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

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 514 416 356
Rank change year-on-year -98 -60 -13
Contract jobs citing ASP.NET 135 118 241
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.39% 0.55%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.35% 1.70% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 93 185
10th Percentile £358 £396 £313
25th Percentile £420 £475 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £615 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.70% +23.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £775 £619
90th Percentile £700 £825 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £400
% change year-on-year - +18.75% -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 9,973 6,956 9,309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.51% 22.77% 21.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,537 4,716 6,375
10th Percentile £363 £355 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -4.37% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 279 140 282
10th Percentile £30.00 £28.91 £22.53
25th Percentile £51.25 £37.10 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.43 £81.01 £74.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.20% -6.72%

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 29 June 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 29 June 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 -99 113 £525 -17.65% 192
UK excluding London -70 60 £475 - 152
London -79 60 £550 -26.67% 56
Work from Home -61 43 £513 -18.00% 161
South East -53 15 £475 -2.56% 53
East of England -16 11 £600 +20.00% 19
North of England -64 11 £468 -10.95% 42
Yorkshire -42 9 £480 - 12
Scotland -7 7 £358 -28.40% 1
South West -30 7 £525 +36.81% 14
West Midlands -53 7 £500 -23.08% 11
Midlands -53 7 £500 +59.74% 19
North West -44 1 £450 -14.29% 23
Wales - 1 £450 - 3
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 3
North East - 1 £475 - 7

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 13 (9.63%) CMS
2 10 (7.41%) SharePoint
3 8 (5.93%) Sitecore CMS
4 7 (5.19%) Confluence
4 7 (5.19%) IIS
5 4 (2.96%) Umbraco
6 2 (1.48%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.74%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.74%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (0.74%) InDesign
1 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.74%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 81 (60.00%) Azure
2 34 (25.19%) AWS
3 25 (18.52%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (14.81%) GitHub
5 13 (9.63%) Power Platform
6 11 (8.15%) Serverless
7 10 (7.41%) Azure AKS
8 9 (6.67%) Azure Functions
8 9 (6.67%) Entra ID
8 9 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (5.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 7 (5.19%) Azure Key Vault
10 7 (5.19%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (5.19%) Power Automate
10 7 (5.19%) PowerApps
11 6 (4.44%) Azure App Service
11 6 (4.44%) Azure Logic Apps
11 6 (4.44%) GCP
12 5 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.44%) Intranet
2 5 (3.70%) HTTP
3 4 (2.96%) 3GPP
3 4 (2.96%) RTCP
3 4 (2.96%) RTP
3 4 (2.96%) XCAP
4 2 (1.48%) DHCP
4 2 (1.48%) DNS
4 2 (1.48%) Internet
4 2 (1.48%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.74%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (48.15%) SQL Server
2 17 (12.59%) NoSQL
3 12 (8.89%) Relational Database
3 12 (8.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 7 (5.19%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (5.19%) MongoDB
4 7 (5.19%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (4.44%) Power BI
6 4 (2.96%) EDRMS
6 4 (2.96%) Metadata
6 4 (2.96%) MS Access
6 4 (2.96%) Redis
7 3 (2.22%) DocumentDB
8 2 (1.48%) ClickHouse
8 2 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.48%) GIS
8 2 (1.48%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.48%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.74%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (15.56%) Git
2 11 (8.15%) JIRA
3 9 (6.67%) Jenkins
4 8 (5.93%) NUnit
4 8 (5.93%) TeamCity
4 8 (5.93%) Visual Studio
5 7 (5.19%) Bitbucket
6 4 (2.96%) GitLab
6 4 (2.96%) webpack
7 3 (2.22%) git-flow
7 3 (2.22%) MSBuild
7 3 (2.22%) MSTest
7 3 (2.22%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (2.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (1.48%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.48%) Jasmine
8 2 (1.48%) JMeter
8 2 (1.48%) Karma Test Runner
8 2 (1.48%) Moq
8 2 (1.48%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 37 (27.41%) Social Skills
2 19 (14.07%) Finance
3 17 (12.59%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (11.85%) Banking
5 14 (10.37%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.96%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.22%) Front Office
7 3 (2.22%) Retail
8 2 (1.48%) Automotive
8 2 (1.48%) Back Office
8 2 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.48%) Police
9 1 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.74%) Law
9 1 (0.74%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.74%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 90 (66.67%) Developer
2 43 (31.85%) .NET Developer
3 25 (18.52%) C# Developer
4 19 (14.07%) Senior
5 17 (12.59%) Full-Stack Developer
6 16 (11.85%) C# .NET Developer
7 12 (8.89%) Senior Developer
8 10 (7.41%) Architect
9 9 (6.67%) Software Developer
10 8 (5.93%) Lead
11 7 (5.19%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 6 (4.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 6 (4.44%) React Developer
12 6 (4.44%) Software Engineer
12 6 (4.44%) Technical Architect
12 6 (4.44%) Technical Leader
13 5 (3.70%) ASP.NET Developer
13 5 (3.70%) Senior .NET Developer
14 4 (2.96%) Azure Developer
14 4 (2.96%) Database Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (100.00%) .NET
2 64 (47.41%) ASP.NET Core
3 51 (37.78%) React
4 47 (34.81%) .NET Framework
5 41 (30.37%) .NET Core
6 39 (28.89%) CSS
6 39 (28.89%) HTML
7 34 (25.19%) Entity Framework
7 34 (25.19%) RESTful
8 32 (23.70%) REST
9 28 (20.74%) ASP.NET Web API
10 26 (19.26%) AngularJS
11 20 (14.81%) Node.js
12 18 (13.33%) ASP.NET MVC
13 15 (11.11%) jQuery
14 14 (10.37%) XML
15 12 (8.89%) Web Services
16 11 (8.15%) HTML5
16 11 (8.15%) JSON
17 10 (7.41%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.59%) Enterprise Software
2 10 (7.41%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.41%) Legacy Systems
2 10 (7.41%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.96%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.22%) AI Agents
4 3 (2.22%) Legacy Applications
4 3 (2.22%) Legacy Code
4 3 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.48%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.48%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.48%) Media Streaming
5 2 (1.48%) NHS
5 2 (1.48%) PKI
6 1 (0.74%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.74%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.74%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.74%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.93%) Windows
2 5 (3.70%) Linux
3 2 (1.48%) Unix
3 2 (1.48%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (54.81%) CI/CD
2 71 (52.59%) Agile
3 67 (49.63%) DevOps
4 34 (25.19%) Full-Stack Development
4 34 (25.19%) Microservices
5 29 (21.48%) MVC
6 27 (20.00%) Test Automation
7 26 (19.26%) Problem-Solving
8 25 (18.52%) User Experience
9 23 (17.04%) Scrum
10 20 (14.81%) Software Engineering
11 18 (13.33%) Front End Development
11 18 (13.33%) SOLID
12 17 (12.59%) Unit Testing
13 16 (11.85%) Containerisation
14 14 (10.37%) Code Quality
14 14 (10.37%) Mentoring
14 14 (10.37%) Translating Business Requirements
15 13 (9.63%) Infrastructure as Code
16 12 (8.89%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 122 (90.37%) C#
2 58 (42.96%) SQL
3 47 (34.81%) JavaScript
4 26 (19.26%) TypeScript
5 15 (11.11%) Python
6 14 (10.37%) PL/SQL
6 14 (10.37%) T-SQL
7 8 (5.93%) PowerShell
8 7 (5.19%) Bicep
9 5 (3.70%) Java
10 4 (2.96%) VB.NET
11 3 (2.22%) VBA
11 3 (2.22%) VBScript
11 3 (2.22%) XPath
12 2 (1.48%) Ruby
13 1 (0.74%) Bash
13 1 (0.74%) C++
13 1 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 26 (19.26%) Security Cleared
2 17 (12.59%) SC Cleared
3 13 (9.63%) Degree
4 4 (2.96%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.96%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.22%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.74%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (19.26%) QA
2 12 (8.89%) Accessibility
3 8 (5.93%) WCAG
4 2 (1.48%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.74%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.74%) GDPR
5 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 44 (32.59%) Docker
2 6 (4.44%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (18.52%) Kubernetes
2 19 (14.07%) Terraform
3 4 (2.96%) Ansible
4 2 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (21.48%) Microsoft
2 21 (15.56%) Oracle
3 17 (12.59%) Sitecore
4 6 (4.44%) Google
5 4 (2.96%) Centrify
5 4 (2.96%) CyberArk
6 3 (2.22%) Databricks
7 2 (1.48%) Adobe
7 2 (1.48%) Cisco
7 2 (1.48%) VMware
8 1 (0.74%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.74%) Telerik