Legal Contracts in London

Legal
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legal in contract job vacancies advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Legal over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 129 138
Rank change year-on-year -2 +9 +81
Contract jobs citing Legal 326 523 774
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.87% 2.02% 2.01%
As % of the General category 2.96% 3.19% 3.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 360 491
10th Percentile £208 £225 £350
25th Percentile £363 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £650
90th Percentile £775 £788 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +4.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 5 4
10th Percentile £11.95 £30.60 £26.74
25th Percentile £12.64 £37.50 £36.71
Median hourly rate £30.75 £47.50 £46.75
Median % change year-on-year -35.26% +1.60% +61.21%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £50.15
90th Percentile £64.25 £67.00 £50.43
England median hourly rate £40.00 £23.31 £36.94
% change year-on-year +71.60% -36.89% +84.69%

All General Skills
London

Legal is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,014 16,388 23,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 63.10% 63.33% 60.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,866 11,862 16,811
10th Percentile £336 £375 £381
25th Percentile £450 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £700
90th Percentile £825 £825 £800
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 212 294
10th Percentile £15.60 £16.40 £19.22
25th Percentile £18.13 £21.18 £25.68
Median hourly rate £28.00 £31.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% -17.33% +31.88%
75th Percentile £44.75 £55.20 £50.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £30.16 £32.30 £21.50
% change year-on-year -6.63% +50.23% -4.10%

Legal
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Legal as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Legal in London

Legal
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Legal in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legal in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Legal in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Legal in London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Legal in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Legal in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Legal within the London region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
Central London +23 71 £565 +7.62% 59
West London +11 5 £563 +15.38% 42
East London -1 5 £540 - 35
South London +2 1 - - 14
Legal
England

Legal
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 26 (7.98%) SharePoint
2 18 (5.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.84%) CMS
4 4 (1.23%) Confluence
4 4 (1.23%) Skype for Business
5 2 (0.61%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.61%) Drupal
6 1 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.31%) SAS
Applications
1 40 (12.27%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (7.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (5.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.84%) Simulink
4 6 (1.84%) Stateflow
5 5 (1.53%) Adobe Premiere
5 5 (1.53%) MS Visio
6 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.92%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (0.92%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.92%) InDesign
7 3 (0.92%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.61%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.61%) FileZilla
9 1 (0.31%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.31%) Sketch
9 1 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.92%) SAP GTS
2 3 (0.92%) SAP SD
2 3 (0.92%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.61%) Visualfiles
4 1 (0.31%) Aareon QL
4 1 (0.31%) Carpe Diem
4 1 (0.31%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.31%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.31%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.31%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.31%) OPENHousing
4 1 (0.31%) Relativity
4 1 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.31%) SAP CX
4 1 (0.31%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.31%) Shopify
4 1 (0.31%) Veritas eDiscovery
4 1 (0.31%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 47 (14.42%) Microsoft 365
2 34 (10.43%) Azure
3 21 (6.44%) Power Platform
4 11 (3.37%) Microsoft Purview
5 10 (3.07%) OneDrive
5 10 (3.07%) SaaS
5 10 (3.07%) WhatsApp
6 9 (2.76%) PowerApps
7 8 (2.45%) AWS
8 7 (2.15%) Google Workspace
8 7 (2.15%) IaaS
9 6 (1.84%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (1.84%) Entra ID
9 6 (1.84%) Figma
10 4 (1.23%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (1.23%) GCP
10 4 (1.23%) PaaS
10 4 (1.23%) Power Automate
10 4 (1.23%) Tricentis Tosca
11 3 (0.92%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.84%) Internet
2 5 (1.53%) Intranet
2 5 (1.53%) Skype
3 4 (1.23%) FTP
3 4 (1.23%) VPN
4 3 (0.92%) DNS
4 3 (0.92%) H.323
4 3 (0.92%) Network Security
5 2 (0.61%) Firewall
5 2 (0.61%) LAN
5 2 (0.61%) WAN
5 2 (0.61%) WinSCP
5 2 (0.61%) Wireless
6 1 (0.31%) DHCP
6 1 (0.31%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.31%) SNMP
6 1 (0.31%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.31%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.31%) VoIP
6 1 (0.31%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.07%) Power BI
2 9 (2.76%) SQL Server
3 8 (2.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 6 (1.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (1.23%) Data Lake
5 4 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.23%) SAP HANA
5 4 (1.23%) Tableau
6 3 (0.92%) Big Data
6 3 (0.92%) EDRMS
6 3 (0.92%) Metadata
6 3 (0.92%) MySQL
7 2 (0.61%) Apache Hive
7 2 (0.61%) Bigtable
7 2 (0.61%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.61%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.61%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.61%) MS Access
7 2 (0.61%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.61%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 7 (2.15%) JIRA
2 4 (1.23%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.23%) LoadRunner
2 4 (1.23%) NeoLoad
2 4 (1.23%) Visual Studio
3 2 (0.61%) GitLab
3 2 (0.61%) Liquibase
3 2 (0.61%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 112 (34.36%) Social Skills
2 105 (32.21%) Finance
3 52 (15.95%) Law
4 37 (11.35%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (9.51%) Marketing
6 23 (7.06%) Banking
7 18 (5.52%) Telecoms
8 17 (5.21%) Public Sector
9 15 (4.60%) Organisational Skills
10 14 (4.29%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (3.37%) Retail
12 10 (3.07%) Advertising
13 8 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (2.15%) Automotive
15 6 (1.84%) Pharmaceutical
16 5 (1.53%) Billing
16 5 (1.53%) Local Government
16 5 (1.53%) Police
17 4 (1.23%) French Language
17 4 (1.23%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 47 (14.42%) Analyst
2 45 (13.80%) Project Manager
3 30 (9.20%) Senior
4 25 (7.67%) Architect
5 19 (5.83%) Lead
6 16 (4.91%) Consultant
7 15 (4.60%) Business Analyst
7 15 (4.60%) Programme Manager
8 14 (4.29%) Delivery Manager
8 14 (4.29%) Senior Manager
9 10 (3.07%) Data Analyst
9 10 (3.07%) Support Engineer
10 9 (2.76%) Administrator
10 9 (2.76%) Test Manager
10 9 (2.76%) Transformation Manager
11 8 (2.45%) Business Manager
11 8 (2.45%) Desktop Support
11 8 (2.45%) Enterprise Architect
11 8 (2.45%) Legal Analyst
11 8 (2.45%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (0.92%) CSS
1 3 (0.92%) EDI
1 3 (0.92%) HTML5 Canvas
1 3 (0.92%) jQuery
1 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Graph
2 2 (0.61%) Apache Avro
2 2 (0.61%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (0.61%) Kafka
2 2 (0.61%) OAuth
3 1 (0.31%) .NET
3 1 (0.31%) .NET Core
3 1 (0.31%) LDAP
3 1 (0.31%) OAuth2
3 1 (0.31%) OpenID
3 1 (0.31%) React
3 1 (0.31%) REST
3 1 (0.31%) RESTful
3 1 (0.31%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.31%) SAML
3 1 (0.31%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.06%) Management Information System
2 13 (3.99%) Data Protection Act
3 10 (3.07%) Freedom of Information
3 10 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (2.45%) Algorithms
5 7 (2.15%) Blackberry
6 6 (1.84%) Photography
6 6 (1.84%) Security Posture
6 6 (1.84%) Video Conferencing
6 6 (1.84%) Virtual Team
7 5 (1.53%) Smartphone
8 4 (1.23%) Freedom of Information Act
8 4 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.23%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.23%) Social Media
9 3 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.92%) Reinsurance
10 2 (0.61%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 23 (7.06%) Windows
2 14 (4.29%) Windows 10
3 5 (1.53%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.92%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.31%) Android
5 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.31%) Linux
5 1 (0.31%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.31%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (22.09%) Project Management
2 51 (15.64%) Stakeholder Management
3 50 (15.34%) Agile
4 41 (12.58%) Data Protection
5 40 (12.27%) Problem-Solving
6 35 (10.74%) Change Management
7 29 (8.90%) Analytics
8 27 (8.28%) ITIL
8 27 (8.28%) Risk Management
9 24 (7.36%) Migration
10 22 (6.75%) Customer Service
11 21 (6.44%) PRINCE2
12 20 (6.13%) Computer Science
12 20 (6.13%) Project Delivery
13 19 (5.83%) Programme Management
13 19 (5.83%) Roadmaps
14 18 (5.52%) Artificial Intelligence
14 18 (5.52%) DevOps
15 17 (5.21%) Cybersecurity
15 17 (5.21%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (4.60%) PowerShell
2 13 (3.99%) SQL
3 7 (2.15%) C#
4 6 (1.84%) MATLAB
4 6 (1.84%) Python
4 6 (1.84%) T-SQL
5 3 (0.92%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.61%) Java
6 2 (0.61%) U-SQL
7 1 (0.31%) C++
7 1 (0.31%) R
7 1 (0.31%) Ruby
7 1 (0.31%) Scala
Qualifications
1 48 (14.72%) Degree
2 19 (5.83%) Security Cleared
3 18 (5.52%) SC Cleared
4 12 (3.68%) ITIL Certification
5 11 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.15%) PMI Certification
6 7 (2.15%) PMP
7 5 (1.53%) APMP
8 4 (1.23%) CISSP
8 4 (1.23%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.61%) CCIE
10 2 (0.61%) CCNP
10 2 (0.61%) CCSP
10 2 (0.61%) CIPD
10 2 (0.61%) CISM
11 1 (0.31%) CEH
11 1 (0.31%) CITP
11 1 (0.31%) GCFA
11 1 (0.31%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (9.82%) GDPR
2 24 (7.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (4.91%) QA
4 11 (3.37%) Accessibility
5 10 (3.07%) Data Quality
5 10 (3.07%) SLA
6 4 (1.23%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.23%) PMO
7 2 (0.61%) GRC
8 1 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.31%) COPPA
8 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.31%) NCSC
8 1 (0.31%) NIST
8 1 (0.31%) P3O
8 1 (0.31%) Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
System Software
1 21 (6.44%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.31%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.31%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (2.45%) PingFederate
2 6 (1.84%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (1.23%) Ansible
4 3 (0.92%) Terraform
5 2 (0.61%) Ambari
5 2 (0.61%) Oozie
5 2 (0.61%) SCCM
6 1 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 97 (29.75%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.21%) iManage
3 16 (4.91%) SAP
4 11 (3.37%) Google
5 10 (3.07%) Oracle
6 8 (2.45%) Adobe
6 8 (2.45%) Citrix
7 7 (2.15%) Intapp
8 6 (1.84%) Cadence
8 6 (1.84%) Cisco
9 5 (1.53%) BiZZdesign
9 5 (1.53%) CA Agile Central
9 5 (1.53%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.53%) VMware
10 4 (1.23%) Becrypt
10 4 (1.23%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.23%) Ping Identity
10 4 (1.23%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.92%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.92%) Symantec