.NET Contracts in Belfast

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Belfast requiring .NET skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited .NET over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 19 19
Rank change year-on-year -6 0 -2
Contract jobs citing .NET 5 4 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Belfast 3.40% 3.25% 3.05%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.51% 15.38% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - £413
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.06%
75th Percentile - - £466
90th Percentile - - £516
County Antrim median daily rate £325 - £413
% change year-on-year - - -14.06%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Belfast

.NET falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Belfast.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 37 26 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast 25.17% 21.14% 18.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 7 17
10th Percentile £266 £495 -
25th Percentile £325 £525 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £404 £600 £400
Median % change year-on-year -32.71% +50.00% -17.53%
75th Percentile £488 £650 £463
90th Percentile £544 - £536
County Antrim median daily rate £404 £600 £400
% change year-on-year -32.71% +50.00% -17.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.98 - -
Median hourly rate £73.23 £16.12 -
Median % change year-on-year +354.25% - -
75th Percentile £78.47 - -
90th Percentile - - -
County Antrim median hourly rate £73.23 £16.12 -
% change year-on-year +354.25% - -

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

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

Job vacancy trend for .NET in Belfast

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Belfast

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

Daily rate trend for .NET in Belfast

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Belfast

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

Hourly rate trend for .NET in Belfast

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Belfast 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 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint 2010
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Ant
1 4 (80.00%) Git
1 4 (80.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (80.00%) Maven
1 4 (80.00%) Subversion
General
1 4 (80.00%) Banking
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
1 4 (80.00%) Front Office
1 4 (80.00%) Wholesale Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (80.00%) .NET Developer
2 4 (80.00%) .NET Software Developer
2 4 (80.00%) .NET Software Engineer
2 4 (80.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 4 (80.00%) C# Developer
2 4 (80.00%) C# Software Developer
2 4 (80.00%) C# Software Engineer
2 4 (80.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
2 4 (80.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (20.00%) REST
1 1 (20.00%) Web Services
1 1 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Derivative
1 4 (80.00%) Equities
1 4 (80.00%) Equity Derivative
1 4 (80.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
1 4 (80.00%) Unix
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Concurrent Programming
1 4 (80.00%) Design Patterns
1 4 (80.00%) High Availability
1 4 (80.00%) OO
1 4 (80.00%) OOA/OOD
1 4 (80.00%) SDLC
1 4 (80.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) CRM
2 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) MVC
2 1 (20.00%) OOD
2 1 (20.00%) SOA
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C#
2 4 (80.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft