Law Contracts in Scotland

Law
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Law in contract job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Law over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 120 161
Rank change year-on-year +10 +41 -17
Contract jobs citing Law 6 9 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.37% 0.41% 0.070%
As % of the General category 0.51% 0.62% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 2
10th Percentile - £324 £277
25th Percentile £425 £400 £301
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £360
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +31.94% -34.84%
75th Percentile £475 £650 £426
90th Percentile - £670 £456
UK median daily rate £501 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.00% +4.76% -

All General Skills
Scotland

Law 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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,171 1,442 1,887
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 72.06% 65.04% 65.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 713 864 1,390
10th Percentile £240 £182 £236
25th Percentile £375 £363 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.21% - +3.83%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £570
90th Percentile £612 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 73 28
10th Percentile £16.02 £12.30 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.52 £16.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £22.44 £19.17 £19.88
Median % change year-on-year +17.04% -3.57% -23.54%
75th Percentile £28.22 £60.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £55.74 £69.00 £66.84
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.33% -14.29% +59.31%

Law
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Law as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Law in Scotland

Law
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Law in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Law in Scotland

Law
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Law in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Law in Scotland

Law
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Law within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +7 4 - - 24
Glasgow 0 1 £450 +12.50% 31
Fife - 1 - - 2
Law
UK

Law
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 4 (66.67%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) LAN
1 1 (16.67%) MPLS
1 1 (16.67%) SD-WAN
1 1 (16.67%) VPN
1 1 (16.67%) WAN
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 4 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (16.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Server Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) HR Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Linux Server Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Amazon Linux
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
1 4 (66.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) ITIL
1 5 (83.33%) Problem Management
2 4 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 4 (66.67%) Project Delivery
2 4 (66.67%) Service-Level Objective
2 4 (66.67%) Technical Debt
3 1 (16.67%) Change Management
3 1 (16.67%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Security Management
3 1 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Red Hat
1 4 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) Aruba
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) Fortinet
2 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto
2 1 (16.67%) SolarWinds