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

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 512 393 368
Rank change year-on-year -119 -25 -81
Contract jobs citing ASP.NET 106 138 238
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.47% 0.54%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.11% 2.08% 2.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 105 186
10th Percentile £364 £410 £313
25th Percentile £425 £488 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £581 £494
Median % change year-on-year -10.02% +17.60% -10.23%
75th Percentile £600 £775 £650
90th Percentile £732 £825 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -4.90% +17.65% -10.53%

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 9,537 6,624 8,916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.92% 22.64% 20.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,360 4,529 6,239
10th Percentile £358 £363 £334
25th Percentile £414 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £727 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £496 £500
% change year-on-year +0.81% -0.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 99 174
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.25 £18.04
25th Percentile £52.50 £43.25 £31.44
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £71.50 £68.75 £62.85
90th Percentile £81.00 £84.95 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.36%

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 April 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 17 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 April 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 -136 87 £550 -12.00% 246
UK excluding London -96 49 £476 -4.90% 197
London -103 44 £553 -23.72% 62
Work from Home -55 37 £500 -25.93% 201
Midlands -65 12 £550 +15.79% 29
East of England -28 10 £600 +14.29% 31
South East -61 8 £508 +6.84% 53
West Midlands -60 7 £500 -11.11% 16
Scotland +5 6 £358 -28.40% 7
North of England -71 6 £463 +25.00% 51
East Midlands - 5 £600 - 13
South West - 3 £625 - 26
Northern Ireland -4 2 - - 1
North East -14 2 £475 +28.38% 10
North West -37 2 £413 +0.43% 27
Yorkshire - 2 £464 - 15
Wales - 2 £450 - 4

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 (12.26%) CMS
2 11 (10.38%) Sitecore CMS
3 4 (3.77%) IIS
3 4 (3.77%) Umbraco
4 3 (2.83%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (2.83%) Confluence
4 3 (2.83%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.94%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.94%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.94%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.94%) Oracle Spatial
5 1 (0.94%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.94%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.94%) InDesign
Cloud Services
1 54 (50.94%) Azure
2 23 (21.70%) AWS
2 23 (21.70%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (17.92%) Serverless
4 17 (16.04%) GitHub
5 16 (15.09%) Azure Functions
6 10 (9.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 10 (9.43%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (8.49%) Azure Monitor
8 8 (7.55%) Entra ID
9 7 (6.60%) Azure Logic Apps
9 7 (6.60%) GCP
10 6 (5.66%) Azure AKS
11 5 (4.72%) Azure Key Vault
11 5 (4.72%) Azure Service Bus
12 4 (3.77%) Azure API Management
12 4 (3.77%) Kontent
13 3 (2.83%) Contentful
13 3 (2.83%) Power Platform
14 2 (1.89%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.60%) HTTP
2 4 (3.77%) 3GPP
2 4 (3.77%) RTCP
2 4 (3.77%) RTP
2 4 (3.77%) XCAP
3 2 (1.89%) SSL
4 1 (0.94%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (42.45%) SQL Server
2 18 (16.98%) NoSQL
3 9 (8.49%) Relational Database
4 7 (6.60%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (5.66%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.83%) GIS
6 3 (2.83%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (2.83%) Redis
6 3 (2.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (1.89%) ClickHouse
7 2 (1.89%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.89%) Power BI
7 2 (1.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.89%) Tableau
8 1 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.94%) DocumentDB
8 1 (0.94%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.94%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.94%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 22 (20.75%) Git
2 9 (8.49%) JIRA
3 6 (5.66%) Visual Studio
4 5 (4.72%) NUnit
5 4 (3.77%) Jenkins
5 4 (3.77%) MSTest
5 4 (3.77%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (2.83%) Bitbucket
6 3 (2.83%) Postman
6 3 (2.83%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.89%) Jasmine
7 2 (1.89%) Karma Test Runner
7 2 (1.89%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (1.89%) Vite
7 2 (1.89%) webpack
8 1 (0.94%) git-flow
8 1 (0.94%) GitLab
8 1 (0.94%) Moq
8 1 (0.94%) MSBuild
8 1 (0.94%) Serilog
General
1 24 (22.64%) Social Skills
2 16 (15.09%) Public Sector
3 12 (11.32%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (11.32%) Banking
4 9 (8.49%) Finance
5 2 (1.89%) Front Office
5 2 (1.89%) Investment Banking
5 2 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (1.89%) Police
6 1 (0.94%) Automotive
6 1 (0.94%) Billing
6 1 (0.94%) Publishing
6 1 (0.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 81 (76.42%) Developer
2 36 (33.96%) .NET Developer
3 24 (22.64%) Full-Stack Developer
4 22 (20.75%) C# Developer
5 15 (14.15%) Senior
6 11 (10.38%) C# .NET Developer
6 11 (10.38%) Senior Developer
7 9 (8.49%) React Developer
8 8 (7.55%) Architect
9 7 (6.60%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
10 6 (5.66%) Azure Developer
10 6 (5.66%) Full-Stack C# Developer
10 6 (5.66%) Software Engineer
10 6 (5.66%) Technical Architect
11 5 (4.72%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 5 (4.72%) Senior .NET Developer
11 5 (4.72%) Sitecore Developer
12 4 (3.77%) CMS Developer
12 4 (3.77%) Database Developer
12 4 (3.77%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (100.00%) .NET
2 49 (46.23%) ASP.NET Core
3 47 (44.34%) .NET Framework
4 39 (36.79%) React
5 38 (35.85%) HTML
6 36 (33.96%) CSS
7 32 (30.19%) .NET Core
8 30 (28.30%) RESTful
9 25 (23.58%) ASP.NET MVC
10 24 (22.64%) AngularJS
11 22 (20.75%) Entity Framework
12 21 (19.81%) Node.js
13 18 (16.98%) ASP.NET Web API
14 17 (16.04%) REST
15 12 (11.32%) jQuery
16 11 (10.38%) HTML5
17 9 (8.49%) XML
18 8 (7.55%) SignalR
19 7 (6.60%) CSS3
19 7 (6.60%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.55%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (6.60%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.66%) Mobile App
4 5 (4.72%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.77%) Legacy Code
6 3 (2.83%) AI Agents
6 3 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.89%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.89%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.89%) Media Streaming
7 2 (1.89%) NHS
8 1 (0.94%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.94%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.94%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.66%) Windows
2 1 (0.94%) Linux
2 1 (0.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (52.83%) CI/CD
2 52 (49.06%) Agile
3 48 (45.28%) DevOps
4 36 (33.96%) Full-Stack Development
5 33 (31.13%) MVC
6 30 (28.30%) Microservices
7 20 (18.87%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (18.87%) Test Automation
8 19 (17.92%) User Experience
9 16 (15.09%) Software Engineering
10 15 (14.15%) Containerisation
11 14 (13.21%) Scrum
12 13 (12.26%) Infrastructure as Code
12 13 (12.26%) SOLID
13 11 (10.38%) AI
13 11 (10.38%) Front End Development
13 11 (10.38%) Mentoring
13 11 (10.38%) TDD
14 10 (9.43%) Clean Code
15 9 (8.49%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 98 (92.45%) C#
2 41 (38.68%) SQL
3 37 (34.91%) JavaScript
4 14 (13.21%) Python
5 12 (11.32%) TypeScript
6 7 (6.60%) Java
6 7 (6.60%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.83%) Bash
7 3 (2.83%) Bicep
7 3 (2.83%) PL/SQL
7 3 (2.83%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.89%) PHP
8 2 (1.89%) Ruby
9 1 (0.94%) C++
Qualifications
1 20 (18.87%) Security Cleared
2 15 (14.15%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.60%) Degree
4 6 (5.66%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (4.72%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.89%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.94%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.43%) QA
2 8 (7.55%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.77%) WCAG
4 2 (1.89%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.94%) GDPR
5 1 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.94%) SLA
System Software
1 33 (31.13%) Docker
2 2 (1.89%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (16.04%) Kubernetes
2 15 (14.15%) Terraform
3 1 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (16.04%) Sitecore
2 10 (9.43%) Microsoft
3 8 (7.55%) Oracle
4 7 (6.60%) Google
5 5 (4.72%) Adobe
6 2 (1.89%) Databricks
7 1 (0.94%) ESRI
7 1 (0.94%) Marketo
7 1 (0.94%) OneTrust
7 1 (0.94%) SAP