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 8 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 62 54
Rank change year-on-year +12 -8 +56
Contract jobs citing Legal 14 8 35
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 2.34% 1.21% 3.73%
As % of the General category 3.20% 1.66% 4.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 26
10th Percentile £478 - £188
25th Percentile - - £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £239 £469
Median % change year-on-year +109.62% -49.11% +4.17%
75th Percentile £525 - £610
90th Percentile £563 - £626
Scotland median daily rate £525 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +31.25% -20.00% +2.56%
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 £13.91 - £80.00
% change year-on-year - - +332.43%

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 common skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 437 481 702
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 73.08% 72.99% 74.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 249 434
10th Percentile £175 £179 £180
25th Percentile £400 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £540 £538 £551
90th Percentile £599 £632 £626
Scotland median daily rate £455 £450 £485
% change year-on-year +1.11% -7.12% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 15 11
10th Percentile £16.07 £14.18 £13.28
25th Percentile - £20.34 £17.72
Median hourly rate £17.87 £24.00 £22.87
Median % change year-on-year -25.54% +4.94% +15.21%
75th Percentile £31.50 £24.18 £56.85
90th Percentile £66.75 £26.70 £61.50
Scotland median hourly rate £19.23 £20.94 £19.18
% change year-on-year -8.17% +9.18% +13.26%

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
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) AWS
1 6 (42.86%) Azure
2 4 (28.57%) GCP
2 4 (28.57%) OCI
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
3 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (7.14%) Canva
3 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
3 1 (7.14%) Serverless
3 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 1 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (7.14%) Delta Lake
1 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) JIRA
General
1 7 (50.00%) Finance
2 6 (42.86%) Banking
3 5 (35.71%) Retail
4 4 (28.57%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (28.57%) Public Sector
4 4 (28.57%) Retail Banking
5 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
6 2 (14.29%) Law
6 2 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (7.14%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (7.14%) Investment Banking
7 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
7 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Implementation Manager
1 4 (28.57%) Implementation Project Manager
1 4 (28.57%) Implementation Specialist
1 4 (28.57%) Project Implementation Manager
1 4 (28.57%) Project Manager
2 2 (14.29%) User Researcher
3 1 (7.14%) Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Automation Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Business Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Desktop Support
3 1 (7.14%) Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Executive Assistant
3 1 (7.14%) HR Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Senior
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Support
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Support Executive
3 1 (7.14%) Workday Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Workday Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) AWS CDK
1 1 (7.14%) PySpark
1 1 (7.14%) PyTorch
1 1 (7.14%) REST
1 1 (7.14%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.14%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (7.14%) Social Media
2 1 (7.14%) Taxonomies
2 1 (7.14%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Agile
1 6 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
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
4 2 (14.29%) Analytics
4 2 (14.29%) Journey Map
4 2 (14.29%) User Journey Map
4 2 (14.29%) User Research
4 2 (14.29%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) Python
1 1 (7.14%) SQL
1 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
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 1 (7.14%) Cisco
3 1 (7.14%) Databricks
3 1 (7.14%) Facebook
3 1 (7.14%) IBM
3 1 (7.14%) Planview
3 1 (7.14%) SAP
3 1 (7.14%) Workday