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

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 30 91
Rank change year-on-year -69 +61 -5
Permanent jobs citing Legal 65 773 145
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 2.17% 11.34% 3.24%
As % of the General category 3.15% 16.00% 4.31%
Number of salaries quoted 14 48 25
10th Percentile £33,350 £35,725 £27,900
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £32,055
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,872 £55,000 £55,425
Median % change year-on-year -3.87% -0.77% +27.41%
75th Percentile £71,648 £67,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,533 £76,500 £80,586
UK median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% -

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 2,066 4,832 3,361
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 68.82% 70.90% 75.07%
Number of salaries quoted 911 1,563 1,590
10th Percentile £25,087 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £32,851 £38,500 £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 £65,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,751 £81,250 £85,000
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 30 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 30 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 +30 42 £60,743 +10.44% 51
Glasgow -32 14 £32,750 -41.78% 49
Fife - 3 - - 4
Stirling - 2 £42,500 -
Aberdeen +28 1 - - 47
West Lothian - 1 - - 7
Highlands - 1 - - 2
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 (4.62%) CMS
1 3 (4.62%) Drupal
2 2 (3.08%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.54%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.62%) Adobe Premiere
1 3 (4.62%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (4.62%) Photoshop
2 2 (3.08%) LaTeX
3 1 (1.54%) AutoCAD
3 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.54%) Oracle Smart View
3 1 (1.54%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 10 (15.38%) AWS
2 3 (4.62%) Azure
2 3 (4.62%) Google Analytics
3 1 (1.54%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (1.54%) Datadog
3 1 (1.54%) GCP
3 1 (1.54%) GitHub
3 1 (1.54%) OCI
3 1 (1.54%) Power Platform
3 1 (1.54%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.54%) Intranet
1 1 (1.54%) Network Security
1 1 (1.54%) SAN
1 1 (1.54%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.62%) MS Access
2 2 (3.08%) NoSQL
2 2 (3.08%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.54%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (1.54%) CockroachDB
3 1 (1.54%) Couchbase
3 1 (1.54%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.54%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (1.54%) GIS
3 1 (1.54%) Metadata
3 1 (1.54%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.54%) MySQL
3 1 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.54%) Power BI
3 1 (1.54%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (3.08%) Git
1 2 (3.08%) JIRA
General
1 49 (75.38%) Finance
2 27 (41.54%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (26.15%) Social Skills
4 15 (23.08%) Law
5 11 (16.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (15.38%) Banking
6 10 (15.38%) Front Office
7 7 (10.77%) Marketing
8 4 (6.15%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (4.62%) Advertising
9 3 (4.62%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (4.62%) Public Sector
10 2 (3.08%) Arabic Language
10 2 (3.08%) Financial Institution
10 2 (3.08%) Mandarin Language
10 2 (3.08%) Prime Brokerage
10 2 (3.08%) Russian Language
11 1 (1.54%) Retail
11 1 (1.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (15.38%) Software Engineer
2 9 (13.85%) Risk Manager
3 8 (12.31%) Java Engineer
3 8 (12.31%) Java Software Engineer
4 7 (10.77%) Risk Officer
5 6 (9.23%) Lead
6 4 (6.15%) Data Scientist
6 4 (6.15%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) Operations Manager
7 3 (4.62%) Integration Manager
7 3 (4.62%) Integration Project Manager
7 3 (4.62%) Platform Manager
7 3 (4.62%) Project Manager
7 3 (4.62%) Senior
7 3 (4.62%) Sustainability Manager
8 2 (3.08%) Buyer
8 2 (3.08%) Innovation Manager
8 2 (3.08%) Strategy Analyst
8 2 (3.08%) Technology Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.23%) Spring
2 4 (6.15%) AngularJS
2 4 (6.15%) React
2 4 (6.15%) Spring Boot
3 3 (4.62%) Kafka
4 1 (1.54%) Memcached
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.23%) Algorithms
2 4 (6.15%) Blockchain
2 4 (6.15%) Reference Data
3 3 (4.62%) Blog
3 3 (4.62%) Credit Risk
3 3 (4.62%) Social Media
4 2 (3.08%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.08%) Derivative
4 2 (3.08%) Driving Licence
4 2 (3.08%) Hedge funds
4 2 (3.08%) Learning Management System
4 2 (3.08%) Market Risk
4 2 (3.08%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.54%) Hackathon
5 1 (1.54%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.54%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.54%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.54%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (1.54%) Linux
1 1 (1.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (32.31%) Project Management
2 19 (29.23%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (27.69%) Risk Management
4 17 (26.15%) Agile
5 14 (21.54%) Artificial Intelligence
6 12 (18.46%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (18.46%) Machine Learning
6 12 (18.46%) Mathematics
6 12 (18.46%) Model Validation
6 12 (18.46%) Quantitative Analysis
6 12 (18.46%) Quantitative Finance
6 12 (18.46%) Validation
7 11 (16.92%) Software Engineering
8 10 (15.38%) CI/CD
8 10 (15.38%) Decision-Making
8 10 (15.38%) Statistics
9 9 (13.85%) Operational Stability
9 9 (13.85%) SDLC
10 8 (12.31%) Coaching
10 8 (12.31%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 18 (27.69%) Python
2 13 (20.00%) SQL
3 11 (16.92%) Java
4 4 (6.15%) C++
5 3 (4.62%) C#
6 2 (3.08%) C
6 2 (3.08%) R
6 2 (3.08%) Scala
6 2 (3.08%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.54%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.54%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.54%) Rust
Qualifications
1 22 (33.85%) Degree
2 12 (18.46%) Master's Degree
2 12 (18.46%) PhD
3 5 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (6.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 4 (6.15%) CISA
4 4 (6.15%) CISSP
4 4 (6.15%) CompTIA Security+
4 4 (6.15%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 2 (3.08%) Postgraduate
5 2 (3.08%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.54%) A+ Certification
6 1 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.54%) CCNA
6 1 (1.54%) MCSE
6 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.54%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (1.54%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.54%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (6.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (3.08%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (3.08%) GDPR
4 1 (1.54%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.54%) IFRS
4 1 (1.54%) NCSC
4 1 (1.54%) NIST
4 1 (1.54%) QA
4 1 (1.54%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.54%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.54%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (13.85%) Oracle
2 4 (6.15%) Google
3 3 (4.62%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.08%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.54%) Autodesk
5 1 (1.54%) Dell
5 1 (1.54%) ESRI
5 1 (1.54%) IBM
5 1 (1.54%) Splunk
5 1 (1.54%) Sybase