Legal Jobs in Scotland

Legal
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legal in permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Legal 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 31 80 70
Rank change year-on-year +49 -10 +56
Permanent jobs citing Legal 775 167 227
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 11.54% 3.53% 3.98%
As % of the General category 16.00% 4.69% 6.48%
Number of salaries quoted 53 26 54
10th Percentile £36,250 £27,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £29,389 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £53,500 £41,750
Median % change year-on-year +21.50% +28.14% -7.22%
75th Percentile £72,433 £76,411 £56,063
90th Percentile £75,000 £88,750 £80,875
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -

All General Skills
Scotland

Legal 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%

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 27 April 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 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 +91 719 £65,000 +44.44% 22
Edinburgh +56 41 £65,000 -6.40% 10
Aberdeen -23 4 - - 7
Lanarkshire - 4 £80,000 - 12
Dundee -11 3 £40,144 -21.75%
Argyll and Bute - 3 - - 3
East Ayrshire - 1 £225,000 - 1
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
1 271 (34.97%) Apache Spark
2 101 (13.03%) Apache
3 45 (5.81%) FileNet
4 44 (5.68%) Apache Airflow
5 20 (2.58%) Camunda
6 6 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.77%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.65%) SAS
7 5 (0.65%) Tomcat
7 5 (0.65%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (0.65%) Simulink
3 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.26%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 360 (46.45%) AWS
2 67 (8.65%) Amazon EKS
3 56 (7.23%) Azure
4 51 (6.58%) Amazon EC2
4 51 (6.58%) Amazon ECS
4 51 (6.58%) Amazon EMR
4 51 (6.58%) Amazon SQS
4 51 (6.58%) AWS Lambda
4 51 (6.58%) Serverless
5 45 (5.81%) Amazon S3
6 42 (5.42%) Cloud Computing
7 41 (5.29%) GCP
8 25 (3.23%) GitHub
9 19 (2.45%) Microsoft 365
10 16 (2.06%) SaaS
11 7 (0.90%) Power Platform
12 3 (0.39%) Entra ID
12 3 (0.39%) Mimecast
13 2 (0.26%) Azure Sentinel
14 1 (0.13%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.90%) SAN
1 7 (0.90%) VoIP
2 6 (0.77%) Bluetooth
2 6 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
2 6 (0.77%) Wireless
3 1 (0.13%) Firewall
3 1 (0.13%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 314 (40.52%) NoSQL
2 237 (30.58%) Big Data
3 213 (27.48%) Hadoop
4 99 (12.77%) Apache Hive
5 83 (10.71%) HBase
6 51 (6.58%) Electronic Patient Records
7 45 (5.81%) Apache Cassandra
7 45 (5.81%) Elasticsearch
8 37 (4.77%) Data Lake
8 37 (4.77%) Qlik Sense
9 20 (2.58%) Relational Database
10 16 (2.06%) Impala
11 7 (0.90%) Power BI
12 6 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
13 5 (0.65%) Pentaho
14 3 (0.39%) SQL Server
15 1 (0.13%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 117 (15.10%) Jenkins
2 76 (9.81%) Git
3 67 (8.65%) Bitbucket Server
4 64 (8.26%) JUnit
5 25 (3.23%) Jasmine
5 25 (3.23%) Mockito
6 20 (2.58%) CircleCI
6 20 (2.58%) Gradle
6 20 (2.58%) Maven
6 20 (2.58%) Travis CI
7 11 (1.42%) JIRA
8 5 (0.65%) Bitbucket
General
1 715 (92.26%) Finance
2 683 (88.13%) Law
3 679 (87.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 100 (12.90%) Social Skills
5 35 (4.52%) Banking
6 22 (2.84%) Marketing
7 19 (2.45%) Analytical Skills
8 13 (1.68%) Public Sector
9 12 (1.55%) Manufacturing
10 10 (1.29%) Retail
11 7 (0.90%) Investment Banking
11 7 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (0.77%) Aerospace
13 5 (0.65%) Automotive
14 4 (0.52%) Publishing
15 3 (0.39%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
16 2 (0.26%) Influencing Skills
16 2 (0.26%) Local Government
16 2 (0.26%) Police
Job Titles
1 660 (85.16%) Software Engineer
2 258 (33.29%) Java Engineer
2 258 (33.29%) Java Software Engineer
3 227 (29.29%) Big Data Engineer
3 227 (29.29%) Big Data Software Engineer
4 205 (26.45%) AWS Engineer
4 205 (26.45%) AWS Software Engineer
5 177 (22.84%) Data Engineer
6 131 (16.90%) Full Stack Engineer
6 131 (16.90%) Full Stack Software Engineer
7 118 (15.23%) Python Engineer
7 118 (15.23%) Python Software Engineer
8 101 (13.03%) Scala Engineer
8 101 (13.03%) Scala Software Engineer
9 38 (4.90%) Developer
10 37 (4.77%) AWS Database Engineer
10 37 (4.77%) AWS Developer
10 37 (4.77%) Database Developer
10 37 (4.77%) Database Engineer
10 37 (4.77%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 198 (25.55%) Spring
2 128 (16.52%) Kafka
3 112 (14.45%) React
4 108 (13.94%) J2EE
5 95 (12.26%) AngularJS
6 78 (10.06%) JMS
7 74 (9.55%) Spring Boot
8 71 (9.16%) HTML
9 70 (9.03%) Node.js
9 70 (9.03%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 65 (8.39%) PySpark
11 64 (8.26%) Hibernate
12 45 (5.81%) GraphQL
12 45 (5.81%) JSON
12 45 (5.81%) Spring Integration
13 44 (5.68%) XML
14 40 (5.16%) CSS
15 39 (5.03%) JavaBeans
15 39 (5.03%) jQuery
15 39 (5.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 477 (61.55%) Algorithms
2 170 (21.94%) Onboarding
3 104 (13.42%) Cloud Native
4 43 (5.55%) Legacy Code
5 20 (2.58%) Public Cloud
6 19 (2.45%) Data Structures
7 16 (2.06%) Management Information System
8 12 (1.55%) Reference Data
9 10 (1.29%) Blockchain
9 10 (1.29%) Product Ownership
9 10 (1.29%) Robotics
10 8 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (0.90%) Credit Derivative
11 7 (0.90%) Derivative
11 7 (0.90%) Fixed Income
11 7 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 7 (0.90%) Hedge funds
11 7 (0.90%) Interest Rate Derivative
11 7 (0.90%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 5 (0.65%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 108 (13.94%) Unix
2 38 (4.90%) Linux
3 15 (1.94%) Windows
4 13 (1.68%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.52%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.39%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 676 (87.23%) Risk Management
2 675 (87.10%) Agile
3 660 (85.16%) Software Engineering
4 645 (83.23%) CI/CD
5 617 (79.61%) SDLC
6 517 (66.71%) Operational Stability
7 474 (61.16%) Continuous Improvement
8 467 (60.26%) Visualisation
9 450 (58.06%) Artificial Intelligence
9 450 (58.06%) Machine Learning
10 398 (51.35%) Community of Practice
11 170 (21.94%) Decision-Making
12 158 (20.39%) Client Onboarding
13 153 (19.74%) Microservices
14 136 (17.55%) Full Stack Development
15 122 (15.74%) KYC
16 111 (14.32%) Problem-Solving
17 80 (10.32%) OO
18 77 (9.94%) Open Source
19 75 (9.68%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 504 (65.03%) Java
2 428 (55.23%) SQL
3 330 (42.58%) Python
4 117 (15.10%) Scala
5 97 (12.52%) PL/SQL
6 41 (5.29%) JavaScript
7 39 (5.03%) TypeScript
8 20 (2.58%) Ruby
9 15 (1.94%) C
10 9 (1.16%) C++
10 9 (1.16%) Embedded C
11 5 (0.65%) MATLAB
11 5 (0.65%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.52%) Bash
13 1 (0.13%) C#
Qualifications
1 38 (4.90%) Degree
2 18 (2.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (1.55%) Master's Degree
4 3 (0.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (0.26%) AAT
5 2 (0.26%) ACCA
5 2 (0.26%) DBS Check
5 2 (0.26%) ICAEW
6 1 (0.13%) CISM
6 1 (0.13%) CISSP
6 1 (0.13%) CompTIA CySA+
6 1 (0.13%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.13%) MCSE
6 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.13%) MRICS
6 1 (0.13%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (2.19%) SLA
2 12 (1.55%) GDPR
3 8 (1.03%) Data Quality
3 8 (1.03%) SEPA
4 5 (0.65%) IFRS
5 4 (0.52%) IFRS 9
5 4 (0.52%) NIST
6 3 (0.39%) QA
7 2 (0.26%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 83 (10.71%) HDFS
2 11 (1.42%) Docker
3 10 (1.29%) Hyper-V
3 10 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.77%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.13%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 118 (15.23%) Kubernetes
2 71 (9.16%) Terraform
3 5 (0.65%) Grafana
3 5 (0.65%) ITRS Geneos
4 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.39%) SCCM
5 1 (0.13%) CASB
Vendors
1 145 (18.71%) Databricks
2 106 (13.68%) Oracle
3 68 (8.77%) Informatica
4 53 (6.84%) Cloudera
5 37 (4.77%) Alteryx
6 31 (4.00%) Microsoft
7 20 (2.58%) Pega
8 13 (1.68%) VMware
9 9 (1.16%) CA
10 6 (0.77%) iManage
11 5 (0.65%) AppDynamics
11 5 (0.65%) Google
11 5 (0.65%) SAP
11 5 (0.65%) Splunk
11 5 (0.65%) Sybase
12 3 (0.39%) Aderant
12 3 (0.39%) Citrix
12 3 (0.39%) Dell
12 3 (0.39%) HP
13 2 (0.26%) NEC