Law Contracts in the West Midlands
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Law in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Law over the 3 months to 21 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 West Midlands 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Law
Rank 90 96 82
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -14
Contract jobs citing Law 6 13 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.357% 0.579% 0.645%
As % of the General category 1.156% 1.752% 1.914%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 5
Average daily rate £313 £401 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.97% +33.50%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £400 £300
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £18.50 -
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
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category		 519 742 627
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 30.87% 33.02% 33.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 310 267
Average daily rate £355 £365 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.80% +4.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £248 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £485 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 47 30
Average hourly rate £37.80 £24.00 £30.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+57.50% -21.31%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
- -5.66%
Law
England

Law
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 21 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
Birmingham +3 6 £313 -21.97%
Law
England

Law
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 5 (55.56%) Legal
2 2 (22.22%) SLA
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Windows
2 2 (22.22%) MS Excel
2 2 (22.22%) Windows XP
2 2 (22.22%) Operations Management
2 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (22.22%) Change Management
3 1 (11.11%) .NET Framework
3 1 (11.11%) Time Management
3 1 (11.11%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (11.11%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (11.11%) MS Exchange
3 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
3 1 (11.11%) Windows 2000
3 1 (11.11%) C#
3 1 (11.11%) .NET
3 1 (11.11%) MS Office
3 1 (11.11%) Active Directory

Law
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 (11.11%) .NET Framework
1 1 (11.11%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint 2010
1 1 (11.11%) MS Exchange
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) MS Excel
2 1 (11.11%) MS Office
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 5 (55.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Head of IT
2 3 (33.33%) IT Manager
3 2 (22.22%) IT Director
3 2 (22.22%) Service Manager
3 2 (22.22%) Support Manager
3 2 (22.22%) Service Desk Manager
4 1 (11.11%) SharePoint Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Help Desk Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) 1st Line Support
4 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Service Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
1 2 (22.22%) Windows XP
2 1 (11.11%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (22.22%) Operations Management
1 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (22.22%) Change Management
2 1 (11.11%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
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