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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 530 469 342
Rank change year-on-year -61 -127 -16
Contract jobs citing ASP.NET 142 90 223
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.27% 0.58%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.21% 1.06% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 62 153
10th Percentile £350 £396 £313
25th Percentile £414 £433 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £521 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.83% +4.20% -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £639 £613
90th Percentile £695 £813 £685
UK excluding London median daily rate £468 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +3.89% - -5.26%

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 11,754 8,517 9,448
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.61% 25.95% 24.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,733 5,676 6,164
10th Percentile £375 £353 £356
25th Percentile £438 £413 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 277 187 189
10th Percentile £28.64 £31.25 £25.56
25th Percentile £49.00 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.70 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.83% -12.48% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.80 £74.89
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £58.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +14.84% -9.62% +10.11%

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 28 September 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 28 September 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 -74 119 £475 -8.12% 178
London -60 69 £488 -16.60% 70
UK excluding London -63 53 £468 +3.89% 115
Work from Home -42 45 £475 -5.00% 92
Yorkshire -25 18 £449 - 11
North of England -58 18 £449 -8.88% 35
South East -53 13 £475 +5.56% 20
South West -31 9 £475 +23.78% 9
Scotland -23 5 £438 -23.08% 5
East of England -18 4 £345 -31.00% 12
Midlands -42 4 £538 +71.73% 28
East Midlands -15 2 £550 +75.72% 16
West Midlands -44 2 £525 - 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 15 (10.56%) SharePoint
2 13 (9.15%) IIS
3 8 (5.63%) CMS
4 7 (4.93%) Confluence
5 3 (2.11%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.70%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.70%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.70%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.70%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 7 (4.93%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.11%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (1.41%) OpenText MBPM
3 2 (1.41%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.70%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 78 (54.93%) Azure
2 33 (23.24%) Azure DevOps
3 32 (22.54%) AWS
4 15 (10.56%) GitHub
4 15 (10.56%) Power Platform
5 9 (6.34%) Dynamics 365
6 8 (5.63%) Power Automate
6 8 (5.63%) PowerApps
7 7 (4.93%) Entra ID
7 7 (4.93%) Microsoft Copilot
8 6 (4.23%) Azure AKS
8 6 (4.23%) Azure App Service
8 6 (4.23%) Azure Service Bus
8 6 (4.23%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (3.52%) Azure API Management
9 5 (3.52%) Serverless
10 4 (2.82%) Azure Functions
10 4 (2.82%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (2.82%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (2.82%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.23%) Intranet
2 2 (1.41%) DHCP
2 2 (1.41%) DNS
2 2 (1.41%) Internet
2 2 (1.41%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (55.63%) SQL Server
2 19 (13.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 10 (7.04%) MS Access
3 10 (7.04%) Relational Database
4 8 (5.63%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (4.23%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (4.23%) Power BI
6 5 (3.52%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.82%) EDRMS
7 4 (2.82%) Metadata
7 4 (2.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (2.11%) DocumentDB
8 3 (2.11%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.11%) Oracle Database
8 3 (2.11%) Redis
9 2 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.41%) Db2
9 2 (1.41%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.41%) Star Schema
10 1 (0.70%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 37 (26.06%) Git
2 20 (14.08%) Jenkins
3 12 (8.45%) Visual Studio
4 11 (7.75%) JIRA
5 8 (5.63%) Bitbucket
5 8 (5.63%) Team Foundation Server
5 8 (5.63%) TeamCity
6 6 (4.23%) GitLab
7 5 (3.52%) NUnit
7 5 (3.52%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (2.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (1.41%) Artifactory
9 2 (1.41%) git-flow
9 2 (1.41%) JMeter
9 2 (1.41%) MSBuild
9 2 (1.41%) webpack
10 1 (0.70%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.70%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.70%) Postman
10 1 (0.70%) Vite
General
1 51 (35.92%) Social Skills
2 31 (21.83%) Finance
3 24 (16.90%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (12.68%) Banking
5 9 (6.34%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.93%) Front Office
6 7 (4.93%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.82%) Back Office
8 3 (2.11%) Local Government
9 2 (1.41%) Automotive
9 2 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.41%) Retail
10 1 (0.70%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.70%) Law
10 1 (0.70%) Legal
10 1 (0.70%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.70%) Marketing
10 1 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 93 (65.49%) Developer
2 57 (40.14%) .NET Developer
3 23 (16.20%) C# Developer
3 23 (16.20%) Senior
4 17 (11.97%) Senior Developer
5 16 (11.27%) C# .NET Developer
6 15 (10.56%) Lead
6 15 (10.56%) Senior .NET Developer
7 12 (8.45%) Full-Stack Developer
7 12 (8.45%) Software Developer
8 9 (6.34%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
8 9 (6.34%) Technical Leader
9 8 (5.63%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (4.93%) Architect
10 7 (4.93%) Lead Developer
11 6 (4.23%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 6 (4.23%) ASP.NET Developer
11 6 (4.23%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 6 (4.23%) SQL Developer
12 5 (3.52%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (100.00%) .NET
2 57 (40.14%) ASP.NET Core
3 50 (35.21%) .NET Framework
3 50 (35.21%) REST
4 42 (29.58%) .NET Core
5 36 (25.35%) React
6 30 (21.13%) HTML
7 28 (19.72%) ASP.NET Web API
7 28 (19.72%) Entity Framework
8 26 (18.31%) AngularJS
9 24 (16.90%) RESTful
10 22 (15.49%) CSS
11 21 (14.79%) Web Services
12 20 (14.08%) ASP.NET MVC
13 17 (11.97%) JSON
14 16 (11.27%) Terraform
14 16 (11.27%) XML
15 12 (8.45%) WinForms
16 11 (7.75%) SOAP
17 10 (7.04%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 24 (16.90%) Enterprise Software
2 18 (12.68%) Cloud Native
3 13 (9.15%) Product Ownership
4 8 (5.63%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (4.93%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (4.93%) Legacy Applications
6 6 (4.23%) Replication
6 6 (4.23%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (3.52%) AI Agents
7 5 (3.52%) Legacy Code
8 3 (2.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (2.11%) Life Science
8 3 (2.11%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.41%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.41%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.41%) PKI
9 2 (1.41%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (1.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (12.68%) Windows
2 8 (5.63%) Linux
3 4 (2.82%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (47.18%) DevOps
2 65 (45.77%) CI/CD
3 61 (42.96%) Agile
4 31 (21.83%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (20.42%) Full-Stack Development
6 26 (18.31%) Microservices
6 26 (18.31%) MVC
7 25 (17.61%) Test Automation
8 20 (14.08%) AI
8 20 (14.08%) Code Quality
9 19 (13.38%) Migration
10 18 (12.68%) Front End Development
11 17 (11.97%) Deployment Automation
11 17 (11.97%) SOLID
12 16 (11.27%) Scrum
12 16 (11.27%) SDLC
12 16 (11.27%) Software Engineering
13 15 (10.56%) API Development
13 15 (10.56%) Continuous Improvement
13 15 (10.56%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 123 (86.62%) C#
2 66 (46.48%) SQL
3 52 (36.62%) JavaScript
4 30 (21.13%) TypeScript
5 21 (14.79%) T-SQL
6 20 (14.08%) PL/SQL
7 11 (7.75%) Python
8 10 (7.04%) VB.NET
9 9 (6.34%) VBA
10 8 (5.63%) XPath
11 7 (4.93%) PowerShell
11 7 (4.93%) VBScript
12 6 (4.23%) Bicep
13 3 (2.11%) Bash
14 2 (1.41%) C++
15 1 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.70%) Java
15 1 (0.70%) MATLAB
15 1 (0.70%) R
15 1 (0.70%) XAML
Qualifications
1 20 (14.08%) Security Cleared
2 14 (9.86%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.75%) Degree
4 5 (3.52%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.82%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 3 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.11%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.70%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.70%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.70%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (15.49%) QA
2 8 (5.63%) Accessibility
3 6 (4.23%) WCAG
4 2 (1.41%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.70%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.70%) GDPR
System Software
1 28 (19.72%) Docker
2 12 (8.45%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (15.49%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.63%) Ansible
3 2 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 55 (38.73%) Microsoft
2 27 (19.01%) Oracle
3 6 (4.23%) Centrify
3 6 (4.23%) CyberArk
3 6 (4.23%) Sitecore
4 3 (2.11%) Aprimo
4 3 (2.11%) IBM
4 3 (2.11%) OneTrust
4 3 (2.11%) Optimizely
5 2 (1.41%) Cisco
5 2 (1.41%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.41%) VMware
6 1 (0.70%) Databricks
6 1 (0.70%) Telerik