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 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 477 362 316
Rank change year-on-year -115 -46 -68
Contract jobs citing ASP.NET 91 203 350
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.54% 0.73%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.19% 2.45% 3.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 136 261
10th Percentile £380 £288 £350
25th Percentile £425 £354 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £623 £608 £688
90th Percentile £700 £681 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +1.33%
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 - - -40.49%

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 7,661 8,293 10,764
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 23.01% 22.13% 22.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,033 5,269 7,743
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.97% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £672
90th Percentile £725 £788 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 162 205
10th Percentile £30.18 £25.42 £37.63
25th Percentile £41.25 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £51.97 £65.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.05% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.56
% change year-on-year -15.38% +16.99% -14.52%

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 17 October 2025.

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 14 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 17 October 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 -94 75 £500 -4.76% 326
London -68 42 £538 -1.55% 75
Work from Home -47 32 £500 +21.95% 308
UK excluding London -37 31 £450 - 262
North of England -23 9 £435 +2.35% 58
Midlands -26 8 £550 +54.93% 38
East Midlands -5 7 £550 +54.93% 22
South East -3 6 £450 -12.20% 101
North West -14 6 £435 - 37
South West +13 4 £384 -30.23% 23
Yorkshire -25 3 - - 13
East of England - 3 £500 - 39
Scotland +5 2 £569 +33.82% 4
West Midlands -32 1 - - 15

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 4 (4.40%) CMS
1 4 (4.40%) IIS
2 3 (3.30%) Umbraco
3 2 (2.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (2.20%) Headless CMS
3 2 (2.20%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.20%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (1.10%) Apache
4 1 (1.10%) ArcGIS
4 1 (1.10%) GeoServer
4 1 (1.10%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (4.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (3.30%) Aladdin
2 3 (3.30%) Bloomberg AIM
Cloud Services
1 55 (60.44%) Azure
2 26 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (14.29%) AWS
4 10 (10.99%) Azure Service Bus
4 10 (10.99%) Power Platform
5 9 (9.89%) Azure Logic Apps
5 9 (9.89%) Serverless
6 8 (8.79%) Entra ID
7 7 (7.69%) Azure AKS
7 7 (7.69%) Azure Functions
7 7 (7.69%) GitHub
8 5 (5.49%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (5.49%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (5.49%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (5.49%) Power Automate
8 5 (5.49%) PowerApps
9 4 (4.40%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (4.40%) Kontent
10 3 (3.30%) GCP
11 2 (2.20%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.20%) DNS
1 2 (2.20%) HTTP
1 2 (2.20%) Internet
2 1 (1.10%) DHCP
2 1 (1.10%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (1.10%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (47.25%) SQL Server
2 13 (14.29%) NoSQL
3 7 (7.69%) Power BI
4 6 (6.59%) MongoDB
4 6 (6.59%) Redis
5 4 (4.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (3.30%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (2.20%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (2.20%) MySQL
7 2 (2.20%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.10%) Big Data
8 1 (1.10%) GIS
8 1 (1.10%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.10%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.10%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 22 (24.18%) Git
2 5 (5.49%) Visual Studio
3 4 (4.40%) Bitbucket
3 4 (4.40%) NUnit
4 3 (3.30%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.30%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.10%) Ant
5 1 (1.10%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.10%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (1.10%) Eclipse
5 1 (1.10%) IntelliJ
5 1 (1.10%) JUnit
5 1 (1.10%) Moq
5 1 (1.10%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (1.10%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.10%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 28 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 21 (23.08%) Finance
3 15 (16.48%) Public Sector
4 12 (13.19%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (8.79%) Banking
6 6 (6.59%) Front Office
7 3 (3.30%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.30%) Investment Banking
7 3 (3.30%) Local Government
7 3 (3.30%) Retail
8 2 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.10%) Health Technology
9 1 (1.10%) Law
9 1 (1.10%) Legal
9 1 (1.10%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.10%) Military
9 1 (1.10%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 68 (74.73%) Developer
2 30 (32.97%) .NET Developer
3 18 (19.78%) C# Developer
3 18 (19.78%) Senior
4 15 (16.48%) Full-Stack Developer
4 15 (16.48%) Senior Developer
5 10 (10.99%) Azure Developer
6 8 (8.79%) Architect
7 7 (7.69%) ASP.NET Developer
7 7 (7.69%) C# .NET Developer
7 7 (7.69%) Lead
7 7 (7.69%) Senior .NET Developer
8 5 (5.49%) Backend Developer
8 5 (5.49%) C# ASP.NET Developer
8 5 (5.49%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
8 5 (5.49%) Lead Developer
9 4 (4.40%) Administrator
9 4 (4.40%) CMS Developer
9 4 (4.40%) Database Developer
9 4 (4.40%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (100.00%) .NET
2 39 (42.86%) .NET Framework
3 36 (39.56%) HTML
4 35 (38.46%) CSS
5 30 (32.97%) .NET Core
6 26 (28.57%) ASP.NET Core
7 24 (26.37%) RESTful
8 21 (23.08%) ASP.NET MVC
9 19 (20.88%) React
10 14 (15.38%) Entity Framework
11 12 (13.19%) AngularJS
12 10 (10.99%) ASP.NET Web API
13 8 (8.79%) Node.js
14 7 (7.69%) HTML5
14 7 (7.69%) REST
14 7 (7.69%) Web Services
15 6 (6.59%) XML
16 5 (5.49%) Blazor
16 5 (5.49%) OAuth
17 4 (4.40%) ASP.NET Web Forms
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.79%) Mobile App
2 7 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 6 (6.59%) Hedge funds
3 6 (6.59%) Product Ownership
4 5 (5.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (4.40%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (4.40%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (4.40%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.30%) N-Tier
6 3 (3.30%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.20%) Driving Licence
7 2 (2.20%) Market Risk
8 1 (1.10%) AS400
8 1 (1.10%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.10%) IoT
8 1 (1.10%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.10%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.10%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.99%) Windows
2 5 (5.49%) Android
3 4 (4.40%) Apple iOS
3 4 (4.40%) Linux
4 3 (3.30%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.10%) CentOS
5 1 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (49.45%) DevOps
2 42 (46.15%) Agile
3 30 (32.97%) CI/CD
4 27 (29.67%) MVC
5 25 (27.47%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (25.27%) Full-Stack Development
7 20 (21.98%) Scrum
8 18 (19.78%) Microservices
9 13 (14.29%) Clean Code
10 12 (13.19%) Containerisation
11 9 (9.89%) API Development
12 8 (8.79%) OO
12 8 (8.79%) TDD
12 8 (8.79%) User Experience
13 7 (7.69%) Analytics
13 7 (7.69%) API Integration
13 7 (7.69%) Computer Science
13 7 (7.69%) Data Protection
13 7 (7.69%) SDLC
13 7 (7.69%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 82 (90.11%) C#
2 40 (43.96%) JavaScript
3 39 (42.86%) SQL
4 7 (7.69%) TypeScript
4 7 (7.69%) VB.NET
5 5 (5.49%) Bicep
5 5 (5.49%) T-SQL
6 4 (4.40%) PowerShell
7 3 (3.30%) C++
7 3 (3.30%) Java
8 2 (2.20%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.20%) Python
8 2 (2.20%) VB
9 1 (1.10%) Korn
Qualifications
1 7 (7.69%) Degree
1 7 (7.69%) Security Cleared
2 6 (6.59%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.49%) Azure Certification
3 5 (5.49%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.30%) PMP
5 2 (2.20%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.20%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.89%) Accessibility
2 7 (7.69%) QA
3 3 (3.30%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.20%) WCAG
5 1 (1.10%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (1.10%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (1.10%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (14.29%) Docker
2 10 (10.99%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.10%) vCloud
4 1 (1.10%) VMware Workstation
4 1 (1.10%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 6 (6.59%) Terraform
3 1 (1.10%) Kibana
3 1 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.49%) Sitecore
3 4 (4.40%) Oracle
4 3 (3.30%) Bloomberg
4 3 (3.30%) Cisco
4 3 (3.30%) FactSet
4 3 (3.30%) Marketo
4 3 (3.30%) OneTrust
5 2 (2.20%) Adobe
5 2 (2.20%) SAP
5 2 (2.20%) VMware
6 1 (1.10%) ESRI
6 1 (1.10%) Google