Law Jobs in Scotland

Law
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Law in permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Law over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 176 142
Rank change year-on-year +171 -34 -18
Permanent jobs citing Law 2,401 40 122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 34.87% 0.93% 1.94%
As % of the General category 50.84% 1.24% 3.12%
Number of salaries quoted 55 36 41
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,375 £22,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £46,090 £28,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £68,750 £63,813 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,250 £89,625 £75,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -

All General Skills
Scotland

Law 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 4,723 3,221 3,911
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 68.60% 74.77% 62.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1,597 1,547 2,006
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,033 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £68,938
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Law
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Law as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Law in Scotland

Law
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Law in Scotland

Law
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Law in Scotland over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Law in Scotland

Law
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Law within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 9 June 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 +97 2,363 £47,500 -10.38% 13
Edinburgh +34 24 £45,000 -26.23% 8
Lanarkshire - 5 £80,000 - 4
Aberdeen -8 4 £28,000 - 4
Dundee - 1 £55,000 -
Fife - 1 £56,000 -
Perthshire - 1 £50,500 -
Perth and Kinross - 1 £50,500 -
Law
UK

Law
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
1 519 (21.62%) Apache Spark
2 115 (4.79%) Apache
3 109 (4.54%) Apache Airflow
4 98 (4.08%) FileNet
5 32 (1.33%) Cloud Foundry
6 23 (0.96%) Confluence
7 21 (0.87%) GemFire
8 14 (0.58%) Camunda
9 11 (0.46%) CICS
10 10 (0.42%) Tomcat
11 7 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.21%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.042%) SharePoint
13 1 (0.042%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 26 (1.08%) UserZoom
2 15 (0.62%) Sketch
3 7 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.12%) InVision
5 3 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.042%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.042%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 11 (0.46%) Endur
2 6 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.083%) SAP HCM
3 2 (0.083%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,055 (43.94%) AWS
2 123 (5.12%) Azure
3 116 (4.83%) Datadog
4 98 (4.08%) Amazon S3
5 88 (3.67%) Figma
6 76 (3.17%) GCP
7 69 (2.87%) SurveyMonkey
8 63 (2.62%) Amazon ECS
9 58 (2.42%) Amazon EKS
10 55 (2.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 49 (2.04%) Serverless
12 45 (1.87%) Amazon EC2
12 45 (1.87%) Amazon EMR
12 45 (1.87%) Amazon SQS
12 45 (1.87%) AWS Lambda
12 45 (1.87%) GitHub
13 42 (1.75%) BlazeMeter
14 37 (1.54%) Cloud Computing
15 25 (1.04%) Google Play
16 24 (1.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 82 (3.42%) Kerberos
2 13 (0.54%) DSL
3 7 (0.29%) SAN
3 7 (0.29%) VoIP
4 3 (0.12%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 611 (25.45%) NoSQL
2 433 (18.03%) Big Data
3 202 (8.41%) Hadoop
4 152 (6.33%) Apache Cassandra
5 141 (5.87%) Elasticsearch
6 113 (4.71%) Apache Hive
7 103 (4.29%) Relational Database
8 91 (3.79%) HBase
9 90 (3.75%) MongoDB
10 65 (2.71%) Metadata
11 57 (2.37%) Data Lake
12 46 (1.92%) Electronic Patient Records
13 39 (1.62%) Qlik Sense
14 38 (1.58%) CockroachDB
15 28 (1.17%) MySQL
16 24 (1.00%) DB2
17 21 (0.87%) Hazelcast
18 17 (0.71%) Amazon Aurora
18 17 (0.71%) SQL Server
19 16 (0.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 281 (11.70%) Jenkins
2 205 (8.54%) JUnit
3 174 (7.25%) Git
4 114 (4.75%) Jasmine
5 85 (3.54%) Cypress.io
6 81 (3.37%) Bitbucket Server
7 70 (2.92%) Bitbucket
8 69 (2.87%) JIRA
8 69 (2.87%) Karma Test Runner
9 65 (2.71%) Artifactory
10 61 (2.54%) Selenium
11 60 (2.50%) Protractor
11 60 (2.50%) WebDriver
12 58 (2.42%) Maven
13 46 (1.92%) Mockito
14 28 (1.17%) JMeter
15 26 (1.08%) Cucumber
15 26 (1.08%) GitLab
16 25 (1.04%) Android Studio
16 25 (1.04%) CircleCI
General
1 2,352 (97.96%) Finance
2 2,336 (97.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,273 (53.02%) Marketing
4 638 (26.57%) Legal
5 411 (17.12%) Banking
6 342 (14.24%) Investment Banking
7 220 (9.16%) Financial Institution
8 201 (8.37%) Social Skills
9 158 (6.58%) Influencing Skills
10 66 (2.75%) Private Banking
11 57 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
12 56 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
13 32 (1.33%) Social Science
14 27 (1.12%) Games
15 22 (0.92%) Prime Brokerage
16 18 (0.75%) Front Office
17 15 (0.62%) Publishing
18 11 (0.46%) Back Office
19 6 (0.25%) Organisational Skills
20 4 (0.17%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1,810 (75.39%) Software Engineer
2 726 (30.24%) Java Engineer
3 725 (30.20%) Java Software Engineer
4 712 (29.65%) Lead
5 619 (25.78%) Lead Software Engineer
6 349 (14.54%) Big Data Engineer
6 349 (14.54%) Big Data Software Engineer
7 309 (12.87%) Python Engineer
7 309 (12.87%) Python Software Engineer
8 284 (11.83%) Full Stack Engineer
9 283 (11.79%) Full Stack Software Engineer
9 283 (11.79%) Senior
10 266 (11.08%) AWS Engineer
10 266 (11.08%) AWS Software Engineer
11 260 (10.83%) Lead Java Engineer
12 226 (9.41%) Data Engineer
13 204 (8.50%) Scala Engineer
13 204 (8.50%) Scala Software Engineer
14 195 (8.12%) Engineering Manager
14 195 (8.12%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 617 (25.70%) Spring
2 455 (18.95%) React
3 355 (14.79%) AngularJS
4 333 (13.87%) Kafka
5 296 (12.33%) Spring Boot
6 247 (10.29%) HTML
7 235 (9.79%) J2EE
8 216 (9.00%) CSS
9 203 (8.45%) JSON
10 191 (7.96%) Hibernate
11 178 (7.41%) Node.js
12 173 (7.21%) RESTful
13 166 (6.91%) JMS
13 166 (6.91%) PySpark
13 166 (6.91%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 147 (6.12%) jQuery
15 132 (5.50%) Web Services
16 123 (5.12%) GraphQL
17 104 (4.33%) XML
18 100 (4.16%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 846 (35.24%) Cloud Native
2 743 (30.95%) Algorithms
3 232 (9.66%) Public Cloud
4 148 (6.16%) Onboarding
5 132 (5.50%) Management Information System
6 128 (5.33%) Product Ownership
6 128 (5.33%) Reference Data
7 121 (5.04%) Market Risk
8 102 (4.25%) Data Structures
9 65 (2.71%) Distributed Applications
9 65 (2.71%) Enterprise Cloud
10 50 (2.08%) Credit Risk
11 37 (1.54%) Legacy Code
12 31 (1.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 24 (1.00%) Private Cloud
14 21 (0.87%) Replication
15 20 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
16 15 (0.62%) Taxonomies
17 14 (0.58%) Legacy Systems
18 11 (0.46%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 130 (5.41%) Unix
2 87 (3.62%) Linux
3 28 (1.17%) Android
4 14 (0.58%) Windows
5 7 (0.29%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.042%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,141 (89.17%) Software Engineering
2 2,108 (87.80%) Agile
3 1,893 (78.84%) SDLC
4 1,806 (75.22%) CI/CD
5 1,704 (70.97%) Operational Stability
6 1,263 (52.60%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,261 (52.52%) Machine Learning
8 1,208 (50.31%) Community of Practice
9 813 (33.86%) Visualisation
10 769 (32.03%) Continuous Improvement
11 660 (27.49%) Risk Management
12 483 (20.12%) Decision-Making
13 431 (17.95%) Continuous Delivery
14 422 (17.58%) Microservices
15 403 (16.78%) Information Architecture
16 376 (15.66%) Architectural Design
17 338 (14.08%) Computer Science
18 337 (14.04%) Problem-Solving
19 323 (13.45%) Full Stack Development
20 238 (9.91%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1,477 (61.52%) Java
2 940 (39.15%) SQL
3 818 (34.07%) Python
4 302 (12.58%) JavaScript
5 280 (11.66%) Scala
6 192 (8.00%) TypeScript
7 133 (5.54%) PL/SQL
8 75 (3.12%) Go
9 65 (2.71%) Prolog
9 65 (2.71%) SPARQL
10 37 (1.54%) C#
10 37 (1.54%) Groovy
11 34 (1.42%) R
12 30 (1.25%) T-SQL
13 27 (1.12%) Kotlin
14 21 (0.87%) Shell Script
15 14 (0.58%) Ruby
16 11 (0.46%) COBOL
16 11 (0.46%) JCL
17 3 (0.12%) C
Qualifications
1 187 (7.79%) Degree
2 82 (3.42%) Master's Degree
3 45 (1.87%) PhD
4 44 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (0.62%) AWS Certification
6 7 (0.29%) CISM
6 7 (0.29%) CISSP
7 6 (0.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 4 (0.17%) Security Cleared
9 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.042%) ACCA
10 1 (0.042%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.042%) CBAP
10 1 (0.042%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (2.75%) Accessibility
2 49 (2.04%) SLA
3 28 (1.17%) Data Quality
4 26 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
5 15 (0.62%) PMO
6 12 (0.50%) QA
7 11 (0.46%) NIST
8 9 (0.37%) WAI
9 3 (0.12%) WCAG
10 2 (0.083%) GDPR
11 1 (0.042%) COBIT
11 1 (0.042%) IFRS
11 1 (0.042%) ISO 31000
11 1 (0.042%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.042%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.042%) NIST 800
System Software
1 91 (3.79%) HDFS
2 66 (2.75%) Active Directory
3 44 (1.83%) Docker
4 11 (0.46%) Time Sharing Option
5 8 (0.33%) Hyper-V
5 8 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.083%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.042%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 310 (12.91%) Kubernetes
2 232 (9.66%) Terraform
3 165 (6.87%) Grafana
4 78 (3.25%) Prometheus
5 26 (1.08%) ITRS Geneos
6 21 (0.87%) HAProxy
6 21 (0.87%) Kibana
6 21 (0.87%) Zipkin
7 7 (0.29%) Graphite
8 1 (0.042%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 337 (14.04%) Oracle
2 229 (9.54%) Databricks
3 176 (7.33%) Splunk
4 153 (6.37%) Dynatrace
5 82 (3.42%) Informatica
6 62 (2.58%) Google
7 61 (2.54%) Cloudera
8 58 (2.42%) Qualtrics
9 52 (2.17%) Alteryx
10 29 (1.21%) Microsoft
11 18 (0.75%) SaltStack
11 18 (0.75%) Sybase
12 16 (0.67%) Atlassian
13 14 (0.58%) Pega
14 13 (0.54%) Cognos
15 12 (0.50%) ServiceNow
16 11 (0.46%) OpenLink
17 9 (0.37%) TOWER Software
18 8 (0.33%) VMware
19 5 (0.21%) CA