The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Law in IT contracts advertised for the Essex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Law over the 3 months to 24 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 Essex 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Law
Rank 44 33 -
Rank change year-on-year
-11 -
Contract jobs citing Law 3 12 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 0.746% 2.892% -
As % of the General category 2.326% 8.696% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 0
Average daily rate £288 £450 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-36.11% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £400 £300
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £33.75 £16.75
% change year-on-year
-54.07% +101.49%
All of the General Category
Essex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
129 138 163
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 32.09% 33.25% 41.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 62 58
Average daily rate £375 £396 £304
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.30% +30.37%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £234 £170 £201
10% offered a daily rate of more than £513 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 15 24
Average hourly rate £30.00 £17.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+76.47% -24.44%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £17.00 £8.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £46.15 £30.00 £38.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.50 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+2.00% -3.84%
Law
East of England

Law
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex Law Jobs Demand Trend

Law
Daily Rate Trend

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

Essex Law Daily Rate Trend

Law
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Essex Law Hourly Rate Trend

Law
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Law within the Essex region over the 3 months to 24 May 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
Chelmsford - 1 - -
Colchester - 1 £325 -
Law
East of England

Law
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region citing Law 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 Law.

1 3 (42.86%) Windows
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 2 (28.57%) MS Exchange
2 2 (28.57%) MS Office
2 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (28.57%) VMware
2 2 (28.57%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (14.29%) Network Load Balancing
3 1 (14.29%) WCF
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (14.29%) Windows 7
3 1 (14.29%) DFS Replication
3 1 (14.29%) vSphere
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Internet
3 1 (14.29%) ASP
3 1 (14.29%) .NET
3 1 (14.29%) IIS
3 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
3 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
3 1 (14.29%) Windows XP
3 1 (14.29%) HTTP
3 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
3 1 (14.29%) VPN
3 1 (14.29%) SLA
3 1 (14.29%) HP
3 1 (14.29%) SAN

Law
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region citing Law 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 Law. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (14.29%) WCF
1 1 (14.29%) ASP
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) MS Exchange
1 2 (28.57%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (14.29%) IIS
2 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) MS Office
2 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Internet
1 1 (14.29%) HTTP
1 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
1 1 (14.29%) VPN
1 1 (14.29%) SAN
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Analyst
2 3 (42.86%) Systems Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Systems Support Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Desktop Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Web Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Systems Support
4 1 (14.29%) Support Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Service Analyst
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
2 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (14.29%) Windows 7
3 1 (14.29%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (14.29%) Network Load Balancing
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) DFS Replication
2 1 (14.29%) vSphere
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) VMware
3 1 (14.29%) HP