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 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 522 394 342
Rank change year-on-year -128 -52 -12
Contract jobs citing ASP.NET 113 132 239
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.46% 0.56%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.19% 2.03% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 101 186
10th Percentile £358 £400 £307
25th Percentile £419 £475 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £618 £475
Median % change year-on-year -19.04% +30.01% -9.52%
75th Percentile £600 £775 £619
90th Percentile £695 £825 £750
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 9,510 6,500 8,929
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.59% 22.73% 20.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,248 4,454 6,211
10th Percentile £363 £361 £345
25th Percentile £420 £414 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
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 276 105 250
10th Percentile £30.77 £27.44 £21.68
25th Percentile £51.25 £37.80 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%
75th Percentile £73.00 £68.75 £65.95
90th Percentile £81.00 £81.22 £74.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.43
% change year-on-year - +34.21% -25.49%

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 26 May 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 26 May 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 -142 92 £500 -23.08% 212
London -99 51 £520 -30.67% 61
UK excluding London -97 49 £475 - 163
Work from Home -65 37 £475 -26.92% 171
South East -57 12 £426 -10.26% 56
East of England -30 8 £600 +18.23% 20
Scotland -3 7 £398 -20.45% 3
West Midlands -58 7 £500 -11.11% 7
Midlands -60 7 £500 +5.26% 18
North of England -75 7 £475 +26.67% 47
South West -28 4 £525 +36.81% 13
Yorkshire -53 4 £500 - 14
North East -21 2 £475 +28.38% 7
Wales - 2 £450 - 3
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 3
North West -42 1 £450 +2.68% 26

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 12 (10.62%) CMS
2 8 (7.08%) Sitecore CMS
3 5 (4.42%) SharePoint
4 4 (3.54%) IIS
5 3 (2.65%) Confluence
5 3 (2.65%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.88%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.88%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (0.88%) InDesign
1 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.88%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 65 (57.52%) Azure
2 24 (21.24%) AWS
3 21 (18.58%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (14.16%) GitHub
5 14 (12.39%) Serverless
6 12 (10.62%) Azure Functions
7 10 (8.85%) Azure AKS
7 10 (8.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 9 (7.96%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (7.08%) Azure Logic Apps
10 7 (6.19%) Azure Key Vault
10 7 (6.19%) Azure Monitor
10 7 (6.19%) Entra ID
10 7 (6.19%) GCP
10 7 (6.19%) Power Platform
11 6 (5.31%) Azure App Service
12 5 (4.42%) Azure Service Bus
12 5 (4.42%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (4.42%) Power Automate
12 5 (4.42%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.42%) HTTP
2 4 (3.54%) 3GPP
2 4 (3.54%) RTCP
2 4 (3.54%) RTP
2 4 (3.54%) XCAP
3 2 (1.77%) Intranet
4 1 (0.88%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (42.48%) SQL Server
2 17 (15.04%) NoSQL
3 10 (8.85%) Relational Database
4 8 (7.08%) MongoDB
5 5 (4.42%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (4.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (2.65%) DocumentDB
6 3 (2.65%) GIS
6 3 (2.65%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.77%) ClickHouse
7 2 (1.77%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.77%) EDRMS
7 2 (1.77%) Metadata
7 2 (1.77%) Power BI
7 2 (1.77%) Redis
7 2 (1.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (1.77%) Tableau
8 1 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.88%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.88%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 19 (16.81%) Git
2 8 (7.08%) JIRA
2 8 (7.08%) NUnit
3 7 (6.19%) Visual Studio
4 5 (4.42%) TeamCity
5 4 (3.54%) Bitbucket
6 3 (2.65%) git-flow
6 3 (2.65%) MSTest
6 3 (2.65%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (2.65%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (2.65%) webpack
7 2 (1.77%) GitLab
7 2 (1.77%) Jasmine
7 2 (1.77%) Jenkins
7 2 (1.77%) JMeter
7 2 (1.77%) Karma Test Runner
7 2 (1.77%) Moq
7 2 (1.77%) MSBuild
7 2 (1.77%) Postman
7 2 (1.77%) Vite
General
1 22 (19.47%) Social Skills
2 14 (12.39%) Banking
2 14 (12.39%) Finance
2 14 (12.39%) Public Sector
3 10 (8.85%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (2.65%) Investment Banking
4 3 (2.65%) Retail
5 2 (1.77%) Automotive
5 2 (1.77%) Front Office
5 2 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (1.77%) Police
6 1 (0.88%) Back Office
6 1 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.88%) Law
6 1 (0.88%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.88%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 80 (70.80%) Developer
2 38 (33.63%) .NET Developer
3 22 (19.47%) C# Developer
4 20 (17.70%) Senior
5 18 (15.93%) Full-Stack Developer
6 14 (12.39%) C# .NET Developer
7 13 (11.50%) Senior Developer
8 7 (6.19%) Architect
9 6 (5.31%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
9 6 (5.31%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 6 (5.31%) React Developer
9 6 (5.31%) Senior .NET Developer
9 6 (5.31%) Technical Architect
10 5 (4.42%) Azure Developer
10 5 (4.42%) Sitecore Developer
10 5 (4.42%) Software Engineer
11 4 (3.54%) ASP.NET Developer
11 4 (3.54%) Lead
11 4 (3.54%) Software Developer
11 4 (3.54%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (100.00%) .NET
2 54 (47.79%) ASP.NET Core
3 43 (38.05%) .NET Framework
3 43 (38.05%) React
4 38 (33.63%) HTML
5 35 (30.97%) CSS
6 32 (28.32%) .NET Core
6 32 (28.32%) RESTful
7 29 (25.66%) Entity Framework
8 23 (20.35%) ASP.NET Web API
8 23 (20.35%) REST
9 21 (18.58%) ASP.NET MVC
9 21 (18.58%) Node.js
10 20 (17.70%) AngularJS
11 13 (11.50%) jQuery
12 11 (9.73%) HTML5
13 10 (8.85%) XML
14 8 (7.08%) OAuth
14 8 (7.08%) OAuth2
14 8 (7.08%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.96%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.08%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (5.31%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (4.42%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.54%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.65%) AI Agents
6 3 (2.65%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.65%) Legacy Code
6 3 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.77%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.77%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.77%) Media Streaming
7 2 (1.77%) NHS
8 1 (0.88%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.88%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.88%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.88%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.88%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.54%) Windows
2 1 (0.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (58.41%) CI/CD
2 61 (53.98%) Agile
3 57 (50.44%) DevOps
4 34 (30.09%) Full-Stack Development
4 34 (30.09%) Microservices
5 30 (26.55%) MVC
6 24 (21.24%) Test Automation
7 19 (16.81%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (16.81%) Scrum
7 19 (16.81%) User Experience
8 17 (15.04%) Containerisation
8 17 (15.04%) SOLID
9 16 (14.16%) Software Engineering
10 15 (13.27%) Unit Testing
11 14 (12.39%) Front End Development
11 14 (12.39%) Infrastructure as Code
11 14 (12.39%) Mentoring
11 14 (12.39%) TDD
12 11 (9.73%) Code Quality
12 11 (9.73%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 107 (94.69%) C#
2 42 (37.17%) SQL
3 38 (33.63%) JavaScript
4 18 (15.93%) TypeScript
5 11 (9.73%) Python
6 7 (6.19%) Bicep
7 6 (5.31%) PowerShell
7 6 (5.31%) T-SQL
8 5 (4.42%) Java
8 5 (4.42%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.77%) Ruby
9 2 (1.77%) XPath
10 1 (0.88%) Bash
10 1 (0.88%) C++
10 1 (0.88%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.88%) VBA
10 1 (0.88%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 18 (15.93%) Security Cleared
2 12 (10.62%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.08%) Degree
4 6 (5.31%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (3.54%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.77%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.88%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (15.93%) QA
2 9 (7.96%) Accessibility
3 6 (5.31%) WCAG
4 1 (0.88%) GDPR
4 1 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 39 (34.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (18.58%) Kubernetes
2 20 (17.70%) Terraform
3 1 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (14.16%) Sitecore
2 13 (11.50%) Microsoft
3 12 (10.62%) Oracle
4 7 (6.19%) Google
5 2 (1.77%) Adobe
5 2 (1.77%) Databricks