Legal Job Market Reports

Reading Time: 3 minutesLegal Job Market Update – November 2016 President Trump, Brexit and England knocked out of Euro 2016 by Iceland. Who would have thought it (apart from the latter of course)… The year of uncertainty continues! STOP PRESS – Expert Comment on the Trump win by Professor Stadler from Warwick University (received 10 mins ago as…

Reading Time: 2 minutesLegal Job Market Update September 2016 has been a very mixed month, with heavy bursts of work intertwined with plenty of opportunities for DIY outside in glorious sunshine! The legal job market remains very unbalanced. Key points for September as follows: ▪ The demand for Residential Conveyancing locum lawyers remains low although it has picked…

Reading Time: 4 minutesLegal Job Market Update – September 6th 2016 The legal job market has been very interesting indeed over the last 8 weeks (our last report was on July 6th). Brexit, the Olympics, the Euro 2016 tournament and lots of annual leave for everyone has had an impact on recruitment. What changes have we seen since…

Reading Time: 4 minutesLegal Job Market Update from Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment – post Brexit – July 6th June 2016. What a month. I suspect it will always be remembered as the month when something fairly seismic occurred, but quite what this will be is another matter! Will it be remembered as the start of the UK’s exit from…

Reading Time: 2 minutesHourly Rates of Pay for Locum Solicitors and Legal Executives Locum hourly rate payment varies widely according to the demand, length of assignment, level of experience and advance notice available. NB: These rates are intended as a guide only. Hourly rates can vary according to the location, duration and level of expertise. June 2016 Private…

Reading Time: 3 minutesLegal Job Market Update – June 9th 2016 May was, as ever, a busy month. Despite the concerns about the property market dropping off after the changes to Stamp Duty the demand for property lawyers has continued across the board. Newly Qualified Solicitors with training contracts finishing this summer are starting to register en masse…

Reading Time: 3 minutesLegal Job Market Update – May 2016 As usual April was a quiet time for us. It coincides with the joys of the end of the tax year, Easter, school holidays and the run up to May Day Bank Holiday. This year has been busier than usual, not because of any major influx of new…

Reading Time: 3 minutesLegal Job Market Update – April 2016 March has been a busy month in part, but the Easter break has had an effect as ever on recruitment. It is always interesting how every Easter firms leave locum recruitment until the last minute and then start hunting for cover on Maundy Thursday! Most locums have the…

Reading Time: 2 minutesLegal Job Market Update March 2016 February has been a month of two halves again (I say this every year). We spend the first week watching the post-Christmas recruitment spike recede and then skiing holidays together with half term breaks kicking in. Locum work has picked up towards the end of the month. Permanent vacancies…

Reading Time: 2 minutesJob Market Report dated 2nd February – also published in the Legal Recruitment News at www.legal-recruitment.co.uk. January 2016 has been a busy month in the sense that it has included a large number of permanent vacancies posted; the usual burst of activity after Christmas. Very often this is caused by the partners at firms having…

Reading Time: 2 minutesLegal Job Market Update December to January is a difficult time to give a job market update for. Basically just about everyone is off enjoying the festive season and very little happens! Locum requirements were up on previous years and some permanent recruitment occurred, but very little really to give any indication on the state…

Reading Time: 4 minutesLegal Job Market Update November has been a mixed month, with the usual locum assignments ending as work drops off for Christmas and permanent roles increasing. We have started to see the longer term locum roles coming through and some unexpected permanent recruitment – maternity leave cover and departing candidates contributing to this. The demise…

Reading Time: 3 minutesLegal Job Market Update September has been a busy month, much busier than expected, particularly on legal support roles. The Rugby World Cup has not had the same impact that Football tournaments have on recruitment business (the FIFA World Cup virtually puts a hold on permanent recruitment for 2-3 weeks!). Still a good number of…

Reading Time: 2 minutesLegal Job Market Update August has been fairly predictable – plenty of locum roles coming in, a few permanent positions starting to be registered (this will pick up in September) and still a busy legal job market. It has been very difficult to source conveyancers for immediate starts over the summer, but we have availability…

Reading Time: 3 minutesLegal Job Market Update – August 5th 2015. This is our first update since the start of June, so the job market report covers two months. June and July are very busy times for us, both on the locum side and permanent. The locum side remains very busy going into August. Conveyancing and commercial property…

Reading Time: 3 minutesLegal Job Market Update June 2015 This job market report covers both April and May 2015. The two months are usually characterised by large peaks and troughs. Firstly we get Easter, which generates a large peak of job vacancies followed by troughs around the holiday weeks. Secondly we have May Bank Holiday, which follows the…

Reading Time: 3 minutesLegal Job Market Update  April 2015 March was busy. This is quite normal as we get near to Easter and the end of the financial year for a lot of firms. The locum market picks up with a good number of short term assignments coming in as well as more summer bookings. Permanent vacancies also…

Reading Time: 5 minutesLegal Job Market Update dated March 4th 2015 February has been a month of two halves as usual. We spend the first week watching the post-Christmas recruitment spike recede and then skiing holidays together with half term breaks kicking in. Locum work has dropped off towards the end of the month, although we have taken…

Reading Time: 3 minutesLegal Job Market Update dated 4th February Comments on the current market from Jonathan Fagan, MD of Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment: “Since Christmas we have seen a resumption of the recruitment demand that has not really slowed down since the market picked up in 2012. Firms are still recruiting, candidates are out looking for permanent posts…

Reading Time: 3 minutesJob Market Update  – January 15th 2015 Comments on the current market from Jonathan Fagan, MD of Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment: “January is a difficult month to give a job market update for. Basically, from the start of December, most new work drops off as everyone goes christmas shopping, attends parties and slows down. In my…

Reading Time: 3 minutesJob Market Update – December 3rd 2014 December 2014 – Summary: * Permanent vacancies down * Locum assignments down * Conveyancing vacancies still busy, Commercial Property vacancies busy * Wills & Probate vacancies down * Crime vacancies make brief revival, Personal Injury vacancies disappearing * Employment Law vacancies – up * Commercial and Civil Litigation…

Reading Time: 4 minutesJob Market Update – November 4th November 2014 – Summary: * Permanent vacancies up * Locum assignments up * Conveyancing vacancies up, Commercial Property vacancies up * Wills & Probate vacancies up * Crime vacancies gone, Personal Injury vacancies disappearing * Employment Law vacancies – non-existent * Commercial and Civil Litigation vacancies – very few…

Reading Time: 2 minutesJob Market Update – September 3rd Summer 2014 – Summary: * Permanent vacancies up * Locum assignments up * Conveyancing vacancies up, Commercial Property vacancies up * Crime vacancies gone, Personal Injury vacancies disappearing * Employment Law vacancies – non-existent * Commercial and Civil Litigation vacancies – few here and there * Family vacancies –…

Reading Time: 2 minutesLegal Job Market Update. May 2014 – summed up in a few sentences: * Permanent vacancies same * Locum vacancies up on April * Conveyancing up, Commercial Property up * Crime down, Personal Injury down * Litigation & Family up * Further increase in vacancies attracting no, poor quality or few applications. Commercial property becoming…

Reading Time: 2 minutesJob Market Update – May 8th April-May 2014 – summed up in a few sentences: * Permanent vacancies up * Locum vacancies up in April * Conveyancing up – severe shortage of NQ-5 year PQE solicitors * Commercial Property – severe shortage of all candidates * Continued increase in vacancies attracting only poor quality or…

Reading Time: 2 minutesJob Market Update – April 3rd April 2014 – summed up in a few sentences: * Permanent vacancies up * Locum vacancies up on March but still lower than an average month * Conveyancing up * Crime down * Litigation up * Further increase in vacancies attracting no, poor quality or few applications. * Market…

Reading Time: 3 minutesJob Market Update – February 6th 2014 2014 has been a bit wobbly to date. I think recruitment agencies are probably a fairly good barometer of the economy, and so far I have to say that 2014 has started strongly, but not as much as it finished off at the end of 2013. This is…

Reading Time: 2 minutesLegal Recruitment Job Market Update – January 14th 2013 has been one of the strongest years for growth in the recruitment market for a long time. The KPMG and Recruitment & Employment Confederation Report on Jobs dated 9th January 2014 (monthly report) had the following highlights: 1. Strongest rise in permanent placements since March 2010…

Reading Time: 3 minutesJob Market Update – December 3rd 2013 Our final Legal Recruitment Market update for 2013. It is has been a very mixed year. In January 2013 I wrote that December 2012 had been one of the quietest months we had seen in 12 years of trading, and this had followed a downward spiral in work…

Reading Time: 3 minutesJob Market Update – October 8th September has remained a busy recruitment month, with increasing numbers of locum assignments coming in, coupled with increasing numbers of permanent posts. For example, on one Friday morning in the last few weeks we took details of 7 permanent vacancies from law firms across the UK. Last Friday we…