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 24 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 25 54
Rank change year-on-year -75 +29 -33
Permanent jobs citing C# 45 189 254
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 1.57% 7.44% 6.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.23% 20.66% 13.12%
Number of salaries quoted 32 126 194
10th Percentile £45,335 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £52,938 £35,000 £42,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -18.18% -
75th Percentile £60,313 £57,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £77,125
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 622 915 1,936
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 21.73% 36.00% 52.17%
Number of salaries quoted 256 477 942
10th Percentile £28,125 £33,350 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,250 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.09% -4.35% -0.54%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,500 £82,375
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 24 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 24 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 -34 29 £60,000 +9.09% 30
Glasgow -14 7 £55,498 +24.02% 5
South Ayrshire - 4 £55,498 -
Aberdeen -10 3 £60,000 +20.00% 13
West Lothian -11 2 £52,500 +31.25% 7
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 23 (51.11%) Azure
2 13 (28.89%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (24.44%) Azure Key Vault
3 11 (24.44%) dbt
3 11 (24.44%) Snowflake
4 3 (6.67%) AWS
5 2 (4.44%) GCP
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%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.22%) Azure AI
6 1 (2.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (2.22%) Boomi
6 1 (2.22%) Copilot Studio
6 1 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.22%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (2.22%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.22%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.22%) Broadband
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 2 (4.44%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (4.44%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.22%) Legal
Job Titles
1 21 (46.67%) Senior
2 15 (33.33%) Developer
3 11 (24.44%) Azure Engineer
4 10 (22.22%) Software Engineer
5 8 (17.78%) C# Developer
6 7 (15.56%) Lead
7 5 (11.11%) Senior Developer
7 5 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
8 4 (8.89%) C# Software Engineer
8 4 (8.89%) Senior C# Developer
8 4 (8.89%) Software Developer
8 4 (8.89%) Software Team Leader
8 4 (8.89%) Team Leader
9 3 (6.67%) .NET Software Engineer
9 3 (6.67%) Data Engineer
9 3 (6.67%) Lead Developer
9 3 (6.67%) Senior C# Software Engineer
10 2 (4.44%) Lead Software Developer
11 1 (2.22%) .NET Developer
11 1 (2.22%) Integration Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (42.22%) .NET
2 11 (24.44%) GraphQL
2 11 (24.44%) OAuth
2 11 (24.44%) OpenAPI
2 11 (24.44%) Swagger
3 6 (13.33%) React
4 5 (11.11%) .NET Framework
4 5 (11.11%) AngularJS
5 4 (8.89%) .NET Core
6 3 (6.67%) Entity Framework
7 2 (4.44%) ASP.NET
7 2 (4.44%) Blazor
7 2 (4.44%) REST
7 2 (4.44%) RESTful
7 2 (4.44%) Vue
8 1 (2.22%) ASP.NET Core
8 1 (2.22%) AWS CDK
8 1 (2.22%) CSS
8 1 (2.22%) ML.NET
8 1 (2.22%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.22%) BBC
1 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
1 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (2.22%) Distributed Architecture
1 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (2.22%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Low-Code
1 1 (2.22%) Mobile App
1 1 (2.22%) Product Ownership
1 1 (2.22%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (64.44%) Software Engineering
2 21 (46.67%) Agile
3 15 (33.33%) DevOps
4 14 (31.11%) CI/CD
4 14 (31.11%) Mentoring
5 13 (28.89%) OO
5 13 (28.89%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (26.67%) Coaching
7 11 (24.44%) Asset Management
7 11 (24.44%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (13.33%) Microservices
9 5 (11.11%) Hazard Analysis
10 4 (8.89%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (8.89%) Data Engineering
10 4 (8.89%) Full-Stack Development
10 4 (8.89%) Software Testing
11 3 (6.67%) B2B
11 3 (6.67%) Collaborative Culture
11 3 (6.67%) Design Patterns
11 3 (6.67%) Fintech
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 2 (4.44%) Firmware
2 1 (2.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (24.44%) Terraform
2 2 (4.44%) 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!