.NET Job Trends in Scotland

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring .NET skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 47 86
Rank change year-on-year -39 +39 -55
Permanent jobs citing .NET 62 92 272
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 1.86% 4.77% 4.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 17.82% 23.17% 12.75%
Number of salaries quoted 46 83 190
10th Percentile £46,250 £31,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £35,000 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £76,125 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.00%

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 348 397 2,134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 10.43% 20.57% 34.14%
Number of salaries quoted 156 298 643
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £42,375 £45,688 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £82,688 £72,433
90th Percentile £80,000 £98,474 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,200 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.81% +10.33% -11.11%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

.NET job vacancy trend in Scotland

.NET
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing .NET.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing .NET

.NET
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET in Scotland over the 6 months to 18 April 2026.

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 18 April 2026. 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 +8 40 £60,000 -7.69% 8
Aberdeen -14 11 £70,000 +64.71% 1
Glasgow -21 11 £55,000 -5.58% 8
.NET
UK

.NET
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (6.45%) WebSphere
1 4 (6.45%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (3.23%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.61%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 27 (43.55%) Azure
2 13 (20.97%) SaaS
3 10 (16.13%) Datadog
3 10 (16.13%) GitHub
3 10 (16.13%) GitHub Actions
4 7 (11.29%) AWS
5 3 (4.84%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.23%) GCP
6 2 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.61%) Azure AI
7 1 (1.61%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.61%) Azure Logic Apps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.52%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (3.23%) Power BI
3 1 (1.61%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (8.06%) Git
1 5 (8.06%) JIRA
General
1 21 (33.87%) Finance
2 17 (27.42%) Social Skills
3 6 (9.68%) Financial Institution
4 4 (6.45%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.61%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 27 (43.55%) Senior
2 26 (41.94%) Developer
3 11 (17.74%) Analyst
3 11 (17.74%) Software Engineer
3 11 (17.74%) Support Analyst
4 10 (16.13%) Applications Support
4 10 (16.13%) Applications Support Analyst
4 10 (16.13%) Development Engineer
5 9 (14.52%) Senior Developer
6 8 (12.90%) Integration Developer
6 8 (12.90%) Senior Development Engineer
6 8 (12.90%) Software Developer
7 7 (11.29%) .NET Developer
8 6 (9.68%) Senior Analyst
8 6 (9.68%) Senior Applications Support
8 6 (9.68%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
8 6 (9.68%) Senior Software Developer
8 6 (9.68%) Senior Support Analyst
9 4 (6.45%) Senior Software Engineer
10 3 (4.84%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.13%) ADO
2 7 (11.29%) React
3 5 (8.06%) .NET Core
3 5 (8.06%) .NET Framework
3 5 (8.06%) AngularJS
4 4 (6.45%) Entity Framework
5 3 (4.84%) ASP.NET
5 3 (4.84%) Vue
6 2 (3.23%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (3.23%) Node.js
7 1 (1.61%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (1.61%) Blazor
7 1 (1.61%) ML.NET
7 1 (1.61%) RESTful
7 1 (1.61%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.13%) Onboarding
1 10 (16.13%) Product Ownership
2 8 (12.90%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (1.61%) BBC
3 1 (1.61%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.61%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (1.61%) Low-Code
3 1 (1.61%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.61%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.61%) Windows
1 1 (1.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (37.10%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (27.42%) DevOps
3 12 (19.35%) Continuous Improvement
3 12 (19.35%) Software Engineering
4 11 (17.74%) CI/CD
4 11 (17.74%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 10 (16.13%) Agile
5 10 (16.13%) Asset Management
5 10 (16.13%) Brown Bag Session
5 10 (16.13%) Coaching
5 10 (16.13%) Code Quality
5 10 (16.13%) Containerisation
5 10 (16.13%) Observability
5 10 (16.13%) Platform Engineering
6 7 (11.29%) Collaborative Culture
7 6 (9.68%) Collateral Management
7 6 (9.68%) Full-Stack Development
7 6 (9.68%) Mentoring
7 6 (9.68%) Microservices
8 5 (8.06%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 20 (32.26%) SQL
2 17 (27.42%) C#
3 15 (24.19%) JavaScript
4 13 (20.97%) Python
5 10 (16.13%) Java
6 4 (6.45%) T-SQL
7 2 (3.23%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.61%) Bicep
8 1 (1.61%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.61%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (6.45%) Degree
2 3 (4.84%) SC Cleared
2 3 (4.84%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (22.58%) QA
System Software
1 10 (16.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (19.35%) Kubernetes
2 11 (17.74%) Terraform
3 10 (16.13%) Grafana
3 10 (16.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (14.52%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.68%) Oracle
3 1 (1.61%) Apple
3 1 (1.61%) Facebook
3 1 (1.61%) Google
3 1 (1.61%) Sony
3 1 (1.61%) VMware
3 1 (1.61%) Xamarin
3 1 (1.61%) Yahoo!