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 2 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 501 358 347
Rank change year-on-year -143 -11 -75
Contract jobs citing ASP.NET 100 165 258
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.55% 0.58%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.10% 2.40% 2.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 109 193
10th Percentile £388 £359 £313
25th Percentile £444 £458 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £558 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% +11.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £713 £675
90th Percentile £647 £825 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £500 £400
% change year-on-year +7.50% +25.00% -15.79%
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 - - -58.80%

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 9,094 6,871 9,169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.97% 22.76% 20.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,072 4,489 6,389
10th Percentile £358 £363 £340
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -0.94% -7.54%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 88 226
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.25 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £39.06 £39.94
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £73.09 £68.19 £65.94
90th Percentile £81.00 £81.34 £75.77
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%

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 2 March 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 2 March 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 -155 79 £550 -5.28% 221
UK excluding London -94 46 £538 +7.50% 174
London -90 38 £538 -14.00% 57
Work from Home -59 34 £500 -13.89% 185
Midlands -57 14 £550 +15.79% 18
East of England -20 10 £600 +14.29% 26
East Midlands - 8 £600 - 9
West Midlands -58 6 £525 -6.67% 9
Scotland +11 5 £358 -28.40% 5
South East -56 5 £650 +33.33% 58
North of England -64 5 £463 +28.47% 45
South West -19 3 £525 -19.23% 21
North West -37 3 £413 +0.43% 25
Northern Ireland -1 2 - -
North East -12 2 £475 +31.94% 7
Wales - 2 £450 - 3

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 16 (16.00%) CMS
2 13 (13.00%) Sitecore CMS
3 6 (6.00%) Umbraco
4 5 (5.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 5 (5.00%) Headless CMS
5 2 (2.00%) Confluence
5 2 (2.00%) IIS
6 1 (1.00%) ArcGIS
6 1 (1.00%) GeoServer
6 1 (1.00%) Oracle Spatial
6 1 (1.00%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (1.00%) InDesign
Cloud Services
1 54 (54.00%) Azure
2 26 (26.00%) Azure DevOps
3 20 (20.00%) AWS
4 15 (15.00%) GitHub
5 14 (14.00%) Serverless
6 12 (12.00%) Azure Functions
7 10 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (8.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 8 (8.00%) Azure Monitor
8 8 (8.00%) Entra ID
9 7 (7.00%) Azure Service Bus
9 7 (7.00%) Kontent
10 6 (6.00%) Azure Logic Apps
10 6 (6.00%) GCP
11 5 (5.00%) Azure AKS
11 5 (5.00%) Azure Key Vault
11 5 (5.00%) Contentful
12 2 (2.00%) Azure API Management
12 2 (2.00%) Azure Event Grid
12 2 (2.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.00%) HTTP
2 4 (4.00%) 3GPP
2 4 (4.00%) RTCP
2 4 (4.00%) RTP
2 4 (4.00%) XCAP
3 2 (2.00%) SSL
4 1 (1.00%) Internet
4 1 (1.00%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 17 (17.00%) NoSQL
3 9 (9.00%) Relational Database
4 7 (7.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (5.00%) MongoDB
6 3 (3.00%) GIS
6 3 (3.00%) Redis
6 3 (3.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (2.00%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (2.00%) Power BI
7 2 (2.00%) Tableau
8 1 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.00%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (1.00%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.00%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 22 (22.00%) Git
2 8 (8.00%) JIRA
3 6 (6.00%) Visual Studio
4 5 (5.00%) Jenkins
5 4 (4.00%) MSTest
5 4 (4.00%) NUnit
5 4 (4.00%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (3.00%) Postman
7 2 (2.00%) Bitbucket
7 2 (2.00%) Jasmine
7 2 (2.00%) Karma Test Runner
7 2 (2.00%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (2.00%) webpack
8 1 (1.00%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.00%) git-flow
8 1 (1.00%) Moq
8 1 (1.00%) MSBuild
8 1 (1.00%) MSI
8 1 (1.00%) Serilog
8 1 (1.00%) TeamCity
General
1 24 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 17 (17.00%) Public Sector
3 11 (11.00%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.00%) Finance
5 7 (7.00%) Banking
6 2 (2.00%) Police
7 1 (1.00%) Billing
7 1 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.00%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.00%) Military
7 1 (1.00%) Publishing
7 1 (1.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 71 (71.00%) Developer
2 30 (30.00%) .NET Developer
3 26 (26.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 21 (21.00%) C# Developer
5 15 (15.00%) Senior
6 10 (10.00%) Architect
7 9 (9.00%) C# .NET Developer
7 9 (9.00%) React Developer
7 9 (9.00%) Senior Developer
8 8 (8.00%) Full-Stack C# Developer
9 7 (7.00%) CMS Developer
10 6 (6.00%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
10 6 (6.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 6 (6.00%) Software Engineer
10 6 (6.00%) Technical Architect
11 5 (5.00%) Azure Developer
11 5 (5.00%) Sitecore Developer
12 4 (4.00%) Senior .NET Developer
13 3 (3.00%) Administrator
13 3 (3.00%) Database Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (100.00%) .NET
2 51 (51.00%) .NET Framework
3 45 (45.00%) HTML
4 43 (43.00%) CSS
5 37 (37.00%) ASP.NET Core
5 37 (37.00%) React
6 33 (33.00%) .NET Core
7 31 (31.00%) RESTful
8 30 (30.00%) ASP.NET MVC
9 27 (27.00%) AngularJS
10 18 (18.00%) Entity Framework
11 16 (16.00%) Node.js
12 15 (15.00%) ASP.NET Web API
13 14 (14.00%) REST
14 11 (11.00%) jQuery
15 10 (10.00%) HTML5
16 9 (9.00%) XML
17 8 (8.00%) CSS3
18 7 (7.00%) Next.js
19 6 (6.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.00%) Mobile App
2 8 (8.00%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (6.00%) Cloud Native
4 5 (5.00%) Product Ownership
5 4 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (3.00%) AI Agents
7 2 (2.00%) Legacy Code
7 2 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.00%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (2.00%) Media Streaming
8 1 (1.00%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.00%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.00%) Fixed Income
8 1 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.00%) Windows
2 1 (1.00%) Android
2 1 (1.00%) Linux
2 1 (1.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (54.00%) CI/CD
2 49 (49.00%) Agile
3 47 (47.00%) DevOps
4 38 (38.00%) MVC
5 37 (37.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 29 (29.00%) Microservices
7 21 (21.00%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (17.00%) Software Engineering
8 17 (17.00%) User Experience
9 16 (16.00%) Scrum
10 15 (15.00%) Containerisation
10 15 (15.00%) Test Automation
11 13 (13.00%) AI
12 12 (12.00%) Infrastructure as Code
13 11 (11.00%) Front End Development
13 11 (11.00%) Mentoring
13 11 (11.00%) SOLID
14 10 (10.00%) TDD
15 9 (9.00%) Data Governance
15 9 (9.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 95 (95.00%) C#
2 40 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 40 (40.00%) SQL
3 8 (8.00%) Python
4 7 (7.00%) TypeScript
5 6 (6.00%) Java
6 5 (5.00%) PowerShell
7 4 (4.00%) Bicep
8 3 (3.00%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.00%) Bash
9 2 (2.00%) C++
9 2 (2.00%) PHP
9 2 (2.00%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 16 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.00%) Degree
4 6 (6.00%) Azure Certification
5 4 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 9 (9.00%) QA
3 5 (5.00%) WCAG
4 2 (2.00%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.00%) GDPR
5 1 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.00%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (27.00%) Docker
2 3 (3.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (11.00%) Kubernetes
2 10 (10.00%) Terraform
3 1 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (21.00%) Sitecore
2 10 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.00%) Adobe
3 7 (7.00%) Google
3 7 (7.00%) Oracle
4 3 (3.00%) Marketo
4 3 (3.00%) OneTrust
5 1 (1.00%) ESRI
5 1 (1.00%) SAP