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 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 85 83
Rank change year-on-year +55 -2 +55
Permanent jobs citing Legal 779 152 215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 11.60% 3.32% 3.63%
As % of the General category 16.08% 4.40% 5.88%
Number of salaries quoted 49 25 53
10th Percentile £35,900 £27,900 £28,067
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,055 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year - +26.44% -3.33%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,715 £57,500
90th Percentile £76,000 £82,500 £82,250
UK median annual salary £51,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -

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 4,844 3,451 3,657
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 72.10% 75.33% 61.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1,533 1,652 1,953
10th Percentile £27,500 £33,732 £31,133
25th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £40,606
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £81,250
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 19 May 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 19 May 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 +87 728 £56,250 +25.00% 13
Edinburgh +46 34 £55,000 -20.80% 14
Aberdeen -24 6 £65,000 +127.07% 5
Dundee -10 3 £40,144 -21.75% 1
Lanarkshire - 3 £80,000 - 4
Argyll and Bute - 3 - - 4
East Ayrshire - 1 £225,000 -
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
1 271 (34.79%) Apache Spark
2 101 (12.97%) Apache
3 47 (6.03%) FileNet
4 44 (5.65%) Apache Airflow
5 20 (2.57%) Camunda
6 6 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.77%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.64%) SAS
7 5 (0.64%) Tomcat
7 5 (0.64%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.64%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 8 (1.03%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 362 (46.47%) AWS
2 67 (8.60%) Amazon EKS
3 55 (7.06%) Azure
4 51 (6.55%) Amazon EC2
4 51 (6.55%) Amazon ECS
4 51 (6.55%) Amazon EMR
4 51 (6.55%) Amazon SQS
4 51 (6.55%) AWS Lambda
4 51 (6.55%) Serverless
5 47 (6.03%) Amazon S3
6 43 (5.52%) GCP
7 42 (5.39%) Cloud Computing
8 26 (3.34%) GitHub
9 17 (2.18%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (1.28%) SaaS
11 7 (0.90%) Power Platform
12 5 (0.64%) Entra ID
13 3 (0.39%) Mimecast
14 1 (0.13%) Dynamics 365
14 1 (0.13%) PowerApps
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
Database & Business Intelligence
1 316 (40.56%) NoSQL
2 231 (29.65%) Big Data
3 213 (27.34%) Hadoop
4 99 (12.71%) Apache Hive
5 83 (10.65%) HBase
6 51 (6.55%) Electronic Patient Records
7 47 (6.03%) Apache Cassandra
7 47 (6.03%) Elasticsearch
8 39 (5.01%) Data Lake
8 39 (5.01%) Qlik Sense
9 20 (2.57%) Relational Database
10 16 (2.05%) Impala
11 7 (0.90%) Power BI
12 6 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
13 5 (0.64%) Pentaho
14 3 (0.39%) SQL Server
15 1 (0.13%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 118 (15.15%) Jenkins
2 76 (9.76%) Git
3 67 (8.60%) Bitbucket Server
4 66 (8.47%) JUnit
5 26 (3.34%) Jasmine
5 26 (3.34%) Mockito
6 20 (2.57%) CircleCI
6 20 (2.57%) Gradle
6 20 (2.57%) Maven
6 20 (2.57%) Travis CI
7 11 (1.41%) JIRA
8 5 (0.64%) Bitbucket
General
1 722 (92.68%) Finance
2 686 (88.06%) Law
3 682 (87.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 101 (12.97%) Social Skills
5 34 (4.36%) Banking
6 26 (3.34%) Marketing
7 17 (2.18%) Public Sector
8 15 (1.93%) Analytical Skills
9 10 (1.28%) Manufacturing
10 8 (1.03%) Local Government
10 8 (1.03%) Police
10 8 (1.03%) Retail
11 7 (0.90%) Investment Banking
11 7 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (0.77%) Aerospace
13 5 (0.64%) Automotive
14 4 (0.51%) Publishing
15 3 (0.39%) Financial Institution
16 2 (0.26%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 665 (85.37%) Software Engineer
2 260 (33.38%) Java Engineer
2 260 (33.38%) Java Software Engineer
3 227 (29.14%) Big Data Engineer
3 227 (29.14%) Big Data Software Engineer
4 205 (26.32%) AWS Engineer
4 205 (26.32%) AWS Software Engineer
5 179 (22.98%) Data Engineer
6 133 (17.07%) Full Stack Engineer
6 133 (17.07%) Full Stack Software Engineer
7 119 (15.28%) Python Engineer
7 119 (15.28%) Python Software Engineer
8 101 (12.97%) Scala Engineer
8 101 (12.97%) Scala Software Engineer
9 39 (5.01%) Senior
10 38 (4.88%) Developer
11 37 (4.75%) AWS Database Engineer
11 37 (4.75%) Database Developer
11 37 (4.75%) Database Engineer
11 37 (4.75%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 193 (24.78%) Spring
2 123 (15.79%) Kafka
3 114 (14.63%) React
4 110 (14.12%) J2EE
5 97 (12.45%) AngularJS
6 79 (10.14%) JMS
7 72 (9.24%) HTML
8 71 (9.11%) Node.js
8 71 (9.11%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 67 (8.60%) PySpark
9 67 (8.60%) Spring Boot
10 66 (8.47%) Hibernate
11 47 (6.03%) GraphQL
11 47 (6.03%) Spring Integration
12 46 (5.91%) JSON
13 44 (5.65%) XML
14 41 (5.26%) CSS
15 40 (5.13%) jQuery
16 39 (5.01%) JavaBeans
16 39 (5.01%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 481 (61.75%) Algorithms
2 170 (21.82%) Onboarding
3 106 (13.61%) Cloud Native
4 43 (5.52%) Legacy Code
5 21 (2.70%) Management Information System
6 20 (2.57%) Public Cloud
7 19 (2.44%) Data Structures
8 12 (1.54%) Reference Data
9 10 (1.28%) Product Ownership
10 7 (0.90%) Credit Derivative
10 7 (0.90%) Derivative
10 7 (0.90%) Fixed Income
10 7 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 7 (0.90%) Hedge funds
10 7 (0.90%) Interest Rate Derivative
11 6 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (0.64%) Credit Risk
12 5 (0.64%) Embedded Systems
12 5 (0.64%) Private Cloud
13 4 (0.51%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 108 (13.86%) Unix
2 38 (4.88%) Linux
3 14 (1.80%) Windows
4 13 (1.67%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.39%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.39%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 682 (87.55%) Risk Management
2 675 (86.65%) Agile
3 665 (85.37%) Software Engineering
4 650 (83.44%) CI/CD
5 615 (78.95%) SDLC
6 521 (66.88%) Operational Stability
7 486 (62.39%) Continuous Improvement
8 470 (60.33%) Visualisation
9 455 (58.41%) Artificial Intelligence
9 455 (58.41%) Machine Learning
10 402 (51.60%) Community of Practice
11 168 (21.57%) Decision-Making
12 160 (20.54%) Client Onboarding
13 148 (19.00%) Microservices
14 138 (17.72%) Full Stack Development
15 124 (15.92%) KYC
16 109 (13.99%) Problem-Solving
17 82 (10.53%) OO
18 75 (9.63%) Computer Science
19 74 (9.50%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 501 (64.31%) Java
2 432 (55.46%) SQL
3 333 (42.75%) Python
4 117 (15.02%) Scala
5 97 (12.45%) PL/SQL
6 42 (5.39%) JavaScript
7 40 (5.13%) TypeScript
8 20 (2.57%) Ruby
9 15 (1.93%) C
10 9 (1.16%) C++
10 9 (1.16%) Embedded C
11 5 (0.64%) MATLAB
11 5 (0.64%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.51%) Bash
13 2 (0.26%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.13%) C#
Qualifications
1 35 (4.49%) Degree
2 18 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (1.54%) Master's Degree
4 8 (1.03%) DBS Check
5 3 (0.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (0.26%) AAT
6 2 (0.26%) ACCA
6 2 (0.26%) ICAEW
7 1 (0.13%) CISM
7 1 (0.13%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (2.18%) SLA
2 16 (2.05%) GDPR
3 9 (1.16%) QA
4 8 (1.03%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.03%) Data Quality
5 5 (0.64%) IFRS
6 4 (0.51%) IFRS 9
6 4 (0.51%) NIST
6 4 (0.51%) SEPA
7 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 83 (10.65%) HDFS
2 10 (1.28%) Hyper-V
2 10 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (1.03%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.51%) Docker
5 2 (0.26%) RACF
Systems Management
1 113 (14.51%) Kubernetes
2 71 (9.11%) Terraform
3 5 (0.64%) Grafana
3 5 (0.64%) ITRS Geneos
4 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.39%) SCCM
Vendors
1 145 (18.61%) Databricks
2 108 (13.86%) Oracle
3 68 (8.73%) Informatica
4 53 (6.80%) Cloudera
5 39 (5.01%) Alteryx
6 36 (4.62%) Microsoft
7 20 (2.57%) Pega
8 13 (1.67%) VMware
9 8 (1.03%) CA
9 8 (1.03%) NEC
10 6 (0.77%) iManage
11 5 (0.64%) AppDynamics
11 5 (0.64%) Google
11 5 (0.64%) SAP
11 5 (0.64%) Splunk
11 5 (0.64%) Sybase
12 3 (0.39%) Aderant
12 3 (0.39%) Dell
12 3 (0.39%) HP
13 2 (0.26%) CyberArk