ASP.NET Web API Contracts

Microsoft ASP.NET Web API
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for ASP.NET Web API skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited ASP.NET Web API over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 541 448 416
Rank change year-on-year -93 -32 -27
Contract jobs citing ASP.NET Web API 59 280 547
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.47% 0.62%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.66% 2.04% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 226 435
10th Percentile £350 £406 £386
25th Percentile £375 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £590 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.37% +7.27% +18.28%
75th Percentile £719 £750 £688
90th Percentile £778 £794 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -25.00% +5.26% +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 10
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.67
Median hourly rate - - £49.00
75th Percentile - - £49.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £49.00
% change year-on-year - - +44.12%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

ASP.NET Web API 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 8,883 13,734 24,019
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.58% 23.25% 27.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,169 10,016 17,623
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 152 239
10th Percentile £21.25 £31.18 £22.40
25th Percentile £40.08 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.84 £65.00 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year -27.94% +30.65% +10.56%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.61 £81.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £63.25 £49.25
% change year-on-year -24.90% +28.43% +9.44%

ASP.NET Web API
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for ASP.NET Web API in the UK

ASP.NET Web API
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for ASP.NET Web API in the UK

ASP.NET Web API
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ASP.NET Web API over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ASP.NET Web API in the UK

ASP.NET Web API
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for ASP.NET Web API in the UK

ASP.NET Web API
Top 15 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 Web API within the UK over the 6 months to 5 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 -36 49 £568 -5.42% 200
London +14 33 £650 -10.34% 64
Work from Home -5 22 £400 -33.33% 170
UK excluding London -13 17 £375 -25.00% 153
North of England +17 6 £388 -21.52% 52
South West +22 3 £635 +27.00% 14
North West +10 3 £400 -20.00% 24
Scotland +34 2 £400 -20.00% 10
Yorkshire +21 2 £375 -23.08% 21
East of England +17 2 £350 -37.78% 12
South East +12 2 £521 +11.20% 25
Midlands +11 2 £169 -60.16% 31
West Midlands +14 1 £150 -67.57% 21
East Midlands +11 1 £189 -55.62% 10
North East - 1 £375 - 8

ASP.NET Web API
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 (5.08%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.69%) Confluence
2 1 (1.69%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (1.69%) PlantUML
Cloud Services
1 23 (38.98%) Azure
2 13 (22.03%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (11.86%) AWS
4 5 (8.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 5 (8.47%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (6.78%) Azure Key Vault
5 4 (6.78%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (5.08%) PaaS
6 3 (5.08%) Power Platform
6 3 (5.08%) PowerApps
6 3 (5.08%) SaaS
6 3 (5.08%) Serverless
7 1 (1.69%) Apigee
7 1 (1.69%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.69%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.69%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.69%) Azure Storage
7 1 (1.69%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.69%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.69%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (35.59%) SQL Server
2 12 (20.34%) NoSQL
3 5 (8.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (8.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (6.78%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (5.08%) MongoDB
6 2 (3.39%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.69%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.69%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 20 (33.90%) TeamCity
2 18 (30.51%) Git
2 18 (30.51%) NUnit
3 12 (20.34%) Cucumber
3 12 (20.34%) Moq
4 6 (10.17%) Visual Studio
5 5 (8.47%) MSI
5 5 (8.47%) Octopus Deploy
5 5 (8.47%) WiX
6 3 (5.08%) JIRA
6 3 (5.08%) Selenium
6 3 (5.08%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (3.39%) Bitbucket
7 2 (3.39%) GitLab
8 1 (1.69%) GoCD
8 1 (1.69%) MSTest
General
1 15 (25.42%) Social Skills
2 12 (20.34%) Finance
2 12 (20.34%) Front Office
3 8 (13.56%) Banking
4 1 (1.69%) Back Office
4 1 (1.69%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 46 (77.97%) Developer
2 20 (33.90%) C# Developer
3 18 (30.51%) .NET Developer
4 11 (18.64%) Senior
5 7 (11.86%) Senior Developer
6 6 (10.17%) Software Engineer
7 4 (6.78%) Angular Developer
7 4 (6.78%) Architect
7 4 (6.78%) Azure Developer
8 3 (5.08%) Azure Architect
8 3 (5.08%) Power Platform Developer
8 3 (5.08%) Senior Software Engineer
8 3 (5.08%) SSIS Developer
8 3 (5.08%) SSRS Developer
9 2 (3.39%) Applications Developer
9 2 (3.39%) Front Office Developer
9 2 (3.39%) Senior C# Developer
9 2 (3.39%) Software Developer
9 2 (3.39%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (3.39%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (100.00%) .NET
2 30 (50.85%) ASP.NET
3 28 (47.46%) .NET Core
4 24 (40.68%) Entity Framework
5 23 (38.98%) .NET Framework
6 14 (23.73%) ASP.NET Core
6 14 (23.73%) CSS
7 13 (22.03%) JSON
7 13 (22.03%) RESTful
8 12 (20.34%) HTML
8 12 (20.34%) jQuery
8 12 (20.34%) Middleware
8 12 (20.34%) RabbitMQ
8 12 (20.34%) REST
8 12 (20.34%) SignalR
9 11 (18.64%) AngularJS
10 9 (15.25%) WCF
11 8 (13.56%) React
12 7 (11.86%) NHibernate
12 7 (11.86%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (22.03%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (8.47%) Client/Server
2 5 (8.47%) Web 2.0
3 3 (5.08%) N-Tier
4 2 (3.39%) Fixed Income
4 2 (3.39%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.69%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.69%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.69%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (40.68%) Continuous Integration
1 24 (40.68%) Microservices
2 20 (33.90%) Agile
3 19 (32.20%) MVC
4 17 (28.81%) CI/CD
4 17 (28.81%) DevOps
5 16 (27.12%) Test Automation
6 15 (25.42%) OO
7 13 (22.03%) Containerisation
7 13 (22.03%) Continuous Delivery
7 13 (22.03%) Design Patterns
8 12 (20.34%) Asynchronous Programming
8 12 (20.34%) Electronic Trading
8 12 (20.34%) Multithreading
9 11 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (16.95%) Software Delivery
10 10 (16.95%) Software Engineering
10 10 (16.95%) Unit Testing
11 7 (11.86%) Performance Tuning
12 5 (8.47%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 54 (91.53%) C#
2 32 (54.24%) SQL
3 24 (40.68%) JavaScript
4 5 (8.47%) PL/SQL
4 5 (8.47%) PowerShell
4 5 (8.47%) T-SQL
5 3 (5.08%) Python
5 3 (5.08%) TypeScript
6 2 (3.39%) C
6 2 (3.39%) VB.NET
7 1 (1.69%) Bicep
7 1 (1.69%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (11.86%) Degree
2 2 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (3.39%) DV Cleared
2 2 (3.39%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 14 (23.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (6.78%) Terraform
2 2 (3.39%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (20.34%) TIBCO
2 9 (15.25%) Oracle
3 6 (10.17%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.08%) SAP
5 1 (1.69%) IBM
5 1 (1.69%) Nintex