Legal Contracts 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 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 84 74
Rank change year-on-year +13 -10 +37
Contract jobs citing Legal 36 16 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 2.36% 1.06% 1.58%
As % of the General category 3.73% 1.98% 2.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 12 30
10th Percentile £200 £405 £308
25th Percentile £375 £488 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £519 £613
Median % change year-on-year -13.25% -15.31% +32.43%
75th Percentile £561 £613 £697
90th Percentile £600 £650 £770
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £11.60 - -
Median hourly rate £11.64 - -
75th Percentile £11.68 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £26.14 £53.75 £22.01
% change year-on-year -51.37% +144.23% -18.49%

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 965 807 1,220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 63.24% 53.41% 60.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 598 452 788
10th Percentile £235 £313 £263
25th Percentile £366 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £500 £528
Median % change year-on-year -6.60% -5.21% +5.50%
75th Percentile £550 £584 £625
90th Percentile £638 £661 £700
England median daily rate £510 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -5.20% -2.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 58 27
10th Percentile £15.00 £12.15 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.48 £13.50 £13.84
Median hourly rate £22.14 £14.63 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.38% -23.03% +1.60%
75th Percentile £26.15 £24.87 £21.78
90th Percentile £81.25 £40.75 £30.85
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £27.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +38.62% +12.24%

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

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Legal in Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Legal in Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legal in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 18 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Legal in Yorkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Legal in Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend 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 18 August 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 -1 18 £450 -13.25% 67
South Yorkshire -8 8 £480 - 32
North Yorkshire +4 3 £575 - 14
East Yorkshire -6 1 £200 -69.23% 2
Legal
England

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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 (19.44%) CMS
2 6 (16.67%) CICS
3 1 (2.78%) Apache
3 1 (2.78%) Confluence
3 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) InVision
1 1 (2.78%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (16.67%) VisionPLUS
2 1 (2.78%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 4 (11.11%) Azure
2 2 (5.56%) Entra ID
3 1 (2.78%) Adobe Creative Cloud
3 1 (2.78%) AWS
3 1 (2.78%) Figma
3 1 (2.78%) GCP
3 1 (2.78%) Google Analytics
3 1 (2.78%) Google Data Studio
3 1 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.78%) OCI
3 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.78%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) Firewall
1 1 (2.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (2.78%) Geospatial Data
1 1 (2.78%) GIS
1 1 (2.78%) Power BI
1 1 (2.78%) Power Query
1 1 (2.78%) QlikView
1 1 (2.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 22 (61.11%) Social Skills
2 11 (30.56%) Finance
3 5 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.33%) Banking
4 3 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 3 (8.33%) Retail
5 2 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.56%) Law
5 2 (5.56%) Marketing
5 2 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (5.56%) Retail Banking
6 1 (2.78%) Back Office
6 1 (2.78%) Digital Health
6 1 (2.78%) Games
6 1 (2.78%) Local Government
6 1 (2.78%) Publishing
6 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (19.44%) Developer
2 4 (11.11%) Deployment Engineer
2 4 (11.11%) Support Officer
3 3 (8.33%) Senior
4 2 (5.56%) Consultant
4 2 (5.56%) Designer
4 2 (5.56%) IT Manager
4 2 (5.56%) Project Manager
4 2 (5.56%) Senior Manager
5 1 (2.78%) Contracts Manager
5 1 (2.78%) Information Governance Specialist
5 1 (2.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) Integration Manager
5 1 (2.78%) Junior
5 1 (2.78%) Procurement Manager
5 1 (2.78%) Procurement Specialist
5 1 (2.78%) Programme Manager
5 1 (2.78%) Security Specialist
5 1 (2.78%) Senior Project Manager
5 1 (2.78%) Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.67%) VSAM
2 4 (11.11%) Mainframe
3 2 (5.56%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.56%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.78%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.78%) CMDB
4 1 (2.78%) Learning Management System
4 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.78%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.89%) Windows
2 1 (2.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (30.56%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
2 8 (22.22%) Risk Management
3 7 (19.44%) DevOps
4 6 (16.67%) SDLC
4 6 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (13.89%) Customer Service
5 5 (13.89%) Data Protection
6 4 (11.11%) Agile
6 4 (11.11%) Service Delivery
7 3 (8.33%) Contract Management
7 3 (8.33%) Data Governance
7 3 (8.33%) Decision-Making
7 3 (8.33%) ITIL
7 3 (8.33%) Migration
7 3 (8.33%) Project Management
7 3 (8.33%) Requirements Gathering
7 3 (8.33%) User Experience
8 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 2 (5.56%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 6 (16.67%) COBOL
1 6 (16.67%) JCL
2 2 (5.56%) Python
2 2 (5.56%) SQL
3 1 (2.78%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.78%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (5.56%) Degree
1 2 (5.56%) PMI Certification
1 2 (5.56%) PMP
2 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.78%) COBIT
1 1 (2.78%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.78%) ISO 22301
1 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.78%) NIST
1 1 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 4 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.78%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (11.11%) SCCM
2 1 (2.78%) Ansible
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.56%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.78%) Adobe
3 1 (2.78%) CheckPoint
3 1 (2.78%) Databricks
3 1 (2.78%) Dell
3 1 (2.78%) Dynatrace
3 1 (2.78%) ESRI
3 1 (2.78%) F5
3 1 (2.78%) Google
3 1 (2.78%) HP
3 1 (2.78%) NEC
3 1 (2.78%) Oracle
3 1 (2.78%) SAP
3 1 (2.78%) Splunk
3 1 (2.78%) Veritas