C# Contracts in Scotland

C#
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 84 83 59
Rank change year-on-year -1 -24 -13
Contract jobs citing C# 32 46 120
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.97% 2.07% 4.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.86% 6.89% 11.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 27 94
10th Percentile £400 £298 £383
25th Percentile £413 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £413 £475
Median % change year-on-year +15.15% -13.16% +5.56%
75th Percentile £531 £500 £525
90th Percentile £540 £675 £584
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £26.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -62.86% +46.95%
UK median hourly rate £48.75 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -25.00% - +25.82%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 658 668 1,001
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 40.49% 30.13% 34.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 370 438 730
10th Percentile £313 £369 £406
25th Percentile £408 £415 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £484 £493
Median % change year-on-year -2.79% -1.98% +3.84%
75th Percentile £538 £586 £557
90th Percentile £575 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 14
10th Percentile - £29.60 £48.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £41.31 £52.50
Median hourly rate £23.77 £57.50 £59.79
Median % change year-on-year -58.67% -3.83% +27.21%
75th Percentile £40.72 £60.75 £67.27
90th Percentile £63.00 £62.50 £69.63
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

C#
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for C# in Scotland

C#
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for C# in Scotland

C#
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for C# in Scotland

C#
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for C# in Scotland

C#
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 C# within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 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 +3 15 £500 +33.33% 33
Glasgow -2 12 £468 -28.08% 23
Fife - 3 - - 1
Perthshire -1 1 - -
C#
UK

C#
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:

Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 19 (59.38%) Azure
2 13 (40.63%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 8 (25.00%) PowerApps
4 7 (21.88%) AWS
4 7 (21.88%) GitHub
4 7 (21.88%) Power Automate
5 5 (15.63%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (9.38%) Entra ID
7 3 (9.38%) IaaS
7 3 (9.38%) PaaS
7 3 (9.38%) SaaS
8 2 (6.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (3.13%) Amazon S3
9 1 (3.13%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (3.13%) OCI
9 1 (3.13%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.63%) Power BI
2 2 (6.25%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.13%) Hadoop
3 1 (3.13%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.13%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 9 (28.13%) Jenkins
2 8 (25.00%) Git
3 6 (18.75%) JIRA
4 5 (15.63%) Bitbucket
5 4 (12.50%) Postman
5 4 (12.50%) Selenium
6 3 (9.38%) Cucumber
6 3 (9.38%) Cypress.io
6 3 (9.38%) LabVIEW
6 3 (9.38%) Subversion
6 3 (9.38%) TeamCity
6 3 (9.38%) WebDriver
7 1 (3.13%) IntelliJ
7 1 (3.13%) JUnit
7 1 (3.13%) MSTest
7 1 (3.13%) NUnit
7 1 (3.13%) PyCharm
7 1 (3.13%) Ranorex
7 1 (3.13%) Visual Studio
7 1 (3.13%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 14 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 8 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 6 (18.75%) Finance
4 3 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (9.38%) Electronics
4 3 (9.38%) Manufacturing
5 2 (6.25%) Banking
5 2 (6.25%) Front Office
5 2 (6.25%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (37.50%) Developer
2 5 (15.63%) Python Developer
3 4 (12.50%) QA Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Development Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Software Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Test Development Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Test Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) .NET Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Automation Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Azure Developer
5 2 (6.25%) C# Developer
5 2 (6.25%) CyberArk Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Python Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Quality Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
6 1 (3.13%) Full-Stack C# Developer
6 1 (3.13%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (43.75%) .NET
2 7 (21.88%) AngularJS
2 7 (21.88%) ASP.NET
3 6 (18.75%) REST
4 4 (12.50%) React
5 3 (9.38%) .NET Framework
5 3 (9.38%) ASP.NET MVC
5 3 (9.38%) ASP.NET MVC 5
5 3 (9.38%) ASP.NET Web API
5 3 (9.38%) Blazor
6 2 (6.25%) ASP.NET Core
6 2 (6.25%) CSS
6 2 (6.25%) HTML
7 1 (3.13%) JSON
7 1 (3.13%) Playwright
7 1 (3.13%) SOAP
7 1 (3.13%) Spring
7 1 (3.13%) Spring Boot
7 1 (3.13%) XML
7 1 (3.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.38%) Analogue Electronics
1 3 (9.38%) Client/Server
1 3 (9.38%) Mobile App
1 3 (9.38%) Virtual Team
2 1 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.13%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (3.13%) Cyberattack
2 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.13%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.13%) Insider Threat
2 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.13%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.13%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (25.00%) Linux
2 7 (21.88%) Windows
3 2 (6.25%) Unix
3 2 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (53.13%) Agile
2 16 (50.00%) DevOps
3 12 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (28.13%) Software Engineering
4 9 (28.13%) Test Automation
5 8 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 8 (25.00%) SDLC
6 7 (21.88%) CI/CD
7 5 (15.63%) Build Automation
7 5 (15.63%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (15.63%) CRM
7 5 (15.63%) Deployment Automation
7 5 (15.63%) Issue Tracking
8 4 (12.50%) BDD
8 4 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (12.50%) Integration Testing
8 4 (12.50%) Kanban
8 4 (12.50%) Scrum
8 4 (12.50%) SOA
8 4 (12.50%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 16 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 13 (40.63%) Python
3 12 (37.50%) Java
3 12 (37.50%) TypeScript
4 8 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 8 (25.00%) SQL
5 4 (12.50%) C++
6 3 (9.38%) Shell Script
6 3 (9.38%) VBA
6 3 (9.38%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 6 (18.75%) Degree
2 3 (9.38%) ISEB
2 3 (9.38%) ISTQB
2 3 (9.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 3 (9.38%) SC Cleared
2 3 (9.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) QA
2 2 (6.25%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 5 (15.63%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.25%) Docker
3 1 (3.13%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (31.25%) Kubernetes
2 7 (21.88%) Ansible
3 5 (15.63%) Terraform
4 2 (6.25%) Progress Chef
4 2 (6.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.38%) Mentor Graphics
3 2 (6.25%) BeyondTrust
3 2 (6.25%) CyberArk
4 1 (3.13%) OpenAI
4 1 (3.13%) Oracle