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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 518 433 347
Rank change year-on-year -85 -86 -9
Contract jobs citing ASP.NET 139 121 243
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.38% 0.56%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.38% 1.67% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 95 186
10th Percentile £358 £397 £313
25th Percentile £424 £469 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £498
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +20.60% -5.24%
75th Percentile £600 £775 £619
90th Percentile £700 £825 £719
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 10,057 7,233 9,299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.44% 22.78% 21.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,590 4,891 6,377
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -5.09% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £654
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 277 147 283
10th Percentile £30.00 £28.44 £22.55
25th Percentile £51.25 £35.00 £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 £85.00 £80.41 £74.35
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 5 July 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 5 July 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 -99 119 £510 -18.40% 217
UK excluding London -79 65 £475 - 180
London -94 59 £550 -24.14% 61
Work from Home -53 42 £525 -10.64% 188
South East -49 15 £475 - 60
North of England -65 15 £450 -16.28% 47
Yorkshire -43 14 £455 - 15
East of England -19 12 £600 +20.00% 22
South West -17 8 £513 +33.55% 16
Midlands -54 8 £525 +67.73% 24
West Midlands -56 8 £525 -19.23% 16
Scotland -12 7 £358 -28.40% 3
North West -45 1 £450 -16.28% 25

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 (9.35%) CMS
2 10 (7.19%) SharePoint
3 8 (5.76%) Sitecore CMS
4 7 (5.04%) Confluence
4 7 (5.04%) IIS
5 4 (2.88%) Umbraco
6 2 (1.44%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.72%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.72%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (0.72%) InDesign
1 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.72%) OpenText MBPM
1 1 (0.72%) Oracle BPM
1 1 (0.72%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 79 (56.83%) Azure
2 32 (23.02%) AWS
3 25 (17.99%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (14.39%) GitHub
5 13 (9.35%) Power Platform
6 10 (7.19%) Azure AKS
6 10 (7.19%) Serverless
7 9 (6.47%) Entra ID
7 9 (6.47%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (5.76%) Azure Functions
9 7 (5.04%) Azure Key Vault
9 7 (5.04%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (5.04%) Power Automate
9 7 (5.04%) PowerApps
10 6 (4.32%) Azure App Service
10 6 (4.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 6 (4.32%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (3.60%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (3.60%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (3.60%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.32%) Intranet
2 5 (3.60%) HTTP
3 4 (2.88%) 3GPP
3 4 (2.88%) RTCP
3 4 (2.88%) RTP
3 4 (2.88%) XCAP
4 2 (1.44%) DHCP
4 2 (1.44%) DNS
4 2 (1.44%) Internet
4 2 (1.44%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.72%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (46.76%) SQL Server
2 15 (10.79%) NoSQL
3 12 (8.63%) Relational Database
3 12 (8.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 7 (5.04%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (4.32%) MongoDB
5 6 (4.32%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (4.32%) Power BI
6 4 (2.88%) EDRMS
6 4 (2.88%) Metadata
6 4 (2.88%) MS Access
6 4 (2.88%) Redis
7 3 (2.16%) DocumentDB
8 2 (1.44%) ClickHouse
8 2 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.44%) GIS
8 2 (1.44%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.44%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.72%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (15.11%) Git
2 10 (7.19%) JIRA
3 9 (6.47%) Jenkins
4 8 (5.76%) NUnit
4 8 (5.76%) TeamCity
5 7 (5.04%) Bitbucket
5 7 (5.04%) Visual Studio
6 4 (2.88%) GitLab
6 4 (2.88%) webpack
7 3 (2.16%) git-flow
7 3 (2.16%) MSBuild
7 3 (2.16%) MSTest
7 3 (2.16%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (2.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (1.44%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.44%) Jasmine
8 2 (1.44%) Moq
8 2 (1.44%) Postman
8 2 (1.44%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (1.44%) Vite
General
1 39 (28.06%) Social Skills
2 24 (17.27%) Finance
3 18 (12.95%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (11.51%) Banking
5 14 (10.07%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.88%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.16%) Front Office
7 3 (2.16%) Retail
8 2 (1.44%) Automotive
8 2 (1.44%) Back Office
8 2 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.44%) Police
9 1 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.72%) Law
9 1 (0.72%) Legal
9 1 (0.72%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.72%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 92 (66.19%) Developer
2 47 (33.81%) .NET Developer
3 25 (17.99%) C# Developer
4 19 (13.67%) Senior
5 17 (12.23%) C# .NET Developer
5 17 (12.23%) Full-Stack Developer
6 12 (8.63%) Senior Developer
7 10 (7.19%) Architect
8 9 (6.47%) Software Developer
9 8 (5.76%) Lead
10 7 (5.04%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 6 (4.32%) ASP.NET Developer
11 6 (4.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 6 (4.32%) React Developer
11 6 (4.32%) Software Engineer
11 6 (4.32%) Technical Architect
11 6 (4.32%) Technical Leader
12 5 (3.60%) Senior .NET Developer
13 4 (2.88%) Database Developer
13 4 (2.88%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (100.00%) .NET
2 63 (45.32%) ASP.NET Core
3 51 (36.69%) .NET Framework
4 50 (35.97%) React
5 39 (28.06%) .NET Core
6 37 (26.62%) CSS
6 37 (26.62%) HTML
7 34 (24.46%) Entity Framework
8 33 (23.74%) REST
8 33 (23.74%) RESTful
9 28 (20.14%) ASP.NET Web API
10 25 (17.99%) AngularJS
11 20 (14.39%) Node.js
12 17 (12.23%) ASP.NET MVC
13 14 (10.07%) jQuery
13 14 (10.07%) XML
14 12 (8.63%) Web Services
15 11 (7.91%) Blazor
15 11 (7.91%) JSON
16 10 (7.19%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.23%) Enterprise Software
2 10 (7.19%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.19%) Legacy Systems
2 10 (7.19%) Product Ownership
3 7 (5.04%) Legacy Code
4 5 (3.60%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (3.60%) Legacy Applications
5 4 (2.88%) AI Agents
5 4 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.44%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.44%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.44%) Media Streaming
6 2 (1.44%) NHS
6 2 (1.44%) PKI
7 1 (0.72%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.72%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.72%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.72%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.72%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.47%) Windows
2 5 (3.60%) Linux
3 3 (2.16%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (52.52%) CI/CD
2 70 (50.36%) Agile
3 66 (47.48%) DevOps
4 33 (23.74%) Full-Stack Development
5 32 (23.02%) Microservices
6 28 (20.14%) Test Automation
7 27 (19.42%) MVC
7 27 (19.42%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (16.55%) Scrum
8 23 (16.55%) User Experience
9 19 (13.67%) Software Engineering
10 18 (12.95%) Code Quality
10 18 (12.95%) Front End Development
10 18 (12.95%) SOLID
11 17 (12.23%) Unit Testing
12 16 (11.51%) Containerisation
13 15 (10.79%) Migration
13 15 (10.79%) Refactoring
14 14 (10.07%) Mentoring
14 14 (10.07%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 126 (90.65%) C#
2 58 (41.73%) SQL
3 46 (33.09%) JavaScript
4 26 (18.71%) TypeScript
5 16 (11.51%) Python
6 15 (10.79%) PL/SQL
6 15 (10.79%) T-SQL
7 9 (6.47%) PowerShell
8 7 (5.04%) Bicep
9 5 (3.60%) Java
10 4 (2.88%) VB.NET
11 3 (2.16%) VBA
11 3 (2.16%) VBScript
11 3 (2.16%) XPath
12 2 (1.44%) Bash
12 2 (1.44%) Ruby
13 1 (0.72%) C++
13 1 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 25 (17.99%) Security Cleared
2 16 (11.51%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.63%) Degree
4 5 (3.60%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.88%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.44%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.72%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (17.99%) QA
2 11 (7.91%) Accessibility
3 7 (5.04%) WCAG
4 2 (1.44%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.72%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.72%) GDPR
5 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 43 (30.94%) Docker
2 6 (4.32%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (17.99%) Kubernetes
2 20 (14.39%) Terraform
3 4 (2.88%) Ansible
4 2 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (22.30%) Microsoft
2 23 (16.55%) Oracle
3 16 (11.51%) Sitecore
4 5 (3.60%) Google
5 4 (2.88%) Centrify
5 4 (2.88%) CyberArk
6 3 (2.16%) Databricks
7 2 (1.44%) Adobe
7 2 (1.44%) Cisco
7 2 (1.44%) VMware
8 1 (0.72%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.72%) Telerik