ASP.NET Core Contracts

ASP.NET Core
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring ASP.NET Core skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ASP.NET Core 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 483 514 631
Rank change year-on-year +31 +117 -17
Contract jobs citing ASP.NET Core 37 68 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.16% 0.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.56% 0.76% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 56 63
10th Percentile £413 £418 £413
25th Percentile £496 £459 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £650
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -13.46% +8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £750 £788
90th Percentile £700 £788 £975
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £350 £450
% change year-on-year +43.07% -22.22% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

ASP.NET Core 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,644 8,946 13,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.70% 20.54% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,558 6,207 10,141
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £771 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 233 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £74.89 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

ASP.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing ASP.NET Core as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for ASP.NET Core in the UK

ASP.NET Core
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ASP.NET Core.

Daily rate trend for ASP.NET Core in the UK

ASP.NET Core
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ASP.NET Core over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ASP.NET Core in the UK

ASP.NET Core
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ASP.NET Core.

Hourly rate trend for ASP.NET Core in the UK

ASP.NET Core
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ASP.NET Core within the UK 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
England +30 32 £575 -13.21% 70
London +15 26 £586 -16.25% 14
Work from Home +28 9 £575 +22.86% 41
UK excluding London +60 6 £501 +43.07% 64
South East +46 2 £446 -18.91% 13
Scotland +13 2 £500 +42.86% 5
North of England +19 1 £502 -4.48% 17
North West +17 1 £502 -4.48% 5
East of England - 1 £515 - 9

ASP.NET Core
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (10.81%) Apache
2 1 (2.70%) CMS
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.70%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 16 (43.24%) Azure
2 9 (24.32%) AWS
3 6 (16.22%) Serverless
4 3 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (8.11%) Entra ID
5 2 (5.41%) Amazon Cognito
5 2 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (5.41%) Boomi
5 2 (5.41%) GCP
5 2 (5.41%) GitHub
5 2 (5.41%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.70%) Azure API Management
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Functions
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Storage
6 1 (2.70%) Cloudflare
6 1 (2.70%) dbt
6 1 (2.70%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 1 (2.70%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.11%) DNS
2 2 (5.41%) Firewall
2 2 (5.41%) HTTP
2 2 (5.41%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (32.43%) SQL Server
2 8 (21.62%) NoSQL
3 5 (13.51%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (10.81%) Big Data
4 4 (10.81%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (8.11%) Redis
6 2 (5.41%) MongoDB
7 1 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (2.70%) MySQL
7 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (21.62%) Git
2 7 (18.92%) Bitbucket
3 6 (16.22%) Jenkins
3 6 (16.22%) SonarQube
4 4 (10.81%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (8.11%) NUnit
6 1 (2.70%) Postman
6 1 (2.70%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (2.70%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (24.32%) Social Skills
2 8 (21.62%) Finance
3 5 (13.51%) Banking
4 4 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.81%) Front Office
5 3 (8.11%) Law
5 3 (8.11%) Legal
5 3 (8.11%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.41%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (78.38%) Developer
2 14 (37.84%) Senior
3 13 (35.14%) .NET Developer
4 12 (32.43%) C# Developer
4 12 (32.43%) Senior Developer
5 8 (21.62%) Senior .NET Developer
6 7 (18.92%) C# .NET Developer
6 7 (18.92%) Full-Stack Developer
6 7 (18.92%) Senior C# Developer
7 6 (16.22%) Senior C# .NET Developer
8 5 (13.51%) Azure Developer
8 5 (13.51%) Backend Developer
8 5 (13.51%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
8 5 (13.51%) Lead
8 5 (13.51%) Lead Developer
9 4 (10.81%) Architect
9 4 (10.81%) Software Engineer
9 4 (10.81%) Solutions Architect
10 3 (8.11%) C++ Developer
10 3 (8.11%) C++/C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (100.00%) .NET
1 37 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 21 (56.76%) HTML
3 18 (48.65%) CSS
4 12 (32.43%) Node.js
5 11 (29.73%) .NET Core
6 9 (24.32%) RESTful
6 9 (24.32%) Web Services
7 7 (18.92%) .NET Framework
8 6 (16.22%) Entity Framework
8 6 (16.22%) Vue
9 5 (13.51%) Kafka
9 5 (13.51%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (10.81%) AngularJS
10 4 (10.81%) Apache NiFi
10 4 (10.81%) OAuth
10 4 (10.81%) OpenID
10 4 (10.81%) React
11 3 (8.11%) XML
12 2 (5.41%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (10.81%) Algorithms
2 4 (10.81%) Private Cloud
2 4 (10.81%) Public Cloud
3 3 (8.11%) N-Tier
4 2 (5.41%) PKI
4 2 (5.41%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.70%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.70%) NHS
5 1 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.81%) Linux
2 3 (8.11%) CentOS
2 3 (8.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (8.11%) Windows
2 3 (8.11%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.70%) Android
3 1 (2.70%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (43.24%) Agile
2 13 (35.14%) DevOps
3 11 (29.73%) CI/CD
4 10 (27.03%) Web Development
5 9 (24.32%) Full-Stack Development
5 9 (24.32%) OO
6 8 (21.62%) Microservices
6 8 (21.62%) OOP
7 7 (18.92%) Analytics
7 7 (18.92%) MVC
7 7 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (13.51%) Containerisation
8 5 (13.51%) Front End Development
8 5 (13.51%) Software Engineering
8 5 (13.51%) SOLID
8 5 (13.51%) TDD
9 4 (10.81%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (10.81%) Scrum
9 4 (10.81%) SOA
9 4 (10.81%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 34 (91.89%) C#
2 25 (67.57%) JavaScript
3 11 (29.73%) SQL
4 6 (16.22%) Python
5 5 (13.51%) T-SQL
5 5 (13.51%) TypeScript
6 4 (10.81%) C++
6 4 (10.81%) Java
6 4 (10.81%) Ruby
6 4 (10.81%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.70%) Bicep
7 1 (2.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (21.62%) SC Cleared
1 8 (21.62%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.41%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.11%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.41%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (2.70%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (29.73%) Docker
2 6 (16.22%) Active Directory
3 3 (8.11%) vCloud
3 3 (8.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (8.11%) VMware Workstation
3 3 (8.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (35.14%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.81%) Kibana
3 2 (5.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (27.03%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.11%) VMware
3 1 (2.70%) Google
3 1 (2.70%) Oracle