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 8 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 523 423 360
Rank change year-on-year -100 -63 -19
Contract jobs citing ASP.NET 143 121 248
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.38% 0.58%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.41% 1.67% 2.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 95 190
10th Percentile £358 £397 £313
25th Percentile £423 £469 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £485
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +23.71% -7.62%
75th Percentile £600 £775 £619
90th Percentile £700 £825 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £400
% change year-on-year - +18.75% -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 10,152 7,261 9,292
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.46% 22.73% 21.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,656 4,905 6,368
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -4.74% -2.18%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £653
90th Percentile £738 £763 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 277 149 283
10th Percentile £30.00 £28.76 £22.55
25th Percentile £50.75 £35.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.20 £74.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.20% -6.72%

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 8 July 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 8 July 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 -87 122 £500 -20.00% 210
UK excluding London -67 66 £475 - 168
London -85 61 £550 -24.14% 60
Work from Home -49 46 £525 -10.64% 190
North of England -70 16 £450 -16.28% 45
Yorkshire -29 15 £450 - 13
South East -57 15 £475 - 56
East of England -14 12 £600 +20.00% 21
South West -29 8 £513 +33.55% 16
West Midlands -52 8 £525 -19.23% 13
Midlands -55 8 £525 +67.73% 19
Scotland -11 7 £358 -28.40% 3
North West -51 1 £450 -16.28% 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 (9.09%) CMS
2 11 (7.69%) SharePoint
3 8 (5.59%) Confluence
3 8 (5.59%) IIS
3 8 (5.59%) Sitecore CMS
4 4 (2.80%) Umbraco
5 2 (1.40%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.70%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.70%) InDesign
2 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.70%) OpenText MBPM
1 1 (0.70%) Oracle BPM
1 1 (0.70%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 82 (57.34%) Azure
2 34 (23.78%) AWS
3 27 (18.88%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (14.69%) GitHub
5 13 (9.09%) Power Platform
6 10 (6.99%) Azure AKS
6 10 (6.99%) Serverless
7 9 (6.29%) Entra ID
7 9 (6.29%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (5.59%) Azure Functions
9 7 (4.90%) Azure Key Vault
9 7 (4.90%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (4.90%) Power Automate
9 7 (4.90%) PowerApps
10 6 (4.20%) Azure App Service
10 6 (4.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 6 (4.20%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (3.50%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (3.50%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (3.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.20%) Intranet
2 5 (3.50%) HTTP
3 4 (2.80%) 3GPP
3 4 (2.80%) RTCP
3 4 (2.80%) RTP
3 4 (2.80%) XCAP
4 2 (1.40%) DHCP
4 2 (1.40%) DNS
4 2 (1.40%) Internet
4 2 (1.40%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.70%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (47.55%) SQL Server
2 15 (10.49%) NoSQL
3 13 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 12 (8.39%) Relational Database
5 7 (4.90%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (4.90%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (4.20%) MongoDB
6 6 (4.20%) Power BI
7 5 (3.50%) MS Access
8 4 (2.80%) EDRMS
8 4 (2.80%) Metadata
8 4 (2.80%) Redis
9 3 (2.10%) DocumentDB
10 2 (1.40%) ClickHouse
10 2 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.40%) GIS
10 2 (1.40%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (1.40%) Star Schema
11 1 (0.70%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 22 (15.38%) Git
2 12 (8.39%) Jenkins
3 11 (7.69%) JIRA
4 8 (5.59%) NUnit
4 8 (5.59%) TeamCity
4 8 (5.59%) Visual Studio
5 7 (4.90%) Bitbucket
6 5 (3.50%) GitLab
7 4 (2.80%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (2.80%) webpack
8 3 (2.10%) git-flow
8 3 (2.10%) MSBuild
8 3 (2.10%) MSTest
8 3 (2.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (2.10%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (1.40%) Artifactory
9 2 (1.40%) Jasmine
9 2 (1.40%) JMeter
9 2 (1.40%) Karma Test Runner
9 2 (1.40%) Moq
General
1 40 (27.97%) Social Skills
2 25 (17.48%) Finance
3 18 (12.59%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (11.19%) Banking
5 14 (9.79%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.80%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.10%) Front Office
7 3 (2.10%) Retail
8 2 (1.40%) Automotive
8 2 (1.40%) Back Office
8 2 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.40%) Police
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%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 95 (66.43%) Developer
2 50 (34.97%) .NET Developer
3 26 (18.18%) C# Developer
4 19 (13.29%) Senior
5 18 (12.59%) C# .NET Developer
6 17 (11.89%) Full-Stack Developer
7 12 (8.39%) Senior Developer
8 11 (7.69%) Architect
9 10 (6.99%) Software Developer
10 9 (6.29%) Lead
11 7 (4.90%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 6 (4.20%) ASP.NET Developer
12 6 (4.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 6 (4.20%) React Developer
12 6 (4.20%) Software Engineer
12 6 (4.20%) Technical Architect
12 6 (4.20%) Technical Leader
13 5 (3.50%) Senior .NET Developer
14 4 (2.80%) C# ASP.NET Developer
14 4 (2.80%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (100.00%) .NET
2 64 (44.76%) ASP.NET Core
3 52 (36.36%) .NET Framework
4 51 (35.66%) React
5 42 (29.37%) .NET Core
6 38 (26.57%) HTML
7 37 (25.87%) CSS
8 36 (25.17%) REST
9 34 (23.78%) Entity Framework
9 34 (23.78%) RESTful
10 29 (20.28%) ASP.NET Web API
11 26 (18.18%) AngularJS
12 20 (13.99%) Node.js
13 17 (11.89%) ASP.NET MVC
14 15 (10.49%) XML
15 14 (9.79%) jQuery
16 13 (9.09%) Web Services
17 12 (8.39%) JSON
18 11 (7.69%) Blazor
19 10 (6.99%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.29%) Enterprise Software
2 12 (8.39%) Cloud Native
3 11 (7.69%) Product Ownership
4 10 (6.99%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (4.90%) Legacy Code
6 5 (3.50%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (3.50%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (2.80%) AI Agents
7 4 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.40%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.40%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.40%) Media Streaming
8 2 (1.40%) NHS
8 2 (1.40%) PKI
8 2 (1.40%) Replication
9 1 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.70%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.70%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.70%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.69%) Windows
2 6 (4.20%) Linux
3 3 (2.10%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (51.75%) CI/CD
2 71 (49.65%) Agile
3 68 (47.55%) DevOps
4 34 (23.78%) Microservices
5 33 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
6 28 (19.58%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (19.58%) Test Automation
7 27 (18.88%) MVC
8 23 (16.08%) Scrum
8 23 (16.08%) User Experience
9 19 (13.29%) Front End Development
9 19 (13.29%) Software Engineering
9 19 (13.29%) SOLID
10 18 (12.59%) Code Quality
11 17 (11.89%) Containerisation
11 17 (11.89%) Unit Testing
12 16 (11.19%) Migration
13 15 (10.49%) Infrastructure as Code
13 15 (10.49%) Refactoring
13 15 (10.49%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 129 (90.21%) C#
2 61 (42.66%) SQL
3 47 (32.87%) JavaScript
4 27 (18.88%) TypeScript
5 16 (11.19%) PL/SQL
5 16 (11.19%) Python
5 16 (11.19%) T-SQL
6 9 (6.29%) PowerShell
7 7 (4.90%) Bicep
8 5 (3.50%) Java
8 5 (3.50%) VB.NET
9 4 (2.80%) VBA
9 4 (2.80%) VBScript
9 4 (2.80%) XPath
10 2 (1.40%) Bash
10 2 (1.40%) Ruby
11 1 (0.70%) C++
11 1 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 26 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 17 (11.89%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.39%) Degree
4 6 (4.20%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.80%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.40%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.70%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (17.48%) QA
2 11 (7.69%) Accessibility
3 7 (4.90%) WCAG
4 2 (1.40%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.70%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.70%) GDPR
5 1 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 44 (30.77%) Docker
2 7 (4.90%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (18.88%) Kubernetes
2 21 (14.69%) Terraform
3 5 (3.50%) Ansible
4 2 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 24 (16.78%) Oracle
3 16 (11.19%) Sitecore
4 5 (3.50%) Google
5 4 (2.80%) Centrify
5 4 (2.80%) CyberArk
6 3 (2.10%) Databricks
7 2 (1.40%) Adobe
7 2 (1.40%) Cisco
7 2 (1.40%) VMware
8 1 (0.70%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.70%) Telerik