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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 514 381 355
Rank change year-on-year -133 -26 -76
Contract jobs citing ASP.NET 105 139 240
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.48% 0.54%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.13% 2.11% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 101 183
10th Percentile £374 £400 £307
25th Percentile £425 £463 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £558 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +17.37% -13.64%
75th Percentile £600 £775 £650
90th Percentile £692 £825 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £400
% change year-on-year +5.00% +25.00% -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 9,325 6,599 8,965
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.21% 22.71% 20.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,218 4,498 6,258
10th Percentile £358 £363 £331
25th Percentile £415 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £496 £495
% change year-on-year +0.81% +0.20% -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 251 96 190
10th Percentile £35.25 £26.25 £20.74
25th Percentile £52.50 £39.06 £37.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.75 £68.19 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £82.53 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%

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 March 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 17 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 March 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 -130 87 £550 -12.00% 246
UK excluding London -95 50 £525 +5.00% 197
London -78 43 £538 -20.37% 62
Work from Home -63 38 £500 -25.93% 201
Midlands -55 15 £550 +15.79% 29
East of England -21 10 £600 +14.29% 31
East Midlands - 8 £600 - 13
West Midlands -62 7 £500 -11.11% 16
South East -63 7 £650 +36.84% 53
Scotland +6 6 £358 -28.40% 7
North of England -66 5 £475 +28.38% 51
South West - 3 £625 - 26
Northern Ireland -3 2 - - 1
North East -11 2 £475 +28.38% 10
North West -42 2 £413 +0.43% 27
Wales - 2 £450 - 4
Yorkshire - 1 £500 - 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 16 (15.24%) CMS
2 13 (12.38%) Sitecore CMS
3 6 (5.71%) Umbraco
4 5 (4.76%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 5 (4.76%) Headless CMS
5 3 (2.86%) Confluence
5 3 (2.86%) IIS
6 1 (0.95%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.95%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.95%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.95%) Oracle Spatial
6 1 (0.95%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.95%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.95%) InDesign
Cloud Services
1 53 (50.48%) Azure
2 23 (21.90%) Azure DevOps
3 21 (20.00%) AWS
4 18 (17.14%) Serverless
5 16 (15.24%) Azure Functions
6 15 (14.29%) GitHub
7 10 (9.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 10 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (8.57%) Azure Monitor
9 8 (7.62%) Entra ID
10 7 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
10 7 (6.67%) Kontent
11 6 (5.71%) Azure AKS
11 6 (5.71%) GCP
12 5 (4.76%) Azure Key Vault
12 5 (4.76%) Azure Service Bus
12 5 (4.76%) Contentful
13 4 (3.81%) Azure API Management
14 3 (2.86%) Power Platform
15 2 (1.90%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.67%) HTTP
2 4 (3.81%) 3GPP
2 4 (3.81%) RTCP
2 4 (3.81%) RTP
2 4 (3.81%) XCAP
3 2 (1.90%) SSL
4 1 (0.95%) Internet
4 1 (0.95%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (40.95%) SQL Server
2 18 (17.14%) NoSQL
3 9 (8.57%) Relational Database
4 7 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (5.71%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.86%) GIS
6 3 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (2.86%) Redis
6 3 (2.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (1.90%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.90%) Power BI
7 2 (1.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.90%) Tableau
8 1 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.95%) ClickHouse
8 1 (0.95%) DocumentDB
8 1 (0.95%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.95%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.95%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 24 (22.86%) Git
2 9 (8.57%) JIRA
3 6 (5.71%) Visual Studio
4 5 (4.76%) NUnit
5 4 (3.81%) Jenkins
5 4 (3.81%) MSTest
5 4 (3.81%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (2.86%) Postman
7 2 (1.90%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.90%) Jasmine
7 2 (1.90%) Karma Test Runner
7 2 (1.90%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (1.90%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.90%) webpack
8 1 (0.95%) git-flow
8 1 (0.95%) GitLab
8 1 (0.95%) Moq
8 1 (0.95%) MSBuild
8 1 (0.95%) MSI
8 1 (0.95%) Serilog
General
1 23 (21.90%) Social Skills
2 15 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 12 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (10.48%) Banking
5 9 (8.57%) Finance
6 2 (1.90%) Police
7 1 (0.95%) Billing
7 1 (0.95%) Front Office
7 1 (0.95%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.95%) Military
7 1 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.95%) Publishing
7 1 (0.95%) Retail
Job Titles
1 81 (77.14%) Developer
2 32 (30.48%) .NET Developer
3 28 (26.67%) Full-Stack Developer
4 23 (21.90%) C# Developer
5 13 (12.38%) Senior
6 11 (10.48%) React Developer
7 10 (9.52%) C# .NET Developer
7 10 (9.52%) Senior Developer
8 8 (7.62%) Architect
8 8 (7.62%) Full-Stack C# Developer
9 7 (6.67%) CMS Developer
9 7 (6.67%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
10 6 (5.71%) Azure Developer
10 6 (5.71%) Technical Architect
11 5 (4.76%) Sitecore Developer
11 5 (4.76%) Software Engineer
12 4 (3.81%) Database Developer
12 4 (3.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 4 (3.81%) Software Developer
13 3 (2.86%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (100.00%) .NET
2 50 (47.62%) .NET Framework
3 45 (42.86%) ASP.NET Core
4 42 (40.00%) HTML
5 41 (39.05%) React
6 40 (38.10%) CSS
7 33 (31.43%) RESTful
8 32 (30.48%) .NET Core
9 28 (26.67%) AngularJS
9 28 (26.67%) ASP.NET MVC
10 21 (20.00%) Entity Framework
11 19 (18.10%) Node.js
12 17 (16.19%) ASP.NET Web API
13 16 (15.24%) REST
14 12 (11.43%) jQuery
15 10 (9.52%) HTML5
16 9 (8.57%) XML
17 7 (6.67%) CSS3
17 7 (6.67%) Jest
17 7 (6.67%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.57%) Mobile App
2 8 (7.62%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (5.71%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.76%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.81%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.81%) Legacy Code
5 4 (3.81%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.86%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.90%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.90%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.90%) Media Streaming
8 1 (0.95%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.95%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.95%) NHS
8 1 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.76%) Windows
2 1 (0.95%) Linux
2 1 (0.95%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (52.38%) CI/CD
2 50 (47.62%) Agile
3 48 (45.71%) DevOps
4 37 (35.24%) Full-Stack Development
5 36 (34.29%) MVC
6 29 (27.62%) Microservices
7 22 (20.95%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (20.00%) User Experience
9 18 (17.14%) Test Automation
10 16 (15.24%) Software Engineering
11 15 (14.29%) Scrum
12 14 (13.33%) Containerisation
13 13 (12.38%) AI
14 12 (11.43%) SOLID
15 11 (10.48%) Front End Development
15 11 (10.48%) Infrastructure as Code
15 11 (10.48%) TDD
16 9 (8.57%) Data Governance
16 9 (8.57%) Mentoring
16 9 (8.57%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 98 (93.33%) C#
2 44 (41.90%) SQL
3 38 (36.19%) JavaScript
4 12 (11.43%) Python
5 11 (10.48%) TypeScript
6 7 (6.67%) Java
7 6 (5.71%) PowerShell
8 4 (3.81%) PL/SQL
8 4 (3.81%) T-SQL
9 3 (2.86%) Bicep
10 2 (1.90%) Bash
10 2 (1.90%) PHP
11 1 (0.95%) C++
11 1 (0.95%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 17 (16.19%) Security Cleared
2 11 (10.48%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.62%) Degree
4 6 (5.71%) Azure Certification
4 6 (5.71%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.95%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.52%) QA
2 8 (7.62%) Accessibility
3 5 (4.76%) WCAG
4 2 (1.90%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.95%) GDPR
5 1 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.95%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (26.67%) Docker
2 2 (1.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 11 (10.48%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (18.10%) Sitecore
2 9 (8.57%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.57%) Oracle
3 7 (6.67%) Adobe
3 7 (6.67%) Google
4 2 (1.90%) Databricks
5 1 (0.95%) ESRI
5 1 (0.95%) Marketo
5 1 (0.95%) OneTrust
5 1 (0.95%) SAP