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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 507 355 355
Rank change year-on-year -152 0 -81
Contract jobs citing ASP.NET 104 164 243
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.54% 0.55%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.12% 2.39% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 110 183
10th Percentile £393 £361 £307
25th Percentile £450 £452 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £554 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% +16.58% -14.38%
75th Percentile £600 £709 £672
90th Percentile £675 £825 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £500 £400
% change year-on-year +10.00% +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 9,316 6,870 8,998
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.89% 22.70% 20.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,226 4,505 6,278
10th Percentile £358 £363 £340
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - -7.89%
75th Percentile £620 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 87 221
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.25 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £38.88 £40.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £72.00 £68.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £81.45 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%

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 5 March 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 5 March 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 -145 83 £550 -4.82% 243
UK excluding London -104 47 £550 +10.00% 192
London -92 41 £550 -12.00% 67
Work from Home -58 36 £500 -13.89% 197
Midlands -59 14 £550 +15.79% 17
East of England -19 10 £600 +14.29% 28
East Midlands - 8 £600 - 8
West Midlands -60 6 £525 -6.67% 9
Scotland +12 5 £358 -28.40% 5
North of England -63 5 £463 +28.47% 54
South East -68 5 £650 +33.33% 64
South West -26 4 £625 -3.85% 22
North West -38 3 £413 +0.43% 30
Northern Ireland -1 2 - - 1
North East -11 2 £475 +31.94% 7
Wales - 2 £450 - 4

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 16 (15.38%) CMS
2 13 (12.50%) Sitecore CMS
3 6 (5.77%) Umbraco
4 5 (4.81%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 5 (4.81%) Headless CMS
5 2 (1.92%) Confluence
5 2 (1.92%) IIS
6 1 (0.96%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.96%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.96%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.96%) Oracle Spatial
6 1 (0.96%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (0.96%) InDesign
Cloud Services
1 57 (54.81%) Azure
2 27 (25.96%) Azure DevOps
3 20 (19.23%) AWS
4 16 (15.38%) Serverless
5 15 (14.42%) GitHub
6 14 (13.46%) Azure Functions
7 10 (9.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 10 (9.62%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (8.65%) Azure Monitor
8 9 (8.65%) Entra ID
9 8 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
10 7 (6.73%) Azure AKS
10 7 (6.73%) Azure Service Bus
10 7 (6.73%) Kontent
11 6 (5.77%) GCP
12 5 (4.81%) Azure Key Vault
12 5 (4.81%) Contentful
13 2 (1.92%) Azure API Management
13 2 (1.92%) Azure Event Grid
13 2 (1.92%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.73%) HTTP
2 4 (3.85%) 3GPP
2 4 (3.85%) RTCP
2 4 (3.85%) RTP
2 4 (3.85%) XCAP
3 2 (1.92%) SSL
4 1 (0.96%) Internet
4 1 (0.96%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (39.42%) SQL Server
2 19 (18.27%) NoSQL
3 9 (8.65%) Relational Database
4 7 (6.73%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (6.73%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.88%) GIS
5 3 (2.88%) Redis
5 3 (2.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (1.92%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.92%) Power BI
6 2 (1.92%) Tableau
7 1 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.96%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.96%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.96%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 24 (23.08%) Git
2 8 (7.69%) JIRA
3 6 (5.77%) Visual Studio
4 5 (4.81%) Jenkins
5 4 (3.85%) MSTest
5 4 (3.85%) NUnit
5 4 (3.85%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (2.88%) Postman
7 2 (1.92%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.92%) Jasmine
7 2 (1.92%) Karma Test Runner
7 2 (1.92%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (1.92%) webpack
8 1 (0.96%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.96%) git-flow
8 1 (0.96%) GitLab
8 1 (0.96%) Moq
8 1 (0.96%) MSBuild
8 1 (0.96%) MSI
8 1 (0.96%) TeamCity
General
1 24 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 17 (16.35%) Public Sector
3 11 (10.58%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (9.62%) Finance
5 9 (8.65%) Banking
6 2 (1.92%) Police
7 1 (0.96%) Billing
7 1 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.96%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.96%) Military
7 1 (0.96%) Publishing
7 1 (0.96%) Retail
Job Titles
1 75 (72.12%) Developer
2 31 (29.81%) .NET Developer
3 27 (25.96%) Full-Stack Developer
4 22 (21.15%) C# Developer
5 15 (14.42%) Senior
6 10 (9.62%) Architect
6 10 (9.62%) React Developer
7 9 (8.65%) C# .NET Developer
7 9 (8.65%) Senior Developer
8 8 (7.69%) Full-Stack C# Developer
9 7 (6.73%) Azure Developer
9 7 (6.73%) CMS Developer
9 7 (6.73%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
10 6 (5.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 6 (5.77%) Software Engineer
10 6 (5.77%) Technical Architect
11 5 (4.81%) Database Developer
11 5 (4.81%) Sitecore Developer
12 4 (3.85%) Azure Administrator
12 4 (3.85%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (100.00%) .NET
2 51 (49.04%) .NET Framework
3 45 (43.27%) HTML
4 43 (41.35%) CSS
5 39 (37.50%) ASP.NET Core
6 38 (36.54%) React
7 35 (33.65%) .NET Core
8 33 (31.73%) RESTful
9 30 (28.85%) ASP.NET MVC
10 27 (25.96%) AngularJS
11 20 (19.23%) Entity Framework
12 18 (17.31%) Node.js
13 15 (14.42%) ASP.NET Web API
14 14 (13.46%) REST
15 11 (10.58%) jQuery
16 10 (9.62%) HTML5
17 9 (8.65%) XML
18 8 (7.69%) CSS3
19 7 (6.73%) Next.js
20 6 (5.77%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.65%) Mobile App
2 8 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (4.81%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.81%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.88%) AI Agents
4 3 (2.88%) Legacy Code
5 2 (1.92%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.92%) Media Streaming
6 1 (0.96%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.96%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.96%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.96%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.85%) Windows
2 1 (0.96%) Android
2 1 (0.96%) Linux
2 1 (0.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (55.77%) CI/CD
2 50 (48.08%) Agile
3 49 (47.12%) DevOps
4 38 (36.54%) Full-Stack Development
4 38 (36.54%) MVC
5 31 (29.81%) Microservices
6 22 (21.15%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (17.31%) Test Automation
8 17 (16.35%) Software Engineering
8 17 (16.35%) User Experience
9 16 (15.38%) Containerisation
9 16 (15.38%) Scrum
10 13 (12.50%) AI
11 12 (11.54%) Infrastructure as Code
12 11 (10.58%) Front End Development
12 11 (10.58%) Mentoring
12 11 (10.58%) SOLID
13 10 (9.62%) TDD
14 9 (8.65%) Data Governance
14 9 (8.65%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 99 (95.19%) C#
2 42 (40.38%) SQL
3 40 (38.46%) JavaScript
4 10 (9.62%) Python
5 8 (7.69%) TypeScript
6 7 (6.73%) Java
7 5 (4.81%) PowerShell
8 4 (3.85%) Bicep
9 3 (2.88%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.92%) Bash
10 2 (1.92%) C++
10 2 (1.92%) PHP
10 2 (1.92%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.96%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 16 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 10 (9.62%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.69%) Degree
4 6 (5.77%) Azure Certification
5 4 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.62%) Accessibility
2 9 (8.65%) QA
3 5 (4.81%) WCAG
4 2 (1.92%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.96%) GDPR
5 1 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.96%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (26.92%) Docker
2 3 (2.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (11.54%) Kubernetes
2 10 (9.62%) Terraform
3 1 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (20.19%) Sitecore
2 10 (9.62%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.73%) Adobe
3 7 (6.73%) Google
3 7 (6.73%) Oracle
4 3 (2.88%) Marketo
4 3 (2.88%) OneTrust
5 1 (0.96%) ESRI
5 1 (0.96%) SAP