.NET Contracts in Northern Ireland

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 20 24
Rank change year-on-year -8 +4 -10
Contract jobs citing .NET 5 4 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 3.07% 2.76% 3.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.89% 15.38% 22.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 5
10th Percentile - - £385
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.79%
75th Percentile - - £438
90th Percentile - - £505
UK median daily rate £520 £520 £560
% change year-on-year - -7.14% +4.19%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Northern Ireland

.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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 36 26 31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 22.09% 17.93% 15.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 7 17
10th Percentile £266 £495 £395
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
UK median daily rate £525 £528 £550
% change year-on-year -0.57% -4.00% -
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 - - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +30.65%

.NET
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 7 May 2025. 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 -12 5 £325 - 5
.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:

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