.NET Contracts in Northern Ireland

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
UK > Northern Ireland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 27 16
Rank change year-on-year +7 -11 +12
Contract jobs citing .NET 4 7 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 2.72% 3.47% 8.57%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.38% 21.88% 31.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 13
10th Percentile - £385 £417
25th Percentile - - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -15.79% +36.69%
75th Percentile - £438 £488
90th Percentile - £505 £538
UK median daily rate £525 £563 £531
% change year-on-year -6.67% +6.03% +11.68%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Northern Ireland

.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 Northern Ireland 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 26 32 57
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 17.69% 15.84% 27.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 18 31
10th Percentile £495 £396 £415
25th Percentile £525 - £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £400 £485
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -17.53% +12.66%
75th Percentile £650 £459 £500
90th Percentile - £536 £560
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £16.12 - -
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.50
% change year-on-year -28.95% +31.31% +10.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for .NET in Northern Ireland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Daily rate trend for .NET in Northern Ireland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Hourly rate trend for .NET in Northern Ireland

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Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 2 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
County Antrim +2 4 - - 13
.NET
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure AKS
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (50.00%) Maven
1 2 (50.00%) NUnit
1 2 (50.00%) Selenium
1 2 (50.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) .NET Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Automation Tester
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) QA Automation Tester
1 2 (50.00%) QA Tester
1 2 (50.00%) Tester
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Insurtech
1 2 (50.00%) Integration Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (50.00%) System Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
1 2 (50.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes