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 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 515 359 329
Rank change year-on-year -156 -30 -95
Contract jobs citing ASP.NET 71 199 302
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.58% 0.68%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.87% 2.65% 3.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 126 222
10th Percentile £410 £306 £325
25th Percentile £438 £356 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £508 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.91% -7.73% -
75th Percentile £600 £612 £719
90th Percentile £636 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £484 £463 £469
% change year-on-year +4.59% -1.33% +1.35%
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 8,187 7,496 9,818
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.46% 21.86% 22.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,419 4,761 6,980
10th Percentile £351 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 101 176
10th Percentile £30.75 £21.25 £31.63
25th Percentile £43.00 £36.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.40% +16.82% -17.69%
75th Percentile £67.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £74.87 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.25 £65.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year -1.15% +25.26% -20.17%

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 15 December 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 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 15 December 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 -150 55 £500 -4.76% 357
London -92 27 £500 -9.09% 63
Work from Home -53 26 £500 +11.11% 209
UK excluding London -89 26 £484 +4.59% 327
Midlands -48 9 £600 +57.89% 44
East Midlands -12 8 £600 +69.01% 22
South East -25 7 £450 -5.26% 95
North West -23 4 £435 +58.18% 60
North of England -47 4 £435 +24.29% 96
Scotland -4 2 £484 +1.84% 9
South West -11 2 - - 34
East of England -21 2 - - 36
West Midlands -43 1 - - 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 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 1 (1.41%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.41%) GeoServer
3 1 (1.41%) IIS
3 1 (1.41%) Oracle Spatial
3 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 43 (60.56%) Azure
2 21 (29.58%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (15.49%) Serverless
4 10 (14.08%) Azure Functions
5 9 (12.68%) Azure AKS
5 9 (12.68%) Azure Monitor
6 8 (11.27%) GitHub
7 7 (9.86%) Kontent
7 7 (9.86%) Power Platform
8 6 (8.45%) AWS
8 6 (8.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 6 (8.45%) Azure Logic Apps
8 6 (8.45%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (7.04%) Contentful
10 3 (4.23%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (4.23%) Entra ID
10 3 (4.23%) Power Automate
10 3 (4.23%) PowerApps
11 2 (2.82%) Amazon EKS
11 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 31 (43.66%) SQL Server
2 8 (11.27%) NoSQL
3 7 (9.86%) Power BI
4 6 (8.45%) MongoDB
5 5 (7.04%) 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
8 1 (1.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (36.62%) 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%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.41%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.41%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 19 (26.76%) Social Skills
2 17 (23.94%) Finance
3 13 (18.31%) Public Sector
4 7 (9.86%) Banking
5 6 (8.45%) Analytical Skills
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%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.41%) Military
Job Titles
1 55 (77.46%) Developer
2 22 (30.99%) .NET Developer
3 16 (22.54%) Senior
4 14 (19.72%) Full-Stack Developer
5 12 (16.90%) C# Developer
5 12 (16.90%) Senior Developer
6 8 (11.27%) Azure Developer
7 7 (9.86%) CMS Developer
8 6 (8.45%) Administrator
8 6 (8.45%) Azure Administrator
8 6 (8.45%) Database Developer
8 6 (8.45%) DBA
8 6 (8.45%) React Developer
9 5 (7.04%) Full-Stack C# Developer
10 4 (5.63%) Lead
10 4 (5.63%) Senior .NET Developer
11 3 (4.23%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 3 (4.23%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 3 (4.23%) Sitecore Architect
11 3 (4.23%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (100.00%) .NET
2 37 (52.11%) .NET Framework
3 27 (38.03%) HTML
4 24 (33.80%) .NET Core
4 24 (33.80%) CSS
5 22 (30.99%) RESTful
6 18 (25.35%) ASP.NET MVC
7 17 (23.94%) React
8 15 (21.13%) ASP.NET Core
9 14 (19.72%) AngularJS
10 12 (16.90%) Entity Framework
11 6 (8.45%) ASP.NET Web API
11 6 (8.45%) Node.js
11 6 (8.45%) Web Services
12 5 (7.04%) OAuth
12 5 (7.04%) REST
13 4 (5.63%) HTML5
13 4 (5.63%) Middleware
13 4 (5.63%) OpenID
13 4 (5.63%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.49%) Mobile App
2 7 (9.86%) Cloud Native
3 6 (8.45%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (8.45%) Hedge funds
4 5 (7.04%) Product Ownership
5 4 (5.63%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (4.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (4.23%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.82%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.41%) AS400
8 1 (1.41%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.41%) IoT
8 1 (1.41%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.63%) Windows
2 1 (1.41%) Android
2 1 (1.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (45.07%) Agile
1 32 (45.07%) DevOps
2 27 (38.03%) CI/CD
3 19 (26.76%) Full-Stack Development
3 19 (26.76%) MVC
4 18 (25.35%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (19.72%) Microservices
6 11 (15.49%) Test Automation
7 10 (14.08%) Clean Code
7 10 (14.08%) User Experience
8 9 (12.68%) Analytics
9 8 (11.27%) AI
9 8 (11.27%) Containerisation
9 8 (11.27%) Data Protection
10 7 (9.86%) Data Modelling
10 7 (9.86%) Scrum
11 6 (8.45%) Business Intelligence
11 6 (8.45%) OO
11 6 (8.45%) OOD
11 6 (8.45%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 69 (97.18%) C#
2 35 (49.30%) SQL
3 33 (46.48%) 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
7 1 (1.41%) Bicep
7 1 (1.41%) C++
7 1 (1.41%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.41%) VB
7 1 (1.41%) VB.NET
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
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 9 (12.68%) Docker
2 3 (4.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (7.04%) Terraform
2 3 (4.23%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (26.76%) 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