Legal Contracts in Dorset

Legal
South West > Dorset

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legal in contract job vacancies advertised in Dorset. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Legal over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 24 33
Rank change year-on-year +3 +9 -6
Contract jobs citing Legal 7 10 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Dorset 4.38% 4.67% 0.99%
As % of the General category 9.46% 9.52% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile - - £425
25th Percentile - - £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £175 - £493
75th Percentile - - £547
90th Percentile - - £569
South West median daily rate £500 £475 £469
% change year-on-year +5.26% +1.33% +3.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 0
Median hourly rate - £17.38 -
South West median hourly rate £47.50 £17.50 -
% change year-on-year +171.43% - -

All General Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 74 105 95
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 46.25% 49.07% 47.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 45 48
10th Percentile £175 £247 £313
25th Percentile £322 £475 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £600 £496
Median % change year-on-year -27.08% +20.91% +10.28%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £575
90th Percentile £769 £688 £629
South West median daily rate £525 £545 £497
% change year-on-year -3.67% +9.71% +7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 35 27
10th Percentile £11.87 £14.80 £18.40
25th Percentile £13.69 £17.79 £42.79
Median hourly rate £15.62 £56.29 £50.20
Median % change year-on-year -72.25% +12.13% -2.69%
75th Percentile £47.83 £61.35 £55.84
90th Percentile £57.33 £69.08 £69.43
South West median hourly rate £46.39 £60.00 £42.29
% change year-on-year -22.68% +41.89% +5.71%

Legal
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

Job postings citing Legal as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Dorset.

Job vacancy trend for Legal in Dorset

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Daily rate trend for Legal in Dorset

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Hourly rate trend for Legal in Dorset

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Contract Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Legal within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 10 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
Bournemouth -4 4 - - 5
Shaftesbury - 2 £175 -
Legal
South West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Dorset 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 4 (57.14%) Apache Solr
1 4 (57.14%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) GCP
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) DNS
1 4 (57.14%) HTTPS
1 4 (57.14%) IPsec
1 4 (57.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Couchbase
1 4 (57.14%) MySQL
1 4 (57.14%) NoSQL
General
1 7 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) 1st/2nd Line Support
2 3 (42.86%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) 1st/2nd Line Technical Support
2 3 (42.86%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) 2nd Line Support
2 3 (42.86%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) 2nd Line Technical Support
2 3 (42.86%) 2nd Line Technical Support Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Support Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Technical Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Technical Support
2 3 (42.86%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) JSON
1 4 (57.14%) LEMP Stack
1 4 (57.14%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (57.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Cloud Native
1 4 (57.14%) Management Information System
2 3 (42.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) CentOS
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 7 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) Configuration Management
2 4 (57.14%) Cost Reduction
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Information Security
2 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (57.14%) Microservices
2 4 (57.14%) Migration
2 4 (57.14%) Risk Assessment
2 4 (57.14%) SDLC
2 4 (57.14%) Software Delivery
3 3 (42.86%) Antivirus Management
3 3 (42.86%) Case Management
3 3 (42.86%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) PHP
2 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
2 3 (42.86%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) GDPR
1 4 (57.14%) HIPAA
1 4 (57.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (57.14%) NIST
1 4 (57.14%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Ansible
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
1 4 (57.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Google