C# Contracts in Edinburgh

C#
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring C# skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited C# 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 52 55 40
Rank change year-on-year +3 -15 +3
Contract jobs citing C# 15 17 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.40% 2.09% 6.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.46% 8.54% 17.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 9 69
10th Percentile £400 £325 £360
25th Percentile £409 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £375 £475
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -21.05% +5.56%
75th Percentile £528 £388 £500
90th Percentile £538 £398 £540
Scotland median daily rate £475 £413 £475
% change year-on-year +15.15% -13.16% +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% +46.95%

All Programming Languages
Edinburgh

C# falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 201 199 488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 32.16% 24.42% 37.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 144 384
10th Percentile £400 £400 £404
25th Percentile £425 £420 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £482 £480
Median % change year-on-year -0.31% +0.31% +1.05%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £536
90th Percentile £550 £631 £589
Scotland median daily rate £470 £484 £493
% change year-on-year -2.79% -1.98% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 4
10th Percentile - £33.20 £42.68
25th Percentile £21.00 £38.00 £48.19
Median hourly rate £23.77 £60.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -60.71% +15.24% +15.23%
75th Percentile £40.72 £60.75 £57.19
90th Percentile £63.00 - £63.38
Scotland median hourly rate £23.77 £57.50 £59.79
% change year-on-year -58.67% -3.83% +27.21%

C#
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for C# in Edinburgh

C#
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for C# in Edinburgh

C#
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for C# 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:

Business Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (66.67%) Azure
2 8 (53.33%) Power Platform
2 8 (53.33%) PowerApps
3 7 (46.67%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (33.33%) Power Automate
5 3 (20.00%) IaaS
5 3 (20.00%) PaaS
5 3 (20.00%) SaaS
6 2 (13.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (13.33%) GitHub
7 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
7 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (6.67%) OCI
7 1 (6.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) Power BI
2 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Git
2 4 (26.67%) Postman
2 4 (26.67%) Selenium
3 3 (20.00%) Cucumber
3 3 (20.00%) Cypress.io
3 3 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (20.00%) JIRA
3 3 (20.00%) Subversion
3 3 (20.00%) TeamCity
3 3 (20.00%) WebDriver
4 1 (6.67%) JUnit
4 1 (6.67%) MSTest
4 1 (6.67%) NUnit
4 1 (6.67%) Ranorex
4 1 (6.67%) SpecFlow
General
1 9 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (40.00%) Public Sector
3 4 (26.67%) Finance
4 2 (13.33%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) QA Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Quality Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Software Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Angular Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Developer
4 1 (6.67%) CRM Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack C# Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365 Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft CRM Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Platform Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Power Platform Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Power Platform Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (60.00%) .NET
2 5 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 5 (33.33%) ASP.NET
3 4 (26.67%) REST
4 2 (13.33%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (6.67%) .NET Framework
5 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET MVC 5
5 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (6.67%) Blazor
5 1 (6.67%) JSON
5 1 (6.67%) Playwright
5 1 (6.67%) React
5 1 (6.67%) SOAP
5 1 (6.67%) WebSockets
5 1 (6.67%) XML
5 1 (6.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Client/Server
1 3 (20.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
2 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) Agile
2 7 (46.67%) DevOps
3 5 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 5 (33.33%) CRM
3 5 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 4 (26.67%) Kanban
5 3 (20.00%) Feature Driven Development
5 3 (20.00%) Investment Management
5 3 (20.00%) Microservices
5 3 (20.00%) Migration
5 3 (20.00%) SOA
5 3 (20.00%) Software Delivery
5 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (20.00%) TDD
5 3 (20.00%) Validation
5 3 (20.00%) V-Model
5 3 (20.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 6 (40.00%) PowerShell
3 5 (33.33%) SQL
4 4 (26.67%) Java
4 4 (26.67%) Python
4 4 (26.67%) TypeScript
5 3 (20.00%) C++
5 3 (20.00%) Shell Script
5 3 (20.00%) VBA
5 3 (20.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) ISEB
1 3 (20.00%) ISTQB
1 3 (20.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) QA
2 2 (13.33%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle