ASP.NET Web API Contract Job Trends in England

Microsoft ASP.NET Web API
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring ASP.NET Web API skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 585 454 487
Rank change year-on-year -131 +33 -16
Contract jobs citing ASP.NET Web API 43 64 46
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.095% 0.23% 0.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.50% 1.04% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 56 37
10th Percentile £353 £314 £358
25th Percentile £488 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £460
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +8.70% -20.31%
75th Percentile £663 £600 £625
90th Percentile £750 £813 £793
UK median daily rate £530 £500 £460
% change year-on-year +6.00% +8.70% -18.22%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

ASP.NET Web API 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 in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,530 6,125 7,440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.86% 22.21% 21.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,592 4,224 5,184
10th Percentile £363 £350 £360
25th Percentile £430 £413 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.16% -5.64% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £809
UK median daily rate £525 £505 £550
% change year-on-year +3.96% -8.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 139 235
10th Percentile £29.54 £31.25 £24.00
25th Percentile £50.88 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.20 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +18.18% +4.76% -16.00%

ASP.NET Web API
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ASP.NET Web API relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

ASP.NET Web API job vacancy trend in England

ASP.NET Web API
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing ASP.NET Web API.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing ASP.NET Web API

ASP.NET Web API
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ASP.NET Web API in England over the 6 months to 26 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ASP.NET Web API in England

ASP.NET Web API
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing ASP.NET Web API.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing ASP.NET Web API

ASP.NET Web API
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 26 July 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
London -92 19 £650 +11.21% 13
South East -70 12 £500 +5.26% 6
Midlands -50 5 £425 +8.28% 5
West Midlands -53 3 £400 +49.81% 2
South West -35 2 £600 +52.87%
East Midlands -14 1 £650 +33.33% 3
East of England -25 1 £550 +10.00% 1
Yorkshire -52 1 £525 +10.53% 3
North of England -85 1 £525 +27.27% 5
ASP.NET Web API
UK

ASP.NET Web API
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 3 (6.98%) IIS
2 2 (4.65%) CMS
2 2 (4.65%) Umbraco
3 1 (2.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (9.30%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 27 (62.79%) Azure
2 10 (23.26%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (18.60%) Dynamics 365
4 7 (16.28%) AWS
4 7 (16.28%) Power Platform
4 7 (16.28%) PowerApps
5 6 (13.95%) Azure Service Bus
6 5 (11.63%) Azure Functions
6 5 (11.63%) Serverless
7 4 (9.30%) Azure AKS
7 4 (9.30%) Power Automate
8 3 (6.98%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (4.65%) Azure API Management
9 2 (4.65%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (4.65%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (4.65%) PaaS
10 1 (2.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 1 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (2.33%) Azure Event Grid
10 1 (2.33%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.65%) 3GPP
1 2 (4.65%) HTTP
1 2 (4.65%) RTCP
1 2 (4.65%) RTP
1 2 (4.65%) XCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (37.21%) SQL Server
2 4 (9.30%) DocumentDB
3 3 (6.98%) MongoDB
3 3 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (6.98%) Redis
3 3 (6.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (4.65%) ClickHouse
4 2 (4.65%) Db2
4 2 (4.65%) NoSQL
4 2 (4.65%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.33%) MS Access
5 1 (2.33%) MySQL
5 1 (2.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (20.93%) Git
2 5 (11.63%) NUnit
3 2 (4.65%) Bitbucket
3 2 (4.65%) Cucumber
3 2 (4.65%) Moq
3 2 (4.65%) MSTest
3 2 (4.65%) SpecFlow
3 2 (4.65%) TeamCity
3 2 (4.65%) Vite
4 1 (2.33%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.33%) Postman
4 1 (2.33%) Serilog
4 1 (2.33%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (2.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 16 (37.21%) Social Skills
2 8 (18.60%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (13.95%) Finance
4 3 (6.98%) Front Office
4 3 (6.98%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.65%) Banking
5 2 (4.65%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.65%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.33%) Automotive
6 1 (2.33%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 25 (58.14%) Developer
2 16 (37.21%) .NET Developer
3 7 (16.28%) Architect
4 6 (13.95%) C# .NET Developer
4 6 (13.95%) C# Developer
5 5 (11.63%) Senior
5 5 (11.63%) Senior Developer
6 4 (9.30%) Dynamics 365 Architect
6 4 (9.30%) Lead
7 3 (6.98%) React Developer
7 3 (6.98%) Senior .NET Developer
7 3 (6.98%) Software Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) .NET Software Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) CRM Architect
8 2 (4.65%) Lead Developer
8 2 (4.65%) Python Developer
8 2 (4.65%) Scrum Master
8 2 (4.65%) Senior UI Developer
8 2 (4.65%) Technical Leader
8 2 (4.65%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (90.70%) .NET
2 24 (55.81%) ASP.NET
3 21 (48.84%) .NET Framework
4 15 (34.88%) .NET Core
4 15 (34.88%) Entity Framework
5 12 (27.91%) REST
6 11 (25.58%) React
7 9 (20.93%) AngularJS
8 8 (18.60%) HTML
8 8 (18.60%) WCF
9 7 (16.28%) ASP.NET MVC
9 7 (16.28%) CSS
10 6 (13.95%) ASP.NET Web Forms
10 6 (13.95%) NHibernate
10 6 (13.95%) OAuth
10 6 (13.95%) OAuth2
10 6 (13.95%) XML
11 4 (9.30%) Dapper ORM
11 4 (9.30%) HTML5 Canvas
11 4 (9.30%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.28%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (9.30%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.65%) AI Agents
3 2 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.65%) Media Streaming
4 1 (2.33%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.33%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.33%) Grid Computing
4 1 (2.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.98%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (53.49%) DevOps
2 22 (51.16%) CI/CD
3 19 (44.19%) Agile
4 14 (32.56%) SOLID
5 13 (30.23%) MVC
6 12 (27.91%) Software Engineering
7 10 (23.26%) TDD
8 9 (20.93%) Clean Code
8 9 (20.93%) Scrum
9 8 (18.60%) CRM
10 7 (16.28%) Full-Stack Development
11 6 (13.95%) API Design
11 6 (13.95%) API Development
11 6 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (13.95%) Unit Testing
12 5 (11.63%) Continuous Improvement
12 5 (11.63%) Design Patterns
12 5 (11.63%) Infrastructure as Code
12 5 (11.63%) User Experience
13 4 (9.30%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 36 (83.72%) C#
2 22 (51.16%) SQL
3 20 (46.51%) JavaScript
4 14 (32.56%) TypeScript
5 3 (6.98%) PowerShell
5 3 (6.98%) T-SQL
6 2 (4.65%) Python
7 1 (2.33%) Bicep
7 1 (2.33%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.33%) VB.NET
7 1 (2.33%) VBA
7 1 (2.33%) VBScript
7 1 (2.33%) XPath
Qualifications
1 9 (20.93%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.63%) Degree
3 4 (9.30%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (9.30%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.65%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.65%) Accessibility
1 2 (4.65%) QA
1 2 (4.65%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (27.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (23.26%) Kubernetes
1 10 (23.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (25.58%) Microsoft
2 7 (16.28%) Oracle
3 3 (6.98%) IBM
4 1 (2.33%) Genesys
4 1 (2.33%) Telerik