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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 143 121 145
Rank change year-on-year -22 +24 +67
Contract jobs citing Legal 304 541 771
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.73% 2.11% 1.99%
As % of the General category 2.77% 3.34% 3.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 374 496
10th Percentile £208 £240 £325
25th Percentile £363 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £650
90th Percentile £765 £788 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £503
% change year-on-year -4.76% +4.39% +1.60%
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 £24.46 £27.00
% change year-on-year +63.53% -9.41% +45.95%

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 10,982 16,207 23,543
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 62.66% 63.35% 60.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,840 11,818 17,104
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% +7.91%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £700
90th Percentile £825 £825 £800
England median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 201 282
10th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £18.04
25th Percentile £18.25 £20.42 £25.68
Median hourly rate £30.00 £30.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year - -15.49% +22.73%
75th Percentile £48.44 £52.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.90 £70.00 £64.65
England median hourly rate £30.50 £31.92 £21.50
% change year-on-year -4.45% +48.47% +2.14%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 +13 64 £565 +6.35% 62
West London +13 5 £563 +15.38% 47
East London -3 5 £540 +34.50% 25
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 27 (8.88%) SharePoint
2 17 (5.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.64%) CMS
4 4 (1.32%) Confluence
4 4 (1.32%) Skype for Business
5 2 (0.66%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.66%) Drupal
6 1 (0.33%) SAS
Applications
1 36 (11.84%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (7.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.97%) Simulink
4 6 (1.97%) Stateflow
5 5 (1.64%) Adobe Premiere
5 5 (1.64%) MS Visio
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 6 (1.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.32%) SAP GTS
3 3 (0.99%) SAP SD
4 2 (0.66%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.66%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.33%) Aareon QL
5 1 (0.33%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.33%) MIS ActiveH
5 1 (0.33%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.33%) OPENHousing
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.33%) Relativity
5 1 (0.33%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.33%) SAP CX
5 1 (0.33%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.33%) Shopify
5 1 (0.33%) Veritas eDiscovery
5 1 (0.33%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.33%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 42 (13.82%) Microsoft 365
2 36 (11.84%) 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 7 (2.30%) Google Workspace
7 7 (2.30%) IaaS
8 6 (1.97%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (1.97%) Entra ID
8 6 (1.97%) Figma
9 5 (1.64%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (1.64%) GCP
10 4 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (1.32%) PaaS
10 4 (1.32%) Power Automate
10 4 (1.32%) Tricentis Tosca
10 4 (1.32%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.30%) Internet
2 5 (1.64%) FTP
2 5 (1.64%) Intranet
3 4 (1.32%) Skype
3 4 (1.32%) VPN
4 3 (0.99%) DNS
4 3 (0.99%) H.323
5 2 (0.66%) Cisco IPT
5 2 (0.66%) LAN
5 2 (0.66%) Network Security
5 2 (0.66%) TCP/IP
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%) DHCP
6 1 (0.33%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.33%) Software-Defined Networking
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 4 (1.32%) Data Lake
4 4 (1.32%) SAP HANA
5 3 (0.99%) Big Data
5 3 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.99%) EDRMS
5 3 (0.99%) Metadata
5 3 (0.99%) MySQL
5 3 (0.99%) Tableau
6 2 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.66%) Apache Hive
6 2 (0.66%) Bigtable
6 2 (0.66%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.66%) HBase
6 2 (0.66%) MS Access
6 2 (0.66%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 7 (2.30%) JIRA
2 4 (1.32%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.32%) LoadRunner
2 4 (1.32%) NeoLoad
2 4 (1.32%) Visual Studio
3 2 (0.66%) GitLab
3 2 (0.66%) Liquibase
3 2 (0.66%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 107 (35.20%) Social Skills
2 92 (30.26%) Finance
3 45 (14.80%) Law
4 32 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (9.87%) Marketing
6 20 (6.58%) Banking
7 16 (5.26%) Public Sector
8 15 (4.93%) Influencing Skills
8 15 (4.93%) Telecoms
9 13 (4.28%) Organisational Skills
10 11 (3.62%) Advertising
10 11 (3.62%) Retail
11 8 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (2.30%) Automotive
13 6 (1.97%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (1.64%) Police
15 4 (1.32%) Billing
15 4 (1.32%) Investment Banking
16 3 (0.99%) Manufacturing
16 3 (0.99%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 41 (13.49%) Analyst
2 36 (11.84%) Project Manager
3 26 (8.55%) Senior
4 23 (7.57%) Architect
5 20 (6.58%) Lead
6 18 (5.92%) Consultant
7 16 (5.26%) Programme Manager
8 14 (4.61%) Delivery Manager
8 14 (4.61%) Senior Manager
9 13 (4.28%) Business Analyst
10 10 (3.29%) Administrator
10 10 (3.29%) Data Analyst
11 9 (2.96%) 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
13 7 (2.30%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (0.99%) CSS
1 3 (0.99%) EDI
1 3 (0.99%) HTML5 Canvas
1 3 (0.99%) jQuery
1 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Graph
1 3 (0.99%) OAuth
2 2 (0.66%) Apache Avro
2 2 (0.66%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (0.66%) Kafka
2 2 (0.66%) OpenID
2 2 (0.66%) PyTorch
2 2 (0.66%) SAML
2 2 (0.66%) TensorFlow
3 1 (0.33%) .NET
3 1 (0.33%) ADO
3 1 (0.33%) Flask
3 1 (0.33%) OAuth2
3 1 (0.33%) Pandas
3 1 (0.33%) React
3 1 (0.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.91%) Management Information System
2 11 (3.62%) Data Protection Act
3 10 (3.29%) Freedom of Information
3 10 (3.29%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (2.63%) Algorithms
5 7 (2.30%) Blackberry
6 6 (1.97%) Photography
6 6 (1.97%) Security Posture
6 6 (1.97%) Video Conferencing
6 6 (1.97%) Virtual Team
7 5 (1.64%) Smartphone
8 4 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.32%) Freedom of Information Act
8 4 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.32%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.32%) Social Media
9 3 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.99%) Product Ownership
9 3 (0.99%) Reinsurance
10 2 (0.66%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 19 (6.25%) Windows
2 12 (3.95%) Windows 10
3 5 (1.64%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (24.34%) Project Management
2 52 (17.11%) Agile
3 48 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
4 39 (12.83%) Data Protection
5 37 (12.17%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (10.20%) Change Management
7 28 (9.21%) Analytics
7 28 (9.21%) Risk Management
8 26 (8.55%) ITIL
9 25 (8.22%) Migration
10 24 (7.89%) Computer Science
11 21 (6.91%) Roadmaps
12 20 (6.58%) Customer Service
13 19 (6.25%) Programme Management
14 18 (5.92%) DevOps
14 18 (5.92%) PRINCE2
15 17 (5.59%) Artificial Intelligence
15 17 (5.59%) Cybersecurity
15 17 (5.59%) Supplier Management
15 17 (5.59%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 15 (4.93%) PowerShell
2 12 (3.95%) SQL
3 9 (2.96%) Python
4 7 (2.30%) C#
5 6 (1.97%) MATLAB
5 6 (1.97%) T-SQL
6 3 (0.99%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.66%) U-SQL
8 1 (0.33%) C++
8 1 (0.33%) Java
8 1 (0.33%) Perl
8 1 (0.33%) R
8 1 (0.33%) Ruby
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 12 (3.95%) ITIL Certification
6 7 (2.30%) Master's Degree
6 7 (2.30%) PMP
7 6 (1.97%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.64%) APMP
9 3 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.66%) CISSP
11 1 (0.33%) CCA
11 1 (0.33%) CCIE
11 1 (0.33%) CCNA
11 1 (0.33%) CCNP
11 1 (0.33%) CCSP
11 1 (0.33%) CISM
11 1 (0.33%) ISEB
11 1 (0.33%) MCSE
11 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (10.20%) GDPR
2 22 (7.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (4.93%) QA
4 11 (3.62%) Data Quality
5 10 (3.29%) Accessibility
6 9 (2.96%) SLA
7 3 (0.99%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.99%) PMO
8 2 (0.66%) GRC
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%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.33%) Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
System Software
1 18 (5.92%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (2.63%) PingFederate
2 7 (2.30%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (1.32%) Ansible
4 3 (0.99%) Terraform
5 2 (0.66%) Ambari
5 2 (0.66%) Oozie
5 2 (0.66%) SCCM
6 1 (0.33%) CSIRT
6 1 (0.33%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 90 (29.61%) Microsoft
2 16 (5.26%) iManage
3 15 (4.93%) SAP
4 11 (3.62%) Oracle
5 9 (2.96%) Google
6 8 (2.63%) Adobe
7 7 (2.30%) Citrix
8 6 (1.97%) Cadence
8 6 (1.97%) Cisco
8 6 (1.97%) Intapp
8 6 (1.97%) VMware
9 5 (1.64%) CA Agile Central
10 4 (1.32%) Becrypt
10 4 (1.32%) BiZZdesign
10 4 (1.32%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.32%) Ping Identity
10 4 (1.32%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.99%) Proofpoint
11 3 (0.99%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.99%) Tandberg