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 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 544 445 341
Rank change year-on-year -99 -104 -9
Contract jobs citing ASP.NET 138 95 227
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.29% 0.60%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.17% 1.13% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 67 164
10th Percentile £356 £398 £313
25th Percentile £418 £438 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £510
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +7.84% -7.27%
75th Percentile £575 £679 £619
90th Percentile £699 £813 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £455 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +1.11% -10.00% +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 11,819 8,433 9,440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.66% 25.97% 24.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,774 5,630 6,231
10th Percentile £375 £354 £356
25th Percentile £438 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £504 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +6.00% -5.00% -2.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 297 186 190
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £25.60
25th Percentile £50.00 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.35 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +19.60% -11.77% +2.67%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £72.25 £74.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +17.39% -11.54% +10.11%

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 22 September 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 13 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 22 September 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 -101 115 £475 -13.64% 303
London -65 67 £488 -21.06% 105
UK excluding London -72 52 £455 +1.11% 214
Work from Home -42 46 £475 -5.00% 231
Yorkshire -29 18 £448 - 21
North of England -59 18 £448 -9.14% 65
South East -56 13 £475 +5.56% 58
South West -32 8 £488 +27.04% 19
Scotland -21 5 £438 -23.08% 2
East of England -29 4 £345 -31.00% 24
Midlands -49 4 £538 +71.73% 41
East Midlands -14 2 £550 +75.72% 19
West Midlands -47 2 £525 - 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 15 (10.87%) SharePoint
2 13 (9.42%) IIS
3 8 (5.80%) CMS
4 7 (5.07%) Confluence
5 3 (2.17%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.72%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.72%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.72%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.72%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.72%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 7 (5.07%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.62%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.17%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (1.45%) OpenText MBPM
3 2 (1.45%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.72%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 77 (55.80%) Azure
2 32 (23.19%) Azure DevOps
3 31 (22.46%) AWS
4 15 (10.87%) GitHub
5 13 (9.42%) Power Platform
6 7 (5.07%) Dynamics 365
6 7 (5.07%) Entra ID
7 6 (4.35%) Azure AKS
7 6 (4.35%) Azure App Service
7 6 (4.35%) Azure Service Bus
7 6 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (4.35%) Power Automate
7 6 (4.35%) PowerApps
8 5 (3.62%) Azure API Management
8 5 (3.62%) Microsoft Copilot
8 5 (3.62%) Serverless
9 4 (2.90%) Azure Functions
9 4 (2.90%) Microsoft Purview
9 4 (2.90%) OneDrive
9 4 (2.90%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.35%) Intranet
2 2 (1.45%) DHCP
2 2 (1.45%) DNS
2 2 (1.45%) Internet
2 2 (1.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (55.80%) SQL Server
2 17 (12.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 10 (7.25%) MS Access
4 9 (6.52%) Relational Database
5 8 (5.80%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (4.35%) Power BI
7 5 (3.62%) NoSQL
8 4 (2.90%) EDRMS
8 4 (2.90%) Metadata
8 4 (2.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (2.17%) DocumentDB
9 3 (2.17%) MongoDB
9 3 (2.17%) Oracle Database
9 3 (2.17%) Redis
10 2 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.45%) Db2
10 2 (1.45%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.45%) Star Schema
11 1 (0.72%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 36 (26.09%) Git
2 20 (14.49%) Jenkins
3 12 (8.70%) Visual Studio
4 11 (7.97%) JIRA
5 8 (5.80%) Bitbucket
5 8 (5.80%) Team Foundation Server
5 8 (5.80%) TeamCity
6 6 (4.35%) GitLab
7 5 (3.62%) NUnit
7 5 (3.62%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (2.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (1.45%) Artifactory
9 2 (1.45%) git-flow
9 2 (1.45%) JMeter
9 2 (1.45%) MSBuild
9 2 (1.45%) webpack
10 1 (0.72%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.72%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.72%) Postman
10 1 (0.72%) Vite
General
1 49 (35.51%) Social Skills
2 29 (21.01%) Finance
3 22 (15.94%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (12.32%) Banking
5 11 (7.97%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.07%) Front Office
6 7 (5.07%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.90%) Back Office
8 3 (2.17%) Local Government
9 2 (1.45%) Automotive
9 2 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.45%) Retail
10 1 (0.72%) Law
10 1 (0.72%) Legal
10 1 (0.72%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.72%) Marketing
10 1 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 91 (65.94%) Developer
2 58 (42.03%) .NET Developer
3 22 (15.94%) C# Developer
3 22 (15.94%) Senior
4 16 (11.59%) Senior Developer
5 15 (10.87%) C# .NET Developer
5 15 (10.87%) Lead
6 14 (10.14%) Senior .NET Developer
7 12 (8.70%) Full-Stack Developer
8 11 (7.97%) Software Developer
9 9 (6.52%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
9 9 (6.52%) Technical Leader
10 8 (5.80%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (5.07%) Architect
11 7 (5.07%) Lead Developer
12 6 (4.35%) ASP.NET Developer
12 6 (4.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 6 (4.35%) SQL Developer
13 5 (3.62%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 5 (3.62%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (100.00%) .NET
2 58 (42.03%) ASP.NET Core
3 47 (34.06%) .NET Framework
3 47 (34.06%) REST
4 40 (28.99%) .NET Core
5 34 (24.64%) React
6 27 (19.57%) HTML
7 26 (18.84%) ASP.NET Web API
7 26 (18.84%) Entity Framework
8 25 (18.12%) AngularJS
9 23 (16.67%) RESTful
10 21 (15.22%) CSS
10 21 (15.22%) Web Services
11 19 (13.77%) ASP.NET MVC
12 18 (13.04%) Terraform
13 17 (12.32%) JSON
14 14 (10.14%) XML
15 12 (8.70%) WinForms
16 10 (7.25%) Blazor
17 9 (6.52%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 23 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
2 17 (12.32%) Cloud Native
3 12 (8.70%) Product Ownership
4 8 (5.80%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (5.07%) Legacy Applications
6 6 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (4.35%) Replication
7 5 (3.62%) Legacy Code
8 4 (2.90%) AI Agents
8 4 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (2.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (2.17%) Life Science
9 3 (2.17%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.45%) Data Centre
10 2 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.45%) NHS
10 2 (1.45%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.45%) PKI
10 2 (1.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (13.04%) Windows
2 8 (5.80%) Linux
3 4 (2.90%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (46.38%) DevOps
2 63 (45.65%) CI/CD
3 59 (42.75%) Agile
4 30 (21.74%) Full-Stack Development
5 28 (20.29%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (18.12%) Microservices
6 25 (18.12%) MVC
6 25 (18.12%) Test Automation
7 20 (14.49%) Code Quality
8 18 (13.04%) Front End Development
9 17 (12.32%) AI
9 17 (12.32%) Migration
10 16 (11.59%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (11.59%) Deployment Automation
10 16 (11.59%) SOLID
11 15 (10.87%) Scrum
11 15 (10.87%) Software Engineering
11 15 (10.87%) Stakeholder Management
11 15 (10.87%) Translating Business Requirements
12 14 (10.14%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 119 (86.23%) C#
2 63 (45.65%) SQL
3 48 (34.78%) JavaScript
4 29 (21.01%) TypeScript
5 21 (15.22%) T-SQL
6 20 (14.49%) PL/SQL
7 11 (7.97%) Python
8 10 (7.25%) VB.NET
9 9 (6.52%) VBA
10 8 (5.80%) XPath
11 7 (5.07%) PowerShell
11 7 (5.07%) VBScript
12 6 (4.35%) Bicep
13 3 (2.17%) Bash
14 2 (1.45%) C++
15 1 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.72%) Java
15 1 (0.72%) MATLAB
15 1 (0.72%) R
15 1 (0.72%) XAML
Qualifications
1 22 (15.94%) Security Cleared
2 16 (11.59%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.97%) Degree
4 5 (3.62%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.90%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.17%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.72%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.72%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.72%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (15.22%) QA
2 8 (5.80%) Accessibility
3 6 (4.35%) WCAG
4 2 (1.45%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.72%) Data Quality
System Software
1 30 (21.74%) Docker
2 12 (8.70%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (15.94%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.80%) Ansible
3 2 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 52 (37.68%) Microsoft
2 26 (18.84%) Oracle
3 6 (4.35%) Centrify
3 6 (4.35%) CyberArk
3 6 (4.35%) Sitecore
4 3 (2.17%) Aprimo
4 3 (2.17%) IBM
4 3 (2.17%) OneTrust
4 3 (2.17%) Optimizely
5 2 (1.45%) Cisco
5 2 (1.45%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.45%) VMware
6 1 (0.72%) Databricks
6 1 (0.72%) Telerik