ASP.NET Contract Job Trends in the North West

Microsoft ASP.NET
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring ASP.NET skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 115 126
Rank change year-on-year -40 +11 +21
Contract jobs citing ASP.NET 3 6 11
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.11% 0.29% 0.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.49% 1.52% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 11
10th Percentile £371 £289 £425
25th Percentile £384 £309 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £411 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.43% -21.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £434 £520 £538
90th Percentile £444 £531 -
England median daily rate £550 £581 £525
% change year-on-year -5.28% +10.60% -7.08%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

ASP.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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 609 396 518
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 21.54% 19.39% 18.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 426 282 400
10th Percentile £350 £360 £363
25th Percentile £394 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £457 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.79% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £563 £582
90th Percentile £638 £640 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 4 27
10th Percentile £52.50 - £42.58
25th Percentile £54.92 £65.25 -
Median hourly rate £72.13 £67.75 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +6.46% +46.71% +2.99%
75th Percentile £77.50 £74.38 £72.19
90th Percentile £95.00 £82.25 £79.65
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

ASP.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ASP.NET relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

ASP.NET job vacancy trend in the North West

ASP.NET
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing ASP.NET.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing ASP.NET

ASP.NET
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing ASP.NET.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing ASP.NET

ASP.NET
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ASP.NET within the North West region over the 6 months to 3 March 2026. 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
Manchester -18 1 £450 -12.32% 18
Lancashire -18 1 £375 - 17
Cheshire -23 1 - - 7
ASP.NET
England

ASP.NET
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Retail
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) .NET Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) C# Developer
2 1 (33.33%) C# Developer - E-Commerce
2 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce Developer
2 1 (33.33%) React Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Sitecore Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
2 2 (66.67%) .NET Core
2 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (66.67%) CSS
2 2 (66.67%) HTML
2 2 (66.67%) React
2 2 (66.67%) Vue
3 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
3 1 (33.33%) Entity Framework
3 1 (33.33%) HTML5
3 1 (33.33%) OAuth
3 1 (33.33%) RESTful
3 1 (33.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Code
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) MVC
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) API Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Application Security
3 1 (33.33%) B2C
3 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
3 1 (33.33%) Data Management
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) OOP
3 1 (33.33%) Pair Programming
3 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Software Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) SOLID
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Debt
3 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Sitecore