.NET Jobs in Scotland

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring .NET skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited .NET over the 6 months leading up to 15 March 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 65 30
Rank change year-on-year -16 -35 -10
Permanent jobs citing .NET 118 288 402
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 2.92% 5.26% 8.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 25.00% 16.35% 25.25%
Number of salaries quoted 98 176 302
10th Percentile £31,250 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,813 £74,612
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.35%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

.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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 472 1,761 1,592
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 11.66% 32.16% 32.38%
Number of salaries quoted 329 598 853
10th Percentile £31,250 £38,375 £38,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £46,225
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,443 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,433 £77,715
90th Percentile £98,474 £83,250 £90,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +8.00%

.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

.NET
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing .NET in Scotland.

Salary trend for .NET in Scotland

.NET
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET in Scotland over the 6 months to 15 March 2025.

Salary histogram for .NET in Scotland

.NET
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 15 March 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh -24 43 £60,750 +1.25% 22
Dundee +19 24 £32,500 - 2
Glasgow +50 20 £52,500 -14.63% 21
Aberdeen +17 13 £46,250 -9.76% 6
Lanarkshire -9 8 £77,500 - 4
Renfrewshire - 5 £47,000 - 3
Fife -22 2 £37,500 -31.82% 1
West Lothian -22 2 £50,000 -23.08%
Aberdeenshire -2 1 £70,000 +40.00% 2
.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 24 (20.34%) SharePoint
2 6 (5.08%) CMS
3 5 (4.24%) Umbraco
4 4 (3.39%) Apache Solr
4 4 (3.39%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.85%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 24 (20.34%) Sage 200
1 24 (20.34%) Sage 50
2 1 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 56 (47.46%) Azure
2 27 (22.88%) GitHub
3 25 (21.19%) AWS
4 17 (14.41%) SaaS
5 12 (10.17%) Power Platform
6 10 (8.47%) GCP
7 9 (7.63%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (5.93%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (5.08%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (2.54%) Azure Cognitive Services
11 2 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (1.69%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (1.69%) Serverless
12 1 (0.85%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (0.85%) Microsoft 365
12 1 (0.85%) OCI
12 1 (0.85%) Power Automate
12 1 (0.85%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.85%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (24.58%) SQL Server
2 11 (9.32%) Power BI
3 10 (8.47%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (5.08%) MS Access
5 5 (4.24%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (2.54%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.54%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.54%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.69%) MySQL
7 2 (1.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.85%) Crystal Enterprise
8 1 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 40 (33.90%) Visual Studio
2 27 (22.88%) Jenkins
3 7 (5.93%) Git
4 4 (3.39%) Cypress.io
4 4 (3.39%) MSBuild
4 4 (3.39%) webpack
5 3 (2.54%) Fiddler
5 3 (2.54%) GitLab
5 3 (2.54%) Postman
5 3 (2.54%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.69%) JIRA
6 2 (1.69%) NUnit
7 1 (0.85%) MSTest
General
1 31 (26.27%) Finance
2 26 (22.03%) Manufacturing
2 26 (22.03%) Social Skills
3 17 (14.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (7.63%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.39%) Marketing
6 2 (1.69%) Agriculture
6 2 (1.69%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.85%) Electronics
7 1 (0.85%) Legal
Job Titles
1 61 (51.69%) Developer
2 39 (33.05%) .NET Developer
3 27 (22.88%) .NET Software Developer
3 27 (22.88%) Senior
4 21 (17.80%) Software Engineer
5 12 (10.17%) Architect
5 12 (10.17%) Lead
5 12 (10.17%) Software Architect
5 12 (10.17%) Software Developer
6 10 (8.47%) Senior Software Engineer
7 9 (7.63%) Senior Architect
7 9 (7.63%) Senior Software Architect
7 9 (7.63%) Senior Systems Architect
7 9 (7.63%) Systems Architect
8 7 (5.93%) Full-Stack Developer
8 7 (5.93%) Web Developer
9 6 (5.08%) Configuration Engineer
9 6 (5.08%) Software Configuration Engineer
10 5 (4.24%) Software Team Leader
10 5 (4.24%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (55.08%) CSS
2 61 (51.69%) HTML
3 59 (50.00%) .NET Framework
4 56 (47.46%) .NET Core
5 35 (29.66%) HTML5
6 26 (22.03%) jQuery
7 25 (21.19%) React Native
8 24 (20.34%) ASP.NET
9 23 (19.49%) ASP.NET Web API
10 20 (16.95%) AngularJS
10 20 (16.95%) React
10 20 (16.95%) RESTful
11 13 (11.02%) ASP.NET MVC
12 11 (9.32%) Entity Framework
13 10 (8.47%) Kafka
14 9 (7.63%) Vue
15 7 (5.93%) Web Services
16 6 (5.08%) Next.js
17 5 (4.24%) Razor View Engine
18 4 (3.39%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 3 (2.54%) Legacy Applications
2 2 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (0.85%) Cloud Native
3 1 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (0.85%) Low-Code
3 1 (0.85%) Product Ownership
3 1 (0.85%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (0.85%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (38.98%) Software Engineering
2 42 (35.59%) Agile
3 30 (25.42%) Microservices
4 29 (24.58%) DevOps
5 24 (20.34%) Biometrics
5 24 (20.34%) E-Commerce
6 22 (18.64%) Mentoring
6 22 (18.64%) MVC
7 20 (16.95%) OO
8 18 (15.25%) CI/CD
8 18 (15.25%) Full-Stack Development
9 15 (12.71%) Design Patterns
9 15 (12.71%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (11.02%) TDD
11 12 (10.17%) Software Architecture
12 11 (9.32%) Unit Testing
13 10 (8.47%) SOLID
14 9 (7.63%) Fintech
14 9 (7.63%) Multithreading
14 9 (7.63%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 104 (88.14%) C#
2 62 (52.54%) JavaScript
3 52 (44.07%) SQL
4 17 (14.41%) Java
5 16 (13.56%) TypeScript
6 11 (9.32%) C
6 11 (9.32%) C++
7 5 (4.24%) Python
8 4 (3.39%) VB
9 3 (2.54%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (7.63%) Degree
2 1 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (0.85%) Master's Degree
2 1 (0.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.39%) QA
System Software
1 12 (10.17%) Docker
2 1 (0.85%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (11.86%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 24 (20.34%) Sage
2 22 (18.64%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.39%) Optimizely
3 4 (3.39%) Sitecore
4 1 (0.85%) Epicor
4 1 (0.85%) Oracle
4 1 (0.85%) Xamarin