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

6 months to
16 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 72 90
Rank change year-on-year -15 +18 +2
Contract jobs citing Legal 58 17 13
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.31% 1.63% 0.78%
As % of the General category 4.25% 2.62% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 12 11
10th Percentile £400 £201 £325
25th Percentile £475 £218 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £465 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.54% -7.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £558 £545 £625
90th Percentile £600 £574 £650
England median daily rate £505 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +1.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £11.60 -
Median hourly rate £14.25 £11.64 -
Median % change year-on-year +22.42% - -
75th Percentile - £11.68 -
90th Percentile £15.29 - -
England median hourly rate £18.17 £22.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -19.24% -43.75% +71.60%

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 1,364 648 958
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 54.32% 62.31% 57.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 884 382 554
10th Percentile £305 £235 £200
25th Percentile £402 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.57% -7.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £565 £568 £575
90th Percentile £675 £638 £649
England median daily rate £513 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 24 82
10th Percentile £14.25 £11.60 -
25th Percentile £16.55 £16.44 £12.15
Median hourly rate £22.81 £18.53 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year +23.10% +26.70% -18.11%
75th Percentile £56.13 £22.14 £15.23
90th Percentile £68.75 £32.53 £25.83
England median hourly rate £30.75 £27.38 £30.16
% change year-on-year +12.33% -9.23% -7.20%

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 May 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
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 May 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 -2 28 £500 -4.76% 27
South Yorkshire -28 28 £550 +21.55% 4
North Yorkshire -4 2 £400 +0.63% 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 17 (29.31%) SharePoint
2 14 (24.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (5.17%) Confluence
4 2 (3.45%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 6 (10.34%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (8.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (8.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 23 (39.66%) Microsoft 365
2 17 (29.31%) Microsoft Purview
3 12 (20.69%) OneDrive
4 7 (12.07%) AWS
4 7 (12.07%) Azure
5 4 (6.90%) OpenShift
5 4 (6.90%) Power Platform
6 3 (5.17%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (5.17%) Azure Functions
6 3 (5.17%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (5.17%) Azure Storage
6 3 (5.17%) Entra ID
6 3 (5.17%) GCP
6 3 (5.17%) Serverless
7 2 (3.45%) Azure AI
7 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (3.45%) ShareGate
8 1 (1.72%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.72%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.45%) DKIM
1 2 (3.45%) DMARC
1 2 (3.45%) DNS
1 2 (3.45%) Intranet
1 2 (3.45%) Network Security
1 2 (3.45%) SMTP
2 1 (1.72%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.62%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.90%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (5.17%) DTS
3 3 (5.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (5.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (3.45%) Power BI
5 1 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.72%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (6.90%) Git
2 3 (5.17%) Flyway
2 3 (5.17%) GitLab
2 3 (5.17%) Jenkins
2 3 (5.17%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (3.45%) JIRA
General
1 20 (34.48%) Finance
2 19 (32.76%) Social Skills
3 9 (15.52%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (13.79%) Banking
5 4 (6.90%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (6.90%) Law
6 3 (5.17%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.45%) Social Science
8 1 (1.72%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (24.14%) Architect
1 14 (24.14%) Microsoft 365 Architect
2 7 (12.07%) Analyst
3 5 (8.62%) Knowledge Officer
4 4 (6.90%) DBA
4 4 (6.90%) Project Manager
4 4 (6.90%) SQL DBA
5 3 (5.17%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (5.17%) Lead
5 3 (5.17%) Product Owner
6 2 (3.45%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
6 2 (3.45%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 2 (3.45%) Business Change Specialist
6 2 (3.45%) Data Analyst
6 2 (3.45%) Data Protection Analyst
6 2 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (3.45%) HR Analyst
6 2 (3.45%) Security Analyst
6 2 (3.45%) Senior
7 1 (1.72%) Digital Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (20.69%) Microsoft Graph
2 3 (5.17%) ARM Templates
2 3 (5.17%) AWS CDK
3 1 (1.72%) ISPF
3 1 (1.72%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.52%) Onboarding
2 4 (6.90%) Mainframe
3 3 (5.17%) Data Centre
3 3 (5.17%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.45%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.45%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.72%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.72%) Clustering
5 1 (1.72%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.72%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (17.24%) Windows
2 3 (5.17%) Linux
2 3 (5.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.72%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (27.59%) Data Loss Prevention
1 16 (27.59%) E-Discovery
2 14 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (24.14%) Records Management
2 14 (24.14%) Stakeholder Management
3 13 (22.41%) Runbook
4 12 (20.69%) Agile
4 12 (20.69%) CI/CD
4 12 (20.69%) Information Governance
5 11 (18.97%) Case Management
6 10 (17.24%) Data Architecture
6 10 (17.24%) Internal Audit
7 9 (15.52%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (15.52%) Data Protection
7 9 (15.52%) Risk Management
8 8 (13.79%) Business Case
8 8 (13.79%) Incident Response
9 7 (12.07%) ITIL
9 7 (12.07%) Migration
10 6 (10.34%) AI
Programming Languages
1 16 (27.59%) PowerShell
2 9 (15.52%) Kusto Query Language
3 5 (8.62%) Python
3 5 (8.62%) SQL
4 4 (6.90%) Bash
5 3 (5.17%) Bicep
5 3 (5.17%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 3 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (5.17%) Degree
1 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (5.17%) SC Cleared
1 3 (5.17%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (1.72%) DV Cleared
2 1 (1.72%) PMI Certification
2 1 (1.72%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (27.59%) GDPR
2 12 (20.69%) FINRA
2 12 (20.69%) MiFID
3 4 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (5.17%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 2 (3.45%) GRC
5 2 (3.45%) NIST
5 2 (3.45%) PMO
6 1 (1.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (1.72%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.72%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (10.34%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.72%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.72%) Docker
2 1 (1.72%) RACF
Systems Management
1 3 (5.17%) Foglight
1 3 (5.17%) Terraform
2 1 (1.72%) Ansible
2 1 (1.72%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.72%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 27 (46.55%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.62%) IBM
3 4 (6.90%) Databricks
4 3 (5.17%) Alibaba
4 3 (5.17%) Black Duck
4 3 (5.17%) Foundry
4 3 (5.17%) Google
4 3 (5.17%) OpenAI
4 3 (5.17%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.72%) Canon
5 1 (1.72%) Dell
5 1 (1.72%) HP
5 1 (1.72%) Splunk
36 Legal jobs in Yorkshire