Law Jobs in Scotland

Law
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Law in permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Law over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 184 144
Rank change year-on-year +179 -40 -21
Permanent jobs citing Law 2,585 44 124
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 38.07% 0.98% 2.05%
As % of the General category 53.58% 1.31% 3.30%
Number of salaries quoted 54 35 39
10th Percentile £28,000 £28,250 £22,450
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,579 £28,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £53,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.38% +0.95% +10.53%
75th Percentile £66,250 £63,875 £69,750
90th Percentile £96,125 £104,100 £76,760
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -

All General Skills
Scotland

Law is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 4,825 3,354 3,762
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 71.05% 74.98% 62.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1,555 1,589 1,984
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £31,133
25th Percentile £38,375 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,175 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Law
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Law as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Law in Scotland

Law
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Law in Scotland.

Salary trend for Law in Scotland

Law
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Law in Scotland over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Law in Scotland

Law
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Law within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 28 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +107 2,548 £47,500 -9.52% 10
Edinburgh +40 22 £43,250 -29.10% 8
Lanarkshire - 5 £80,000 - 4
Aberdeen -11 4 £28,000 - 5
Dundee - 2 £56,250 - 1
Perth and Kinross - 1 £50,500 -
Perthshire - 1 £50,500 -
Fife - 1 £56,000 - 1
Law
UK

Law
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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
1 576 (22.28%) Apache Spark
2 134 (5.18%) Apache
3 115 (4.45%) Apache Airflow
4 98 (3.79%) FileNet
5 32 (1.24%) Cloud Foundry
6 27 (1.04%) Confluence
7 21 (0.81%) GemFire
8 19 (0.74%) Camunda
9 11 (0.43%) CICS
10 10 (0.39%) Tomcat
11 8 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.19%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.039%) SharePoint
13 1 (0.039%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 31 (1.20%) UserZoom
2 15 (0.58%) Sketch
3 7 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.12%) InVision
5 3 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.039%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.039%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 11 (0.43%) Endur
2 6 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.077%) SAP HCM
3 2 (0.077%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,168 (45.18%) AWS
2 145 (5.61%) Azure
3 116 (4.49%) Datadog
4 98 (3.79%) Amazon S3
5 94 (3.64%) GCP
6 93 (3.60%) Figma
7 74 (2.86%) SurveyMonkey
8 68 (2.63%) Amazon ECS
8 68 (2.63%) Amazon EKS
9 55 (2.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 54 (2.09%) Serverless
11 50 (1.93%) Amazon EC2
11 50 (1.93%) Amazon EMR
11 50 (1.93%) Amazon SQS
11 50 (1.93%) AWS Lambda
12 47 (1.82%) BlazeMeter
13 45 (1.74%) GitHub
14 41 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
15 25 (0.97%) Google Play
16 24 (0.93%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 82 (3.17%) Kerberos
2 17 (0.66%) DSL
3 7 (0.27%) SAN
3 7 (0.27%) VoIP
4 3 (0.12%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 658 (25.45%) NoSQL
2 487 (18.84%) Big Data
3 228 (8.82%) Hadoop
4 152 (5.88%) Apache Cassandra
5 146 (5.65%) Elasticsearch
6 128 (4.95%) Apache Hive
7 121 (4.68%) Relational Database
8 104 (4.02%) MongoDB
9 100 (3.87%) HBase
10 65 (2.51%) Metadata
11 62 (2.40%) Data Lake
12 51 (1.97%) Electronic Patient Records
13 39 (1.51%) Qlik Sense
14 38 (1.47%) CockroachDB
15 28 (1.08%) DB2
15 28 (1.08%) MySQL
16 23 (0.89%) SQL Server
17 21 (0.81%) Hazelcast
18 20 (0.77%) Tableau
19 19 (0.74%) Looker
Development Applications
1 300 (11.61%) Jenkins
2 210 (8.12%) JUnit
3 184 (7.12%) Git
4 119 (4.60%) Jasmine
5 85 (3.29%) Bitbucket Server
5 85 (3.29%) Cypress.io
6 78 (3.02%) JIRA
7 74 (2.86%) Karma Test Runner
8 70 (2.71%) Bitbucket
9 65 (2.51%) Artifactory
10 63 (2.44%) Maven
11 61 (2.36%) Selenium
12 60 (2.32%) Protractor
12 60 (2.32%) WebDriver
13 46 (1.78%) Mockito
14 30 (1.16%) CircleCI
15 29 (1.12%) Gradle
16 28 (1.08%) JMeter
17 26 (1.01%) Cucumber
17 26 (1.01%) GitLab
General
1 2,540 (98.26%) Finance
2 2,524 (97.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,391 (53.81%) Marketing
4 678 (26.23%) Legal
5 450 (17.41%) Banking
6 360 (13.93%) Investment Banking
7 247 (9.56%) Financial Institution
8 215 (8.32%) Social Skills
9 177 (6.85%) Influencing Skills
10 87 (3.37%) Private Banking
11 71 (2.75%) Presentation Skills
12 60 (2.32%) Analytical Skills
13 32 (1.24%) Social Science
14 27 (1.04%) Games
15 22 (0.85%) Prime Brokerage
16 18 (0.70%) Front Office
17 15 (0.58%) Publishing
18 11 (0.43%) Back Office
19 6 (0.23%) Organisational Skills
20 5 (0.19%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1,951 (75.47%) Software Engineer
2 785 (30.37%) Java Engineer
3 784 (30.33%) Java Software Engineer
4 765 (29.59%) Lead
5 671 (25.96%) Lead Software Engineer
6 382 (14.78%) Big Data Engineer
6 382 (14.78%) Big Data Software Engineer
7 327 (12.65%) Python Engineer
7 327 (12.65%) Python Software Engineer
8 314 (12.15%) Full Stack Engineer
9 313 (12.11%) Full Stack Software Engineer
10 297 (11.49%) Senior
11 296 (11.45%) AWS Engineer
11 296 (11.45%) AWS Software Engineer
12 274 (10.60%) Lead Java Engineer
13 243 (9.40%) Data Engineer
14 224 (8.67%) Scala Engineer
14 224 (8.67%) Scala Software Engineer
15 209 (8.09%) Engineering Manager
15 209 (8.09%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 666 (25.76%) Spring
2 484 (18.72%) React
3 391 (15.13%) AngularJS
4 348 (13.46%) Kafka
5 333 (12.88%) Spring Boot
6 262 (10.14%) HTML
7 244 (9.44%) J2EE
8 231 (8.94%) CSS
9 203 (7.85%) JSON
10 193 (7.47%) Hibernate
11 185 (7.16%) RESTful
12 178 (6.89%) Node.js
13 172 (6.65%) PySpark
14 171 (6.62%) JMS
15 166 (6.42%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 153 (5.92%) jQuery
17 139 (5.38%) Web Services
18 124 (4.80%) GraphQL
19 109 (4.22%) XML
20 100 (3.87%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 907 (35.09%) Cloud Native
2 790 (30.56%) Algorithms
3 275 (10.64%) Public Cloud
4 161 (6.23%) Onboarding
5 142 (5.49%) Product Ownership
6 140 (5.42%) Management Information System
7 136 (5.26%) Reference Data
8 130 (5.03%) Market Risk
9 106 (4.10%) Data Structures
10 65 (2.51%) Distributed Applications
10 65 (2.51%) Enterprise Cloud
11 51 (1.97%) Credit Risk
12 42 (1.62%) Legacy Code
13 31 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 29 (1.12%) Private Cloud
15 23 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
16 21 (0.81%) Replication
17 20 (0.77%) Distributed Systems
17 20 (0.77%) Taxonomies
18 14 (0.54%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 139 (5.38%) Unix
2 95 (3.68%) Linux
3 28 (1.08%) Android
4 14 (0.54%) Windows
5 7 (0.27%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.039%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,314 (89.52%) Software Engineering
2 2,286 (88.43%) Agile
3 2,048 (79.23%) SDLC
4 1,943 (75.16%) CI/CD
5 1,845 (71.37%) Operational Stability
6 1,365 (52.80%) Machine Learning
7 1,362 (52.69%) Artificial Intelligence
8 1,289 (49.86%) Community of Practice
9 871 (33.69%) Visualisation
10 826 (31.95%) Continuous Improvement
11 704 (27.23%) Risk Management
12 540 (20.89%) Decision-Making
13 469 (18.14%) Continuous Delivery
14 455 (17.60%) Microservices
15 434 (16.79%) Information Architecture
16 407 (15.74%) Architectural Design
17 369 (14.27%) Problem-Solving
18 356 (13.77%) Computer Science
19 353 (13.66%) Full Stack Development
20 254 (9.83%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,618 (62.59%) Java
2 1,036 (40.08%) SQL
3 907 (35.09%) Python
4 318 (12.30%) JavaScript
5 312 (12.07%) Scala
6 207 (8.01%) TypeScript
7 145 (5.61%) PL/SQL
8 80 (3.09%) Go
9 65 (2.51%) Prolog
9 65 (2.51%) SPARQL
10 47 (1.82%) C#
11 37 (1.43%) Groovy
12 36 (1.39%) T-SQL
13 34 (1.32%) R
14 27 (1.04%) Kotlin
15 22 (0.85%) Shell Script
16 19 (0.74%) Ruby
17 11 (0.43%) COBOL
17 11 (0.43%) JCL
18 4 (0.15%) C
Qualifications
1 204 (7.89%) Degree
2 82 (3.17%) Master's Degree
3 45 (1.74%) PhD
4 44 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (0.74%) AWS Certification
6 7 (0.27%) CISM
6 7 (0.27%) CISSP
7 6 (0.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (0.077%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.077%) Security Cleared
9 1 (0.039%) ACCA
9 1 (0.039%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.039%) CBAP
9 1 (0.039%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (3.09%) Accessibility
2 60 (2.32%) SLA
3 33 (1.28%) Data Quality
4 31 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
5 19 (0.74%) PMO
6 14 (0.54%) WAI
7 12 (0.46%) QA
8 11 (0.43%) NIST
9 3 (0.12%) WCAG
10 2 (0.077%) GDPR
11 1 (0.039%) COBIT
11 1 (0.039%) IFRS
11 1 (0.039%) ISO 31000
11 1 (0.039%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.039%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.039%) NIST 800
System Software
1 100 (3.87%) HDFS
2 66 (2.55%) Active Directory
3 47 (1.82%) Docker
4 11 (0.43%) Time Sharing Option
5 8 (0.31%) Hyper-V
5 8 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.077%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.039%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 328 (12.69%) Kubernetes
2 253 (9.79%) Terraform
3 173 (6.69%) Grafana
4 78 (3.02%) Prometheus
5 26 (1.01%) ITRS Geneos
6 21 (0.81%) HAProxy
6 21 (0.81%) Kibana
6 21 (0.81%) Zipkin
7 7 (0.27%) Graphite
8 1 (0.039%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 360 (13.93%) Oracle
2 257 (9.94%) Databricks
3 184 (7.12%) Splunk
4 161 (6.23%) Dynatrace
5 86 (3.33%) Informatica
6 70 (2.71%) Cloudera
7 63 (2.44%) Qualtrics
8 62 (2.40%) Google
9 56 (2.17%) Alteryx
10 29 (1.12%) Microsoft
11 22 (0.85%) Sybase
12 20 (0.77%) Atlassian
13 19 (0.74%) Pega
14 18 (0.70%) SaltStack
15 17 (0.66%) Cognos
16 12 (0.46%) ServiceNow
17 11 (0.43%) OpenLink
18 9 (0.35%) TOWER Software
19 8 (0.31%) VMware
20 5 (0.19%) CA