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 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 507 359 324
Rank change year-on-year -148 -35 -80
Contract jobs citing ASP.NET 77 172 273
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.54% 0.63%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.91% 2.43% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 110 205
10th Percentile £400 £325 £306
25th Percentile £425 £422 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.21%
75th Percentile £600 £651 £713
90th Percentile £641 £825 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +10.53% +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 - - -66.53%

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 8,429 7,067 9,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.23% 22.30% 21.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,618 4,497 6,583
10th Percentile £356 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% -1.38% -5.22%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £766 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 91 182
10th Percentile £33.20 £22.00 £26.79
25th Percentile £46.25 £37.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £77.19 £77.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -3.08% +18.18% -15.38%

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 23 January 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 16 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 23 January 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 -136 62 £525 -4.55% 314
UK excluding London -93 34 £525 +10.53% 283
London -79 30 £500 -13.04% 64
Work from Home -51 29 £500 -4.76% 204
Midlands -55 10 £600 +66.67% 39
East Midlands -22 8 £600 +69.01% 26
East of England -17 7 £575 +9.52% 36
North of England -58 5 £455 +30.00% 64
South East -45 4 £538 +10.26% 88
North West -30 3 £405 +26.56% 37
Scotland +3 2 £484 -3.25% 10
Northern Ireland -3 2 - - 3
South West -11 2 - - 34
North East -13 2 £475 +31.94% 8
West Midlands -57 2 £525 +10.53% 13
Wales - 2 £450 - 12

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 13 (16.88%) CMS
2 10 (12.99%) Sitecore CMS
3 6 (7.79%) Umbraco
4 5 (6.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 5 (6.49%) Headless CMS
5 2 (2.60%) Confluence
6 1 (1.30%) ArcGIS
6 1 (1.30%) GeoServer
6 1 (1.30%) IIS
6 1 (1.30%) Oracle Spatial
6 1 (1.30%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 43 (55.84%) Azure
2 24 (31.17%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (18.18%) AWS
4 13 (16.88%) Serverless
5 12 (15.58%) Azure Functions
6 10 (12.99%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 9 (11.69%) Azure Monitor
7 9 (11.69%) GitHub
8 7 (9.09%) Azure AKS
8 7 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (9.09%) Kontent
9 6 (7.79%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (6.49%) Contentful
11 3 (3.90%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (3.90%) Entra ID
11 3 (3.90%) Power Platform
12 2 (2.60%) Azure API Management
12 2 (2.60%) Azure Event Grid
12 2 (2.60%) Azure Key Vault
12 2 (2.60%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.60%) HTTP
1 2 (2.60%) Internet
1 2 (2.60%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (45.45%) SQL Server
2 16 (20.78%) NoSQL
3 8 (10.39%) MongoDB
4 7 (9.09%) Relational Database
5 4 (5.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (3.90%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (3.90%) Power BI
7 2 (2.60%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.60%) GIS
7 2 (2.60%) Redis
7 2 (2.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (2.60%) Tableau
8 1 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.30%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (1.30%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.30%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 23 (29.87%) Git
2 6 (7.79%) Visual Studio
3 5 (6.49%) Jenkins
3 5 (6.49%) JIRA
4 4 (5.19%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (2.60%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.30%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.30%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.30%) MSTest
6 1 (1.30%) NUnit
6 1 (1.30%) Postman
General
1 19 (24.68%) Social Skills
2 12 (15.58%) Public Sector
3 10 (12.99%) Finance
4 9 (11.69%) Banking
5 8 (10.39%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.30%) Billing
6 1 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.30%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.30%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.30%) Military
Job Titles
1 60 (77.92%) Developer
2 25 (32.47%) .NET Developer
3 21 (27.27%) Full-Stack Developer
4 13 (16.88%) C# Developer
5 12 (15.58%) Senior
6 8 (10.39%) Azure Developer
6 8 (10.39%) Senior Developer
7 7 (9.09%) CMS Developer
8 6 (7.79%) Administrator
8 6 (7.79%) Architect
8 6 (7.79%) Azure Administrator
8 6 (7.79%) Database Developer
8 6 (7.79%) DBA
8 6 (7.79%) Full-Stack C# Developer
8 6 (7.79%) React Developer
9 4 (5.19%) C# .NET Developer
9 4 (5.19%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
9 4 (5.19%) Senior .NET Developer
10 3 (3.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 3 (3.90%) Sitecore Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (100.00%) .NET
2 39 (50.65%) .NET Framework
3 37 (48.05%) HTML
4 35 (45.45%) CSS
5 27 (35.06%) React
6 26 (33.77%) .NET Core
7 24 (31.17%) RESTful
8 22 (28.57%) ASP.NET MVC
9 21 (27.27%) AngularJS
10 20 (25.97%) ASP.NET Core
11 11 (14.29%) Node.js
12 10 (12.99%) Entity Framework
13 9 (11.69%) jQuery
14 8 (10.39%) ASP.NET Web API
14 8 (10.39%) REST
15 7 (9.09%) HTML5
16 5 (6.49%) CSS3
16 5 (6.49%) Next.js
17 4 (5.19%) OAuth
17 4 (5.19%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.69%) Cloud Native
1 9 (11.69%) Mobile App
2 7 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (7.79%) Product Ownership
4 5 (6.49%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (5.19%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (2.60%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.30%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.30%) AS400
7 1 (1.30%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.30%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.30%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.30%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.90%) Windows
2 1 (1.30%) Android
2 1 (1.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (50.65%) DevOps
2 38 (49.35%) CI/CD
3 35 (45.45%) Agile
4 27 (35.06%) Full-Stack Development
5 26 (33.77%) MVC
6 22 (28.57%) Microservices
7 20 (25.97%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (18.18%) User Experience
9 12 (15.58%) Test Automation
10 10 (12.99%) AI
11 9 (11.69%) Clean Code
11 9 (11.69%) Scrum
12 8 (10.39%) Containerisation
12 8 (10.39%) Front End Development
13 7 (9.09%) Analytics
13 7 (9.09%) Data Modelling
13 7 (9.09%) Data Protection
14 6 (7.79%) OO
14 6 (7.79%) OOD
14 6 (7.79%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 75 (97.40%) C#
2 38 (49.35%) SQL
3 35 (45.45%) JavaScript
4 4 (5.19%) Python
5 3 (3.90%) Java
5 3 (3.90%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.60%) Bash
6 2 (2.60%) PHP
6 2 (2.60%) PL/SQL
6 2 (2.60%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.30%) Bicep
7 1 (1.30%) C++
7 1 (1.30%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.30%) VB
Qualifications
1 10 (12.99%) Security Cleared
2 7 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.79%) Azure Certification
4 5 (6.49%) Degree
5 3 (3.90%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.39%) QA
2 6 (7.79%) Accessibility
3 5 (6.49%) WCAG
4 2 (2.60%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.30%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (16.88%) Docker
2 3 (3.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (6.49%) Terraform
2 4 (5.19%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (20.78%) Sitecore
2 12 (15.58%) Microsoft
3 6 (7.79%) Adobe
4 4 (5.19%) Google
4 4 (5.19%) Oracle
5 3 (3.90%) Marketo
5 3 (3.90%) OneTrust
6 2 (2.60%) SAP
7 1 (1.30%) ESRI