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 30 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 59 59
Rank change year-on-year +6 0 +27
Contract jobs citing Legal 12 5 19
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 1.82% 0.83% 2.32%
As % of the General category 2.96% 1.08% 3.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 11
10th Percentile £483 £292 £172
25th Percentile £513 £310 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £340 £588
Median % change year-on-year +54.41% -42.13% +43.29%
75th Percentile £675 £370 £618
90th Percentile - £388 £626
Scotland median daily rate £550 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +22.22% -18.18% +12.82%
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 406 464 617
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 61.70% 76.82% 75.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 258 357
10th Percentile £170 £192 £177
25th Percentile £377 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £458 £484
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% -5.37% +1.89%
75th Percentile £540 £538 £575
90th Percentile £638 £633 £663
Scotland median daily rate £450 £456 £475
% change year-on-year -1.21% -4.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 17 34
10th Percentile £16.38 £21.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £45.13 £22.22 £16.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £24.18 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +106.78% -39.55% +88.15%
75th Percentile £75.00 £24.66 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £30.74 £67.75
Scotland median hourly rate £16.25 £24.09 £19.50
% change year-on-year -32.54% +23.54% +10.05%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legal in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 30 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Legal in Edinburgh

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

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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 1 (8.33%) CMS
1 1 (8.33%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) Azure
2 6 (50.00%) Azure AI
2 6 (50.00%) Azure Cognitive Search
2 6 (50.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
3 5 (41.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) Canva
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (8.33%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
1 1 (8.33%) SD-WAN
1 1 (8.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (50.00%) Metadata
2 1 (8.33%) Delta Lake
General
1 7 (58.33%) Public Sector
2 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Retail
4 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Architect
2 6 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Executive Assistant
3 1 (8.33%) IBM Mainframe Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Mainframe Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (8.33%) z/OS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) .NET
2 5 (41.67%) RESTful
3 4 (33.33%) React
4 2 (16.67%) Middleware
4 2 (16.67%) REST
5 1 (8.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Clustering
1 2 (16.67%) Mainframe
2 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (8.33%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) zOS
2 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 6 (50.00%) AI
2 6 (50.00%) OCR
2 6 (50.00%) Open Source
2 6 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
3 5 (41.67%) API Design
3 5 (41.67%) DevOps
3 5 (41.67%) Machine Learning
4 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 4 (33.33%) IT Strategy
4 4 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
4 4 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
5 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (16.67%) Analytics
6 2 (16.67%) Problem Management
6 2 (16.67%) Project Delivery
7 1 (8.33%) AI Transformation
7 1 (8.33%) Community of Practice
7 1 (8.33%) Data Pipeline
7 1 (8.33%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) C#
1 6 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (8.33%) GDPR
2 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (8.33%) Virtual Desktop
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) OpenAI
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (16.67%) IBM
4 1 (8.33%) Aruba
4 1 (8.33%) Cisco
4 1 (8.33%) Databricks
4 1 (8.33%) Facebook