.87
25th Percentile £16.62 £17.48 £15.04
Median hourly rate £22.81 £22.14 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +2.98% +13.16%
75th Percentile £35.00 £35.16 £40.00
90th Percentile £40.31 £81.25 £42.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £25.11 £36.08
% change year-on-year +15.76% -30.40% +22.31%

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 4 October 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 4 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 4 October 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 +5 43 £538 +19.44% 156
South Yorkshire -29 13 £513 +7.33% 43
North Yorkshire -10 2 - - 28
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 2 (3.45%) Confluence
1 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (3.45%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.72%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (1.72%) Maple
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (8.62%) OpenShift
2 4 (6.90%) AWS
2 4 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (5.17%) Azure
3 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Copilot
4 2 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (3.45%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 2 (3.45%) GitHub
4 2 (3.45%) GitHub Copilot
4 2 (3.45%) IaaS
4 2 (3.45%) SaaS
5 1 (1.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (1.72%) Azure AI
5 1 (1.72%) Copilot Studio
5 1 (1.72%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (1.72%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.72%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.72%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (15.52%) SSL
2 7 (12.07%) Network Security
3 2 (3.45%) DNS
3 2 (3.45%) Firewall
4 1 (1.72%) BGP
4 1 (1.72%) Broadband
4 1 (1.72%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (1.72%) DMVPN
4 1 (1.72%) EIGRP
4 1 (1.72%) IPsec
4 1 (1.72%) LTE
4 1 (1.72%) MPLS
4 1 (1.72%) OSPF
4 1 (1.72%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.72%) VPN
4 1 (1.72%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.17%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (5.17%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.45%) DocumentDB
2 2 (3.45%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (8.62%) JIRA
2 4 (6.90%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (3.45%) GitLab
3 2 (3.45%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.72%) Flyway
4 1 (1.72%) Git
General
1 40 (68.97%) Finance
2 26 (44.83%) Social Skills
3 16 (27.59%) Banking
4 15 (25.86%) Organisational Skills
5 9 (15.52%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (6.90%) Law
7 3 (5.17%) Public Sector
8 2 (3.45%) Games
8 2 (3.45%) Retail
9 1 (1.72%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.72%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 9 (15.52%) Administrator
2 6 (10.34%) Analyst
2 6 (10.34%) Senior
3 5 (8.62%) Data Analyst
3 5 (8.62%) Linux Engineer
3 5 (8.62%) Senior Linux Engineer
4 3 (5.17%) Data Protection Analyst
4 3 (5.17%) HR Analyst
4 3 (5.17%) Lead
5 2 (3.45%) Database Engineer
5 2 (3.45%) DBA
5 2 (3.45%) Exchange Engineer
5 2 (3.45%) Project Manager
5 2 (3.45%) SQL DBA
5 2 (3.45%) SQL Server DBA
6 1 (1.72%) Commercial Manager
6 1 (1.72%) Network Engineer
6 1 (1.72%) Programme Manager
6 1 (1.72%) Senior Manager
6 1 (1.72%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (17.24%) Middleware
2 9 (15.52%) ISPF
3 2 (3.45%) AWS CDK
3 2 (3.45%) CSS
3 2 (3.45%) HTML
4 1 (1.72%) Jakarta EE
4 1 (1.72%) PySpark
4 1 (1.72%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 15 (25.86%) Mainframe
2 10 (17.24%) Clustering
2 10 (17.24%) Podcast
2 10 (17.24%) Virtual Team
2 10 (17.24%) Web Conferencing
3 2 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.45%) Educational Technology
3 2 (3.45%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.45%) Robotics
4 1 (1.72%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.72%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.72%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.72%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (17.24%) zOS
2 6 (10.34%) Linux
3 5 (8.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.45%) Android
4 2 (3.45%) Apple iOS
4 2 (3.45%) Windows
5 1 (1.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (24.14%) Continuous Improvement
1 14 (24.14%) ITIL
2 12 (20.69%) Customer Service
3 11 (18.97%) Data Protection
4 9 (15.52%) Performance Optimisation
4 9 (15.52%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (13.79%) Agile
5 8 (13.79%) Change Management
5 8 (13.79%) Migration
5 8 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (13.79%) Runbook
6 5 (8.62%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (8.62%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (8.62%) Incident Management
6 5 (8.62%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 4 (6.90%) Database Migration
7 4 (6.90%) DevSecOps
7 4 (6.90%) Project Delivery
7 4 (6.90%) Regulatory Compliance
7 4 (6.90%) Software Licensing
Programming Languages
1 11 (18.97%) Python
2 6 (10.34%) Bash
3 4 (6.90%) PowerShell
4 3 (5.17%) Java
5 2 (3.45%) SQL
5 2 (3.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (17.24%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (3.45%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.72%) APMP
3 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.72%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.72%) PMP
3 1 (1.72%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.72%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.45%) GDPR
1 2 (3.45%) NIST
1 2 (3.45%) SLA
2 1 (1.72%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.72%) GRC
2 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 42001
2 1 (1.72%) PMO
System Software
1 9 (15.52%) RACF
2 7 (12.07%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (3.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (15.52%) OMEGAMON
2 5 (8.62%) Ansible
3 1 (1.72%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (25.86%) IBM
2 5 (8.62%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.90%) Black Duck
4 2 (3.45%) Facebook
4 2 (3.45%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.72%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.72%) BT
5 1 (1.72%) Cisco
5 1 (1.72%) Databricks
5 1 (1.72%) Foundry
5 1 (1.72%) Meraki
5 1 (1.72%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.72%) Oracle
5 1 (1.72%) Splunk