The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legal in IT jobs advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Legal over the 3 months to 23 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 South West region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Legal
Rank 88 160 167
Rank change year-on-year
+72 +7
Permanent jobs citing Legal 136 54 51
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 2.592% 0.972% 0.834%
As % of the General category 6.637% 2.480% 2.202%
Number of salaries quoted 99 45 46
Average salary £35,250 £33,000 £30,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.81% +7.31%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £26,000 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £40,900 £47,250
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All of the General Category
South West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
2049 2177 2316
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 39.05% 39.20% 37.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1685 1758 1889
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £26,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £62,500 £57,150
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
Legal
England

Legal
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West 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 South West region.

South West Legal Salary Trend

Legal
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Legal across the South West region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

South West 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 South West region over the 3 months to 23 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
Bristol +38 112 £37,500 +20.00%
Wiltshire +20 11 £32,500 -18.75%
Somerset -6 3 £35,250 +4.44%
Gloucestershire +9 2 £48,750 -4.87%
Devon +1 1 - -
Dorset -14 1 £22,500 -
Legal
England

Legal
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the South West 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.

1 130 (45.77%) SQL
2 114 (40.14%) .NET
3 107 (37.68%) C#
4 87 (30.63%) ASP.NET
5 76 (26.76%) Microsoft
5 76 (26.76%) Finance
6 68 (23.94%) SQL Server
7 63 (22.18%) MS Excel
8 60 (21.13%) Project Management
8 60 (21.13%) Management Information System
9 59 (20.77%) Degree
10 57 (20.07%) SharePoint
11 45 (15.85%) Agile Software Development
12 43 (15.14%) MVC
13 42 (14.79%) Scrum
14 36 (12.68%) Law
14 36 (12.68%) UML
14 36 (12.68%) Windows
15 35 (12.32%) T-SQL
16 32 (11.27%) Banking
16 32 (11.27%) Test Scripting
17 31 (10.92%) Marketing
18 30 (10.56%) QA
19 29 (10.21%) MS Office
20 28 (9.859%) Web Services
20 28 (9.859%) SQL Server Reporting Services
21 26 (9.155%) Computer Science
21 26 (9.155%) User Acceptance Testing
22 25 (8.803%) WCF
22 25 (8.803%) ITIL

Legal
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the South West 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
1 114 (40.14%) .NET
2 87 (30.63%) ASP.NET
3 28 (9.859%) Web Services
4 25 (8.803%) WCF
5 20 (7.042%) .NET Framework
5 20 (7.042%) ASP.NET MVC
6 16 (5.634%) LINQ
7 13 (4.577%) Ajax
7 13 (4.577%) jQuery
8 12 (4.225%) WPF
8 12 (4.225%) XML
9 11 (3.873%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
10 7 (2.465%) ASP.NET MVC 3
11 5 (1.761%) HTML
11 5 (1.761%) CSS
11 5 (1.761%) Silverlight
12 3 (1.056%) WinForms
13 2 (0.704%) soapUI
13 2 (0.704%) XML Messaging
14 1 (0.352%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 57 (20.07%) SharePoint
2 16 (5.634%) SharePoint 2010
2 16 (5.634%) SharePoint Server
2 16 (5.634%) IIS
3 10 (3.521%) MS Exchange
4 5 (1.761%) CMS
4 5 (1.761%) Exchange Server 2010
5 4 (1.408%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 3 (1.056%) Exchange Server 2003
7 2 (0.704%) SAS
8 1 (0.352%) WorkSite
8 1 (0.352%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 63 (22.18%) MS Excel
2 29 (10.21%) MS Office
3 7 (2.465%) MS Visio
4 5 (1.761%) MS Project
5 2 (0.704%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 21 (7.394%) Visualfiles
2 5 (1.761%) SmartPlant
3 4 (1.408%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.352%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.577%) Firewall
2 10 (3.521%) WAN
2 10 (3.521%) LAN
2 10 (3.521%) SAN
3 9 (3.169%) VPN
4 8 (2.817%) Network Security
5 7 (2.465%) VoIP
5 7 (2.465%) BGP
5 7 (2.465%) OSPF
5 7 (2.465%) IPsec
5 7 (2.465%) DMVPN
6 5 (1.761%) SMS
7 4 (1.408%) NAS
7 4 (1.408%) SMTP
7 4 (1.408%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.408%) DNS
7 4 (1.408%) Intranet
7 4 (1.408%) Internet
8 3 (1.056%) DHCP
8 3 (1.056%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (23.94%) SQL Server
2 28 (9.859%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 22 (7.746%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 16 (5.634%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (4.225%) SQL Server 2008
6 11 (3.873%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 5 (1.761%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 5 (1.761%) SQL Server 2005
8 4 (1.408%) Oracle 8/8i
9 1 (0.352%) MS Access
9 1 (0.352%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.352%) Base SAS
9 1 (0.352%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 19 (6.690%) Team Foundation Server
1 19 (6.690%) NUnit
2 18 (6.338%) Visual Studio
3 6 (2.113%) Subversion
4 5 (1.761%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 5 (1.761%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
5 4 (1.408%) QuickTest Pro
6 2 (0.704%) MSTest
General
1 76 (26.76%) Finance
2 36 (12.68%) Law
3 32 (11.27%) Banking
4 31 (10.92%) Marketing
5 15 (5.282%) Telecoms
6 11 (3.873%) Aerospace
7 9 (3.169%) Retail
8 5 (1.761%) Military
9 3 (1.056%) German Language
10 2 (0.704%) Publishing
11 1 (0.352%) Electronics
11 1 (0.352%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 88 (30.99%) Developer
2 61 (21.48%) Analyst
3 30 (10.56%) .NET Developer
4 25 (8.803%) SharePoint Developer
5 24 (8.451%) Project Manager
6 18 (6.338%) Business Analyst
7 16 (5.634%) Software Developer
7 16 (5.634%) Senior QA Engineer
7 16 (5.634%) QA Engineer
7 16 (5.634%) Team Leader
8 15 (5.282%) Software Engineer
9 14 (4.930%) Senior Software Engineer
10 13 (4.577%) MI Analyst
11 10 (3.521%) C# .NET Developer
11 10 (3.521%) C# Developer
11 10 (3.521%) IT Project Manager
11 10 (3.521%) Consultant
12 9 (3.169%) Senior .NET Developer
12 9 (3.169%) Administrator
12 9 (3.169%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 60 (21.13%) Management Information System
2 26 (9.155%) Computer Science
3 12 (4.225%) Economics
4 9 (3.169%) SWIFT
4 9 (3.169%) Informatics
5 8 (2.817%) CESG
6 6 (2.113%) Video Conferencing
7 5 (1.761%) Handset
7 5 (1.761%) Clustering
7 5 (1.761%) iPhone
7 5 (1.761%) Open Source
8 4 (1.408%) SaaS
8 4 (1.408%) Blackberry
9 3 (1.056%) PMI
9 3 (1.056%) RMADS
9 3 (1.056%) PKI
9 3 (1.056%) Mathematics
10 2 (0.704%) Physics
10 2 (0.704%) Statistics
10 2 (0.704%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 36 (12.68%) Windows
2 9 (3.169%) Linux
2 9 (3.169%) Windows 7
3 7 (2.465%) Windows Server 2008
4 6 (2.113%) Windows Server 2003
5 5 (1.761%) Android
5 5 (1.761%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.056%) Windows XP
7 2 (0.704%) UNIX
8 1 (0.352%) Solaris
8 1 (0.352%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (21.13%) Project Management
2 45 (15.85%) Agile Software Development
3 43 (15.14%) MVC
4 42 (14.79%) Scrum
5 36 (12.68%) UML
6 32 (11.27%) Test Scripting
7 26 (9.155%) User Acceptance Testing
8 25 (8.803%) ITIL
9 24 (8.451%) OO
10 22 (7.746%) ETL
10 22 (7.746%) PRINCE2
11 21 (7.394%) Business Continuity
12 20 (7.042%) Manual Testing
13 16 (5.634%) Kimball Methodology
13 16 (5.634%) PRINCE
14 15 (5.282%) OOP
15 14 (4.930%) Automated Testing
15 14 (4.930%) Software Engineering
16 13 (4.577%) Information Security
16 13 (4.577%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 130 (45.77%) SQL
2 107 (37.68%) C#
3 35 (12.32%) T-SQL
4 21 (7.394%) C
5 18 (6.338%) JavaScript
6 15 (5.282%) VBA
7 11 (3.873%) VB
8 9 (3.169%) Java
9 7 (2.465%) C++
10 5 (1.761%) PHP
11 4 (1.408%) VBScript
12 2 (0.704%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.352%) Assembly Language
13 1 (0.352%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 59 (20.77%) Degree
2 17 (5.986%) Security Cleared
3 15 (5.282%) CCNA
3 15 (5.282%) Cisco Certification
4 12 (4.225%) Microsoft Certification
4 12 (4.225%) ISEB
5 11 (3.873%) MCSE
6 10 (3.521%) SC Cleared
7 9 (3.169%) DV Cleared
8 7 (2.465%) CCDP
8 7 (2.465%) CCNP
8 7 (2.465%) CISSP
9 6 (2.113%) MCSA
10 5 (1.761%) PMP
10 5 (1.761%) PMI Certification
10 5 (1.761%) APMP
11 4 (1.408%) CISM
12 3 (1.056%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 2 (0.704%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.704%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (10.56%) QA
2 19 (6.690%) SLA
3 10 (3.521%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (3.169%) Basel II
4 9 (3.169%) Solvency II
5 5 (1.761%) JTAG
6 3 (1.056%) BS25999
6 3 (1.056%) COBIT
7 2 (0.704%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (6.338%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.704%) Terminal Services
3 1 (0.352%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.352%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.352%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 9 (3.169%) HP Quality Center
2 5 (1.761%) MOM
2 5 (1.761%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 1 (0.352%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 76 (26.76%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.338%) Cisco
3 12 (4.225%) HP
4 9 (3.169%) Citrix
4 9 (3.169%) SAP
5 7 (2.465%) Juniper
5 7 (2.465%) CheckPoint
6 6 (2.113%) Oracle
7 5 (1.761%) Intel
7 5 (1.761%) Symbian
8 4 (1.408%) F5
8 4 (1.408%) Infoblox
9 3 (1.056%) Interwoven
9 3 (1.056%) Intergraph
9 3 (1.056%) VMware
10 2 (0.704%) IBM
11 1 (0.352%) Websense
11 1 (0.352%) Ariba
11 1 (0.352%) Avaya
11 1 (0.352%) Lotus
Bristol, South West
You should have experience with a number of programming languages such as C#, SQL and ASP.Net.You must have an advanced understanding of SharePoint 2010 and proven...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £35000.00 - £45000.00 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
South West England
Windows 2000, MS Office, XP, VPN, Dell, HP, Printers, Laptop, ITIL). Global organisation are looking for a Desktop Field Engineer to work across their Offices in the South...
Streamline IT Recruitment
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum + bens
Posted: 23 May 2013
South West
Windows 2000, MS Office, XP, VPN, Dell, HP, Printers, Laptop, ITIL)... In depth knowledge of Windows 2000, MS Office, XP, VPN, Dell, HP, Printers, Laptop, ITIL and excellent...
Streamline Connections
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum + bens
Posted: 22 May 2013
Bristol, South West
You will use the latest Microsoft technologies including ASP.Net 4.5 C#, MVC3, WPF and WCF... Experience requiredYou must have proven experience with ASP.Net C# and...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £35000.00 - £40000.00 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Bristol, Avon
Evolve the existing Test Strategy and Test elements of SDLC in collaboration with the team lead... - Use of test tools and test software as defined within the test...
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Salary: £28000 - £35000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Bristol, South West
Huxley Associates are on the lookout for a Project and Contracts Manager to work for a growing and successful engineering consultancy based inBristol. My client is looking for...
Huxley Associates
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Bristol, Avon
You will get trained on: (the ideal candidate will have as many of the following skills) * Windows and Exchange Server * SharePoint 2010 * WAN, LAN * Telephony systems such as...
Senitor Associates
Salary: £24000 - £37000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
Wiltshire
Skills & Experience Essential: Expert knowledge of ISO27001:2005... Previous experience of developing RMADS i.a.w... Familiar with the provisions of applicable legislation (including the Data Protection Act)...
Experis IT
Posted: 20 May 2013
South West
South West Insurance £70,000 - £85,000 + excellent benefits I am currently seeking a Financial Controller to join a leading insurer based in the South West. This is...
Volaris Exec
Salary: £70000 - £85000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Bristol, Avon
Experience of SIT, UAT, PAT, message based testing... Experience of Test Environment requirements, management and configuration control. Experience of testing XML messaging, SOA and webservices (including use of...
Boeing
Salary: Competitive salary
Posted: 8 May 2013