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

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 514 378 351
Rank change year-on-year -136 -27 -39
Contract jobs citing ASP.NET 109 144 242
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.49% 0.57%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.15% 2.16% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 110 189
10th Percentile £358 £400 £307
25th Percentile £419 £491 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £586 £475
Median % change year-on-year -14.71% +23.42% -13.64%
75th Percentile £600 £775 £619
90th Percentile £699 £825 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £400
% change year-on-year -5.00% +25.00% -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 9,466 6,658 8,900
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.67% 22.66% 20.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,241 4,561 6,172
10th Percentile £360 £363 £350
25th Percentile £417 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £728 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £478 £500
% change year-on-year +4.60% -4.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 271 109 247
10th Percentile £32.50 £29.21 £21.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £72.50 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £82.27 £74.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

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 17 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 17 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 -149 89 £510 -18.40% 215
London -102 49 £525 -30.00% 68
UK excluding London -93 48 £475 -5.00% 156
Work from Home -53 36 £475 -18.98% 256
South East -57 12 £426 -12.56% 50
East of England -22 8 £600 +14.29% 21
Scotland 0 7 £398 -20.45% 4
West Midlands -60 7 £500 -11.11% 10
Midlands -67 7 £500 +5.26% 18
North of England -69 6 £475 +26.67% 45
South West -30 4 £525 +36.81% 15
Yorkshire - 3 £500 - 14
Northern Ireland +3 2 - -
North East -19 2 £475 +28.38% 7
Wales - 2 £450 - 3
North West -43 1 £450 +2.68% 24

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 11 (10.09%) CMS
2 8 (7.34%) Sitecore CMS
3 4 (3.67%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.75%) Confluence
4 3 (2.75%) IIS
5 2 (1.83%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.92%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.92%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (0.92%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 1 (0.92%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 62 (56.88%) Azure
2 24 (22.02%) AWS
3 21 (19.27%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (14.68%) GitHub
5 15 (13.76%) Serverless
6 12 (11.01%) Azure Functions
7 10 (9.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 9 (8.26%) Azure AKS
8 9 (8.26%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (7.34%) Azure Logic Apps
10 7 (6.42%) Azure Key Vault
10 7 (6.42%) Azure Monitor
10 7 (6.42%) Entra ID
10 7 (6.42%) GCP
10 7 (6.42%) Power Platform
11 5 (4.59%) Azure App Service
11 5 (4.59%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (4.59%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (4.59%) Power Automate
11 5 (4.59%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.59%) HTTP
2 4 (3.67%) 3GPP
2 4 (3.67%) RTCP
2 4 (3.67%) RTP
2 4 (3.67%) XCAP
3 2 (1.83%) Intranet
4 1 (0.92%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (42.20%) SQL Server
2 18 (16.51%) NoSQL
3 9 (8.26%) Relational Database
4 8 (7.34%) MongoDB
5 5 (4.59%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (3.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (2.75%) DocumentDB
7 3 (2.75%) GIS
7 3 (2.75%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.83%) ClickHouse
8 2 (1.83%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.83%) EDRMS
8 2 (1.83%) Metadata
8 2 (1.83%) Power BI
8 2 (1.83%) Redis
8 2 (1.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.83%) Tableau
9 1 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.92%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 17 (15.60%) Git
2 8 (7.34%) JIRA
2 8 (7.34%) NUnit
3 6 (5.50%) Visual Studio
4 5 (4.59%) TeamCity
5 4 (3.67%) Bitbucket
6 3 (2.75%) git-flow
6 3 (2.75%) MSTest
6 3 (2.75%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (2.75%) webpack
7 2 (1.83%) GitLab
7 2 (1.83%) Jasmine
7 2 (1.83%) JMeter
7 2 (1.83%) Karma Test Runner
7 2 (1.83%) Moq
7 2 (1.83%) MSBuild
7 2 (1.83%) Postman
7 2 (1.83%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (1.83%) Vite
8 1 (0.92%) Jenkins
General
1 23 (21.10%) Social Skills
2 14 (12.84%) Public Sector
3 13 (11.93%) Banking
4 12 (11.01%) Finance
5 10 (9.17%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.75%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.75%) Retail
7 2 (1.83%) Automotive
7 2 (1.83%) Front Office
7 2 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.83%) Police
8 1 (0.92%) Back Office
8 1 (0.92%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.92%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 78 (71.56%) Developer
2 37 (33.94%) .NET Developer
3 20 (18.35%) C# Developer
4 19 (17.43%) Full-Stack Developer
4 19 (17.43%) Senior
5 13 (11.93%) C# .NET Developer
5 13 (11.93%) Senior Developer
6 7 (6.42%) Architect
7 6 (5.50%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
7 6 (5.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 6 (5.50%) React Developer
7 6 (5.50%) Senior .NET Developer
7 6 (5.50%) Technical Architect
8 5 (4.59%) Azure Developer
8 5 (4.59%) Sitecore Developer
8 5 (4.59%) Software Engineer
9 4 (3.67%) ASP.NET Developer
9 4 (3.67%) Database Developer
10 3 (2.75%) Administrator
10 3 (2.75%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (100.00%) .NET
2 51 (46.79%) ASP.NET Core
3 43 (39.45%) React
4 42 (38.53%) .NET Framework
5 37 (33.94%) HTML
6 35 (32.11%) CSS
7 32 (29.36%) .NET Core
8 31 (28.44%) RESTful
9 29 (26.61%) Entity Framework
10 22 (20.18%) ASP.NET Web API
11 21 (19.27%) AngularJS
11 21 (19.27%) ASP.NET MVC
11 21 (19.27%) Node.js
11 21 (19.27%) REST
12 13 (11.93%) jQuery
13 11 (10.09%) HTML5
14 9 (8.26%) XML
15 8 (7.34%) SignalR
16 7 (6.42%) OAuth
16 7 (6.42%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.34%) Cloud Native
1 8 (7.34%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (4.59%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (4.59%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.67%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.75%) AI Agents
4 3 (2.75%) Legacy Code
4 3 (2.75%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.83%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.83%) Media Streaming
5 2 (1.83%) NHS
6 1 (0.92%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.92%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.92%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.92%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.92%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.75%) Windows
2 1 (0.92%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (58.72%) CI/CD
2 60 (55.05%) Agile
3 55 (50.46%) DevOps
4 35 (32.11%) Full-Stack Development
5 34 (31.19%) Microservices
6 30 (27.52%) MVC
7 23 (21.10%) Test Automation
8 20 (18.35%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (17.43%) Scrum
9 19 (17.43%) User Experience
10 17 (15.60%) SOLID
11 16 (14.68%) Containerisation
12 15 (13.76%) Software Engineering
12 15 (13.76%) Unit Testing
13 14 (12.84%) Front End Development
13 14 (12.84%) Infrastructure as Code
13 14 (12.84%) TDD
14 13 (11.93%) Mentoring
15 10 (9.17%) OO
15 10 (9.17%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 102 (93.58%) C#
2 40 (36.70%) SQL
3 37 (33.94%) JavaScript
4 18 (16.51%) TypeScript
5 11 (10.09%) Python
6 6 (5.50%) Bicep
6 6 (5.50%) PowerShell
7 5 (4.59%) Java
7 5 (4.59%) T-SQL
8 4 (3.67%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.83%) Ruby
10 1 (0.92%) Bash
10 1 (0.92%) C++
10 1 (0.92%) XPath
Qualifications
1 17 (15.60%) Security Cleared
2 11 (10.09%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.34%) Degree
4 6 (5.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (4.59%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.83%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.92%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (14.68%) QA
2 9 (8.26%) Accessibility
3 6 (5.50%) WCAG
4 1 (0.92%) GDPR
4 1 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 38 (34.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (19.27%) Kubernetes
2 19 (17.43%) Terraform
3 1 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (13.76%) Sitecore
2 12 (11.01%) Microsoft
3 11 (10.09%) Oracle
4 7 (6.42%) Google
5 2 (1.83%) Adobe
5 2 (1.83%) Databricks