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

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 63 52
Rank change year-on-year +14 -11 +45
Contract jobs citing Legal 14 8 31
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 2.41% 1.30% 3.40%
As % of the General category 3.34% 1.74% 4.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 23
10th Percentile £478 - £179
25th Percentile - - £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £239 £463
Median % change year-on-year +109.62% -48.43% +8.82%
75th Percentile £525 - £584
90th Percentile £563 - £623
Scotland median daily rate £525 £419 £500
% change year-on-year +25.37% -16.25% -
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 £15.08 - £48.50
% change year-on-year - - +162.16%

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 419 460 693
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 72.24% 74.55% 75.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 248 426
10th Percentile £170 £192 £171
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.33% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £550 £538 £559
90th Percentile £605 £627 £633
Scotland median daily rate £460 £450 £490
% change year-on-year +2.22% -8.16% +3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 15 14
10th Percentile £16.47 £20.20 £14.17
25th Percentile - £22.36 £19.01
Median hourly rate £17.87 £24.18 £49.35
Median % change year-on-year -26.10% -51.00% +163.20%
75th Percentile £31.50 - £62.25
90th Percentile £66.75 £53.35 £70.00
Scotland median hourly rate £17.87 £24.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year -25.54% +23.08% +15.15%

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 7 (50.00%) Azure
2 6 (42.86%) AWS
3 4 (28.57%) GCP
3 4 (28.57%) OCI
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
4 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (7.14%) Azure AI
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Cognitive Search
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Cognitive Services
4 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) Canva
4 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
4 1 (7.14%) Serverless
4 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%) Metadata
1 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) JIRA
General
1 6 (42.86%) Finance
2 5 (35.71%) Banking
2 5 (35.71%) Public Sector
2 5 (35.71%) Retail
3 4 (28.57%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (28.57%) Retail Banking
4 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
5 2 (14.29%) Law
5 2 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (7.14%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (7.14%) Investment Banking
6 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
6 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%) Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Automation Developer
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%) .NET
1 1 (7.14%) AWS CDK
1 1 (7.14%) PySpark
1 1 (7.14%) PyTorch
1 1 (7.14%) React
1 1 (7.14%) REST
1 1 (7.14%) RESTful
1 1 (7.14%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Legacy Systems
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
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
2 5 (35.71%) Stakeholder Management
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%) Machine Learning
4 2 (14.29%) Qualitative Research
4 2 (14.29%) Usability Testing
4 2 (14.29%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) C#
2 1 (7.14%) SQL
2 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
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%) OpenAI
3 1 (7.14%) Planview
3 1 (7.14%) SAP
3 1 (7.14%) Workday