Legal Contracts in the South West

Legal
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legal in contract job vacancies advertised in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Legal over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 79 129 117
Rank change year-on-year +50 -12 -6
Contract jobs citing Legal 71 41 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.23% 1.14% 1.36%
As % of the General category 4.35% 2.32% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 28 42
10th Percentile £200 £200 £266
25th Percentile £208 £344 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £469
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +1.33% +3.62%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £582
90th Percentile £648 £691 £757
England median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 11 0
10th Percentile £23.63 - -
25th Percentile £40.00 £13.25 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £17.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +171.43% - -
75th Percentile £57.50 £18.36 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £22.16 £36.94
% change year-on-year +80.51% -40.01% +75.89%

All General Skills
South West

Legal is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,631 1,770 1,901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 51.27% 49.08% 50.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 971 1,307 1,327
10th Percentile £213 £275 £238
25th Percentile £408 £413 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £493
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +11.47% +5.91%
75th Percentile £625 £635 £588
90th Percentile £700 £713 £675
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 268 121 137
10th Percentile £13.69 £17.50 -
25th Percentile £22.27 £37.50 £15.90
Median hourly rate £46.39 £60.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.68% +34.83% +11.25%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £55.83
90th Percentile £75.75 £87.50 £65.25
England median hourly rate £30.16 £32.30 £21.50
% change year-on-year -6.63% +50.23% -4.44%

Legal
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Legal as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Legal in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Legal in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Legal in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legal in the South West over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Legal in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Legal in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Legal in the South West

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Legal in the South West over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Legal in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Legal within the South West region over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bristol +34 33 £500 +17.65% 60
Devon - 8 £475 - 46
Gloucestershire +9 7 £700 +113.74% 35
Somerset +7 7 £575 +4.55% 25
Dorset +3 7 £175 - 13
Wiltshire +1 4 £725 +23.40% 17
Cornwall - 2 £200 - 4
Legal
England

Legal
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (5.63%) Apache Solr
1 4 (5.63%) nginx
2 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (7.04%) Simulink
1 5 (7.04%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (1.41%) SAP CO
2 1 (1.41%) SAP FI
2 1 (1.41%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (1.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (18.31%) Azure
2 9 (12.68%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (9.86%) AWS
4 6 (8.45%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (7.04%) GCP
6 3 (4.23%) WhatsApp
7 2 (2.82%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.41%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.41%) IaaS
8 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.04%) Firewall
2 4 (5.63%) DNS
2 4 (5.63%) FTP
2 4 (5.63%) HTTPS
2 4 (5.63%) IPsec
2 4 (5.63%) LAN
2 4 (5.63%) SAN
2 4 (5.63%) TCP/IP
2 4 (5.63%) WAN
3 2 (2.82%) VPN
4 1 (1.41%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (1.41%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.63%) Couchbase
1 4 (5.63%) MySQL
1 4 (5.63%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (12.68%) JIRA
2 6 (8.45%) Artifactory
2 6 (8.45%) SonarQube
General
1 20 (28.17%) Social Skills
2 10 (14.08%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (14.08%) Finance
3 5 (7.04%) Automotive
3 5 (7.04%) Law
4 4 (5.63%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.23%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.41%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.41%) General Ledger
6 1 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.41%) Local Government
6 1 (1.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (12.68%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (11.27%) Analyst
2 8 (11.27%) IT Manager
2 8 (11.27%) Lead
2 8 (11.27%) Project Manager
2 8 (11.27%) Support Engineer
3 7 (9.86%) Compliance Analyst
3 7 (9.86%) Data Analyst
3 7 (9.86%) Data Compliance Analyst
4 5 (7.04%) IT Project Manager
4 5 (7.04%) Software Engineer
5 4 (5.63%) Architect
5 4 (5.63%) IT Engineer
5 4 (5.63%) Network Engineer
5 4 (5.63%) Security Architect
6 3 (4.23%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
6 3 (4.23%) 1st/2nd Line Technical Support
6 3 (4.23%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 3 (4.23%) 2nd Line Technical Support
6 3 (4.23%) 2nd Line Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.08%) YAML
2 4 (5.63%) JSON
2 4 (5.63%) LEMP Stack
2 4 (5.63%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.08%) Management Information System
2 5 (7.04%) Algorithms
2 5 (7.04%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (5.63%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.63%) Replication
4 3 (4.23%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.82%) Cyber Security Posture
5 2 (2.82%) Cyberattack
6 1 (1.41%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.41%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.41%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.41%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.41%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (11.27%) Linux
2 6 (8.45%) Windows
3 4 (5.63%) CentOS
3 4 (5.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (28.17%) Data Protection
2 13 (18.31%) Continuous Improvement
2 13 (18.31%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (15.49%) Agile
3 11 (15.49%) Software Engineering
4 10 (14.08%) CI/CD
4 10 (14.08%) DevOps
4 10 (14.08%) Software Delivery
5 9 (12.68%) Project Management
6 8 (11.27%) Incident Response
7 7 (9.86%) Change Management
7 7 (9.86%) Cybersecurity
7 7 (9.86%) Data Governance
7 7 (9.86%) Incident Management
7 7 (9.86%) ITIL
7 7 (9.86%) Migration
7 7 (9.86%) SIEM
7 7 (9.86%) SOAR
7 7 (9.86%) Use Case
8 6 (8.45%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (8.45%) Bash
1 6 (8.45%) PowerShell
2 5 (7.04%) MATLAB
3 4 (5.63%) PHP
4 3 (4.23%) JavaScript
4 3 (4.23%) Python
Qualifications
1 21 (29.58%) Security Cleared
2 8 (11.27%) CISSP
2 8 (11.27%) SC Cleared
3 7 (9.86%) DV Cleared
4 5 (7.04%) CISM
5 2 (2.82%) CRISC
5 2 (2.82%) DBS Check
5 2 (2.82%) Degree
6 1 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.41%) CCNP
6 1 (1.41%) CCSP
6 1 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.41%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.41%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (16.90%) GDPR
2 10 (14.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (9.86%) NIST
4 5 (7.04%) HIPAA
5 4 (5.63%) QA
6 3 (4.23%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (2.82%) NCSC
8 1 (1.41%) Accessibility
8 1 (1.41%) Data Quality
8 1 (1.41%) GRC
8 1 (1.41%) PCI DSS
8 1 (1.41%) SOC 2
8 1 (1.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (8.45%) Docker
2 4 (5.63%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (5.63%) VMware NSX
3 2 (2.82%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (14.08%) Ansible
1 10 (14.08%) Terraform
2 4 (5.63%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.63%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 13 (18.31%) Microsoft
2 7 (9.86%) Splunk
3 5 (7.04%) Google
3 5 (7.04%) VMware
4 4 (5.63%) CheckPoint
4 4 (5.63%) Cisco
4 4 (5.63%) Palo Alto
4 4 (5.63%) Veeam
5 2 (2.82%) Remedy
6 1 (1.41%) SAP
6 1 (1.41%) ServiceNow