.NET Contracts in Edinburgh

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring .NET skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited .NET over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 40 36
Rank change year-on-year -7 -4 +7
Contract jobs citing .NET 20 32 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 3.20% 3.93% 6.75%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.99% 17.58% 22.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 15 74
10th Percentile £400 £275 £400
25th Percentile £412 £325 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.06% -10.53% +2.70%
75th Percentile £528 £480 £525
90th Percentile £538 £570 £621
Scotland median daily rate £468 £419 £475
% change year-on-year +11.64% -11.84% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £26.00 -
Scotland median hourly rate - £26.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -62.86% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Edinburgh

.NET falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 143 182 386
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 22.88% 22.33% 29.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 121 319
10th Percentile £400 £363 £406
25th Percentile £417 £430 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £480 £488
Median % change year-on-year +1.72% -1.54% -2.50%
75th Percentile £529 £619 £538
90th Percentile £600 £700 £613
Scotland median daily rate £471 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.56% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £26.00 -
Scotland median hourly rate - £53.75 £59.03
% change year-on-year - -8.94% +24.93%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for .NET in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for .NET in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for .NET in Edinburgh

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for .NET in Edinburgh

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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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.00%) Apache
1 1 (5.00%) IIS
1 1 (5.00%) nginx
1 1 (5.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 15 (75.00%) Azure
2 12 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (15.00%) GitHub
3 3 (15.00%) IaaS
3 3 (15.00%) PaaS
3 3 (15.00%) Power Platform
3 3 (15.00%) PowerApps
3 3 (15.00%) SaaS
4 2 (10.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (5.00%) AWS
5 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
5 1 (5.00%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) Git
2 4 (20.00%) JIRA
2 4 (20.00%) Postman
2 4 (20.00%) Selenium
3 3 (15.00%) Cucumber
3 3 (15.00%) Cypress.io
3 3 (15.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (15.00%) Subversion
3 3 (15.00%) TeamCity
3 3 (15.00%) WebDriver
4 2 (10.00%) GitLab
5 1 (5.00%) JUnit
5 1 (5.00%) MSTest
5 1 (5.00%) NUnit
5 1 (5.00%) Ranorex
General
1 13 (65.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (20.00%) Finance
2 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Front Office
4 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Developer
2 8 (40.00%) .NET Developer
3 6 (30.00%) Senior
4 4 (20.00%) QA Engineer
4 4 (20.00%) React Developer
5 3 (15.00%) Senior .NET Developer
5 3 (15.00%) Senior Developer
5 3 (15.00%) Senior React Developer
5 3 (15.00%) Software Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (10.00%) Quality Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Analyst
7 1 (5.00%) Business Analyst
7 1 (5.00%) C# Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Senior Analyst
7 1 (5.00%) Senior Business Analyst
7 1 (5.00%) Senior QA Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Technical Leader
7 1 (5.00%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (35.00%) AngularJS
1 7 (35.00%) React
2 5 (25.00%) ASP.NET
2 5 (25.00%) REST
3 3 (15.00%) .NET Framework
4 2 (10.00%) .NET Core
4 2 (10.00%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (10.00%) Ajax
4 2 (10.00%) ASP.NET Core
4 2 (10.00%) CSS
4 2 (10.00%) Entity Framework
4 2 (10.00%) HTML
4 2 (10.00%) JMS
4 2 (10.00%) Middleware
4 2 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET MVC 5
5 1 (5.00%) AWS CDK
5 1 (5.00%) Blazor
5 1 (5.00%) Playwright
5 1 (5.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (35.00%) Product Ownership
2 6 (30.00%) Legacy Applications
2 6 (30.00%) Wiki
3 3 (15.00%) Client/Server
3 3 (15.00%) Mobile App
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (5.00%) Data Structures
4 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) AIX
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (65.00%) DevOps
2 9 (45.00%) Agile
3 7 (35.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 7 (35.00%) User Experience
4 6 (30.00%) Code Quality
5 5 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 5 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 5 (25.00%) Test Automation
6 4 (20.00%) Kanban
6 4 (20.00%) Web Development
7 3 (15.00%) ATDD
7 3 (15.00%) BDD
7 3 (15.00%) Feature Driven Development
7 3 (15.00%) Investment Management
7 3 (15.00%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (15.00%) Software Engineering
7 3 (15.00%) TDD
7 3 (15.00%) Validation
7 3 (15.00%) V-Model
7 3 (15.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 9 (45.00%) C#
1 9 (45.00%) SQL
2 8 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 6 (30.00%) Java
3 6 (30.00%) Python
4 5 (25.00%) TypeScript
5 3 (15.00%) C++
5 3 (15.00%) Shell Script
5 3 (15.00%) VBA
5 3 (15.00%) VBScript
6 2 (10.00%) PL/SQL
7 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
7 1 (5.00%) VB
7 1 (5.00%) VB6
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) ISEB
1 3 (15.00%) ISTQB
1 3 (15.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (5.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) QA
2 2 (10.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (10.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
1 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle
1 2 (10.00%) VMware
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft