Law Contracts in England

Law
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Law in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Law over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 236 154 204
Rank change year-on-year -82 +50 +29
Contract jobs citing Law 367 780 1,001
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.99% 1.66% 1.42%
As % of the General category 1.72% 2.80% 2.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 553 688
10th Percentile £263 £220 £300
25th Percentile £413 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - +23.53%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £650
90th Percentile £814 £758 £731
UK median daily rate £535 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +1.90% - +23.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 28 24
10th Percentile £10.42 £12.00 £10.73
25th Percentile £11.93 £16.44 £14.63
Median hourly rate £13.00 £21.25 £17.25
Median % change year-on-year -38.82% +23.19% -60.12%
75th Percentile £27.96 £57.19 £28.44
90th Percentile £32.50 £64.50 £46.35
UK median hourly rate £16.64 £21.25 £17.50
% change year-on-year -21.68% +21.43% -58.82%

All General Skills
England

Law 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 England with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21,317 27,822 40,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 57.31% 59.11% 57.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,647 19,590 28,455
10th Percentile £281 £313 £325
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £798 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,826 910 1,290
10th Percentile £12.88 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.50 £15.00
Median hourly rate £31.50 £30.65 £21.99
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% +39.40% +4.44%
75th Percentile £52.50 £60.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £67.50 £70.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £30.12 £32.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.88% +42.22% +6.89%

Law
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Law as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Law in England

Law
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Law in England.

Daily rate trend for Law in England

Law
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Law in England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Law in England

Law
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Law in England.

Hourly rate trend for Law in England

Law
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Law in England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Law in England

Law
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Law within the England region over the 6 months to 9 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
London -81 170 £525 - 449
Midlands +11 73 £600 +9.09% 98
West Midlands +5 67 £600 +4.35% 58
South East -22 58 £600 +42.86% 88
North of England -37 31 £401 -19.88% 157
South West -24 18 £525 -19.23% 57
North West -15 17 £475 +5.56% 89
East of England -4 15 £350 +37.80% 34
Yorkshire -4 13 £190 -62.00% 52
East Midlands +6 6 £500 +51.52% 40
North East -8 1 £283 -51.29% 16
Law
UK

Law
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (3.27%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.54%) Confluence
4 1 (0.27%) CMS
4 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 18 (4.90%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (4.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.36%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (1.36%) Simulink
4 3 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.54%) Stateflow
6 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.27%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 6 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.82%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (0.82%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.54%) Elite 3E
3 2 (0.54%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.54%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.54%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.27%) Aareon QL
4 1 (0.27%) Exstream
4 1 (0.27%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.27%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.27%) OPENHousing
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.27%) SAP LE
4 1 (0.27%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 55 (14.99%) Azure
2 29 (7.90%) AWS
3 23 (6.27%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (3.54%) Power Platform
5 12 (3.27%) OCI
6 7 (1.91%) Cloud Computing
6 7 (1.91%) IaaS
7 6 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (1.36%) Azure Service Bus
8 5 (1.36%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (1.36%) PaaS
8 5 (1.36%) SaaS
8 5 (1.36%) Tricentis Tosca
9 3 (0.82%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (0.82%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (0.82%) Entra ID
9 3 (0.82%) GCP
9 3 (0.82%) Google Docs
9 3 (0.82%) Google Sheets
9 3 (0.82%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.91%) Internet
1 7 (1.91%) Intranet
2 6 (1.63%) 5G
3 4 (1.09%) Firewall
4 2 (0.54%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (0.54%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (0.54%) LAN
4 2 (0.54%) Network Security
4 2 (0.54%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.54%) VPN
4 2 (0.54%) WAN
4 2 (0.54%) Wireless
5 1 (0.27%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.27%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (0.27%) DHCP
5 1 (0.27%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.72%) Power BI
2 6 (1.63%) Metadata
3 4 (1.09%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (0.82%) NoSQL
4 3 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.54%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.54%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.54%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.54%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.27%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.27%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.27%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.27%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (0.27%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 25 (6.81%) Jenkins
2 22 (5.99%) Selenium
3 20 (5.45%) Cucumber
4 19 (5.18%) REST Assured
4 19 (5.18%) SonarQube
5 18 (4.90%) JIRA
6 13 (3.54%) GitLab
7 5 (1.36%) LoadRunner
7 5 (1.36%) NeoLoad
8 4 (1.09%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.82%) Rational DOORS
10 2 (0.54%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.54%) Git
10 2 (0.54%) Rational Team Concert
10 2 (0.54%) webpack
11 1 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.27%) GoogleTest
11 1 (0.27%) Rational Rhapsody
11 1 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.27%) TeamCity
General
1 118 (32.15%) Social Skills
2 86 (23.43%) Finance
3 76 (20.71%) Legal
4 37 (10.08%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (7.63%) Police
6 21 (5.72%) Public Sector
7 18 (4.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (4.90%) Marketing
8 16 (4.36%) Presentation Skills
9 12 (3.27%) Telecoms
10 9 (2.45%) Local Government
11 6 (1.63%) Front Office
12 4 (1.09%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.82%) Advertising
13 3 (0.82%) Automotive
13 3 (0.82%) Banking
13 3 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.82%) Retail
14 2 (0.54%) Digital Economy
14 2 (0.54%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 32 (8.72%) Analyst
2 30 (8.17%) Consultant
3 29 (7.90%) Developer
4 23 (6.27%) Project Manager
4 23 (6.27%) Senior
5 19 (5.18%) Architect
6 17 (4.63%) IT Manager
6 17 (4.63%) Java Engineer
7 15 (4.09%) Commercial Manager
7 15 (4.09%) Lead
8 14 (3.81%) Programme Manager
9 13 (3.54%) Software Engineer
10 12 (3.27%) Administrator
10 12 (3.27%) DevOps Engineer
11 11 (3.00%) IT Support
12 10 (2.72%) PMO Analyst
13 9 (2.45%) AWS Engineer
13 9 (2.45%) IT Consultant
13 9 (2.45%) Security Manager
13 9 (2.45%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (6.54%) REST
2 20 (5.45%) Java EE
3 12 (3.27%) .NET
4 11 (3.00%) ARM Templates
5 7 (1.91%) Node.js
6 6 (1.63%) React
7 5 (1.36%) Oracle Fusion
7 5 (1.36%) Spring
7 5 (1.36%) Spring Boot
8 4 (1.09%) HTML
9 3 (0.82%) RESTful
10 2 (0.54%) AngularJS
10 2 (0.54%) CSS
10 2 (0.54%) JSON
10 2 (0.54%) Middleware
10 2 (0.54%) NumPy
10 2 (0.54%) OAuth
10 2 (0.54%) OpenID
10 2 (0.54%) Pandas
10 2 (0.54%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (7.63%) Data Centre
2 15 (4.09%) Management Information System
3 13 (3.54%) Greenfield Project
4 11 (3.00%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.09%) Freedom of Information
6 4 (1.09%) Freedom of Information Act
6 4 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.09%) Video Conferencing
7 3 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (0.82%) FMCG
7 3 (0.82%) Housing Association
7 3 (0.82%) PMI
7 3 (0.82%) Public Cloud
7 3 (0.82%) Smartphone
8 2 (0.54%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.54%) Hedge funds
8 2 (0.54%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.99%) Windows
2 11 (3.00%) Windows 10
3 5 (1.36%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.09%) Linux
5 3 (0.82%) Unix
6 2 (0.54%) Android
6 2 (0.54%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.27%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.27%) Windows Phone
7 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (17.44%) Stakeholder Management
2 58 (15.80%) Problem-Solving
3 45 (12.26%) DevOps
4 43 (11.72%) Project Management
5 41 (11.17%) Agile
6 31 (8.45%) Test Automation
7 30 (8.17%) Migration
7 30 (8.17%) Software Engineering
8 28 (7.63%) Customer Service
9 27 (7.36%) Decision-Making
10 25 (6.81%) CI/CD
11 22 (5.99%) Continuous Integration
11 22 (5.99%) Information Security
12 21 (5.72%) Technical Leadership
13 20 (5.45%) Mentoring
13 20 (5.45%) Software Architecture
14 17 (4.63%) Cost Reduction
14 17 (4.63%) ITIL
14 17 (4.63%) Roadmaps
15 16 (4.36%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 31 (8.45%) Java
2 14 (3.81%) SQL
3 11 (3.00%) C#
4 9 (2.45%) Python
5 8 (2.18%) JavaScript
6 7 (1.91%) TypeScript
7 6 (1.63%) C
7 6 (1.63%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.09%) Bash
8 4 (1.09%) C++
8 4 (1.09%) MATLAB
9 2 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.54%) Fortran
10 1 (0.27%) Ada
10 1 (0.27%) Embedded C
10 1 (0.27%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.27%) R
10 1 (0.27%) SystemVerilog
10 1 (0.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 67 (18.26%) Security Cleared
2 64 (17.44%) SC Cleared
3 34 (9.26%) Degree
4 7 (1.91%) DV Cleared
5 6 (1.63%) ISEB
5 6 (1.63%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.36%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.09%) ACCA
8 3 (0.82%) PMP
9 2 (0.54%) CCNP
9 2 (0.54%) CCSA
9 2 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.54%) JNCIA
9 2 (0.54%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 1 (0.27%) CIPD
10 1 (0.27%) CISSP
10 1 (0.27%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.27%) NVQ Level 4
10 1 (0.27%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (7.08%) GDPR
2 19 (5.18%) PMO
3 10 (2.72%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.72%) QA
4 5 (1.36%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.09%) SLA
6 1 (0.27%) DO-254
6 1 (0.27%) GMP
6 1 (0.27%) GRC
6 1 (0.27%) HL7
6 1 (0.27%) MISRA
6 1 (0.27%) NIST
6 1 (0.27%) P3O
6 1 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (4.90%) Active Directory
1 18 (4.90%) Docker
2 1 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (7.63%) Ansible
2 27 (7.36%) Terraform
3 21 (5.72%) Kubernetes
4 8 (2.18%) Docker Swarm
4 8 (2.18%) Podman
5 7 (1.91%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.54%) CEMLI
6 2 (0.54%) SCCM
7 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 41 (11.17%) Microsoft
2 21 (5.72%) Oracle
3 13 (3.54%) iManage
4 10 (2.72%) SAP
5 9 (2.45%) Intapp
6 6 (1.63%) Google
7 5 (1.36%) CA Agile Central
7 5 (1.36%) OpenAI
7 5 (1.36%) Reuters
7 5 (1.36%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.09%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.82%) BiZZdesign
9 3 (0.82%) Cisco
9 3 (0.82%) F5
9 3 (0.82%) SolarWinds
10 2 (0.54%) Blue Coat
10 2 (0.54%) CheckPoint
10 2 (0.54%) IBM
10 2 (0.54%) MathWorks
10 2 (0.54%) VMware