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 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 534 444 348
Rank change year-on-year -90 -96 -13
Contract jobs citing ASP.NET 139 107 230
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.32% 0.59%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.37% 1.45% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 82 170
10th Percentile £357 £400 £312
25th Percentile £419 £438 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +7.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £750 £619
90th Percentile £725 £813 £691
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +2.22% -7.69% +2.63%

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 10,177 7,379 8,582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.97% 22.39% 22.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,619 4,943 5,786
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £412 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £663
90th Percentile £738 £741 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 176 242
10th Percentile £28.15 £29.63 £22.86
25th Percentile £41.35 £41.13 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.44 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.40% +3.69% -12.50%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.92 £81.18 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £58.91
% change year-on-year +18.18% -6.63% +0.54%

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 15 August 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 12 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 15 August 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 -96 116 £475 -15.56% 358
London -66 67 £532 -19.70% 176
UK excluding London -74 53 £460 +2.22% 203
Work from Home -48 50 £518 -1.33% 233
Yorkshire -30 16 £449 - 11
South East -57 16 £426 -5.28% 69
North of England -58 16 £449 -14.52% 57
South West -43 9 £500 +30.29% 11
Scotland -16 5 £438 -11.39% 8
East of England -16 4 £345 -31.00% 26
West Midlands -43 3 £525 - 11
Midlands -46 3 £525 +67.73% 27

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 (10.79%) SharePoint
2 14 (10.07%) IIS
3 7 (5.04%) Confluence
4 6 (4.32%) CMS
5 3 (2.16%) Umbraco
6 2 (1.44%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.72%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.72%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.72%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.72%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 7 (5.04%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.72%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 2 (1.44%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.44%) OpenText MBPM
1 2 (1.44%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.72%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.72%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 75 (53.96%) Azure
2 28 (20.14%) Azure DevOps
3 26 (18.71%) AWS
4 16 (11.51%) GitHub
5 13 (9.35%) Power Platform
6 9 (6.47%) Azure AKS
7 8 (5.76%) Entra ID
8 7 (5.04%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (5.04%) Power Automate
8 7 (5.04%) PowerApps
8 7 (5.04%) Serverless
9 6 (4.32%) Azure App Service
9 6 (4.32%) Azure Functions
10 5 (3.60%) Azure Key Vault
10 5 (3.60%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (3.60%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (3.60%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (2.88%) Azure API Management
11 4 (2.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 4 (2.88%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.32%) Intranet
2 2 (1.44%) DHCP
2 2 (1.44%) DNS
2 2 (1.44%) Internet
2 2 (1.44%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.72%) HTTP
3 1 (0.72%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (56.83%) SQL Server
2 17 (12.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 10 (7.19%) MS Access
4 8 (5.76%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (5.76%) Relational Database
5 6 (4.32%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (4.32%) Power BI
6 5 (3.60%) MongoDB
6 5 (3.60%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.88%) DocumentDB
7 4 (2.88%) EDRMS
7 4 (2.88%) Metadata
8 3 (2.16%) Oracle Database
8 3 (2.16%) Redis
8 3 (2.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (1.44%) ClickHouse
9 2 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.44%) GIS
9 2 (1.44%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.44%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 32 (23.02%) Git
2 17 (12.23%) Jenkins
3 12 (8.63%) Visual Studio
4 11 (7.91%) JIRA
5 8 (5.76%) Bitbucket
5 8 (5.76%) TeamCity
6 7 (5.04%) Team Foundation Server
7 6 (4.32%) GitLab
8 5 (3.60%) NUnit
8 5 (3.60%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (2.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (2.16%) webpack
10 2 (1.44%) Artifactory
10 2 (1.44%) git-flow
10 2 (1.44%) JMeter
10 2 (1.44%) MSBuild
10 2 (1.44%) Vite
11 1 (0.72%) Moq
11 1 (0.72%) MSI
11 1 (0.72%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 40 (28.78%) Social Skills
2 29 (20.86%) Finance
3 23 (16.55%) Banking
4 19 (13.67%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (9.35%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.76%) Front Office
6 8 (5.76%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.88%) Back Office
8 3 (2.16%) Local Government
9 2 (1.44%) Automotive
9 2 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.44%) Retail
10 1 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.72%) Law
10 1 (0.72%) Legal
10 1 (0.72%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.72%) Marketing
10 1 (0.72%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 97 (69.78%) Developer
2 56 (40.29%) .NET Developer
3 25 (17.99%) C# Developer
4 24 (17.27%) Senior
5 18 (12.95%) Senior Developer
6 16 (11.51%) C# .NET Developer
7 15 (10.79%) Full-Stack Developer
7 15 (10.79%) Lead
8 13 (9.35%) Senior .NET Developer
9 12 (8.63%) Software Developer
10 11 (7.91%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 9 (6.47%) Technical Leader
12 8 (5.76%) ASP.NET Developer
12 8 (5.76%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 7 (5.04%) Lead Developer
13 7 (5.04%) SQL Developer
14 6 (4.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 5 (3.60%) React Developer
15 5 (3.60%) Software Engineer
15 5 (3.60%) SQL Server Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (100.00%) .NET
2 60 (43.17%) ASP.NET Core
3 44 (31.65%) .NET Framework
4 42 (30.22%) React
5 40 (28.78%) REST
6 36 (25.90%) .NET Core
7 30 (21.58%) Entity Framework
8 28 (20.14%) HTML
8 28 (20.14%) RESTful
9 27 (19.42%) ASP.NET Web API
10 22 (15.83%) AngularJS
10 22 (15.83%) CSS
11 18 (12.95%) ASP.NET MVC
12 17 (12.23%) Web Services
13 15 (10.79%) JSON
14 14 (10.07%) XML
15 12 (8.63%) Next.js
16 11 (7.91%) Blazor
16 11 (7.91%) WinForms
17 9 (6.47%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.95%) Enterprise Software
2 13 (9.35%) Cloud Native
3 10 (7.19%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (6.47%) Product Ownership
5 7 (5.04%) Legacy Applications
5 7 (5.04%) Legacy Code
6 6 (4.32%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (4.32%) Replication
7 5 (3.60%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.44%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.44%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.44%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.44%) NHS
8 2 (1.44%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.44%) PKI
9 1 (0.72%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.72%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 19 (13.67%) Windows
2 8 (5.76%) Linux
3 4 (2.88%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (45.32%) CI/CD
1 63 (45.32%) DevOps
2 60 (43.17%) Agile
3 34 (24.46%) Full-Stack Development
4 28 (20.14%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (18.71%) Test Automation
6 24 (17.27%) Microservices
6 24 (17.27%) MVC
7 20 (14.39%) Code Quality
8 18 (12.95%) Migration
8 18 (12.95%) User Experience
9 17 (12.23%) API Development
9 17 (12.23%) Front End Development
10 16 (11.51%) SOLID
11 15 (10.79%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (10.07%) Refactoring
13 13 (9.35%) Containerisation
14 12 (8.63%) Mentoring
14 12 (8.63%) Translating Business Requirements
14 12 (8.63%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 120 (86.33%) C#
2 66 (47.48%) SQL
3 48 (34.53%) JavaScript
4 29 (20.86%) TypeScript
5 23 (16.55%) T-SQL
6 22 (15.83%) PL/SQL
7 13 (9.35%) Python
8 10 (7.19%) VB.NET
9 9 (6.47%) VBA
10 8 (5.76%) PowerShell
10 8 (5.76%) XPath
11 7 (5.04%) VBScript
12 5 (3.60%) Bicep
13 3 (2.16%) Bash
13 3 (2.16%) C++
13 3 (2.16%) Java
14 1 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.72%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.72%) R
14 1 (0.72%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 23 (16.55%) Security Cleared
2 17 (12.23%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.91%) Degree
4 8 (5.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.88%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.72%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.72%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.72%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (14.39%) QA
2 8 (5.76%) Accessibility
3 6 (4.32%) WCAG
4 2 (1.44%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.72%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.72%) GDPR
5 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 37 (26.62%) Docker
2 9 (6.47%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (17.99%) Kubernetes
2 19 (13.67%) Terraform
3 7 (5.04%) Ansible
4 2 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 47 (33.81%) Microsoft
2 29 (20.86%) Oracle
3 6 (4.32%) Sitecore
4 5 (3.60%) Centrify
4 5 (3.60%) CyberArk
5 3 (2.16%) Databricks
5 3 (2.16%) IBM
6 2 (1.44%) Cisco
6 2 (1.44%) VMware
7 1 (0.72%) Adobe
7 1 (0.72%) Aprimo
7 1 (0.72%) Google
7 1 (0.72%) OneTrust
7 1 (0.72%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.72%) Optimizely
7 1 (0.72%) Telerik