.NET Contracts in Scotland

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for .NET skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited .NET over the 6 months to 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 78 62 42
Rank change year-on-year -16 -20 -13
Contract jobs citing .NET 47 110 199
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.22% 4.12% 5.87%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.78% 17.57% 26.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 83 137
10th Percentile £271 £400 £360
25th Percentile £325 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% +7.14%
75th Percentile £450 £544 £513
90th Percentile £548 £613 £575
UK median daily rate £525 £563 £538
% change year-on-year -6.67% +4.65% +13.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £26.00 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -62.86% - -
UK median hourly rate £58.91 £55.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year +7.10% +12.24% +20.99%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

.NET is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 436 626 761
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 20.56% 23.45% 22.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 457 540
10th Percentile £325 £400 £380
25th Percentile £400 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £488 £490
Median % change year-on-year -5.13% -0.51% +15.29%
75th Percentile £546 £545 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 7
10th Percentile £36.10 £23.53 £31.95
25th Percentile £51.25 £39.09 £42.04
Median hourly rate £55.00 £53.38 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +13.57% +17.50%
75th Percentile £57.50 £61.77 £48.75
90th Percentile - £66.71 £62.75
UK median hourly rate £48.43 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -25.49% +23.81% +16.67%

.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

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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 29 May 2024.

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 29 May 2024. 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 -5 32 £425 -10.53% 23
Glasgow +12 4 £320 -36.00% 11
Perthshire +6 2 £525 -6.08%
Aberdeen +1 2 £419 - 11
.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 4 (8.51%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.26%) Umbraco
3 1 (2.13%) Confluence
3 1 (2.13%) EPiServer
3 1 (2.13%) SharePoint 2013
Cloud Services
1 32 (68.09%) Azure
2 21 (44.68%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (14.89%) PaaS
4 5 (10.64%) IaaS
4 5 (10.64%) Power Platform
5 4 (8.51%) Power Automate
5 4 (8.51%) PowerApps
5 4 (8.51%) SaaS
5 4 (8.51%) Serverless
6 3 (6.38%) Entra ID
6 3 (6.38%) iPaaS
6 3 (6.38%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (4.26%) AWS
7 2 (4.26%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (4.26%) Azure Functions
7 2 (4.26%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (4.26%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (4.26%) GitHub
8 1 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (2.13%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.38%) LAN
1 3 (6.38%) WAN
2 1 (2.13%) 2G
2 1 (2.13%) 5G
2 1 (2.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.77%) SQL Server
2 4 (8.51%) Power BI
2 4 (8.51%) Relational Database
3 2 (4.26%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.13%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.13%) MySQL
4 1 (2.13%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 11 (23.40%) Git
2 5 (10.64%) Visual Studio
3 4 (8.51%) Jenkins
3 4 (8.51%) JIRA
4 3 (6.38%) Selenium
4 3 (6.38%) TeamCity
5 2 (4.26%) Cucumber
5 2 (4.26%) Cypress.io
5 2 (4.26%) Subversion
5 2 (4.26%) WebDriver
6 1 (2.13%) Appium
6 1 (2.13%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.13%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 24 (51.06%) Public Sector
2 13 (27.66%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.13%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 27 (57.45%) Developer
2 20 (42.55%) .NET Developer
3 13 (27.66%) Senior
4 8 (17.02%) Senior .NET Developer
4 8 (17.02%) Senior Developer
5 5 (10.64%) React Developer
5 5 (10.64%) Senior React Developer
6 4 (8.51%) Test Automation Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) Test Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) Architect
7 3 (6.38%) Consultant
7 3 (6.38%) Power Platform Developer
7 3 (6.38%) Technical Architect
8 2 (4.26%) Analyst
8 2 (4.26%) AWS Developer
8 2 (4.26%) Full Stack .NET Developer
8 2 (4.26%) Full Stack Developer
8 2 (4.26%) ServiceNow Consultant
8 2 (4.26%) Support Officer
8 2 (4.26%) Umbraco Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (29.79%) React
2 9 (19.15%) .NET Core
3 7 (14.89%) CSS
3 7 (14.89%) RESTful
3 7 (14.89%) SOAP
3 7 (14.89%) Web Services
4 5 (10.64%) .NET Framework
4 5 (10.64%) HTML
4 5 (10.64%) REST
5 4 (8.51%) Playwright
5 4 (8.51%) WinForms
5 4 (8.51%) WPF
6 3 (6.38%) ASP.NET
6 3 (6.38%) HTML5 Canvas
6 3 (6.38%) J2EE
7 2 (4.26%) Entity Framework
7 2 (4.26%) jQuery
7 2 (4.26%) OAuth
7 2 (4.26%) OpenID
7 2 (4.26%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.15%) Legacy Applications
1 9 (19.15%) Product Ownership
1 9 (19.15%) Wiki
2 5 (10.64%) Client/Server
3 4 (8.51%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (8.51%) Mobile App
4 3 (6.38%) N-Tier
5 1 (2.13%) CMDB
5 1 (2.13%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.77%) Windows
2 1 (2.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (48.94%) DevOps
2 14 (29.79%) Agile
3 11 (23.40%) Code Quality
3 11 (23.40%) User Experience
4 9 (19.15%) Knowledge Transfer
5 7 (14.89%) Test Automation
6 6 (12.77%) CI/CD
6 6 (12.77%) MVC
7 5 (10.64%) SDLC
7 5 (10.64%) SOA
8 4 (8.51%) API Testing
8 4 (8.51%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (8.51%) Collaborative Working
8 4 (8.51%) Configuration Management
8 4 (8.51%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (8.51%) Full Stack Development
8 4 (8.51%) Migration
8 4 (8.51%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (8.51%) Roadmaps
8 4 (8.51%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 19 (40.43%) C#
2 10 (21.28%) SQL
3 9 (19.15%) JavaScript
4 6 (12.77%) TypeScript
5 4 (8.51%) PowerShell
5 4 (8.51%) VB
5 4 (8.51%) VB6
6 3 (6.38%) Java
7 2 (4.26%) C++
7 2 (4.26%) Shell Script
7 2 (4.26%) T-SQL
7 2 (4.26%) VBA
7 2 (4.26%) VBScript
8 1 (2.13%) Bicep
8 1 (2.13%) Perl
8 1 (2.13%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (4.26%) Degree
2 2 (4.26%) ISEB
2 2 (4.26%) ISTQB
2 2 (4.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.13%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.89%) Disclosure Scotland
2 4 (8.51%) QA
System Software
1 3 (6.38%) Hyper-V
1 3 (6.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (4.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (6.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (17.02%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.64%) Oracle
3 4 (8.51%) Infragistics
4 3 (6.38%) VMware
5 2 (4.26%) Adobe
5 2 (4.26%) ServiceNow
5 2 (4.26%) Xamarin
6 1 (2.13%) Optimizely