The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legal in IT contracts advertised for the Dorset region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Legal over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Dorset 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Legal
Rank 33 26 -
Rank change year-on-year
-7 -
Contract jobs citing Legal 1 8 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Dorset 0.441% 2.857% -
As % of the General category 1.136% 5.031% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 0
Average daily rate £263 £475 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-44.73% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £388 £350
% change year-on-year
-9.67% +10.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year
-5.88% -5.55%
All of the General Category
Dorset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
88 159 236
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Dorset 38.77% 56.79% 63.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 108 145
Average daily rate £383 £375 £334
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.00% +12.35%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £315 £300 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £380 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 10
Average hourly rate £12.72 £30.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-57.60% -25.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £24.99 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+0.05% -3.89%
Legal
South West

Legal
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Dorset 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 Dorset region.

Dorset Legal Daily Rate Trend

Legal
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Dorset Legal Hourly Rate Trend

Legal
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Legal within the Dorset region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Bournemouth -7 1 £263 -44.73% 2
Legal
South West

Legal
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset 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 2 (40.00%) Data Mining
1 2 (40.00%) Internet
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Information Security
1 2 (40.00%) QA
1 2 (40.00%) Reference Data
2 1 (20.00%) ProCurve
2 1 (20.00%) HP SIM
2 1 (20.00%) Communications Security
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) WSUS
2 1 (20.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Clustering
2 1 (20.00%) Backup Exec
2 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (20.00%) Service Management
2 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) Security Management
2 1 (20.00%) Blackberry
2 1 (20.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (20.00%) LAN
2 1 (20.00%) DHCP
2 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) HP
2 1 (20.00%) Juniper
2 1 (20.00%) SAN

Legal
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset 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 Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Internet
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) LAN
2 1 (20.00%) DHCP
2 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Data Mining
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Security Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) Information Security Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Reference Data
2 1 (20.00%) Clustering
2 1 (20.00%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Information Security
2 1 (20.00%) Communications Security
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (20.00%) Service Management
2 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (20.00%) Security Management
2 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) HP SIM
1 1 (20.00%) WSUS
1 1 (20.00%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) ProCurve
1 1 (20.00%) VMware
1 1 (20.00%) HP
1 1 (20.00%) Juniper
1 1 (20.00%) NetApp
1 1 (20.00%) CheckPoint