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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 524 447 351
Rank change year-on-year -77 -96 -5
Contract jobs citing ASP.NET 136 108 225
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.33% 0.58%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.34% 1.47% 2.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 86 166
10th Percentile £357 £398 £309
25th Percentile £419 £438 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £491
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +9.41% -10.68%
75th Percentile £588 £769 £619
90th Percentile £718 £819 £709
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +2.22% -7.69% +2.63%

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 10,118 7,367 8,577
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.96% 22.37% 22.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,590 4,943 5,790
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -9.00% -
75th Percentile £638 £632 £663
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £469 £500
% change year-on-year +6.61% -6.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 174 243
10th Percentile £28.04 £29.48 £22.55
25th Percentile £41.28 £40.88 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -1.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.01 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £58.91
% change year-on-year +18.18% -6.63% +0.54%

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 13 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 13 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 -72 113 £475 -22.76% 248
London -78 64 £529 -24.43% 89
UK excluding London -76 53 £460 +2.22% 176
Work from Home -47 48 £518 -1.33% 208
Yorkshire -27 16 £449 - 10
South East -52 16 £426 -5.28% 64
North of England -54 16 £449 -14.52% 43
South West -31 9 £500 +30.29% 10
Scotland -9 5 £438 -11.39% 6
East of England -17 4 £345 -31.00% 23
West Midlands -41 3 £525 - 12
Midlands -53 3 £525 +67.73% 24

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 (11.03%) SharePoint
2 14 (10.29%) IIS
3 7 (5.15%) Confluence
4 5 (3.68%) CMS
5 3 (2.21%) Umbraco
6 2 (1.47%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.74%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.74%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.74%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.74%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 7 (5.15%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.74%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 2 (1.47%) OpenText MBPM
1 2 (1.47%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.74%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 73 (53.68%) Azure
2 26 (19.12%) Azure DevOps
3 25 (18.38%) AWS
4 16 (11.76%) GitHub
5 13 (9.56%) Power Platform
6 9 (6.62%) Azure AKS
7 7 (5.15%) Entra ID
7 7 (5.15%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (5.15%) Power Automate
7 7 (5.15%) PowerApps
8 6 (4.41%) Azure App Service
8 6 (4.41%) Serverless
9 5 (3.68%) Azure Functions
9 5 (3.68%) Azure Key Vault
9 5 (3.68%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (3.68%) Microsoft Copilot
10 4 (2.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (2.94%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (2.94%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.41%) Intranet
2 2 (1.47%) DHCP
2 2 (1.47%) DNS
2 2 (1.47%) Internet
2 2 (1.47%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.74%) HTTP
3 1 (0.74%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (57.35%) SQL Server
2 16 (11.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 10 (7.35%) MS Access
4 8 (5.88%) Relational Database
5 7 (5.15%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (4.41%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (4.41%) Power BI
7 5 (3.68%) MongoDB
7 5 (3.68%) NoSQL
8 4 (2.94%) DocumentDB
8 4 (2.94%) EDRMS
8 4 (2.94%) Metadata
9 3 (2.21%) Oracle Database
9 3 (2.21%) Redis
10 2 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.47%) Db2
10 2 (1.47%) GIS
10 2 (1.47%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (1.47%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 31 (22.79%) Git
2 16 (11.76%) Jenkins
3 12 (8.82%) Visual Studio
4 11 (8.09%) JIRA
5 8 (5.88%) TeamCity
6 7 (5.15%) Bitbucket
6 7 (5.15%) Team Foundation Server
7 5 (3.68%) GitLab
7 5 (3.68%) NUnit
7 5 (3.68%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (2.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (2.21%) webpack
9 2 (1.47%) Artifactory
9 2 (1.47%) git-flow
9 2 (1.47%) JMeter
9 2 (1.47%) MSBuild
9 2 (1.47%) Vite
10 1 (0.74%) Moq
10 1 (0.74%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.74%) Postman
General
1 37 (27.21%) Social Skills
2 29 (21.32%) Finance
3 23 (16.91%) Banking
4 18 (13.24%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (9.56%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.88%) Front Office
6 8 (5.88%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.94%) Back Office
8 3 (2.21%) Local Government
9 2 (1.47%) Automotive
9 2 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.47%) Retail
10 1 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.74%) Law
10 1 (0.74%) Legal
10 1 (0.74%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.74%) Marketing
10 1 (0.74%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 95 (69.85%) Developer
2 54 (39.71%) .NET Developer
3 25 (18.38%) C# Developer
4 24 (17.65%) Senior
5 18 (13.24%) Senior Developer
6 16 (11.76%) C# .NET Developer
7 15 (11.03%) Full-Stack Developer
7 15 (11.03%) Lead
8 13 (9.56%) Senior .NET Developer
9 12 (8.82%) Software Developer
10 11 (8.09%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 9 (6.62%) Technical Leader
12 8 (5.88%) ASP.NET Developer
12 8 (5.88%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 7 (5.15%) Lead Developer
13 7 (5.15%) SQL Developer
14 6 (4.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 5 (3.68%) React Developer
15 5 (3.68%) Software Engineer
15 5 (3.68%) SQL Server Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (100.00%) .NET
2 58 (42.65%) ASP.NET Core
3 43 (31.62%) .NET Framework
4 42 (30.88%) React
5 37 (27.21%) REST
6 34 (25.00%) .NET Core
7 30 (22.06%) Entity Framework
8 28 (20.59%) HTML
9 27 (19.85%) ASP.NET Web API
9 27 (19.85%) RESTful
10 22 (16.18%) CSS
11 21 (15.44%) AngularJS
12 17 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC
13 16 (11.76%) Web Services
14 15 (11.03%) JSON
15 14 (10.29%) XML
16 12 (8.82%) Next.js
17 11 (8.09%) Blazor
17 11 (8.09%) WinForms
18 9 (6.62%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.24%) Enterprise Software
2 11 (8.09%) Cloud Native
3 10 (7.35%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (5.88%) Product Ownership
5 7 (5.15%) Legacy Applications
5 7 (5.15%) Legacy Code
6 6 (4.41%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (4.41%) Replication
7 5 (3.68%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.47%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.47%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.47%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.47%) NHS
8 2 (1.47%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.47%) PKI
9 1 (0.74%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.74%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 18 (13.24%) Windows
2 7 (5.15%) Linux
3 4 (2.94%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.47%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (44.85%) CI/CD
1 61 (44.85%) DevOps
2 58 (42.65%) Agile
3 34 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 26 (19.12%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (19.12%) Test Automation
5 23 (16.91%) Microservices
5 23 (16.91%) MVC
6 20 (14.71%) Code Quality
7 18 (13.24%) Migration
7 18 (13.24%) User Experience
8 17 (12.50%) API Development
8 17 (12.50%) Front End Development
9 16 (11.76%) SOLID
10 14 (10.29%) Refactoring
11 13 (9.56%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (8.82%) Mentoring
12 12 (8.82%) Scrum
12 12 (8.82%) Translating Business Requirements
12 12 (8.82%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 117 (86.03%) C#
2 65 (47.79%) SQL
3 47 (34.56%) JavaScript
4 29 (21.32%) TypeScript
5 22 (16.18%) PL/SQL
5 22 (16.18%) T-SQL
6 12 (8.82%) Python
7 10 (7.35%) VB.NET
8 9 (6.62%) VBA
9 8 (5.88%) PowerShell
9 8 (5.88%) XPath
10 7 (5.15%) VBScript
11 5 (3.68%) Bicep
12 3 (2.21%) Bash
12 3 (2.21%) C++
12 3 (2.21%) Java
13 1 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.74%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.74%) R
13 1 (0.74%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 23 (16.91%) Security Cleared
2 17 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 11 (8.09%) Degree
4 8 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.94%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.74%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.74%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.74%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (14.71%) QA
2 8 (5.88%) Accessibility
3 6 (4.41%) WCAG
4 2 (1.47%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.74%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.74%) GDPR
5 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 37 (27.21%) Docker
2 8 (5.88%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (17.65%) Kubernetes
2 18 (13.24%) Terraform
3 7 (5.15%) Ansible
4 2 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 46 (33.82%) Microsoft
2 29 (21.32%) Oracle
3 6 (4.41%) Sitecore
4 5 (3.68%) Centrify
4 5 (3.68%) CyberArk
5 3 (2.21%) Databricks
5 3 (2.21%) IBM
6 2 (1.47%) Cisco
6 2 (1.47%) VMware
7 1 (0.74%) Adobe
7 1 (0.74%) Google
7 1 (0.74%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.74%) Telerik