Law Jobs in Scotland

Law
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Law in permanent job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Law over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 5 171
Rank change year-on-year -58 +166 -34
Permanent jobs citing Law 123 2,583 41
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 4.06% 37.84% 0.93%
As % of the General category 5.91% 53.47% 1.24%
Number of salaries quoted 21 55 35
10th Percentile £24,000 £28,000 £28,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £35,000 £45,579
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £47,500 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -10.38% -1.40%
75th Percentile £82,500 £66,250 £63,875
90th Percentile £99,750 £95,250 £104,100
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% - +5.00%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring common skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,082 4,831 3,294
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 68.64% 70.77% 74.81%
Number of salaries quoted 916 1,564 1,582
10th Percentile £25,087 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £32,851 £38,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,625 £81,250 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Law in Scotland

Law
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Law in Scotland over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Law in Scotland

Law
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Law within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 31 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -4 109 £65,000 +36.84% 43
Edinburgh +13 9 £67,500 +50.00% 36
West Lothian - 3 £24,000 - 5
Aberdeen +28 1 - - 9
West Dunbartonshire - 1 £55,000 -
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:

Application Platforms
1 13 (10.57%) Apache Spark
2 7 (5.69%) Apache
3 4 (3.25%) Camunda
3 4 (3.25%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.63%) Cloud Foundry
5 2 (1.63%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.81%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 43 (34.96%) AWS
2 18 (14.63%) Azure
3 10 (8.13%) GCP
4 7 (5.69%) Amazon S3
5 5 (4.07%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (4.07%) Serverless
6 4 (3.25%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (3.25%) GitHub
6 4 (3.25%) Power Platform
7 3 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.44%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (2.44%) npm
7 3 (2.44%) Yarn
8 2 (1.63%) Amazon MSK
8 2 (1.63%) Azure AKS
8 2 (1.63%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (1.63%) Dagster
8 2 (1.63%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.81%) DHCP
1 1 (0.81%) DNS
1 1 (0.81%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.57%) Big Data
2 12 (9.76%) NoSQL
3 9 (7.32%) Amazon Athena
4 8 (6.50%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (6.50%) Relational Database
5 7 (5.69%) Apache Cassandra
6 6 (4.88%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (4.88%) KDB
6 6 (4.88%) Kdb+
6 6 (4.88%) SQL Server
7 5 (4.07%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (4.07%) Apache Iceberg
8 4 (3.25%) Apache Hive
8 4 (3.25%) DynamoDB
8 4 (3.25%) Hadoop
8 4 (3.25%) Oracle Database
8 4 (3.25%) RDBMS
9 3 (2.44%) Apache Hudi
9 3 (2.44%) MongoDB
9 3 (2.44%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 9 (7.32%) Jenkins
2 7 (5.69%) Git
2 7 (5.69%) JUnit
3 6 (4.88%) Maven
4 3 (2.44%) Cypress.io
4 3 (2.44%) Vite
4 3 (2.44%) webpack
5 2 (1.63%) Gradle
5 2 (1.63%) JIRA
5 2 (1.63%) Subversion
6 1 (0.81%) GitLab
General
1 104 (84.55%) Finance
2 99 (80.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 52 (42.28%) Banking
4 39 (31.71%) Marketing
5 19 (15.45%) Social Skills
6 15 (12.20%) Legal
7 14 (11.38%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (6.50%) Investment Banking
9 5 (4.07%) Public Sector
10 4 (3.25%) Private Banking
11 2 (1.63%) Arabic Language
11 2 (1.63%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.63%) Front Office
11 2 (1.63%) Mandarin Language
11 2 (1.63%) Prime Brokerage
11 2 (1.63%) Publishing
11 2 (1.63%) Russian Language
Job Titles
1 90 (73.17%) Software Engineer
2 48 (39.02%) Java Engineer
2 48 (39.02%) Java Software Engineer
3 34 (27.64%) Lead
4 27 (21.95%) Lead Software Engineer
5 22 (17.89%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 22 (17.89%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 17 (13.82%) Python Engineer
7 16 (13.01%) Python Software Engineer
8 13 (10.57%) Senior
9 12 (9.76%) Lead Java Engineer
10 10 (8.13%) AWS Engineer
10 10 (8.13%) AWS Software Engineer
11 9 (7.32%) Senior Software Engineer
12 7 (5.69%) Consultant
12 7 (5.69%) Developer
12 7 (5.69%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 7 (5.69%) Software Developer
13 6 (4.88%) Java Developer
13 6 (4.88%) Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (35.77%) Spring
2 30 (24.39%) Kafka
3 28 (22.76%) React
4 26 (21.14%) Spring Boot
5 14 (11.38%) AngularJS
6 12 (9.76%) REST
7 10 (8.13%) RESTful
8 7 (5.69%) PySpark
9 6 (4.88%) Web Services
10 5 (4.07%) HTML
10 5 (4.07%) Pandas
11 4 (3.25%) FIX Protocol
11 4 (3.25%) Hibernate
11 4 (3.25%) JDBC
11 4 (3.25%) JPA
11 4 (3.25%) OpenAPI
11 4 (3.25%) Swagger
11 4 (3.25%) WSDL
12 3 (2.44%) OAuth
12 3 (2.44%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 36 (29.27%) Algorithms
2 29 (23.58%) Cloud Native
3 7 (5.69%) Public Cloud
4 6 (4.88%) Derivative
4 6 (4.88%) Reference Data
5 4 (3.25%) Fixed Income
6 3 (2.44%) Credit Risk
6 3 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.63%) Blockchain
7 2 (1.63%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.63%) Equities
7 2 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.63%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.63%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.63%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.81%) IoT
8 1 (0.81%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.81%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.07%) Linux
2 3 (2.44%) Windows
3 2 (1.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.63%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.63%) Unix
4 1 (0.81%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.81%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (77.24%) Agile
2 92 (74.80%) Software Engineering
3 77 (62.60%) Operational Stability
3 77 (62.60%) SDLC
4 68 (55.28%) CI/CD
5 53 (43.09%) Artificial Intelligence
6 52 (42.28%) Community of Practice
6 52 (42.28%) Machine Learning
7 39 (31.71%) Visualisation
8 32 (26.02%) Continuous Improvement
9 30 (24.39%) Problem-Solving
10 27 (21.95%) Decision-Making
11 24 (19.51%) Full-Stack Development
12 17 (13.82%) Architectural Design
12 17 (13.82%) Information Architecture
13 16 (13.01%) Risk Management
14 13 (10.57%) Computer Science
15 12 (9.76%) Analytics
15 12 (9.76%) Data Engineering
16 11 (8.94%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 68 (55.28%) Java
2 38 (30.89%) SQL
3 35 (28.46%) Python
4 11 (8.94%) JavaScript
4 11 (8.94%) TypeScript
5 5 (4.07%) C#
6 3 (2.44%) Go
6 3 (2.44%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.63%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.63%) Scala
7 2 (1.63%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.81%) C
8 1 (0.81%) C++
8 1 (0.81%) Objective-C
8 1 (0.81%) Swift
Qualifications
1 5 (4.07%) Azure Certification
1 5 (4.07%) Degree
1 5 (4.07%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (3.25%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.81%) APMG
4 1 (0.81%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.81%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.25%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.44%) ISO 9001
3 2 (1.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (1.63%) GDPR
4 1 (0.81%) P3O
System Software
1 8 (6.50%) Docker
2 2 (1.63%) HDFS
3 1 (0.81%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 26 (21.14%) Kubernetes
2 15 (12.20%) Terraform
3 8 (6.50%) Grafana
4 3 (2.44%) Ansible
4 3 (2.44%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.63%) ITRS Geneos
5 2 (1.63%) Netcool
5 2 (1.63%) Netcool/OMNIbus
5 2 (1.63%) Tivoli
6 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.81%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.81%) Puppet
Vendors
1 28 (22.76%) Oracle
2 11 (8.94%) Splunk
3 10 (8.13%) Microsoft
4 8 (6.50%) Dynatrace
5 7 (5.69%) Databricks
6 4 (3.25%) Google
6 4 (3.25%) SAP
6 4 (3.25%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.44%) Facebook
7 3 (2.44%) Workday
8 2 (1.63%) Cloudera
8 2 (1.63%) IBM
8 2 (1.63%) Murex
8 2 (1.63%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.63%) Sage
9 1 (0.81%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.81%) Sybase