C# Job Trends in Scotland

C#
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring C# skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 25 52
Rank change year-on-year -71 +27 -30
Permanent jobs citing C# 45 194 207
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 1.66% 7.48% 6.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.46% 20.62% 13.30%
Number of salaries quoted 32 131 158
10th Percentile £45,335 £31,250 £33,375
25th Percentile £52,938 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -18.18% -
75th Percentile £67,125 £61,125 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.00%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

C# falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 603 941 1,556
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 22.18% 36.26% 49.65%
Number of salaries quoted 255 491 823
10th Percentile £28,000 £33,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,498 £55,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% -7.60% +3.52%
75th Percentile £74,533 £68,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £87,500 £79,648 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%

C#
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

C# job vacancy trend in Scotland

C#
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing C#.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing C#

C#
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing C# in Scotland over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for C# in Scotland

C#
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C# within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 11 January 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 -41 27 £60,000 +9.09% 23
Glasgow -14 9 £57,000 +18.75% 8
South Ayrshire - 4 £55,498 -
Aberdeen -11 3 £60,000 +20.00% 12
West Lothian -10 2 £52,500 +31.25% 4
C#
UK

C#
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 1 (2.22%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 25 (55.56%) Azure
2 15 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (24.44%) Azure Key Vault
3 11 (24.44%) dbt
3 11 (24.44%) Snowflake
4 3 (6.67%) AWS
4 3 (6.67%) GitHub
5 2 (4.44%) Azure AI
5 2 (4.44%) GCP
5 2 (4.44%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (4.44%) Power Platform
5 2 (4.44%) SaaS
5 2 (4.44%) Serverless
6 1 (2.22%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (2.22%) Copilot Studio
6 1 (2.22%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (2.22%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.22%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.89%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.44%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (4.44%) MongoDB
2 2 (4.44%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.22%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.22%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.22%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (8.89%) JIRA
2 2 (4.44%) Git
2 2 (4.44%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (4.44%) Rational Rhapsody
2 2 (4.44%) Rational Statemate
2 2 (4.44%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (24.44%) Finance
2 5 (11.11%) Military
3 4 (8.89%) Avionics
3 4 (8.89%) Social Skills
4 3 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (4.44%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.22%) Legal
Job Titles
1 21 (46.67%) Senior
2 14 (31.11%) Developer
3 11 (24.44%) Azure Engineer
3 11 (24.44%) Software Engineer
4 8 (17.78%) Lead
5 7 (15.56%) C# Developer
6 6 (13.33%) Senior Software Engineer
7 5 (11.11%) .NET Software Engineer
7 5 (11.11%) C# Software Engineer
8 4 (8.89%) Senior C# Software Engineer
8 4 (8.89%) Senior Developer
8 4 (8.89%) Software Developer
8 4 (8.89%) Software Team Leader
8 4 (8.89%) Team Leader
9 3 (6.67%) Data Engineer
9 3 (6.67%) Lead Developer
9 3 (6.67%) Senior C# Developer
10 2 (4.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 2 (4.44%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 2 (4.44%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (46.67%) .NET
2 11 (24.44%) GraphQL
2 11 (24.44%) OAuth
2 11 (24.44%) OpenAPI
2 11 (24.44%) Swagger
3 8 (17.78%) React
4 7 (15.56%) AngularJS
5 6 (13.33%) .NET Core
6 5 (11.11%) .NET Framework
7 4 (8.89%) Blazor
7 4 (8.89%) RESTful
8 3 (6.67%) Entity Framework
9 2 (4.44%) ASP.NET
9 2 (4.44%) REST
9 2 (4.44%) Vue
10 1 (2.22%) ASP.NET Core
10 1 (2.22%) AWS CDK
10 1 (2.22%) CSS
10 1 (2.22%) ML.NET
10 1 (2.22%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.22%) BBC
2 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.22%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.22%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (2.22%) Low-Code
2 1 (2.22%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.22%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.22%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 22 (48.89%) Agile
3 17 (37.78%) DevOps
4 16 (35.56%) CI/CD
5 14 (31.11%) Mentoring
6 13 (28.89%) OO
6 13 (28.89%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (24.44%) Asset Management
7 11 (24.44%) Coaching
7 11 (24.44%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (17.78%) Microservices
9 6 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
10 5 (11.11%) Hazard Analysis
11 4 (8.89%) Continuous Improvement
11 4 (8.89%) Data Engineering
11 4 (8.89%) Software Testing
12 3 (6.67%) AI
12 3 (6.67%) B2B
12 3 (6.67%) Fintech
12 3 (6.67%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 19 (42.22%) SQL
2 11 (24.44%) PowerShell
3 5 (11.11%) Ada
3 5 (11.11%) C
4 4 (8.89%) JavaScript
5 3 (6.67%) Python
6 2 (4.44%) C++
6 2 (4.44%) Java
7 1 (2.22%) MATLAB
7 1 (2.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
1 5 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 3 (6.67%) Docker
2 2 (4.44%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (24.44%) Terraform
2 4 (8.89%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 18 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.44%) Green Hills
2 2 (4.44%) Oracle
3 1 (2.22%) Apple
3 1 (2.22%) Facebook
3 1 (2.22%) Google
3 1 (2.22%) MuleSoft
3 1 (2.22%) Sony
3 1 (2.22%) Talend
3 1 (2.22%) Xamarin
3 1 (2.22%) Yahoo!