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 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 515 444 354
Rank change year-on-year -71 -90 -10
Contract jobs citing ASP.NET 149 110 225
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.33% 0.58%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.46% 1.48% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 89 166
10th Percentile £357 £399 £309
25th Percentile £415 £438 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £485
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +13.40% -11.82%
75th Percentile £588 £775 £619
90th Percentile £700 £825 £709
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -

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 10,172 7,434 8,558
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.04% 22.62% 21.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,633 5,010 5,809
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £638 £630 £669
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 169 244
10th Percentile £28.65 £29.85 £22.50
25th Percentile £41.35 £40.75 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.88 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.45% +7.07% -14.58%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.01 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £57.28
% change year-on-year +15.56% -1.79% -2.24%

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 7 August 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 12 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 7 August 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 -70 121 £475 -22.92% 229
London -70 69 £527 -24.71% 76
UK excluding London -67 59 £450 - 169
Work from Home -45 51 £497 -5.43% 188
Yorkshire -27 16 £449 - 9
South East -58 16 £426 -5.28% 63
North of England -67 16 £449 -14.52% 41
South West -27 9 £500 +30.29% 9
Scotland -7 8 £368 -25.57% 6
East of England -17 5 £473 -5.50% 23
Midlands -54 5 £475 +51.76% 20
West Midlands -58 5 £475 - 11

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 15 (10.07%) SharePoint
2 14 (9.40%) IIS
3 7 (4.70%) Confluence
4 6 (4.03%) CMS
5 3 (2.01%) Umbraco
6 2 (1.34%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.34%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.67%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.67%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 7 (4.70%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.67%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 2 (1.34%) OpenText MBPM
1 2 (1.34%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.67%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 83 (55.70%) Azure
2 29 (19.46%) AWS
2 29 (19.46%) Azure DevOps
3 20 (13.42%) GitHub
4 13 (8.72%) Power Platform
5 10 (6.71%) Azure AKS
5 10 (6.71%) Serverless
6 9 (6.04%) Entra ID
7 8 (5.37%) Azure Functions
8 7 (4.70%) Azure App Service
8 7 (4.70%) Azure Key Vault
8 7 (4.70%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (4.70%) Power Automate
8 7 (4.70%) PowerApps
9 6 (4.03%) Azure Logic Apps
9 6 (4.03%) GCP
9 6 (4.03%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (3.36%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (3.36%) Azure Service Bus
10 5 (3.36%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.03%) Intranet
2 5 (3.36%) HTTP
3 4 (2.68%) 3GPP
3 4 (2.68%) RTCP
3 4 (2.68%) RTP
3 4 (2.68%) XCAP
4 2 (1.34%) DHCP
4 2 (1.34%) DNS
4 2 (1.34%) Internet
4 2 (1.34%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.67%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (53.02%) SQL Server
2 16 (10.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 10 (6.71%) MS Access
4 9 (6.04%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (5.37%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (4.70%) Relational Database
7 6 (4.03%) NoSQL
7 6 (4.03%) Power BI
8 5 (3.36%) MongoDB
9 4 (2.68%) DocumentDB
9 4 (2.68%) EDRMS
9 4 (2.68%) Metadata
9 4 (2.68%) Redis
10 3 (2.01%) Oracle Database
11 2 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.34%) Db2
11 2 (1.34%) GIS
11 2 (1.34%) RDBMS
11 2 (1.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (1.34%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 31 (20.81%) Git
2 16 (10.74%) Jenkins
3 12 (8.05%) Visual Studio
4 11 (7.38%) JIRA
5 9 (6.04%) TeamCity
6 8 (5.37%) Bitbucket
6 8 (5.37%) NUnit
7 7 (4.70%) Team Foundation Server
8 5 (3.36%) GitLab
8 5 (3.36%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (2.68%) webpack
10 3 (2.01%) git-flow
10 3 (2.01%) MSBuild
10 3 (2.01%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 2 (1.34%) Artifactory
11 2 (1.34%) Jasmine
11 2 (1.34%) JMeter
11 2 (1.34%) Karma Test Runner
11 2 (1.34%) Moq
11 2 (1.34%) Vite
General
1 38 (25.50%) Social Skills
2 30 (20.13%) Finance
3 22 (14.77%) Banking
4 18 (12.08%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (11.41%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.70%) Investment Banking
7 6 (4.03%) Front Office
8 4 (2.68%) Back Office
9 3 (2.01%) Local Government
10 2 (1.34%) Automotive
10 2 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.34%) Police
10 2 (1.34%) Retail
11 1 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.67%) Law
11 1 (0.67%) Legal
11 1 (0.67%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.67%) Marketing
11 1 (0.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 103 (69.13%) Developer
2 57 (38.26%) .NET Developer
3 28 (18.79%) C# Developer
4 26 (17.45%) Senior
5 20 (13.42%) Full-Stack Developer
6 18 (12.08%) C# .NET Developer
6 18 (12.08%) Senior Developer
7 15 (10.07%) Lead
8 13 (8.72%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
8 13 (8.72%) Software Developer
9 12 (8.05%) Senior .NET Developer
10 9 (6.04%) Technical Leader
11 8 (5.37%) ASP.NET Developer
12 7 (4.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 7 (4.70%) Lead Developer
12 7 (4.70%) React Developer
12 7 (4.70%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (4.70%) Software Engineer
12 7 (4.70%) SQL Developer
13 5 (3.36%) C# ASP.NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (100.00%) .NET
2 68 (45.64%) ASP.NET Core
3 51 (34.23%) .NET Framework
4 44 (29.53%) React
5 40 (26.85%) .NET Core
6 38 (25.50%) Entity Framework
6 38 (25.50%) REST
7 32 (21.48%) ASP.NET Web API
7 32 (21.48%) HTML
8 30 (20.13%) RESTful
9 26 (17.45%) CSS
10 24 (16.11%) AngularJS
11 18 (12.08%) XML
12 17 (11.41%) ASP.NET MVC
13 16 (10.74%) Web Services
14 15 (10.07%) JSON
15 13 (8.72%) WCF
16 12 (8.05%) Next.js
16 12 (8.05%) Node.js
17 11 (7.38%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 19 (12.75%) Enterprise Software
2 11 (7.38%) Cloud Native
3 10 (6.71%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (5.37%) Product Ownership
5 7 (4.70%) Legacy Applications
5 7 (4.70%) Legacy Code
6 6 (4.03%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (4.03%) Replication
7 5 (3.36%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.34%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.34%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.34%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.34%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.34%) Media Streaming
8 2 (1.34%) NHS
8 2 (1.34%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.34%) PKI
9 1 (0.67%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.67%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 18 (12.08%) Windows
2 7 (4.70%) Linux
3 4 (2.68%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (49.66%) CI/CD
2 69 (46.31%) Agile
3 65 (43.62%) DevOps
4 41 (27.52%) Full-Stack Development
5 31 (20.81%) Microservices
5 31 (20.81%) Test Automation
6 27 (18.12%) MVC
7 26 (17.45%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (14.09%) SOLID
8 21 (14.09%) User Experience
9 20 (13.42%) Code Quality
10 18 (12.08%) Front End Development
11 17 (11.41%) API Development
11 17 (11.41%) Migration
11 17 (11.41%) Scrum
12 16 (10.74%) Containerisation
12 16 (10.74%) Software Engineering
12 16 (10.74%) Unit Testing
13 15 (10.07%) Infrastructure as Code
13 15 (10.07%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 127 (85.23%) C#
2 69 (46.31%) SQL
3 51 (34.23%) JavaScript
4 30 (20.13%) TypeScript
5 22 (14.77%) PL/SQL
5 22 (14.77%) T-SQL
6 16 (10.74%) Python
7 10 (6.71%) VB.NET
8 9 (6.04%) VBA
9 8 (5.37%) PowerShell
9 8 (5.37%) XPath
10 7 (4.70%) Bicep
10 7 (4.70%) VBScript
11 5 (3.36%) Java
12 3 (2.01%) Bash
13 2 (1.34%) C++
13 2 (1.34%) Ruby
14 1 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.67%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.67%) R
Qualifications
1 26 (17.45%) Security Cleared
2 18 (12.08%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.05%) Degree
4 8 (5.37%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.68%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.67%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.67%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.67%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (14.09%) QA
2 12 (8.05%) Accessibility
3 7 (4.70%) WCAG
4 2 (1.34%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.67%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.67%) GDPR
5 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 44 (29.53%) Docker
2 8 (5.37%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (18.79%) Kubernetes
2 22 (14.77%) Terraform
3 7 (4.70%) Ansible
4 2 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 46 (30.87%) Microsoft
2 29 (19.46%) Oracle
3 7 (4.70%) Sitecore
4 5 (3.36%) Centrify
4 5 (3.36%) CyberArk
5 3 (2.01%) Databricks
5 3 (2.01%) IBM
6 2 (1.34%) Cisco
6 2 (1.34%) VMware
7 1 (0.67%) Adobe
7 1 (0.67%) Google
7 1 (0.67%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.67%) Telerik