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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 221 154 207
Rank change year-on-year -67 +53 +12
Contract jobs citing Law 387 800 1,012
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.06% 1.67% 1.44%
As % of the General category 1.83% 2.82% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 559 685
10th Percentile £271 £224 £299
25th Percentile £425 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - +23.53%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £644
90th Percentile £806 £759 £726
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.76% - +23.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 25 28
10th Percentile £10.42 £13.30 £11.28
25th Percentile £11.91 £16.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £13.00 £20.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% +14.29% -59.77%
75th Percentile £27.96 £57.00 £39.06
90th Percentile £32.50 £64.50 £48.58
UK median hourly rate £14.32 £20.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -28.43% +14.29% -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 21,164 28,350 40,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 58.11% 59.25% 56.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,637 19,911 28,071
10th Percentile £281 £315 £319
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £794 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,792 915 1,302
10th Percentile £13.00 £13.58 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.99 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +48.84% -
75th Percentile £51.91 £60.31 £47.43
90th Percentile £66.25 £70.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% +44.44% +1.26%

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 23 May 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 23 May 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 23 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
London -64 190 £538 +0.94% 447
Midlands +18 71 £600 +9.09% 110
West Midlands +6 65 £600 +4.35% 63
South East -23 54 £600 +50.00% 104
North of England -33 35 £500 -4.76% 151
South West -23 25 £578 -11.15% 64
North West +1 19 £500 +11.11% 87
Yorkshire +1 15 £190 -62.00% 51
East of England +2 14 £425 +67.32% 44
East Midlands +10 6 £500 +51.52% 47
North East -11 1 £283 -51.29% 13
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 10 (2.58%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.52%) CMS
3 2 (0.52%) Confluence
4 1 (0.26%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.26%) SAS
Applications
1 18 (4.65%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (4.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.55%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (1.03%) Simulink
5 3 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.52%) Stateflow
7 1 (0.26%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.26%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 8 (2.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.78%) Elite 3E
2 3 (0.78%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (0.78%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.52%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.52%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.52%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.26%) Aareon QL
4 1 (0.26%) Exstream
4 1 (0.26%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.26%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.26%) OPENHousing
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.26%) SAP LE
4 1 (0.26%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 56 (14.47%) Azure
2 28 (7.24%) AWS
3 24 (6.20%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (3.62%) Power Platform
5 12 (3.10%) OCI
6 7 (1.81%) Cloud Computing
6 7 (1.81%) IaaS
7 6 (1.55%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (1.29%) Azure Service Bus
8 5 (1.29%) Entra ID
8 5 (1.29%) GitHub
8 5 (1.29%) PaaS
8 5 (1.29%) SaaS
8 5 (1.29%) Tricentis Tosca
9 3 (0.78%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (0.78%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (0.78%) Google Docs
9 3 (0.78%) OneDrive
9 3 (0.78%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.07%) Internet
2 7 (1.81%) Intranet
3 6 (1.55%) 5G
4 5 (1.29%) Firewall
5 4 (1.03%) Network Security
5 4 (1.03%) VPN
6 3 (0.78%) LAN
7 2 (0.52%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (0.52%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (0.52%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.52%) WAN
7 2 (0.52%) Wireless
8 1 (0.26%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.26%) DHCP
8 1 (0.26%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.84%) Power BI
2 6 (1.55%) Metadata
3 4 (1.03%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (0.78%) NoSQL
4 3 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (0.78%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.52%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.52%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.26%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.26%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.26%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.26%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.26%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.26%) Power Query
6 1 (0.26%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 26 (6.72%) Jenkins
2 21 (5.43%) Selenium
3 20 (5.17%) Cucumber
4 19 (4.91%) REST Assured
4 19 (4.91%) SonarQube
5 18 (4.65%) JIRA
6 15 (3.88%) GitLab
7 5 (1.29%) LoadRunner
7 5 (1.29%) NeoLoad
8 4 (1.03%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.78%) Git
9 3 (0.78%) Gradle
9 3 (0.78%) Maven
10 2 (0.52%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.52%) Rational DOORS
10 2 (0.52%) Rational Team Concert
10 2 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.52%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.52%) webpack
11 1 (0.26%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 123 (31.78%) Social Skills
2 94 (24.29%) Finance
3 88 (22.74%) Legal
4 43 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (6.98%) Police
6 24 (6.20%) Public Sector
7 19 (4.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (4.91%) Marketing
8 16 (4.13%) Presentation Skills
9 12 (3.10%) Telecoms
10 7 (1.81%) Front Office
11 5 (1.29%) Local Government
12 4 (1.03%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.78%) Advertising
13 3 (0.78%) Automotive
13 3 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.52%) Back Office
14 2 (0.52%) Banking
14 2 (0.52%) Digital Economy
14 2 (0.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 33 (8.53%) Consultant
2 32 (8.27%) Analyst
2 32 (8.27%) Developer
3 24 (6.20%) Senior
4 23 (5.94%) Lead
5 21 (5.43%) Project Manager
6 18 (4.65%) Architect
7 17 (4.39%) Java Engineer
8 15 (3.88%) Commercial Manager
8 15 (3.88%) IT Manager
9 13 (3.36%) DevOps Engineer
10 12 (3.10%) Administrator
10 12 (3.10%) Programme Manager
10 12 (3.10%) Software Engineer
11 10 (2.58%) IT Support
12 9 (2.33%) AWS Engineer
12 9 (2.33%) Information Manager
12 9 (2.33%) IT Consultant
12 9 (2.33%) Procurement Manager
12 9 (2.33%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (6.20%) REST
2 20 (5.17%) Java EE
3 11 (2.84%) .NET
3 11 (2.84%) ARM Templates
4 7 (1.81%) Node.js
5 5 (1.29%) Oracle Fusion
5 5 (1.29%) React
5 5 (1.29%) Spring
5 5 (1.29%) Spring Boot
6 4 (1.03%) HTML
7 3 (0.78%) JSON
7 3 (0.78%) RESTful
8 2 (0.52%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.52%) CSS
8 2 (0.52%) Middleware
8 2 (0.52%) NumPy
8 2 (0.52%) OAuth
8 2 (0.52%) Redux
8 2 (0.52%) SAML
8 2 (0.52%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 30 (7.75%) Data Centre
2 17 (4.39%) Management Information System
3 13 (3.36%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (2.58%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (1.29%) Freedom of Information
6 5 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.03%) Freedom of Information Act
7 4 (1.03%) Video Conferencing
8 3 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (0.78%) Housing Association
8 3 (0.78%) Onboarding
8 3 (0.78%) PMI
8 3 (0.78%) Public Cloud
8 3 (0.78%) Smartphone
9 2 (0.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.52%) FPGA
9 2 (0.52%) Replication
9 2 (0.52%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 23 (5.94%) Windows
2 11 (2.84%) Windows 10
3 5 (1.29%) Linux
3 5 (1.29%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.78%) Unix
5 2 (0.52%) Android
5 2 (0.52%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.26%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.26%) Windows Phone
6 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (16.54%) Stakeholder Management
2 63 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
3 53 (13.70%) Agile
4 45 (11.63%) Project Management
5 44 (11.37%) DevOps
6 33 (8.53%) Migration
7 31 (8.01%) Test Automation
8 29 (7.49%) Customer Service
9 28 (7.24%) Decision-Making
9 28 (7.24%) Software Engineering
10 27 (6.98%) CI/CD
11 23 (5.94%) Data Protection
11 23 (5.94%) Information Security
11 23 (5.94%) Mentoring
12 22 (5.68%) Continuous Integration
13 21 (5.43%) Technical Leadership
14 20 (5.17%) Artificial Intelligence
14 20 (5.17%) Software Architecture
15 18 (4.65%) ITIL
15 18 (4.65%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 30 (7.75%) Java
2 15 (3.88%) SQL
3 10 (2.58%) C#
3 10 (2.58%) Python
4 8 (2.07%) JavaScript
4 8 (2.07%) PowerShell
5 7 (1.81%) TypeScript
6 6 (1.55%) C
7 4 (1.03%) Bash
7 4 (1.03%) C++
8 3 (0.78%) MATLAB
9 2 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.52%) Fortran
10 1 (0.26%) Ada
10 1 (0.26%) Embedded C
10 1 (0.26%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.26%) R
10 1 (0.26%) Scala
10 1 (0.26%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 68 (17.57%) Security Cleared
2 65 (16.80%) SC Cleared
3 37 (9.56%) Degree
4 8 (2.07%) DV Cleared
5 7 (1.81%) ISEB
6 6 (1.55%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.29%) PMI Certification
8 4 (1.03%) ACCA
9 3 (0.78%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.78%) CCNP
9 3 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.78%) PMP
10 2 (0.52%) CCSA
10 2 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.52%) JNCIA
10 2 (0.52%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 1 (0.26%) CIPD
11 1 (0.26%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.26%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.26%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (9.04%) GDPR
2 17 (4.39%) PMO
3 10 (2.58%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.58%) QA
4 5 (1.29%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.03%) SLA
6 2 (0.52%) GRC
7 1 (0.26%) HL7
7 1 (0.26%) MISRA
7 1 (0.26%) NIST
7 1 (0.26%) P3O
7 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (4.91%) Docker
2 18 (4.65%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.26%) Firmware
3 1 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 28 (7.24%) Ansible
1 28 (7.24%) Terraform
2 22 (5.68%) Kubernetes
3 8 (2.07%) Docker Swarm
3 8 (2.07%) Podman
4 7 (1.81%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.52%) CEMLI
5 2 (0.52%) SCCM
6 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 46 (11.89%) Microsoft
2 23 (5.94%) Oracle
3 12 (3.10%) iManage
4 10 (2.58%) SAP
5 8 (2.07%) Intapp
6 6 (1.55%) Google
7 5 (1.29%) CA Agile Central
7 5 (1.29%) OpenAI
7 5 (1.29%) Reuters
7 5 (1.29%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.29%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.03%) Cisco
9 3 (0.78%) BiZZdesign
9 3 (0.78%) IBM
9 3 (0.78%) Juniper
10 2 (0.52%) BMC
10 2 (0.52%) Brandwatch
10 2 (0.52%) Databricks
10 2 (0.52%) Guidewire
10 2 (0.52%) Palo Alto