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 24 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 556 417 490
Rank change year-on-year -139 +73 -41
Contract jobs citing ASP.NET Web API 36 56 47
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.087% 0.23% 0.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.45% 1.04% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 50 40
10th Percentile £369 £404 £350
25th Percentile £467 £463 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £521
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +3.17% -11.09%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £719
90th Percentile £750 £813 £789
UK median daily rate £540 £500 £488
% change year-on-year +7.90% +2.56% -16.81%

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 8,000 5,362 7,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.25% 22.35% 20.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,287 3,713 5,354
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.79%
75th Percentile £626 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £798 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 96 235
10th Percentile £30.61 £28.29 £22.50
25th Percentile £51.25 £41.01 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £66.25
90th Percentile £77.50 £81.18 £74.80
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%

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 24 May 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 24 May 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 -83 19 £575 -4.17% 23
South East -58 7 £378 -20.53% 16
Midlands -70 5 £456 -6.41% 8
West Midlands -61 3 £450 +100.89% 3
South West -29 2 £600 +52.87% 2
East Midlands -30 1 £650 +30.00% 5
Yorkshire -58 1 £525 - 4
North of England -78 1 £525 +27.27% 18
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 2 (5.56%) CMS
1 2 (5.56%) IIS
1 2 (5.56%) Umbraco
2 1 (2.78%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 7 (19.44%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 22 (61.11%) Azure
2 9 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 9 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
3 7 (19.44%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (19.44%) Azure Logic Apps
4 6 (16.67%) AWS
4 6 (16.67%) Azure Functions
4 6 (16.67%) Power Automate
4 6 (16.67%) Serverless
5 5 (13.89%) Power Platform
6 4 (11.11%) PowerApps
7 2 (5.56%) Azure AKS
7 2 (5.56%) Azure API Management
7 2 (5.56%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (5.56%) PaaS
8 1 (2.78%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (2.78%) Azure Event Grid
8 1 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (2.78%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.56%) 3GPP
1 2 (5.56%) HTTP
1 2 (5.56%) RTCP
1 2 (5.56%) RTP
1 2 (5.56%) XCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (38.89%) SQL Server
2 5 (13.89%) Relational Database
3 4 (11.11%) MongoDB
4 3 (8.33%) DocumentDB
5 2 (5.56%) ClickHouse
5 2 (5.56%) NoSQL
5 2 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (5.56%) Redis
5 2 (5.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (5.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 6 (16.67%) Git
2 5 (13.89%) NUnit
3 2 (5.56%) Bitbucket
3 2 (5.56%) Cucumber
3 2 (5.56%) Moq
3 2 (5.56%) SpecFlow
3 2 (5.56%) TeamCity
3 2 (5.56%) Vite
4 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.78%) MSTest
4 1 (2.78%) Postman
4 1 (2.78%) Serilog
General
1 9 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 5 (13.89%) Finance
4 4 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (8.33%) Front Office
6 2 (5.56%) Banking
6 2 (5.56%) Investment Banking
6 2 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.78%) Automotive
7 1 (2.78%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 23 (63.89%) Developer
2 14 (38.89%) .NET Developer
3 6 (16.67%) Senior
3 6 (16.67%) Senior Developer
4 5 (13.89%) Architect
4 5 (13.89%) C# .NET Developer
4 5 (13.89%) C# Developer
5 3 (8.33%) Dynamics 365 Architect
5 3 (8.33%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 3 (8.33%) React Developer
5 3 (8.33%) Senior .NET Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Azure Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Python Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Senior React Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Senior UI Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Software Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) UI Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (94.44%) .NET
2 19 (52.78%) ASP.NET
3 16 (44.44%) .NET Framework
4 11 (30.56%) .NET Core
5 9 (25.00%) Entity Framework
6 7 (19.44%) React
6 7 (19.44%) REST
6 7 (19.44%) RESTful
7 6 (16.67%) AngularJS
8 5 (13.89%) ASP.NET MVC
8 5 (13.89%) CSS
8 5 (13.89%) HTML
8 5 (13.89%) OAuth
8 5 (13.89%) OAuth2
8 5 (13.89%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (13.89%) WCF
9 4 (11.11%) ASP.NET Web Forms
9 4 (11.11%) SignalR
9 4 (11.11%) XML
10 3 (8.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.33%) AI Agents
1 3 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (5.56%) Media Streaming
2 2 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.78%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (50.00%) DevOps
2 17 (47.22%) CI/CD
3 14 (38.89%) Agile
4 12 (33.33%) SOLID
5 9 (25.00%) CRM
6 8 (22.22%) Clean Code
6 8 (22.22%) MVC
6 8 (22.22%) Scrum
6 8 (22.22%) TDD
7 7 (19.44%) Software Engineering
8 6 (16.67%) API Development
8 6 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
8 6 (16.67%) Unit Testing
9 5 (13.89%) Design Patterns
10 4 (11.11%) API Management
10 4 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
10 4 (11.11%) Mentoring
10 4 (11.11%) OOP
11 3 (8.33%) AI
11 3 (8.33%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 31 (86.11%) C#
2 16 (44.44%) JavaScript
3 14 (38.89%) SQL
3 14 (38.89%) TypeScript
4 3 (8.33%) PowerShell
4 3 (8.33%) Python
5 1 (2.78%) Bicep
5 1 (2.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.11%) Degree
3 3 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.56%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.78%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.78%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) QA
1 2 (5.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (22.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (19.44%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.89%) Oracle