Legal Contracts in the South West

Legal
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legal in contract job vacancies in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legal over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 119 119
Rank change year-on-year +23 0 -9
Contract jobs citing Legal 58 42 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.77% 1.24% 1.34%
As % of the General category 3.53% 2.62% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 27 40
10th Percentile £200 £198 £299
25th Percentile £203 £338 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £485
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -2.06% -3.00%
75th Percentile £538 £581 £577
90th Percentile £584 £693 £769
England median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 12 0
10th Percentile £23.63 - -
25th Percentile £40.00 £13.25 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £15.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +206.45% - -
75th Percentile £57.50 £18.36 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £24.46 £27.00
% change year-on-year +63.53% -9.41% +40.26%

All General Skills
South West

Legal falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,641 1,601 1,877
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 50.05% 47.39% 51.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 979 1,167 1,329
10th Percentile £230 £284 £250
25th Percentile £413 £413 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +8.11%
75th Percentile £636 £638 £600
90th Percentile £700 £723 £675
England median daily rate £533 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 282 111 139
10th Percentile £12.82 £17.50 -
25th Percentile £18.15 £38.53 £15.90
Median hourly rate £45.00 £57.50 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +36.90% -1.75%
75th Percentile £68.44 £70.00 £55.92
90th Percentile £73.75 £90.00 £62.52
England median hourly rate £31.50 £30.54 £22.50
% change year-on-year +3.14% +35.73% +7.14%

Legal
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Legal as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Legal in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Legal in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Legal in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legal in the South West over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Legal in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Legal in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Legal in the South West

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Legal in the South West over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Legal in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Legal within the South West region over the 6 months to 11 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bristol +17 24 £500 +5.26% 51
Gloucestershire +6 7 £700 - 29
Dorset +3 7 £175 - 9
Somerset 0 7 £575 +27.78% 30
Devon - 7 £438 - 31
Cornwall - 3 £200 -
Wiltshire -9 1 - - 17
Legal
England

Legal
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (6.90%) Apache Solr
1 4 (6.90%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (8.62%) Simulink
1 5 (8.62%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) SAP CO
1 1 (1.72%) SAP FI
1 1 (1.72%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (18.97%) Azure
2 7 (12.07%) AWS
2 7 (12.07%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (8.62%) GCP
5 1 (1.72%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.62%) Firewall
2 4 (6.90%) DNS
2 4 (6.90%) FTP
2 4 (6.90%) HTTPS
2 4 (6.90%) IPsec
2 4 (6.90%) LAN
2 4 (6.90%) SAN
2 4 (6.90%) TCP/IP
2 4 (6.90%) WAN
3 1 (1.72%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (1.72%) Network Security
3 1 (1.72%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.90%) Couchbase
1 4 (6.90%) MySQL
1 4 (6.90%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (15.52%) JIRA
2 6 (10.34%) Artifactory
2 6 (10.34%) SonarQube
General
1 21 (36.21%) Social Skills
2 11 (18.97%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (12.07%) Finance
4 5 (8.62%) Automotive
5 3 (5.17%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.72%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.72%) General Ledger
6 1 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.72%) Law
6 1 (1.72%) Local Government
6 1 (1.72%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (15.52%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (13.79%) Analyst
2 8 (13.79%) IT Manager
2 8 (13.79%) Support Engineer
3 7 (12.07%) Compliance Analyst
3 7 (12.07%) Data Analyst
3 7 (12.07%) Data Compliance Analyst
3 7 (12.07%) Project Manager
4 5 (8.62%) IT Project Manager
4 5 (8.62%) Software Engineer
5 4 (6.90%) Network Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) 2nd Line Support
6 3 (5.17%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Compliance Manager
6 3 (5.17%) Deployment Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Governance Manager
6 3 (5.17%) IT Governance Manager
6 3 (5.17%) Technical Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Technical Support
6 3 (5.17%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (17.24%) YAML
2 4 (6.90%) JSON
2 4 (6.90%) LEMP Stack
2 4 (6.90%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.79%) Management Information System
2 5 (8.62%) Algorithms
2 5 (8.62%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (6.90%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.90%) Replication
4 3 (5.17%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.45%) Cyber Security Posture
6 1 (1.72%) CMDB
6 1 (1.72%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.72%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (13.79%) Linux
2 5 (8.62%) Windows
3 4 (6.90%) CentOS
3 4 (6.90%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (24.14%) Data Protection
1 14 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (20.69%) Continuous Improvement
3 11 (18.97%) Software Engineering
4 10 (17.24%) CI/CD
4 10 (17.24%) DevOps
4 10 (17.24%) Software Delivery
5 8 (13.79%) Incident Response
5 8 (13.79%) Project Management
6 7 (12.07%) Agile
6 7 (12.07%) Change Management
6 7 (12.07%) Incident Management
6 7 (12.07%) SIEM
6 7 (12.07%) SOAR
6 7 (12.07%) Use Case
6 7 (12.07%) Validation
7 6 (10.34%) Asset Management
7 6 (10.34%) Data Governance
7 6 (10.34%) Data Security
7 6 (10.34%) Forensic Analysis
Programming Languages
1 6 (10.34%) Bash
1 6 (10.34%) PowerShell
2 5 (8.62%) MATLAB
3 4 (6.90%) PHP
4 3 (5.17%) JavaScript
4 3 (5.17%) Python
Qualifications
1 18 (31.03%) Security Cleared
2 6 (10.34%) DV Cleared
3 4 (6.90%) SC Cleared
4 3 (5.17%) CISSP
4 3 (5.17%) Degree
5 2 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.45%) CISM
5 2 (3.45%) DBS Check
5 2 (3.45%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.72%) CCNP
6 1 (1.72%) CCSP
6 1 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.72%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.79%) GDPR
1 8 (13.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (12.07%) NIST
3 5 (8.62%) HIPAA
4 4 (6.90%) QA
5 3 (5.17%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (3.45%) NCSC
7 1 (1.72%) Accessibility
7 1 (1.72%) GRC
7 1 (1.72%) PCI DSS
7 1 (1.72%) SOC 2
7 1 (1.72%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (10.34%) Docker
2 4 (6.90%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (6.90%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (17.24%) Ansible
1 10 (17.24%) Terraform
2 4 (6.90%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.90%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 10 (17.24%) Microsoft
2 7 (12.07%) Splunk
3 5 (8.62%) Google
4 4 (6.90%) CheckPoint
4 4 (6.90%) Cisco
4 4 (6.90%) Palo Alto
4 4 (6.90%) Veeam
4 4 (6.90%) VMware
5 2 (3.45%) Remedy
6 1 (1.72%) SAP
6 1 (1.72%) ServiceNow