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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 541 455 347
Rank change year-on-year -86 -108 -28
Contract jobs citing ASP.NET 145 90 217
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.27% 0.57%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.23% 1.04% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 61 146
10th Percentile £350 £396 £303
25th Percentile £418 £431 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +2.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £623 £605
90th Percentile £681 £750 £681
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -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 11,814 8,625 9,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.62% 25.99% 24.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,756 5,728 6,131
10th Percentile £375 £355 £356
25th Percentile £440 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 288 190 189
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.20 £25.60
25th Percentile £50.56 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -13.60% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +17.34% -11.54% +10.94%

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 October 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 October 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 -76 121 £475 -5.00% 405
London -58 72 £490 -10.91% 190
UK excluding London -77 52 £475 +5.56% 233
Work from Home -61 46 £475 -5.00% 248
Yorkshire -25 18 £449 - 25
North of England -56 18 £449 -8.88% 68
South East -54 12 £475 +5.56% 63
South West -26 9 £475 +23.78% 19
Scotland -21 5 £438 -23.08% 6
East of England -17 4 £345 -31.00% 29
Midlands -44 4 £538 +24.57% 40
East Midlands -11 2 £550 +27.46% 21
West Midlands -44 2 £525 - 19

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 12 (8.28%) IIS
3 8 (5.52%) CMS
4 7 (4.83%) Confluence
5 3 (2.07%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.69%) 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 6 (4.14%) 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 83 (57.24%) Azure
2 35 (24.14%) Azure DevOps
3 31 (21.38%) AWS
4 16 (11.03%) GitHub
5 15 (10.34%) Power Platform
6 9 (6.21%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (5.52%) Entra ID
7 8 (5.52%) Power Automate
7 8 (5.52%) PowerApps
8 7 (4.83%) Azure App Service
8 7 (4.83%) Microsoft Copilot
9 6 (4.14%) Azure AKS
9 6 (4.14%) Azure API Management
9 6 (4.14%) Azure Service Bus
9 6 (4.14%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (4.14%) Serverless
10 5 (3.45%) Azure Functions
10 5 (3.45%) Azure Key Vault
10 5 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (2.76%) ShareGate
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 81 (55.86%) SQL Server
2 19 (13.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 10 (6.90%) MS Access
3 10 (6.90%) Relational Database
4 8 (5.52%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (4.83%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (4.14%) Power BI
7 5 (3.45%) NoSQL
8 4 (2.76%) EDRMS
8 4 (2.76%) Metadata
8 4 (2.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (2.07%) DocumentDB
9 3 (2.07%) MongoDB
9 3 (2.07%) Oracle Database
9 3 (2.07%) Redis
10 2 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.38%) Db2
10 2 (1.38%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.38%) Star Schema
11 1 (0.69%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 36 (24.83%) Git
2 20 (13.79%) Jenkins
3 12 (8.28%) Visual Studio
4 11 (7.59%) JIRA
5 8 (5.52%) Bitbucket
5 8 (5.52%) Team Foundation Server
5 8 (5.52%) TeamCity
6 6 (4.14%) GitLab
7 5 (3.45%) NUnit
7 5 (3.45%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (2.07%) MSBuild
8 3 (2.07%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (2.07%) webpack
9 2 (1.38%) Artifactory
9 2 (1.38%) git-flow
9 2 (1.38%) JMeter
10 1 (0.69%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.69%) Moq
10 1 (0.69%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.69%) Postman
General
1 51 (35.17%) Social Skills
2 32 (22.07%) Finance
3 24 (16.55%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (12.41%) Banking
5 10 (6.90%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.83%) Investment Banking
7 6 (4.14%) Front Office
8 4 (2.76%) Back Office
8 4 (2.76%) Local Government
9 2 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.38%) Retail
10 1 (0.69%) Automotive
10 1 (0.69%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.69%) Law
10 1 (0.69%) Legal
10 1 (0.69%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.69%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 92 (63.45%) Developer
2 57 (39.31%) .NET Developer
3 23 (15.86%) C# Developer
3 23 (15.86%) Senior
4 17 (11.72%) Senior Developer
5 16 (11.03%) C# .NET Developer
5 16 (11.03%) Senior .NET Developer
6 15 (10.34%) Lead
7 13 (8.97%) Software Developer
8 12 (8.28%) Full-Stack Developer
9 9 (6.21%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
9 9 (6.21%) Technical Leader
10 8 (5.52%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (4.83%) Architect
11 7 (4.83%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 7 (4.83%) Lead Developer
12 6 (4.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 6 (4.14%) ASP.NET Developer
12 6 (4.14%) SQL Developer
13 5 (3.45%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (100.00%) .NET
2 59 (40.69%) ASP.NET Core
3 50 (34.48%) REST
4 49 (33.79%) .NET Framework
5 44 (30.34%) .NET Core
6 37 (25.52%) React
7 30 (20.69%) HTML
8 28 (19.31%) AngularJS
8 28 (19.31%) Entity Framework
9 27 (18.62%) ASP.NET Web API
9 27 (18.62%) RESTful
10 22 (15.17%) CSS
11 21 (14.48%) ASP.NET MVC
11 21 (14.48%) Web Services
12 17 (11.72%) JSON
13 16 (11.03%) XML
14 15 (10.34%) Terraform
15 12 (8.28%) WinForms
16 11 (7.59%) Blazor
16 11 (7.59%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 25 (17.24%) Enterprise Software
2 20 (13.79%) Cloud Native
3 14 (9.66%) Product Ownership
4 9 (6.21%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (5.52%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (4.83%) Legacy Applications
7 6 (4.14%) Replication
7 6 (4.14%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (3.45%) AI Agents
8 5 (3.45%) Legacy Code
9 4 (2.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (2.07%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (2.07%) Life Science
10 3 (2.07%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (1.38%) Data Centre
11 2 (1.38%) Equities
11 2 (1.38%) Onboarding
11 2 (1.38%) PKI
11 2 (1.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 2 (1.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (11.72%) Windows
2 8 (5.52%) Linux
3 4 (2.76%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (47.59%) DevOps
2 68 (46.90%) CI/CD
3 63 (43.45%) Agile
4 31 (21.38%) Full-Stack Development
4 31 (21.38%) Problem-Solving
5 28 (19.31%) Microservices
6 27 (18.62%) MVC
7 25 (17.24%) Test Automation
8 21 (14.48%) AI
9 20 (13.79%) Code Quality
10 19 (13.10%) Migration
11 18 (12.41%) Front End Development
12 17 (11.72%) Deployment Automation
12 17 (11.72%) Software Engineering
13 16 (11.03%) API Development
13 16 (11.03%) Continuous Improvement
13 16 (11.03%) Scrum
13 16 (11.03%) SDLC
13 16 (11.03%) SOLID
14 15 (10.34%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 126 (86.90%) C#
2 67 (46.21%) SQL
3 51 (35.17%) JavaScript
4 30 (20.69%) TypeScript
5 22 (15.17%) T-SQL
6 20 (13.79%) PL/SQL
7 11 (7.59%) Python
8 10 (6.90%) VB.NET
8 10 (6.90%) VBA
9 8 (5.52%) XPath
10 7 (4.83%) VBScript
11 6 (4.14%) Bicep
11 6 (4.14%) PowerShell
12 3 (2.07%) Bash
12 3 (2.07%) C++
13 1 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.69%) Java
13 1 (0.69%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.69%) R
13 1 (0.69%) VB
Qualifications
1 21 (14.48%) Security Cleared
2 15 (10.34%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.28%) Degree
4 5 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.76%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 3 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.07%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.38%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.69%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.69%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (16.55%) QA
2 9 (6.21%) Accessibility
3 7 (4.83%) WCAG
4 2 (1.38%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.69%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.69%) GDPR
System Software
1 27 (18.62%) Docker
2 12 (8.28%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (14.48%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.52%) Ansible
3 2 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 56 (38.62%) Microsoft
2 27 (18.62%) 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%) 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%) Brio
6 1 (0.69%) Databricks
6 1 (0.69%) Syncfusion
6 1 (0.69%) Telerik