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 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 517 347 333
Rank change year-on-year -170 -14 -86
Contract jobs citing ASP.NET 70 197 296
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.58% 0.68%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.85% 2.66% 3.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 124 218
10th Percentile £400 £304 £325
25th Percentile £438 £344 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £504 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.18% -8.41% -
75th Percentile £600 £613 £698
90th Percentile £644 £718 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £463 £450
% change year-on-year +10.81% +2.78% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £26.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £26.78

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 8,226 7,411 9,588
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.38% 21.94% 21.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,450 4,699 6,806
10th Percentile £354 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.88% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 199 92 173
10th Percentile £31.15 £21.33 £32.60
25th Percentile £43.75 £34.56 £46.18
Median hourly rate £58.73 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.04% +19.05% -19.23%
75th Percentile £67.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £74.99 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.25 £65.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year -2.69% +25.26% -20.17%

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 22 December 2025.

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 22 December 2025. 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 -139 54 £525 - 269
London -70 26 £500 -9.09% 79
UK excluding London -82 25 £513 +10.81% 208
Work from Home -67 24 £513 +13.89% 239
Midlands -48 9 £600 +57.89% 27
East Midlands -13 8 £600 +69.01% 14
South East -39 6 £450 -10.00% 63
North West -28 4 £435 +46.22% 41
North of England -48 4 £435 +29.85% 64
Scotland +2 2 £484 +1.84% 7
South West -7 2 - - 21
East of England -20 2 - - 20
West Midlands -41 1 - - 13

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 7 (10.00%) CMS
2 5 (7.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 5 (7.14%) Headless CMS
2 5 (7.14%) Sitecore CMS
2 5 (7.14%) Umbraco
3 1 (1.43%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.43%) GeoServer
3 1 (1.43%) IIS
3 1 (1.43%) Oracle Spatial
3 1 (1.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (4.29%) Aladdin
1 3 (4.29%) Bloomberg AIM
Cloud Services
1 42 (60.00%) Azure
2 20 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (15.71%) Serverless
4 10 (14.29%) Azure Functions
5 9 (12.86%) Azure AKS
5 9 (12.86%) Azure Monitor
5 9 (12.86%) GitHub
6 7 (10.00%) AWS
6 7 (10.00%) Kontent
7 6 (8.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 6 (8.57%) Azure Logic Apps
7 6 (8.57%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (8.57%) Power Platform
8 5 (7.14%) Contentful
9 3 (4.29%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (4.29%) Entra ID
9 3 (4.29%) GCP
10 2 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (2.86%) Azure Event Grid
10 2 (2.86%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.86%) HTTP
1 2 (2.86%) Internet
1 2 (2.86%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (44.29%) SQL Server
2 8 (11.43%) NoSQL
3 6 (8.57%) MongoDB
3 6 (8.57%) Power BI
3 6 (8.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (4.29%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.86%) GIS
5 2 (2.86%) Redis
5 2 (2.86%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.86%) Tableau
6 1 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.43%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (1.43%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.43%) Oracle Database 12c
6 1 (1.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 25 (35.71%) Git
2 4 (5.71%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.29%) Visual Studio
4 2 (2.86%) NUnit
4 2 (2.86%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.43%) Ant
5 1 (1.43%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.43%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.43%) Eclipse
5 1 (1.43%) IntelliJ
5 1 (1.43%) JIRA
5 1 (1.43%) JUnit
5 1 (1.43%) Moq
5 1 (1.43%) MSTest
5 1 (1.43%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (1.43%) Postman
5 1 (1.43%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.43%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 19 (27.14%) Social Skills
2 15 (21.43%) Finance
3 13 (18.57%) Public Sector
4 7 (10.00%) Banking
5 6 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (4.29%) Front Office
7 1 (1.43%) Billing
7 1 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.43%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.43%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.43%) Military
Job Titles
1 56 (80.00%) Developer
2 22 (31.43%) .NET Developer
3 16 (22.86%) Full-Stack Developer
4 15 (21.43%) Senior
5 12 (17.14%) C# Developer
6 11 (15.71%) Senior Developer
7 8 (11.43%) Azure Developer
8 7 (10.00%) CMS Developer
9 6 (8.57%) Administrator
9 6 (8.57%) Azure Administrator
9 6 (8.57%) Database Developer
9 6 (8.57%) DBA
9 6 (8.57%) React Developer
10 5 (7.14%) Full-Stack C# Developer
11 4 (5.71%) Lead
11 4 (5.71%) Senior .NET Developer
12 3 (4.29%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 3 (4.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 3 (4.29%) Sitecore Architect
12 3 (4.29%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (100.00%) .NET
2 35 (50.00%) .NET Framework
3 25 (35.71%) HTML
4 23 (32.86%) .NET Core
5 22 (31.43%) CSS
5 22 (31.43%) RESTful
6 19 (27.14%) ASP.NET MVC
7 17 (24.29%) React
8 14 (20.00%) AngularJS
9 12 (17.14%) ASP.NET Core
10 10 (14.29%) Entity Framework
11 6 (8.57%) ASP.NET Web API
11 6 (8.57%) Node.js
11 6 (8.57%) Web Services
12 5 (7.14%) OAuth
12 5 (7.14%) REST
13 4 (5.71%) ASP.NET Web Forms
13 4 (5.71%) HTML5
13 4 (5.71%) OAuth2
13 4 (5.71%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.86%) Mobile App
2 7 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 6 (8.57%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (8.57%) Hedge funds
4 5 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (7.14%) Product Ownership
5 3 (4.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (4.29%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.43%) AS400
7 1 (1.43%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.43%) IoT
7 1 (1.43%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.43%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.71%) Windows
2 1 (1.43%) Android
2 1 (1.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (44.29%) DevOps
2 30 (42.86%) Agile
3 27 (38.57%) CI/CD
4 21 (30.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 20 (28.57%) MVC
6 19 (27.14%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (20.00%) Microservices
8 12 (17.14%) Test Automation
9 11 (15.71%) Clean Code
10 10 (14.29%) User Experience
11 9 (12.86%) AI
11 9 (12.86%) Analytics
12 8 (11.43%) Containerisation
12 8 (11.43%) Data Protection
13 7 (10.00%) Data Modelling
13 7 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
13 7 (10.00%) Scrum
13 7 (10.00%) TDD
14 6 (8.57%) OO
14 6 (8.57%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 68 (97.14%) C#
2 36 (51.43%) SQL
3 31 (44.29%) JavaScript
4 5 (7.14%) T-SQL
5 4 (5.71%) Java
6 3 (4.29%) PowerShell
6 3 (4.29%) Python
7 2 (2.86%) Bash
7 2 (2.86%) PHP
7 2 (2.86%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.43%) Bicep
8 1 (1.43%) C++
8 1 (1.43%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.43%) VB
8 1 (1.43%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 6 (8.57%) Azure Certification
1 6 (8.57%) Degree
1 6 (8.57%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 5 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 5 (7.14%) QA
3 2 (2.86%) WCAG
4 1 (1.43%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (12.86%) Docker
2 3 (4.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (8.57%) Terraform
2 3 (4.29%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (24.29%) Microsoft
2 8 (11.43%) Sitecore
3 5 (7.14%) Adobe
4 4 (5.71%) Oracle
5 3 (4.29%) Bloomberg
5 3 (4.29%) FactSet
5 3 (4.29%) Marketo
5 3 (4.29%) OneTrust
6 2 (2.86%) SAP
7 1 (1.43%) ESRI