The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legal in IT jobs advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Legal 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 Kent region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Legal
Rank 33 71 86
Rank change year-on-year
+38 +15
Permanent jobs citing Legal 72 3 16
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 6.239% 0.425% 1.525%
As % of the General category 13.02% 1.027% 4.222%
Number of salaries quoted 59 3 15
Average salary £40,500 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.25% -
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £34,000 £32,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £43,200 £40,900
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All of the General Category
Kent
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
553 292 379
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 47.92% 41.36% 36.13%
Number of salaries quoted 468 255 333
Average salary £40,500 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.00% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £25,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £57,500 £50,600
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
Legal
South East

Legal
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent Legal Jobs Demand Trend

Legal
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Legal across the Kent region.

Kent Legal Salary Trend

Legal
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Legal across the Kent region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Kent Legal Salary Histogram

Legal
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Legal within the Kent 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Sittingbourne - 2 - -
Maidstone - 1 £50,000 -
Legal
South East

Legal
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Legal.

1 53 (46.90%) Banking
1 53 (46.90%) Investment Banking
2 51 (45.13%) Finance
3 48 (42.48%) .NET
4 39 (34.51%) Java
4 39 (34.51%) JavaScript
5 36 (31.86%) Agile Software Development
6 33 (29.20%) Computer Science
7 31 (27.43%) C#
8 30 (26.55%) SQL
9 26 (23.01%) SQL Server
10 25 (22.12%) OOD
11 24 (21.24%) ASP.NET
11 24 (21.24%) CSS
12 23 (20.35%) HTML
12 23 (20.35%) Spring
12 23 (20.35%) WCF
12 23 (20.35%) Degree
13 21 (18.58%) Risk Management
14 20 (17.70%) OO
15 17 (15.04%) .NET Framework
16 16 (14.16%) Data Management
16 16 (14.16%) Management Information System
16 16 (14.16%) Web Services
17 15 (13.27%) IIS
17 15 (13.27%) Ajax
17 15 (13.27%) Multithreading
17 15 (13.27%) Mobile App
17 15 (13.27%) Mobile Application Development
18 14 (12.39%) SharePoint 2010

Legal
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Legal. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 48 (42.48%) .NET
2 24 (21.24%) ASP.NET
2 24 (21.24%) CSS
3 23 (20.35%) HTML
3 23 (20.35%) Spring
3 23 (20.35%) WCF
4 17 (15.04%) .NET Framework
5 16 (14.16%) Web Services
6 15 (13.27%) Ajax
7 14 (12.39%) XHTML
8 13 (11.50%) RESTful
8 13 (11.50%) AngularJS
9 11 (9.735%) RSS
9 11 (9.735%) WinForms
9 11 (9.735%) WPF
9 11 (9.735%) WF
10 7 (6.195%) MFC
10 7 (6.195%) ATL
11 6 (5.310%) Hibernate
12 4 (3.540%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 15 (13.27%) IIS
2 14 (12.39%) SharePoint 2010
2 14 (12.39%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.655%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (0.885%) Visualfiles
Communications & Networking
1 13 (11.50%) Intranet
1 13 (11.50%) Internet
2 12 (10.62%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.770%) Firewall
3 2 (1.770%) VoIP
4 1 (0.885%) SAN
4 1 (0.885%) WAN
4 1 (0.885%) LAN
4 1 (0.885%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (23.01%) SQL Server
2 14 (12.39%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 14 (12.39%) Team Foundation Server
2 3 (2.655%) QuickTest Pro
2 3 (2.655%) Eclipse
2 3 (2.655%) Visual Studio
General
1 53 (46.90%) Banking
1 53 (46.90%) Investment Banking
2 51 (45.13%) Finance
3 13 (11.50%) Multimedia
4 8 (7.080%) Law
5 7 (6.195%) Pharmaceutical
6 6 (5.310%) Telecoms
7 4 (3.540%) Retail
8 2 (1.770%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.770%) Advertising
9 1 (0.885%) Games
9 1 (0.885%) Electronics
9 1 (0.885%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.885%) Marketing
9 1 (0.885%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 67 (59.29%) Developer
2 36 (31.86%) Java Developer
3 19 (16.81%) .NET Developer
4 16 (14.16%) ASP.NET Developer
5 12 (10.62%) FPGA Engineer
6 8 (7.080%) Software Engineer
6 8 (7.080%) Analyst
6 8 (7.080%) Business Analyst
6 8 (7.080%) C# Developer
7 7 (6.195%) Web Developer
8 6 (5.310%) Front-End Developer
9 5 (4.425%) C# ASP.NET Developer
9 5 (4.425%) C# .NET Developer
10 4 (3.540%) Graduate Java Developer
10 4 (3.540%) Graduate Developer
10 4 (3.540%) Lead Java Developer
10 4 (3.540%) Lead Developer
10 4 (3.540%) Graduate
11 3 (2.655%) Junior
11 3 (2.655%) Technical Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 33 (29.20%) Computer Science
2 16 (14.16%) Management Information System
3 15 (13.27%) Mobile App
4 13 (11.50%) Mathematics
5 12 (10.62%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
5 12 (10.62%) VHDL
5 12 (10.62%) Verilog
5 12 (10.62%) ASIC
6 1 (0.885%) Equities
6 1 (0.885%) Social Network
6 1 (0.885%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.62%) UNIX
2 3 (2.655%) Linux
3 2 (1.770%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (1.770%) Windows
3 2 (1.770%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (0.885%) AIX
4 1 (0.885%) HPUX
4 1 (0.885%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (31.86%) Agile Software Development
2 25 (22.12%) OOD
3 21 (18.58%) Risk Management
4 20 (17.70%) OO
5 16 (14.16%) Data Management
6 15 (13.27%) Multithreading
6 15 (13.27%) Mobile Application Development
7 14 (12.39%) E-Commerce
8 12 (10.62%) System Testing
8 12 (10.62%) Unit Testing
9 9 (7.965%) Web Development
10 8 (7.080%) UML
10 8 (7.080%) Data Protection
11 7 (6.195%) Video Processing
12 4 (3.540%) ITIL
12 4 (3.540%) Project Management
13 3 (2.655%) RAD
13 3 (2.655%) Regression Testing
13 3 (2.655%) Automated Testing
13 3 (2.655%) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages
1 39 (34.51%) Java
1 39 (34.51%) JavaScript
2 31 (27.43%) C#
3 30 (26.55%) SQL
4 11 (9.735%) C++
5 9 (7.965%) PHP
5 9 (7.965%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.885%) VBA
Qualifications
1 23 (20.35%) Degree
2 2 (1.770%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.885%) CISSP
3 1 (0.885%) CISA
3 1 (0.885%) CISM
3 1 (0.885%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.655%) QA
2 1 (0.885%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (0.885%) SLA
2 1 (0.885%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (1.770%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (2.655%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (1.770%) Norton AntiVirus
3 1 (0.885%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (10.62%) Altera
2 9 (7.965%) Oracle
3 3 (2.655%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.655%) Sybase
4 2 (1.770%) SAP
4 2 (1.770%) Avaya
4 2 (1.770%) Symantec
5 1 (0.885%) Websense
5 1 (0.885%) HP