.NET Developer Contracts in Edinburgh

.NET Developer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median .NET Developer daily rate in Edinburgh is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 58 77
Rank change year-on-year -1 +19 +17
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 9 11 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.46% 1.37% 2.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.61% 1.44% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 16
10th Percentile £404 £412 £400
25th Percentile £409 £413 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £442 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.93% -7.05% +5.56%
75th Percentile - £456 £488
90th Percentile £465 £479 -
Scotland median daily rate £450 £442 £475
% change year-on-year +1.93% -7.05% +5.56%

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Edinburgh. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in Edinburgh with a recognized job title 559 762 1,055
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.60% 94.66% 94.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 407 676
10th Percentile £272 £170 £222
25th Percentile £412 £306 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £438 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.45% -7.79% -
75th Percentile £531 £538 £538
90th Percentile £575 £630 £600
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +1.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 36 12
10th Percentile - £13.57 £13.61
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.37 £17.72
Median hourly rate £35.00 £18.07 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +93.74% +1.95% -
75th Percentile £62.19 £19.61 £46.24
90th Percentile £73.75 £52.50 £53.75
Scotland median hourly rate £19.97 £17.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year +17.47% -4.06% -5.87%

.NET Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings that featured .NET Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for .NET Developer in Edinburgh

.NET Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for .NET Developer job vacancies in Edinburgh.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for .NET Developer job vacancies in Edinburgh

.NET Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for .NET Developer job vacancies in Edinburgh.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for .NET Developer job vacancies in Edinburgh

.NET Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 27 August 2025, .NET Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Edinburgh region featuring .NET Developer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) .NET
2 8 (88.89%) Public Sector
2 8 (88.89%) Knowledge Transfer
3 7 (77.78%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (77.78%) DevOps
3 7 (77.78%) Azure
4 6 (66.67%) Wiki
4 6 (66.67%) User Experience
4 6 (66.67%) Legacy Applications
4 6 (66.67%) Code Quality
4 6 (66.67%) Product Ownership
5 4 (44.44%) React
6 3 (33.33%) AngularJS
6 3 (33.33%) .NET Framework
6 3 (33.33%) SQL
6 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
7 2 (22.22%) PL/SQL
7 2 (22.22%) HTML
7 2 (22.22%) Middleware
7 2 (22.22%) Oracle
7 2 (22.22%) CSS
7 2 (22.22%) AIX
7 2 (22.22%) Linux
7 2 (22.22%) JMS
7 2 (22.22%) Agile
7 2 (22.22%) ActiveMQ
7 2 (22.22%) Ajax
7 2 (22.22%) Web Development
7 2 (22.22%) OWASP
7 2 (22.22%) .NET Core

.NET Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) Azure
1 7 (77.78%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
General
1 8 (88.89%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (100.00%) .NET
2 4 (44.44%) React
3 3 (33.33%) .NET Framework
3 3 (33.33%) AngularJS
4 2 (22.22%) .NET Core
4 2 (22.22%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (22.22%) Ajax
4 2 (22.22%) CSS
4 2 (22.22%) Entity Framework
4 2 (22.22%) HTML
4 2 (22.22%) JMS
4 2 (22.22%) Middleware
4 2 (22.22%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET
5 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET MVC 5
5 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (11.11%) Blazor
5 1 (11.11%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Legacy Applications
1 6 (66.67%) Product Ownership
1 6 (66.67%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) AIX
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Knowledge Transfer
2 7 (77.78%) DevOps
3 6 (66.67%) Code Quality
3 6 (66.67%) User Experience
4 2 (22.22%) Agile
4 2 (22.22%) API Development
4 2 (22.22%) Case Management
4 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (22.22%) Deployment Diagram
4 2 (22.22%) OWASP
4 2 (22.22%) Web Development
5 1 (11.11%) Analytics
5 1 (11.11%) B2C
5 1 (11.11%) Business Analytics
5 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (11.11%) Data Analytics
5 1 (11.11%) Integration Testing
5 1 (11.11%) MVC
5 1 (11.11%) Scrum
5 1 (11.11%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) PL/SQL
3 1 (11.11%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) NCSC
2 1 (11.11%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle
1 2 (22.22%) VMware
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft