.NET Contracts in Scotland

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for .NET skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited .NET over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 86 57 42
Rank change year-on-year -29 -15 -10
Contract jobs citing .NET 45 137 176
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.04% 4.80% 5.00%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.70% 19.83% 24.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 108 123
10th Percentile £275 £400 £357
25th Percentile £325 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -11.84% +5.56% +7.14%
75th Percentile £488 £564 £500
90th Percentile £625 £629 £538
UK median daily rate £525 £565 £530
% change year-on-year -7.08% +6.60% +11.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £26.00 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -62.86% - -
UK median hourly rate £58.91 £60.00 £46.67
% change year-on-year -1.83% +28.56% +15.95%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

.NET is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 464 691 721
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 21.02% 24.21% 20.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 301 527 488
10th Percentile £325 £406 £360
25th Percentile £410 £438 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £547 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 10
10th Percentile £33.58 £49.99 £37.73
25th Percentile £44.94 £53.38 £41.89
Median hourly rate £53.75 £59.03 £47.25
Median % change year-on-year -8.94% +24.93% +12.50%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.52 £49.34
90th Percentile - £67.81 £56.75
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for .NET in Scotland

.NET
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing .NET in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for .NET in Scotland

.NET
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for .NET in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing .NET in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for .NET in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh -3 33 £425 -10.53% 25
Glasgow -8 3 £375 -25.00% 22
Aberdeen +1 2 £419 - 7
South Lanarkshire - 1 - - 1
.NET
UK

.NET
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 (6.67%) Confluence
1 3 (6.67%) IIS
1 3 (6.67%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.44%) EPiServer
2 2 (4.44%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (2.22%) Apache
3 1 (2.22%) SharePoint 2013
3 1 (2.22%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.22%) Umbraco
3 1 (2.22%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 25 (55.56%) Azure
2 16 (35.56%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (11.11%) AWS
3 5 (11.11%) IaaS
3 5 (11.11%) PaaS
4 4 (8.89%) Serverless
5 3 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (6.67%) iPaaS
5 3 (6.67%) Power Platform
6 2 (4.44%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (4.44%) SaaS
7 1 (2.22%) Azure AKS
7 1 (2.22%) Azure API Management
7 1 (2.22%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.22%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.22%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.22%) PowerApps
7 1 (2.22%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.67%) DNS
1 3 (6.67%) LAN
1 3 (6.67%) WAN
2 1 (2.22%) 2G
2 1 (2.22%) 5G
2 1 (2.22%) BIG-IP
2 1 (2.22%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 1 (2.22%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (2.22%) HTTP
2 1 (2.22%) Internet
2 1 (2.22%) Network Security
2 1 (2.22%) SAN
2 1 (2.22%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.89%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.22%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.22%) MySQL
2 1 (2.22%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.22%) Power BI
2 1 (2.22%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.22%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 6 (13.33%) Git
1 6 (13.33%) JIRA
2 4 (8.89%) Jenkins
3 3 (6.67%) TeamCity
4 2 (4.44%) Cucumber
4 2 (4.44%) Cypress.io
4 2 (4.44%) Selenium
4 2 (4.44%) Subversion
4 2 (4.44%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (4.44%) WebDriver
5 1 (2.22%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.22%) GitLab
5 1 (2.22%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (2.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 21 (46.67%) Public Sector
2 8 (17.78%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.67%) Finance
4 2 (4.44%) Automotive
4 2 (4.44%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Banking
5 1 (2.22%) Games
Job Titles
1 29 (64.44%) Developer
2 23 (51.11%) .NET Developer
3 15 (33.33%) Senior
4 10 (22.22%) Senior .NET Developer
4 10 (22.22%) Senior Developer
5 9 (20.00%) React Developer
6 7 (15.56%) Senior React Developer
7 4 (8.89%) Architect
7 4 (8.89%) AWS Developer
8 3 (6.67%) Analyst
8 3 (6.67%) Technical Architect
9 2 (4.44%) Consultant
9 2 (4.44%) Functional Analyst
9 2 (4.44%) Functional Test Analyst
9 2 (4.44%) Lead .NET Developer
9 2 (4.44%) Lead Developer
9 2 (4.44%) Senior Analyst
9 2 (4.44%) Senior Technical Architect
9 2 (4.44%) Senior Test Analyst
9 2 (4.44%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (31.11%) React
2 6 (13.33%) .NET Core
3 4 (8.89%) REST
3 4 (8.89%) Web Services
4 3 (6.67%) ASP.NET
4 3 (6.67%) J2EE
4 3 (6.67%) JSON
4 3 (6.67%) XML
5 2 (4.44%) .NET Remoting
5 2 (4.44%) ASP.NET Core
5 2 (4.44%) ASP.NET Web API
5 2 (4.44%) CSS
5 2 (4.44%) HTML
6 1 (2.22%) .NET Framework
6 1 (2.22%) AngularJS
6 1 (2.22%) MassTransit
6 1 (2.22%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (2.22%) SOAP
6 1 (2.22%) Spring
6 1 (2.22%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (28.89%) Legacy Applications
1 13 (28.89%) Product Ownership
1 13 (28.89%) Wiki
2 5 (11.11%) Client/Server
3 3 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (6.67%) N-Tier
4 2 (4.44%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.22%) CMDB
5 1 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.22%) PKI
5 1 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.89%) Windows
2 2 (4.44%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (44.44%) DevOps
2 13 (28.89%) User Experience
3 12 (26.67%) Code Quality
3 12 (26.67%) Knowledge Transfer
4 8 (17.78%) Agile
5 5 (11.11%) CI/CD
5 5 (11.11%) MVC
5 5 (11.11%) SOA
6 4 (8.89%) Roadmaps
7 3 (6.67%) Architecture Governance
7 3 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (6.67%) Identity Access Management
7 3 (6.67%) Innovative Thinking
7 3 (6.67%) Integration Patterns
7 3 (6.67%) Mentoring
7 3 (6.67%) Microservices
7 3 (6.67%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (6.67%) Project Delivery
7 3 (6.67%) Strategic Thinking
7 3 (6.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 13 (28.89%) C#
2 5 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 5 (11.11%) PowerShell
3 4 (8.89%) Java
3 4 (8.89%) SQL
4 3 (6.67%) TypeScript
5 2 (4.44%) C++
5 2 (4.44%) Shell Script
5 2 (4.44%) VBA
5 2 (4.44%) VBScript
6 1 (2.22%) Bicep
6 1 (2.22%) Perl
6 1 (2.22%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (6.67%) Degree
2 2 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.44%) ISEB
2 2 (4.44%) ISTQB
2 2 (4.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 2 (4.44%) SC Cleared
2 2 (4.44%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.33%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (6.67%) Hyper-V
1 3 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (4.44%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (11.11%) Terraform
2 1 (2.22%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.67%) VMware
3 2 (4.44%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.22%) CA
4 1 (2.22%) F5
4 1 (2.22%) Okta
4 1 (2.22%) Optimizely
4 1 (2.22%) Oracle