The first table below looks at the demand for the .NET Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Belfast region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited .NET Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Belfast region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
.NET Developer
Rank 24 19 31
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +12
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 9 8 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Belfast 4.225% 4.908% 4.063%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.882% 5.263% 4.319%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 0
Average daily rate £365 £338 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.14% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+4.16% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £32.75
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -8.39%
All Job Titles
Belfast
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
153 152 301
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Belfast 71.83% 93.25% 94.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 47 99
Average daily rate £325 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £215 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £400 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 16
Average hourly rate £12.42 £12.50 £22.23
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-0.64% -43.75%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
.NET Developer
County Antrim

.NET Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing .NET Developer across the Belfast region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Belfast .NET Developer Jobs Demand Trend

.NET Developer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing .NET Developer across the Belfast region.

Belfast .NET Developer Daily Rate Trend

.NET Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET Developer across the Belfast region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Belfast .NET Developer Daily Rate Histogram

.NET Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing .NET Developer across the Belfast region.

Belfast .NET Developer Hourly Rate Trend

.NET Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Belfast region that cited .NET Developer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with .NET Developer in their job title.

1 24 (100.00%) .NET
2 15 (62.50%) C#
3 11 (45.83%) ASP.NET
4 10 (41.67%) JavaScript
4 10 (41.67%) MVC
5 7 (29.17%) Ajax
5 7 (29.17%) SharePoint
6 6 (25.00%) CSS
6 6 (25.00%) HTML
7 5 (20.83%) CRM
7 5 (20.83%) Dynamics CRM
7 5 (20.83%) SharePoint 2010
7 5 (20.83%) KnockoutJS
7 5 (20.83%) Twitter
7 5 (20.83%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 5 (20.83%) jQuery
7 5 (20.83%) Git (software)
7 5 (20.83%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (16.67%) BizTalk Server
8 4 (16.67%) Java
8 4 (16.67%) C++
9 3 (12.50%) SQL
9 3 (12.50%) Finance
10 2 (8.333%) Banking
10 2 (8.333%) Web Development
10 2 (8.333%) JSON
10 2 (8.333%) WPF
10 2 (8.333%) LINQ
10 2 (8.333%) Web Services
10 2 (8.333%) Time Management

.NET Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Belfast region that cited .NET Developer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with .NET Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 24 (100.00%) .NET
2 11 (45.83%) ASP.NET
3 7 (29.17%) Ajax
4 6 (25.00%) CSS
4 6 (25.00%) HTML
5 5 (20.83%) KnockoutJS
5 5 (20.83%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 5 (20.83%) jQuery
6 2 (8.333%) JSON
6 2 (8.333%) WPF
6 2 (8.333%) LINQ
6 2 (8.333%) Web Services
7 1 (4.167%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (4.167%) ASP.NET MVC 3
Application Platforms
1 7 (29.17%) SharePoint
2 5 (20.83%) SharePoint 2010
3 4 (16.67%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (4.167%) Kentico
4 1 (4.167%) CMS
Business Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Dynamics CRM
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Git (software)
1 5 (20.83%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (4.167%) MSTest
2 1 (4.167%) NUnit
General
1 3 (12.50%) Finance
2 2 (8.333%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.167%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) MVC
2 5 (20.83%) CRM
3 2 (8.333%) Web Development
3 2 (8.333%) Time Management
4 1 (4.167%) Unit Testing
4 1 (4.167%) Integration Testing
4 1 (4.167%) E-Commerce
4 1 (4.167%) Automated Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (62.50%) C#
2 10 (41.67%) JavaScript
3 4 (16.67%) Java
3 4 (16.67%) C++
4 3 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.167%) Degree
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) Twitter
2 1 (4.167%) Oracle
2 1 (4.167%) Sybase
Belfast, County Antrim
C# - ASP.NET MVC3 - £350 per day - Belfast... The successful candidate will require extensive experience around the following technologies: -C# 3.5-4.0 -ASP.NET MVC3 -HTML,...
Stott & May
Rate: £350 per day + extensions
Posted: 16 May 2013