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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 533 392 354
Rank change year-on-year -141 -38 -61
Contract jobs citing ASP.NET 99 142 240
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.48% 0.55%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.05% 2.14% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 109 189
10th Percentile £390 £410 £312
25th Percentile £425 £488 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £488
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +17.95% -11.36%
75th Percentile £600 £775 £650
90th Percentile £714 £825 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -4.95% +17.65% -10.53%

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 9,428 6,651 8,939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.49% 22.66% 20.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,290 4,556 6,230
10th Percentile £358 £363 £338
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -0.57% -4.00%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £500
% change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 101 193
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.50 £20.48
25th Percentile £52.50 £43.00 £36.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £71.62 £68.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £84.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -26.11%

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 17 April 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 17 April 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 -151 81 £525 -16.00% 219
UK excluding London -80 46 £475 -4.95% 169
London -116 41 £538 -28.33% 64
Work from Home -52 33 £500 -23.08% 184
South East -56 10 £475 -2.56% 53
Midlands -70 10 £550 +15.79% 20
East of England -23 8 £600 +14.29% 22
West Midlands -58 7 £500 -11.11% 11
Scotland +2 6 £358 -28.40% 4
North of England -71 5 £475 +28.38% 45
East Midlands - 3 £600 - 9
South West - 3 £625 - 25
Northern Ireland +3 2 - -
North East -17 2 £475 +28.38% 6
Yorkshire - 2 £464 - 13
Wales - 2 £450 - 3
North West -38 1 £450 +9.56% 26

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 12 (12.12%) CMS
2 11 (11.11%) Sitecore CMS
3 4 (4.04%) Umbraco
4 3 (3.03%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (3.03%) Confluence
4 3 (3.03%) Headless CMS
4 3 (3.03%) IIS
5 2 (2.02%) SharePoint
6 1 (1.01%) Apache Spark
6 1 (1.01%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (1.01%) InDesign
Cloud Services
1 54 (54.55%) Azure
2 22 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
3 21 (21.21%) AWS
4 18 (18.18%) Serverless
5 16 (16.16%) GitHub
6 15 (15.15%) Azure Functions
7 10 (10.10%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 9 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
8 9 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (8.08%) Entra ID
10 7 (7.07%) Azure Logic Apps
10 7 (7.07%) GCP
11 6 (6.06%) Azure AKS
12 5 (5.05%) Azure API Management
12 5 (5.05%) Azure Key Vault
13 4 (4.04%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (4.04%) Power Platform
14 3 (3.03%) Contentful
14 3 (3.03%) Kontent
14 3 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.05%) HTTP
2 4 (4.04%) 3GPP
2 4 (4.04%) RTCP
2 4 (4.04%) RTP
2 4 (4.04%) XCAP
3 2 (2.02%) SSL
4 1 (1.01%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (44.44%) SQL Server
2 18 (18.18%) NoSQL
3 9 (9.09%) Relational Database
4 6 (6.06%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (6.06%) MongoDB
5 3 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.02%) ClickHouse
6 2 (2.02%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.02%) GIS
6 2 (2.02%) Power BI
6 2 (2.02%) Redis
6 2 (2.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (2.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (2.02%) Tableau
7 1 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.01%) DocumentDB
7 1 (1.01%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 17 (17.17%) Git
2 9 (9.09%) JIRA
3 5 (5.05%) NUnit
3 5 (5.05%) Visual Studio
4 4 (4.04%) MSTest
5 3 (3.03%) Bitbucket
5 3 (3.03%) Jenkins
5 3 (3.03%) Postman
5 3 (3.03%) TeamCity
5 3 (3.03%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (2.02%) Jasmine
6 2 (2.02%) Karma Test Runner
6 2 (2.02%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (2.02%) Vite
6 2 (2.02%) webpack
7 1 (1.01%) git-flow
7 1 (1.01%) GitLab
7 1 (1.01%) Moq
7 1 (1.01%) MSBuild
7 1 (1.01%) MSI
General
1 22 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 16 (16.16%) Public Sector
3 12 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (12.12%) Banking
4 9 (9.09%) Finance
5 2 (2.02%) Front Office
5 2 (2.02%) Investment Banking
5 2 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (2.02%) Police
6 1 (1.01%) Automotive
6 1 (1.01%) Billing
6 1 (1.01%) Publishing
6 1 (1.01%) Retail
Job Titles
1 75 (75.76%) Developer
2 34 (34.34%) .NET Developer
3 23 (23.23%) C# Developer
4 21 (21.21%) Full-Stack Developer
5 15 (15.15%) Senior
6 13 (13.13%) C# .NET Developer
7 11 (11.11%) Senior Developer
8 9 (9.09%) React Developer
9 7 (7.07%) Architect
10 6 (6.06%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
10 6 (6.06%) Full-Stack C# Developer
10 6 (6.06%) Software Engineer
10 6 (6.06%) Technical Architect
11 5 (5.05%) Azure Developer
11 5 (5.05%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 5 (5.05%) Senior .NET Developer
11 5 (5.05%) Sitecore Developer
12 4 (4.04%) ASP.NET Developer
12 4 (4.04%) Database Developer
13 3 (3.03%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (100.00%) .NET
2 45 (45.45%) ASP.NET Core
3 42 (42.42%) .NET Framework
4 38 (38.38%) React
5 36 (36.36%) HTML
6 34 (34.34%) CSS
7 31 (31.31%) .NET Core
8 28 (28.28%) RESTful
9 23 (23.23%) AngularJS
9 23 (23.23%) ASP.NET MVC
10 21 (21.21%) Entity Framework
10 21 (21.21%) Node.js
11 18 (18.18%) REST
12 17 (17.17%) ASP.NET Web API
13 12 (12.12%) jQuery
14 10 (10.10%) HTML5
15 9 (9.09%) XML
16 8 (8.08%) SignalR
17 7 (7.07%) Jest
18 6 (6.06%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.07%) Cloud Native
1 7 (7.07%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (5.05%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.04%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.03%) AI Agents
4 3 (3.03%) Legacy Code
4 3 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.03%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.02%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.02%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.02%) Media Streaming
5 2 (2.02%) NHS
5 2 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.01%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.01%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.01%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.03%) Windows
2 1 (1.01%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 51 (51.52%) Agile
3 48 (48.48%) DevOps
4 33 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
5 31 (31.31%) MVC
6 29 (29.29%) Microservices
7 20 (20.20%) Test Automation
8 19 (19.19%) User Experience
9 18 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (16.16%) Software Engineering
11 14 (14.14%) Containerisation
11 14 (14.14%) Scrum
12 13 (13.13%) Infrastructure as Code
12 13 (13.13%) SOLID
13 11 (11.11%) AI
13 11 (11.11%) TDD
14 10 (10.10%) Front End Development
14 10 (10.10%) Mentoring
15 9 (9.09%) Data Governance
15 9 (9.09%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 91 (91.92%) C#
2 38 (38.38%) SQL
3 33 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 13 (13.13%) Python
5 12 (12.12%) TypeScript
6 7 (7.07%) Java
6 7 (7.07%) PowerShell
7 4 (4.04%) T-SQL
8 3 (3.03%) Bash
8 3 (3.03%) Bicep
8 3 (3.03%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.02%) PHP
9 2 (2.02%) Ruby
10 1 (1.01%) C++
Qualifications
1 18 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 13 (13.13%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.07%) Degree
4 6 (6.06%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (5.05%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.02%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.01%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.10%) QA
2 7 (7.07%) Accessibility
3 4 (4.04%) WCAG
4 2 (2.02%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.01%) GDPR
5 1 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 32 (32.32%) Docker
2 2 (2.02%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (17.17%) Kubernetes
2 15 (15.15%) Terraform
3 1 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (16.16%) Sitecore
2 9 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 8 (8.08%) Oracle
4 7 (7.07%) Google
5 5 (5.05%) Adobe
6 2 (2.02%) Databricks