.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 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 25 69
Rank change year-on-year -65 +44 -42
Permanent jobs citing .NET 49 190 165
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 1.80% 7.02% 5.59%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.61% 30.84% 17.53%
Number of salaries quoted 33 139 126
10th Percentile £51,250 £31,250 £39,375
25th Percentile £55,000 £35,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £56,318
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -11.22% +2.40%
75th Percentile £70,000 £64,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,004
% change year-on-year +4.17% -3.23% +3.34%

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 314 616 941
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 11.54% 22.76% 31.88%
Number of salaries quoted 118 357 516
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £28,438 £40,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +5.00%
75th Percentile £73,987 £71,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £84,335 £85,000 £91,934
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

.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 31 December 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 31 December 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 -40 27 £60,000 +6.19% 21
Aberdeen -6 11 £70,000 +47.37% 2
Glasgow -12 9 £64,500 +25.24% 7
West Lothian +4 2 £52,500 -4.55% 2
.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 2 (4.08%) WebSphere
1 2 (4.08%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (2.04%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 29 (59.18%) Azure
2 17 (34.69%) GitHub
3 16 (32.65%) GitHub Actions
4 14 (28.57%) Datadog
5 11 (22.45%) SaaS
6 5 (10.20%) AWS
7 2 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (4.08%) GCP
8 1 (2.04%) Azure AI
8 1 (2.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (2.04%) ChatGPT
8 1 (2.04%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (2.04%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.04%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.08%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.04%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.04%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.04%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (8.16%) Git
2 2 (4.08%) JIRA
2 2 (4.08%) Visual Studio
General
1 19 (38.78%) Social Skills
2 16 (32.65%) Finance
3 3 (6.12%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (4.08%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.04%) Legal
Job Titles
1 19 (38.78%) Developer
2 14 (28.57%) Development Engineer
3 13 (26.53%) Senior
4 11 (22.45%) Software Engineer
5 8 (16.33%) Integration Developer
5 8 (16.33%) Senior Development Engineer
6 5 (10.20%) .NET Software Engineer
6 5 (10.20%) Software Developer
7 4 (8.16%) .NET Developer
7 4 (8.16%) C# Software Engineer
7 4 (8.16%) Lead
7 4 (8.16%) Senior Software Engineer
8 3 (6.12%) Data Engineer
8 3 (6.12%) Lead Developer
8 3 (6.12%) Senior C# Software Engineer
9 2 (4.08%) Analyst
9 2 (4.08%) Applications Support Analyst
9 2 (4.08%) C# Developer
9 2 (4.08%) Lead Software Developer
9 2 (4.08%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (28.57%) ADO
2 8 (16.33%) AngularJS
2 8 (16.33%) React
3 6 (12.24%) .NET Core
3 6 (12.24%) .NET Framework
4 4 (8.16%) Entity Framework
5 3 (6.12%) Blazor
5 3 (6.12%) RESTful
5 3 (6.12%) Vue
6 2 (4.08%) ASP.NET
6 2 (4.08%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (2.04%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (2.04%) CSS
7 1 (2.04%) HTML
7 1 (2.04%) Kafka
7 1 (2.04%) Node.js
7 1 (2.04%) REST
7 1 (2.04%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 15 (30.61%) Product Ownership
2 14 (28.57%) Onboarding
3 8 (16.33%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (4.08%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.04%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.04%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.04%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (2.04%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (53.06%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (38.78%) DevOps
3 18 (36.73%) CI/CD
3 18 (36.73%) Continuous Improvement
4 16 (32.65%) Containerisation
5 15 (30.61%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 14 (28.57%) Asset Management
6 14 (28.57%) Brown Bag Session
6 14 (28.57%) Coaching
6 14 (28.57%) Code Quality
6 14 (28.57%) Observability
6 14 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
6 14 (28.57%) Software Engineering
7 11 (22.45%) Agile
8 8 (16.33%) Microservices
9 6 (12.24%) Full-Stack Development
10 3 (6.12%) AI
10 3 (6.12%) Data Engineering
10 3 (6.12%) Fintech
10 3 (6.12%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 19 (38.78%) C#
2 17 (34.69%) JavaScript
3 16 (32.65%) Python
4 9 (18.37%) SQL
5 3 (6.12%) Java
6 2 (4.08%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.04%) Bicep
7 1 (2.04%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (4.08%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (32.65%) QA
System Software
1 17 (34.69%) Docker
2 2 (4.08%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 18 (36.73%) Kubernetes
2 15 (30.61%) Terraform
3 14 (28.57%) Grafana
3 14 (28.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (10.20%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.08%) Oracle
3 1 (2.04%) Xamarin