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 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 116 135
Rank change year-on-year -10 +19 +29
Contract jobs citing ASP.NET 6 2 17
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.27% 0.084% 0.59%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.31% 0.56% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 16
10th Percentile - - £400
25th Percentile £363 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 - £463
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.78%
75th Percentile £550 - £538
90th Percentile £595 - £544
England median daily rate £500 £519 £575
% change year-on-year -3.61% -9.78% +4.36%

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 457 354 628
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 20.20% 14.95% 21.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 353 226 495
10th Percentile £317 £320 £363
25th Percentile £370 £375 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £538 £552 £619
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 33
10th Percentile £27.20 £41.09 £45.88
25th Percentile £29.00 £46.18 -
Median hourly rate £51.00 £56.59 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -9.88% +22.54% -38.43%
75th Percentile £76.81 £73.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £89.08 £81.00 £72.25
England median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £56.06
% change year-on-year -16.92% +15.95% -13.75%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ASP.NET in the North West over the 6 months to 20 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ASP.NET in the North West

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 20 October 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
Manchester - 3 £550 - 23
Merseyside +4 1 £435 - 3
Cheshire -24 1 - - 2
Lancashire - 1 £375 - 30
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:

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Ant
1 1 (16.67%) Eclipse
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) IntelliJ
1 1 (16.67%) JUnit
1 1 (16.67%) NUnit
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
2 3 (50.00%) .NET Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Senior
4 1 (16.67%) Architect
4 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC Developer
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Backend Developer
4 1 (16.67%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (16.67%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (16.67%) C# Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) .NET
2 3 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 3 (50.00%) Entity Framework
2 3 (50.00%) HTML
3 2 (33.33%) .NET Core
3 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET Core
3 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (33.33%) CSS
3 2 (33.33%) React
4 1 (16.67%) ADO.NET
4 1 (16.67%) Blazor
4 1 (16.67%) EJB
4 1 (16.67%) J2EE
4 1 (16.67%) JDBC
4 1 (16.67%) JSP
4 1 (16.67%) JSTL
4 1 (16.67%) OAuth
4 1 (16.67%) RESTful
4 1 (16.67%) Struts
4 1 (16.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) Legacy Code
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Integration Testing
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Clean Code
3 2 (33.33%) MVC
4 1 (16.67%) Application Security
4 1 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (16.67%) Code Quality
4 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
4 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (16.67%) IT Strategy
4 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 1 (16.67%) Microservices
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Secure Coding
4 1 (16.67%) SOLID
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) C#
2 4 (66.67%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft