The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legal in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Legal over the 3 months to 20 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 Gloucestershire 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Legal
Rank - 61 45
Contract jobs citing Legal 0 8 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire - 1.171% 1.174%
As % of the General category - 3.524% 3.704%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Average daily rate - £210 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £375 £363
% change year-on-year
-10.00% +3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.48 £17.00 £16.75
% change year-on-year
+61.64% +1.49%
All of the General Category
Gloucestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
60 227 135
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 22.14% 33.24% 31.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 126 46
Average daily rate £375 £365 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.73% +16.80%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £315 £200 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £451 £488 £448
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 26 36
Average hourly rate £34.00 £26.00 £35.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+30.76% -26.24%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.65 £25.00 £32.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £37.00 £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -5.66%
Legal
South West

Legal
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire Legal Hourly Rate Trend

Legal
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Games
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
1 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (50.00%) TOGAF
1 2 (50.00%) DoDAF
1 2 (50.00%) MODAF
1 2 (50.00%) Use Case
1 2 (50.00%) Time Management
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (50.00%) V-Model
1 2 (50.00%) C
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
1 2 (50.00%) UML
1 2 (50.00%) SOA
2 1 (25.00%) WAN
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management

Legal
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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.

Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) WAN
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Procurement Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
1 2 (50.00%) UML
1 2 (50.00%) SOA
1 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (50.00%) TOGAF
1 2 (50.00%) DoDAF
1 2 (50.00%) MODAF
1 2 (50.00%) Use Case
1 2 (50.00%) Time Management
1 2 (50.00%) V-Model
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) VMware