ASP.NET Contracts

Microsoft ASP.NET
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring ASP.NET skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ASP.NET over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 410 351 340
Rank change year-on-year -59 -11 -93
Contract jobs citing ASP.NET 120 244 384
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.39% 0.56% 0.69%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.70% 2.62% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 188 277
10th Percentile £397 £313 £350
25th Percentile £469 £382 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £775 £619 £688
90th Percentile £825 £721 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £400 £475
% change year-on-year +18.75% -15.79% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £36.50
25th Percentile - - £40.25
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
75th Percentile - - £85.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +2.20%

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 7,043 9,312 12,683
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.70% 21.46% 22.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,772 6,381 9,221
10th Percentile £352 £350 £388
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £765 £788 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 279 155
10th Percentile £27.97 £22.70 £28.50
25th Percentile £37.10 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -15.38% +23.81%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.71 £74.44 £80.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £58.30 £62.50
% change year-on-year +7.20% -6.72% +13.64%

ASP.NET
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing ASP.NET as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for ASP.NET in the UK

ASP.NET
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ASP.NET.

Daily rate trend for ASP.NET in the UK

ASP.NET
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ASP.NET over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ASP.NET in the UK

ASP.NET
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ASP.NET.

Hourly rate trend for ASP.NET in the UK

ASP.NET
Top 14 Contract 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 2 July 2025. 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 -57 102 £625 +22.25% 844
London -41 76 £750 +39.53% 281
Work from Home -16 50 £625 +33.55% 579
UK excluding London +11 27 £475 +18.75% 626
South East +33 8 £475 -22.45% 183
North of England +11 7 £538 +26.47% 159
Scotland +7 6 £500 +29.03% 49
North West +11 4 £538 +53.57% 97
Midlands +3 4 £313 -3.69% 80
Yorkshire 0 3 - - 46
South West +28 2 £384 -4.06% 52
West Midlands +7 2 £650 +100.00% 45
East Midlands +3 2 £313 +4.33% 35
East of England +18 1 £500 +42.86% 86

ASP.NET
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (6.67%) GemFire
1 8 (6.67%) Oracle Coherence
2 4 (3.33%) Apache
2 4 (3.33%) IIS
2 4 (3.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.83%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.83%) InfoPath
1 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.83%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (4.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.83%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.83%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.83%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 56 (46.67%) Azure
2 23 (19.17%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (15.83%) AWS
4 14 (11.67%) Serverless
5 13 (10.83%) Entra ID
6 12 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
6 12 (10.00%) Power Platform
7 7 (5.83%) Power Automate
7 7 (5.83%) PowerApps
8 6 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (4.17%) Azure Functions
9 5 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (4.17%) GCP
9 5 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (3.33%) Copilot Studio
10 4 (3.33%) Microsoft Copilot
11 3 (2.50%) GitHub
11 3 (2.50%) SaaS
12 2 (1.67%) Amazon Cognito
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.17%) DNS
2 2 (1.67%) DHCP
2 2 (1.67%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (1.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (38.33%) SQL Server
2 19 (15.83%) Relational Database
3 14 (11.67%) NoSQL
4 7 (5.83%) Power BI
5 4 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (3.33%) Big Data
5 4 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (3.33%) MongoDB
5 4 (3.33%) MySQL
5 4 (3.33%) Redis
5 4 (3.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (2.50%) ClickHouse
7 2 (1.67%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.83%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 27 (22.50%) Git
2 12 (10.00%) Bitbucket
3 9 (7.50%) NUnit
3 9 (7.50%) TeamCity
4 7 (5.83%) Visual Studio
5 3 (2.50%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.50%) Moq
5 3 (2.50%) SonarQube
5 3 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.67%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.67%) JIRA
6 2 (1.67%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (1.67%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.83%) Ant
7 1 (0.83%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.83%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.83%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.83%) JUnit
7 1 (0.83%) Subversion
General
1 49 (40.83%) Social Skills
2 40 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (24.17%) Finance
4 14 (11.67%) Public Sector
5 13 (10.83%) Front Office
6 12 (10.00%) Banking
7 11 (9.17%) Investment Banking
8 8 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (3.33%) Legal
10 3 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (2.50%) Law
10 3 (2.50%) Local Government
10 3 (2.50%) Retail
11 1 (0.83%) Back Office
11 1 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.83%) Social Housing
11 1 (0.83%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 89 (74.17%) Developer
2 34 (28.33%) Senior
3 32 (26.67%) .NET Developer
4 31 (25.83%) C# Developer
5 30 (25.00%) Senior Developer
6 14 (11.67%) Full-Stack Developer
7 12 (10.00%) C++ Developer
7 12 (10.00%) C++/C# Developer
8 11 (9.17%) C# .NET Developer
9 10 (8.33%) Architect
10 9 (7.50%) Java Developer
10 9 (7.50%) Senior .NET Developer
10 9 (7.50%) Senior C# Developer
10 9 (7.50%) Senior Java Developer
11 8 (6.67%) Lead
11 8 (6.67%) Oracle Developer
11 8 (6.67%) Senior Oracle Developer
12 7 (5.83%) ASP.NET Developer
12 7 (5.83%) Solutions Architect
13 6 (5.00%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (100.00%) .NET
2 47 (39.17%) .NET Core
3 39 (32.50%) HTML
4 37 (30.83%) .NET Framework
5 35 (29.17%) CSS
6 33 (27.50%) ASP.NET Core
7 27 (22.50%) Web Services
8 25 (20.83%) AngularJS
8 25 (20.83%) ASP.NET MVC
8 25 (20.83%) ASP.NET Web API
9 24 (20.00%) React
10 23 (19.17%) RESTful
11 20 (16.67%) WCF
12 19 (15.83%) Entity Framework
12 19 (15.83%) Kafka
13 16 (13.33%) Node.js
14 15 (12.50%) REST
15 11 (9.17%) HTML5
16 10 (8.33%) Blazor
16 10 (8.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (18.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 12 (10.00%) N-Tier
3 10 (8.33%) Legacy Applications
3 10 (8.33%) Product Ownership
4 6 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.33%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.33%) PKI
5 4 (3.33%) Private Cloud
5 4 (3.33%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.67%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.67%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.67%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.67%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.67%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.67%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.67%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.83%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 17 (14.17%) Windows
2 7 (5.83%) Linux
3 5 (4.17%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.33%) Android
4 4 (3.33%) Apple iOS
5 3 (2.50%) CentOS
5 3 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (61.67%) DevOps
2 57 (47.50%) Agile
3 37 (30.83%) MVC
4 36 (30.00%) Scrum
5 32 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (25.00%) CI/CD
7 29 (24.17%) Full-Stack Development
8 24 (20.00%) Microservices
9 20 (16.67%) OOP
10 18 (15.00%) OO
10 18 (15.00%) Software Engineering
11 16 (13.33%) TDD
12 15 (12.50%) Analytics
12 15 (12.50%) Clean Code
13 14 (11.67%) Computer Science
13 14 (11.67%) Containerisation
14 13 (10.83%) API Development
14 13 (10.83%) Design Patterns
14 13 (10.83%) User Experience
15 11 (9.17%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 101 (84.17%) C#
2 53 (44.17%) SQL
3 51 (42.50%) JavaScript
4 22 (18.33%) Java
5 19 (15.83%) TypeScript
6 18 (15.00%) C++
7 12 (10.00%) Python
8 10 (8.33%) T-SQL
9 7 (5.83%) Ruby
10 6 (5.00%) PowerShell
10 6 (5.00%) VB.NET
11 4 (3.33%) Bicep
11 4 (3.33%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.67%) VB
13 1 (0.83%) Korn
Qualifications
1 20 (16.67%) Degree
2 8 (6.67%) Numerate Degree
2 8 (6.67%) Security Cleared
3 7 (5.83%) SC Cleared
4 6 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (4.17%) MCPD
5 5 (4.17%) MCSD
6 4 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.50%) PMP
8 2 (1.67%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.67%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.83%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.83%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 6 (5.00%) QA
3 2 (1.67%) Government Security Classifications
3 2 (1.67%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (0.83%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.83%) EMIR
4 1 (0.83%) MiFID
System Software
1 19 (15.83%) Active Directory
2 18 (15.00%) Docker
3 8 (6.67%) GridGain
4 5 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (2.50%) vCloud
5 3 (2.50%) VMware Workstation
5 3 (2.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (15.83%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.00%) Terraform
3 4 (3.33%) Kibana
4 2 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 23 (19.17%) Oracle
3 5 (4.17%) VMware
4 4 (3.33%) Cisco
5 2 (1.67%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.83%) CQG
6 1 (0.83%) FactSet
6 1 (0.83%) Google
6 1 (0.83%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.83%) Pardot
6 1 (0.83%) Reuters
6 1 (0.83%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.83%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.83%) Workday