ASP.NET Contract Job Trends

Microsoft ASP.NET
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring ASP.NET skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 513 348 338
Rank change year-on-year -165 -10 -94
Contract jobs citing ASP.NET 82 176 281
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.56% 0.63%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.95% 2.50% 3.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 113 212
10th Percentile £400 £332 £306
25th Percentile £438 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £651 £678
90th Percentile £645 £825 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £488 £435
% change year-on-year +12.82% +12.07% -8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £26.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £26.78
% change year-on-year - - -66.53%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,621 7,054 9,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.30% 22.43% 20.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,738 4,472 6,586
10th Percentile £356 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £535 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% -0.47% -6.52%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £765 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 90 192
10th Percentile £35.00 £24.78 £25.78
25th Percentile £49.06 £38.31 £46.11
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £69.44 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.95 £77.32 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +18.18% -15.38%

ASP.NET
Job Vacancy Trend

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

ASP.NET job vacancy trend in the UK

ASP.NET
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

ASP.NET
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ASP.NET over the 6 months to 30 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ASP.NET in the UK

ASP.NET
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

ASP.NET
Top 16 Contract Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 30 January 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
England -154 66 £538 -6.52% 231
UK excluding London -91 37 £550 +12.82% 192
London -80 32 £500 -14.40% 61
Work from Home -51 29 £500 -4.76% 193
Midlands -59 10 £600 +57.89% 26
East of England -13 8 £600 +14.29% 21
East Midlands -22 8 £600 +69.01% 16
South East -47 5 £650 +33.33% 66
North of England -65 5 £455 +30.00% 47
Scotland +2 3 £484 -3.25% 5
North West -23 3 £405 +26.56% 30
Northern Ireland -1 2 - - 1
North East -13 2 £475 +31.94% 6
South West -22 2 - - 21
West Midlands -49 2 £525 -6.67% 10
Wales - 2 £450 - 6

ASP.NET
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 14 (17.07%) CMS
2 11 (13.41%) Sitecore CMS
3 6 (7.32%) Umbraco
4 5 (6.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 5 (6.10%) Headless CMS
5 2 (2.44%) Confluence
6 1 (1.22%) ArcGIS
6 1 (1.22%) GeoServer
6 1 (1.22%) IIS
6 1 (1.22%) Oracle Spatial
6 1 (1.22%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 46 (56.10%) Azure
2 25 (30.49%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (18.29%) AWS
4 13 (15.85%) Serverless
5 12 (14.63%) Azure Functions
6 10 (12.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 9 (10.98%) Azure Monitor
7 9 (10.98%) GitHub
8 7 (8.54%) Azure AKS
8 7 (8.54%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (8.54%) Kontent
9 6 (7.32%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (6.10%) Contentful
11 3 (3.66%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (3.66%) Entra ID
11 3 (3.66%) Power Platform
12 2 (2.44%) Azure API Management
12 2 (2.44%) Azure Event Grid
12 2 (2.44%) Azure Key Vault
12 2 (2.44%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.44%) HTTP
1 2 (2.44%) Internet
1 2 (2.44%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (46.34%) SQL Server
2 18 (21.95%) NoSQL
3 8 (9.76%) MongoDB
3 8 (9.76%) Relational Database
4 4 (4.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (3.66%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (3.66%) Power BI
6 2 (2.44%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.44%) GIS
6 2 (2.44%) Redis
6 2 (2.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (2.44%) Tableau
7 1 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.22%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (1.22%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.22%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 24 (29.27%) Git
2 6 (7.32%) Visual Studio
3 5 (6.10%) Jenkins
3 5 (6.10%) JIRA
4 4 (4.88%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (2.44%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.22%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.22%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.22%) MSTest
6 1 (1.22%) NUnit
6 1 (1.22%) Postman
General
1 21 (25.61%) Social Skills
2 12 (14.63%) Public Sector
3 10 (12.20%) Finance
4 9 (10.98%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (10.98%) Banking
5 1 (1.22%) Billing
5 1 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.22%) Health Technology
5 1 (1.22%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.22%) Military
Job Titles
1 62 (75.61%) Developer
2 26 (31.71%) .NET Developer
3 21 (25.61%) Full-Stack Developer
4 14 (17.07%) C# Developer
5 12 (14.63%) Senior
6 8 (9.76%) Architect
6 8 (9.76%) Azure Developer
6 8 (9.76%) Senior Developer
7 7 (8.54%) CMS Developer
8 6 (7.32%) Administrator
8 6 (7.32%) Azure Administrator
8 6 (7.32%) Database Developer
8 6 (7.32%) DBA
8 6 (7.32%) Full-Stack C# Developer
8 6 (7.32%) React Developer
9 5 (6.10%) C# .NET Developer
10 4 (4.88%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
10 4 (4.88%) Senior .NET Developer
10 4 (4.88%) Technical Architect
11 3 (3.66%) Sitecore Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (100.00%) .NET
2 40 (48.78%) .NET Framework
3 39 (47.56%) HTML
4 37 (45.12%) CSS
5 28 (34.15%) React
6 27 (32.93%) .NET Core
7 25 (30.49%) RESTful
8 24 (29.27%) ASP.NET MVC
9 23 (28.05%) AngularJS
10 22 (26.83%) ASP.NET Core
11 13 (15.85%) Node.js
12 10 (12.20%) Entity Framework
12 10 (12.20%) jQuery
12 10 (12.20%) REST
13 9 (10.98%) ASP.NET Web API
14 7 (8.54%) HTML5
15 5 (6.10%) CSS3
15 5 (6.10%) Next.js
16 4 (4.88%) Middleware
16 4 (4.88%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.98%) Cloud Native
1 9 (10.98%) Mobile App
2 7 (8.54%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (7.32%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (7.32%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.88%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.44%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.44%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.22%) AS400
6 1 (1.22%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.22%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.22%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.22%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.66%) Windows
2 1 (1.22%) Android
2 1 (1.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (50.00%) DevOps
2 40 (48.78%) CI/CD
3 36 (43.90%) Agile
4 29 (35.37%) MVC
5 28 (34.15%) Full-Stack Development
6 23 (28.05%) Microservices
7 21 (25.61%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (17.07%) User Experience
9 12 (14.63%) Test Automation
10 11 (13.41%) AI
11 10 (12.20%) Scrum
12 9 (10.98%) Clean Code
12 9 (10.98%) Front End Development
13 8 (9.76%) Containerisation
14 7 (8.54%) Analytics
14 7 (8.54%) Data Protection
14 7 (8.54%) Design Patterns
14 7 (8.54%) OO
14 7 (8.54%) Software Engineering
14 7 (8.54%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 80 (97.56%) C#
2 38 (46.34%) SQL
3 36 (43.90%) JavaScript
4 4 (4.88%) Python
5 3 (3.66%) Java
5 3 (3.66%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.44%) Bash
6 2 (2.44%) PHP
6 2 (2.44%) PL/SQL
6 2 (2.44%) T-SQL
6 2 (2.44%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.22%) Bicep
7 1 (1.22%) C++
7 1 (1.22%) VB
Qualifications
1 10 (12.20%) Security Cleared
2 7 (8.54%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.32%) Azure Certification
4 5 (6.10%) Degree
5 3 (3.66%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.76%) QA
2 6 (7.32%) Accessibility
3 5 (6.10%) WCAG
4 2 (2.44%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.22%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (15.85%) Docker
2 3 (3.66%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (6.10%) Terraform
2 4 (4.88%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (20.73%) Sitecore
2 12 (14.63%) Microsoft
3 6 (7.32%) Adobe
4 4 (4.88%) Google
4 4 (4.88%) Oracle
5 3 (3.66%) Marketo
5 3 (3.66%) OneTrust
6 2 (2.44%) SAP
7 1 (1.22%) ESRI