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

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 511 364 333
Rank change year-on-year -147 -31 -90
Contract jobs citing ASP.NET 71 202 317
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.56% 0.69%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.87% 2.56% 3.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 132 235
10th Percentile £400 £325 £350
25th Percentile £438 £363 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -5.68% -
75th Percentile £600 £624 £719
90th Percentile £638 £690 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £484 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +1.84% - +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £26.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £26.78

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 8,116 7,886 10,146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.64% 21.75% 22.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,381 4,967 7,238
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £720 £780 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 117 183
10th Percentile £30.55 £22.00 £32.60
25th Percentile £43.00 £36.75 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +19.27% -13.26%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.90 £74.18 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -1.54% +23.81% -19.23%

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 30 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 30 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 -143 56 £500 -9.09% 233
UK excluding London -51 27 £484 +1.84% 196
London -69 27 £500 -13.04% 54
Work from Home -57 24 £500 +11.11% 189
Midlands -35 9 £600 +66.67% 20
East Midlands -12 8 £600 +69.01% 10
South East -26 7 £450 -12.20% 72
North of England -47 5 £435 +24.29% 51
North West -18 4 £435 - 31
South West +4 2 - - 21
Scotland +3 2 £484 +13.82% 2
East of England -11 2 - - 26
Yorkshire -31 1 - - 11
West Midlands -32 1 - - 9

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 (9.86%) CMS
2 5 (7.04%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 5 (7.04%) Headless CMS
2 5 (7.04%) Sitecore CMS
2 5 (7.04%) Umbraco
3 2 (2.82%) IIS
4 1 (1.41%) ArcGIS
4 1 (1.41%) GeoServer
4 1 (1.41%) Oracle Spatial
4 1 (1.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (4.23%) Aladdin
1 3 (4.23%) Bloomberg AIM
Cloud Services
1 42 (59.15%) Azure
2 20 (28.17%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (14.08%) Serverless
4 9 (12.68%) Azure Functions
5 8 (11.27%) Azure AKS
5 8 (11.27%) Azure Monitor
5 8 (11.27%) GitHub
6 7 (9.86%) AWS
6 7 (9.86%) Kontent
7 6 (8.45%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (8.45%) Power Platform
8 5 (7.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 5 (7.04%) Azure Logic Apps
8 5 (7.04%) Contentful
9 3 (4.23%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (4.23%) Entra ID
9 3 (4.23%) GCP
9 3 (4.23%) Power Automate
9 3 (4.23%) PowerApps
10 2 (2.82%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.82%) HTTP
1 2 (2.82%) Internet
1 2 (2.82%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (42.25%) SQL Server
2 7 (9.86%) NoSQL
3 6 (8.45%) Power BI
4 5 (7.04%) MongoDB
5 4 (5.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (4.23%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (2.82%) Redis
7 2 (2.82%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.41%) GIS
8 1 (1.41%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.41%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 24 (33.80%) Git
2 4 (5.63%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.23%) Visual Studio
4 2 (2.82%) NUnit
5 1 (1.41%) Ant
5 1 (1.41%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.41%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.41%) Eclipse
5 1 (1.41%) IntelliJ
5 1 (1.41%) JIRA
5 1 (1.41%) JUnit
5 1 (1.41%) Moq
5 1 (1.41%) MSTest
5 1 (1.41%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (1.41%) Postman
5 1 (1.41%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.41%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 19 (26.76%) Social Skills
2 16 (22.54%) Finance
3 13 (18.31%) Public Sector
4 7 (9.86%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (8.45%) Banking
6 3 (4.23%) Front Office
7 2 (2.82%) Retail
8 1 (1.41%) Billing
8 1 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.41%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.41%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.41%) Military
Job Titles
1 55 (77.46%) Developer
2 23 (32.39%) .NET Developer
3 15 (21.13%) Full-Stack Developer
3 15 (21.13%) Senior
4 13 (18.31%) C# Developer
5 11 (15.49%) Senior Developer
6 7 (9.86%) Azure Developer
6 7 (9.86%) CMS Developer
7 6 (8.45%) React Developer
8 5 (7.04%) Administrator
8 5 (7.04%) Azure Administrator
8 5 (7.04%) Database Developer
8 5 (7.04%) DBA
8 5 (7.04%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
8 5 (7.04%) Full-Stack C# Developer
9 4 (5.63%) Lead
10 3 (4.23%) Architect
10 3 (4.23%) Senior .NET Developer
10 3 (4.23%) Sitecore Architect
10 3 (4.23%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (100.00%) .NET
2 38 (53.52%) .NET Framework
3 25 (35.21%) HTML
4 24 (33.80%) .NET Core
5 23 (32.39%) CSS
5 23 (32.39%) RESTful
6 20 (28.17%) ASP.NET MVC
7 16 (22.54%) ASP.NET Core
8 15 (21.13%) AngularJS
8 15 (21.13%) React
9 12 (16.90%) Entity Framework
10 6 (8.45%) ASP.NET Web API
10 6 (8.45%) Web Services
11 5 (7.04%) Node.js
11 5 (7.04%) OAuth
11 5 (7.04%) REST
12 4 (5.63%) ASP.NET Web Forms
12 4 (5.63%) Next.js
12 4 (5.63%) OAuth2
12 4 (5.63%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.49%) Mobile App
2 6 (8.45%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.45%) Hedge funds
3 5 (7.04%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (7.04%) Product Ownership
4 4 (5.63%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (4.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (4.23%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.82%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.41%) AS400
7 1 (1.41%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.41%) IoT
7 1 (1.41%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.41%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.63%) Windows
2 1 (1.41%) Android
2 1 (1.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (43.66%) Agile
1 31 (43.66%) DevOps
2 26 (36.62%) CI/CD
3 21 (29.58%) MVC
4 20 (28.17%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (26.76%) Full-Stack Development
6 14 (19.72%) Microservices
7 11 (15.49%) User Experience
8 10 (14.08%) Clean Code
9 9 (12.68%) Analytics
9 9 (12.68%) Containerisation
9 9 (12.68%) Test Automation
10 8 (11.27%) Scrum
11 7 (9.86%) AI
11 7 (9.86%) Data Protection
12 6 (8.45%) API Development
12 6 (8.45%) Code Quality
12 6 (8.45%) Data Modelling
12 6 (8.45%) Infrastructure as Code
12 6 (8.45%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 67 (94.37%) C#
2 32 (45.07%) SQL
3 31 (43.66%) JavaScript
4 5 (7.04%) T-SQL
5 3 (4.23%) Java
5 3 (4.23%) PowerShell
5 3 (4.23%) Python
6 2 (2.82%) Bash
6 2 (2.82%) PHP
6 2 (2.82%) PL/SQL
6 2 (2.82%) VB.NET
7 1 (1.41%) Bicep
7 1 (1.41%) C++
7 1 (1.41%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.41%) VB
Qualifications
1 6 (8.45%) Azure Certification
1 6 (8.45%) Degree
1 6 (8.45%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.04%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.41%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.86%) Accessibility
2 6 (8.45%) QA
3 5 (7.04%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.82%) WCAG
5 1 (1.41%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (14.08%) Docker
2 3 (4.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (7.04%) Terraform
2 4 (5.63%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (29.58%) Microsoft
2 8 (11.27%) Sitecore
3 5 (7.04%) Adobe
4 3 (4.23%) Bloomberg
4 3 (4.23%) FactSet
4 3 (4.23%) Marketo
4 3 (4.23%) OneTrust
4 3 (4.23%) Oracle
5 2 (2.82%) SAP
6 1 (1.41%) ESRI
6 1 (1.41%) Google