East Midlands Legal Contracts

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Legal' in contract IT jobs within the East Midlands region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Legal over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Cumbria Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Havant Hertfordshire Hounslow Isle of Man Kent Leeds Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Plymouth Portsmouth Prescot Reading Redcar Redditch Rickmansworth Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Street Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swansea Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	75	82
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching contract IT job ads	16	7
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.021 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	2.410 %	1.043 %
Daily rates quoted	2	3
Average minimum daily rate	£440	£600
Average daily rate	£440	£650
% change on same period last year	-32.30 %
Average maximum daily rate	£440	£700
UK excluding London average daily rate	£386	£399
% change on same period last year	-3.26 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£12.00	£32.50
Average hourly rate	£12.00	£34.50
% change on same period last year	-65.21 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£12.00	£36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£16.41	£27.39
% change on same period last year	-40.09 %
General East Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	664	671
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.876 %	0.712 %
Daily rates quoted	201	181
Average minimum daily rate	£398	£365
Average daily rate	£419	£387
% change on same period last year	+8.48 %
Average maximum daily rate	£440	£408
UK excluding London average daily rate	£386	£372
% change on same period last year	+3.96 %
Hourly rates quoted	28	74
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.66	£24.48
Average hourly rate	£21.51	£25.50
% change on same period last year	-15.66 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.35	£26.53
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.47	£27.20
% change on same period last year	-2.68 %
Legal England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Legal across the East Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Legal across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Legal across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Legal within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Northamptonshire	-6	6	-	-
Nottinghamshire	-8	4	£440	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 8 (30.77 %) Finance 2 7 (26.92 %) Microsoft 3 6 (23.08 %) Law 4 5 (19.23 %) Stakeholder Management 4 5 (19.23 %) Oracle 5 4 (15.38 %) Windows 5 4 (15.38 %) Windows XP 6 3 (11.54 %) SQL 6 3 (11.54 %) MS Excel 6 3 (11.54 %) Validation 6 3 (11.54 %) Government 7 2 (7.692 %) Informatics 7 2 (7.692 %) MS PowerPoint 7 2 (7.692 %) FrontPage 7 2 (7.692 %) Management Information System

7 2 (7.692 %) HP 7 2 (7.692 %) Firmware 7 2 (7.692 %) GroupWise 7 2 (7.692 %) VB 7 2 (7.692 %) VB.NET 7 2 (7.692 %) .NET 7 2 (7.692 %) SQL Server 7 2 (7.692 %) MS Office 7 2 (7.692 %) ASP 7 2 (7.692 %) XML 7 2 (7.692 %) XSLT 7 2 (7.692 %) Perl 8 1 (3.846 %) Java 8 1 (3.846 %) Solaris 8 1 (3.846 %) ISO9001

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 (7.692 %) .NET 1 2 (7.692 %) ASP 1 2 (7.692 %) XML 1 2 (7.692 %) XSLT 2 1 (3.846 %) J2EE	Application Platforms 1 2 (7.692 %) GroupWise
Applications 1 3 (11.54 %) MS Excel 2 2 (7.692 %) MS PowerPoint 2 2 (7.692 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 1 (3.846 %) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (7.692 %) SQL Server	Development Applications 1 2 (7.692 %) FrontPage
General 1 8 (30.77 %) Finance 2 6 (23.08 %) Law 3 3 (11.54 %) Government 4 1 (3.846 %) Banking 4 1 (3.846 %) Retail 4 1 (3.846 %) Local Government 4 1 (3.846 %) Auditing	Job Titles 1 5 (19.23 %) Project Manager 1 5 (19.23 %) Trainer 1 5 (19.23 %) IT Trainer 2 3 (11.54 %) Compliance Manager 2 3 (11.54 %) Software Manager 2 3 (11.54 %) Team Leader 2 3 (11.54 %) Helpdesk Team Leader 3 2 (7.692 %) Analyst 3 2 (7.692 %) Data Analyst 4 1 (3.846 %) Systems Administrator 4 1 (3.846 %) Development Manager 4 1 (3.846 %) Administrator 4 1 (3.846 %) Operations Manager 4 1 (3.846 %) Change Manager 4 1 (3.846 %) Business Change Manager 4 1 (3.846 %) Helpdesk Manager 4 1 (3.846 %) Developer 4 1 (3.846 %) Solaris Systems Administrator 4 1 (3.846 %) Business Project Manager 4 1 (3.846 %) Business Manager
Miscellaneous 1 2 (7.692 %) Firmware 1 2 (7.692 %) Management Information System 1 2 (7.692 %) Informatics 2 1 (3.846 %) Taxonomies 2 1 (3.846 %) Ontologies	Operating Systems 1 4 (15.38 %) Windows 1 4 (15.38 %) Windows XP 2 1 (3.846 %) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (19.23 %) Stakeholder Management 2 3 (11.54 %) Validation 3 1 (3.846 %) Document Management 3 1 (3.846 %) Supplier Management 3 1 (3.846 %) ITIL 3 1 (3.846 %) CRM 3 1 (3.846 %) Project Management 3 1 (3.846 %) Quality Management 3 1 (3.846 %) Practice Management	Programming Languages 1 3 (11.54 %) SQL 2 2 (7.692 %) VB 2 2 (7.692 %) VB.NET 2 2 (7.692 %) Perl 3 1 (3.846 %) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (3.846 %) ISO9001 1 1 (3.846 %) SLA 1 1 (3.846 %) ISO14001 1 1 (3.846 %) QA	System Software 1 1 (3.846 %) NFS
Vendors 1 7 (26.92 %) Microsoft 2 5 (19.23 %) Oracle 3 2 (7.692 %) HP 4 1 (3.846 %) Remedy