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

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 62 54
Rank change year-on-year +9 -8 +54
Contract jobs citing Legal 17 8 39
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 2.71% 1.10% 3.92%
As % of the General category 3.60% 1.56% 5.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 26
10th Percentile £450 - £188
25th Percentile - - £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £239 £456
Median % change year-on-year +109.62% -47.72% -3.95%
75th Percentile £519 - £610
90th Percentile £656 - £626
Scotland median daily rate £525 £400 £525
% change year-on-year +31.25% -23.81% +2.44%
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 472 513 742
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 75.28% 70.56% 74.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 261 461
10th Percentile £215 £165 £171
25th Percentile £406 £340 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -1.04%
75th Percentile £538 £525 £550
90th Percentile £600 £600 £613
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 15 10
10th Percentile £15.94 £13.38 £13.12
25th Percentile - £16.50 £17.72
Median hourly rate £17.87 £24.18 £20.30
Median % change year-on-year -26.10% +19.14% +7.38%
75th Percentile £30.38 - £49.03
90th Percentile £60.63 £44.17 £61.60
Scotland median hourly rate £19.05 £19.30 £19.18
% change year-on-year -1.27% +0.60% +5.91%

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 8 November 2025.

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

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 (29.41%) Confluence
2 1 (5.88%) CMS
2 1 (5.88%) FileNet
2 1 (5.88%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) Azure
2 6 (35.29%) AWS
3 4 (23.53%) GCP
3 4 (23.53%) OCI
4 3 (17.65%) Azure AI
4 3 (17.65%) Azure Cognitive Search
4 3 (17.65%) Azure Cognitive Services
4 3 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (5.88%) Canva
5 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
5 1 (5.88%) Serverless
5 1 (5.88%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 6 (35.29%) Firewall
2 1 (5.88%) DHCP
2 1 (5.88%) DNS
2 1 (5.88%) IP Telephony
2 1 (5.88%) LAN
2 1 (5.88%) VLAN
2 1 (5.88%) VPN
2 1 (5.88%) Wireless
2 1 (5.88%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Metadata
2 1 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (35.29%) JIRA
General
1 7 (41.18%) Finance
1 7 (41.18%) Public Sector
2 6 (35.29%) Banking
3 5 (29.41%) Retail
4 4 (23.53%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (23.53%) Retail Banking
5 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
6 2 (11.76%) Law
6 2 (11.76%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (5.88%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (5.88%) Investment Banking
7 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
7 1 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Project Manager
2 4 (23.53%) Implementation Manager
2 4 (23.53%) Implementation Project Manager
2 4 (23.53%) Implementation Specialist
2 4 (23.53%) Project Implementation Manager
3 3 (17.65%) Architect
3 3 (17.65%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 3 (17.65%) Technical Architect
4 2 (11.76%) User Researcher
5 1 (5.88%) Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Automation Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Business Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Desktop Support
5 1 (5.88%) Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Executive Assistant
5 1 (5.88%) HR Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Support
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Support Executive
5 1 (5.88%) Workday Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Workday Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) .NET
1 3 (17.65%) React
1 3 (17.65%) RESTful
2 1 (5.88%) AWS CDK
2 1 (5.88%) PyTorch
2 1 (5.88%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (17.65%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.88%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (5.88%) Social Media
3 1 (5.88%) Taxonomies
3 1 (5.88%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Agile
2 6 (35.29%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (35.29%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (35.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (29.41%) Decision-Making
3 5 (29.41%) ITIL
3 5 (29.41%) Runbook
3 5 (29.41%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 4 (23.53%) AI
4 4 (23.53%) Dependency Management
4 4 (23.53%) DevOps
4 4 (23.53%) Incident Management
4 4 (23.53%) Incident Response
4 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (23.53%) Machine Learning
4 4 (23.53%) Migration
4 4 (23.53%) OCR
4 4 (23.53%) Platform Engineering
4 4 (23.53%) Risk Assessment
4 4 (23.53%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) Python
2 3 (17.65%) C#
3 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (29.41%) COBIT
2 4 (23.53%) Accessibility
3 1 (5.88%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (5.88%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) Ansible
1 4 (23.53%) Terraform
2 1 (5.88%) Grafana
2 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Oracle
2 4 (23.53%) CheckPoint
2 4 (23.53%) Dell
2 4 (23.53%) Dynatrace
2 4 (23.53%) F5
2 4 (23.53%) HP
3 3 (17.65%) OpenAI
4 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
5 1 (5.88%) Cisco
5 1 (5.88%) Facebook
5 1 (5.88%) IBM
5 1 (5.88%) Planview
5 1 (5.88%) SAP
5 1 (5.88%) Workday