Legal Contracts in Scotland

Legal
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legal in contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Legal over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 93 103 130
Rank change year-on-year +10 +27 +9
Contract jobs citing Legal 38 63 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.72% 2.21% 1.05%
As % of the General category 2.65% 3.35% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 52 31
10th Percentile £163 £269 £210
25th Percentile £200 £366 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £458 £450
Median % change year-on-year +14.63% +1.78% -
75th Percentile £626 £571 £503
90th Percentile - £650 £575
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £11.50 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £14.80 - -
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £22.16 £34.38
% change year-on-year +17.33% -35.53% +85.81%

All General Skills
Scotland

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,432 1,878 2,528
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 64.88% 65.80% 71.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 860 1,386 1,835
10th Percentile £181 £232 £219
25th Percentile £362 £405 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +2.70% +8.82%
75th Percentile £588 £570 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +7.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 29 41
10th Percentile £12.30 £12.75 £13.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.00 £17.25
Median hourly rate £19.17 £21.26 £25.82
Median % change year-on-year -9.83% -17.64% -9.42%
75th Percentile £60.00 £58.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £69.00 £67.50 £53.75
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -17.14% +62.79% -4.44%

Legal
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Legal in Scotland

Legal
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Legal in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Legal in Scotland

Legal
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legal in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Legal in Scotland

Legal
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Legal in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Legal in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Legal within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Glasgow +5 25 £325 -40.91% 22
Edinburgh +19 6 £538 +56.93% 10
Perthshire +7 2 £506 -11.57%
Aberdeen - 1 - - 7
Legal
UK

Legal
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 2 (5.26%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (21.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (18.42%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (15.79%) Snowflake
2 4 (10.53%) Power Platform
2 4 (10.53%) SaaS
3 2 (5.26%) Azure
4 1 (2.63%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.63%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (2.63%) AWS
4 1 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (2.63%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.63%) Figma
4 1 (2.63%) OpenShift
4 1 (2.63%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.79%) Tableau
2 4 (10.53%) Power BI
3 1 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (5.26%) JIRA
2 1 (2.63%) GitLab
General
1 11 (28.95%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 9 (23.68%) Finance
4 6 (15.79%) Public Sector
5 3 (7.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.63%) Banking
6 1 (2.63%) Law
6 1 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (28.95%) Analyst
2 8 (21.05%) Lead
3 6 (15.79%) Data Analyst
3 6 (15.79%) Lead Data Analyst
4 5 (13.16%) Category Manager
5 4 (10.53%) Administrator
5 4 (10.53%) Help Desk Administrator
5 4 (10.53%) IT Manager
5 4 (10.53%) Procurement Officer
6 3 (7.89%) Operations Analyst
6 3 (7.89%) Report Analyst
7 2 (5.26%) Business Analyst
7 2 (5.26%) Senior
7 2 (5.26%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 1 (2.63%) Data Engineer
8 1 (2.63%) Designer
8 1 (2.63%) ERP Manager
8 1 (2.63%) ERP Project Manager
8 1 (2.63%) HR Specialist
8 1 (2.63%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.63%) AWS CDK
1 1 (2.63%) PostGIS
1 1 (2.63%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.79%) Credit Risk
2 4 (10.53%) DTCC
2 4 (10.53%) Market Risk
3 2 (5.26%) Taxonomies
4 1 (2.63%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (2.63%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (28.95%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (26.32%) Customer Service
2 10 (26.32%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (15.79%) Actionable Insight
3 6 (15.79%) Agile
3 6 (15.79%) Analytics
3 6 (15.79%) Dashboard Development
3 6 (15.79%) Decision-Making
4 5 (13.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 5 (13.16%) Supply Chain Management
5 4 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (10.53%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 4 (10.53%) Digital Strategy
5 4 (10.53%) IT Strategy
5 4 (10.53%) Performance Management
5 4 (10.53%) Roadmaps
6 3 (7.89%) Migration
7 2 (5.26%) Data Entry
7 2 (5.26%) Knowledge Management
7 2 (5.26%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.63%) Python
1 1 (2.63%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (18.42%) Degree
2 2 (5.26%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.26%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.63%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.63%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.63%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.63%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.63%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (2.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.63%) Grafana
Vendors
1 11 (28.95%) Microsoft
2 9 (23.68%) Oracle
3 6 (15.79%) Alteryx
4 1 (2.63%) SAP
4 1 (2.63%) Workday