.NET Job Trends in Edinburgh

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring .NET skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 67 16
Rank change year-on-year +13 -51 +17
Permanent jobs citing .NET 16 10 104
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 1.49% 1.24% 8.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 24.24% 8.06% 33.44%
Number of salaries quoted 15 8 84
10th Percentile £37,200 £31,525 £47,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £48,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £60,000 £80,000 £67,531
90th Percentile £61,250 £82,250 £73,375
Scotland median annual salary £60,000 £64,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.98% +7.50% +6.54%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Edinburgh

.NET falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 66 124 311
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 6.14% 15.42% 24.28%
Number of salaries quoted 63 78 232
10th Percentile £35,850 £25,313 £43,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £66,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.53% +1.92% -0.54%
75th Percentile £73,750 £86,875 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £98,474 £87,375
Scotland median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

.NET job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

.NET
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing .NET.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing .NET

.NET
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 12 August 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET in Edinburgh

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (12.50%) AWS
3 2 (12.50%) GCP
3 2 (12.50%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (12.50%) Finance
1 2 (12.50%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 11 (68.75%) Developer
2 10 (62.50%) .NET Developer
2 10 (62.50%) Senior
3 7 (43.75%) Senior .NET Developer
3 7 (43.75%) Senior Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Software Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Analyst
5 2 (12.50%) Applications Support
5 2 (12.50%) Applications Support Analyst
5 2 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (12.50%) Senior Applications Support
5 2 (12.50%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
5 2 (12.50%) Senior Support Analyst
5 2 (12.50%) Support Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (43.75%) React
2 5 (31.25%) .NET Core
2 5 (31.25%) ASP.NET
3 3 (18.75%) ASP.NET Core
3 3 (18.75%) ASP.NET Web API
3 3 (18.75%) Blazor
3 3 (18.75%) LINQ
4 2 (12.50%) .NET Framework
4 2 (12.50%) AngularJS
4 2 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (12.50%) Entity Framework
4 2 (12.50%) Vue
5 1 (6.25%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Microservices
2 5 (31.25%) Agile
2 5 (31.25%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (18.75%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
3 3 (18.75%) Software Engineering
4 2 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (12.50%) Collateral Management
4 2 (12.50%) Mentoring
4 2 (12.50%) MVC
5 1 (6.25%) Analytics
5 1 (6.25%) Data Analytics
5 1 (6.25%) DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (6.25%) Software Architecture
5 1 (6.25%) TDD
5 1 (6.25%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) SQL
2 6 (37.50%) JavaScript
3 4 (25.00%) C#
4 3 (18.75%) TypeScript
5 2 (12.50%) Java
6 1 (6.25%) Kotlin
6 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (43.75%) SC Cleared
1 7 (43.75%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Oracle