The first part of the table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legal in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Legal over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our General category.

Legal
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank185198172
Rank change year-on-year
Up+13Down-26
Matching permanent IT job ads167814941220
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK1.392 %1.218 %1.278 %
As % of the General category3.092 %2.519 %2.621 %
Number of salaries quoted13601263887
Average salary£42,500£45,000£40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.55 %+12.50 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£27,000£24,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£68,250£75,000£72,500
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£40,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
-+14.28 %
IT Job Market, General CategoryAll General Category
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
542715931346540
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK45.01 %48.37 %48.74 %
Number of salaries quoted456244848337646
Average salary£50,000£52,500£52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.76 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£30,000£30,000£30,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£80,000£85,000£85,000
UK excluding London average salary£42,500£41,000£40,000
% change year-on-year
+3.65 %+2.50 %

Legal
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Legal within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Legal Demand Trend

Legal
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Legal within the UK.

Legal Salary Trend

Legal
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Legal over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 within the UK.

Legal Salary Histogram

Legal
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandUp+11608£42,500-5.55 %
LondonUp+5963£44,000-12.00 %
City of LondonUp+40238£42,500-10.52 %
South EastDown-18171£44,000+10.00 %
YorkshireUp+19114£37,500+7.14 %
West YorkshireUp+19105£37,500+7.14 %
North WestDown-8103£34,000-28.42 %
SurreyUp+2276£52,500+118.75 %
East MidlandsUp+1773£40,000+6.66 %
ManchesterDown-971£34,000-43.09 %
LeedsUp+1367£35,000+5.26 %
East of EnglandUp+564£55,000+29.41 %
South WestNo change056£33,500+11.66 %
BristolUp+1543£33,000+4.76 %
NottinghamshireUp+3036£45,000+20.00 %
West MidlandsDown-2836£41,250-36.53 %
HertfordshireUp+1032£56,500+32.94 %
NottinghamUp+1830£45,000+20.00 %
BirminghamUp+528£45,000+16.88 %
BerkshireDown-2927£60,000+33.33 %
HampshireDown-2225£40,000-
EghamUp+623£50,000-
NorthamptonUp+2021£38,000+11.76 %
NorthamptonshireUp+1621£38,000+11.76 %
ScotlandUp+820£28,000-30.00 %
EssexDown-418£51,250+45.90 %
CheshireUp+117£35,000-
EdinburghUp+2215£27,500-43.58 %
ReadingDown-1614£51,250+20.58 %
DerbyshireUp+1213£26,000+18.18 %

Legal
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

11318 (40.07 %)Finance
2959 (29.16 %)Law
3690 (20.98 %)Microsoft
4672 (20.43 %)Windows
5584 (17.76 %)MS Office
6554 (16.84 %)SQL
7511 (15.54 %)MS Excel
8462 (14.05 %).NET
9445 (13.53 %)Degree
10389 (11.83 %)Project Management
11376 (11.43 %)Document Management
12368 (11.19 %)Banking
13362 (11.01 %)ITIL
14352 (10.70 %)C#
15310 (9.425 %)Marketing
16285 (8.665 %)SharePoint
17281 (8.544 %)Active Directory
18278 (8.452 %)SQL Server
19250 (7.601 %)Service Delivery
20245 (7.449 %)Windows XP
21234 (7.115 %)Citrix
22231 (7.023 %)ASP.NET
23230 (6.993 %)Telecoms
24215 (6.537 %)Blackberry
25214 (6.507 %)XML
26213 (6.476 %)Risk Management
27200 (6.081 %)HTML
28196 (5.959 %)Investment Banking
29194 (5.898 %)Workflow
30185 (5.625 %)SAP

Legal
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1462 (14.05 %).NET
2231 (7.023 %)ASP.NET
3214 (6.507 %)XML
4200 (6.081 %)HTML
5132 (4.013 %)CSS
6108 (3.284 %).NET Framework
782 (2.493 %)Web Services
881 (2.463 %)jQuery
970 (2.128 %)WCF
1056 (1.703 %)ASP
1154 (1.642 %)WinForms
1253 (1.611 %)Spring
1351 (1.551 %)XSLT
1447 (1.429 %)SOAP
1447 (1.429 %)WPF
1537 (1.125 %)REST
1634 (1.034 %)Silverlight
1634 (1.034 %)J2EE
1732 (0.973 %)Java RMI
1732 (0.973 %)XML-RPC
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1285 (8.665 %)SharePoint
2167 (5.078 %)MS Exchange
3121 (3.679 %)CMS
479 (2.402 %)SharePoint 2010
578 (2.372 %)WorkSite
672 (2.189 %)Exchange Server 2010
770 (2.128 %)IIS
865 (1.976 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
957 (1.733 %)Exchange Server 2003
1050 (1.520 %)SharePoint Server
1141 (1.247 %)Exchange Server 2007
1237 (1.125 %)Lotus Notes
1332 (0.973 %)Apache
1426 (0.791 %)Drupal
1518 (0.547 %)Joomla!
1617 (0.517 %)Tomcat
1617 (0.517 %)WebLogic
1617 (0.517 %)BizTalk Server
1713 (0.395 %)WordPress
1812 (0.365 %)TeamSite
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1584 (17.76 %)MS Office
2511 (15.54 %)MS Excel
3146 (4.439 %)MS Visio
4129 (3.922 %)MS PowerPoint
538 (1.155 %)MS Project
633 (1.003 %)Spreadsheet
716 (0.486 %)DeltaView
811 (0.334 %)Photoshop
910 (0.304 %)FrameMaker
106 (0.182 %)InfoPath
114 (0.122 %)Adobe Captivate
122 (0.061 %)SPSS
122 (0.061 %)RoboHelp
131 (0.030 %)MATLAB
131 (0.030 %)GIMP
131 (0.030 %)Office 365
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
159 (1.794 %)Visualfiles
250 (1.520 %)SAP CO
347 (1.429 %)SAP FI
347 (1.429 %)SAP FI/CO
440 (1.216 %)Oracle EBS
530 (0.912 %)SAP FSCM
627 (0.821 %)Dynamics AX
627 (0.821 %)SAP ERP
726 (0.791 %)Dynamics CRM
726 (0.791 %)Hyperion Planning
818 (0.547 %)SAP HCM
818 (0.547 %)SAP Oil and Gas
917 (0.517 %)Oracle EBS R12
1016 (0.486 %)SAP HR-PA
1113 (0.395 %)Oracle Applications
1211 (0.334 %)Oracle Financials
139 (0.274 %)SAP MM
148 (0.243 %)SAP CRM
148 (0.243 %)SAP SD
157 (0.213 %)Summit
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1119 (3.618 %)Internet
2117 (3.557 %)WAN
3112 (3.405 %)LAN
4103 (3.132 %)Firewall
577 (2.341 %)SAN
664 (1.946 %)Intranet
757 (1.733 %)Network Security
854 (1.642 %)VPN
953 (1.611 %)VoIP
1051 (1.551 %)TCP/IP
1146 (1.399 %)DNS
1232 (0.973 %)Extranet
1232 (0.973 %)DHCP
1331 (0.943 %)MPLS
1424 (0.730 %)Wireless
1521 (0.638 %)Intrusion Detection
1521 (0.638 %)ATM
1613 (0.395 %)Broadband
1613 (0.395 %)VLAN
1711 (0.334 %)NAS
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1278 (8.452 %)SQL Server
292 (2.797 %)SQL Server 2005
383 (2.524 %)SQL Server 2008
442 (1.277 %)Crystal Reports
541 (1.247 %)Data Warehouse
639 (1.186 %)SQL Server Integration Services
737 (1.125 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
831 (0.943 %)MS Access
930 (0.912 %)MySQL
1028 (0.851 %)PostgreSQL
1124 (0.730 %)Oracle 8/8i
1124 (0.730 %)ETL
1222 (0.669 %)RDBMS
1319 (0.578 %)SQL Server 2000
1415 (0.456 %)Oracle BI EE
1514 (0.426 %)DTS
1612 (0.365 %)IDOL
1711 (0.334 %)EDRMS
1711 (0.334 %)Data Mining
1810 (0.304 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1125 (3.801 %)Visual Studio
260 (1.824 %)Team Foundation Server
331 (0.943 %)JIRA
423 (0.699 %)Subversion
522 (0.669 %)LoadRunner
619 (0.578 %)Maven
716 (0.486 %)Visual Studio Tools for Office
814 (0.426 %)Eclipse
913 (0.395 %)Ant
913 (0.395 %)MSTest
913 (0.395 %)NUnit
1012 (0.365 %)ReSharper
1111 (0.334 %)Dreamweaver
1111 (0.334 %)Selenium
1210 (0.304 %)Rhino Mocks
139 (0.274 %)TeamCity
139 (0.274 %)StyleCop
148 (0.243 %)JUnit
157 (0.213 %)QuickTest Pro
157 (0.213 %)FrontPage
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11318 (40.07 %)Finance
2959 (29.16 %)Law
3368 (11.19 %)Banking
4310 (9.425 %)Marketing
5230 (6.993 %)Telecoms
6196 (5.959 %)Investment Banking
7131 (3.983 %)Retail
8128 (3.892 %)Manufacturing
996 (2.919 %)Publishing
1084 (2.554 %)Billing
1166 (2.007 %)Front Office
1263 (1.915 %)Back Office
1333 (1.003 %)Advertising
1432 (0.973 %)Games
1522 (0.669 %)Aerospace
1522 (0.669 %)Online Betting
1617 (0.517 %)German Language
1715 (0.456 %)Corporate Banking
1715 (0.456 %)Automotive
1814 (0.426 %)French Language
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1876 (26.63 %)Analyst
2523 (15.90 %)Developer
3366 (11.13 %)Consultant
4278 (8.452 %)Support Analyst
5217 (6.598 %)Business Analyst
6212 (6.446 %)Project Manager
7132 (4.013 %)Trainer
8119 (3.618 %)C# Developer
9118 (3.588 %).NET Developer
10112 (3.405 %)IT Trainer
11103 (3.132 %)Architect
1294 (2.858 %)SAP Consultant
1391 (2.767 %)Applications Support
1488 (2.676 %)Service Analyst
1586 (2.615 %)Service Desk Analyst
1671 (2.159 %)SharePoint Developer
1769 (2.098 %)Systems Analyst
1864 (1.946 %)C# .NET Developer
1962 (1.885 %)Desktop Support
1962 (1.885 %)Support Engineer
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1215 (6.537 %)Blackberry
2160 (4.865 %)Management Information System
369 (2.098 %)Computer Science
460 (1.824 %)E-Learning
548 (1.459 %)Hedge funds
646 (1.399 %)Derivative
735 (1.064 %)N-Tier
828 (0.851 %)Client/Server
927 (0.821 %)AS400
927 (0.821 %)Data Protection Act
927 (0.821 %)Open Source
927 (0.821 %)iSeries
1025 (0.760 %)SaaS
1123 (0.699 %)Replication
1123 (0.699 %)Equities
1219 (0.578 %)Clustering
1219 (0.578 %)PMI
1219 (0.578 %)Cloud Computing
1219 (0.578 %)Data Extraction
1317 (0.517 %)iPhone
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1672 (20.43 %)Windows
2245 (7.449 %)Windows XP
3175 (5.321 %)Windows 7
4152 (4.621 %)Windows Server 2003
5125 (3.801 %)Windows Server 2008
6110 (3.344 %)Linux
7104 (3.162 %)UNIX
826 (0.791 %)Solaris
923 (0.699 %)Windows 2000 Server
1022 (0.669 %)Windows Vista
1022 (0.669 %)AIX
1119 (0.578 %)Windows 2000
1216 (0.486 %)Android
1314 (0.426 %)Windows Mobile
1413 (0.395 %)HPUX
1510 (0.304 %)NetWare
1510 (0.304 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1510 (0.304 %)Apple iOS
164 (0.122 %)Mac OS X
173 (0.091 %)LiMo
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1389 (11.83 %)Project Management
2376 (11.43 %)Document Management
3362 (11.01 %)ITIL
4250 (7.601 %)Service Delivery
5213 (6.476 %)Risk Management
6194 (5.898 %)Workflow
7180 (5.473 %)PRINCE2
8173 (5.260 %)Agile Software Development
9163 (4.956 %)CRM
10155 (4.713 %)Business Analysis
11150 (4.561 %)Scrum
12144 (4.378 %)Business Development
13133 (4.044 %)Information Security
14128 (3.892 %)Software Engineering
15125 (3.801 %)Six Sigma
16124 (3.770 %)Content Management
17116 (3.527 %)Practice Management
18112 (3.405 %)Change Management
19107 (3.253 %)E-Commerce
2099 (3.010 %)Stakeholder Management
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1554 (16.84 %)SQL
2352 (10.70 %)C#
3169 (5.138 %)JavaScript
4151 (4.591 %)Java
599 (3.010 %)T-SQL
691 (2.767 %)VBA
788 (2.676 %)VB.NET
886 (2.615 %)VB
945 (1.368 %)VBScript
1043 (1.307 %)C++
1141 (1.247 %)C
1237 (1.125 %)PHP
1331 (0.943 %)PowerShell
1430 (0.912 %)Perl
1528 (0.851 %)PL/SQL
1617 (0.517 %)Shell Script
1713 (0.395 %)Python
1810 (0.304 %)Ruby
1810 (0.304 %)XPath
198 (0.243 %)PowerHouse
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1445 (13.53 %)Degree
2126 (3.831 %)Microsoft Certification
384 (2.554 %)CISSP
384 (2.554 %)ITIL Certification
482 (2.493 %)ISEB
577 (2.341 %)Cisco Certification
667 (2.037 %)MOS
763 (1.915 %)MBA
853 (1.611 %)MCP
853 (1.611 %)MCSE
951 (1.551 %)CCNP
951 (1.551 %)CISM
1050 (1.520 %)PRINCE2 Certification
1147 (1.429 %)Security Cleared
1244 (1.338 %)CISA
1336 (1.095 %)CCSA
1336 (1.095 %)MCITP
1432 (0.973 %)MCDST
1531 (0.943 %)CCSP
1630 (0.912 %)ISTQB
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1155 (4.713 %)QA
277 (2.341 %)SLA
363 (1.915 %)ISO/IEC 27001
451 (1.551 %)PCI DSS
537 (1.125 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
616 (0.486 %)ISO 9001
715 (0.456 %)COBIT
813 (0.395 %)ISO/IEC 17799
99 (0.274 %)ISO 14001
108 (0.243 %)WAI
116 (0.182 %)MiFID
116 (0.182 %)Basel II
116 (0.182 %)HIPAA
116 (0.182 %)Basel III
124 (0.122 %)COSO
124 (0.122 %)GAAP
133 (0.091 %)TickIT
133 (0.091 %)BS25999
142 (0.061 %)ISO/IEC 20000
142 (0.061 %)ISO 9000
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1281 (8.544 %)Active Directory
283 (2.524 %)VMware Infrastructure
342 (1.277 %)XenApp
425 (0.760 %)VMware ESX
522 (0.669 %)vSphere
621 (0.638 %)Citrix Presentation Server
717 (0.517 %)Terminal Services
814 (0.426 %)XenServer
913 (0.395 %)Hyper-V
109 (0.274 %)XenDesktop
118 (0.243 %)VMware ESXi
126 (0.182 %)MetaFrame
135 (0.152 %)NDS
135 (0.152 %)Snort
135 (0.152 %)Squid
143 (0.091 %)Veritas Cluster Server
152 (0.061 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
152 (0.061 %)Varnish
161 (0.030 %)UAG
161 (0.030 %)DFS Replication
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
124 (0.730 %)SCCM
219 (0.578 %)SCOM
219 (0.578 %)HP Quality Center
317 (0.517 %)Tivoli
413 (0.395 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
512 (0.365 %)OpenView
611 (0.334 %)MOM
79 (0.274 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
88 (0.243 %)NetBackup
96 (0.182 %)Norton AntiVirus
96 (0.182 %)WSUS
105 (0.152 %)vCenter
114 (0.122 %)Backup Exec
123 (0.091 %)EMC NetWorker
123 (0.091 %)McAfee ePO
123 (0.091 %)AppManager
132 (0.061 %)Tivoli Endpoint Manager
132 (0.061 %)MIMEsweeper
141 (0.030 %)Foglight
141 (0.030 %)AssetCenter
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1690 (20.98 %)Microsoft
2234 (7.115 %)Citrix
3185 (5.625 %)SAP
4179 (5.442 %)Oracle
5160 (4.865 %)VMware
6122 (3.709 %)Cisco
783 (2.524 %)Interwoven
869 (2.098 %)HP
937 (1.125 %)Altiris
937 (1.125 %)Lotus
1036 (1.095 %)IBM
1036 (1.095 %)Business Objects
1133 (1.003 %)Salesforce.com
1232 (0.973 %)Informatica
1329 (0.882 %)Hyperion
1428 (0.851 %)Google
1527 (0.821 %)Adobe
1527 (0.821 %)Open Text
1625 (0.760 %)NetApp
1722 (0.669 %)Siebel