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

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 510 348 339
Rank change year-on-year -162 -9 -99
Contract jobs citing ASP.NET 72 186 268
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.58% 0.63%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.87% 2.63% 2.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 119 199
10th Percentile £400 £295 £323
25th Percentile £425 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -7.27% -
75th Percentile £600 £628 £719
90th Percentile £625 £778 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £26.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £26.78

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 8,290 7,077 9,166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.39% 21.94% 21.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,500 4,492 6,516
10th Percentile £356 £350 £362
25th Percentile £413 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.53% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £770 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.56% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 199 82 165
10th Percentile £32.72 £21.33 £30.33
25th Percentile £45.00 £33.69 £46.18
Median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.40% +19.05% -19.23%
75th Percentile £67.50 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.00 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +0.80% +19.05% -19.23%

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 7 January 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 7 January 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 -152 55 £500 -6.28% 222
UK excluding London -98 29 £475 - 175
Work from Home -55 28 £500 - 202
London -83 28 £500 -11.70% 60
Midlands -49 9 £600 +57.89% 24
East Midlands -20 8 £600 +69.01% 10
South East -41 5 £450 -10.00% 55
North of England -53 5 £455 +30.00% 51
North West -27 3 £405 +26.56% 34
Scotland -3 2 £484 +1.84% 3
South West -6 2 - - 17
Northern Ireland -6 2 - - 1
North East -13 2 £475 +31.94% 7
East of England -21 2 - - 19
Wales - 2 £450 - 5
West Midlands -49 1 - - 14

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 7 (9.72%) CMS
2 5 (6.94%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 5 (6.94%) Headless CMS
2 5 (6.94%) Sitecore CMS
2 5 (6.94%) Umbraco
3 1 (1.39%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.39%) GeoServer
3 1 (1.39%) IIS
3 1 (1.39%) Oracle Spatial
3 1 (1.39%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Aladdin
1 1 (1.39%) Bloomberg AIM
Cloud Services
1 44 (61.11%) Azure
2 22 (30.56%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (18.06%) Serverless
4 12 (16.67%) Azure Functions
5 10 (13.89%) AWS
6 9 (12.50%) Azure AKS
6 9 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 9 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
6 9 (12.50%) GitHub
7 7 (9.72%) Kontent
8 6 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
8 6 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (6.94%) Contentful
10 4 (5.56%) GCP
10 4 (5.56%) Power Platform
11 3 (4.17%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (4.17%) Entra ID
12 2 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (2.78%) Azure Event Grid
12 2 (2.78%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.78%) HTTP
1 2 (2.78%) Internet
1 2 (2.78%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (40.28%) SQL Server
2 11 (15.28%) NoSQL
3 7 (9.72%) MongoDB
4 4 (5.56%) Power BI
4 4 (5.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (2.78%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.78%) GIS
6 2 (2.78%) Redis
6 2 (2.78%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.78%) Tableau
7 1 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.39%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (1.39%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.39%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 25 (34.72%) Git
2 5 (6.94%) Visual Studio
3 4 (5.56%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.17%) JIRA
4 3 (4.17%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (2.78%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.39%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.39%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.39%) Moq
6 1 (1.39%) MSTest
6 1 (1.39%) NUnit
6 1 (1.39%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (1.39%) Postman
6 1 (1.39%) TeamCity
General
1 14 (19.44%) Social Skills
2 13 (18.06%) Public Sector
3 11 (15.28%) Finance
4 9 (12.50%) Banking
5 5 (6.94%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.39%) Billing
6 1 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.39%) Front Office
6 1 (1.39%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.39%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.39%) Military
Job Titles
1 57 (79.17%) Developer
2 25 (34.72%) .NET Developer
3 16 (22.22%) Full-Stack Developer
4 13 (18.06%) Senior
5 12 (16.67%) C# Developer
6 9 (12.50%) Senior Developer
7 8 (11.11%) Azure Developer
8 7 (9.72%) CMS Developer
9 6 (8.33%) Administrator
9 6 (8.33%) Azure Administrator
9 6 (8.33%) Database Developer
9 6 (8.33%) DBA
9 6 (8.33%) React Developer
10 5 (6.94%) Full-Stack C# Developer
11 4 (5.56%) Lead
11 4 (5.56%) Senior .NET Developer
12 3 (4.17%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 3 (4.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 3 (4.17%) Sitecore Architect
12 3 (4.17%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (100.00%) .NET
2 37 (51.39%) .NET Framework
3 28 (38.89%) HTML
4 26 (36.11%) CSS
5 23 (31.94%) .NET Core
6 22 (30.56%) RESTful
7 21 (29.17%) ASP.NET MVC
8 19 (26.39%) React
9 16 (22.22%) ASP.NET Core
10 15 (20.83%) AngularJS
11 10 (13.89%) Entity Framework
12 6 (8.33%) ASP.NET Web API
12 6 (8.33%) HTML5
12 6 (8.33%) Node.js
12 6 (8.33%) OAuth
13 5 (6.94%) OAuth2
13 5 (6.94%) OpenID
13 5 (6.94%) REST
14 4 (5.56%) CSS3
14 4 (5.56%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.50%) Mobile App
2 8 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 7 (9.72%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (6.94%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (6.94%) Product Ownership
5 3 (4.17%) Hedge funds
6 2 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.39%) AS400
7 1 (1.39%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.39%) IoT
7 1 (1.39%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.39%) NHS
7 1 (1.39%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.17%) Windows
2 1 (1.39%) Android
2 1 (1.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (45.83%) DevOps
2 31 (43.06%) Agile
3 30 (41.67%) CI/CD
4 24 (33.33%) MVC
5 22 (30.56%) Full-Stack Development
6 17 (23.61%) Microservices
6 17 (23.61%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (18.06%) Test Automation
7 13 (18.06%) User Experience
8 10 (13.89%) Clean Code
8 10 (13.89%) Containerisation
9 9 (12.50%) AI
10 8 (11.11%) Data Protection
11 7 (9.72%) Analytics
11 7 (9.72%) Data Modelling
11 7 (9.72%) Infrastructure as Code
11 7 (9.72%) Scrum
11 7 (9.72%) TDD
12 6 (8.33%) API Integration
12 6 (8.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 70 (97.22%) C#
2 35 (48.61%) SQL
3 32 (44.44%) JavaScript
4 3 (4.17%) Java
4 3 (4.17%) PowerShell
4 3 (4.17%) Python
4 3 (4.17%) T-SQL
5 2 (2.78%) Bash
5 2 (2.78%) PHP
5 2 (2.78%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.39%) Bicep
6 1 (1.39%) C++
6 1 (1.39%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.39%) VB
6 1 (1.39%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 8 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 7 (9.72%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.33%) Azure Certification
4 5 (6.94%) Degree
5 2 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.11%) Accessibility
2 6 (8.33%) QA
3 3 (4.17%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.17%) WCAG
4 1 (1.39%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (18.06%) Docker
2 3 (4.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (8.33%) Terraform
2 5 (6.94%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (19.44%) Microsoft
2 10 (13.89%) Sitecore
3 5 (6.94%) Adobe
4 4 (5.56%) Oracle
5 3 (4.17%) Marketo
5 3 (4.17%) OneTrust
6 2 (2.78%) Google
6 2 (2.78%) SAP
7 1 (1.39%) Bloomberg
7 1 (1.39%) ESRI
7 1 (1.39%) FactSet