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 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 206 141 167
Rank change year-on-year -65 +26 +2
Contract jobs citing ASP.NET 9 9 31
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.15% 0.30% 0.56%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.05% 1.83% 4.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 27
10th Percentile £337 £394 £307
25th Percentile £359 £434 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £613
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -20.41% +20.69%
75th Percentile £581 £523 £619
90th Percentile £751 £581 £626
England median daily rate £525 £650 £489
% change year-on-year -19.23% +32.99% -11.14%

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 854 492 703
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.49% 16.37% 12.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 581 314 463
10th Percentile £327 £350 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £613 £588 £619
90th Percentile £688 £663 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 19 38
10th Percentile £45.76 £29.62 £35.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £56.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 £55.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -10.71% -4.50%
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.00 £68.75
90th Percentile - £66.44 £75.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

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 9 May 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 9 May 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
Buckinghamshire -29 6 £365 -25.13% 1
Thames Valley -42 6 £365 -27.00% 8
West Sussex - 2 £758 - 5
Surrey -18 1 - - 7
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 (11.11%) CMS
1 1 (11.11%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) AWS
3 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Azure App Service
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Functions
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) SQL Server
2 2 (22.22%) DocumentDB
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Git
1 2 (22.22%) NUnit
General
1 1 (11.11%) Automotive
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Developer
2 6 (66.67%) .NET Developer
3 2 (22.22%) C# .NET Developer
3 2 (22.22%) C# Developer
4 1 (11.11%) .NET Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Applications Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Architect
4 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365 Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Web Developer
4 1 (11.11%) SQL Developer
4 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (100.00%) .NET
2 4 (44.44%) .NET Framework
3 3 (33.33%) ASP.NET Web API
3 3 (33.33%) ASP.NET Web Forms
3 3 (33.33%) Entity Framework
3 3 (33.33%) React
3 3 (33.33%) REST
4 2 (22.22%) .NET Core
4 2 (22.22%) AngularJS
4 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (22.22%) CSS
4 2 (22.22%) HTML
4 2 (22.22%) NHibernate
5 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (11.11%) Node.js
5 1 (11.11%) RESTful
5 1 (11.11%) SignalR
5 1 (11.11%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 1 (11.11%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) DevOps
2 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 3 (33.33%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) Clean Code
3 3 (33.33%) MVC
3 3 (33.33%) SOLID
4 2 (22.22%) API Development
4 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (22.22%) OWASP
4 2 (22.22%) Scrum
4 2 (22.22%) TDD
4 2 (22.22%) Unit Testing
4 2 (22.22%) User Experience
5 1 (11.11%) Event-Driven
5 1 (11.11%) Event-Driven Programming
5 1 (11.11%) Front End Development
5 1 (11.11%) Prototyping
5 1 (11.11%) RBAC
5 1 (11.11%) Secure Coding
5 1 (11.11%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) C#
2 6 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 3 (33.33%) TypeScript
4 2 (22.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (11.11%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
1 1 (11.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 3 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle