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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 521 415 368
Rank change year-on-year -106 -47 -17
Contract jobs citing ASP.NET 132 116 237
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.38% 0.55%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.33% 1.68% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 91 184
10th Percentile £358 £396 £313
25th Percentile £420 £469 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £615 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.70% +23.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £775 £619
90th Percentile £700 £825 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £400
% change year-on-year - +18.75% -15.79%

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 9,924 6,922 9,273
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.50% 22.88% 21.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,524 4,712 6,362
10th Percentile £363 £355 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -4.37% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 279 137 279
10th Percentile £30.00 £29.18 £22.50
25th Percentile £51.25 £37.80 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.00 £69.38
90th Percentile £85.43 £81.01 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.76% -10.08%

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 26 June 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 16 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 26 June 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 -114 111 £525 -17.65% 193
London -83 60 £550 -26.67% 57
UK excluding London -81 57 £475 - 152
Work from Home -62 42 £513 -18.00% 160
South East -50 15 £475 -2.56% 53
East of England -19 11 £600 +20.00% 19
North of England -62 10 £468 -10.95% 42
Yorkshire -42 8 £480 - 12
West Midlands -53 7 £500 -23.08% 11
Midlands -60 7 £500 +59.74% 19
Scotland -10 6 £358 -28.40% 1
South West -29 6 £525 +36.81% 14
North West -45 1 £450 -14.29% 23
Wales - 1 £450 - 3
North East - 1 £475 - 7
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 3

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 (9.85%) CMS
2 10 (7.58%) SharePoint
3 8 (6.06%) Sitecore CMS
4 7 (5.30%) IIS
5 6 (4.55%) Confluence
6 4 (3.03%) Umbraco
7 2 (1.52%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.76%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (0.76%) InDesign
1 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.76%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 78 (59.09%) Azure
2 32 (24.24%) AWS
3 24 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (13.64%) GitHub
5 12 (9.09%) Power Platform
6 11 (8.33%) Serverless
7 10 (7.58%) Azure AKS
8 9 (6.82%) Azure Functions
8 9 (6.82%) Entra ID
8 9 (6.82%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (6.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 7 (5.30%) Azure Key Vault
10 7 (5.30%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (5.30%) Power Automate
10 7 (5.30%) PowerApps
11 6 (4.55%) Azure App Service
11 6 (4.55%) Azure Logic Apps
11 6 (4.55%) GCP
12 5 (3.79%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (3.79%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.55%) Intranet
2 5 (3.79%) HTTP
3 4 (3.03%) 3GPP
3 4 (3.03%) RTCP
3 4 (3.03%) RTP
3 4 (3.03%) XCAP
4 2 (1.52%) DHCP
4 2 (1.52%) DNS
4 2 (1.52%) Internet
4 2 (1.52%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.76%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (46.97%) SQL Server
2 17 (12.88%) NoSQL
3 12 (9.09%) Relational Database
4 11 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 7 (5.30%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (5.30%) MongoDB
5 7 (5.30%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (3.79%) Power BI
7 4 (3.03%) EDRMS
7 4 (3.03%) Metadata
7 4 (3.03%) MS Access
7 4 (3.03%) Redis
8 3 (2.27%) DocumentDB
9 2 (1.52%) ClickHouse
9 2 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.52%) GIS
9 2 (1.52%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (1.52%) Star Schema
10 1 (0.76%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 20 (15.15%) Git
2 10 (7.58%) JIRA
3 8 (6.06%) Jenkins
3 8 (6.06%) NUnit
3 8 (6.06%) TeamCity
3 8 (6.06%) Visual Studio
4 7 (5.30%) Bitbucket
5 4 (3.03%) GitLab
5 4 (3.03%) webpack
6 3 (2.27%) git-flow
6 3 (2.27%) MSBuild
6 3 (2.27%) MSTest
7 2 (1.52%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.52%) Jasmine
7 2 (1.52%) JMeter
7 2 (1.52%) Karma Test Runner
7 2 (1.52%) Moq
7 2 (1.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (1.52%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (1.52%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 36 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 19 (14.39%) Finance
3 16 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (12.12%) Banking
4 14 (10.61%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.03%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.27%) Retail
7 2 (1.52%) Automotive
7 2 (1.52%) Back Office
7 2 (1.52%) Front Office
7 2 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.52%) Police
8 1 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.76%) Law
8 1 (0.76%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.76%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 87 (65.91%) Developer
2 41 (31.06%) .NET Developer
3 24 (18.18%) C# Developer
4 19 (14.39%) Senior
5 17 (12.88%) Full-Stack Developer
6 15 (11.36%) C# .NET Developer
7 12 (9.09%) Senior Developer
8 10 (7.58%) Architect
9 8 (6.06%) Lead
10 7 (5.30%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
10 7 (5.30%) Software Developer
11 6 (4.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 6 (4.55%) React Developer
11 6 (4.55%) Software Engineer
11 6 (4.55%) Technical Architect
11 6 (4.55%) Technical Leader
12 5 (3.79%) ASP.NET Developer
12 5 (3.79%) Senior .NET Developer
13 4 (3.03%) Database Developer
13 4 (3.03%) SharePoint Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (100.00%) .NET
2 63 (47.73%) ASP.NET Core
3 50 (37.88%) React
4 46 (34.85%) .NET Framework
5 39 (29.55%) .NET Core
5 39 (29.55%) CSS
5 39 (29.55%) HTML
6 34 (25.76%) RESTful
7 33 (25.00%) Entity Framework
8 31 (23.48%) REST
9 28 (21.21%) ASP.NET Web API
10 25 (18.94%) AngularJS
11 20 (15.15%) Node.js
12 18 (13.64%) ASP.NET MVC
13 14 (10.61%) jQuery
13 14 (10.61%) XML
14 11 (8.33%) HTML5
14 11 (8.33%) JSON
14 11 (8.33%) Web Services
15 10 (7.58%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.36%) Enterprise Software
2 10 (7.58%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.58%) Product Ownership
3 9 (6.82%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.27%) AI Agents
5 3 (2.27%) Legacy Applications
5 3 (2.27%) Legacy Code
5 3 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.52%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.52%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.52%) Media Streaming
6 2 (1.52%) NHS
6 2 (1.52%) PKI
7 1 (0.76%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.76%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.76%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.76%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.06%) Windows
2 5 (3.79%) Linux
3 2 (1.52%) Unix
3 2 (1.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (55.30%) CI/CD
2 69 (52.27%) Agile
3 65 (49.24%) DevOps
4 34 (25.76%) Full-Stack Development
4 34 (25.76%) Microservices
5 29 (21.97%) MVC
6 26 (19.70%) Test Automation
7 25 (18.94%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (18.94%) User Experience
8 22 (16.67%) Scrum
9 20 (15.15%) Software Engineering
10 18 (13.64%) SOLID
11 17 (12.88%) Front End Development
11 17 (12.88%) Unit Testing
12 16 (12.12%) Containerisation
13 14 (10.61%) Code Quality
13 14 (10.61%) Mentoring
13 14 (10.61%) Translating Business Requirements
14 13 (9.85%) Infrastructure as Code
15 12 (9.09%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 120 (90.91%) C#
2 56 (42.42%) SQL
3 46 (34.85%) JavaScript
4 26 (19.70%) TypeScript
5 15 (11.36%) Python
6 13 (9.85%) PL/SQL
6 13 (9.85%) T-SQL
7 8 (6.06%) PowerShell
8 7 (5.30%) Bicep
9 5 (3.79%) Java
10 4 (3.03%) VB.NET
11 3 (2.27%) VBA
11 3 (2.27%) VBScript
11 3 (2.27%) XPath
12 2 (1.52%) Ruby
13 1 (0.76%) Bash
13 1 (0.76%) C++
13 1 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 26 (19.70%) Security Cleared
2 17 (12.88%) SC Cleared
3 12 (9.09%) Degree
4 4 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (3.03%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.27%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.76%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (18.94%) QA
2 12 (9.09%) Accessibility
3 8 (6.06%) WCAG
4 2 (1.52%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.76%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.76%) GDPR
5 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 42 (31.82%) Docker
2 5 (3.79%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (17.42%) Kubernetes
2 19 (14.39%) Terraform
3 3 (2.27%) Ansible
4 2 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (21.21%) Microsoft
2 20 (15.15%) Oracle
3 17 (12.88%) Sitecore
4 6 (4.55%) Google
5 3 (2.27%) Centrify
5 3 (2.27%) CyberArk
5 3 (2.27%) Databricks
6 2 (1.52%) Adobe
6 2 (1.52%) Cisco
6 2 (1.52%) VMware
7 1 (0.76%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.76%) Telerik