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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 516 353 335
Rank change year-on-year -163 -18 -86
Contract jobs citing ASP.NET 68 177 273
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.56% 0.64%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.82% 2.54% 2.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 117 203
10th Percentile £400 £290 £325
25th Percentile £421 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -1.74%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £719
90th Percentile £630 £803 £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
% change year-on-year - - -66.53%

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 8,260 6,962 9,144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.34% 22.03% 21.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,479 4,427 6,488
10th Percentile £356 £353 £357
25th Percentile £413 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.12% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 83 168
10th Percentile £33.00 £21.40 £28.28
25th Percentile £45.50 £34.13 £46.18
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £54.53
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +14.62% -16.11%
75th Percentile £67.50 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £76.75 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £54.53
% change year-on-year - +14.62% -16.11%

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 14 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 14 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 -156 55 £500 -9.09% 220
London -83 29 £500 -13.04% 57
UK excluding London -92 28 £475 - 186
Work from Home -58 25 £500 - 187
Midlands -48 9 £600 +57.89% 27
East Midlands -18 8 £600 +69.01% 15
North of England -58 5 £455 +30.00% 48
South East -41 4 £438 -12.50% 59
North West -28 3 £405 +26.56% 31
Northern Ireland -3 2 - -
Scotland -4 2 £484 -5.61% 8
North East -12 2 £475 +31.94% 7
East of England -16 2 - - 18
South West -22 2 - - 19
Wales - 2 £450 - 7
West Midlands -46 1 - - 12

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 (10.29%) CMS
2 5 (7.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 5 (7.35%) Headless CMS
2 5 (7.35%) Sitecore CMS
2 5 (7.35%) Umbraco
3 1 (1.47%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.47%) GeoServer
3 1 (1.47%) IIS
3 1 (1.47%) Oracle Spatial
3 1 (1.47%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 39 (57.35%) Azure
2 21 (30.88%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (19.12%) Serverless
4 12 (17.65%) Azure Functions
5 9 (13.24%) AWS
5 9 (13.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 9 (13.24%) Azure Monitor
6 7 (10.29%) Azure AKS
6 7 (10.29%) GitHub
6 7 (10.29%) Kontent
7 6 (8.82%) Azure Logic Apps
8 5 (7.35%) Contentful
9 4 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (4.41%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (4.41%) Entra ID
10 3 (4.41%) Power Platform
11 2 (2.94%) Azure API Management
11 2 (2.94%) Azure Event Grid
11 2 (2.94%) Azure Key Vault
11 2 (2.94%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.94%) HTTP
1 2 (2.94%) Internet
1 2 (2.94%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (42.65%) SQL Server
2 11 (16.18%) NoSQL
3 7 (10.29%) MongoDB
4 4 (5.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (4.41%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (4.41%) Power BI
5 3 (4.41%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.94%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.94%) GIS
6 2 (2.94%) Redis
6 2 (2.94%) Tableau
7 1 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.47%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (1.47%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.47%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 24 (35.29%) Git
2 6 (8.82%) Visual Studio
3 4 (5.88%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.88%) Visual Studio Code
4 3 (4.41%) JIRA
5 2 (2.94%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.47%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.47%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.47%) Moq
6 1 (1.47%) MSTest
6 1 (1.47%) NUnit
6 1 (1.47%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (1.47%) Postman
6 1 (1.47%) TeamCity
General
1 13 (19.12%) Social Skills
2 11 (16.18%) Public Sector
3 9 (13.24%) Banking
3 9 (13.24%) Finance
4 5 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.47%) Billing
5 1 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.47%) Health Technology
5 1 (1.47%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.47%) Military
Job Titles
1 53 (77.94%) Developer
2 23 (33.82%) .NET Developer
3 16 (23.53%) Full-Stack Developer
4 12 (17.65%) Senior
5 11 (16.18%) C# Developer
6 8 (11.76%) Azure Developer
6 8 (11.76%) Senior Developer
7 7 (10.29%) CMS Developer
8 6 (8.82%) Administrator
8 6 (8.82%) Azure Administrator
8 6 (8.82%) Database Developer
8 6 (8.82%) DBA
8 6 (8.82%) React Developer
9 5 (7.35%) Full-Stack C# Developer
10 4 (5.88%) Senior .NET Developer
11 3 (4.41%) Architect
11 3 (4.41%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 3 (4.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 3 (4.41%) Lead
11 3 (4.41%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (100.00%) .NET
2 35 (51.47%) .NET Framework
3 28 (41.18%) HTML
4 26 (38.24%) CSS
5 22 (32.35%) .NET Core
6 21 (30.88%) ASP.NET MVC
7 20 (29.41%) RESTful
8 19 (27.94%) React
9 15 (22.06%) AngularJS
10 14 (20.59%) ASP.NET Core
11 9 (13.24%) Entity Framework
12 6 (8.82%) ASP.NET Web API
12 6 (8.82%) HTML5
12 6 (8.82%) Node.js
13 5 (7.35%) REST
14 4 (5.88%) CSS3
14 4 (5.88%) jQuery
14 4 (5.88%) Middleware
14 4 (5.88%) Next.js
14 4 (5.88%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.24%) Mobile App
2 8 (11.76%) Cloud Native
3 7 (10.29%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (7.35%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (4.41%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.47%) AS400
7 1 (1.47%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.47%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.47%) IoT
7 1 (1.47%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.47%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.41%) Windows
2 1 (1.47%) Android
2 1 (1.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (44.12%) DevOps
2 29 (42.65%) CI/CD
3 28 (41.18%) Agile
4 24 (35.29%) MVC
5 22 (32.35%) Full-Stack Development
6 17 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (23.53%) Microservices
8 12 (17.65%) Test Automation
9 11 (16.18%) User Experience
10 9 (13.24%) AI
10 9 (13.24%) Clean Code
11 8 (11.76%) Containerisation
11 8 (11.76%) Data Protection
12 7 (10.29%) Data Modelling
13 6 (8.82%) Analytics
13 6 (8.82%) OO
13 6 (8.82%) OOD
13 6 (8.82%) Software Engineering
14 5 (7.35%) Mentoring
14 5 (7.35%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 66 (97.06%) C#
2 34 (50.00%) SQL
3 32 (47.06%) JavaScript
4 3 (4.41%) Java
4 3 (4.41%) PowerShell
4 3 (4.41%) Python
4 3 (4.41%) T-SQL
5 2 (2.94%) Bash
5 2 (2.94%) PHP
5 2 (2.94%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.47%) Bicep
6 1 (1.47%) C++
6 1 (1.47%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.47%) VB
Qualifications
1 8 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.29%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.35%) Azure Certification
4 4 (5.88%) Degree
5 2 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.82%) Accessibility
1 6 (8.82%) QA
2 3 (4.41%) WCAG
3 2 (2.94%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.47%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (16.18%) Docker
2 3 (4.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (5.88%) Terraform
2 3 (4.41%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 10 (14.71%) Sitecore
3 5 (7.35%) Adobe
4 4 (5.88%) Oracle
5 3 (4.41%) Marketo
5 3 (4.41%) OneTrust
6 2 (2.94%) Google
6 2 (2.94%) SAP
7 1 (1.47%) ESRI