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

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 517 356 343
Rank change year-on-year -161 -13 -91
Contract jobs citing ASP.NET 69 173 274
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.54% 0.63%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.84% 2.45% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 111 204
10th Percentile £400 £325 £309
25th Percentile £418 £422 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £719
90th Percentile £639 £825 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +3.95% +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 7,049 9,319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.24% 22.20% 21.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,485 4,473 6,591
10th Percentile £356 £356 £356
25th Percentile £413 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% -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 204 91 177
10th Percentile £33.00 £22.00 £28.21
25th Percentile £46.00 £35.88 £46.18
Median hourly rate £61.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.00 £77.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.75 £63.75 £55.00
% change year-on-year -1.57% +15.91% -15.38%

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 18 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 15 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 18 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 -146 54 £500 -9.09% 295
London -61 29 £500 -13.04% 55
UK excluding London -102 27 £494 +3.95% 269
Work from Home -58 26 £500 -4.76% 190
East Midlands -16 8 £600 +69.01% 27
Midlands -53 8 £600 +57.89% 43
North of England -55 5 £455 +30.00% 63
South East -44 4 £538 +13.16% 82
North West -29 3 £405 +26.56% 38
Scotland +1 2 £484 -3.25% 9
Northern Ireland -3 2 - - 2
South West -7 2 - - 33
East of England -13 2 - - 31
North East -14 2 £475 +31.94% 7
Wales - 2 £450 - 9

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 8 (11.59%) CMS
2 6 (8.70%) Umbraco
3 5 (7.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 5 (7.25%) Headless CMS
3 5 (7.25%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (1.45%) ArcGIS
4 1 (1.45%) Confluence
4 1 (1.45%) GeoServer
4 1 (1.45%) IIS
4 1 (1.45%) Oracle Spatial
4 1 (1.45%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 41 (59.42%) Azure
2 23 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (18.84%) Serverless
4 12 (17.39%) Azure Functions
5 10 (14.49%) AWS
5 10 (14.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 9 (13.04%) Azure Monitor
7 7 (10.14%) Azure AKS
7 7 (10.14%) Kontent
8 6 (8.70%) Azure Logic Apps
8 6 (8.70%) GitHub
9 5 (7.25%) Contentful
10 4 (5.80%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (4.35%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (4.35%) Entra ID
11 3 (4.35%) Power Platform
12 2 (2.90%) Azure API Management
12 2 (2.90%) Azure Event Grid
12 2 (2.90%) Azure Key Vault
12 2 (2.90%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.90%) HTTP
1 2 (2.90%) Internet
1 2 (2.90%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (44.93%) SQL Server
2 11 (15.94%) NoSQL
3 8 (11.59%) MongoDB
4 5 (7.25%) Relational Database
5 4 (5.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (4.35%) Power BI
7 2 (2.90%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.90%) GIS
7 2 (2.90%) Redis
7 2 (2.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (2.90%) Tableau
8 1 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.45%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (1.45%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.45%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 23 (33.33%) Git
2 6 (8.70%) Visual Studio
3 5 (7.25%) Jenkins
4 4 (5.80%) JIRA
4 4 (5.80%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (2.90%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.45%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.45%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.45%) MSTest
6 1 (1.45%) NUnit
6 1 (1.45%) Postman
General
1 15 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 10 (14.49%) Finance
2 10 (14.49%) Public Sector
3 9 (13.04%) Banking
4 5 (7.25%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.45%) Billing
5 1 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.45%) Health Technology
5 1 (1.45%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.45%) Military
Job Titles
1 55 (79.71%) Developer
2 24 (34.78%) .NET Developer
3 17 (24.64%) Full-Stack Developer
4 12 (17.39%) C# Developer
4 12 (17.39%) Senior
5 8 (11.59%) Azure Developer
5 8 (11.59%) Senior Developer
6 7 (10.14%) CMS Developer
7 6 (8.70%) Administrator
7 6 (8.70%) Azure Administrator
7 6 (8.70%) Database Developer
7 6 (8.70%) DBA
7 6 (8.70%) Full-Stack C# Developer
7 6 (8.70%) React Developer
8 4 (5.80%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
8 4 (5.80%) Senior .NET Developer
9 3 (4.35%) C# .NET Developer
9 3 (4.35%) Lead
9 3 (4.35%) Sitecore Architect
9 3 (4.35%) Sitecore Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (100.00%) .NET
2 37 (53.62%) .NET Framework
3 30 (43.48%) HTML
4 28 (40.58%) CSS
5 23 (33.33%) .NET Core
6 21 (30.43%) ASP.NET MVC
6 21 (30.43%) RESTful
7 20 (28.99%) React
8 16 (23.19%) AngularJS
9 13 (18.84%) ASP.NET Core
10 9 (13.04%) Entity Framework
11 7 (10.14%) ASP.NET Web API
12 6 (8.70%) HTML5
12 6 (8.70%) Node.js
13 4 (5.80%) CSS3
13 4 (5.80%) jQuery
13 4 (5.80%) Middleware
13 4 (5.80%) Next.js
13 4 (5.80%) OAuth
13 4 (5.80%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.04%) Cloud Native
1 9 (13.04%) Mobile App
2 7 (10.14%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (5.80%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (5.80%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.90%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.45%) AS400
5 1 (1.45%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.45%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.45%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.45%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.35%) Windows
2 1 (1.45%) Android
2 1 (1.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (46.38%) CI/CD
1 32 (46.38%) DevOps
2 28 (40.58%) Agile
3 25 (36.23%) MVC
4 23 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
5 17 (24.64%) Microservices
5 17 (24.64%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (17.39%) Test Automation
6 12 (17.39%) User Experience
7 9 (13.04%) AI
7 9 (13.04%) Clean Code
8 8 (11.59%) Containerisation
9 7 (10.14%) Analytics
9 7 (10.14%) Data Modelling
9 7 (10.14%) Data Protection
10 6 (8.70%) OO
10 6 (8.70%) OOD
11 5 (7.25%) Continuous Integration
11 5 (7.25%) Software Engineering
11 5 (7.25%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 67 (97.10%) C#
2 34 (49.28%) SQL
3 33 (47.83%) JavaScript
4 4 (5.80%) Python
5 3 (4.35%) Java
5 3 (4.35%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.90%) Bash
6 2 (2.90%) PHP
6 2 (2.90%) PL/SQL
6 2 (2.90%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.45%) Bicep
7 1 (1.45%) C++
7 1 (1.45%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.45%) VB
Qualifications
1 8 (11.59%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.14%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.70%) Azure Certification
4 5 (7.25%) Degree
5 3 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.70%) Accessibility
2 5 (7.25%) QA
2 5 (7.25%) WCAG
3 2 (2.90%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.45%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (17.39%) Docker
2 3 (4.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (5.80%) Kubernetes
1 4 (5.80%) Terraform
2 1 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 11 (15.94%) Sitecore
3 6 (8.70%) Adobe
4 4 (5.80%) Google
4 4 (5.80%) Oracle
5 3 (4.35%) Marketo
5 3 (4.35%) OneTrust
6 2 (2.90%) SAP
7 1 (1.45%) ESRI