Legal Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Legal
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legal in contract job vacancies in Edinburgh. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legal over the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 57 49
Rank change year-on-year +7 -8 +49
Contract jobs citing Legal 14 7 30
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 2.42% 1.20% 3.33%
As % of the General category 3.43% 1.61% 4.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 22
10th Percentile £478 - £190
25th Percentile - - £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £239 £469
Median % change year-on-year +109.62% -49.11% +10.29%
75th Percentile £525 - £589
90th Percentile £563 - £625
Scotland median daily rate £525 £438 £500
% change year-on-year +20.00% -12.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.20 - -
Median hourly rate £13.91 - -
75th Percentile £14.61 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £15.08 - £48.50
% change year-on-year - - +162.16%

All General Skills
Edinburgh

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 general skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 408 435 689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 70.47% 74.74% 76.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 235 420
10th Percentile £170 £192 £181
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -6.25% +1.05%
75th Percentile £550 £535 £569
90th Percentile £625 £628 £638
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +2.78% -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 20 16
10th Percentile £16.85 £19.29 £14.77
25th Percentile - £21.03 £21.58
Median hourly rate £17.87 £24.09 £49.35
Median % change year-on-year -25.82% -51.19% +170.63%
75th Percentile £45.75 £24.30 £64.38
90th Percentile £75.00 £37.86 £70.00
Scotland median hourly rate £17.87 £24.00 £30.75
% change year-on-year -25.54% -21.95% +81.58%

Legal
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Legal relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Legal job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Legal
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Legal.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Legal

Legal
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Legal.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Legal

Legal
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (35.71%) Confluence
2 1 (7.14%) CMS
2 1 (7.14%) FileNet
2 1 (7.14%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) Azure
2 6 (42.86%) AWS
3 4 (28.57%) GCP
3 4 (28.57%) OCI
4 2 (14.29%) Azure AI
4 2 (14.29%) Azure Cognitive Search
4 2 (14.29%) Azure Cognitive Services
4 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
5 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (7.14%) Canva
5 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
5 1 (7.14%) Serverless
5 1 (7.14%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 5 (35.71%) Firewall
2 1 (7.14%) DHCP
2 1 (7.14%) DNS
2 1 (7.14%) IP Telephony
2 1 (7.14%) LAN
2 1 (7.14%) VLAN
2 1 (7.14%) VPN
2 1 (7.14%) Wireless
2 1 (7.14%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Metadata
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (7.14%) Delta Lake
2 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) JIRA
General
1 6 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 5 (35.71%) Finance
3 4 (28.57%) Banking
3 4 (28.57%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (28.57%) Retail
4 3 (21.43%) Retail Banking
4 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
5 2 (14.29%) Law
5 2 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Implementation Specialist
2 3 (21.43%) Implementation Manager
2 3 (21.43%) Implementation Project Manager
2 3 (21.43%) Project Implementation Manager
2 3 (21.43%) Project Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 2 (14.29%) User Researcher
4 1 (7.14%) Automation Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Desktop Support
4 1 (7.14%) Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Executive Assistant
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Support
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Support Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) .NET
1 2 (14.29%) React
1 2 (14.29%) RESTful
2 1 (7.14%) AWS CDK
2 1 (7.14%) PySpark
2 1 (7.14%) PyTorch
2 1 (7.14%) REST
2 1 (7.14%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (7.14%) Social Media
2 1 (7.14%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Agile
2 5 (35.71%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (35.71%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (35.71%) ITIL
2 5 (35.71%) Runbook
2 5 (35.71%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 4 (28.57%) Decision-Making
3 4 (28.57%) Dependency Management
3 4 (28.57%) Incident Management
3 4 (28.57%) Incident Response
3 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (28.57%) Migration
3 4 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
3 4 (28.57%) Risk Assessment
3 4 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (21.43%) AI
4 3 (21.43%) DevOps
4 3 (21.43%) Machine Learning
4 3 (21.43%) OCR
5 2 (14.29%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) Python
2 2 (14.29%) C#
3 1 (7.14%) SQL
3 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (35.71%) COBIT
2 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.14%) GDPR
2 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Ansible
1 4 (28.57%) Terraform
2 1 (7.14%) Grafana
2 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Oracle
2 4 (28.57%) CheckPoint
2 4 (28.57%) Dell
2 4 (28.57%) Dynatrace
2 4 (28.57%) F5
2 4 (28.57%) HP
3 2 (14.29%) OpenAI
4 1 (7.14%) Cisco
4 1 (7.14%) Databricks
4 1 (7.14%) Facebook
4 1 (7.14%) IBM
4 1 (7.14%) SAP