C# Contracts in Northern Ireland

C#
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland requiring C# skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited C# over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 19 27
Rank change year-on-year -6 +8 -10
Contract jobs citing C# 7 5 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 4.40% 3.36% 2.97%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.67% 13.89% 10.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 4
10th Percentile £299 - £383
25th Percentile - £563 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £575 £400
Median % change year-on-year -43.48% +43.75% -16.67%
75th Percentile £357 £588 £406
90th Percentile £396 - £418
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +6.98%

All Programming Languages
Northern Ireland

C# falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 60 36 59
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 37.74% 24.16% 29.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 18 38
10th Percentile £273 £318 -
25th Percentile £325 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £443 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.95% -1.67% -7.22%
75th Percentile £517 £505 £530
90th Percentile £627 £575 £615
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £27.03 £19.02 -
25th Percentile £33.86 £23.37 £13.25
Median hourly rate £47.85 £31.25 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.13% +131.48% -28.95%
75th Percentile £64.47 £31.88 £13.75
90th Percentile £72.87 - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

C#
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for C# in Northern Ireland

C#
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Daily rate trend for C# in Northern Ireland

C#
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Hourly rate trend for C# in Northern Ireland

C#
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 C# within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 1 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 -8 7 £325 -43.48% 14
C#
UK

C#
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 (14.29%) SharePoint
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint 2010
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Ant
1 4 (57.14%) Git
1 4 (57.14%) Jenkins
1 4 (57.14%) Maven
1 4 (57.14%) Subversion
General
1 5 (71.43%) Banking
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 4 (57.14%) Front Office
2 4 (57.14%) Wholesale Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Investment Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Developer
2 5 (71.43%) C# Developer
2 5 (71.43%) C# Software Developer
3 4 (57.14%) .NET Developer
3 4 (57.14%) .NET Software Developer
3 4 (57.14%) .NET Software Engineer
3 4 (57.14%) C# .NET Developer
3 4 (57.14%) C# Software Engineer
3 4 (57.14%) Developer/Software Engineer
3 4 (57.14%) Software Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Applications Manager
4 1 (14.29%) Applications Project Manager
4 1 (14.29%) Banking Project Manager
4 1 (14.29%) IT Manager
4 1 (14.29%) IT Project Manager
4 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
4 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
2 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
2 1 (14.29%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) Web Services
2 1 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Derivative
1 4 (57.14%) Equities
1 4 (57.14%) Equity Derivative
1 4 (57.14%) Product Ownership
2 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
1 4 (57.14%) Unix
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Concurrent Programming
1 4 (57.14%) Design Patterns
1 4 (57.14%) High Availability
1 4 (57.14%) OO
1 4 (57.14%) OOA/OOD
1 4 (57.14%) SDLC
1 4 (57.14%) Software Engineering
2 1 (14.29%) Agile
2 1 (14.29%) CRM
2 1 (14.29%) IT Governance
2 1 (14.29%) Migration
2 1 (14.29%) MVC
2 1 (14.29%) OOD
2 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
2 1 (14.29%) Project Management
2 1 (14.29%) Remediation Plan
2 1 (14.29%) Risk Management
2 1 (14.29%) SOA
2 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (14.29%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) C++
2 1 (14.29%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft