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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 30 89
Rank change year-on-year -66 +59 -4
Permanent jobs citing Legal 67 781 152
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 2.24% 11.65% 3.33%
As % of the General category 3.32% 16.18% 4.41%
Number of salaries quoted 15 49 25
10th Percentile £33,800 £35,900 £27,900
25th Percentile £40,625 £40,000 £32,055
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - +26.44%
75th Percentile £62,342 £67,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £69,787 £76,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £58,500 £50,616 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.58% -7.97% -

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 2,021 4,827 3,443
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 67.64% 71.99% 75.49%
Number of salaries quoted 911 1,524 1,643
10th Percentile £25,087 £27,500 £33,086
25th Percentile £32,851 £38,688 £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 £66,382 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £86,600
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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 23 May 2025.

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 23 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
Edinburgh +24 42 £52,872 -3.87% 59
Glasgow -22 13 £32,750 -41.78% 58
Fife - 3 - - 4
Stirling - 2 £42,500 -
Aberdeen +26 1 - - 40
Renfrewshire - 1 - - 15
West Lothian - 1 - - 4
North Lanarkshire - 1 - -
Highlands - 1 - - 6
Dumfries and Galloway - 1 £31,000 -
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 3 (4.48%) CMS
1 3 (4.48%) Drupal
2 1 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.49%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.49%) SAS
2 1 (1.49%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.48%) Adobe Premiere
1 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (4.48%) Photoshop
2 2 (2.99%) LaTeX
3 1 (1.49%) AutoCAD
3 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.49%) Oracle Smart View
3 1 (1.49%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 9 (13.43%) AWS
2 3 (4.48%) Azure
2 3 (4.48%) Google Analytics
3 2 (2.99%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.49%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.49%) Datadog
4 1 (1.49%) GCP
4 1 (1.49%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.49%) OCI
4 1 (1.49%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.97%) Internet
2 1 (1.49%) Intranet
2 1 (1.49%) Network Security
2 1 (1.49%) SAN
2 1 (1.49%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.48%) MS Access
2 2 (2.99%) Power BI
3 1 (1.49%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (1.49%) CockroachDB
3 1 (1.49%) Couchbase
3 1 (1.49%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.49%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (1.49%) GIS
3 1 (1.49%) Metadata
3 1 (1.49%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.49%) MySQL
3 1 (1.49%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.49%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.49%) Redis
3 1 (1.49%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (2.99%) Git
1 2 (2.99%) JIRA
General
1 51 (76.12%) Finance
2 28 (41.79%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (26.87%) Social Skills
4 14 (20.90%) Banking
5 11 (16.42%) Law
6 10 (14.93%) Marketing
7 9 (13.43%) Front Office
8 7 (10.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (5.97%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (4.48%) Advertising
10 3 (4.48%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (4.48%) Public Sector
11 2 (2.99%) Arabic Language
11 2 (2.99%) Financial Institution
11 2 (2.99%) Mandarin Language
11 2 (2.99%) Prime Brokerage
11 2 (2.99%) Russian Language
12 1 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (1.49%) Retail
12 1 (1.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (11.94%) Risk Manager
2 7 (10.45%) Risk Officer
3 6 (8.96%) Lead
3 6 (8.96%) Software Engineer
4 4 (5.97%) Data Scientist
4 4 (5.97%) Graduate
4 4 (5.97%) Java Engineer
4 4 (5.97%) Java Software Engineer
4 4 (5.97%) Operations Manager
4 4 (5.97%) Product Owner
5 3 (4.48%) Analyst
5 3 (4.48%) Data Science Graduate
5 3 (4.48%) Integration Manager
5 3 (4.48%) Integration Project Manager
5 3 (4.48%) Platform Manager
5 3 (4.48%) Project Manager
5 3 (4.48%) Senior
5 3 (4.48%) Strategy Analyst
5 3 (4.48%) Sustainability Manager
6 2 (2.99%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.48%) Spring
2 2 (2.99%) AngularJS
2 2 (2.99%) Kafka
2 2 (2.99%) React
2 2 (2.99%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.49%) .NET
3 1 (1.49%) CSS
3 1 (1.49%) HTML
3 1 (1.49%) Memcached
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.45%) Algorithms
2 6 (8.96%) Product Ownership
3 5 (7.46%) Credit Risk
4 4 (5.97%) Learning Management System
5 3 (4.48%) Blog
5 3 (4.48%) Social Media
6 2 (2.99%) Blockchain
6 2 (2.99%) Derivative
6 2 (2.99%) Driving Licence
6 2 (2.99%) Hedge funds
6 2 (2.99%) Market Risk
6 2 (2.99%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.49%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.49%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.49%) Hackathon
7 1 (1.49%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.49%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.49%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.49%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (1.49%) Linux
1 1 (1.49%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (31.34%) Project Management
2 20 (29.85%) Agile
3 19 (28.36%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (22.39%) Risk Management
4 15 (22.39%) Validation
5 12 (17.91%) Artificial Intelligence
6 11 (16.42%) Continuous Improvement
6 11 (16.42%) Mathematics
6 11 (16.42%) Model Validation
6 11 (16.42%) Quantitative Analysis
6 11 (16.42%) Quantitative Finance
7 10 (14.93%) Decision-Making
7 10 (14.93%) Machine Learning
8 9 (13.43%) Statistics
9 8 (11.94%) Coaching
9 8 (11.94%) Data Engineering
10 7 (10.45%) Analytics
10 7 (10.45%) Data Science
10 7 (10.45%) Generative AI
10 7 (10.45%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 18 (26.87%) Python
2 13 (19.40%) SQL
3 6 (8.96%) Java
4 3 (4.48%) C#
5 2 (2.99%) C
5 2 (2.99%) C++
5 2 (2.99%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.99%) R
6 1 (1.49%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.49%) Scala
6 1 (1.49%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (35.82%) Degree
2 13 (19.40%) Master's Degree
2 13 (19.40%) PhD
3 5 (7.46%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (5.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 4 (5.97%) CISA
4 4 (5.97%) CISSP
4 4 (5.97%) CompTIA Security+
4 4 (5.97%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 2 (2.99%) Postgraduate
5 2 (2.99%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.49%) A+ Certification
6 1 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.49%) CCNA
6 1 (1.49%) MCSE
6 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.49%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (1.49%) PMP
6 1 (1.49%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.49%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (5.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (2.99%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (2.99%) GDPR
4 1 (1.49%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.49%) IFRS
4 1 (1.49%) NCSC
4 1 (1.49%) NIST
4 1 (1.49%) QA
4 1 (1.49%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.49%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (1.49%) Grafana
Vendors
1 8 (11.94%) Oracle
2 4 (5.97%) Google
3 3 (4.48%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.99%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.49%) Autodesk
5 1 (1.49%) Dell
5 1 (1.49%) ESRI
5 1 (1.49%) IBM
5 1 (1.49%) Splunk
5 1 (1.49%) Sybase