C# Contracts in Scotland

C#
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for C# skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited C# over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 70 68 49
Rank change year-on-year -2 -19 -4
Contract jobs citing C# 52 114 164
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.41% 4.19% 4.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.25% 12.23% 17.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 87 123
10th Percentile £278 £390 £361
25th Percentile £363 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -11.84% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £500 £523 £488
90th Percentile £666 £568 £525
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £550
% change year-on-year - +4.55% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £42.65
25th Percentile - - £44.01
Median hourly rate £26.00 £70.00 £47.64
Median % change year-on-year -62.86% +46.95% -11.38%
75th Percentile - - £49.89
90th Percentile - - £50.42
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +18.18% +22.22%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

C# is in the Programming Languages 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 coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 630 932 945
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 29.22% 34.26% 27.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 416 671 658
10th Percentile £361 £406 £363
25th Percentile £413 £435 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +3.16% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £555 £550
90th Percentile £650 £660 £638
UK median daily rate £533 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 12 16
10th Percentile £29.60 £48.08 £17.50
25th Percentile £41.31 £55.00 £28.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £59.79 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -3.83% +36.66% -3.85%
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.81 £54.67
90th Percentile £62.50 £69.88 £56.63
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.10
% change year-on-year - +24.75% +16.95%

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 15 May 2024.

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 15 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
Glasgow +28 19 £650 +30.00% 33
Edinburgh -21 17 £375 -21.05% 30
Aberdeen +5 6 £388 - 9
Perthshire +8 4 £500 -10.55% 2
Aberdeenshire - 1 £313 - 4
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 11 (21.15%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (9.62%) Maximo
2 1 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 25 (48.08%) Azure
2 16 (30.77%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (7.69%) SaaS
4 2 (3.85%) IaaS
4 2 (3.85%) PaaS
4 2 (3.85%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.92%) AWS
5 1 (1.92%) Azure AKS
5 1 (1.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (1.92%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (1.92%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.92%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.92%) npm
5 1 (1.92%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.92%) 2G
1 1 (1.92%) 5G
1 1 (1.92%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (26.92%) SQL Server
2 8 (15.38%) Relational Database
3 5 (9.62%) GIS
4 4 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (5.77%) MySQL
6 1 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.92%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.92%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.92%) Redis
6 1 (1.92%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 10 (19.23%) Git
2 8 (15.38%) Selenium
3 7 (13.46%) WebDriver
4 5 (9.62%) Jenkins
4 5 (9.62%) Visual Studio
5 4 (7.69%) TeamCity
6 3 (5.77%) JIRA
7 2 (3.85%) Cucumber
7 2 (3.85%) Cypress.io
7 2 (3.85%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (3.85%) Subversion
8 1 (1.92%) Appium
8 1 (1.92%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.92%) CircleCI
8 1 (1.92%) Gradle
8 1 (1.92%) gulp
8 1 (1.92%) Maven
8 1 (1.92%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (1.92%) Travis CI
General
1 5 (9.62%) Aviation
1 5 (9.62%) Documentation Skills
1 5 (9.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 5 (9.62%) Social Skills
2 3 (5.77%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (5.77%) Public Sector
3 2 (3.85%) Banking
3 2 (3.85%) Finance
4 1 (1.92%) Automotive
4 1 (1.92%) German Language
Job Titles
1 19 (36.54%) Developer
2 11 (21.15%) Software Developer
3 7 (13.46%) .NET Developer
4 6 (11.54%) Software Engineer
5 5 (9.62%) Automation Tester
5 5 (9.62%) C# Software Engineer
5 5 (9.62%) Full Stack Engineer
5 5 (9.62%) Full Stack Software Engineer
5 5 (9.62%) Tester
6 4 (7.69%) Analyst
6 4 (7.69%) Senior
6 4 (7.69%) Test Automation Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) Test Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Applications Support
8 2 (3.85%) Functional Analyst
8 2 (3.85%) Senior .NET Developer
8 2 (3.85%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (3.85%) Senior Developer
8 2 (3.85%) Senior Test Analyst
8 2 (3.85%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (34.62%) .NET
2 13 (25.00%) HTML
3 7 (13.46%) React
4 6 (11.54%) AngularJS
5 4 (7.69%) .NET Core
5 4 (7.69%) Playwright
5 4 (7.69%) REST
5 4 (7.69%) SOAP
5 4 (7.69%) WinForms
5 4 (7.69%) WPF
6 3 (5.77%) ASP.NET
7 2 (3.85%) .NET Framework
7 2 (3.85%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (3.85%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (3.85%) RESTful
7 2 (3.85%) Web Services
8 1 (1.92%) ARM Templates
8 1 (1.92%) CakePHP
8 1 (1.92%) MassTransit
8 1 (1.92%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
1 4 (7.69%) Mobile App
2 3 (5.77%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (3.85%) Client/Server
3 2 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.92%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.92%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.62%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (44.23%) DevOps
2 18 (34.62%) Software Engineering
3 16 (30.77%) Artificial Intelligence
4 13 (25.00%) Agile
4 13 (25.00%) Code Quality
5 12 (23.08%) Test Automation
6 11 (21.15%) Conversational UI
7 9 (17.31%) Test Scripting
8 7 (13.46%) Full Stack Development
9 5 (9.62%) CI/CD
9 5 (9.62%) User Experience
10 4 (7.69%) API Testing
10 4 (7.69%) Configuration Management
10 4 (7.69%) Continuous Integration
10 4 (7.69%) SDLC
11 2 (3.85%) Migration
11 2 (3.85%) MVC
11 2 (3.85%) SOA
11 2 (3.85%) Stakeholder Management
11 2 (3.85%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 28 (53.85%) SQL
2 17 (32.69%) Python
3 16 (30.77%) JavaScript
4 9 (17.31%) TypeScript
5 7 (13.46%) Java
6 4 (7.69%) VB
6 4 (7.69%) VB6
7 3 (5.77%) PowerShell
8 2 (3.85%) C++
8 2 (3.85%) PHP
8 2 (3.85%) Shell Script
8 2 (3.85%) VBA
8 2 (3.85%) VBScript
9 1 (1.92%) Bash
9 1 (1.92%) Bicep
9 1 (1.92%) Go
9 1 (1.92%) Groovy
9 1 (1.92%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 13 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (3.85%) ISEB
2 2 (3.85%) ISTQB
2 2 (3.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.69%) QA
2 2 (3.85%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (1.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.85%) Terraform
2 1 (1.92%) Ansible
2 1 (1.92%) Grafana
2 1 (1.92%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.92%) Progress Chef
2 1 (1.92%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (21.15%) PayPal
2 5 (9.62%) Oracle
3 4 (7.69%) AVEVA
3 4 (7.69%) Infragistics
4 2 (3.85%) Adobe
4 2 (3.85%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.85%) Xamarin