The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legal in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Legal over the 3 months to 17 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 Edinburgh 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Legal
Rank - 59 57
Contract jobs citing Legal 0 6 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh - 0.542% 0.896%
As % of the General category - 0.781% 1.277%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 7
Average daily rate - £305 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -41.90%
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £363 £350
% change year-on-year
-6.89% +3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £12.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £17.00 £16.75
% change year-on-year
+29.41% +1.49%
All of the General Category
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
376 768 940
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 46.42% 69.44% 70.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 394 493
Average daily rate £425 £375 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.33% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £270 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £522 £486 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 17 8
Average hourly rate £10.10 £13.75 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-26.54% -19.11%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £7.50 £11.10 £9.60
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.15 £31.55 £18.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -3.84%
Legal
Scotland

Legal
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Legal Hourly Rate Trend

Legal
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 3 (60.00%) Change Management
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Banking
2 2 (40.00%) Retail
2 2 (40.00%) Asset Management
2 2 (40.00%) MS Office
3 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (20.00%) CSS
3 1 (20.00%) SOAP
3 1 (20.00%) Web Services
3 1 (20.00%) XML
3 1 (20.00%) XSLT
3 1 (20.00%) CRM
3 1 (20.00%) Siebel
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (20.00%) Workflow
3 1 (20.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) HTML
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) .NET
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (20.00%) MS Project
3 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Ajax
3 1 (20.00%) Retail Banking
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (20.00%) JSON

Legal
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 1 (20.00%) HTML
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
1 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (20.00%) CSS
1 1 (20.00%) SOAP
1 1 (20.00%) Web Services
1 1 (20.00%) XML
1 1 (20.00%) XSLT
1 1 (20.00%) Ajax
1 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (20.00%) JSON
1 1 (20.00%) jQuery
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) MS Office
2 1 (20.00%) MS Project
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Banking
2 2 (40.00%) Retail
3 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Business Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Programme Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Change Management
2 2 (40.00%) Asset Management
3 1 (20.00%) Fund Management
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) CRM
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (20.00%) Workflow
3 1 (20.00%) Validation
3 1 (20.00%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) C#
1 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) FATCA
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Siebel
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft