ASP.NET Core Contracts

ASP.NET Core
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for ASP.NET Core skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited ASP.NET Core over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 499 612 615
Rank change year-on-year +113 +3 -53
Contract jobs citing ASP.NET Core 72 75 231
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.13% 0.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.81% 0.57% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 55 185
10th Percentile £409 £409 £385
25th Percentile £452 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £650 £620
Median % change year-on-year -22.50% +4.84% +24.00%
75th Percentile £723 £788 £744
90th Percentile £773 £875 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 £450 £420
% change year-on-year -22.22% +7.14% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £63.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £63.60
% change year-on-year - - +76.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

ASP.NET Core is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,924 13,173 23,604
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.96% 23.13% 26.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,198 9,621 17,311
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £665
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 144 237
10th Percentile £21.25 £25.75 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £74.47 £80.25 £76.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.25
% change year-on-year -26.92% +29.35% +11.67%

ASP.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing ASP.NET Core as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for ASP.NET Core in the UK

ASP.NET Core
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ASP.NET Core.

Daily rate trend for ASP.NET Core in the UK

ASP.NET Core
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ASP.NET Core over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ASP.NET Core in the UK

ASP.NET Core
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ASP.NET Core.

Hourly rate trend for ASP.NET Core in the UK

ASP.NET Core
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ASP.NET Core within the UK over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. 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 +115 62 £550 -23.08% 62
London +107 52 £606 -16.38% 16
Work from Home +108 25 £468 -30.67% 43
UK excluding London +42 9 £350 -22.22% 45
Scotland +29 2 £350 -26.32%
South East +25 2 £550 +29.41% 8
South West - 2 £325 - 1
North of England +32 1 £525 +20.00% 11
North West +20 1 £525 +20.00% 1
Wales - 1 £400 -
West Midlands - 1 £250 - 4
Midlands - 1 £250 - 22

ASP.NET Core
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.78%) CMS
3 1 (1.39%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (1.39%) Umbraco
3 1 (1.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 59 (81.94%) Azure
2 24 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (22.22%) Azure Service Bus
4 15 (20.83%) AWS
4 15 (20.83%) Entra ID
5 12 (16.67%) GCP
6 3 (4.17%) dbt
6 3 (4.17%) Figma
7 1 (1.39%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.39%) Azure App Service
7 1 (1.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.39%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.39%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (1.39%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.39%) Azure Storage
7 1 (1.39%) PaaS
7 1 (1.39%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.39%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (30.56%) NoSQL
2 21 (29.17%) SQL Server
3 15 (20.83%) Redis
4 6 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (4.17%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (4.17%) Apache Arrow
5 3 (4.17%) Dremio
6 1 (1.39%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (1.39%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.39%) MySQL
6 1 (1.39%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (20.83%) Git
2 10 (13.89%) TeamCity
3 8 (11.11%) Cucumber
3 8 (11.11%) GitLab
3 8 (11.11%) Moq
3 8 (11.11%) NUnit
4 3 (4.17%) Bitbucket
4 3 (4.17%) JIRA
5 2 (2.78%) SonarQube
5 2 (2.78%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (2.78%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (1.39%) SpecFlow
General
1 19 (26.39%) Finance
1 19 (26.39%) Front Office
2 7 (9.72%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (8.33%) Banking
4 5 (6.94%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.56%) Social Skills
6 2 (2.78%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 62 (86.11%) Developer
2 22 (30.56%) .NET Developer
3 18 (25.00%) Senior
4 17 (23.61%) Senior Developer
5 16 (22.22%) Full Stack Developer
6 15 (20.83%) C# Developer
7 14 (19.44%) Backend Developer
8 13 (18.06%) Senior Backend Developer
9 12 (16.67%) Software Engineer
10 11 (15.28%) Finance Manager
11 8 (11.11%) .NET Software Developer
11 8 (11.11%) .NET Software Engineer
11 8 (11.11%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 8 (11.11%) Software Asset Manager
11 8 (11.11%) Software Manager
12 6 (8.33%) Full Stack .NET Developer
13 5 (6.94%) Full-Stack C# Developer
14 4 (5.56%) Android Developer
14 4 (5.56%) Azure Developer
14 4 (5.56%) iOS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (100.00%) .NET
1 72 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 37 (51.39%) HTML
3 36 (50.00%) CSS
3 36 (50.00%) React
4 26 (36.11%) .NET Core
5 22 (30.56%) Vue
6 17 (23.61%) REST
7 15 (20.83%) Web Services
7 15 (20.83%) XML
8 14 (19.44%) AngularJS
9 12 (16.67%) ASP.NET Web API
10 11 (15.28%) Redux
11 10 (13.89%) Node.js
12 9 (12.50%) .NET Framework
13 8 (11.11%) Middleware
13 8 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
13 8 (11.11%) RESTful
13 8 (11.11%) SignalR
14 5 (6.94%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.28%) Derivative
1 11 (15.28%) Equities
1 11 (15.28%) Fixed Income
1 11 (15.28%) Hedge funds
2 9 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 9 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 8 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (5.56%) Mobile Payment
5 2 (2.78%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.78%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.39%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.56%) Android
1 4 (5.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (55.56%) Agile
2 38 (52.78%) DevOps
3 30 (41.67%) Full Stack Development
4 23 (31.94%) CI/CD
5 22 (30.56%) OO
6 21 (29.17%) MVC
6 21 (29.17%) Software Engineering
7 19 (26.39%) Scrum
8 17 (23.61%) Asset Management
9 16 (22.22%) Design Patterns
10 15 (20.83%) B2C
11 14 (19.44%) MVVM
11 14 (19.44%) OOP
11 14 (19.44%) SOLID
11 14 (19.44%) TDD
11 14 (19.44%) Web Development
12 11 (15.28%) Microservices
13 10 (13.89%) Responsive Web Design
13 10 (13.89%) Test Automation
14 9 (12.50%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 70 (97.22%) C#
2 46 (63.89%) JavaScript
3 29 (40.28%) TypeScript
4 23 (31.94%) PowerShell
5 19 (26.39%) SQL
6 15 (20.83%) Bicep
7 3 (4.17%) Python
8 2 (2.78%) C
Qualifications
1 6 (8.33%) Degree
2 5 (6.94%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (6.94%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.78%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.39%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.39%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.50%) QA
2 1 (1.39%) Accessibility
System Software
1 15 (20.83%) Active Directory
2 9 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (9.72%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (4.17%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (30.56%) Microsoft
2 8 (11.11%) TIBCO
3 6 (8.33%) Oracle
4 2 (2.78%) Xamarin
5 1 (1.39%) Optimizely
5 1 (1.39%) Sitecore