The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legal in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Legal over the 3 months to 20 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our General category for the Birmingham region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Legal
Rank 39 44 32
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -12
Contract jobs citing Legal 8 11 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 1.794% 1.771% 2.449%
As % of the General category 5.442% 5.392% 6.593%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 1
Average daily rate £358 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.55% -10.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £375 £363
% change year-on-year
-10.00% +3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.48 £17.00 £16.75
% change year-on-year
+61.64% +1.49%
All of the General Category
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
147 204 182
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 32.96% 32.85% 37.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 121 114
Average daily rate £364 £360 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.04% +5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £238 £162
10% offered a daily rate of more than £489 £501 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 3
Average hourly rate £37.00 £18.50 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+100.00% +42.30%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -5.66%
Legal
West Midlands

Legal
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Legal across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Birmingham Legal Jobs Demand Trend

Legal
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Legal across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham Legal Daily Rate Trend

Legal
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Legal across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Birmingham Legal Daily Rate Histogram

Legal
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Legal across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham Legal Hourly Rate Trend

Legal
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing Legal also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Legal.

1 7 (41.18%) Finance
2 6 (35.29%) Windows
3 5 (29.41%) DHCP
3 5 (29.41%) DNS
3 5 (29.41%) Active Directory
3 5 (29.41%) Law
3 5 (29.41%) Terminal Services
3 5 (29.41%) Strategic Planning
3 5 (29.41%) QA
4 2 (11.76%) SAP HR
4 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (11.76%) SAP Payroll
4 2 (11.76%) SAP XI
4 2 (11.76%) MS Office
4 2 (11.76%) SAP
4 2 (11.76%) SLA
4 2 (11.76%) Operations Management
4 2 (11.76%) Change Management
5 1 (5.882%) Time Management
5 1 (5.882%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (5.882%) Business Analysis
5 1 (5.882%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (5.882%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (5.882%) Microsoft
5 1 (5.882%) PRINCE2
5 1 (5.882%) Epicor
5 1 (5.882%) Windows 2000
5 1 (5.882%) MS Excel
5 1 (5.882%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (5.882%) ERP

Legal
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing Legal also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Legal. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (11.76%) SAP XI
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.882%) MS Exchange
1 1 (5.882%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) MS Office
2 1 (5.882%) MS Excel
2 1 (5.882%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) SAP HR
1 2 (11.76%) SAP Payroll
Communications & Networking
1 5 (29.41%) DHCP
1 5 (29.41%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.882%) Data Warehouse
General
1 7 (41.18%) Finance
2 5 (29.41%) Law
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) IT Manager
2 3 (17.65%) Service Manager
2 3 (17.65%) Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) IT Director
3 2 (11.76%) Project Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Business Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Support Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Service Desk Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Head of IT
4 1 (5.882%) Insurance Business Analyst
4 1 (5.882%) Help Desk Manager
4 1 (5.882%) 1st Line Support
4 1 (5.882%) Service Analyst
4 1 (5.882%) Online Project Manager
4 1 (5.882%) Service Desk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.882%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 6 (35.29%) Windows
2 1 (5.882%) Windows 2000
2 1 (5.882%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) Strategic Planning
2 2 (11.76%) Operations Management
2 2 (11.76%) Change Management
2 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (5.882%) Data Management
3 1 (5.882%) Content Management
3 1 (5.882%) Business Analysis
3 1 (5.882%) PRINCE2
3 1 (5.882%) ERP
3 1 (5.882%) ETL
3 1 (5.882%) Project Management
3 1 (5.882%) Migration
3 1 (5.882%) Time Management
Qualifications
1 1 (5.882%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (29.41%) QA
2 2 (11.76%) SLA
3 1 (5.882%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) Active Directory
1 5 (29.41%) Terminal Services
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) SAP
2 1 (5.882%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.882%) Epicor
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