ASP.NET Contract Job Trends in the South East

Microsoft ASP.NET
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring ASP.NET skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 134 177
Rank change year-on-year -61 +43 +10
Contract jobs citing ASP.NET 6 26 29
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.12% 0.86% 0.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.70% 5.02% 3.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 15 20
10th Percentile £338 £422 £306
25th Percentile £386 £425 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £475 £390
Median % change year-on-year +13.16% +21.79% -22.00%
75th Percentile £723 £644 £575
90th Percentile £808 £673 £638
England median daily rate £550 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +20.00% -11.11%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 858 518 809
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 16.66% 17.19% 14.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 606 330 450
10th Percentile £321 £350 £313
25th Percentile £413 £414 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £532 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.06% +6.45% -7.83%
75th Percentile £589 £627 £625
90th Percentile £678 £670 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% -5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 14 41
10th Percentile £40.00 £28.05 £51.25
25th Percentile £46.25 £52.14 £56.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +0.81% -4.62%
75th Percentile £67.50 - £73.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.16 £77.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year +1.56% +31.36% -25.05%

ASP.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

ASP.NET job vacancy trend in the South East

ASP.NET
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing ASP.NET.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing ASP.NET

ASP.NET
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ASP.NET in the South East over the 6 months to 10 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ASP.NET in the South East

ASP.NET
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing ASP.NET.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing ASP.NET

ASP.NET
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 10 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
Thames Valley -36 4 £366 -26.90% 13
West Sussex -12 2 £758 +68.33% 5
Buckinghamshire -15 2 £366 -25.03% 3
Berkshire -35 2 - - 4
ASP.NET
England

ASP.NET
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) CMS
1 1 (16.67%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Azure API Management
2 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Functions
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 2 (33.33%) GitHub
2 2 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (33.33%) Serverless
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) DocumentDB
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) NUnit
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Billing
3 1 (16.67%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
1 3 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Active Directory Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Web Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Web Developer
3 1 (16.67%) .NET Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Applications Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) C# Application Developer
3 1 (16.67%) C# Web Application Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Active Directory Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Applications Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior C# Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Web Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) .NET
2 5 (83.33%) .NET Framework
3 3 (50.00%) .NET Core
3 3 (50.00%) ASP.NET Web API
3 3 (50.00%) REST
4 2 (33.33%) AngularJS
4 2 (33.33%) ARM Templates
4 2 (33.33%) CSS
4 2 (33.33%) Entity Framework
4 2 (33.33%) GraphQL
4 2 (33.33%) HTML
4 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (33.33%) OAuth
4 2 (33.33%) OAuth2
4 2 (33.33%) OpenID
4 2 (33.33%) SAML
5 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET Web Forms
5 1 (16.67%) CSS3
5 1 (16.67%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) User Experience
3 2 (33.33%) AI
3 2 (33.33%) Analytical Thinking
3 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) B2C
3 2 (33.33%) Critical Thinking
3 2 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 2 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (33.33%) Identity Management
3 2 (33.33%) MVC
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Scrum
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) TDD
3 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) C#
2 5 (83.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (33.33%) Bash
3 2 (33.33%) Java
3 2 (33.33%) PHP
3 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 2 (33.33%) Python
4 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle