Legal Contracts with Work from Home Options

Legal
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legal in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). 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 131 151 146
Rank change year-on-year +20 -5 +67
Contract jobs citing Legal 249 415 796
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.68% 1.68% 1.81%
As % of the General category 2.86% 2.88% 3.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 292 524
10th Percentile £337 £276 £319
25th Percentile £450 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% +2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £623 £626 £623
90th Percentile £675 £750 £749
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 18 9
10th Percentile £19.43 - £12.10
25th Percentile £25.50 £22.16 £20.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £50.00 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +26.58% +113.51%
75th Percentile £57.50 £70.65 £50.61
90th Percentile £59.10 £75.00 £64.00
UK median hourly rate £26.33 £23.31 £32.19
% change year-on-year +12.96% -27.58% +67.21%

All General Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,717 14,425 23,975
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 58.90% 58.53% 54.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,734 10,165 17,422
10th Percentile £330 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £638
90th Percentile £775 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 457 325 343
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.85 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.50 £25.95 £19.50
Median hourly rate £38.12 £50.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.76% +42.86% +51.48%
75th Percentile £52.50 £67.50 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.25 £65.54
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.60 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.96% +44.87% -

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Legal as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Legal trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Legal.

Legal daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Legal over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Legal daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Legal.

Legal hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Legal over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Legal hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 12 (4.82%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.61%) Apache Solr
2 4 (1.61%) nginx
3 2 (0.80%) CMS
4 1 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.40%) Confluence
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 28 (11.24%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (7.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (7.63%) Simulink
2 19 (7.63%) Stateflow
3 18 (7.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.80%) Acrobat
4 2 (0.80%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.61%) Elite 3E
2 4 (1.61%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.40%) Carpe Diem
3 1 (0.40%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.40%) Relativity
3 1 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.40%) SAP GTS
3 1 (0.40%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.40%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 22 (8.84%) SaaS
2 19 (7.63%) Azure
3 13 (5.22%) Google Workspace
3 13 (5.22%) IaaS
3 13 (5.22%) PaaS
3 13 (5.22%) Power Platform
4 11 (4.42%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (2.41%) OneDrive
5 6 (2.41%) PowerApps
6 5 (2.01%) GCP
6 5 (2.01%) Smartsheet
6 5 (2.01%) SuccessFactors
6 5 (2.01%) WhatsApp
7 4 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (1.61%) Power Automate
8 3 (1.20%) AWS
8 3 (1.20%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.20%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.20%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.01%) DNS
1 5 (2.01%) Internet
1 5 (2.01%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.61%) HTTPS
2 4 (1.61%) IPsec
3 2 (0.80%) Intranet
3 2 (0.80%) VPN
3 2 (0.80%) Wireless
4 1 (0.40%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (0.40%) Cisco IPT
4 1 (0.40%) Firewall
4 1 (0.40%) HTTP
4 1 (0.40%) LAN
4 1 (0.40%) Network Security
4 1 (0.40%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.40%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.02%) Power BI
2 9 (3.61%) Metadata
3 5 (2.01%) MySQL
3 5 (2.01%) NoSQL
3 5 (2.01%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.61%) Couchbase
5 3 (1.20%) EDRMS
5 3 (1.20%) Tableau
6 2 (0.80%) Big Data
6 2 (0.80%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.40%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.40%) Looker
7 1 (0.40%) PowerPivot
7 1 (0.40%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.40%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.40%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.40%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (0.80%) JIRA
2 1 (0.40%) Git
2 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio
General
1 80 (32.13%) Social Skills
2 48 (19.28%) Finance
3 41 (16.47%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (10.84%) Law
5 24 (9.64%) Automotive
6 17 (6.83%) Influencing Skills
7 16 (6.43%) Retail
8 13 (5.22%) Telecoms
9 12 (4.82%) Public Sector
10 9 (3.61%) Marketing
11 7 (2.81%) Banking
11 7 (2.81%) Manufacturing
12 6 (2.41%) German Language
12 6 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (2.01%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (1.61%) Local Government
15 3 (1.20%) Advertising
15 3 (1.20%) Italian Language
15 3 (1.20%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 32 (12.85%) Project Manager
2 28 (11.24%) Analyst
3 22 (8.84%) Senior
4 19 (7.63%) Software Engineer
5 14 (5.62%) IT Manager
6 12 (4.82%) Lead
7 11 (4.42%) Senior Manager
8 10 (4.02%) Architect
8 10 (4.02%) Business Analyst
9 9 (3.61%) Data Analyst
10 8 (3.21%) Consultant
10 8 (3.21%) Delivery Manager
10 8 (3.21%) HR Manager
11 7 (2.81%) Security Manager
11 7 (2.81%) Transformation Manager
12 6 (2.41%) Project Delivery Manager
12 6 (2.41%) Service Design Manager
13 5 (2.01%) Category Manager
13 5 (2.01%) Compliance Officer
13 5 (2.01%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.61%) JSON
1 4 (1.61%) LEMP Stack
1 4 (1.61%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (1.61%) YAML
2 3 (1.20%) .NET
3 2 (0.80%) REST
4 1 (0.40%) BAPI
4 1 (0.40%) Kafka
4 1 (0.40%) LDAP
4 1 (0.40%) PySpark
4 1 (0.40%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.40%) SAP ALE
4 1 (0.40%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 20 (8.03%) Virtual Team
2 19 (7.63%) Algorithms
2 19 (7.63%) Management Information System
2 19 (7.63%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (2.41%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (1.61%) Cloud Native
4 4 (1.61%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.20%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.20%) Life Science
5 3 (1.20%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.20%) Replication
6 2 (0.80%) Industry 4.0
6 2 (0.80%) IoT
6 2 (0.80%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.40%) Housing Association
7 1 (0.40%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.40%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.40%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.42%) Windows
2 5 (2.01%) Linux
3 4 (1.61%) CentOS
4 3 (1.20%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.80%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.40%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (18.88%) Agile
1 47 (18.88%) Project Management
2 37 (14.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 35 (14.06%) Problem-Solving
3 35 (14.06%) Stakeholder Management
4 31 (12.45%) Computer Science
5 27 (10.84%) Data Protection
6 25 (10.04%) Validation
7 23 (9.24%) Cybersecurity
8 21 (8.43%) Test Automation
9 20 (8.03%) Analytics
10 19 (7.63%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
10 19 (7.63%) Migration
10 19 (7.63%) Software Engineering
10 19 (7.63%) Verification and Validation
11 18 (7.23%) Information Management
12 17 (6.83%) Information Security
13 16 (6.43%) Risk Management
13 16 (6.43%) Scrum
14 15 (6.02%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 19 (7.63%) MATLAB
2 15 (6.02%) SQL
3 5 (2.01%) Python
4 4 (1.61%) C#
4 4 (1.61%) PHP
5 2 (0.80%) C++
5 2 (0.80%) Java
6 1 (0.40%) ABAP
6 1 (0.40%) Bash
6 1 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.40%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.40%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.40%) Ruby
6 1 (0.40%) Scala
6 1 (0.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 53 (21.29%) Degree
2 17 (6.83%) PMI Certification
2 17 (6.83%) Security Cleared
3 16 (6.43%) PMP
3 16 (6.43%) SC Cleared
4 13 (5.22%) APMP
5 6 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.41%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.61%) CCIE
6 4 (1.61%) CIPD
6 4 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.61%) CISSP
7 3 (1.20%) CCNP
7 3 (1.20%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.20%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 2 (0.80%) CCIE Security
8 2 (0.80%) CCIE Service Provider
8 2 (0.80%) CCNA
8 2 (0.80%) CSSLP
8 2 (0.80%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (15.26%) GDPR
2 15 (6.02%) QA
3 14 (5.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (5.22%) Data Quality
5 6 (2.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 5 (2.01%) NIST
7 4 (1.61%) HIPAA
8 3 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.80%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.80%) PMO
10 1 (0.40%) COPPA
10 1 (0.40%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.40%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.40%) Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
System Software
1 5 (2.01%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (1.61%) Ansible
1 4 (1.61%) Kubernetes
1 4 (1.61%) Terraform
2 2 (0.80%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.40%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 43 (17.27%) Microsoft
2 27 (10.84%) Oracle
3 19 (7.63%) Google
4 15 (6.02%) SAP
5 14 (5.62%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.41%) Intapp
7 5 (2.01%) iManage
8 4 (1.61%) Cisco
9 3 (1.20%) Adobe
9 3 (1.20%) Workday
10 2 (0.80%) Aderant
10 2 (0.80%) Ariba
10 2 (0.80%) Databricks
10 2 (0.80%) HP
10 2 (0.80%) Remedy
10 2 (0.80%) Splunk
10 2 (0.80%) VMware
11 1 (0.40%) Apple
11 1 (0.40%) BT
11 1 (0.40%) MicroStrategy