Law Contracts

Law
UK

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

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 251 168 240
Rank change year-on-year -83 +72 +24
Contract jobs citing Law 407 835 1,094
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.94% 1.49% 1.24%
As % of the General category 1.63% 2.55% 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 593 747
10th Percentile £263 £228 £302
25th Percentile £413 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% - +23.53%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £652
90th Percentile £800 £755 £728
UK excluding London median daily rate £568 £525 £518
% change year-on-year +8.10% +1.45% +21.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 28 25
10th Percentile £10.57 £12.00 £10.80
25th Percentile £11.95 £16.44 £15.00
Median hourly rate £16.64 £21.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.68% +21.43% -58.82%
75th Percentile £32.50 £57.19 £38.75
90th Percentile £40.75 £64.50 £45.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £13.00 £22.50 £16.50
% change year-on-year -42.22% +36.36% -61.18%

All General Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 24,899 32,724 50,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 57.37% 58.55% 56.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,625 22,703 34,940
10th Percentile £275 £313 £325
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £769 £781 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +7.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,992 980 1,408
10th Percentile £12.78 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.44 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.30 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.12% +43.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £52.50 £61.25 £47.40
90th Percentile £67.31 £72.50 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.34 £27.84 £19.50
% change year-on-year +1.78% +42.77% +2.63%

Law
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Law in the UK

Law
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Law in the UK

Law
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Law in the UK

Law
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Law in the UK

Law
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Hourly rate histogram for Law in the UK

Law
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Law within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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
England -83 376 £550 +4.76% 854
UK excluding London -48 206 £568 +8.10% 463
London -76 174 £513 -2.33% 419
Work from Home -34 116 £538 +7.50% 443
Midlands +11 73 £600 +9.09% 100
West Midlands +4 67 £600 +4.35% 59
South East -22 58 £600 +42.94% 82
North of England -36 35 £500 -0.20% 155
South West -25 23 £578 -11.15% 56
North West -9 21 £500 +11.11% 85
East of England -1 15 £350 +37.80% 32
Yorkshire -4 13 £190 -62.00% 54
East Midlands +5 6 £500 +51.52% 41
Scotland +38 3 £343 -23.89% 37
Northern Ireland 0 3 - - 4
Wales +17 1 - - 9
North East -12 1 £283 -51.29% 16

Law
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (2.95%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.49%) Confluence
4 1 (0.25%) CMS
4 1 (0.25%) SAS
Applications
1 22 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (4.42%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (1.23%) Simulink
4 3 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.49%) Stateflow
6 1 (0.25%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.25%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 6 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.74%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (0.74%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.49%) Elite 3E
3 2 (0.49%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.49%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.49%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.25%) Aareon QL
4 1 (0.25%) Exstream
4 1 (0.25%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.25%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.25%) OPENHousing
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.25%) SAP LE
4 1 (0.25%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 56 (13.76%) Azure
2 28 (6.88%) AWS
3 25 (6.14%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (3.19%) Power Platform
5 12 (2.95%) OCI
6 7 (1.72%) Cloud Computing
6 7 (1.72%) IaaS
7 6 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (1.47%) SaaS
8 5 (1.23%) Azure Service Bus
8 5 (1.23%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (1.23%) PaaS
8 5 (1.23%) Tricentis Tosca
9 3 (0.74%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (0.74%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (0.74%) Entra ID
9 3 (0.74%) GCP
9 3 (0.74%) GitHub
9 3 (0.74%) OneDrive
9 3 (0.74%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.72%) Internet
1 7 (1.72%) Intranet
2 6 (1.47%) 5G
3 4 (0.98%) Firewall
4 3 (0.74%) BIG-IP
4 3 (0.74%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 3 (0.74%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 2 (0.49%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (0.49%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (0.49%) LAN
5 2 (0.49%) Network Security
5 2 (0.49%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.49%) VPN
5 2 (0.49%) WAN
5 2 (0.49%) Wireless
6 1 (0.25%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.25%) Cisco IPT
6 1 (0.25%) DHCP
6 1 (0.25%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.25%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.46%) Power BI
2 6 (1.47%) Metadata
3 4 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (0.98%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (0.74%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 3 (0.74%) NoSQL
4 3 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.49%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.49%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.49%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (0.49%) Tableau
6 1 (0.25%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.25%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.25%) PowerPivot
6 1 (0.25%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.25%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 25 (6.14%) Jenkins
2 21 (5.16%) Selenium
3 20 (4.91%) Cucumber
4 19 (4.67%) JIRA
4 19 (4.67%) REST Assured
4 19 (4.67%) SonarQube
5 13 (3.19%) GitLab
6 5 (1.23%) LoadRunner
6 5 (1.23%) NeoLoad
7 4 (0.98%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.74%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (0.49%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.49%) Git
9 2 (0.49%) Rational Team Concert
9 2 (0.49%) webpack
10 1 (0.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.25%) JMeter
10 1 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.25%) TeamCity
General
1 131 (32.19%) Social Skills
2 103 (25.31%) Finance
3 90 (22.11%) Legal
4 45 (11.06%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (6.88%) Police
6 24 (5.90%) Public Sector
7 20 (4.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (4.91%) Marketing
7 20 (4.91%) Presentation Skills
8 17 (4.18%) Telecoms
9 11 (2.70%) Local Government
10 6 (1.47%) Billing
10 6 (1.47%) Front Office
11 5 (1.23%) Banking
12 4 (0.98%) Aerospace
12 4 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.74%) Advertising
13 3 (0.74%) Automotive
13 3 (0.74%) Retail
14 2 (0.49%) Digital Economy
Job Titles
1 35 (8.60%) Consultant
2 33 (8.11%) Analyst
3 32 (7.86%) Project Manager
4 30 (7.37%) Developer
5 23 (5.65%) Senior
6 21 (5.16%) Lead
7 20 (4.91%) Commercial Manager
8 19 (4.67%) Architect
9 17 (4.18%) IT Manager
9 17 (4.18%) Java Engineer
10 14 (3.44%) Programme Manager
11 13 (3.19%) DevOps Engineer
11 13 (3.19%) Software Engineer
12 12 (2.95%) Administrator
12 12 (2.95%) IT Support
13 10 (2.46%) IT Consultant
13 10 (2.46%) PMO Analyst
13 10 (2.46%) Support Engineer
14 9 (2.21%) Information Manager
14 9 (2.21%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (5.65%) REST
2 20 (4.91%) Java EE
3 11 (2.70%) .NET
3 11 (2.70%) ARM Templates
4 7 (1.72%) Node.js
5 5 (1.23%) HTML
5 5 (1.23%) Oracle Fusion
5 5 (1.23%) React
5 5 (1.23%) Spring
5 5 (1.23%) Spring Boot
6 3 (0.74%) CSS
6 3 (0.74%) RESTful
7 2 (0.49%) JSON
7 2 (0.49%) Middleware
7 2 (0.49%) NumPy
7 2 (0.49%) OAuth
7 2 (0.49%) OpenID
7 2 (0.49%) SAML
7 2 (0.49%) Web Services
7 2 (0.49%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (6.88%) Data Centre
2 17 (4.18%) Management Information System
3 13 (3.19%) Greenfield Project
4 12 (2.95%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (1.47%) Freedom of Information
5 6 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (0.98%) Freedom of Information Act
6 4 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (0.98%) Video Conferencing
7 3 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (0.74%) FMCG
7 3 (0.74%) FPGA
7 3 (0.74%) Housing Association
7 3 (0.74%) PMI
7 3 (0.74%) Public Cloud
7 3 (0.74%) Smartphone
7 3 (0.74%) VHDL
8 2 (0.49%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (0.49%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 23 (5.65%) Windows
2 12 (2.95%) Windows 10
3 6 (1.47%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.98%) Linux
5 3 (0.74%) Unix
6 2 (0.49%) Android
6 2 (0.49%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.25%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.25%) Windows Phone
7 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (16.95%) Stakeholder Management
2 66 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
3 49 (12.04%) Project Management
4 46 (11.30%) DevOps
5 44 (10.81%) Agile
6 30 (7.37%) Migration
6 30 (7.37%) Software Engineering
6 30 (7.37%) Test Automation
7 29 (7.13%) Customer Service
8 28 (6.88%) Decision-Making
9 25 (6.14%) CI/CD
10 24 (5.90%) Data Protection
10 24 (5.90%) Information Security
10 24 (5.90%) Mentoring
11 22 (5.41%) Continuous Integration
11 22 (5.41%) Technical Leadership
12 20 (4.91%) Project Delivery
12 20 (4.91%) Software Architecture
13 19 (4.67%) ITIL
14 18 (4.42%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 31 (7.62%) Java
2 15 (3.69%) SQL
3 10 (2.46%) C#
3 10 (2.46%) Python
4 9 (2.21%) JavaScript
5 7 (1.72%) TypeScript
6 6 (1.47%) C
6 6 (1.47%) PowerShell
7 4 (0.98%) Bash
7 4 (0.98%) C++
7 4 (0.98%) MATLAB
8 2 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.49%) Fortran
9 1 (0.25%) Ada
9 1 (0.25%) Embedded C
9 1 (0.25%) Objective-C
9 1 (0.25%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.25%) R
9 1 (0.25%) SystemVerilog
9 1 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 68 (16.71%) Security Cleared
2 65 (15.97%) SC Cleared
3 47 (11.55%) Degree
4 7 (1.72%) DV Cleared
4 7 (1.72%) Master's Degree
5 6 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.47%) ISEB
6 5 (1.23%) PMI Certification
7 4 (0.98%) ACCA
8 3 (0.74%) CISSP
8 3 (0.74%) PMP
9 2 (0.49%) CCNP
9 2 (0.49%) CCSA
9 2 (0.49%) CEH
9 2 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.49%) GCIH
9 2 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.49%) JNCIA
9 2 (0.49%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 1 (0.25%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (8.85%) GDPR
2 20 (4.91%) PMO
3 11 (2.70%) QA
4 10 (2.46%) Data Quality
5 6 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.23%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.98%) SLA
8 2 (0.49%) GRC
8 2 (0.49%) NIST
9 1 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.25%) DO-254
9 1 (0.25%) GMP
9 1 (0.25%) HL7
9 1 (0.25%) MISRA
9 1 (0.25%) P3O
9 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 21 (5.16%) Active Directory
2 18 (4.42%) Docker
3 1 (0.25%) Firmware
3 1 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (6.88%) Ansible
2 27 (6.63%) Terraform
3 21 (5.16%) Kubernetes
4 8 (1.97%) Docker Swarm
4 8 (1.97%) Podman
5 7 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.49%) CEMLI
6 2 (0.49%) SCCM
7 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 47 (11.55%) Microsoft
2 21 (5.16%) Oracle
3 13 (3.19%) iManage
4 10 (2.46%) SAP
5 9 (2.21%) Intapp
6 7 (1.72%) ServiceNow
7 6 (1.47%) F5
7 6 (1.47%) Google
8 5 (1.23%) CA Agile Central
8 5 (1.23%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.23%) Reuters
9 4 (0.98%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.74%) BiZZdesign
10 3 (0.74%) CA
10 3 (0.74%) Cisco
10 3 (0.74%) SolarWinds
11 2 (0.49%) Brandwatch
11 2 (0.49%) Guidewire
11 2 (0.49%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.49%) Palo Alto