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 25 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 527 448 355
Rank change year-on-year -79 -93 -25
Contract jobs citing ASP.NET 143 102 217
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.31% 0.56%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.22% 1.23% 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 76 162
10th Percentile £357 £398 £307
25th Percentile £418 £438 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +7.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £750 £616
90th Percentile £725 £813 £674
UK excluding London median daily rate £455 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +1.11% -7.69% +2.63%

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 11,704 8,306 9,495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.82% 25.37% 24.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,703 5,615 6,430
10th Percentile £375 £354 £356
25th Percentile £431 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £630 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 282 183 208
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.35 £23.80
25th Percentile £45.31 £41.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -12.34% -2.22%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.88 £79.74 £74.61
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +22.73% -12.00% +4.17%

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 25 August 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 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 25 August 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 -78 120 £475 -14.91% 206
London -65 68 £532 -19.70% 116
UK excluding London -63 57 £455 +1.11% 97
Work from Home -49 49 £475 -5.00% 86
Yorkshire -23 18 £449 - 10
North of England -54 18 £449 -8.88% 33
South East -56 16 £426 -5.28% 22
South West -35 9 £500 +30.29% 5
Scotland -11 6 £438 -11.39% 6
East of England -18 4 £345 -31.00% 12
Midlands -61 4 £500 +59.74% 19
West Midlands -43 3 £500 - 4
East Midlands -19 1 - - 15

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 15 (10.49%) SharePoint
2 14 (9.79%) IIS
3 8 (5.59%) Confluence
4 7 (4.90%) CMS
5 3 (2.10%) Umbraco
6 2 (1.40%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.70%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.70%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.70%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.70%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 7 (4.90%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.70%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 3 (2.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.40%) OpenText MBPM
2 2 (1.40%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (1.40%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.70%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 78 (54.55%) Azure
2 31 (21.68%) Azure DevOps
3 28 (19.58%) AWS
4 15 (10.49%) GitHub
5 13 (9.09%) Power Platform
6 9 (6.29%) Azure AKS
7 8 (5.59%) Serverless
8 7 (4.90%) Azure Functions
8 7 (4.90%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (4.90%) Entra ID
8 7 (4.90%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (4.90%) Power Automate
8 7 (4.90%) PowerApps
9 6 (4.20%) Azure App Service
9 6 (4.20%) Azure Key Vault
9 6 (4.20%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (3.50%) Azure API Management
10 5 (3.50%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (2.80%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (2.80%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.20%) Intranet
2 2 (1.40%) DHCP
2 2 (1.40%) DNS
2 2 (1.40%) Internet
2 2 (1.40%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.70%) HTTP
3 1 (0.70%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (56.64%) SQL Server
2 18 (12.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 10 (6.99%) MS Access
4 8 (5.59%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (5.59%) Relational Database
5 6 (4.20%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (4.20%) Power BI
6 5 (3.50%) MongoDB
6 5 (3.50%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.80%) DocumentDB
7 4 (2.80%) EDRMS
7 4 (2.80%) Metadata
7 4 (2.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (2.10%) Oracle Database
8 3 (2.10%) Redis
9 2 (1.40%) ClickHouse
9 2 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.40%) Db2
9 2 (1.40%) GIS
9 2 (1.40%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 35 (24.48%) Git
2 18 (12.59%) Jenkins
3 12 (8.39%) JIRA
3 12 (8.39%) Visual Studio
4 9 (6.29%) Bitbucket
5 8 (5.59%) TeamCity
6 7 (4.90%) Team Foundation Server
7 6 (4.20%) GitLab
8 5 (3.50%) NUnit
8 5 (3.50%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (2.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (2.10%) webpack
10 2 (1.40%) Artifactory
10 2 (1.40%) git-flow
10 2 (1.40%) JMeter
10 2 (1.40%) MSBuild
10 2 (1.40%) Vite
11 1 (0.70%) Moq
11 1 (0.70%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.70%) Postman
General
1 46 (32.17%) Social Skills
2 30 (20.98%) Finance
3 22 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (15.38%) Banking
4 12 (8.39%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.59%) Front Office
5 8 (5.59%) Investment Banking
6 4 (2.80%) Back Office
7 3 (2.10%) Local Government
8 2 (1.40%) Automotive
8 2 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.40%) Retail
9 1 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.70%) Law
9 1 (0.70%) Legal
9 1 (0.70%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.70%) Marketing
9 1 (0.70%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 99 (69.23%) Developer
2 58 (40.56%) .NET Developer
3 24 (16.78%) C# Developer
3 24 (16.78%) Senior
4 18 (12.59%) Senior Developer
5 16 (11.19%) C# .NET Developer
5 16 (11.19%) Lead
6 15 (10.49%) Full-Stack Developer
7 13 (9.09%) Senior .NET Developer
8 12 (8.39%) Software Developer
9 11 (7.69%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
10 10 (6.99%) Technical Leader
11 8 (5.59%) ASP.NET Developer
11 8 (5.59%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (4.90%) Lead Developer
12 7 (4.90%) SQL Developer
13 6 (4.20%) Architect
14 5 (3.50%) C# ASP.NET Developer
14 5 (3.50%) Lead Software Developer
14 5 (3.50%) SQL Server Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (100.00%) .NET
2 59 (41.26%) ASP.NET Core
3 48 (33.57%) .NET Framework
4 42 (29.37%) REST
5 40 (27.97%) React
6 39 (27.27%) .NET Core
7 30 (20.98%) Entity Framework
8 28 (19.58%) ASP.NET Web API
8 28 (19.58%) HTML
8 28 (19.58%) RESTful
9 25 (17.48%) AngularJS
10 22 (15.38%) CSS
11 20 (13.99%) ASP.NET MVC
11 20 (13.99%) Terraform
11 20 (13.99%) Web Services
12 16 (11.19%) JSON
13 14 (9.79%) XML
14 11 (7.69%) Blazor
14 11 (7.69%) WinForms
15 10 (6.99%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 21 (14.69%) Enterprise Software
2 16 (11.19%) Cloud Native
3 12 (8.39%) Product Ownership
4 10 (6.99%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (4.90%) Legacy Applications
5 7 (4.90%) Legacy Code
6 6 (4.20%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (4.20%) Replication
7 5 (3.50%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (2.10%) AI Agents
8 3 (2.10%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.40%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.40%) Life Science
9 2 (1.40%) NHS
9 2 (1.40%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.40%) PKI
9 2 (1.40%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (1.40%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (13.29%) Windows
2 8 (5.59%) Linux
3 4 (2.80%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (46.15%) DevOps
2 65 (45.45%) CI/CD
3 60 (41.96%) Agile
4 33 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
5 31 (21.68%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (18.88%) Test Automation
7 26 (18.18%) MVC
8 24 (16.78%) Microservices
9 21 (14.69%) Code Quality
10 19 (13.29%) Migration
11 18 (12.59%) API Development
11 18 (12.59%) User Experience
12 17 (11.89%) Front End Development
13 16 (11.19%) Continuous Improvement
13 16 (11.19%) SOLID
14 15 (10.49%) AI
15 14 (9.79%) Refactoring
15 14 (9.79%) Scrum
15 14 (9.79%) Stakeholder Management
15 14 (9.79%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 124 (86.71%) C#
2 67 (46.85%) SQL
3 49 (34.27%) JavaScript
4 29 (20.28%) TypeScript
5 24 (16.78%) T-SQL
6 22 (15.38%) PL/SQL
7 14 (9.79%) Python
8 10 (6.99%) VB.NET
9 9 (6.29%) VBA
10 8 (5.59%) PowerShell
10 8 (5.59%) XPath
11 7 (4.90%) VBScript
12 6 (4.20%) Bicep
13 3 (2.10%) Bash
13 3 (2.10%) C++
13 3 (2.10%) Java
14 1 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.70%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.70%) R
14 1 (0.70%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 24 (16.78%) Security Cleared
2 17 (11.89%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.39%) Degree
4 7 (4.90%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.80%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.70%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.70%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.70%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.70%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (14.69%) QA
2 8 (5.59%) Accessibility
3 6 (4.20%) WCAG
4 2 (1.40%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.70%) Data Quality
System Software
1 34 (23.78%) Docker
2 11 (7.69%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (16.78%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.59%) Ansible
3 2 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 50 (34.97%) Microsoft
2 29 (20.28%) Oracle
3 6 (4.20%) Centrify
3 6 (4.20%) CyberArk
3 6 (4.20%) Sitecore
4 3 (2.10%) Databricks
4 3 (2.10%) IBM
5 2 (1.40%) Aprimo
5 2 (1.40%) Cisco
5 2 (1.40%) OneTrust
5 2 (1.40%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.40%) Optimizely
5 2 (1.40%) VMware
6 1 (0.70%) Adobe
6 1 (0.70%) Google
6 1 (0.70%) Telerik