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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 25 54
Rank change year-on-year -72 +29 -33
Permanent jobs citing C# 45 198 203
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 1.65% 7.47% 6.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.46% 20.67% 13.16%
Number of salaries quoted 31 135 154
10th Percentile £45,000 £31,250 £34,125
25th Percentile £52,375 £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 £63,500 £58,625 £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 603 958 1,542
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 22.16% 36.14% 50.64%
Number of salaries quoted 260 499 809
10th Percentile £27,950 £33,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year - -7.60% +3.52%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £87,500 £79,648 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,219 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.28% +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 4 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 4 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 -37 27 £60,000 +9.09% 31
Glasgow -11 9 £60,750 +26.56% 10
South Ayrshire - 4 £55,498 -
Aberdeen -13 3 £60,000 +20.00% 8
West Lothian -10 2 £52,500 +31.25% 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 (2.22%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.22%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 23 (51.11%) Azure
2 14 (31.11%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (24.44%) Azure Key Vault
3 11 (24.44%) dbt
3 11 (24.44%) Snowflake
4 4 (8.89%) GitHub
5 3 (6.67%) AWS
5 3 (6.67%) SaaS
6 2 (4.44%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (4.44%) GCP
6 2 (4.44%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (4.44%) Power Platform
6 2 (4.44%) Serverless
7 1 (2.22%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.22%) Azure AI
7 1 (2.22%) ChatGPT
7 1 (2.22%) Copilot Studio
7 1 (2.22%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (2.22%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.44%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (4.44%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.22%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (2.22%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.22%) MongoDB
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%) Back Office
6 1 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.22%) Legal
Job Titles
1 20 (44.44%) Senior
2 14 (31.11%) Developer
3 11 (24.44%) Azure Engineer
4 10 (22.22%) Software Engineer
5 8 (17.78%) Lead
6 7 (15.56%) C# Developer
7 5 (11.11%) .NET Software Engineer
7 5 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
8 4 (8.89%) 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
9 3 (6.67%) Senior C# Software Engineer
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 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 7 (15.56%) AngularJS
3 7 (15.56%) React
4 5 (11.11%) .NET Core
4 5 (11.11%) .NET Framework
5 3 (6.67%) Blazor
5 3 (6.67%) Entity Framework
5 3 (6.67%) RESTful
6 2 (4.44%) REST
6 2 (4.44%) Vue
7 1 (2.22%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (2.22%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (2.22%) HTML
7 1 (2.22%) Kafka
7 1 (2.22%) Node.js
7 1 (2.22%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (4.44%) Mobile App
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%) NHS
2 1 (2.22%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (64.44%) Software Engineering
2 21 (46.67%) Agile
3 17 (37.78%) DevOps
4 16 (35.56%) CI/CD
4 16 (35.56%) Mentoring
5 13 (28.89%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (26.67%) OO
7 11 (24.44%) Asset Management
7 11 (24.44%) Coaching
7 11 (24.44%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (17.78%) Microservices
9 5 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
9 5 (11.11%) Hazard Analysis
10 4 (8.89%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (8.89%) Data Engineering
10 4 (8.89%) Software Testing
11 3 (6.67%) B2B
11 3 (6.67%) Computer Science
11 3 (6.67%) Fintech
11 3 (6.67%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 18 (40.00%) SQL
2 11 (24.44%) PowerShell
3 6 (13.33%) C
4 5 (11.11%) Ada
5 3 (6.67%) Java
5 3 (6.67%) JavaScript
5 3 (6.67%) Python
6 2 (4.44%) C++
7 1 (2.22%) MATLAB
7 1 (2.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (13.33%) Degree
2 5 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.22%) ISO 9001
1 1 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
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%) MuleSoft
3 1 (2.22%) Talend
3 1 (2.22%) Xamarin