Legal Jobs in Scotland

Legal
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legal in permanent job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Legal 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 28 163 110
Rank change year-on-year +135 -53 +28
Permanent jobs citing Legal 577 47 162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 10.13% 1.24% 2.66%
As % of the General category 15.13% 1.67% 4.06%
Number of salaries quoted 45 28 61
10th Percentile £36,984 £28,388 £27,896
25th Percentile £43,750 £40,688 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,000 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +31.03% +7.41%
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,718 £63,500
90th Percentile £73,800 £82,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%

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 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%

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
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Legal in Scotland

Legal
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Legal in Scotland over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Legal in Scotland

Legal
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Legal 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 +82 525 £56,250 +2.27% 14
Edinburgh +47 36 £55,000 -18.68% 9
Aberdeen -7 4 £65,000 +55.22% 8
Argyll and Bute - 4 £48,000 -
Lanarkshire - 3 £80,000 - 12
Dundee -3 2 £40,144 -15.68% 1
East Lothian - 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:

Application Platforms
1 165 (28.60%) Apache Spark
2 55 (9.53%) Apache
3 47 (8.15%) FileNet
4 15 (2.60%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.21%) SAS
5 7 (1.21%) SharePoint
6 6 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.87%) Tomcat
7 5 (0.87%) WebSphere
Applications
1 15 (2.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.21%) Simulink
4 5 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (1.39%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 256 (44.37%) AWS
2 47 (8.15%) Amazon S3
3 45 (7.80%) Azure
4 35 (6.07%) GCP
5 29 (5.03%) Amazon EC2
5 29 (5.03%) Amazon ECS
5 29 (5.03%) Amazon EKS
5 29 (5.03%) Amazon EMR
5 29 (5.03%) Amazon SQS
5 29 (5.03%) AWS Lambda
5 29 (5.03%) Serverless
6 27 (4.68%) Cloud Computing
6 27 (4.68%) GitHub
7 13 (2.25%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (1.91%) Power Platform
9 6 (1.04%) Entra ID
10 2 (0.35%) Contentful
10 2 (0.35%) Figma
11 1 (0.17%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (0.17%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.87%) Bluetooth
1 5 (0.87%) SAN
1 5 (0.87%) VoIP
1 5 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
1 5 (0.87%) Wireless
2 1 (0.17%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 238 (41.25%) NoSQL
2 135 (23.40%) Big Data
3 120 (20.80%) Hadoop
4 74 (12.82%) Apache Hive
5 60 (10.40%) HBase
6 47 (8.15%) Apache Cassandra
6 47 (8.15%) Elasticsearch
7 35 (6.07%) Data Lake
7 35 (6.07%) Qlik Sense
8 29 (5.03%) Electronic Patient Records
9 19 (3.29%) Relational Database
10 14 (2.43%) Impala
11 11 (1.91%) Power BI
12 6 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
13 5 (0.87%) Pentaho
14 2 (0.35%) SQL Server
14 2 (0.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 88 (15.25%) Jenkins
2 68 (11.79%) Git
3 66 (11.44%) JUnit
4 60 (10.40%) Bitbucket Server
5 26 (4.51%) Jasmine
5 26 (4.51%) Mockito
6 11 (1.91%) JIRA
7 5 (0.87%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.35%) CircleCI
General
1 517 (89.60%) Finance
2 483 (83.71%) Law
3 472 (81.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 91 (15.77%) Social Skills
5 33 (5.72%) Banking
6 21 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
7 17 (2.95%) Marketing
8 10 (1.73%) Public Sector
9 8 (1.39%) Local Government
9 8 (1.39%) Police
10 7 (1.21%) Automotive
11 6 (1.04%) Aerospace
11 6 (1.04%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.69%) Publishing
13 3 (0.52%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.35%) Pharmaceutical
15 1 (0.17%) Documentation Skills
15 1 (0.17%) Financial Institution
15 1 (0.17%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 467 (80.94%) Software Engineer
2 166 (28.77%) Java Engineer
2 166 (28.77%) Java Software Engineer
3 142 (24.61%) AWS Engineer
3 142 (24.61%) AWS Software Engineer
4 135 (23.40%) Big Data Engineer
4 135 (23.40%) Big Data Software Engineer
5 128 (22.18%) Data Engineer
6 117 (20.28%) Full Stack Engineer
6 117 (20.28%) Full Stack Software Engineer
7 81 (14.04%) Python Engineer
7 81 (14.04%) Python Software Engineer
8 55 (9.53%) Scala Engineer
8 55 (9.53%) Scala Software Engineer
9 41 (7.11%) Senior
10 33 (5.72%) Developer
11 30 (5.20%) AWS Database Engineer
11 30 (5.20%) AWS Developer
11 30 (5.20%) Database Engineer
11 30 (5.20%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (20.62%) Spring
2 98 (16.98%) J2EE
3 97 (16.81%) Kafka
4 92 (15.94%) React
5 89 (15.42%) AngularJS
6 70 (12.13%) JMS
7 66 (11.44%) Hibernate
7 66 (11.44%) HTML
8 63 (10.92%) Node.js
8 63 (10.92%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 50 (8.67%) PySpark
10 47 (8.15%) GraphQL
10 47 (8.15%) Spring Integration
11 43 (7.45%) CSS
11 43 (7.45%) JSON
12 40 (6.93%) jQuery
13 32 (5.55%) XML
14 30 (5.20%) JavaBeans
14 30 (5.20%) Web Services
15 23 (3.99%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 358 (62.05%) Algorithms
2 119 (20.62%) Onboarding
3 82 (14.21%) Cloud Native
4 22 (3.81%) Management Information System
5 21 (3.64%) Legacy Code
6 19 (3.29%) Data Structures
7 18 (3.12%) Public Cloud
8 10 (1.73%) Product Ownership
9 8 (1.39%) Reference Data
10 7 (1.21%) Embedded Systems
11 5 (0.87%) Credit Risk
11 5 (0.87%) Derivative
12 3 (0.52%) Credit Derivative
12 3 (0.52%) Fixed Income
12 3 (0.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 3 (0.52%) Hedge funds
12 3 (0.52%) Interest Rate Derivative
13 2 (0.35%) Life Science
13 2 (0.35%) Private Cloud
14 1 (0.17%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 85 (14.73%) Unix
2 34 (5.89%) Linux
3 12 (2.08%) Windows
4 9 (1.56%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.69%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.35%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.17%) Android
7 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 477 (82.67%) Risk Management
2 473 (81.98%) Agile
3 467 (80.94%) Software Engineering
4 450 (77.99%) CI/CD
5 433 (75.04%) SDLC
6 361 (62.56%) Continuous Improvement
7 355 (61.53%) Operational Stability
8 350 (60.66%) Visualisation
9 342 (59.27%) Artificial Intelligence
9 342 (59.27%) Machine Learning
10 310 (53.73%) Community of Practice
11 122 (21.14%) Full Stack Development
12 115 (19.93%) Client Onboarding
13 105 (18.20%) Decision-Making
14 93 (16.12%) Microservices
15 92 (15.94%) KYC
16 69 (11.96%) Computer Science
17 65 (11.27%) OO
17 65 (11.27%) Problem-Solving
18 63 (10.92%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 341 (59.10%) Java
2 318 (55.11%) SQL
3 239 (41.42%) Python
4 85 (14.73%) PL/SQL
5 69 (11.96%) Scala
6 44 (7.63%) JavaScript
7 40 (6.93%) TypeScript
8 16 (2.77%) C
9 11 (1.91%) C++
9 11 (1.91%) Embedded C
10 7 (1.21%) MATLAB
11 5 (0.87%) PowerShell
11 5 (0.87%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.69%) Bash
13 1 (0.17%) C#
Qualifications
1 34 (5.89%) Degree
2 17 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (1.91%) Master's Degree
4 8 (1.39%) DBS Check
5 2 (0.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.17%) ACCA
6 1 (0.17%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.17%) CISM
6 1 (0.17%) CISSP
6 1 (0.17%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (2.77%) GDPR
2 14 (2.43%) SLA
3 13 (2.25%) QA
4 11 (1.91%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.39%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.87%) IFRS
7 4 (0.69%) IFRS 9
7 4 (0.69%) NIST
8 2 (0.35%) GLP
8 2 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 60 (10.40%) HDFS
2 10 (1.73%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.04%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.87%) RACF
6 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 89 (15.42%) Kubernetes
2 60 (10.40%) Terraform
3 5 (0.87%) Grafana
3 5 (0.87%) ITRS Geneos
4 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.35%) SCCM
Vendors
1 107 (18.54%) Databricks
2 100 (17.33%) Oracle
3 60 (10.40%) Informatica
4 37 (6.41%) Microsoft
5 35 (6.07%) Alteryx
6 30 (5.20%) Cloudera
7 9 (1.56%) VMware
8 8 (1.39%) NEC
9 5 (0.87%) AppDynamics
9 5 (0.87%) CA
9 5 (0.87%) CyberArk
9 5 (0.87%) SAP
9 5 (0.87%) Splunk
9 5 (0.87%) Sybase
10 3 (0.52%) iManage
11 2 (0.35%) Aderant
11 2 (0.35%) Charles River
11 2 (0.35%) Google
11 2 (0.35%) Netlify
12 1 (0.17%) HP