C# Contracts in Scotland

C#
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for C# skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited C# over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 76 75 48
Rank change year-on-year -1 -27 -1
Contract jobs citing C# 51 95 166
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.38% 3.55% 4.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.37% 10.65% 16.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 72 123
10th Percentile £288 £400 £380
25th Percentile £363 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -11.05% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £500 £525 £495
90th Percentile £649 £568 £544
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £550
% change year-on-year - +4.55% +10.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £42.65
25th Percentile - - £44.01
Median hourly rate £26.00 £70.00 £47.64
Median % change year-on-year -62.86% +46.95% -11.38%
75th Percentile - - £49.89
90th Percentile - - £50.42
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year - +13.04% +27.78%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

C# is in the Programming Languages 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 coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 609 892 1,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 28.42% 33.32% 29.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 408 626 721
10th Percentile £350 £406 £381
25th Percentile £412 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £493 £488
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +1.03% +14.71%
75th Percentile £541 £550 £550
90th Percentile £616 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 11 15
10th Percentile £29.60 £47.73 £17.50
25th Percentile £41.31 £53.75 £27.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £59.03 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +32.65% -2.20%
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.66 £55.03
90th Percentile £62.50 £70.00 £56.80
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £51.75
% change year-on-year -0.80% +20.77% +17.21%

C#
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for C# in Scotland

C#
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for C# in Scotland

C#
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C# in Scotland

C#
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for C# in Scotland

C#
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 C# within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Glasgow +28 19 £650 +26.83% 29
Edinburgh -15 16 £375 -21.05% 31
Aberdeen +5 6 £388 - 7
Perthshire +8 4 £500 -10.55% 2
Aberdeenshire - 1 £313 - 2
C#
UK

C#
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:

Applications
1 11 (21.57%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (9.80%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 26 (50.98%) Azure
2 17 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (7.84%) PaaS
3 4 (7.84%) SaaS
4 3 (5.88%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (5.88%) Entra ID
5 2 (3.92%) Azure Functions
5 2 (3.92%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (3.92%) GitHub
5 2 (3.92%) IaaS
5 2 (3.92%) Serverless
6 1 (1.96%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.96%) 2G
1 1 (1.96%) 5G
1 1 (1.96%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (31.37%) SQL Server
2 8 (15.69%) Relational Database
3 5 (9.80%) GIS
4 4 (7.84%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.92%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (3.92%) MySQL
6 1 (1.96%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 12 (23.53%) Git
2 8 (15.69%) Selenium
3 7 (13.73%) WebDriver
4 5 (9.80%) Visual Studio
5 4 (7.84%) Jenkins
6 3 (5.88%) JIRA
6 3 (5.88%) TeamCity
7 2 (3.92%) Cucumber
7 2 (3.92%) Cypress.io
7 2 (3.92%) Subversion
8 1 (1.96%) Appium
8 1 (1.96%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.96%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (1.96%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 5 (9.80%) Aviation
1 5 (9.80%) Documentation Skills
1 5 (9.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 5 (9.80%) Social Skills
2 4 (7.84%) Public Sector
3 3 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.96%) Automotive
4 1 (1.96%) German Language
Job Titles
1 21 (41.18%) Developer
2 11 (21.57%) Software Developer
3 9 (17.65%) .NET Developer
4 6 (11.76%) Software Engineer
5 5 (9.80%) Automation Tester
5 5 (9.80%) C# Software Engineer
5 5 (9.80%) Full Stack Engineer
5 5 (9.80%) Full Stack Software Engineer
5 5 (9.80%) Tester
6 4 (7.84%) Analyst
6 4 (7.84%) Senior
6 4 (7.84%) Test Automation Engineer
6 4 (7.84%) Test Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Applications Support
8 2 (3.92%) Functional Analyst
8 2 (3.92%) Functional Test Analyst
8 2 (3.92%) Senior .NET Developer
8 2 (3.92%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (3.92%) Senior Developer
8 2 (3.92%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (37.25%) .NET
2 13 (25.49%) HTML
3 7 (13.73%) React
4 6 (11.76%) .NET Core
4 6 (11.76%) AngularJS
4 6 (11.76%) SOAP
5 4 (7.84%) .NET Framework
5 4 (7.84%) Playwright
5 4 (7.84%) REST
5 4 (7.84%) RESTful
5 4 (7.84%) Web Services
5 4 (7.84%) WinForms
5 4 (7.84%) WPF
6 3 (5.88%) ASP.NET
6 3 (5.88%) CSS
7 2 (3.92%) Entity Framework
7 2 (3.92%) jQuery
7 2 (3.92%) OAuth
7 2 (3.92%) OpenID
7 2 (3.92%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.84%) Legacy Systems
1 4 (7.84%) Mobile App
2 3 (5.88%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (3.92%) Client/Server
3 2 (3.92%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.96%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.80%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (47.06%) DevOps
2 18 (35.29%) Software Engineering
3 16 (31.37%) Artificial Intelligence
4 15 (29.41%) Agile
5 13 (25.49%) Code Quality
6 12 (23.53%) Test Automation
7 11 (21.57%) Conversational UI
8 9 (17.65%) Test Scripting
9 7 (13.73%) Full Stack Development
10 6 (11.76%) CI/CD
11 5 (9.80%) User Experience
12 4 (7.84%) API Testing
12 4 (7.84%) Configuration Management
12 4 (7.84%) Continuous Integration
12 4 (7.84%) Migration
12 4 (7.84%) MVC
12 4 (7.84%) SDLC
13 2 (3.92%) Scrum
13 2 (3.92%) SOA
13 2 (3.92%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (56.86%) SQL
2 17 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 16 (31.37%) Python
4 8 (15.69%) TypeScript
5 6 (11.76%) Java
6 4 (7.84%) PowerShell
6 4 (7.84%) VB
6 4 (7.84%) VB6
7 2 (3.92%) C++
7 2 (3.92%) Shell Script
7 2 (3.92%) T-SQL
7 2 (3.92%) VBA
7 2 (3.92%) VBScript
8 1 (1.96%) Bicep
8 1 (1.96%) PHP
Qualifications
1 13 (25.49%) Degree
2 2 (3.92%) ISEB
2 2 (3.92%) ISTQB
2 2 (3.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.84%) QA
2 2 (3.92%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (3.92%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.96%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (21.57%) PayPal
2 5 (9.80%) Oracle
3 4 (7.84%) AVEVA
3 4 (7.84%) Infragistics
4 2 (3.92%) Adobe
4 2 (3.92%) Xamarin