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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 530 465 368
Rank change year-on-year -65 -97 -30
Contract jobs citing ASP.NET 145 99 212
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.30% 0.55%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.24% 1.18% 2.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 73 158
10th Percentile £357 £396 £311
25th Percentile £418 £438 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £578 £700 £601
90th Percentile £713 £813 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% +5.26%

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 11,693 8,375 9,489
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.76% 25.41% 24.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,693 5,653 6,417
10th Percentile £375 £355 £356
25th Percentile £433 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £630 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £505 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +6.26% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 185 197
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.45 £26.44
25th Percentile £45.00 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -12.34% -1.44%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.59 £79.48 £74.92
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +22.73% -15.38% +8.33%

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 31 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 31 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 -73 122 £475 -13.64% 219
London -58 71 £535 -13.89% 65
UK excluding London -54 56 £450 - 167
Work from Home -33 49 £475 -5.00% 175
Yorkshire -29 18 £449 - 14
North of England -58 18 £449 -8.88% 48
South East -57 16 £426 -5.28% 51
South West -36 7 £500 +30.29% 12
Scotland -18 6 £438 -11.39% 3
Midlands -47 5 £525 +67.73% 28
East of England -13 4 £345 -31.00% 26
West Midlands -42 3 £500 - 13
East Midlands -13 2 £550 +75.72% 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 (10.34%) SharePoint
2 14 (9.66%) IIS
3 8 (5.52%) CMS
3 8 (5.52%) Confluence
4 3 (2.07%) Umbraco
5 2 (1.38%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.69%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.69%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.69%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 7 (4.83%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.07%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (1.38%) OpenText MBPM
3 2 (1.38%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.69%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 79 (54.48%) Azure
2 32 (22.07%) Azure DevOps
3 30 (20.69%) AWS
4 15 (10.34%) GitHub
5 13 (8.97%) Power Platform
6 9 (6.21%) Azure AKS
6 9 (6.21%) Serverless
7 8 (5.52%) Azure Functions
8 7 (4.83%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (4.83%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (4.83%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (4.83%) Power Automate
8 7 (4.83%) PowerApps
9 6 (4.14%) Azure API Management
9 6 (4.14%) Azure App Service
9 6 (4.14%) Entra ID
10 5 (3.45%) Azure Key Vault
10 5 (3.45%) Azure Service Bus
10 5 (3.45%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (2.76%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.14%) Intranet
2 2 (1.38%) DHCP
2 2 (1.38%) DNS
2 2 (1.38%) Internet
2 2 (1.38%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (55.17%) SQL Server
2 18 (12.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 10 (6.90%) MS Access
4 9 (6.21%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (5.52%) Relational Database
6 6 (4.14%) NoSQL
6 6 (4.14%) Power BI
7 5 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (3.45%) MongoDB
8 4 (2.76%) DocumentDB
8 4 (2.76%) EDRMS
8 4 (2.76%) Metadata
8 4 (2.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (2.07%) Oracle Database
9 3 (2.07%) Redis
10 2 (1.38%) ClickHouse
10 2 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.38%) Db2
10 2 (1.38%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.38%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 35 (24.14%) Git
2 20 (13.79%) Jenkins
3 12 (8.28%) JIRA
3 12 (8.28%) Visual Studio
4 9 (6.21%) Bitbucket
4 9 (6.21%) TeamCity
5 7 (4.83%) GitLab
5 7 (4.83%) Team Foundation Server
6 6 (4.14%) NUnit
7 5 (3.45%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (2.07%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (1.38%) Artifactory
9 2 (1.38%) git-flow
9 2 (1.38%) JMeter
9 2 (1.38%) MSBuild
9 2 (1.38%) Vite
9 2 (1.38%) webpack
10 1 (0.69%) Moq
10 1 (0.69%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.69%) Postman
General
1 49 (33.79%) Social Skills
2 30 (20.69%) Finance
3 23 (15.86%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (15.17%) Banking
5 12 (8.28%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.52%) Front Office
6 8 (5.52%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.76%) Back Office
8 3 (2.07%) Local Government
9 2 (1.38%) Automotive
9 2 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.38%) Retail
10 1 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.69%) Law
10 1 (0.69%) Legal
10 1 (0.69%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.69%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 100 (68.97%) Developer
2 59 (40.69%) .NET Developer
3 25 (17.24%) C# Developer
4 24 (16.55%) Senior
5 18 (12.41%) Senior Developer
6 16 (11.03%) C# .NET Developer
6 16 (11.03%) Lead
7 14 (9.66%) Full-Stack Developer
8 13 (8.97%) Senior .NET Developer
9 12 (8.28%) Software Developer
10 10 (6.90%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
10 10 (6.90%) Technical Leader
11 8 (5.52%) ASP.NET Developer
11 8 (5.52%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (4.83%) Architect
12 7 (4.83%) Lead Developer
12 7 (4.83%) SQL Developer
13 5 (3.45%) C# ASP.NET Developer
13 5 (3.45%) Lead Software Developer
13 5 (3.45%) SQL Server Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (100.00%) .NET
2 60 (41.38%) ASP.NET Core
3 47 (32.41%) .NET Framework
4 44 (30.34%) REST
5 40 (27.59%) .NET Core
6 39 (26.90%) React
7 28 (19.31%) ASP.NET Web API
7 28 (19.31%) Entity Framework
7 28 (19.31%) HTML
8 27 (18.62%) RESTful
9 25 (17.24%) AngularJS
10 22 (15.17%) CSS
11 21 (14.48%) Web Services
12 20 (13.79%) Terraform
13 19 (13.10%) ASP.NET MVC
14 16 (11.03%) JSON
15 14 (9.66%) XML
16 11 (7.59%) WinForms
17 10 (6.90%) Blazor
17 10 (6.90%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 21 (14.48%) Enterprise Software
2 18 (12.41%) Cloud Native
3 13 (8.97%) Product Ownership
4 10 (6.90%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (4.83%) Legacy Applications
5 7 (4.83%) Legacy Code
6 6 (4.14%) Replication
7 5 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (2.07%) AI Agents
8 3 (2.07%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (2.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (2.07%) Life Science
8 3 (2.07%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.38%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.38%) NHS
9 2 (1.38%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.38%) PKI
9 2 (1.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 19 (13.10%) Windows
2 8 (5.52%) Linux
3 4 (2.76%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (46.21%) DevOps
2 66 (45.52%) CI/CD
3 61 (42.07%) Agile
4 32 (22.07%) Full-Stack Development
5 31 (21.38%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (18.62%) Test Automation
7 26 (17.93%) Microservices
8 25 (17.24%) MVC
9 21 (14.48%) Code Quality
10 18 (12.41%) API Development
10 18 (12.41%) Migration
10 18 (12.41%) User Experience
11 17 (11.72%) Front End Development
12 16 (11.03%) Continuous Improvement
12 16 (11.03%) SOLID
13 15 (10.34%) AI
13 15 (10.34%) Refactoring
13 15 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
14 14 (9.66%) Scrum
14 14 (9.66%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 126 (86.90%) C#
2 67 (46.21%) SQL
3 48 (33.10%) JavaScript
4 27 (18.62%) TypeScript
5 23 (15.86%) T-SQL
6 21 (14.48%) PL/SQL
7 14 (9.66%) Python
8 10 (6.90%) VB.NET
9 9 (6.21%) VBA
10 8 (5.52%) PowerShell
10 8 (5.52%) XPath
11 7 (4.83%) VBScript
12 5 (3.45%) Bicep
13 3 (2.07%) Bash
14 2 (1.38%) C++
14 2 (1.38%) Java
15 1 (0.69%) MATLAB
15 1 (0.69%) R
15 1 (0.69%) Ruby
15 1 (0.69%) X++
Qualifications
1 23 (15.86%) Security Cleared
2 17 (11.72%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.59%) Degree
4 7 (4.83%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.76%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.69%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.69%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.69%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.69%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (14.48%) QA
2 8 (5.52%) Accessibility
3 6 (4.14%) WCAG
4 2 (1.38%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.69%) Data Quality
System Software
1 34 (23.45%) Docker
2 12 (8.28%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (17.24%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.52%) Ansible
3 2 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 50 (34.48%) Microsoft
2 28 (19.31%) Oracle
3 6 (4.14%) Centrify
3 6 (4.14%) CyberArk
3 6 (4.14%) Sitecore
4 3 (2.07%) Aprimo
4 3 (2.07%) Databricks
4 3 (2.07%) IBM
4 3 (2.07%) OneTrust
4 3 (2.07%) Optimizely
5 2 (1.38%) Cisco
5 2 (1.38%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.38%) VMware
6 1 (0.69%) Telerik