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 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 32 51
Rank change year-on-year -66 +19 -30
Permanent jobs citing C# 46 149 325
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 1.52% 7.04% 6.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.93% 20.61% 11.82%
Number of salaries quoted 33 114 238
10th Percentile £45,670 £31,250 £38,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £35,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £44,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +34.08% -18.64% -
75th Percentile - £57,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,375
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £59,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +5.93% -5.60%

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 664 723 2,749
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 22.01% 34.15% 56.22%
Number of salaries quoted 279 471 1,068
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,375 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,318 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.54% +2.40% -8.33%
75th Percentile £74,533 £73,250 £67,625
90th Percentile £88,750 £93,778 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

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 9 March 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 9 March 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 -15 33 £60,000 +9.09% 12
Glasgow -24 6 £55,249 +23.46% 7
South Ayrshire - 4 £55,498 -
Aberdeen -19 3 £60,000 +26.32% 2
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 (2.17%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 21 (45.65%) Azure
2 13 (28.26%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (23.91%) Azure Key Vault
3 11 (23.91%) dbt
3 11 (23.91%) Snowflake
4 3 (6.52%) AWS
4 3 (6.52%) Power Platform
4 3 (6.52%) SaaS
5 2 (4.35%) GCP
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.17%) Azure AI
6 1 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.17%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (2.17%) Boomi
6 1 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.17%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.17%) PowerApps
6 1 (2.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.17%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.52%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (4.35%) Power BI
3 1 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.17%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.17%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (8.70%) JIRA
2 2 (4.35%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (4.35%) Rational Rhapsody
2 2 (4.35%) Rational Statemate
General
1 11 (23.91%) Finance
2 5 (10.87%) Military
3 4 (8.70%) Avionics
4 3 (6.52%) Social Skills
5 2 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 21 (45.65%) Senior
2 13 (28.26%) Developer
3 11 (23.91%) Azure Engineer
4 9 (19.57%) Software Engineer
5 8 (17.39%) C# Developer
6 5 (10.87%) Lead
6 5 (10.87%) Senior Developer
6 5 (10.87%) Senior Software Engineer
7 4 (8.70%) C# Software Engineer
7 4 (8.70%) Senior C# Developer
7 4 (8.70%) Software Team Leader
7 4 (8.70%) Team Leader
8 3 (6.52%) .NET Software Engineer
8 3 (6.52%) Data Engineer
8 3 (6.52%) Senior C# Software Engineer
9 2 (4.35%) Software Developer
10 1 (2.17%) Applications Manager
10 1 (2.17%) Principal Engineer
10 1 (2.17%) Senior Software Developer
10 1 (2.17%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (36.96%) .NET
2 11 (23.91%) GraphQL
2 11 (23.91%) OAuth
2 11 (23.91%) OpenAPI
2 11 (23.91%) Swagger
3 5 (10.87%) React
4 4 (8.70%) .NET Core
4 4 (8.70%) AngularJS
4 4 (8.70%) REST
5 2 (4.35%) .NET Framework
5 2 (4.35%) Entity Framework
5 2 (4.35%) RESTful
6 1 (2.17%) ASP.NET
6 1 (2.17%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (2.17%) CSS
6 1 (2.17%) Kafka
6 1 (2.17%) Node.js
6 1 (2.17%) SOAP
6 1 (2.17%) Web Services
6 1 (2.17%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.35%) Low-Code
2 1 (2.17%) BBC
2 1 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.17%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (2.17%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.17%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (56.52%) Software Engineering
2 22 (47.83%) Agile
3 16 (34.78%) DevOps
4 13 (28.26%) CI/CD
5 12 (26.09%) Coaching
5 12 (26.09%) OO
6 11 (23.91%) Asset Management
6 11 (23.91%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (23.91%) Mentoring
6 11 (23.91%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (10.87%) Data Engineering
7 5 (10.87%) Hazard Analysis
7 5 (10.87%) Microservices
8 4 (8.70%) Full-Stack Development
8 4 (8.70%) Software Testing
9 3 (6.52%) B2B
9 3 (6.52%) Fintech
9 3 (6.52%) Scrum
9 3 (6.52%) SDLC
10 2 (4.35%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 20 (43.48%) SQL
2 12 (26.09%) PowerShell
3 5 (10.87%) Ada
3 5 (10.87%) C
4 4 (8.70%) JavaScript
4 4 (8.70%) TypeScript
5 3 (6.52%) Python
6 2 (4.35%) C++
7 1 (2.17%) Java
7 1 (2.17%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 5 (10.87%) BPSS Clearance
1 5 (10.87%) Degree
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.52%) QA
Systems Management
1 11 (23.91%) Terraform
2 1 (2.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 19 (41.30%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.35%) Green Hills
3 1 (2.17%) Apple
3 1 (2.17%) Facebook
3 1 (2.17%) Google
3 1 (2.17%) MuleSoft
3 1 (2.17%) Sony
3 1 (2.17%) Talend
3 1 (2.17%) Xamarin
3 1 (2.17%) Yahoo!