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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 510 613 611
Rank change year-on-year +103 -2 -33
Contract jobs citing ASP.NET Core 69 71 231
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.13% 0.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.76% 0.55% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 56 181
10th Percentile £388 £422 £385
25th Percentile £453 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £631 £615
Median % change year-on-year -20.79% +2.64% +18.55%
75th Percentile £719 £788 £744
90th Percentile £795 - £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £475 £438
% change year-on-year -21.05% +8.57% +7.30%
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 9,060 12,931 23,608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.02% 22.94% 26.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,282 9,442 17,368
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £669
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 148 222
10th Percentile £21.89 £30.53 £22.75
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £66.25 £75.00 £67.36
90th Percentile £74.46 £80.48 £76.96
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.43 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -25.49% +18.18% +22.22%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 +98 59 £538 -21.82% 48
London +108 49 £563 -22.41% 8
Work from Home +118 26 £468 -28.00% 40
UK excluding London +35 10 £375 -21.05% 40
South West +12 3 £363 -
Scotland +35 2 £350 -26.32% 1
South East +2 2 £550 +22.22% 5
North of England +28 1 £525 +20.00% 8
North West +15 1 £525 +20.00% 1
Midlands - 1 £250 - 21
Wales - 1 £400 - 4
West Midlands - 1 £250 - 5

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 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.90%) CMS
3 1 (1.45%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (1.45%) Umbraco
3 1 (1.45%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 55 (79.71%) Azure
2 23 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (23.19%) Azure Service Bus
4 15 (21.74%) Entra ID
5 13 (18.84%) AWS
6 10 (14.49%) GCP
7 3 (4.35%) dbt
8 2 (2.90%) Figma
9 1 (1.45%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.45%) Azure App Service
9 1 (1.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (1.45%) Azure Functions
9 1 (1.45%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (1.45%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.45%) Azure Storage
9 1 (1.45%) PaaS
9 1 (1.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.45%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (31.88%) SQL Server
2 20 (28.99%) NoSQL
3 15 (21.74%) Redis
4 6 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (4.35%) Apache Arrow
5 3 (4.35%) Dremio
6 1 (1.45%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (1.45%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.45%) MySQL
6 1 (1.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (18.84%) Git
2 10 (14.49%) TeamCity
3 8 (11.59%) Cucumber
3 8 (11.59%) GitLab
3 8 (11.59%) Moq
3 8 (11.59%) NUnit
4 3 (4.35%) Bitbucket
4 3 (4.35%) JIRA
5 2 (2.90%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.45%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.45%) SpecFlow
General
1 17 (24.64%) Finance
1 17 (24.64%) Front Office
2 7 (10.14%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (8.70%) Banking
4 5 (7.25%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.80%) Social Skills
6 2 (2.90%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 59 (85.51%) Developer
2 20 (28.99%) .NET Developer
3 18 (26.09%) Senior
4 17 (24.64%) Senior Developer
5 15 (21.74%) C# Developer
6 14 (20.29%) Backend Developer
6 14 (20.29%) Full Stack Developer
7 13 (18.84%) Senior Backend Developer
8 10 (14.49%) Software Engineer
9 9 (13.04%) Finance Manager
10 6 (8.70%) .NET Software Developer
10 6 (8.70%) .NET Software Engineer
10 6 (8.70%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 6 (8.70%) Software Asset Manager
10 6 (8.70%) Software Manager
11 5 (7.25%) Full Stack .NET Developer
11 5 (7.25%) Full-Stack C# Developer
12 4 (5.80%) Azure Developer
12 4 (5.80%) C# .NET Developer
12 4 (5.80%) iOS Android Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (100.00%) .NET
1 69 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 35 (50.72%) HTML
3 34 (49.28%) CSS
3 34 (49.28%) React
4 26 (37.68%) .NET Core
5 18 (26.09%) Vue
6 15 (21.74%) REST
6 15 (21.74%) XML
7 13 (18.84%) Web Services
8 12 (17.39%) AngularJS
8 12 (17.39%) ASP.NET Web API
9 10 (14.49%) Node.js
10 9 (13.04%) .NET Framework
10 9 (13.04%) Redux
11 8 (11.59%) Middleware
11 8 (11.59%) RabbitMQ
11 8 (11.59%) RESTful
11 8 (11.59%) SignalR
12 5 (7.25%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.04%) Derivative
1 9 (13.04%) Equities
1 9 (13.04%) Fixed Income
1 9 (13.04%) Hedge funds
1 9 (13.04%) Product Ownership
2 8 (11.59%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (10.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (5.80%) Mobile Payment
5 2 (2.90%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.90%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.45%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.80%) Android
1 4 (5.80%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (55.07%) Agile
2 35 (50.72%) DevOps
3 26 (37.68%) Full Stack Development
4 23 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 20 (28.99%) OO
6 19 (27.54%) MVC
6 19 (27.54%) Scrum
6 19 (27.54%) Software Engineering
7 15 (21.74%) Asset Management
7 15 (21.74%) B2C
8 14 (20.29%) Design Patterns
9 12 (17.39%) MVVM
9 12 (17.39%) OOP
9 12 (17.39%) SOLID
9 12 (17.39%) TDD
9 12 (17.39%) Web Development
10 11 (15.94%) Microservices
11 10 (14.49%) Responsive Web Design
11 10 (14.49%) Test Automation
12 9 (13.04%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 67 (97.10%) C#
2 42 (60.87%) JavaScript
3 27 (39.13%) TypeScript
4 23 (33.33%) PowerShell
5 19 (27.54%) SQL
6 15 (21.74%) Bicep
7 3 (4.35%) Python
8 2 (2.90%) C
Qualifications
1 6 (8.70%) Degree
2 5 (7.25%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (7.25%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.90%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.45%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.45%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.14%) QA
2 1 (1.45%) Accessibility
System Software
1 15 (21.74%) Active Directory
2 9 (13.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (10.14%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (4.35%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (31.88%) Microsoft
2 8 (11.59%) TIBCO
3 6 (8.70%) Oracle
4 1 (1.45%) Optimizely
4 1 (1.45%) Sitecore
4 1 (1.45%) Xamarin