Legal Contracts in London

Legal
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legal in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legal over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 146 122 147
Rank change year-on-year -24 +25 +55
Contract jobs citing Legal 304 531 764
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.72% 2.11% 1.98%
As % of the General category 2.74% 3.33% 3.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 372 492
10th Percentile £222 £257 £325
25th Percentile £363 £417 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £541
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +0.46% +8.25%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £650
90th Percentile £771 £775 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 6 8
10th Percentile £11.95 £23.63 £17.89
25th Percentile £13.34 £28.88 £22.27
Median hourly rate £35.50 £46.75 £43.37
Median % change year-on-year -24.06% +7.79% +49.55%
75th Percentile £57.50 £60.38 £50.15
90th Percentile £63.50 £66.25 £56.65
England median hourly rate £40.00 £22.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year +77.78% -16.67% +40.26%

All General Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,086 15,941 23,470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 62.70% 63.38% 60.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,920 11,650 17,094
10th Percentile £335 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £580
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +3.45% +7.41%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £700
90th Percentile £825 £825 £800
England median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.96% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 239 201 275
10th Percentile £15.90 £16.13 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.24 £25.68
Median hourly rate £30.16 £30.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.53% -15.49% +22.41%
75th Percentile £48.13 £52.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £66.40 £70.00 £65.35
England median hourly rate £31.97 £30.65 £22.50
% change year-on-year +4.32% +36.21% +7.14%

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

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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 12 June 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 12 June 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 12 June 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 +20 65 £565 +7.62% 61
East London -2 5 £540 +34.50% 34
West London +9 4 £550 +12.82% 54
South London +3 1 - - 12
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 27 (8.88%) SharePoint
2 15 (4.93%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.32%) Confluence
4 3 (0.99%) CMS
5 2 (0.66%) Drupal
5 2 (0.66%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.33%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.33%) SAS
Applications
1 33 (10.86%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (2.30%) MS Visio
4 6 (1.97%) Simulink
4 6 (1.97%) Stateflow
5 5 (1.64%) Adobe Premiere
6 3 (0.99%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (0.99%) Adobe Illustrator
6 3 (0.99%) InDesign
6 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.99%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.66%) Adobe After Effects
7 2 (0.66%) FileZilla
8 1 (0.33%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.33%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 7 (2.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.32%) SAP GTS
2 4 (1.32%) SAP SD
3 2 (0.66%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.66%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.66%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.66%) Visualfiles
4 1 (0.33%) Aareon QL
4 1 (0.33%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.33%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.33%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.33%) OPENHousing
4 1 (0.33%) Relativity
4 1 (0.33%) SAP CX
4 1 (0.33%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.33%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.33%) Shopify
4 1 (0.33%) Veritas eDiscovery
4 1 (0.33%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.33%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 41 (13.49%) Microsoft 365
2 39 (12.83%) Azure
3 19 (6.25%) Power Platform
4 11 (3.62%) Microsoft Purview
4 11 (3.62%) SaaS
5 10 (3.29%) AWS
5 10 (3.29%) OneDrive
6 9 (2.96%) PowerApps
7 8 (2.63%) Entra ID
8 6 (1.97%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (1.97%) Figma
8 6 (1.97%) Google Workspace
8 6 (1.97%) IaaS
9 5 (1.64%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (1.32%) GCP
10 4 (1.32%) OCI
10 4 (1.32%) Power Automate
10 4 (1.32%) Tricentis Tosca
10 4 (1.32%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.97%) Internet
2 5 (1.64%) FTP
2 5 (1.64%) Intranet
3 4 (1.32%) DNS
4 3 (0.99%) H.323
4 3 (0.99%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.66%) Cisco IPT
5 2 (0.66%) DHCP
5 2 (0.66%) HTTP
5 2 (0.66%) LAN
5 2 (0.66%) Network Security
5 2 (0.66%) Skype
5 2 (0.66%) VPN
5 2 (0.66%) WAN
5 2 (0.66%) WinSCP
5 2 (0.66%) Wireless
6 1 (0.33%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.33%) SNMP
6 1 (0.33%) VoIP
6 1 (0.33%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.96%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.63%) Power BI
2 8 (2.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 6 (1.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 5 (1.64%) Data Lake
5 4 (1.32%) SAP HANA
6 3 (0.99%) EDRMS
6 3 (0.99%) Metadata
6 3 (0.99%) MySQL
6 3 (0.99%) Tableau
7 2 (0.66%) Big Data
7 2 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.66%) MS Access
8 1 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.33%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.33%) Bigtable
8 1 (0.33%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.33%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.33%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 7 (2.30%) JIRA
2 4 (1.32%) LoadRunner
2 4 (1.32%) NeoLoad
2 4 (1.32%) Visual Studio
3 3 (0.99%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.66%) GitLab
4 2 (0.66%) MLflow
4 2 (0.66%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.33%) Liquibase
General
1 108 (35.53%) Social Skills
2 95 (31.25%) Finance
3 41 (13.49%) Law
4 34 (11.18%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (9.21%) Marketing
6 20 (6.58%) Banking
7 17 (5.59%) Public Sector
8 15 (4.93%) Influencing Skills
9 14 (4.61%) Telecoms
10 12 (3.95%) Retail
11 10 (3.29%) Advertising
11 10 (3.29%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (2.30%) Automotive
13 7 (2.30%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (1.64%) Police
15 4 (1.32%) Billing
15 4 (1.32%) Investment Banking
16 3 (0.99%) Electronics
16 3 (0.99%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 42 (13.82%) Analyst
2 34 (11.18%) Project Manager
3 28 (9.21%) Senior
4 24 (7.89%) Architect
5 19 (6.25%) Consultant
6 16 (5.26%) Programme Manager
7 15 (4.93%) Lead
8 14 (4.61%) Delivery Manager
9 13 (4.28%) Business Analyst
9 13 (4.28%) Senior Manager
10 10 (3.29%) Administrator
10 10 (3.29%) Data Analyst
10 10 (3.29%) Test Manager
11 9 (2.96%) Transformation Manager
12 8 (2.63%) Business Manager
12 8 (2.63%) Desktop Support
13 7 (2.30%) Designer
13 7 (2.30%) Developer
13 7 (2.30%) Security Manager
14 6 (1.97%) Information Governance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.32%) OAuth
2 3 (0.99%) CSS
2 3 (0.99%) EDI
2 3 (0.99%) HTML5 Canvas
2 3 (0.99%) jQuery
2 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Graph
2 3 (0.99%) OpenID
2 3 (0.99%) SAML
3 2 (0.66%) PyTorch
3 2 (0.66%) TensorFlow
4 1 (0.33%) .NET
4 1 (0.33%) .NET Core
4 1 (0.33%) ADO
4 1 (0.33%) Apache Avro
4 1 (0.33%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (0.33%) Flask
4 1 (0.33%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.33%) Kafka
4 1 (0.33%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.33%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 22 (7.24%) Management Information System
2 10 (3.29%) Algorithms
2 10 (3.29%) Data Protection Act
2 10 (3.29%) Freedom of Information
3 7 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (1.97%) Security Posture
4 6 (1.97%) Video Conferencing
5 5 (1.64%) Blackberry
5 5 (1.64%) Photography
5 5 (1.64%) Virtual Team
6 4 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.32%) Freedom of Information Act
6 4 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.32%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.32%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.32%) Smartphone
6 4 (1.32%) Social Media
7 3 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (0.99%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.59%) Windows
2 10 (3.29%) Windows 10
3 4 (1.32%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (24.67%) Project Management
2 54 (17.76%) Agile
3 46 (15.13%) Stakeholder Management
4 39 (12.83%) Problem-Solving
5 33 (10.86%) Data Protection
6 32 (10.53%) Change Management
7 30 (9.87%) Analytics
8 28 (9.21%) Migration
8 28 (9.21%) Risk Management
9 26 (8.55%) Computer Science
10 24 (7.89%) ITIL
10 24 (7.89%) Roadmaps
11 20 (6.58%) PRINCE2
11 20 (6.58%) Project Delivery
12 19 (6.25%) DevOps
12 19 (6.25%) Programme Management
13 18 (5.92%) Cybersecurity
14 17 (5.59%) Customer Service
14 17 (5.59%) Test Automation
15 16 (5.26%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 15 (4.93%) PowerShell
2 12 (3.95%) Python
3 11 (3.62%) SQL
4 7 (2.30%) C#
5 6 (1.97%) MATLAB
5 6 (1.97%) T-SQL
6 3 (0.99%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.99%) R
7 2 (0.66%) Perl
8 1 (0.33%) ABAP
8 1 (0.33%) C++
8 1 (0.33%) Java
8 1 (0.33%) Ruby
8 1 (0.33%) U-SQL
Qualifications
1 49 (16.12%) Degree
2 15 (4.93%) Security Cleared
3 14 (4.61%) SC Cleared
4 13 (4.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.62%) ITIL Certification
6 8 (2.63%) PMP
7 7 (2.30%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.64%) PMI Certification
9 4 (1.32%) APMP
9 4 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.66%) CISSP
10 2 (0.66%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.66%) GCIA
10 2 (0.66%) GCIH
10 2 (0.66%) GIAC
10 2 (0.66%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.66%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 2 (0.66%) SANS
10 2 (0.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (8.22%) GDPR
2 21 (6.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (5.26%) QA
4 10 (3.29%) Data Quality
5 9 (2.96%) Accessibility
5 9 (2.96%) SLA
6 4 (1.32%) PMO
7 3 (0.99%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.66%) GRC
8 2 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.66%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.33%) COPPA
9 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.33%) NIST
9 1 (0.33%) P3O
9 1 (0.33%) Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
System Software
1 16 (5.26%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
1 8 (2.63%) PingFederate
2 3 (0.99%) Ansible
2 3 (0.99%) Terraform
3 2 (0.66%) CSIRT
3 2 (0.66%) Oracle Identity Management
4 1 (0.33%) Ambari
4 1 (0.33%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.33%) Oozie
4 1 (0.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 91 (29.93%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.59%) SAP
3 16 (5.26%) iManage
4 15 (4.93%) Oracle
5 8 (2.63%) Adobe
6 7 (2.30%) Cisco
6 7 (2.30%) Google
6 7 (2.30%) VMware
7 6 (1.97%) Cadence
7 6 (1.97%) Intapp
8 5 (1.64%) CA Agile Central
8 5 (1.64%) Citrix
9 4 (1.32%) BiZZdesign
9 4 (1.32%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.32%) Ping Identity
9 4 (1.32%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.99%) OneTrust
10 3 (0.99%) Symantec
10 3 (0.99%) Tandberg
10 3 (0.99%) Workday