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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 542 464 352
Rank change year-on-year -78 -112 -25
Contract jobs citing ASP.NET 143 93 219
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.28% 0.58%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.20% 1.08% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 64 149
10th Percentile £350 £397 £311
25th Percentile £416 £436 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £521 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.83% +4.20% -9.09%
75th Percentile £574 £630 £611
90th Percentile £684 £813 £688
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 11,905 8,624 9,384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.68% 26.09% 24.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,826 5,738 6,104
10th Percentile £375 £355 £356
25th Percentile £438 £413 £431
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% -4.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 188 187
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £25.60
25th Percentile £49.50 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.35 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.60% -13.04% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76.50 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.60 £74.92
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £58.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +14.84% -9.62% +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 1 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 1 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 -60 119 £475 -8.12% 218
London -64 70 £488 -12.00% 96
UK excluding London -71 52 £475 +5.56% 128
Work from Home -54 45 £475 -5.00% 98
Yorkshire -25 18 £449 - 17
North of England -63 18 £449 -8.88% 40
South East -54 12 £475 +5.56% 25
South West -29 9 £475 +23.78% 9
Scotland -18 5 £438 -23.08% 5
East of England -23 4 £345 -31.00% 11
Midlands -50 4 £538 +24.57% 31
East Midlands -17 2 £550 +27.46% 18
West Midlands -37 2 £525 - 13

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 (10.49%) SharePoint
2 12 (8.39%) IIS
3 8 (5.59%) CMS
4 7 (4.90%) Confluence
5 3 (2.10%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.70%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.70%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.70%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.70%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 7 (4.90%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.10%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (1.40%) OpenText MBPM
3 2 (1.40%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.70%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 81 (56.64%) Azure
2 33 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
3 31 (21.68%) AWS
4 15 (10.49%) GitHub
4 15 (10.49%) Power Platform
5 9 (6.29%) Dynamics 365
6 8 (5.59%) Entra ID
6 8 (5.59%) Power Automate
6 8 (5.59%) PowerApps
7 7 (4.90%) Microsoft Copilot
8 6 (4.20%) Azure AKS
8 6 (4.20%) Azure App Service
8 6 (4.20%) Azure Service Bus
8 6 (4.20%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (3.50%) Azure API Management
9 5 (3.50%) Serverless
10 4 (2.80%) Azure Functions
10 4 (2.80%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (2.80%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (2.80%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.20%) Intranet
2 2 (1.40%) DHCP
2 2 (1.40%) DNS
2 2 (1.40%) Internet
2 2 (1.40%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (55.24%) SQL Server
2 19 (13.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 10 (6.99%) MS Access
3 10 (6.99%) Relational Database
4 8 (5.59%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (4.20%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (4.20%) Power BI
6 5 (3.50%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.80%) EDRMS
7 4 (2.80%) Metadata
7 4 (2.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (2.10%) DocumentDB
8 3 (2.10%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.10%) Oracle Database
8 3 (2.10%) Redis
9 2 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.40%) Db2
9 2 (1.40%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.40%) Star Schema
10 1 (0.70%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 36 (25.17%) Git
2 20 (13.99%) Jenkins
3 12 (8.39%) Visual Studio
4 11 (7.69%) JIRA
5 8 (5.59%) Bitbucket
5 8 (5.59%) Team Foundation Server
5 8 (5.59%) TeamCity
6 6 (4.20%) GitLab
7 5 (3.50%) NUnit
7 5 (3.50%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (2.10%) MSBuild
8 3 (2.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (2.10%) webpack
9 2 (1.40%) Artifactory
9 2 (1.40%) git-flow
9 2 (1.40%) JMeter
10 1 (0.70%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.70%) Moq
10 1 (0.70%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.70%) Postman
General
1 50 (34.97%) Social Skills
2 32 (22.38%) Finance
3 23 (16.08%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (12.59%) Banking
5 9 (6.29%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.90%) Investment Banking
7 6 (4.20%) Front Office
8 4 (2.80%) Back Office
9 3 (2.10%) Local Government
10 2 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.40%) Retail
11 1 (0.70%) Automotive
11 1 (0.70%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.70%) Law
11 1 (0.70%) Legal
11 1 (0.70%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.70%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 91 (63.64%) Developer
2 56 (39.16%) .NET Developer
3 23 (16.08%) C# Developer
4 22 (15.38%) Senior
5 16 (11.19%) C# .NET Developer
5 16 (11.19%) Senior Developer
6 15 (10.49%) Lead
6 15 (10.49%) Senior .NET Developer
7 12 (8.39%) Full-Stack Developer
7 12 (8.39%) Software Developer
8 9 (6.29%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
8 9 (6.29%) Technical Leader
9 8 (5.59%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (4.90%) Architect
10 7 (4.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 7 (4.90%) Lead Developer
11 6 (4.20%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 6 (4.20%) ASP.NET Developer
11 6 (4.20%) SQL Developer
12 5 (3.50%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (100.00%) .NET
2 59 (41.26%) ASP.NET Core
3 50 (34.97%) REST
4 49 (34.27%) .NET Framework
5 43 (30.07%) .NET Core
6 36 (25.17%) React
7 30 (20.98%) HTML
8 28 (19.58%) Entity Framework
9 27 (18.88%) AngularJS
9 27 (18.88%) ASP.NET Web API
10 26 (18.18%) RESTful
11 22 (15.38%) CSS
12 21 (14.69%) Web Services
13 20 (13.99%) ASP.NET MVC
14 17 (11.89%) JSON
15 16 (11.19%) XML
16 15 (10.49%) Terraform
17 12 (8.39%) WinForms
18 11 (7.69%) SOAP
19 10 (6.99%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 25 (17.48%) Enterprise Software
2 18 (12.59%) Cloud Native
3 14 (9.79%) Product Ownership
4 8 (5.59%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (5.59%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (4.20%) Legacy Applications
5 6 (4.20%) Replication
5 6 (4.20%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (3.50%) AI Agents
6 5 (3.50%) Legacy Code
7 4 (2.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (2.10%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (2.10%) Life Science
8 3 (2.10%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.40%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.40%) Equities
9 2 (1.40%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.40%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (1.40%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (11.89%) Windows
2 8 (5.59%) Linux
3 4 (2.80%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (46.85%) CI/CD
1 67 (46.85%) DevOps
2 61 (42.66%) Agile
3 31 (21.68%) Full-Stack Development
3 31 (21.68%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (18.88%) Microservices
5 26 (18.18%) MVC
6 25 (17.48%) Test Automation
7 20 (13.99%) AI
7 20 (13.99%) Code Quality
8 19 (13.29%) Migration
9 18 (12.59%) Front End Development
10 17 (11.89%) Deployment Automation
10 17 (11.89%) Software Engineering
11 16 (11.19%) API Development
11 16 (11.19%) Continuous Improvement
11 16 (11.19%) Scrum
11 16 (11.19%) SDLC
11 16 (11.19%) SOLID
12 15 (10.49%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 124 (86.71%) C#
2 65 (45.45%) SQL
3 51 (35.66%) JavaScript
4 30 (20.98%) TypeScript
5 21 (14.69%) T-SQL
6 20 (13.99%) PL/SQL
7 11 (7.69%) Python
8 10 (6.99%) VB.NET
9 9 (6.29%) VBA
10 8 (5.59%) XPath
11 7 (4.90%) VBScript
12 6 (4.20%) Bicep
12 6 (4.20%) PowerShell
13 3 (2.10%) Bash
13 3 (2.10%) C++
14 1 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.70%) Java
14 1 (0.70%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.70%) R
14 1 (0.70%) XAML
Qualifications
1 20 (13.99%) Security Cleared
2 14 (9.79%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.69%) Degree
4 5 (3.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.80%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 3 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.10%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.70%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.70%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.70%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (16.08%) QA
2 9 (6.29%) Accessibility
3 7 (4.90%) WCAG
4 2 (1.40%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.70%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.70%) GDPR
System Software
1 27 (18.88%) Docker
2 12 (8.39%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (14.69%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.59%) Ansible
3 2 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 55 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 27 (18.88%) Oracle
3 6 (4.20%) Centrify
3 6 (4.20%) CyberArk
3 6 (4.20%) Sitecore
4 3 (2.10%) Aprimo
4 3 (2.10%) IBM
4 3 (2.10%) OneTrust
4 3 (2.10%) Optimizely
5 2 (1.40%) Cisco
5 2 (1.40%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.40%) VMware
6 1 (0.70%) Brio
6 1 (0.70%) Databricks
6 1 (0.70%) Telerik