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 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 522 388 352
Rank change year-on-year -134 -36 -52
Contract jobs citing ASP.NET 101 144 243
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.49% 0.56%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.07% 2.16% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 112 191
10th Percentile £390 £410 £313
25th Percentile £425 £500 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £599 £475
Median % change year-on-year -16.49% +26.05% -12.84%
75th Percentile £600 £781 £625
90th Percentile £714 £825 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £405
% change year-on-year -4.95% +23.46% -10.00%

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 9,430 6,657 8,957
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.18% 22.67% 20.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,268 4,567 6,228
10th Percentile £358 £363 £338
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £780 £764
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £500
% change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 111 218
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.11 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £46.50 £39.92
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £82.96 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -24.90%

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 26 April 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 17 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 26 April 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 -136 83 £525 -17.65% 219
UK excluding London -74 46 £475 -4.95% 167
London -118 44 £525 -30.00% 66
Work from Home -51 33 £500 -25.93% 232
Midlands -55 10 £550 +15.79% 25
South East -64 10 £475 -5.00% 55
East of England -28 8 £600 +14.29% 23
West Midlands -57 7 £500 -11.11% 13
Scotland +7 6 £358 -28.40% 3
North of England -69 5 £475 +28.38% 43
East Midlands - 3 £600 - 12
South West - 3 £625 - 17
Northern Ireland +4 2 - -
North East -17 2 £475 +28.38% 7
Yorkshire - 2 £464 - 10
Wales - 2 £450 - 3
North West -39 1 £450 +9.56% 26

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 13 (12.87%) CMS
2 11 (10.89%) Sitecore CMS
3 4 (3.96%) Umbraco
4 3 (2.97%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (2.97%) Confluence
4 3 (2.97%) Headless CMS
4 3 (2.97%) IIS
4 3 (2.97%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.99%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.99%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (0.99%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 1 (0.99%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 56 (55.45%) Azure
2 24 (23.76%) Azure DevOps
3 21 (20.79%) AWS
4 18 (17.82%) Serverless
5 16 (15.84%) GitHub
6 15 (14.85%) Azure Functions
7 10 (9.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 9 (8.91%) Azure Monitor
8 9 (8.91%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (7.92%) Azure Logic Apps
9 8 (7.92%) Entra ID
10 7 (6.93%) GCP
11 6 (5.94%) Azure AKS
12 5 (4.95%) Azure API Management
12 5 (4.95%) Azure Key Vault
12 5 (4.95%) Power Platform
13 4 (3.96%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (3.96%) Microsoft 365
14 3 (2.97%) Power Automate
14 3 (2.97%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.95%) HTTP
2 4 (3.96%) 3GPP
2 4 (3.96%) RTCP
2 4 (3.96%) RTP
2 4 (3.96%) XCAP
3 2 (1.98%) SSL
4 1 (0.99%) Intranet
4 1 (0.99%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (44.55%) SQL Server
2 18 (17.82%) NoSQL
3 9 (8.91%) Relational Database
4 6 (5.94%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (5.94%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.97%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.98%) ClickHouse
6 2 (1.98%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.98%) GIS
6 2 (1.98%) Power BI
6 2 (1.98%) Redis
6 2 (1.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (1.98%) Tableau
7 1 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.99%) DocumentDB
7 1 (0.99%) EDRMS
7 1 (0.99%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.99%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 17 (16.83%) Git
2 9 (8.91%) JIRA
3 5 (4.95%) NUnit
3 5 (4.95%) Visual Studio
4 4 (3.96%) TeamCity
5 3 (2.97%) Bitbucket
5 3 (2.97%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.97%) MSTest
5 3 (2.97%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (1.98%) GitLab
6 2 (1.98%) Jasmine
6 2 (1.98%) Karma Test Runner
6 2 (1.98%) Postman
6 2 (1.98%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (1.98%) Vite
6 2 (1.98%) webpack
7 1 (0.99%) git-flow
7 1 (0.99%) Moq
7 1 (0.99%) MSI
7 1 (0.99%) Serilog
General
1 23 (22.77%) Social Skills
2 15 (14.85%) Public Sector
3 12 (11.88%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (11.88%) Banking
4 11 (10.89%) Finance
5 2 (1.98%) Front Office
5 2 (1.98%) Investment Banking
5 2 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (1.98%) Police
6 1 (0.99%) Automotive
6 1 (0.99%) Billing
6 1 (0.99%) Publishing
6 1 (0.99%) Retail
Job Titles
1 76 (75.25%) Developer
2 34 (33.66%) .NET Developer
3 23 (22.77%) C# Developer
4 22 (21.78%) Full-Stack Developer
5 17 (16.83%) Senior
6 13 (12.87%) C# .NET Developer
7 12 (11.88%) Senior Developer
8 9 (8.91%) React Developer
9 7 (6.93%) Architect
10 6 (5.94%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
10 6 (5.94%) Full-Stack C# Developer
10 6 (5.94%) Technical Architect
11 5 (4.95%) Azure Developer
11 5 (4.95%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 5 (4.95%) Senior .NET Developer
11 5 (4.95%) Sitecore Developer
11 5 (4.95%) Software Engineer
12 4 (3.96%) ASP.NET Developer
12 4 (3.96%) Database Developer
13 3 (2.97%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (100.00%) .NET
2 46 (45.54%) ASP.NET Core
3 42 (41.58%) .NET Framework
4 40 (39.60%) React
5 37 (36.63%) HTML
6 36 (35.64%) CSS
7 32 (31.68%) .NET Core
8 29 (28.71%) RESTful
9 24 (23.76%) ASP.NET MVC
10 23 (22.77%) AngularJS
11 22 (21.78%) Entity Framework
12 21 (20.79%) Node.js
13 19 (18.81%) REST
14 17 (16.83%) ASP.NET Web API
15 13 (12.87%) jQuery
16 11 (10.89%) HTML5
17 9 (8.91%) XML
18 8 (7.92%) SignalR
19 7 (6.93%) CSS3
19 7 (6.93%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.92%) Cloud Native
1 8 (7.92%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (4.95%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.96%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.96%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.97%) AI Agents
4 3 (2.97%) Legacy Code
4 3 (2.97%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.98%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.98%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.98%) Media Streaming
5 2 (1.98%) NHS
5 2 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.99%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.99%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.99%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.97%) Windows
2 1 (0.99%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (56.44%) CI/CD
2 52 (51.49%) Agile
3 50 (49.50%) DevOps
4 34 (33.66%) Full-Stack Development
5 32 (31.68%) MVC
6 30 (29.70%) Microservices
7 21 (20.79%) Test Automation
7 21 (20.79%) User Experience
8 19 (18.81%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (14.85%) Software Engineering
10 14 (13.86%) Containerisation
10 14 (13.86%) Scrum
10 14 (13.86%) SOLID
11 13 (12.87%) Infrastructure as Code
12 12 (11.88%) AI
12 12 (11.88%) Front End Development
13 11 (10.89%) Mentoring
13 11 (10.89%) TDD
14 10 (9.90%) OO
14 10 (9.90%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 93 (92.08%) C#
2 37 (36.63%) SQL
3 35 (34.65%) JavaScript
4 13 (12.87%) Python
4 13 (12.87%) TypeScript
5 7 (6.93%) Java
5 7 (6.93%) PowerShell
6 4 (3.96%) T-SQL
7 3 (2.97%) Bash
7 3 (2.97%) Bicep
7 3 (2.97%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.98%) PHP
8 2 (1.98%) Ruby
9 1 (0.99%) C++
9 1 (0.99%) XPath
Qualifications
1 18 (17.82%) Security Cleared
2 13 (12.87%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.93%) Degree
4 6 (5.94%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (4.95%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.98%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.99%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.90%) QA
2 8 (7.92%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.96%) WCAG
4 2 (1.98%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.99%) GDPR
5 1 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 31 (30.69%) Docker
2 2 (1.98%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (16.83%) Kubernetes
2 15 (14.85%) Terraform
3 1 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (15.84%) Sitecore
2 10 (9.90%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.93%) Google
3 7 (6.93%) Oracle
4 5 (4.95%) Adobe
5 2 (1.98%) Databricks