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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 506 529 605
Rank change year-on-year +23 +76 +61
Contract jobs citing ASP.NET Core 33 61 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.14% 0.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.46% 0.65% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 48 61
10th Percentile £416 £368 £425
25th Percentile £469 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £483 £650
Median % change year-on-year +16.58% -25.77% +8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £694 £788
90th Percentile £700 £825 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £400 £475
% change year-on-year +18.75% -15.79% +12.62%

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 7,122 9,314 12,687
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.73% 21.42% 22.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,822 6,381 9,223
10th Percentile £350 £350 £388
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.74% -2.18% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £763 £788 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 280 155
10th Percentile £28.29 £22.50 £28.50
25th Percentile £35.00 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -15.38% +23.81%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.51 £74.44 £80.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £58.30 £62.50
% change year-on-year +7.20% -6.72% +13.64%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 +35 30 £589 +18.94% 85
London +27 23 £615 +23.00% 21
Work from Home +16 8 £500 +6.84% 51
UK excluding London +27 6 £475 +18.75% 68
South East +42 3 £450 -5.26% 20
Scotland +1 2 £563 +60.71% 5
South West +30 1 £393 +8.28% 5
North West +7 1 £625 +19.05% 12
North of England +6 1 £625 +19.05% 17

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 (12.12%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 17 (51.52%) Azure
2 10 (30.30%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (21.21%) Serverless
4 6 (18.18%) AWS
4 6 (18.18%) Azure Service Bus
5 4 (12.12%) Entra ID
5 4 (12.12%) Power Platform
6 2 (6.06%) Amazon Cognito
6 2 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (6.06%) Azure Functions
6 2 (6.06%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (6.06%) Boomi
6 2 (6.06%) Copilot Studio
6 2 (6.06%) GCP
6 2 (6.06%) GitHub
6 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (6.06%) Power Automate
6 2 (6.06%) PowerApps
7 1 (3.03%) dbt
7 1 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.09%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (36.36%) SQL Server
2 5 (15.15%) NoSQL
3 4 (12.12%) Big Data
3 4 (12.12%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (12.12%) Redis
4 2 (6.06%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (6.06%) Power BI
4 2 (6.06%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.03%) MySQL
5 1 (3.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (24.24%) Git
2 3 (9.09%) Bitbucket
2 3 (9.09%) Jenkins
2 3 (9.09%) SonarQube
2 3 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (6.06%) NUnit
4 1 (3.03%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (3.03%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (27.27%) Finance
2 5 (15.15%) Social Skills
3 4 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (9.09%) Law
4 3 (9.09%) Legal
4 3 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.06%) Banking
5 2 (6.06%) Retail
6 1 (3.03%) Front Office
6 1 (3.03%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (78.79%) Developer
2 13 (39.39%) Senior
2 13 (39.39%) Senior Developer
3 12 (36.36%) .NET Developer
4 11 (33.33%) C# Developer
5 8 (24.24%) C# .NET Developer
6 7 (21.21%) Senior .NET Developer
7 6 (18.18%) Backend Developer
7 6 (18.18%) Senior C# Developer
8 5 (15.15%) Architect
8 5 (15.15%) ASP.NET Developer
8 5 (15.15%) Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (15.15%) Senior C# .NET Developer
9 4 (12.12%) Azure Developer
9 4 (12.12%) C# ASP.NET Developer
9 4 (12.12%) Senior Backend Developer
9 4 (12.12%) Solutions Architect
10 3 (9.09%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
10 3 (9.09%) Lead
10 3 (9.09%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (100.00%) .NET
1 33 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 18 (54.55%) HTML
3 16 (48.48%) CSS
4 11 (33.33%) RESTful
5 9 (27.27%) .NET Framework
6 8 (24.24%) .NET Core
7 7 (21.21%) Node.js
7 7 (21.21%) Web Services
8 6 (18.18%) Entity Framework
8 6 (18.18%) React
8 6 (18.18%) XML
9 4 (12.12%) AngularJS
9 4 (12.12%) Apache NiFi
9 4 (12.12%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (12.12%) REST
9 4 (12.12%) Vue
10 2 (6.06%) CSS3
10 2 (6.06%) LINQ to SQL
10 2 (6.06%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) Private Cloud
1 4 (12.12%) Public Cloud
2 3 (9.09%) N-Tier
3 2 (6.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (6.06%) Market Risk
3 2 (6.06%) Mobile App
3 2 (6.06%) PKI
3 2 (6.06%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.03%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.03%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.12%) Android
1 4 (12.12%) Apple iOS
2 3 (9.09%) CentOS
2 3 (9.09%) Linux
2 3 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (9.09%) Windows
2 3 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (57.58%) DevOps
2 17 (51.52%) Agile
3 15 (45.45%) CI/CD
4 7 (21.21%) Microservices
4 7 (21.21%) MVC
5 6 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
5 6 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (18.18%) Scrum
6 5 (15.15%) API Development
6 5 (15.15%) OOP
6 5 (15.15%) SOLID
6 5 (15.15%) Web Development
7 4 (12.12%) B2C
7 4 (12.12%) Design Patterns
7 4 (12.12%) Event-Driven
7 4 (12.12%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 4 (12.12%) OO
7 4 (12.12%) TDD
8 3 (9.09%) Containerisation
8 3 (9.09%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 31 (93.94%) C#
2 23 (69.70%) JavaScript
3 8 (24.24%) SQL
4 7 (21.21%) TypeScript
5 5 (15.15%) Python
6 4 (12.12%) Bicep
6 4 (12.12%) Java
6 4 (12.12%) PowerShell
6 4 (12.12%) Ruby
6 4 (12.12%) Shell Script
7 2 (6.06%) T-SQL
8 1 (3.03%) C++
8 1 (3.03%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 6 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 6 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.06%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.06%) QA
System Software
1 9 (27.27%) Active Directory
2 8 (24.24%) Docker
3 3 (9.09%) vCloud
3 3 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (9.09%) VMware Workstation
3 3 (9.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 4 (12.12%) Kibana
3 2 (6.06%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (39.39%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.09%) VMware
3 1 (3.03%) Google
3 1 (3.03%) Oracle