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 26 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 57 50
Rank change year-on-year +10 -7 +43
Contract jobs citing Legal 16 9 29
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 2.58% 1.39% 3.37%
As % of the General category 4.06% 1.82% 4.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 20
10th Percentile £489 - £332
25th Percentile £500 - £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £239 £469
Median % change year-on-year +120.10% -49.11% +11.61%
75th Percentile £609 £280 £598
90th Percentile £675 £352 £626
Scotland median daily rate £525 £438 £538
% change year-on-year +20.00% -18.60% +7.50%
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 £16.25 - £11.50

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 394 494 657
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 63.45% 76.23% 76.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 280 388
10th Percentile £150 £192 £219
25th Percentile £331 £373 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £493
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -8.63% +3.68%
75th Percentile £555 £538 £575
90th Percentile £663 £638 £650
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £480
% change year-on-year - -6.25% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 18 29
10th Percentile £17.23 £21.00 £13.27
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.34 £17.72
Median hourly rate £50.00 £24.09 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +107.56% -59.85% +179.52%
75th Percentile £75.00 £24.54 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £30.15 £70.00
Scotland median hourly rate £17.87 £24.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -25.54% -7.69% +53.53%

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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legal in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 26 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Legal in Edinburgh

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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

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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 4 (25.00%) Confluence
2 1 (6.25%) CMS
2 1 (6.25%) FileNet
2 1 (6.25%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 11 (68.75%) Azure
2 5 (31.25%) Azure AI
2 5 (31.25%) Azure Cognitive Search
2 5 (31.25%) Azure Cognitive Services
3 4 (25.00%) AWS
3 4 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (18.75%) GCP
4 3 (18.75%) OCI
5 1 (6.25%) Canva
5 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (6.25%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (6.25%) SD-WAN
2 1 (6.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) Metadata
2 1 (6.25%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (43.75%) Finance
1 7 (43.75%) Public Sector
2 5 (31.25%) Retail
3 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Banking
3 3 (18.75%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Retail Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Law
4 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Architect
2 5 (31.25%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 3 (18.75%) Implementation Manager
3 3 (18.75%) Implementation Project Manager
3 3 (18.75%) Implementation Specialist
3 3 (18.75%) Project Implementation Manager
3 3 (18.75%) Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Administrator
4 1 (6.25%) Data Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Executive Assistant
4 1 (6.25%) IBM Mainframe Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Mainframe Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.25%) User Researcher
4 1 (6.25%) z/OS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) .NET
2 4 (25.00%) RESTful
3 3 (18.75%) React
4 2 (12.50%) Middleware
4 2 (12.50%) REST
5 1 (6.25%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (12.50%) Clustering
2 2 (12.50%) Mainframe
3 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.25%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Windows
2 2 (12.50%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Roadmaps
2 6 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (31.25%) AI
3 5 (31.25%) DevOps
3 5 (31.25%) OCR
3 5 (31.25%) Open Source
3 5 (31.25%) Technology Strategy
4 4 (25.00%) Agile
4 4 (25.00%) API Design
4 4 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 4 (25.00%) Machine Learning
4 4 (25.00%) Runbook
4 4 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 4 (25.00%) Technology Roadmap
5 3 (18.75%) Incident Management
5 3 (18.75%) ITIL
5 3 (18.75%) Migration
5 3 (18.75%) Risk Assessment
5 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) C#
1 5 (31.25%) Python
2 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) Accessibility
1 3 (18.75%) COBIT
2 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.25%) GDPR
2 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.25%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Ansible
1 3 (18.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) OpenAI
2 3 (18.75%) CheckPoint
2 3 (18.75%) Dell
2 3 (18.75%) Dynatrace
2 3 (18.75%) F5
2 3 (18.75%) HP
2 3 (18.75%) IBM
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 3 (18.75%) Oracle
3 1 (6.25%) Aruba
3 1 (6.25%) Cisco
3 1 (6.25%) Databricks
3 1 (6.25%) Facebook