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 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 514 394 347
Rank change year-on-year -120 -47 -10
Contract jobs citing ASP.NET 114 128 239
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.45% 0.56%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.19% 1.97% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 96 186
10th Percentile £358 £400 £307
25th Percentile £419 £497 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £621 £475
Median % change year-on-year -19.52% +30.80% -9.52%
75th Percentile £600 £803 £619
90th Percentile £718 £825 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £400
% change year-on-year -5.00% +25.00% -15.79%

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 9,564 6,498 8,929
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.62% 22.74% 20.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,281 4,458 6,210
10th Percentile £363 £360 £345
25th Percentile £420 £414 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 278 105 249
10th Percentile £30.87 £27.44 £21.63
25th Percentile £51.25 £37.80 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%
75th Percentile £72.75 £68.75 £66.25
90th Percentile £81.00 £81.22 £74.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.43
% change year-on-year - +34.21% -25.49%

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 27 May 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 27 May 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 -137 94 £523 -22.59% 202
London -100 52 £538 -28.33% 55
UK excluding London -93 49 £475 -5.00% 159
Work from Home -63 37 £475 -26.92% 166
South East -51 13 £475 -2.56% 54
East of England -23 8 £600 +18.23% 20
West Midlands -57 7 £500 -23.08% 7
Midlands -67 7 £500 -4.76% 18
North of England -73 7 £475 +26.67% 45
Scotland -2 6 £358 -28.40% 3
South West -28 4 £525 +36.81% 13
Yorkshire -50 4 £500 - 14
North East -23 2 £475 +28.38% 6
Wales - 2 £450 - 3
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 3
North West -46 1 £450 +2.68% 25

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 (11.40%) CMS
2 8 (7.02%) Sitecore CMS
3 5 (4.39%) SharePoint
4 4 (3.51%) IIS
4 4 (3.51%) Umbraco
5 3 (2.63%) Confluence
6 1 (0.88%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.88%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (0.88%) InDesign
1 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.88%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 68 (59.65%) Azure
2 25 (21.93%) AWS
3 21 (18.42%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (14.04%) GitHub
5 13 (11.40%) Serverless
6 11 (9.65%) Azure Functions
7 9 (7.89%) Azure AKS
7 9 (7.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 9 (7.89%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (7.02%) Entra ID
9 7 (6.14%) Azure Key Vault
9 7 (6.14%) Azure Logic Apps
9 7 (6.14%) GCP
9 7 (6.14%) Power Platform
10 6 (5.26%) Azure App Service
10 6 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (4.39%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (4.39%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (4.39%) Power Automate
11 5 (4.39%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.39%) HTTP
2 4 (3.51%) 3GPP
2 4 (3.51%) RTCP
2 4 (3.51%) RTP
2 4 (3.51%) XCAP
3 2 (1.75%) Intranet
4 1 (0.88%) DHCP
4 1 (0.88%) DNS
4 1 (0.88%) SMTP
4 1 (0.88%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (42.11%) SQL Server
2 17 (14.91%) NoSQL
3 8 (7.02%) Relational Database
4 7 (6.14%) MongoDB
5 6 (5.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (4.39%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (2.63%) DocumentDB
8 3 (2.63%) GIS
9 2 (1.75%) ClickHouse
9 2 (1.75%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.75%) EDRMS
9 2 (1.75%) Metadata
9 2 (1.75%) Power BI
9 2 (1.75%) Redis
9 2 (1.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (1.75%) Tableau
10 1 (0.88%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.88%) Geospatial Data
10 1 (0.88%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 18 (15.79%) Git
2 8 (7.02%) JIRA
3 7 (6.14%) NUnit
3 7 (6.14%) Visual Studio
4 6 (5.26%) TeamCity
5 5 (4.39%) Bitbucket
6 4 (3.51%) webpack
7 3 (2.63%) git-flow
7 3 (2.63%) GitLab
7 3 (2.63%) MSBuild
7 3 (2.63%) MSTest
7 3 (2.63%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (2.63%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (1.75%) Jasmine
8 2 (1.75%) Jenkins
8 2 (1.75%) JMeter
8 2 (1.75%) Karma Test Runner
8 2 (1.75%) Moq
8 2 (1.75%) Postman
8 2 (1.75%) Vite
General
1 24 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 14 (12.28%) Banking
2 14 (12.28%) Public Sector
3 13 (11.40%) Finance
4 10 (8.77%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.51%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.63%) Retail
7 2 (1.75%) Automotive
7 2 (1.75%) Front Office
7 2 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.75%) Police
8 1 (0.88%) Back Office
8 1 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.88%) Law
8 1 (0.88%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.88%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 78 (68.42%) Developer
2 36 (31.58%) .NET Developer
3 21 (18.42%) C# Developer
4 20 (17.54%) Senior
5 18 (15.79%) Full-Stack Developer
6 13 (11.40%) C# .NET Developer
6 13 (11.40%) Senior Developer
7 8 (7.02%) Architect
8 7 (6.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 6 (5.26%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
9 6 (5.26%) React Developer
9 6 (5.26%) Senior .NET Developer
9 6 (5.26%) Technical Architect
10 5 (4.39%) Lead
10 5 (4.39%) Sitecore Developer
10 5 (4.39%) Software Engineer
11 4 (3.51%) ASP.NET Developer
11 4 (3.51%) Azure Developer
11 4 (3.51%) Software Developer
11 4 (3.51%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (100.00%) .NET
2 56 (49.12%) ASP.NET Core
3 44 (38.60%) React
4 42 (36.84%) .NET Framework
5 38 (33.33%) HTML
6 36 (31.58%) CSS
7 33 (28.95%) RESTful
8 32 (28.07%) .NET Core
9 31 (27.19%) Entity Framework
10 23 (20.18%) ASP.NET Web API
10 23 (20.18%) REST
11 22 (19.30%) AngularJS
12 20 (17.54%) Node.js
13 19 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
14 13 (11.40%) jQuery
15 11 (9.65%) HTML5
16 10 (8.77%) XML
17 8 (7.02%) OAuth
17 8 (7.02%) OAuth2
17 8 (7.02%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.02%) Cloud Native
1 8 (7.02%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (5.26%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.51%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.63%) AI Agents
4 3 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.63%) Legacy Code
4 3 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.75%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.75%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.75%) Media Streaming
5 2 (1.75%) NHS
6 1 (0.88%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.88%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.88%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.88%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.88%) PKI
6 1 (0.88%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.39%) Windows
2 2 (1.75%) Linux
3 1 (0.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (59.65%) CI/CD
2 62 (54.39%) Agile
3 58 (50.88%) DevOps
4 35 (30.70%) Full-Stack Development
5 33 (28.95%) Microservices
6 29 (25.44%) MVC
7 23 (20.18%) Test Automation
8 21 (18.42%) User Experience
9 20 (17.54%) Scrum
10 19 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (14.91%) Containerisation
11 17 (14.91%) Software Engineering
11 17 (14.91%) SOLID
12 15 (13.16%) Front End Development
13 14 (12.28%) Infrastructure as Code
13 14 (12.28%) Mentoring
13 14 (12.28%) TDD
13 14 (12.28%) Unit Testing
14 13 (11.40%) Code Quality
15 12 (10.53%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 107 (93.86%) C#
2 41 (35.96%) SQL
3 38 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 19 (16.67%) TypeScript
5 12 (10.53%) Python
6 7 (6.14%) Bicep
7 6 (5.26%) PowerShell
7 6 (5.26%) T-SQL
8 5 (4.39%) Java
8 5 (4.39%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.75%) Ruby
9 2 (1.75%) XPath
10 1 (0.88%) Bash
10 1 (0.88%) C++
10 1 (0.88%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.88%) VBA
10 1 (0.88%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 20 (17.54%) Security Cleared
2 13 (11.40%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.02%) Degree
4 6 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (3.51%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.63%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.88%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (17.54%) QA
2 10 (8.77%) Accessibility
3 8 (7.02%) WCAG
4 1 (0.88%) GDPR
4 1 (0.88%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 39 (34.21%) Docker
2 1 (0.88%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (18.42%) Kubernetes
2 20 (17.54%) Terraform
3 1 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (14.04%) Sitecore
2 13 (11.40%) Microsoft
3 12 (10.53%) Oracle
4 7 (6.14%) Google
5 3 (2.63%) Databricks
6 2 (1.75%) Adobe
7 1 (0.88%) Cisco
7 1 (0.88%) VMware