Legal Contracts in Scotland

Legal
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legal in contract job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legal 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 101 91 101
Rank change year-on-year -10 +10 +34
Contract jobs citing Legal 15 38 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.92% 1.71% 2.20%
As % of the General category 1.28% 2.64% 3.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 21 52
10th Percentile £200 £163 £269
25th Percentile £340 £200 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £525 £458
Median % change year-on-year -16.19% +14.63% +4.69%
75th Percentile £506 £626 £571
90th Percentile £550 - £650
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £11.50 -
UK median hourly rate £26.62 £26.00 £22.16
% change year-on-year +2.37% +17.33% -31.15%

All General Skills
Scotland

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 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%

Legal
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Legal in Scotland

Legal
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Legal in Scotland

Legal
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legal in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Legal in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Legal in Scotland

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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 Legal 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
Glasgow -13 9 £450 +38.46% 20
Edinburgh +3 4 £340 -36.74% 21
Aberdeen +1 1 £200 - 2
Legal
UK

Legal
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Hyperion Planning
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) OpenShift
3 1 (6.67%) GCP
3 1 (6.67%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Firewall
1 2 (13.33%) LAN
1 2 (13.33%) MPLS
1 2 (13.33%) VPN
1 2 (13.33%) WAN
2 1 (6.67%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (6.67%) IPsec
2 1 (6.67%) Network Security
2 1 (6.67%) SD-WAN
2 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (6.67%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (6.67%) Essbase
2 1 (6.67%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Git
2 2 (13.33%) Bitbucket
3 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 9 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Finance
3 3 (20.00%) Banking
3 3 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (13.33%) Investment Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Law
5 1 (6.67%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (13.33%) Applications Support
1 2 (13.33%) Deployment Engineer
1 2 (13.33%) Network Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) Analyst
2 1 (6.67%) Applications Specialist
2 1 (6.67%) Applications Support Specialist
2 1 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) Contracts Manager
2 1 (6.67%) Hyperion Analyst
2 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Project Manager
2 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Support
2 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle Analyst
2 1 (6.67%) Procurement Officer
2 1 (6.67%) Project Manager
2 1 (6.67%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) Loki
1 2 (13.33%) Middleware
2 1 (6.67%) NumPy
2 1 (6.67%) Pandas
2 1 (6.67%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
1 1 (6.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Windows
2 2 (13.33%) Linux
2 2 (13.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
2 3 (20.00%) ITIL
2 3 (20.00%) Problem Management
3 2 (13.33%) Agile
3 2 (13.33%) Customer Service
3 2 (13.33%) DevOps
3 2 (13.33%) Garbage Collection
3 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (13.33%) Internal Audit
3 2 (13.33%) Investment Management
3 2 (13.33%) Project Delivery
3 2 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (13.33%) Wealth Management
4 1 (6.67%) Budgeting
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Security
4 1 (6.67%) Knowledge Discovery
4 1 (6.67%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) Python
2 2 (13.33%) Shell Script
3 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (6.67%) DBS Check
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
1 2 (13.33%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (6.67%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (20.00%) SCCM
2 2 (13.33%) Ansible
2 2 (13.33%) Grafana
2 2 (13.33%) Prometheus
2 2 (13.33%) Terraform
3 1 (6.67%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (20.00%) VMware
2 2 (13.33%) Cisco
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle
2 2 (13.33%) Splunk
2 2 (13.33%) Veritas
3 1 (6.67%) Aruba
3 1 (6.67%) Citrix
3 1 (6.67%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (6.67%) Fortinet
3 1 (6.67%) Hyperion
3 1 (6.67%) Meraki
3 1 (6.67%) Palo Alto
3 1 (6.67%) Rapid7
3 1 (6.67%) SolarWinds