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 9 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 520 435 479
Rank change year-on-year -85 +44 -97
Contract jobs citing ASP.NET Web API 28 45 70
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.084% 0.17% 0.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.39% 0.77% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 33 56
10th Percentile £335 £370 £319
25th Percentile £409 £463 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £562 £571
Median % change year-on-year -13.18% -1.71% -12.12%
75th Percentile £600 £573 £705
90th Percentile £613 £600 £719
UK median daily rate £494 £525 £517
% change year-on-year -5.95% +1.55% -20.46%

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 7,262 5,823 7,820
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.82% 22.38% 20.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,871 3,732 5,612
10th Percentile £358 £363 £355
25th Percentile £415 £430 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £663
90th Percentile £738 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £513 £538 £535
% change year-on-year -4.65% +0.47% -6.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 75 182
10th Percentile £34.40 £26.35 £25.85
25th Percentile £50.00 £47.38 £45.96
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £69.13 £66.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.60 £76.26 £77.40
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +2.40% +13.64% -15.38%

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 9 February 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 9 February 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 -37 21 £488 -16.60% 21
South East -29 2 £538 +7.50% 17
South West - 2 £550 - 5
West Midlands -60 1 £463 -18.43% 3
Midlands -64 1 £463 -17.63% 7
East of England - 1 £475 - 4
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 (7.14%) Confluence
2 1 (3.57%) CMS
2 1 (3.57%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 10 (35.71%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (57.14%) Azure
2 10 (35.71%) Dynamics 365
3 9 (32.14%) Power Automate
3 9 (32.14%) Serverless
4 8 (28.57%) Azure Functions
4 8 (28.57%) Azure Service Bus
5 7 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 7 (25.00%) Power Platform
6 6 (21.43%) PowerApps
7 3 (10.71%) AWS
8 1 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
8 1 (3.57%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (3.57%) Figma
8 1 (3.57%) IaaS
8 1 (3.57%) PaaS
8 1 (3.57%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.29%) DNS
2 3 (10.71%) DHCP
2 3 (10.71%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.57%) Kerberos
3 1 (3.57%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (3.57%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (21.43%) Relational Database
3 3 (10.71%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (7.14%) MongoDB
4 2 (7.14%) NoSQL
4 2 (7.14%) Redis
4 2 (7.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (3.57%) DataStage
5 1 (3.57%) Oracle Database
5 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.14%) Git
3 1 (3.57%) GitLab
3 1 (3.57%) MSTest
3 1 (3.57%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (3.57%) Postman
General
1 11 (39.29%) Public Sector
2 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 5 (17.86%) Banking
4 4 (14.29%) Finance
5 3 (10.71%) Marketing
6 1 (3.57%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 22 (78.57%) Developer
2 9 (32.14%) .NET Developer
3 8 (28.57%) C# Developer
4 5 (17.86%) C# .NET Developer
4 5 (17.86%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Full-Stack C# Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Senior
5 3 (10.71%) Senior Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Applications Developer
6 2 (7.14%) CRM Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Web Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Software Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Web Developer
7 1 (3.57%) C# Web Application Developer
7 1 (3.57%) DataStage ETL Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Dynamics 365 Architect
7 1 (3.57%) Dynamics 365 CRM Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Power Apps Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (96.43%) .NET
2 10 (35.71%) .NET Framework
3 9 (32.14%) ASP.NET
4 7 (25.00%) .NET Core
4 7 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
4 7 (25.00%) RESTful
5 6 (21.43%) AngularJS
6 5 (17.86%) WPF
7 4 (14.29%) React
7 4 (14.29%) WCF
7 4 (14.29%) Web Services
8 3 (10.71%) Bootstrap
8 3 (10.71%) CSS
8 3 (10.71%) Entity Framework
8 3 (10.71%) Express.js
8 3 (10.71%) HTML
8 3 (10.71%) Middleware
8 3 (10.71%) SOAP
9 2 (7.14%) CSS3
9 2 (7.14%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) AI Agents
1 3 (10.71%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (10.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.57%) Derivative
3 1 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.57%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (28.57%) Windows
2 4 (14.29%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (46.43%) DevOps
2 11 (39.29%) Agile
2 11 (39.29%) MVC
3 10 (35.71%) CRM
4 9 (32.14%) CI/CD
5 8 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
5 8 (28.57%) Scrum
6 5 (17.86%) API Development
6 5 (17.86%) TDD
7 4 (14.29%) API Integration
7 4 (14.29%) Computer Science
8 3 (10.71%) AI
8 3 (10.71%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (10.71%) ERP
8 3 (10.71%) Information Assurance
8 3 (10.71%) MVVM
8 3 (10.71%) Project Management
8 3 (10.71%) SOA
8 3 (10.71%) Software Engineering
8 3 (10.71%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 27 (96.43%) C#
2 13 (46.43%) JavaScript
3 9 (32.14%) SQL
4 6 (21.43%) TypeScript
5 5 (17.86%) T-SQL
6 3 (10.71%) Python
7 2 (7.14%) PL/SQL
7 2 (7.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 4 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (14.29%) Degree
3 3 (10.71%) DV Cleared
3 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) QA
1 1 (3.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 4 (14.29%) Docker
2 3 (10.71%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.57%) Ansible
2 1 (3.57%) Nagios
2 1 (3.57%) Progress Chef
2 1 (3.57%) Puppet
2 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (39.29%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.71%) Atlassian
2 3 (10.71%) Oracle
2 3 (10.71%) VMware
3 1 (3.57%) Databricks
3 1 (3.57%) SaltStack