Law Jobs in Scotland

Law
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Law in permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Law over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 157 134
Rank change year-on-year +152 -23 -2
Permanent jobs citing Law 2,599 64 115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 38.71% 1.35% 2.01%
As % of the General category 53.67% 1.80% 3.28%
Number of salaries quoted 53 38 35
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,025 £21,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,289 £24,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,750 £35,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.95% +48.59% -25.26%
75th Percentile £56,000 £70,375 £60,125
90th Percentile £79,000 £95,200 £72,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -

All General Skills
Scotland

Law is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 4,843 3,561 3,502
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 72.13% 75.17% 61.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,558 1,705 1,917
10th Percentile £27,500 £33,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £59,526 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.80% +13.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,548 £87,419 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +111 2,565 £45,000 -10.00% 13
Edinburgh +32 17 £40,000 -33.05% 8
Lanarkshire - 5 £80,000 - 5
Aberdeen -7 4 £28,000 - 7
Dundee - 4 £52,500 -
Fife - 1 £56,000 -
Perthshire - 1 £50,500 -
Perth and Kinross - 1 £50,500 -
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
1 588 (22.62%) Apache Spark
2 137 (5.27%) Apache
3 117 (4.50%) Apache Airflow
4 96 (3.69%) FileNet
5 31 (1.19%) Cloud Foundry
6 27 (1.04%) Confluence
7 21 (0.81%) GemFire
8 20 (0.77%) Camunda
9 11 (0.42%) CICS
10 10 (0.38%) Tomcat
11 8 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.19%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.038%) SharePoint
13 1 (0.038%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 32 (1.23%) UserZoom
2 15 (0.58%) Sketch
3 7 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.12%) InVision
5 3 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.038%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.038%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 11 (0.42%) Endur
2 6 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.038%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.038%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,183 (45.52%) AWS
2 151 (5.81%) Azure
3 115 (4.42%) Datadog
4 96 (3.69%) Amazon S3
5 95 (3.66%) GCP
6 93 (3.58%) Figma
7 75 (2.89%) SurveyMonkey
8 70 (2.69%) Amazon EKS
9 69 (2.65%) Amazon ECS
10 55 (2.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 54 (2.08%) Serverless
12 51 (1.96%) Amazon EC2
12 51 (1.96%) Amazon EMR
12 51 (1.96%) Amazon SQS
12 51 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
13 47 (1.81%) BlazeMeter
14 44 (1.69%) GitHub
15 42 (1.62%) Cloud Computing
16 26 (1.00%) Microsoft 365
17 24 (0.92%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 82 (3.16%) Kerberos
2 18 (0.69%) DSL
3 7 (0.27%) SAN
3 7 (0.27%) VoIP
4 3 (0.12%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (0.038%) Firewall
5 1 (0.038%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 665 (25.59%) NoSQL
2 500 (19.24%) Big Data
3 233 (8.96%) Hadoop
4 150 (5.77%) Apache Cassandra
5 143 (5.50%) Elasticsearch
6 131 (5.04%) Apache Hive
7 126 (4.85%) Relational Database
8 105 (4.04%) MongoDB
9 102 (3.92%) HBase
10 65 (2.50%) Metadata
11 61 (2.35%) Data Lake
12 52 (2.00%) Electronic Patient Records
13 38 (1.46%) CockroachDB
14 37 (1.42%) Qlik Sense
15 29 (1.12%) DB2
16 28 (1.08%) MySQL
17 24 (0.92%) SQL Server
18 21 (0.81%) Hazelcast
19 20 (0.77%) Looker
20 19 (0.73%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 303 (11.66%) Jenkins
2 209 (8.04%) JUnit
3 186 (7.16%) Git
4 119 (4.58%) Jasmine
5 86 (3.31%) Bitbucket Server
6 84 (3.23%) Cypress.io
7 79 (3.04%) JIRA
8 75 (2.89%) Karma Test Runner
9 70 (2.69%) Bitbucket
10 65 (2.50%) Artifactory
11 62 (2.39%) Maven
12 61 (2.35%) Selenium
13 60 (2.31%) Protractor
13 60 (2.31%) WebDriver
14 45 (1.73%) Mockito
15 31 (1.19%) CircleCI
16 30 (1.15%) Gradle
17 27 (1.04%) JMeter
18 26 (1.00%) GitLab
19 25 (0.96%) Cucumber
General
1 2,554 (98.27%) Finance
2 2,539 (97.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,402 (53.94%) Marketing
4 683 (26.28%) Legal
5 453 (17.43%) Banking
6 359 (13.81%) Investment Banking
7 250 (9.62%) Financial Institution
8 213 (8.20%) Social Skills
9 180 (6.93%) Influencing Skills
10 91 (3.50%) Private Banking
11 73 (2.81%) Presentation Skills
12 62 (2.39%) Analytical Skills
13 32 (1.23%) Social Science
14 26 (1.00%) Games
15 22 (0.85%) Prime Brokerage
16 18 (0.69%) Front Office
17 15 (0.58%) Publishing
18 11 (0.42%) Back Office
19 7 (0.27%) Organisational Skills
19 7 (0.27%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1,963 (75.53%) Software Engineer
2 787 (30.28%) Java Engineer
3 786 (30.24%) Java Software Engineer
4 772 (29.70%) Lead
5 678 (26.09%) Lead Software Engineer
6 390 (15.01%) Big Data Engineer
6 390 (15.01%) Big Data Software Engineer
7 327 (12.58%) Python Engineer
7 327 (12.58%) Python Software Engineer
8 315 (12.12%) Full Stack Engineer
9 314 (12.08%) Full Stack Software Engineer
10 299 (11.50%) AWS Engineer
10 299 (11.50%) AWS Software Engineer
11 296 (11.39%) Senior
12 274 (10.54%) Lead Java Engineer
13 244 (9.39%) Data Engineer
14 228 (8.77%) Scala Engineer
14 228 (8.77%) Scala Software Engineer
15 209 (8.04%) Engineering Manager
15 209 (8.04%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 669 (25.74%) Spring
2 486 (18.70%) React
3 395 (15.20%) AngularJS
4 346 (13.31%) Kafka
5 337 (12.97%) Spring Boot
6 263 (10.12%) HTML
7 244 (9.39%) J2EE
8 232 (8.93%) CSS
9 202 (7.77%) JSON
10 192 (7.39%) Hibernate
11 186 (7.16%) RESTful
12 177 (6.81%) Node.js
13 172 (6.62%) PySpark
14 170 (6.54%) JMS
15 165 (6.35%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 153 (5.89%) jQuery
17 138 (5.31%) Web Services
18 123 (4.73%) GraphQL
19 109 (4.19%) XML
20 103 (3.96%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 911 (35.05%) Cloud Native
2 791 (30.43%) Algorithms
3 282 (10.85%) Public Cloud
4 160 (6.16%) Onboarding
5 145 (5.58%) Product Ownership
6 142 (5.46%) Management Information System
7 136 (5.23%) Reference Data
8 129 (4.96%) Market Risk
9 107 (4.12%) Data Structures
10 65 (2.50%) Enterprise Cloud
11 64 (2.46%) Distributed Applications
12 48 (1.85%) Credit Risk
13 43 (1.65%) Legacy Code
14 31 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 29 (1.12%) Private Cloud
16 25 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
17 21 (0.81%) Replication
17 21 (0.81%) Taxonomies
18 19 (0.73%) Distributed Systems
19 15 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 141 (5.43%) Unix
2 96 (3.69%) Linux
3 27 (1.04%) Android
4 16 (0.62%) Windows
5 7 (0.27%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.077%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.038%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,326 (89.50%) Software Engineering
2 2,303 (88.61%) Agile
3 2,061 (79.30%) SDLC
4 1,957 (75.30%) CI/CD
5 1,860 (71.57%) Operational Stability
6 1,371 (52.75%) Machine Learning
7 1,366 (52.56%) Artificial Intelligence
8 1,294 (49.79%) Community of Practice
9 871 (33.51%) Visualisation
10 824 (31.70%) Continuous Improvement
11 709 (27.28%) Risk Management
12 548 (21.09%) Decision-Making
13 478 (18.39%) Continuous Delivery
14 453 (17.43%) Microservices
15 441 (16.97%) Information Architecture
16 414 (15.93%) Architectural Design
17 368 (14.16%) Problem-Solving
18 354 (13.62%) Computer Science
19 353 (13.58%) Full Stack Development
20 256 (9.85%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,634 (62.87%) Java
2 1,050 (40.40%) SQL
3 912 (35.09%) Python
4 319 (12.27%) Scala
5 318 (12.24%) JavaScript
6 208 (8.00%) TypeScript
7 147 (5.66%) PL/SQL
8 81 (3.12%) Go
9 65 (2.50%) Prolog
9 65 (2.50%) SPARQL
10 49 (1.89%) C#
11 37 (1.42%) Groovy
11 37 (1.42%) T-SQL
12 34 (1.31%) R
13 26 (1.00%) Kotlin
14 23 (0.88%) Shell Script
15 20 (0.77%) Ruby
16 11 (0.42%) COBOL
16 11 (0.42%) JCL
17 5 (0.19%) C
Qualifications
1 207 (7.96%) Degree
2 82 (3.16%) Master's Degree
3 45 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 45 (1.73%) PhD
4 19 (0.73%) AWS Certification
5 7 (0.27%) CISM
5 7 (0.27%) CISSP
6 6 (0.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.038%) ACCA
7 1 (0.038%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.038%) CBAP
7 1 (0.038%) MRICS
7 1 (0.038%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.038%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (3.19%) Accessibility
2 62 (2.39%) SLA
3 34 (1.31%) Data Quality
4 32 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
5 20 (0.77%) PMO
6 15 (0.58%) WAI
7 12 (0.46%) NIST
7 12 (0.46%) QA
8 3 (0.12%) WCAG
9 2 (0.077%) COBIT
9 2 (0.077%) GDPR
9 2 (0.077%) ISO 31000
9 2 (0.077%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.077%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.077%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.038%) IFRS
System Software
1 102 (3.92%) HDFS
2 66 (2.54%) Active Directory
3 47 (1.81%) Docker
4 11 (0.42%) Time Sharing Option
5 8 (0.31%) Hyper-V
5 8 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.038%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.038%) Firmware
6 1 (0.038%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 328 (12.62%) Kubernetes
2 256 (9.85%) Terraform
3 173 (6.66%) Grafana
4 77 (2.96%) Prometheus
5 26 (1.00%) ITRS Geneos
6 21 (0.81%) HAProxy
6 21 (0.81%) Kibana
6 21 (0.81%) Zipkin
7 7 (0.27%) Graphite
8 1 (0.038%) CASB
8 1 (0.038%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 357 (13.74%) Oracle
2 263 (10.12%) Databricks
3 183 (7.04%) Splunk
4 161 (6.19%) Dynatrace
5 87 (3.35%) Informatica
6 72 (2.77%) Cloudera
7 64 (2.46%) Qualtrics
8 61 (2.35%) Google
9 55 (2.12%) Alteryx
10 27 (1.04%) Microsoft
11 23 (0.88%) Sybase
12 21 (0.81%) Atlassian
13 20 (0.77%) Pega
14 18 (0.69%) Cognos
14 18 (0.69%) SaltStack
15 12 (0.46%) ServiceNow
16 11 (0.42%) OpenLink
17 9 (0.35%) TOWER Software
18 8 (0.31%) VMware
19 6 (0.23%) CA