Merseyside Legal Jobs

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term 'Legal' in IT jobs within the Merseyside region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Legal over the 3 months to 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aldershot Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Cleveland Cornwall Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnborough Folkestone Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grantham Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hounslow Isle of Man Jersey Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Liversedge London Luton M4 Corridor Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Reigate Romsey Scotland Sheffield Skelmersdale Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southam Southampton St Ives Staffordshire Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Surrey Swindon Tadworth Taunton Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Wells Wembley West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Wolverhampton Wymondham York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	52	55
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching permanent IT job ads	21	21
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.012 %	0.009 %
As % of the category below	5.691 %	5.600 %
Salaries quoted	18	21
Average minimum salary	£24,694	£26,476
Average salary	£25,167	£27,048
% change on same period last year	-6.95 %
Average maximum salary	£25,639	£27,619
UK excluding London average salary	£40,427	£36,068
% change on same period last year	+12.08 %
General Merseyside
Matching permanent IT job ads	369	375
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.215 %	0.161 %
Salaries quoted	327	307
Average minimum salary	£34,130	£34,231
Average salary	£36,619	£36,679
% change on same period last year	-0.16 %
Average maximum salary	£39,107	£39,128
UK excluding London average salary	£41,275	£41,778
% change on same period last year	-1.20 %
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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Legal across the Merseyside region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Legal across the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

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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 Merseyside region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Liverpool	+1	17	£24,967	-7.69 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 16 (37.21 %) .NET 2 13 (30.23 %) SQL Server 3 12 (27.91 %) SQL 3 12 (27.91 %) Finance 4 11 (25.58 %) VB.NET 4 11 (25.58 %) ASP.NET 5 10 (23.26 %) CSS 5 10 (23.26 %) VB 6 9 (20.93 %) C# 6 9 (20.93 %) JavaScript 6 9 (20.93 %) SQL Server 2005 7 8 (18.60 %) Microsoft 8 7 (16.28 %) Visual Studio 9 6 (13.95 %) Law 9 6 (13.95 %) Crystal Reports

9 6 (13.95 %) SQL Server 2000 9 6 (13.95 %) Six Sigma 9 6 (13.95 %) XML 9 6 (13.95 %) AJAX 10 5 (11.63 %) PRINCE2 10 5 (11.63 %) HTML 10 5 (11.63 %) VB6 11 4 (9.302 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 11 4 (9.302 %) Insurance 11 4 (9.302 %) Business Intelligence 11 4 (9.302 %) Intranet 11 4 (9.302 %) Visualfiles 11 4 (9.302 %) Degree 12 3 (6.977 %) QA 12 3 (6.977 %) ASP.NET 2.0

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 16 (37.21 %) .NET 2 11 (25.58 %) ASP.NET 3 10 (23.26 %) CSS 4 6 (13.95 %) XML 4 6 (13.95 %) AJAX 5 5 (11.63 %) HTML 6 3 (6.977 %) ASP.NET 2.0 6 3 (6.977 %) XHTML 7 2 (4.651 %) WebServices 7 2 (4.651 %) ADO.NET 7 2 (4.651 %) ASP 8 1 (2.326 %) WinForms	Application Platforms 1 3 (6.977 %) CMS 2 1 (2.326 %) IIS
Applications 1 3 (6.977 %) MS Office 2 2 (4.651 %) MS Excel 3 1 (2.326 %) Adobe Illustrator 3 1 (2.326 %) Photoshop	Communications & Networking 1 4 (9.302 %) Intranet 2 1 (2.326 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 13 (30.23 %) SQL Server 2 9 (20.93 %) SQL Server 2005 3 6 (13.95 %) Crystal Reports 3 6 (13.95 %) SQL Server 2000 4 4 (9.302 %) SQL Server Reporting Services	Development Applications 1 7 (16.28 %) Visual Studio
General 1 12 (27.91 %) Finance 2 6 (13.95 %) Law 3 4 (9.302 %) Insurance 4 2 (4.651 %) Health 5 1 (2.326 %) Banking	Job Titles 1 22 (51.16 %) Developer 2 11 (25.58 %) Analyst 3 7 (16.28 %) Software Developer 3 7 (16.28 %) Business Analyst 4 6 (13.95 %) .NET Developer 4 6 (13.95 %) Web Developer 5 5 (11.63 %) VB.NET Developer 6 4 (9.302 %) ASP.NET Developer 7 3 (6.977 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 7 3 (6.977 %) QA Manager 8 2 (4.651 %) VB Developer 8 2 (4.651 %) IT Trainer 8 2 (4.651 %) Helpdesk Support 8 2 (4.651 %) Trainer 8 2 (4.651 %) Support Technician 8 2 (4.651 %) Administrator 8 2 (4.651 %) VB6 Developer 8 2 (4.651 %) Information Analyst 8 2 (4.651 %) IT Administrator 8 2 (4.651 %) Helpdesk Technician
Operating Systems 1 1 (2.326 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (13.95 %) Six Sigma 2 5 (11.63 %) PRINCE2 3 4 (9.302 %) Business Intelligence 4 3 (6.977 %) ITIL 4 3 (6.977 %) Migration 5 2 (4.651 %) Web Development 5 2 (4.651 %) GAP Analysis 6 1 (2.326 %) BPR 6 1 (2.326 %) Project Management
Programming Languages 1 12 (27.91 %) SQL 2 11 (25.58 %) VB.NET 3 10 (23.26 %) VB 4 9 (20.93 %) JavaScript 4 9 (20.93 %) C# 5 5 (11.63 %) VB6 6 2 (4.651 %) Transact-SQL 7 1 (2.326 %) DHTML	Qualifications 1 4 (9.302 %) Degree 2 3 (6.977 %) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (6.977 %) QA	Vendors 1 8 (18.60 %) Microsoft 2 4 (9.302 %) Visualfiles 3 1 (2.326 %) Citrix