.NET Contracts in Scotland

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 85 78 62
Rank change year-on-year -7 -16 -20
Contract jobs citing .NET 34 47 110
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.06% 2.22% 4.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.81% 10.78% 17.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 29 83
10th Percentile £406 £271 £400
25th Percentile £450 £325 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £450 £544
90th Percentile £570 £548 £613
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £563
% change year-on-year -4.76% -6.67% +4.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £26.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -62.86% -
UK median hourly rate £28.13 £58.91 £55.00
% change year-on-year -52.25% +7.10% +12.24%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

.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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 386 436 626
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 23.42% 20.56% 23.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 288 457
10th Percentile £313 £325 £400
25th Percentile £410 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -5.13% -0.51%
75th Percentile £530 £546 £545
90th Percentile £599 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £521 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -2.71% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 4
10th Percentile - £36.10 £23.53
25th Percentile - £51.25 £39.09
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £53.38
Median % change year-on-year - +3.03% +13.57%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £61.77
90th Percentile - - £66.71
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £48.43 £65.00
% change year-on-year +29.05% -25.49% +23.81%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for .NET in Scotland

.NET
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for .NET in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET in Scotland over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for .NET in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for .NET in Scotland

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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 .NET within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 30 May 2025. 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
Edinburgh 0 26 £468 +10.00% 71
Glasgow -9 6 £475 +48.44% 68
West Lothian - 1 £500 - 5
.NET
UK

.NET
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.94%) Apache
1 1 (2.94%) IIS
1 1 (2.94%) nginx
1 1 (2.94%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 26 (76.47%) Azure
2 18 (52.94%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (11.76%) GitHub
4 3 (8.82%) Azure AI
4 3 (8.82%) Azure Cognitive Search
4 3 (8.82%) Azure Cognitive Services
4 3 (8.82%) Entra ID
4 3 (8.82%) IaaS
4 3 (8.82%) PaaS
4 3 (8.82%) Power Platform
4 3 (8.82%) PowerApps
4 3 (8.82%) SaaS
5 2 (5.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (2.94%) AWS
6 1 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.94%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.94%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.88%) Metadata
2 1 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (23.53%) Git
2 4 (11.76%) JIRA
2 4 (11.76%) Postman
2 4 (11.76%) Selenium
3 3 (8.82%) Cucumber
3 3 (8.82%) Cypress.io
3 3 (8.82%) Jenkins
3 3 (8.82%) Subversion
3 3 (8.82%) TeamCity
3 3 (8.82%) WebDriver
4 2 (5.88%) GitLab
5 1 (2.94%) JUnit
5 1 (2.94%) MSTest
5 1 (2.94%) NUnit
5 1 (2.94%) Ranorex
5 1 (2.94%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 18 (52.94%) Public Sector
2 8 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 5 (14.71%) Finance
4 2 (5.88%) Front Office
4 2 (5.88%) Legal
5 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (47.06%) Developer
2 12 (35.29%) .NET Developer
3 6 (17.65%) Senior
4 5 (14.71%) Architect
5 4 (11.76%) QA Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) React Developer
6 3 (8.82%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 3 (8.82%) Azure Developer
6 3 (8.82%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (8.82%) Senior .NET Developer
6 3 (8.82%) Senior Developer
6 3 (8.82%) Senior React Developer
6 3 (8.82%) Software Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Technical Architect
7 2 (5.88%) CyberArk Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Quality Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) Senior Analyst
8 1 (2.94%) Senior Business Analyst
8 1 (2.94%) Senior QA Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (41.18%) React
2 11 (32.35%) AngularJS
3 10 (29.41%) .NET Framework
4 8 (23.53%) ASP.NET
5 7 (20.59%) REST
6 4 (11.76%) Blazor
6 4 (11.76%) Entity Framework
7 3 (8.82%) .NET Core
7 3 (8.82%) ActiveMQ
7 3 (8.82%) Ajax
7 3 (8.82%) ASP.NET Core
7 3 (8.82%) ASP.NET MVC
7 3 (8.82%) ASP.NET MVC 5
7 3 (8.82%) ASP.NET Web API
7 3 (8.82%) CSS
7 3 (8.82%) HTML
7 3 (8.82%) JMS
7 3 (8.82%) Middleware
7 3 (8.82%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (8.82%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 9 (26.47%) Product Ownership
2 6 (17.65%) Legacy Applications
2 6 (17.65%) Wiki
3 3 (8.82%) Client/Server
3 3 (8.82%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.94%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.94%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.94%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.94%) Insider Threat
4 1 (2.94%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.94%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (14.71%) Linux
2 3 (8.82%) AIX
3 2 (5.88%) Unix
3 2 (5.88%) Windows
3 2 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (61.76%) DevOps
2 14 (41.18%) Agile
3 8 (23.53%) CI/CD
3 8 (23.53%) Full-Stack Development
3 8 (23.53%) Knowledge Transfer
4 7 (20.59%) User Experience
5 6 (17.65%) Code Quality
5 6 (17.65%) Microservices
5 6 (17.65%) TDD
6 5 (14.71%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (14.71%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (14.71%) Test Automation
6 5 (14.71%) Web Development
7 4 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence
7 4 (11.76%) Case Management
7 4 (11.76%) Kanban
7 4 (11.76%) Machine Learning
7 4 (11.76%) Migration
7 4 (11.76%) Software Engineering
7 4 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (58.82%) C#
2 13 (38.24%) SQL
3 12 (35.29%) JavaScript
4 9 (26.47%) Python
5 6 (17.65%) Java
6 5 (14.71%) TypeScript
7 3 (8.82%) C++
7 3 (8.82%) PL/SQL
7 3 (8.82%) PowerShell
7 3 (8.82%) Shell Script
7 3 (8.82%) VBA
7 3 (8.82%) VBScript
8 1 (2.94%) VB
8 1 (2.94%) VB6
Qualifications
1 3 (8.82%) ISEB
1 3 (8.82%) ISTQB
1 3 (8.82%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 2 (5.88%) Degree
3 1 (2.94%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.76%) QA
2 3 (8.82%) NCSC
3 2 (5.88%) Accessibility
3 2 (5.88%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 5 (14.71%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.94%) Docker
2 1 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (11.76%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.88%) Ansible
2 2 (5.88%) Progress Chef
2 2 (5.88%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (32.35%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.76%) Oracle
3 3 (8.82%) VMware
4 2 (5.88%) BeyondTrust
4 2 (5.88%) CyberArk
4 2 (5.88%) OpenAI