.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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 43 38
Rank change year-on-year 0 -5 +4
Contract jobs citing .NET 26 32 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 4.10% 3.74% 6.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.67% 17.98% 20.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 17 57
10th Percentile £400 £226 £400
25th Percentile £413 £325 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £450 £525
90th Percentile £601 £465 £623
Scotland median daily rate £475 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +11.76% -10.53% +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 156 178 343
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 24.61% 20.82% 29.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 118 267
10th Percentile £400 £325 £413
25th Percentile £430 £426 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £480 £485
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -1.13% -3.00%
75th Percentile £530 £617 £538
90th Percentile £600 £729 £613
Scotland median daily rate £475 £463 £488
% change year-on-year +2.70% -5.13% -0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £40.50 -
Scotland median hourly rate - £55.00 £53.38
% change year-on-year - +3.03% +13.57%

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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 30 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 (3.85%) Apache
1 1 (3.85%) IIS
1 1 (3.85%) nginx
1 1 (3.85%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 20 (76.92%) Azure
2 15 (57.69%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (15.38%) GitHub
4 3 (11.54%) Azure AI
4 3 (11.54%) Azure Cognitive Search
4 3 (11.54%) Azure Cognitive Services
4 3 (11.54%) IaaS
4 3 (11.54%) PaaS
4 3 (11.54%) Power Platform
4 3 (11.54%) PowerApps
4 3 (11.54%) SaaS
5 2 (7.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (3.85%) AWS
6 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (3.85%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.85%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) Metadata
2 1 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (23.08%) Git
2 4 (15.38%) JIRA
2 4 (15.38%) Postman
2 4 (15.38%) Selenium
3 3 (11.54%) Cucumber
3 3 (11.54%) Cypress.io
3 3 (11.54%) Jenkins
3 3 (11.54%) Subversion
3 3 (11.54%) TeamCity
3 3 (11.54%) WebDriver
4 2 (7.69%) GitLab
5 1 (3.85%) JUnit
5 1 (3.85%) MSTest
5 1 (3.85%) NUnit
5 1 (3.85%) Ranorex
General
1 16 (61.54%) Public Sector
2 6 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 5 (19.23%) Finance
4 2 (7.69%) Front Office
4 2 (7.69%) Legal
5 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (42.31%) Developer
2 9 (34.62%) .NET Developer
3 6 (23.08%) Senior
4 5 (19.23%) Architect
5 4 (15.38%) QA Engineer
5 4 (15.38%) React Developer
6 3 (11.54%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 3 (11.54%) Senior .NET Developer
6 3 (11.54%) Senior Developer
6 3 (11.54%) Senior React Developer
6 3 (11.54%) Software Engineer
6 3 (11.54%) Technical Architect
7 2 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (7.69%) Quality Engineer
8 1 (3.85%) Angular Developer
8 1 (3.85%) Azure Architect
8 1 (3.85%) Azure Developer
8 1 (3.85%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
8 1 (3.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 1 (3.85%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (42.31%) React
2 9 (34.62%) AngularJS
3 6 (23.08%) ASP.NET
4 5 (19.23%) .NET Framework
4 5 (19.23%) REST
5 4 (15.38%) Entity Framework
6 3 (11.54%) .NET Core
6 3 (11.54%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (11.54%) Ajax
6 3 (11.54%) ASP.NET Core
6 3 (11.54%) CSS
6 3 (11.54%) HTML
6 3 (11.54%) JMS
6 3 (11.54%) Middleware
6 3 (11.54%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (11.54%) RESTful
7 2 (7.69%) Blazor
8 1 (3.85%) ASP.NET MVC
8 1 (3.85%) AWS CDK
8 1 (3.85%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 9 (34.62%) Product Ownership
2 6 (23.08%) Legacy Applications
2 6 (23.08%) Wiki
3 3 (11.54%) Client/Server
3 3 (11.54%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.85%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.54%) AIX
1 3 (11.54%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (61.54%) DevOps
2 11 (42.31%) Agile
3 8 (30.77%) CI/CD
3 8 (30.77%) Knowledge Transfer
4 7 (26.92%) User Experience
5 6 (23.08%) Code Quality
6 5 (19.23%) Full-Stack Development
6 5 (19.23%) Test Automation
6 5 (19.23%) Web Development
7 4 (15.38%) Artificial Intelligence
7 4 (15.38%) Case Management
7 4 (15.38%) Kanban
7 4 (15.38%) Machine Learning
7 4 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (11.54%) API Design
8 3 (11.54%) ATDD
8 3 (11.54%) Data Analytics
8 3 (11.54%) Feature Driven Development
8 3 (11.54%) Microservices
8 3 (11.54%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 13 (50.00%) C#
2 11 (42.31%) SQL
3 9 (34.62%) JavaScript
3 9 (34.62%) Python
4 6 (23.08%) Java
5 5 (19.23%) TypeScript
6 3 (11.54%) C++
6 3 (11.54%) PL/SQL
6 3 (11.54%) Shell Script
6 3 (11.54%) VBA
6 3 (11.54%) VBScript
7 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
7 1 (3.85%) VB
7 1 (3.85%) VB6
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) ISEB
1 3 (11.54%) ISTQB
1 3 (11.54%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (3.85%) Degree
2 1 (3.85%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (15.38%) QA
2 3 (11.54%) NCSC
3 2 (7.69%) Accessibility
3 2 (7.69%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.85%) Docker
1 1 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (15.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.54%) Oracle
2 3 (11.54%) VMware
3 2 (7.69%) OpenAI