Legal Contracts 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 14 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 67 77
Rank change year-on-year +9 +10 +33
Contract jobs citing Legal 8 5 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.27% 0.57% 2.62%
As % of the General category 1.61% 0.80% 3.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 19
10th Percentile £316 £423 £210
25th Percentile £370 £439 £241
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £481 £269
Median % change year-on-year -16.88% +79.10% -36.77%
75th Percentile £497 £527 £411
90th Percentile £671 £544 £478
Scotland median daily rate £400 £488 £503
% change year-on-year -17.95% -2.99% +15.12%

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 497 622 876
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 78.89% 70.44% 73.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 348 614
10th Percentile £210 £156 £216
25th Percentile £400 £340 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
75th Percentile £538 £563 £545
90th Percentile £625 £663 £600
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.22% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 36 6
10th Percentile £18.79 £13.38 £14.11
25th Percentile £21.00 £16.50 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.77 £25.09 £19.49
Median % change year-on-year -5.27% +28.73% -25.04%
75th Percentile £37.17 £60.75 £21.57
90th Percentile £58.58 £65.38 £31.34
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £18.00 £18.84
% change year-on-year +11.11% -4.46% -49.67%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Legal as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Legal in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Legal in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Legal in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legal in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 14 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Legal in Edinburgh

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Legal in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for Legal in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
1 3 (37.50%) Azure AI
1 3 (37.50%) Azure Cognitive Search
1 3 (37.50%) Azure Cognitive Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) IPsec
2 1 (12.50%) LAN
2 1 (12.50%) MPLS
2 1 (12.50%) Network Security
2 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
2 1 (12.50%) VPN
2 1 (12.50%) WAN
2 1 (12.50%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Metadata
General
1 4 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Architect
1 3 (37.50%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 3 (37.50%) Technical Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) .NET
1 3 (37.50%) React
1 3 (37.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) API Design
1 3 (37.50%) Architectural Patterns
1 3 (37.50%) Artificial Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
1 3 (37.50%) Data Governance
1 3 (37.50%) DevOps
1 3 (37.50%) Machine Learning
1 3 (37.50%) OCR
1 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (37.50%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (25.00%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) Case Management
2 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (12.50%) Application Packaging
3 1 (12.50%) Business Analysis
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
3 1 (12.50%) Release Management
3 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) C#
1 3 (37.50%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) Accessibility
2 1 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
1 3 (37.50%) OpenAI
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) Meraki
91 Legal jobs in Scotland