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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 71 81
Rank change year-on-year -9 +10 -36
Contract jobs citing C# 36 49 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.17% 2.36% 3.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.86% 8.69% 9.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 33 63
10th Percentile £413 £283 £370
25th Percentile £450 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £525 £500 £525
90th Percentile £550 £658 £574
UK median daily rate £501 £563 £575
% change year-on-year -11.02% -2.17% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Median hourly rate £65.00 £26.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% -62.86% +46.95%
UK median hourly rate £63.75 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -1.92% - +7.00%

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 614 564 878
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 36.94% 27.21% 32.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 341 384 609
10th Percentile £300 £350 £400
25th Percentile £406 £408 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £453 £488
Median % change year-on-year +4.86% -7.08% +0.52%
75th Percentile £528 £538 £550
90th Percentile £575 £613 £638
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 14 12
10th Percentile - £29.60 £41.90
25th Percentile £21.00 £41.31 £50.37
Median hourly rate £31.08 £57.50 £58.27
Median % change year-on-year -45.95% -1.31% +23.97%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.75 £63.52
90th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £68.53
UK median hourly rate £54.94 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -12.10% - +20.19%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 +11 19 £500 +33.33% 40
Glasgow -20 12 £488 -25.00% 41
Fife - 4 - - 5
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 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (16.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (63.89%) Azure
2 17 (47.22%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (22.22%) Power Platform
3 8 (22.22%) PowerApps
4 7 (19.44%) GitHub
4 7 (19.44%) Power Automate
5 6 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (16.67%) SaaS
6 5 (13.89%) AWS
6 5 (13.89%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (11.11%) Azure AI
7 4 (11.11%) Azure Cognitive Search
7 4 (11.11%) Azure Cognitive Services
8 3 (8.33%) Entra ID
9 2 (5.56%) IaaS
9 2 (5.56%) OCI
9 2 (5.56%) PaaS
9 2 (5.56%) Snowflake
10 1 (2.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (16.67%) Power BI
2 3 (8.33%) Metadata
3 1 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (30.56%) Git
2 7 (19.44%) Jenkins
3 6 (16.67%) JIRA
4 5 (13.89%) Bitbucket
4 5 (13.89%) IntelliJ
4 5 (13.89%) PyCharm
4 5 (13.89%) Visual Studio
4 5 (13.89%) Visual Studio Code
5 4 (11.11%) LabVIEW
5 4 (11.11%) Postman
5 4 (11.11%) Selenium
6 2 (5.56%) Cucumber
6 2 (5.56%) Cypress.io
6 2 (5.56%) SpecFlow
6 2 (5.56%) Subversion
6 2 (5.56%) TeamCity
6 2 (5.56%) WebDriver
7 1 (2.78%) JUnit
7 1 (2.78%) MSTest
7 1 (2.78%) NUnit
General
1 15 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 10 (27.78%) Public Sector
3 8 (22.22%) Finance
4 4 (11.11%) Electronics
4 4 (11.11%) Manufacturing
5 3 (8.33%) Legal
6 2 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.78%) Aerospace
7 1 (2.78%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 10 (27.78%) Developer
2 5 (13.89%) Architect
3 4 (11.11%) .NET Developer
3 4 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 4 (11.11%) Development Engineer
3 4 (11.11%) Technical Architect
3 4 (11.11%) Test Development Engineer
3 4 (11.11%) Test Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Python Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) QA Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Azure Developer
5 2 (5.56%) CyberArk Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Specialist
5 2 (5.56%) Platform Specialist
5 2 (5.56%) Power Platform Specialist
5 2 (5.56%) Python Developer
5 2 (5.56%) Quality Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (52.78%) .NET
2 9 (25.00%) React
3 7 (19.44%) .NET Framework
4 6 (16.67%) AngularJS
4 6 (16.67%) ASP.NET
5 5 (13.89%) REST
6 4 (11.11%) Blazor
6 4 (11.11%) RESTful
7 3 (8.33%) ASP.NET MVC
7 3 (8.33%) ASP.NET MVC 5
7 3 (8.33%) ASP.NET Web API
8 2 (5.56%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (5.56%) YAML
9 1 (2.78%) Entity Framework
9 1 (2.78%) Gherkin
9 1 (2.78%) JSON
9 1 (2.78%) Playwright
9 1 (2.78%) SOAP
9 1 (2.78%) WebSockets
9 1 (2.78%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.67%) Virtual Team
2 5 (13.89%) Product Ownership
2 5 (13.89%) Public Cloud
3 4 (11.11%) Analogue Electronics
4 2 (5.56%) Client/Server
4 2 (5.56%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.78%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.78%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.78%) Insider Threat
5 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.78%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (19.44%) Linux
1 7 (19.44%) Windows
2 2 (5.56%) Unix
2 2 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (58.33%) Agile
2 19 (52.78%) DevOps
3 15 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (36.11%) CI/CD
5 9 (25.00%) Test Automation
6 6 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (16.67%) CRM
6 6 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
6 6 (16.67%) SDLC
7 5 (13.89%) Build Automation
7 5 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (13.89%) Deployment Automation
7 5 (13.89%) Software Engineering
7 5 (13.89%) TDD
8 4 (11.11%) API Design
8 4 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
8 4 (11.11%) Machine Learning
8 4 (11.11%) Microservices
8 4 (11.11%) OCR
8 4 (11.11%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 14 (38.89%) JavaScript
2 11 (30.56%) Python
3 9 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 8 (22.22%) Java
4 8 (22.22%) SQL
5 7 (19.44%) TypeScript
6 2 (5.56%) C++
6 2 (5.56%) Shell Script
6 2 (5.56%) VBA
6 2 (5.56%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 5 (13.89%) Degree
2 4 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 4 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.56%) ISEB
3 2 (5.56%) ISTQB
3 2 (5.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.33%) Accessibility
1 3 (8.33%) Disclosure Scotland
1 3 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (2.78%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (13.89%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 7 (19.44%) Ansible
3 5 (13.89%) Terraform
4 2 (5.56%) Progress Chef
4 2 (5.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 17 (47.22%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.11%) Mentor Graphics
3 3 (8.33%) OpenAI
4 2 (5.56%) BeyondTrust
4 2 (5.56%) CyberArk
5 1 (2.78%) Oracle