West Midlands Legal Jobs

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Legal' in IT jobs within the West Midlands 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 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Ascot Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Cleveland Cobham Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Dartford Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Fleetwood Folkestone Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Godalming Grantham Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Liversedge Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Reigate Rickmansworth Romsey Scotland Selby Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southam Southampton St Albans St Ives Staffordshire Stevenage Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Surrey Swindon Tadworth Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wells West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	184	175
Rank change on same period last year	-9
Matching permanent IT job ads	44	58
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.024 %	0.024 %
As % of the category below	1.161 %	1.798 %
Salaries quoted	32	53
Average minimum salary	£38,063	£32,934
Average salary	£41,156	£35,170
% change on same period last year	+17.02 %
Average maximum salary	£44,250	£37,406
UK excluding London average salary	£39,926	£37,420
% change on same period last year	+6.69 %
General West Midlands
Matching permanent IT job ads	3791	3225
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	2.040 %	1.345 %
Salaries quoted	3183	2832
Average minimum salary	£35,120	£35,082
Average salary	£38,275	£38,107
% change on same period last year	+0.44 %
Average maximum salary	£41,431	£41,131
UK excluding London average salary	£41,112	£42,120
% change on same period last year	-2.39 %
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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 West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Legal across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Legal within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 21 August 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
Birmingham	-14	17	£33,179	+24.13 %
Warwickshire	+8	9	£32,000	-11.72 %
Herefordshire	-11	4	£85,000	+30.76 %
Shropshire	-	2	-	-
West Bromwich	-	2	£38,000	-
Coventry	-13	1	-	-
Staffordshire	-	1	£55,000	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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 28 (28.00 %) Finance 2 22 (22.00 %) Risk Management 3 17 (17.00 %) Service Delivery 3 17 (17.00 %) MS Excel 3 17 (17.00 %) Internet 4 15 (15.00 %) Project Management 4 15 (15.00 %) Law 5 12 (12.00 %) Programme Management 6 10 (10.00 %) SQL Server 7 7 (7.000 %) Microsoft 7 7 (7.000 %) CISSP 7 7 (7.000 %) C 7 7 (7.000 %) .NET 7 7 (7.000 %) ITIL 7 7 (7.000 %) Information Security

7 7 (7.000 %) Degree 8 6 (6.000 %) Government 8 6 (6.000 %) PRINCE2 8 6 (6.000 %) SharePoint 8 6 (6.000 %) ASP.NET 8 6 (6.000 %) Intranet 9 5 (5.000 %) Extranet 9 5 (5.000 %) Apache 9 5 (5.000 %) MySQL 9 5 (5.000 %) PHP 9 5 (5.000 %) C# 9 5 (5.000 %) Linux 9 5 (5.000 %) CISM 9 5 (5.000 %) Risk Assessment 9 5 (5.000 %) LAMP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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 7 (7.000 %) .NET 2 6 (6.000 %) ASP.NET 3 5 (5.000 %) LAMP 4 3 (3.000 %) HTML 4 3 (3.000 %) XML 4 3 (3.000 %) XSLT 4 3 (3.000 %) ASP 5 2 (2.000 %) .NET Framework	Application Platforms 1 6 (6.000 %) SharePoint 2 5 (5.000 %) Apache 3 2 (2.000 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 1 (1.000 %) IIS 4 1 (1.000 %) CMS
Applications 1 17 (17.00 %) MS Excel 2 4 (4.000 %) Photoshop 2 4 (4.000 %) Acrobat 2 4 (4.000 %) Adobe Illustrator 2 4 (4.000 %) InDesign 3 2 (2.000 %) MS Visio 4 1 (1.000 %) MS Project 4 1 (1.000 %) MS Office 4 1 (1.000 %) MATLAB 4 1 (1.000 %) Simulink	Communications & Networking 1 17 (17.00 %) Internet 2 6 (6.000 %) Intranet 3 5 (5.000 %) Extranet 4 2 (2.000 %) Firewall 4 2 (2.000 %) VPN 5 1 (1.000 %) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence 1 10 (10.00 %) SQL Server 2 5 (5.000 %) MySQL 2 5 (5.000 %) SQL Server 2005 3 3 (3.000 %) SQL Server 2000 4 2 (2.000 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 1 (1.000 %) Crystal Reports 5 1 (1.000 %) BusinessObjects	General 1 28 (28.00 %) Finance 2 15 (15.00 %) Law 3 6 (6.000 %) Government 4 5 (5.000 %) Pensions 5 4 (4.000 %) Marketing 5 4 (4.000 %) Advertising 6 3 (3.000 %) Insurance 6 3 (3.000 %) Health 6 3 (3.000 %) Manufacturing 6 3 (3.000 %) Education 7 2 (2.000 %) Telecoms 8 1 (1.000 %) Automotive 8 1 (1.000 %) Construction 8 1 (1.000 %) Billing
Job Titles 1 17 (17.00 %) Analyst 2 12 (12.00 %) Programme Director 3 8 (8.000 %) Consultant 4 6 (6.000 %) Commercial Manager 4 6 (6.000 %) Business Analyst 5 5 (5.000 %) Web Developer 5 5 (5.000 %) Recruitment Consultant 5 5 (5.000 %) Applications Developer 5 5 (5.000 %) Developer 5 5 (5.000 %) Web Applications Developer 5 5 (5.000 %) Information Manager 5 5 (5.000 %) Information Security Manager 5 5 (5.000 %) Security Manager 6 4 (4.000 %) Senior Recruitment Consultant 6 4 (4.000 %) Junior Recruitment Consultant 6 4 (4.000 %) Programmer 6 4 (4.000 %) Junior Consultant 6 4 (4.000 %) Analyst Programmer 6 4 (4.000 %) Senior Consultant 6 4 (4.000 %) Junior	Miscellaneous 1 3 (3.000 %) Management Information System 2 2 (2.000 %) AS400 2 2 (2.000 %) NHS 3 1 (1.000 %) CMDB
Operating Systems 1 5 (5.000 %) Linux 2 3 (3.000 %) Windows 3 2 (2.000 %) Windows 2000 3 2 (2.000 %) Windows Server 2003 4 1 (1.000 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 1 (1.000 %) UNIX 4 1 (1.000 %) Windows XP 4 1 (1.000 %) AIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 22 (22.00 %) Risk Management 2 17 (17.00 %) Service Delivery 3 15 (15.00 %) Project Management 4 12 (12.00 %) Programme Management 5 7 (7.000 %) Information Security 5 7 (7.000 %) ITIL 6 6 (6.000 %) PRINCE2 7 5 (5.000 %) Risk Assessment 7 5 (5.000 %) Business Analysis 8 4 (4.000 %) Product Marketing 8 4 (4.000 %) UML 9 3 (3.000 %) Business Continuity 9 3 (3.000 %) Workflow 9 3 (3.000 %) Practice Management 9 3 (3.000 %) Contact Management 9 3 (3.000 %) Data Protection 10 2 (2.000 %) Security Cleared 10 2 (2.000 %) Business Development 10 2 (2.000 %) Workflow Management 10 2 (2.000 %) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages 1 7 (7.000 %) C 2 5 (5.000 %) C# 2 5 (5.000 %) PHP 3 4 (4.000 %) SQL 3 4 (4.000 %) VB.NET 4 2 (2.000 %) VB 4 2 (2.000 %) Java	Qualifications 1 7 (7.000 %) CISSP 1 7 (7.000 %) Degree 2 5 (5.000 %) CISM 3 3 (3.000 %) MIIA 3 3 (3.000 %) QiCA 4 2 (2.000 %) Cisco Certification 4 2 (2.000 %) Microsoft Certification 4 2 (2.000 %) MCSE 4 2 (2.000 %) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (5.000 %) ISO27001 1 5 (5.000 %) QA 2 1 (1.000 %) ISO9001 2 1 (1.000 %) SLA	Vendors 1 7 (7.000 %) Microsoft 2 4 (4.000 %) Adobe 2 4 (4.000 %) Interwoven 2 4 (4.000 %) Quark 2 4 (4.000 %) Sony 3 2 (2.000 %) Metastorm 3 2 (2.000 %) Visualfiles 4 1 (1.000 %) Remedy 4 1 (1.000 %) Oracle 4 1 (1.000 %) Business Objects 4 1 (1.000 %) Siemens