.NET Contracts in Scotland

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for .NET skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited .NET over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 82 54 42
Rank change year-on-year -28 -12 -11
Contract jobs citing .NET 43 125 191
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.00% 4.62% 5.59%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.79% 19.62% 26.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 97 134
10th Percentile £265 £400 £352
25th Percentile £321 £413 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £394 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -17.11% +5.56% +7.14%
75th Percentile £484 £538 £500
90th Percentile £606 £613 £568
UK median daily rate £525 £560 £538
% change year-on-year -6.25% +4.19% +13.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £26.00 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -62.86% - -
UK median hourly rate £58.91 £60.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -1.83% +22.45% +20.99%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

.NET is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 439 637 726
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 20.41% 23.57% 21.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 477 505
10th Percentile £325 £400 £366
25th Percentile £401 £438 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £485 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% +2.11% +11.76%
75th Percentile £550 £545 £545
90th Percentile £675 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 7
10th Percentile £36.10 £23.53 £31.95
25th Percentile £51.25 £39.09 £42.04
Median hourly rate £55.00 £53.38 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +13.57% +14.63%
75th Percentile £57.50 £61.77 £48.75
90th Percentile - £66.71 £62.75
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing .NET as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for .NET in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing .NET in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for .NET in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET in Scotland over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for .NET in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing .NET in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for .NET in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh -16 27 £375 -21.05% 26
Glasgow +4 4 £320 -36.00% 14
Perthshire +6 2 £525 -6.08%
Aberdeen +1 2 £419 - 9
.NET
UK

.NET
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.65%) EPiServer
2 1 (2.33%) Apache
2 1 (2.33%) Confluence
2 1 (2.33%) IIS
2 1 (2.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.33%) SharePoint 2013
2 1 (2.33%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.33%) Umbraco
2 1 (2.33%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 26 (60.47%) Azure
2 17 (39.53%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (11.63%) IaaS
3 5 (11.63%) PaaS
4 4 (9.30%) AWS
4 4 (9.30%) SaaS
5 3 (6.98%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (6.98%) iPaaS
5 3 (6.98%) Power Platform
5 3 (6.98%) Serverless
6 2 (4.65%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.33%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.33%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.33%) PowerApps
7 1 (2.33%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.98%) LAN
1 3 (6.98%) WAN
2 1 (2.33%) 2G
2 1 (2.33%) 5G
2 1 (2.33%) BIG-IP
2 1 (2.33%) DNS
2 1 (2.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 1 (2.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (2.33%) Internet
2 1 (2.33%) Network Security
2 1 (2.33%) SAN
2 1 (2.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.30%) Relational Database
1 4 (9.30%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.33%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.33%) MySQL
2 1 (2.33%) Power BI
2 1 (2.33%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 9 (20.93%) Git
2 5 (11.63%) Visual Studio
3 4 (9.30%) Jenkins
3 4 (9.30%) JIRA
4 3 (6.98%) Selenium
4 3 (6.98%) TeamCity
5 2 (4.65%) Cucumber
5 2 (4.65%) Cypress.io
5 2 (4.65%) Subversion
5 2 (4.65%) WebDriver
6 1 (2.33%) Appium
6 1 (2.33%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.33%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 17 (39.53%) Public Sector
2 10 (23.26%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.98%) Finance
4 2 (4.65%) Automotive
5 1 (2.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (46.51%) Developer
2 17 (39.53%) .NET Developer
3 13 (30.23%) Senior
4 8 (18.60%) Senior .NET Developer
4 8 (18.60%) Senior Developer
5 5 (11.63%) React Developer
5 5 (11.63%) Senior React Developer
6 4 (9.30%) Architect
6 4 (9.30%) Test Automation Engineer
6 4 (9.30%) Test Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Analyst
7 3 (6.98%) AWS Developer
7 3 (6.98%) Consultant
7 3 (6.98%) Technical Architect
8 2 (4.65%) Functional Analyst
8 2 (4.65%) Functional Test Analyst
8 2 (4.65%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (4.65%) Senior Test Analyst
8 2 (4.65%) ServiceNow Consultant
8 2 (4.65%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (20.93%) React
2 7 (16.28%) .NET Core
3 6 (13.95%) Web Services
4 5 (11.63%) REST
4 5 (11.63%) SOAP
5 4 (9.30%) Playwright
5 4 (9.30%) WinForms
5 4 (9.30%) WPF
6 3 (6.98%) ASP.NET
6 3 (6.98%) J2EE
7 2 (4.65%) .NET Framework
7 2 (4.65%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (4.65%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (4.65%) CSS
7 2 (4.65%) HTML
7 2 (4.65%) RESTful
8 1 (2.33%) AngularJS
8 1 (2.33%) ASP.NET MVC
8 1 (2.33%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (2.33%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.60%) Product Ownership
2 7 (16.28%) Legacy Applications
2 7 (16.28%) Wiki
3 5 (11.63%) Client/Server
4 4 (9.30%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (9.30%) Mobile App
5 3 (6.98%) N-Tier
6 2 (4.65%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (2.33%) CMDB
7 1 (2.33%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (2.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.95%) Windows
2 1 (2.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (44.19%) DevOps
2 12 (27.91%) Agile
3 9 (20.93%) Code Quality
3 9 (20.93%) User Experience
4 7 (16.28%) Knowledge Transfer
4 7 (16.28%) Test Automation
5 5 (11.63%) MVC
5 5 (11.63%) SDLC
5 5 (11.63%) SOA
6 4 (9.30%) API Testing
6 4 (9.30%) CI/CD
6 4 (9.30%) Configuration Management
6 4 (9.30%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (9.30%) Roadmaps
6 4 (9.30%) Test Scripting
7 3 (6.98%) Architecture Governance
7 3 (6.98%) Innovative Thinking
7 3 (6.98%) Integration Patterns
7 3 (6.98%) Project Delivery
7 3 (6.98%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 18 (41.86%) C#
2 8 (18.60%) SQL
3 4 (9.30%) Java
3 4 (9.30%) JavaScript
3 4 (9.30%) VB
3 4 (9.30%) VB6
4 3 (6.98%) PowerShell
4 3 (6.98%) TypeScript
5 2 (4.65%) C++
5 2 (4.65%) Shell Script
5 2 (4.65%) VBA
5 2 (4.65%) VBScript
6 1 (2.33%) Bicep
6 1 (2.33%) Perl
6 1 (2.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (6.98%) Degree
2 2 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.65%) ISEB
2 2 (4.65%) ISTQB
2 2 (4.65%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (2.33%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.63%) Disclosure Scotland
2 4 (9.30%) QA
System Software
1 3 (6.98%) Hyper-V
1 3 (6.98%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (11.63%) Terraform
2 1 (2.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (13.95%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.63%) Oracle
3 4 (9.30%) Infragistics
4 3 (6.98%) VMware
5 2 (4.65%) Adobe
5 2 (4.65%) ServiceNow
5 2 (4.65%) Xamarin
6 1 (2.33%) CA
6 1 (2.33%) F5
6 1 (2.33%) Optimizely