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 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 503 386 324
Rank change year-on-year -117 -62 -76
Contract jobs citing ASP.NET 83 178 331
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.49% 0.70%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.03% 2.25% 3.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 117 247
10th Percentile £397 £308 £350
25th Percentile £434 £340 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -7.27% -
75th Percentile £600 £624 £719
90th Percentile £633 £689 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
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 - - -40.49%

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 8,083 7,920 10,496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.89% 21.65% 22.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,370 5,006 7,501
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £656
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 196 115 190
10th Percentile £30.13 £22.00 £35.59
25th Percentile £42.50 £36.13 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.47%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.38 £74.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.00 £65.00 £54.56
% change year-on-year -3.08% +19.13% -16.06%

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 16 November 2025.

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 14 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 16 November 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 -98 69 £500 -9.09% 397
London -63 34 £500 -13.04% 108
UK excluding London -50 32 £475 +5.56% 307
Work from Home -41 28 £500 +16.82% 320
Midlands -34 11 £575 +60.84% 43
East Midlands -2 10 £575 +61.97% 21
South East -14 8 £450 -12.20% 98
North of England -34 7 £435 +24.29% 90
North West -20 4 £435 - 54
Yorkshire -37 3 - - 26
East of England - 3 £500 - 32
South West +4 2 - - 35
Scotland -7 1 £513 +20.59% 3
West Midlands -31 1 - - 22

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 7 (8.43%) CMS
2 5 (6.02%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 5 (6.02%) Headless CMS
2 5 (6.02%) Sitecore CMS
2 5 (6.02%) Umbraco
3 4 (4.82%) IIS
4 2 (2.41%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.20%) ArcGIS
5 1 (1.20%) GeoServer
5 1 (1.20%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (4.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (3.61%) Aladdin
2 3 (3.61%) Bloomberg AIM
Cloud Services
1 50 (60.24%) Azure
2 24 (28.92%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (12.05%) Power Platform
4 9 (10.84%) Azure Functions
4 9 (10.84%) Serverless
5 8 (9.64%) Azure Logic Apps
5 8 (9.64%) GitHub
6 7 (8.43%) AWS
6 7 (8.43%) Azure AKS
6 7 (8.43%) Azure Monitor
6 7 (8.43%) Kontent
7 6 (7.23%) Azure Service Bus
7 6 (7.23%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (6.02%) Contentful
8 5 (6.02%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (6.02%) Power Automate
8 5 (6.02%) PowerApps
9 4 (4.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (4.82%) Entra ID
10 3 (3.61%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.41%) HTTP
1 2 (2.41%) Internet
1 2 (2.41%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (42.17%) SQL Server
2 8 (9.64%) NoSQL
3 7 (8.43%) Power BI
4 5 (6.02%) MongoDB
5 4 (4.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (3.61%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (3.61%) Redis
7 2 (2.41%) MySQL
8 1 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.20%) GIS
8 1 (1.20%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.20%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (1.20%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 23 (27.71%) Git
2 5 (6.02%) Visual Studio
3 4 (4.82%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.41%) NUnit
5 1 (1.20%) Ant
5 1 (1.20%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.20%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.20%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (1.20%) Eclipse
5 1 (1.20%) IntelliJ
5 1 (1.20%) JIRA
5 1 (1.20%) JUnit
5 1 (1.20%) Moq
5 1 (1.20%) MSTest
5 1 (1.20%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (1.20%) Postman
5 1 (1.20%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.20%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 25 (30.12%) Social Skills
2 19 (22.89%) Finance
3 13 (15.66%) Public Sector
4 12 (14.46%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (7.23%) Banking
6 4 (4.82%) Front Office
7 3 (3.61%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.61%) Local Government
8 2 (2.41%) Retail
9 1 (1.20%) Billing
9 1 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.20%) Health Technology
9 1 (1.20%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.20%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.20%) Military
9 1 (1.20%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 63 (75.90%) Developer
2 24 (28.92%) .NET Developer
3 18 (21.69%) Full-Stack Developer
4 16 (19.28%) C# Developer
4 16 (19.28%) Senior
5 12 (14.46%) Senior Developer
6 7 (8.43%) Azure Developer
6 7 (8.43%) CMS Developer
7 6 (7.23%) React Developer
8 5 (6.02%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
8 5 (6.02%) Full-Stack C# Developer
8 5 (6.02%) Lead
9 4 (4.82%) Administrator
9 4 (4.82%) Azure Administrator
9 4 (4.82%) Database Developer
9 4 (4.82%) DBA
9 4 (4.82%) Senior .NET Developer
10 3 (3.61%) Engineering Manager
10 3 (3.61%) Lead C# Developer
10 3 (3.61%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (100.00%) .NET
2 43 (51.81%) .NET Framework
3 31 (37.35%) HTML
4 30 (36.14%) CSS
5 25 (30.12%) RESTful
6 24 (28.92%) .NET Core
7 21 (25.30%) ASP.NET Core
8 20 (24.10%) ASP.NET MVC
9 15 (18.07%) AngularJS
9 15 (18.07%) React
10 13 (15.66%) Entity Framework
11 9 (10.84%) REST
12 8 (9.64%) Web Services
13 7 (8.43%) ASP.NET Web API
14 6 (7.23%) Node.js
15 5 (6.02%) ASP.NET Web Forms
15 5 (6.02%) HTML5
15 5 (6.02%) OAuth
15 5 (6.02%) Vue
15 5 (6.02%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.25%) Mobile App
2 6 (7.23%) Hedge funds
2 6 (7.23%) Product Ownership
3 5 (6.02%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.82%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.82%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (3.61%) N-Tier
5 3 (3.61%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.41%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.20%) AS400
7 1 (1.20%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.20%) IoT
7 1 (1.20%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.20%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.82%) Windows
2 2 (2.41%) Android
3 1 (1.20%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (44.58%) DevOps
2 34 (40.96%) Agile
3 27 (32.53%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (31.33%) CI/CD
5 24 (28.92%) MVC
6 22 (26.51%) Full-Stack Development
7 14 (16.87%) Scrum
8 13 (15.66%) Microservices
9 12 (14.46%) Clean Code
10 11 (13.25%) User Experience
11 9 (10.84%) Analytics
11 9 (10.84%) Containerisation
12 8 (9.64%) SDLC
12 8 (9.64%) Software Engineering
12 8 (9.64%) Test Automation
13 7 (8.43%) AI
13 7 (8.43%) Code Quality
13 7 (8.43%) Data Protection
14 6 (7.23%) Computer Science
14 6 (7.23%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 75 (90.36%) C#
2 36 (43.37%) JavaScript
2 36 (43.37%) SQL
3 6 (7.23%) VB.NET
4 5 (6.02%) T-SQL
5 4 (4.82%) PowerShell
6 3 (3.61%) Java
6 3 (3.61%) Python
7 2 (2.41%) Bash
7 2 (2.41%) Bicep
7 2 (2.41%) PHP
7 2 (2.41%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.41%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.20%) C++
8 1 (1.20%) Korn
8 1 (1.20%) VB
Qualifications
1 7 (8.43%) Degree
1 7 (8.43%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.23%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.02%) Azure Certification
3 5 (6.02%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.61%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.43%) Accessibility
2 6 (7.23%) QA
3 5 (6.02%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.41%) WCAG
5 1 (1.20%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (12.05%) Docker
2 5 (6.02%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (7.23%) Terraform
2 4 (4.82%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (27.71%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.64%) Sitecore
3 5 (6.02%) Adobe
3 5 (6.02%) Oracle
4 3 (3.61%) Bloomberg
4 3 (3.61%) FactSet
4 3 (3.61%) Marketo
4 3 (3.61%) OneTrust
5 2 (2.41%) SAP
6 1 (1.20%) ESRI
6 1 (1.20%) Google