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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 528 390 344
Rank change year-on-year -138 -46 -41
Contract jobs citing ASP.NET 100 140 255
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.48% 0.59%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.06% 2.10% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 109 201
10th Percentile £368 £410 £308
25th Percentile £423 £500 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £475
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +26.32% -13.64%
75th Percentile £600 £813 £619
90th Percentile £718 £825 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £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 9,457 6,668 8,931
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.95% 22.77% 20.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,263 4,570 6,199
10th Percentile £358 £363 £338
25th Percentile £415 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £788 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 113 235
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.18 £21.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.60 £82.79 £74.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -24.00%

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 3 May 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 3 May 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 -149 82 £523 -19.62% 218
London -106 46 £525 -30.00% 68
UK excluding London -90 43 £475 -5.00% 162
Work from Home -54 34 £500 -23.08% 177
South East -58 9 £475 -2.56% 49
East of England -32 8 £600 +14.29% 23
Midlands -70 8 £525 +10.53% 17
West Midlands -59 7 £500 -11.11% 8
Scotland -7 6 £358 -28.40% 6
North of England -62 5 £475 +28.38% 50
South West - 3 £625 - 15
Northern Ireland +3 2 - -
North East -18 2 £475 +28.38% 8
Yorkshire - 2 £464 - 12
Wales - 2 £450 - 3
North West -41 1 £450 +9.56% 30
East Midlands - 1 £600 - 9

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 11 (11.00%) CMS
2 9 (9.00%) Sitecore CMS
3 4 (4.00%) SharePoint
4 3 (3.00%) Confluence
4 3 (3.00%) IIS
5 2 (2.00%) Umbraco
6 1 (1.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (1.00%) Apache Spark
6 1 (1.00%) Headless CMS
6 1 (1.00%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (1.00%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 1 (1.00%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 55 (55.00%) Azure
2 22 (22.00%) AWS
2 22 (22.00%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (16.00%) Serverless
4 14 (14.00%) GitHub
5 13 (13.00%) Azure Functions
6 10 (10.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 8 (8.00%) Azure Logic Apps
8 7 (7.00%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (7.00%) GCP
8 7 (7.00%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (6.00%) Azure AKS
9 6 (6.00%) Azure Key Vault
9 6 (6.00%) Entra ID
9 6 (6.00%) Power Platform
10 5 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (4.00%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (4.00%) Power Automate
11 4 (4.00%) PowerApps
12 3 (3.00%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.00%) HTTP
2 4 (4.00%) 3GPP
2 4 (4.00%) RTCP
2 4 (4.00%) RTP
2 4 (4.00%) XCAP
3 2 (2.00%) Intranet
4 1 (1.00%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (46.00%) SQL Server
2 18 (18.00%) NoSQL
3 9 (9.00%) Relational Database
4 6 (6.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (6.00%) MongoDB
5 3 (3.00%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.00%) ClickHouse
6 2 (2.00%) DocumentDB
6 2 (2.00%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.00%) EDRMS
6 2 (2.00%) GIS
6 2 (2.00%) Metadata
6 2 (2.00%) Power BI
6 2 (2.00%) Redis
6 2 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (2.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (2.00%) Tableau
7 1 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.00%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 16 (16.00%) Git
2 9 (9.00%) JIRA
3 6 (6.00%) NUnit
4 5 (5.00%) Visual Studio
5 4 (4.00%) TeamCity
6 3 (3.00%) Bitbucket
6 3 (3.00%) MSTest
6 3 (3.00%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (2.00%) GitLab
7 2 (2.00%) Jasmine
7 2 (2.00%) Karma Test Runner
7 2 (2.00%) Moq
7 2 (2.00%) Postman
7 2 (2.00%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (2.00%) Vite
7 2 (2.00%) webpack
8 1 (1.00%) git-flow
8 1 (1.00%) MSBuild
8 1 (1.00%) MSI
8 1 (1.00%) Serilog
General
1 22 (22.00%) Social Skills
2 15 (15.00%) Public Sector
3 12 (12.00%) Banking
3 12 (12.00%) Finance
4 10 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.00%) Front Office
5 2 (2.00%) Investment Banking
5 2 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (2.00%) Police
6 1 (1.00%) Automotive
6 1 (1.00%) Publishing
6 1 (1.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 76 (76.00%) Developer
2 36 (36.00%) .NET Developer
3 21 (21.00%) C# Developer
4 20 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 17 (17.00%) Senior
6 13 (13.00%) C# .NET Developer
6 13 (13.00%) Senior Developer
7 7 (7.00%) Architect
7 7 (7.00%) React Developer
8 6 (6.00%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
8 6 (6.00%) Senior .NET Developer
8 6 (6.00%) Technical Architect
9 5 (5.00%) Azure Developer
9 5 (5.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 5 (5.00%) Sitecore Developer
9 5 (5.00%) Software Engineer
10 4 (4.00%) ASP.NET Developer
10 4 (4.00%) Database Developer
10 4 (4.00%) Full-Stack C# Developer
11 3 (3.00%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (100.00%) .NET
2 47 (47.00%) ASP.NET Core
3 40 (40.00%) .NET Framework
3 40 (40.00%) React
4 35 (35.00%) CSS
4 35 (35.00%) HTML
5 31 (31.00%) .NET Core
6 28 (28.00%) RESTful
7 24 (24.00%) Entity Framework
8 22 (22.00%) ASP.NET MVC
9 21 (21.00%) AngularJS
9 21 (21.00%) Node.js
10 19 (19.00%) ASP.NET Web API
11 18 (18.00%) REST
12 13 (13.00%) jQuery
13 11 (11.00%) HTML5
14 9 (9.00%) XML
15 8 (8.00%) SignalR
16 7 (7.00%) CSS3
16 7 (7.00%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.00%) Enterprise Software
2 8 (8.00%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (5.00%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.00%) AI Agents
5 3 (3.00%) Legacy Code
6 2 (2.00%) Fixed Income
6 2 (2.00%) Media Streaming
6 2 (2.00%) NHS
6 2 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.00%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.00%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.00%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.00%) Windows
2 1 (1.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (57.00%) CI/CD
2 53 (53.00%) Agile
3 50 (50.00%) DevOps
4 33 (33.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 31 (31.00%) Microservices
6 30 (30.00%) MVC
7 19 (19.00%) Test Automation
8 18 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (18.00%) User Experience
9 16 (16.00%) SOLID
10 15 (15.00%) Containerisation
10 15 (15.00%) Scrum
10 15 (15.00%) Software Engineering
11 12 (12.00%) Front End Development
11 12 (12.00%) TDD
12 11 (11.00%) Infrastructure as Code
12 11 (11.00%) Mentoring
13 10 (10.00%) OO
13 10 (10.00%) OOP
13 10 (10.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 92 (92.00%) C#
2 37 (37.00%) SQL
3 33 (33.00%) JavaScript
4 15 (15.00%) TypeScript
5 11 (11.00%) Python
6 6 (6.00%) PowerShell
7 5 (5.00%) Java
7 5 (5.00%) T-SQL
8 3 (3.00%) Bicep
8 3 (3.00%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.00%) Ruby
10 1 (1.00%) Bash
10 1 (1.00%) C++
10 1 (1.00%) XPath
Qualifications
1 18 (18.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (13.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.00%) Degree
4 6 (6.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (5.00%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.00%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.00%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.00%) QA
2 8 (8.00%) Accessibility
3 4 (4.00%) WCAG
4 1 (1.00%) GDPR
4 1 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 33 (33.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (19.00%) Kubernetes
2 14 (14.00%) Terraform
3 1 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (14.00%) Sitecore
2 9 (9.00%) Microsoft
3 8 (8.00%) Oracle
4 7 (7.00%) Google
5 3 (3.00%) Adobe
6 2 (2.00%) Databricks