The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legal in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey 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 Surrey 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 74 90 84
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -6
Contract jobs citing Legal 3 10 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 0.263% 0.608% 0.907%
As % of the General category 0.673% 2.075% 2.391%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 2
Average daily rate £335 £440 £123
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.86% +259.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £203 £385 £113
10% offered a daily rate of more than £467 £551 £133
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £363 £350
% change year-on-year
-6.89% +3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £17.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -12.50%
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
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
446 482 711
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 39.16% 29.28% 37.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 287 362
Average daily rate £400 £378 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.96% -5.62%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £225 £235
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 36 27
Average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +66.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £13.75 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.50 £43.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -3.84%
Legal
South East

Legal
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey Legal Daily Rate Trend

Legal
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Legal across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Surrey Legal Daily Rate Histogram

Legal
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Surrey Legal Hourly Rate Trend

Legal
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Legal within the Surrey region over the 3 months to 17 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
Woking - 1 £170 -
Legal
South East

Legal
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 9 (60.00%) Publishing
2 8 (53.33%) XML
3 7 (46.67%) XSLT
3 7 (46.67%) Python
3 7 (46.67%) XQuery
3 7 (46.67%) Internet
4 3 (20.00%) Law
5 2 (13.33%) Marketing
5 2 (13.33%) Service Delivery
5 2 (13.33%) Finance
5 2 (13.33%) ISEB
5 2 (13.33%) SQL
5 2 (13.33%) SLA
5 2 (13.33%) Scrum
6 1 (6.667%) Teradata
6 1 (6.667%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (6.667%) Banking
6 1 (6.667%) Document Management
6 1 (6.667%) Software Testing
6 1 (6.667%) Microsoft
6 1 (6.667%) Visual Studio
6 1 (6.667%) PMP
6 1 (6.667%) PMI Certification
6 1 (6.667%) Active Directory
6 1 (6.667%) LDAP
6 1 (6.667%) SharePoint
6 1 (6.667%) ETL
6 1 (6.667%) Kerberos
6 1 (6.667%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (6.667%) Windows

Legal
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 8 (53.33%) XML
2 7 (46.67%) XSLT
3 1 (6.667%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 1 (6.667%) SharePoint
1 1 (6.667%) WorkSite
Communications & Networking
1 7 (46.67%) Internet
2 1 (6.667%) LDAP
2 1 (6.667%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.667%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 1 (6.667%) Visual Studio
1 1 (6.667%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 9 (60.00%) Publishing
2 3 (20.00%) Law
3 2 (13.33%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Marketing
4 1 (6.667%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) Web Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Content Editor
2 2 (13.33%) XML Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Analyst
3 1 (6.667%) Test Manager
3 1 (6.667%) Test Analyst
3 1 (6.667%) Web Developer
3 1 (6.667%) Commercial Manager
3 1 (6.667%) Programmer
3 1 (6.667%) Test Engineer
3 1 (6.667%) IT Trainer
3 1 (6.667%) Bid Manager
3 1 (6.667%) Technical Manager
3 1 (6.667%) QA Engineer
3 1 (6.667%) Contracts Manager
3 1 (6.667%) Environment Manager
3 1 (6.667%) Security Manager
3 1 (6.667%) Python Developer
3 1 (6.667%) Python Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.667%) Management Information System
1 1 (6.667%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.667%) Windows
1 1 (6.667%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (13.33%) Scrum
1 2 (13.33%) Service Delivery
2 1 (6.667%) Identity Management
2 1 (6.667%) Risk Management
2 1 (6.667%) UML
2 1 (6.667%) ETL
2 1 (6.667%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (6.667%) Project Management
2 1 (6.667%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (6.667%) Document Management
2 1 (6.667%) Software Testing
2 1 (6.667%) Fund Management
2 1 (6.667%) System Testing
2 1 (6.667%) Investment Management
2 1 (6.667%) Data Protection
2 1 (6.667%) Security Architecture
2 1 (6.667%) BDD
2 1 (6.667%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) Python
1 7 (46.67%) XQuery
2 2 (13.33%) SQL
3 1 (6.667%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) ISEB
2 1 (6.667%) PMP
2 1 (6.667%) PMI Certification
2 1 (6.667%) ISTQB
2 1 (6.667%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) SLA
2 1 (6.667%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.667%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (6.667%) Microsoft
1 1 (6.667%) Teradata