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 11 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 514 403 356
Rank change year-on-year -111 -47 -19
Contract jobs citing ASP.NET 126 124 244
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.42% 0.56%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.29% 1.85% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 98 191
10th Percentile £356 £383 £313
25th Percentile £418 £466 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £581 £488
Median % change year-on-year -13.98% +19.23% -7.14%
75th Percentile £600 £775 £619
90th Percentile £700 £825 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £405
% change year-on-year - +17.28% -14.74%

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 9,780 6,720 9,188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.60% 22.88% 21.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,419 4,600 6,346
10th Percentile £363 £358 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £538
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -3.26% -2.27%
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 279 122 263
10th Percentile £30.93 £29.35 £22.10
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.14 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +21.21% -23.85%
75th Percentile £73.23 £68.00 £68.38
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.32 £74.49
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £63.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +2.77% +15.00% -15.38%

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 11 June 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 11 June 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 -108 106 £523 -16.40% 192
London -94 58 £550 -26.67% 53
UK excluding London -73 55 £475 - 146
Work from Home -61 42 £475 -24.00% 168
South East -52 14 £475 -2.56% 51
East of England -14 11 £600 +20.00% 21
North of England -79 8 £475 +26.67% 42
West Midlands -54 7 £500 -23.08% 5
Midlands -62 7 £500 +59.74% 13
Scotland -14 6 £358 -28.40% 3
South West -20 5 £525 +36.81% 14
Yorkshire -50 5 £500 - 14
North East -27 2 £475 +28.38% 6
Wales - 2 £450 - 2
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 1
North West -48 1 £450 +2.68% 22

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 (10.32%) CMS
2 8 (6.35%) SharePoint
2 8 (6.35%) Sitecore CMS
3 5 (3.97%) IIS
4 4 (3.17%) Umbraco
5 3 (2.38%) Confluence
6 2 (1.59%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.79%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (0.79%) InDesign
1 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.79%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 73 (57.94%) Azure
2 29 (23.02%) AWS
3 22 (17.46%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (13.49%) GitHub
5 12 (9.52%) Serverless
6 11 (8.73%) Power Platform
7 10 (7.94%) Azure Functions
8 9 (7.14%) Azure AKS
8 9 (7.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 9 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (6.35%) Entra ID
10 7 (5.56%) Azure Key Vault
10 7 (5.56%) GCP
10 7 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (5.56%) Power Automate
10 7 (5.56%) PowerApps
11 6 (4.76%) Azure App Service
11 6 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (3.97%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (3.97%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.97%) HTTP
1 5 (3.97%) Intranet
2 4 (3.17%) 3GPP
2 4 (3.17%) RTCP
2 4 (3.17%) RTP
2 4 (3.17%) XCAP
3 2 (1.59%) DHCP
3 2 (1.59%) DNS
3 2 (1.59%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.79%) Internet
4 1 (0.79%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 18 (14.29%) NoSQL
3 10 (7.94%) Relational Database
4 8 (6.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 7 (5.56%) MongoDB
6 6 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (3.17%) EDRMS
7 4 (3.17%) Metadata
7 4 (3.17%) Power BI
8 3 (2.38%) DocumentDB
8 3 (2.38%) GIS
8 3 (2.38%) Redis
8 3 (2.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (1.59%) ClickHouse
9 2 (1.59%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.59%) MS Access
9 2 (1.59%) Tableau
10 1 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.79%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 20 (15.87%) Git
2 8 (6.35%) JIRA
2 8 (6.35%) Visual Studio
3 7 (5.56%) NUnit
3 7 (5.56%) TeamCity
4 6 (4.76%) Bitbucket
5 4 (3.17%) GitLab
5 4 (3.17%) webpack
6 3 (2.38%) git-flow
6 3 (2.38%) Jenkins
6 3 (2.38%) MSBuild
6 3 (2.38%) MSTest
6 3 (2.38%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (2.38%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (1.59%) Jasmine
7 2 (1.59%) JMeter
7 2 (1.59%) Karma Test Runner
7 2 (1.59%) Moq
7 2 (1.59%) Postman
7 2 (1.59%) Vite
General
1 31 (24.60%) Social Skills
2 15 (11.90%) Banking
2 15 (11.90%) Finance
3 14 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 13 (10.32%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.17%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.38%) Retail
7 2 (1.59%) Automotive
7 2 (1.59%) Back Office
7 2 (1.59%) Front Office
7 2 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.59%) Police
8 1 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.79%) Law
8 1 (0.79%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.79%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 84 (66.67%) Developer
2 38 (30.16%) .NET Developer
3 24 (19.05%) C# Developer
4 19 (15.08%) Full-Stack Developer
4 19 (15.08%) Senior
5 15 (11.90%) C# .NET Developer
6 12 (9.52%) Senior Developer
7 9 (7.14%) Architect
8 6 (4.76%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
8 6 (4.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 6 (4.76%) Lead
8 6 (4.76%) React Developer
8 6 (4.76%) Software Engineer
8 6 (4.76%) Technical Architect
9 5 (3.97%) ASP.NET Developer
9 5 (3.97%) Senior .NET Developer
9 5 (3.97%) Sitecore Developer
9 5 (3.97%) Software Developer
9 5 (3.97%) Technical Leader
10 4 (3.17%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (100.00%) .NET
2 63 (50.00%) ASP.NET Core
3 48 (38.10%) React
4 45 (35.71%) .NET Framework
5 39 (30.95%) CSS
6 38 (30.16%) HTML
7 35 (27.78%) .NET Core
8 34 (26.98%) RESTful
9 32 (25.40%) Entity Framework
10 26 (20.63%) REST
11 25 (19.84%) ASP.NET Web API
12 22 (17.46%) AngularJS
13 20 (15.87%) Node.js
14 19 (15.08%) ASP.NET MVC
15 14 (11.11%) jQuery
16 12 (9.52%) HTML5
16 12 (9.52%) XML
17 10 (7.94%) JSON
18 9 (7.14%) Next.js
19 8 (6.35%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.14%) Cloud Native
1 9 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
2 8 (6.35%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (6.35%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.17%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.38%) AI Agents
4 3 (2.38%) Legacy Code
4 3 (2.38%) NHS
4 3 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.59%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.59%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.59%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.59%) Media Streaming
5 2 (1.59%) PKI
6 1 (0.79%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.79%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.79%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.79%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.56%) Windows
2 4 (3.17%) Linux
3 2 (1.59%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 67 (53.17%) Agile
3 63 (50.00%) DevOps
4 36 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
5 33 (26.19%) Microservices
6 30 (23.81%) MVC
7 25 (19.84%) User Experience
8 24 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
8 24 (19.05%) Test Automation
9 21 (16.67%) Scrum
10 19 (15.08%) Software Engineering
11 17 (13.49%) Containerisation
11 17 (13.49%) Front End Development
11 17 (13.49%) SOLID
12 16 (12.70%) Unit Testing
13 14 (11.11%) Code Quality
13 14 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
13 14 (11.11%) Mentoring
13 14 (11.11%) TDD
14 12 (9.52%) AI
Programming Languages
1 117 (92.86%) C#
2 49 (38.89%) SQL
3 42 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 23 (18.25%) TypeScript
5 14 (11.11%) Python
6 9 (7.14%) PL/SQL
6 9 (7.14%) T-SQL
7 8 (6.35%) PowerShell
8 7 (5.56%) Bicep
9 6 (4.76%) Java
10 2 (1.59%) Ruby
10 2 (1.59%) VB.NET
10 2 (1.59%) VBA
10 2 (1.59%) VBScript
10 2 (1.59%) XPath
11 1 (0.79%) Bash
11 1 (0.79%) C++
Qualifications
1 22 (17.46%) Security Cleared
2 14 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 11 (8.73%) Degree
4 6 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (3.17%) Azure Certification
5 4 (3.17%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.79%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (18.25%) QA
2 11 (8.73%) Accessibility
3 8 (6.35%) WCAG
4 2 (1.59%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.79%) GDPR
5 1 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 40 (31.75%) Docker
2 2 (1.59%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 20 (15.87%) Terraform
3 1 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 17 (13.49%) Oracle
2 17 (13.49%) Sitecore
3 7 (5.56%) Google
4 3 (2.38%) Databricks
5 2 (1.59%) Adobe
5 2 (1.59%) Cisco
5 2 (1.59%) VMware
6 1 (0.79%) OpenAI