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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 547 461 344
Rank change year-on-year -86 -117 -23
Contract jobs citing ASP.NET 143 96 225
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.29% 0.58%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.20% 1.13% 2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 68 163
10th Percentile £357 £399 £313
25th Percentile £418 £438 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £510
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +7.84% -7.27%
75th Percentile £575 £669 £619
90th Percentile £700 £813 £673
UK excluding London median daily rate £455 £450 £513
% change year-on-year +1.11% -12.20% +7.89%

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 11,886 8,520 9,597
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.67% 25.86% 24.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,817 5,696 6,345
10th Percentile £375 £354 £356
25th Percentile £437 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £635 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £734 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.37% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 299 187 189
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £25.60
25th Percentile £50.00 £41.42 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.70 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +18.83% -11.20% -1.44%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £72.20 £74.57
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +17.39% -11.54% +8.33%

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 19 September 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 13 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 19 September 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 -82 120 £475 -13.64% 408
London -62 72 £500 -19.04% 202
UK excluding London -82 52 £455 +1.11% 227
Work from Home -49 47 £475 -5.00% 246
Yorkshire -23 18 £448 - 20
North of England -62 18 £448 -9.14% 70
South East -52 13 £475 +5.56% 57
South West -30 8 £488 +27.04% 19
Scotland -15 5 £438 -23.08% 5
East of England -22 4 £345 -31.00% 26
Midlands -48 4 £538 +71.73% 44
East Midlands -14 2 £550 +75.72% 21
West Midlands -48 2 £525 - 23

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 (11.19%) SharePoint
2 14 (9.79%) IIS
3 8 (5.59%) CMS
4 7 (4.90%) Confluence
5 3 (2.10%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.70%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.70%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.70%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.70%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 7 (4.90%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.10%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (1.40%) OpenText MBPM
3 2 (1.40%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.70%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 79 (55.24%) Azure
2 32 (22.38%) Azure DevOps
3 31 (21.68%) AWS
4 15 (10.49%) GitHub
5 14 (9.79%) Power Platform
6 7 (4.90%) Dynamics 365
6 7 (4.90%) Entra ID
6 7 (4.90%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (4.90%) Power Automate
6 7 (4.90%) PowerApps
7 6 (4.20%) Azure AKS
7 6 (4.20%) Azure App Service
7 6 (4.20%) Azure Service Bus
8 5 (3.50%) Azure API Management
8 5 (3.50%) Microsoft Copilot
8 5 (3.50%) Serverless
9 4 (2.80%) Azure Functions
9 4 (2.80%) Azure Key Vault
9 4 (2.80%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (2.80%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.20%) Intranet
2 2 (1.40%) DHCP
2 2 (1.40%) DNS
2 2 (1.40%) Internet
2 2 (1.40%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (55.94%) SQL Server
2 17 (11.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 10 (6.99%) MS Access
4 9 (6.29%) Relational Database
5 8 (5.59%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (4.20%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (4.20%) Power BI
7 5 (3.50%) NoSQL
8 4 (2.80%) EDRMS
8 4 (2.80%) Metadata
8 4 (2.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (2.10%) DocumentDB
9 3 (2.10%) MongoDB
9 3 (2.10%) Oracle Database
9 3 (2.10%) Redis
10 2 (1.40%) ClickHouse
10 2 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.40%) Db2
10 2 (1.40%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.40%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 37 (25.87%) Git
2 20 (13.99%) Jenkins
3 12 (8.39%) Visual Studio
4 11 (7.69%) JIRA
5 9 (6.29%) Bitbucket
5 9 (6.29%) TeamCity
6 8 (5.59%) Team Foundation Server
7 6 (4.20%) GitLab
8 5 (3.50%) NUnit
8 5 (3.50%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (2.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (1.40%) Artifactory
10 2 (1.40%) git-flow
10 2 (1.40%) JMeter
10 2 (1.40%) MSBuild
10 2 (1.40%) Vite
10 2 (1.40%) webpack
11 1 (0.70%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.70%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.70%) Moq
General
1 51 (35.66%) Social Skills
2 30 (20.98%) Finance
3 23 (16.08%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (14.69%) Banking
5 12 (8.39%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.59%) Front Office
6 8 (5.59%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.80%) Back Office
8 3 (2.10%) Local Government
9 2 (1.40%) Automotive
9 2 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.40%) Retail
10 1 (0.70%) Law
10 1 (0.70%) Legal
10 1 (0.70%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.70%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 96 (67.13%) Developer
2 58 (40.56%) .NET Developer
3 25 (17.48%) Senior
4 23 (16.08%) C# Developer
5 19 (13.29%) Senior Developer
6 15 (10.49%) C# .NET Developer
6 15 (10.49%) Lead
7 14 (9.79%) Senior .NET Developer
8 12 (8.39%) Full-Stack Developer
9 11 (7.69%) Software Developer
10 9 (6.29%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
10 9 (6.29%) Technical Leader
11 8 (5.59%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (4.90%) Architect
12 7 (4.90%) Lead Developer
13 6 (4.20%) ASP.NET Developer
13 6 (4.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 6 (4.20%) SQL Developer
14 5 (3.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 5 (3.50%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (100.00%) .NET
2 61 (42.66%) ASP.NET Core
3 49 (34.27%) .NET Framework
4 48 (33.57%) REST
5 40 (27.97%) .NET Core
6 38 (26.57%) React
7 29 (20.28%) Entity Framework
7 29 (20.28%) HTML
8 27 (18.88%) AngularJS
8 27 (18.88%) ASP.NET Web API
9 24 (16.78%) RESTful
10 23 (16.08%) CSS
11 21 (14.69%) Web Services
12 19 (13.29%) ASP.NET MVC
13 18 (12.59%) Terraform
14 17 (11.89%) JSON
15 14 (9.79%) XML
16 12 (8.39%) WinForms
17 10 (6.99%) Blazor
18 9 (6.29%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 23 (16.08%) Enterprise Software
2 17 (11.89%) Cloud Native
3 12 (8.39%) Product Ownership
4 8 (5.59%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (4.90%) Legacy Applications
6 6 (4.20%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (4.20%) Legacy Code
6 6 (4.20%) Replication
7 5 (3.50%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.80%) AI Agents
9 3 (2.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (2.10%) Life Science
9 3 (2.10%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.40%) Data Centre
10 2 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.40%) NHS
10 2 (1.40%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.40%) PKI
10 2 (1.40%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 2 (1.40%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (13.29%) Windows
2 8 (5.59%) Linux
3 4 (2.80%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (46.15%) DevOps
2 65 (45.45%) CI/CD
3 61 (42.66%) Agile
4 32 (22.38%) Full-Stack Development
5 29 (20.28%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (18.18%) Test Automation
7 25 (17.48%) Microservices
7 25 (17.48%) MVC
8 22 (15.38%) Code Quality
9 18 (12.59%) Front End Development
10 17 (11.89%) AI
10 17 (11.89%) Migration
11 16 (11.19%) API Development
11 16 (11.19%) Continuous Improvement
11 16 (11.19%) Deployment Automation
11 16 (11.19%) SOLID
11 16 (11.19%) User Experience
12 15 (10.49%) Software Engineering
12 15 (10.49%) Stakeholder Management
12 15 (10.49%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 124 (86.71%) C#
2 65 (45.45%) SQL
3 50 (34.97%) JavaScript
4 30 (20.98%) TypeScript
5 22 (15.38%) T-SQL
6 21 (14.69%) PL/SQL
7 13 (9.09%) Python
8 10 (6.99%) VB.NET
9 9 (6.29%) VBA
10 8 (5.59%) PowerShell
10 8 (5.59%) XPath
11 7 (4.90%) VBScript
12 6 (4.20%) Bicep
13 3 (2.10%) Bash
14 2 (1.40%) C++
15 1 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.70%) Java
15 1 (0.70%) MATLAB
15 1 (0.70%) R
15 1 (0.70%) X++
Qualifications
1 23 (16.08%) Security Cleared
2 17 (11.89%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.69%) Degree
4 5 (3.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.80%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.10%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.70%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.70%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.70%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (14.69%) QA
2 8 (5.59%) Accessibility
3 6 (4.20%) WCAG
4 2 (1.40%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.70%) Data Quality
System Software
1 31 (21.68%) Docker
2 12 (8.39%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (16.08%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.59%) Ansible
3 2 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 52 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 27 (18.88%) Oracle
3 6 (4.20%) Centrify
3 6 (4.20%) CyberArk
3 6 (4.20%) Sitecore
4 3 (2.10%) Aprimo
4 3 (2.10%) Databricks
4 3 (2.10%) IBM
4 3 (2.10%) OneTrust
4 3 (2.10%) Optimizely
5 2 (1.40%) Cisco
5 2 (1.40%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.40%) VMware
6 1 (0.70%) Telerik