C# Contracts in Scotland

C#
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for C# skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited C# 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 85 64 44
Rank change year-on-year -21 -20 0
Contract jobs citing C# 46 117 166
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.08% 4.10% 4.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.87% 11.78% 17.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 92 127
10th Percentile £298 £378 £360
25th Percentile £363 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -13.16% +5.56% +7.14%
75th Percentile £500 £525 £488
90th Percentile £675 £574 £530
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £538
% change year-on-year - +6.98% +13.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £42.65
25th Percentile - - £44.01
Median hourly rate £26.00 £70.00 £47.64
Median % change year-on-year -62.86% +46.95% -11.38%
75th Percentile - - £49.89
90th Percentile - - £50.42
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £51.66
% change year-on-year - +25.82% +14.81%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

C# is in the Programming Languages 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 coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 670 993 955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 30.36% 34.79% 27.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 441 723 647
10th Percentile £369 £406 £363
25th Percentile £415 £438 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £493 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.32% +3.68% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £550
90th Percentile £655 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 15 21
10th Percentile £29.60 £49.14 £17.50
25th Percentile £41.31 £53.75 £37.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £60.55 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.04% +28.83% +4.44%
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £62.50 £69.50 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £60.07 £60.70 £50.00
% change year-on-year -1.04% +21.40% +13.64%

C#
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for C# in Scotland

C#
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for C# in Scotland

C#
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for C# in Scotland

C#
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for C# in Scotland

C#
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 C# 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
Glasgow +11 17 £650 +23.81% 25
Edinburgh -13 17 £375 -21.05% 37
Aberdeen +5 6 £388 - 9
Perthshire +8 2 £488 -12.79% 2
Aberdeenshire - 1 £313 - 4
C#
UK

C#
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:

Applications
1 11 (23.91%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (10.87%) Maximo
2 1 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 20 (43.48%) Azure
2 10 (21.74%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (4.35%) Azure AKS
3 2 (4.35%) IaaS
3 2 (4.35%) PaaS
3 2 (4.35%) Power Platform
3 2 (4.35%) SaaS
4 1 (2.17%) AWS
4 1 (2.17%) Azure API Management
4 1 (2.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (2.17%) Azure Functions
4 1 (2.17%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (2.17%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.17%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.17%) npm
4 1 (2.17%) Serverless
4 1 (2.17%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.17%) 2G
1 1 (2.17%) 5G
1 1 (2.17%) HTTP
1 1 (2.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (28.26%) SQL Server
2 5 (10.87%) GIS
2 5 (10.87%) Relational Database
3 4 (8.70%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (4.35%) MySQL
4 2 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.17%) MariaDB
5 1 (2.17%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.17%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.17%) Redis
5 1 (2.17%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 7 (15.22%) Selenium
1 7 (15.22%) WebDriver
2 5 (10.87%) Jenkins
3 4 (8.70%) Git
3 4 (8.70%) TeamCity
4 3 (6.52%) JIRA
5 2 (4.35%) Cucumber
5 2 (4.35%) Cypress.io
5 2 (4.35%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (4.35%) Subversion
6 1 (2.17%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.17%) CircleCI
6 1 (2.17%) GitLab
6 1 (2.17%) Gradle
6 1 (2.17%) gulp
6 1 (2.17%) Maven
6 1 (2.17%) Travis CI
6 1 (2.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (10.87%) Aviation
1 5 (10.87%) Documentation Skills
1 5 (10.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (6.52%) Public Sector
2 3 (6.52%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.35%) Banking
3 2 (4.35%) Finance
4 1 (2.17%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 18 (39.13%) Developer
2 11 (23.91%) Software Developer
3 6 (13.04%) .NET Developer
4 5 (10.87%) Automation Tester
4 5 (10.87%) C# Software Engineer
4 5 (10.87%) Full Stack Engineer
4 5 (10.87%) Full Stack Software Engineer
4 5 (10.87%) Software Engineer
4 5 (10.87%) Tester
5 4 (8.70%) Analyst
5 4 (8.70%) Senior
6 3 (6.52%) Applications Support
7 2 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Functional Analyst
7 2 (4.35%) Functional Test Analyst
7 2 (4.35%) Senior .NET Developer
7 2 (4.35%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (4.35%) Senior Developer
7 2 (4.35%) Senior Test Analyst
7 2 (4.35%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (28.26%) .NET
2 12 (26.09%) HTML
3 8 (17.39%) React
4 6 (13.04%) AngularJS
5 3 (6.52%) .NET Core
5 3 (6.52%) ASP.NET
6 2 (4.35%) ASP.NET Core
6 2 (4.35%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (2.17%) .NET Framework
7 1 (2.17%) ARM Templates
7 1 (2.17%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (2.17%) CSS
7 1 (2.17%) JSON
7 1 (2.17%) MassTransit
7 1 (2.17%) OAuth
7 1 (2.17%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (2.17%) REST
7 1 (2.17%) RESTful
7 1 (2.17%) XML
7 1 (2.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.52%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (4.35%) Client/Server
2 2 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (4.35%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.17%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.17%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (36.96%) DevOps
1 17 (36.96%) Software Engineering
2 16 (34.78%) Artificial Intelligence
3 11 (23.91%) Code Quality
3 11 (23.91%) Conversational UI
4 8 (17.39%) Agile
4 8 (17.39%) Test Automation
5 7 (15.22%) Full Stack Development
6 6 (13.04%) CI/CD
7 5 (10.87%) Test Scripting
8 3 (6.52%) Microservices
8 3 (6.52%) User Experience
9 2 (4.35%) ATDD
9 2 (4.35%) Data Protection
9 2 (4.35%) Kanban
9 2 (4.35%) Mentoring
9 2 (4.35%) Root Cause Analysis
9 2 (4.35%) Software Delivery
9 2 (4.35%) Test Strategy
9 2 (4.35%) V-Model
Programming Languages
1 24 (52.17%) SQL
2 17 (36.96%) JavaScript
2 17 (36.96%) Python
3 9 (19.57%) TypeScript
4 7 (15.22%) Java
5 3 (6.52%) PowerShell
6 2 (4.35%) C++
6 2 (4.35%) Shell Script
6 2 (4.35%) VBA
6 2 (4.35%) VBScript
7 1 (2.17%) Bash
7 1 (2.17%) Bicep
7 1 (2.17%) Go
7 1 (2.17%) Groovy
7 1 (2.17%) PHP
7 1 (2.17%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 13 (28.26%) Degree
2 2 (4.35%) ISEB
2 2 (4.35%) ISTQB
2 2 (4.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.35%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.35%) Terraform
2 1 (2.17%) Ansible
2 1 (2.17%) Grafana
2 1 (2.17%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.17%) Progress Chef
2 1 (2.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (23.91%) PayPal
2 4 (8.70%) AVEVA
3 2 (4.35%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.17%) Oracle