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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 520 444 354
Rank change year-on-year -76 -90 -7
Contract jobs citing ASP.NET 151 107 226
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.33% 0.58%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.50% 1.44% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 86 168
10th Percentile £358 £398 £297
25th Percentile £420 £438 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £552 £485
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% +13.81% -11.82%
75th Percentile £588 £775 £619
90th Percentile £700 £825 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £488
% change year-on-year - -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 10,090 7,440 8,609
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.09% 22.61% 21.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,588 5,024 5,854
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £638 £634 £666
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £469 £500
% change year-on-year +6.61% -6.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 165 248
10th Percentile £28.72 £30.10 £22.50
25th Percentile £41.59 £40.75 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.88 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +18.45% +2.09% -10.42%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £79.48 £74.46
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £58.60
% change year-on-year +18.18% -6.15% +0.02%

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 4 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 4 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 -72 123 £481 -22.07% 232
London -55 70 £532 -24.00% 75
UK excluding London -62 59 £450 - 174
Work from Home -44 52 £518 -1.33% 192
North of England -49 16 £450 -16.28% 42
Yorkshire -30 15 £450 - 10
South East -57 15 £475 +5.56% 65
South West -36 9 £500 +30.29% 8
Scotland -9 8 £368 -22.63% 5
Midlands -48 6 £500 +59.74% 21
West Midlands -51 6 £500 - 12
East of England -13 5 £473 -5.50% 24
North West -54 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 15 (9.93%) SharePoint
2 14 (9.27%) IIS
3 6 (3.97%) CMS
3 6 (3.97%) Confluence
4 3 (1.99%) Umbraco
5 2 (1.32%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.32%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.66%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.66%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.66%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 7 (4.64%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.66%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 2 (1.32%) OpenText MBPM
1 2 (1.32%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.66%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 83 (54.97%) Azure
2 29 (19.21%) Azure DevOps
3 28 (18.54%) AWS
4 19 (12.58%) GitHub
5 13 (8.61%) Power Platform
6 10 (6.62%) Azure AKS
6 10 (6.62%) Serverless
7 9 (5.96%) Entra ID
8 8 (5.30%) Azure Functions
9 7 (4.64%) Azure App Service
9 7 (4.64%) Azure Key Vault
9 7 (4.64%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (4.64%) Power Automate
9 7 (4.64%) PowerApps
10 6 (3.97%) Azure Logic Apps
10 6 (3.97%) GCP
10 6 (3.97%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (3.31%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (3.31%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (3.31%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.97%) Intranet
2 5 (3.31%) HTTP
3 4 (2.65%) 3GPP
3 4 (2.65%) RTCP
3 4 (2.65%) RTP
3 4 (2.65%) XCAP
4 2 (1.32%) DHCP
4 2 (1.32%) DNS
4 2 (1.32%) Internet
4 2 (1.32%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.66%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (50.99%) SQL Server
2 16 (10.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 10 (6.62%) MS Access
4 9 (5.96%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (5.30%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (5.30%) Relational Database
6 6 (3.97%) NoSQL
6 6 (3.97%) Power BI
7 5 (3.31%) MongoDB
8 4 (2.65%) DocumentDB
8 4 (2.65%) EDRMS
8 4 (2.65%) Metadata
8 4 (2.65%) Redis
9 3 (1.99%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.32%) ClickHouse
10 2 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.32%) GIS
10 2 (1.32%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (1.32%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 30 (19.87%) Git
2 16 (10.60%) Jenkins
3 12 (7.95%) Visual Studio
4 10 (6.62%) JIRA
5 9 (5.96%) TeamCity
6 8 (5.30%) Bitbucket
6 8 (5.30%) NUnit
7 7 (4.64%) Team Foundation Server
8 5 (3.31%) GitLab
9 4 (2.65%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (2.65%) webpack
10 3 (1.99%) git-flow
10 3 (1.99%) MSBuild
10 3 (1.99%) MSTest
10 3 (1.99%) Postman
10 3 (1.99%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 2 (1.32%) Artifactory
11 2 (1.32%) Jasmine
11 2 (1.32%) JMeter
11 2 (1.32%) Moq
General
1 38 (25.17%) Social Skills
2 30 (19.87%) Finance
3 21 (13.91%) Banking
4 18 (11.92%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (11.92%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.97%) Investment Banking
6 5 (3.31%) Front Office
7 3 (1.99%) Back Office
7 3 (1.99%) Local Government
7 3 (1.99%) Retail
8 2 (1.32%) Automotive
8 2 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.32%) Police
9 1 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.66%) Law
9 1 (0.66%) Legal
9 1 (0.66%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.66%) Marketing
9 1 (0.66%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 105 (69.54%) Developer
2 59 (39.07%) .NET Developer
3 30 (19.87%) C# Developer
4 25 (16.56%) Senior
5 20 (13.25%) C# .NET Developer
5 20 (13.25%) Full-Stack Developer
6 18 (11.92%) Senior Developer
7 15 (9.93%) Lead
8 13 (8.61%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
8 13 (8.61%) Software Developer
9 12 (7.95%) Senior .NET Developer
10 9 (5.96%) Technical Leader
11 8 (5.30%) ASP.NET Developer
11 8 (5.30%) React Developer
12 7 (4.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 7 (4.64%) Lead Developer
12 7 (4.64%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (4.64%) Software Engineer
12 7 (4.64%) SQL Developer
13 5 (3.31%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (100.00%) .NET
2 67 (44.37%) ASP.NET Core
3 55 (36.42%) .NET Framework
4 45 (29.80%) React
5 40 (26.49%) .NET Core
6 38 (25.17%) Entity Framework
7 37 (24.50%) REST
8 34 (22.52%) ASP.NET Web API
9 33 (21.85%) HTML
10 30 (19.87%) RESTful
11 27 (17.88%) CSS
12 22 (14.57%) AngularJS
13 21 (13.91%) XML
14 19 (12.58%) ASP.NET MVC
15 18 (11.92%) JSON
16 15 (9.93%) Web Services
17 13 (8.61%) WCF
18 12 (7.95%) Next.js
18 12 (7.95%) Node.js
19 11 (7.28%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 18 (11.92%) Enterprise Software
2 11 (7.28%) Cloud Native
3 10 (6.62%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (5.30%) Product Ownership
5 7 (4.64%) Legacy Code
6 6 (3.97%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (3.97%) Legacy Applications
6 6 (3.97%) Replication
7 5 (3.31%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.99%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.32%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.32%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.32%) Fixed Income
9 2 (1.32%) Media Streaming
9 2 (1.32%) NHS
9 2 (1.32%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.32%) PKI
10 1 (0.66%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.66%) Equities
10 1 (0.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 18 (11.92%) Windows
2 7 (4.64%) Linux
3 4 (2.65%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.32%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (49.01%) CI/CD
2 69 (45.70%) Agile
3 65 (43.05%) DevOps
4 40 (26.49%) Full-Stack Development
5 30 (19.87%) Microservices
5 30 (19.87%) Test Automation
6 29 (19.21%) MVC
7 26 (17.22%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (13.91%) User Experience
9 20 (13.25%) Code Quality
9 20 (13.25%) SOLID
10 19 (12.58%) Software Engineering
11 17 (11.26%) API Development
11 17 (11.26%) Front End Development
11 17 (11.26%) Migration
11 17 (11.26%) Scrum
11 17 (11.26%) Unit Testing
12 16 (10.60%) Containerisation
13 15 (9.93%) Infrastructure as Code
13 15 (9.93%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 131 (86.75%) C#
2 70 (46.36%) SQL
3 51 (33.77%) JavaScript
4 30 (19.87%) TypeScript
5 22 (14.57%) PL/SQL
5 22 (14.57%) T-SQL
6 16 (10.60%) Python
7 10 (6.62%) PowerShell
7 10 (6.62%) VB.NET
8 9 (5.96%) VBA
9 8 (5.30%) XPath
10 7 (4.64%) Bicep
10 7 (4.64%) VBScript
11 5 (3.31%) Java
12 3 (1.99%) Bash
13 2 (1.32%) C++
13 2 (1.32%) Ruby
14 1 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.66%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.66%) R
Qualifications
1 28 (18.54%) Security Cleared
2 20 (13.25%) SC Cleared
3 12 (7.95%) Degree
4 8 (5.30%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.65%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.66%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.66%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.66%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (13.25%) QA
2 12 (7.95%) Accessibility
3 7 (4.64%) WCAG
4 2 (1.32%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.66%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.66%) GDPR
5 1 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 46 (30.46%) Docker
2 7 (4.64%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (17.88%) Kubernetes
2 22 (14.57%) Terraform
3 6 (3.97%) Ansible
4 2 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 45 (29.80%) Microsoft
2 31 (20.53%) Oracle
3 8 (5.30%) Sitecore
4 4 (2.65%) Centrify
4 4 (2.65%) CyberArk
5 3 (1.99%) Databricks
5 3 (1.99%) IBM
6 2 (1.32%) Cisco
6 2 (1.32%) Google
6 2 (1.32%) VMware
7 1 (0.66%) Adobe
7 1 (0.66%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.66%) Telerik