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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 171 142
Rank change year-on-year +165 -29 -2
Permanent jobs citing Law 1,741 39 113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 30.55% 1.03% 1.86%
As % of the General category 45.66% 1.39% 2.83%
Number of salaries quoted 56 32 47
10th Percentile £26,250 £39,294 £22,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £46,090 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £54,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -7.69% +23.16%
75th Percentile £71,875 £62,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £73,100 £84,780
UK median annual salary £50,750 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +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 3,813 2,806 3,994
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 66.92% 73.96% 65.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,377 1,519 2,130
10th Percentile £28,650 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £41,227
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,350 £72,433 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,500 £83,750 £84,056
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +6.19%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 +95 1,702 £47,500 -12.04% 3
Edinburgh +44 25 £40,750 -14.59% 3
Aberdeen -3 6 £28,000 - 2
Lanarkshire - 3 £80,000 - 2
Perthshire - 1 £50,500 -
Renfrewshire - 1 £35,000 -
Perth and Kinross - 1 £50,500 -
Fife - 1 £56,000 -
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
1 324 (18.61%) Apache Spark
2 98 (5.63%) FileNet
3 70 (4.02%) Apache Airflow
4 57 (3.27%) Apache
5 32 (1.84%) Cloud Foundry
6 21 (1.21%) GemFire
7 16 (0.92%) Confluence
8 11 (0.63%) CICS
9 7 (0.40%) Tomcat
10 5 (0.29%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.057%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.057%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 15 (0.86%) Sketch
2 7 (0.40%) UserZoom
3 5 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.17%) InVision
4 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.057%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.057%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.057%) SketchUp
5 1 (0.057%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 7 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.34%) Endur
3 2 (0.11%) SAP HCM
3 2 (0.11%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 719 (41.30%) AWS
2 116 (6.66%) Datadog
3 103 (5.92%) Azure
4 98 (5.63%) Amazon S3
5 67 (3.85%) Figma
6 59 (3.39%) GCP
7 55 (3.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 48 (2.76%) SurveyMonkey
9 47 (2.70%) Amazon ECS
10 45 (2.58%) GitHub
11 33 (1.90%) BlazeMeter
12 32 (1.84%) Amazon EKS
12 32 (1.84%) Serverless
13 29 (1.67%) Amazon EC2
13 29 (1.67%) Amazon EMR
13 29 (1.67%) Amazon SQS
13 29 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
14 27 (1.55%) Cloud Computing
15 25 (1.44%) Google Play
16 23 (1.32%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 61 (3.50%) Kerberos
2 5 (0.29%) SAN
2 5 (0.29%) VoIP
3 4 (0.23%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (0.057%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 446 (25.62%) NoSQL
2 275 (15.80%) Big Data
3 135 (7.75%) Apache Cassandra
4 122 (7.01%) Elasticsearch
5 121 (6.95%) Hadoop
6 74 (4.25%) Apache Hive
7 67 (3.85%) Relational Database
8 60 (3.45%) HBase
9 44 (2.53%) Metadata
10 42 (2.41%) MongoDB
11 40 (2.30%) Data Lake
12 38 (2.18%) CockroachDB
13 35 (2.01%) Qlik Sense
14 29 (1.67%) Electronic Patient Records
15 21 (1.21%) Hazelcast
16 18 (1.03%) MySQL
17 17 (0.98%) Amazon Aurora
18 14 (0.80%) Impala
19 11 (0.63%) DB2
19 11 (0.63%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 192 (11.03%) Jenkins
1 192 (11.03%) JUnit
2 113 (6.49%) Git
3 105 (6.03%) Jasmine
4 84 (4.82%) Cypress.io
5 61 (3.50%) Selenium
6 60 (3.45%) Bitbucket Server
6 60 (3.45%) Karma Test Runner
6 60 (3.45%) Protractor
6 60 (3.45%) WebDriver
7 53 (3.04%) JIRA
8 49 (2.81%) Bitbucket
9 45 (2.58%) Mockito
10 44 (2.53%) Artifactory
11 41 (2.35%) Maven
12 28 (1.61%) JMeter
13 25 (1.44%) Android Studio
13 25 (1.44%) Cucumber
14 22 (1.26%) GitLab
15 21 (1.21%) Jaeger
General
1 1,687 (96.90%) Finance
2 1,672 (96.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 861 (49.45%) Marketing
4 483 (27.74%) Legal
5 292 (16.77%) Banking
6 282 (16.20%) Investment Banking
7 155 (8.90%) Social Skills
8 130 (7.47%) Financial Institution
9 95 (5.46%) Influencing Skills
10 30 (1.72%) Social Science
11 27 (1.55%) Games
12 25 (1.44%) Analytical Skills
12 25 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
13 22 (1.26%) Prime Brokerage
14 15 (0.86%) Publishing
15 10 (0.57%) Front Office
15 10 (0.57%) Private Banking
16 6 (0.34%) Back Office
17 5 (0.29%) Manufacturing
17 5 (0.29%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,306 (75.01%) Software Engineer
2 529 (30.38%) Java Engineer
2 529 (30.38%) Java Software Engineer
3 516 (29.64%) Lead
4 429 (24.64%) Lead Software Engineer
5 242 (13.90%) Big Data Engineer
5 242 (13.90%) Big Data Software Engineer
6 219 (12.58%) Senior
7 213 (12.23%) Python Engineer
7 213 (12.23%) Python Software Engineer
8 205 (11.77%) Full Stack Engineer
8 205 (11.77%) Full Stack Software Engineer
9 196 (11.26%) Lead Java Engineer
10 192 (11.03%) AWS Engineer
10 192 (11.03%) AWS Software Engineer
11 170 (9.76%) Data Engineer
12 135 (7.75%) Scala Engineer
12 135 (7.75%) Scala Software Engineer
13 134 (7.70%) Engineering Manager
13 134 (7.70%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 465 (26.71%) Spring
2 355 (20.39%) React
3 281 (16.14%) Kafka
4 253 (14.53%) AngularJS
5 216 (12.41%) J2EE
6 202 (11.60%) HTML
7 196 (11.26%) Spring Boot
8 191 (10.97%) Hibernate
9 179 (10.28%) CSS
10 178 (10.22%) JSON
11 170 (9.76%) Node.js
12 162 (9.30%) JMS
13 158 (9.08%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 132 (7.58%) jQuery
15 115 (6.61%) GraphQL
15 115 (6.61%) PySpark
16 105 (6.03%) Web Services
17 102 (5.86%) RESTful
18 100 (5.74%) Spring Integration
19 96 (5.51%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 633 (36.36%) Cloud Native
2 552 (31.71%) Algorithms
3 131 (7.52%) Public Cloud
4 118 (6.78%) Onboarding
5 99 (5.69%) Market Risk
6 94 (5.40%) Data Structures
6 94 (5.40%) Management Information System
7 88 (5.05%) Reference Data
8 70 (4.02%) Product Ownership
9 49 (2.81%) Credit Risk
10 47 (2.70%) Distributed Applications
11 44 (2.53%) Enterprise Cloud
12 26 (1.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 22 (1.26%) Replication
14 21 (1.21%) Legacy Code
15 20 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
16 17 (0.98%) Private Cloud
17 12 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
18 11 (0.63%) Mainframe
18 11 (0.63%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 95 (5.46%) Unix
2 56 (3.22%) Linux
3 29 (1.67%) Android
4 15 (0.86%) Windows
5 5 (0.29%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.11%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.057%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,534 (88.11%) Software Engineering
2 1,488 (85.47%) Agile
3 1,356 (77.89%) SDLC
4 1,282 (73.64%) CI/CD
5 1,221 (70.13%) Operational Stability
6 949 (54.51%) Artificial Intelligence
7 930 (53.42%) Machine Learning
8 880 (50.55%) Community of Practice
9 591 (33.95%) Visualisation
10 555 (31.88%) Continuous Improvement
11 496 (28.49%) Risk Management
12 341 (19.59%) Decision-Making
13 308 (17.69%) Continuous Delivery
14 294 (16.89%) Information Architecture
15 287 (16.48%) Microservices
16 271 (15.57%) Computer Science
17 261 (14.99%) Architectural Design
18 235 (13.50%) Full Stack Development
19 234 (13.44%) Problem-Solving
20 188 (10.80%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 1,039 (59.68%) Java
2 661 (37.97%) SQL
3 523 (30.04%) Python
4 231 (13.27%) JavaScript
5 182 (10.45%) Scala
6 164 (9.42%) TypeScript
7 87 (5.00%) PL/SQL
8 48 (2.76%) Go
9 44 (2.53%) Prolog
9 44 (2.53%) SPARQL
10 37 (2.13%) Groovy
11 30 (1.72%) R
12 27 (1.55%) Kotlin
13 15 (0.86%) T-SQL
14 14 (0.80%) Shell Script
15 13 (0.75%) C#
16 11 (0.63%) COBOL
16 11 (0.63%) JCL
17 1 (0.057%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 132 (7.58%) Degree
2 75 (4.31%) Master's Degree
3 43 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
4 41 (2.35%) PhD
5 7 (0.40%) CISM
5 7 (0.40%) CISSP
6 6 (0.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 6 (0.34%) Security Cleared
7 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.057%) ACCA
8 1 (0.057%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.057%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.057%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (1.95%) Accessibility
2 16 (0.92%) SLA
3 11 (0.63%) QA
4 10 (0.57%) Data Quality
4 10 (0.57%) NIST
5 7 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.17%) GDPR
6 3 (0.17%) WCAG
7 1 (0.057%) IFRS
System Software
1 60 (3.45%) HDFS
2 47 (2.70%) Active Directory
3 38 (2.18%) Docker
4 11 (0.63%) Time Sharing Option
5 7 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (0.34%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.057%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 253 (14.53%) Kubernetes
2 180 (10.34%) Terraform
3 148 (8.50%) Grafana
4 78 (4.48%) Prometheus
5 26 (1.49%) ITRS Geneos
6 21 (1.21%) HAProxy
6 21 (1.21%) Kibana
6 21 (1.21%) Zipkin
7 7 (0.40%) Graphite
8 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.057%) SCCM
Vendors
1 258 (14.82%) Oracle
2 159 (9.13%) Splunk
3 149 (8.56%) Databricks
4 136 (7.81%) Dynatrace
5 60 (3.45%) Informatica
6 59 (3.39%) Google
7 37 (2.13%) Qualtrics
8 35 (2.01%) Alteryx
9 30 (1.72%) Cloudera
10 25 (1.44%) Microsoft
11 12 (0.69%) ServiceNow
12 10 (0.57%) SaltStack
13 9 (0.52%) TOWER Software
14 7 (0.40%) VMware
15 6 (0.34%) OpenLink
16 5 (0.29%) AppDynamics
16 5 (0.29%) CA
16 5 (0.29%) Sybase
17 4 (0.23%) Cisco
17 4 (0.23%) SAP