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 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 546 431 496
Rank change year-on-year -115 +65 -76
Contract jobs citing ASP.NET Web API 36 51 54
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.092% 0.21% 0.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.45% 0.93% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 45 45
10th Percentile £383 £415 £350
25th Percentile £463 £463 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year - -3.08% -7.35%
75th Percentile £614 £600 £719
90th Percentile £768 £808 £760
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +10.00% +5.26% -20.83%

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 8,053 5,484 7,472
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.53% 22.52% 19.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,391 3,807 5,369
10th Percentile £358 £367 £350
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% -2.55% -3.51%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £799 £775
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 87 163
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.34 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.50 £35.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £63.36
90th Percentile £78.88 £83.38 £73.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.84
% change year-on-year - +38.77% -27.94%

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 10 April 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 10 April 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 -77 25 £550 -8.33% 23
West Midlands -62 3 £450 +100.89% 8
Midlands -66 3 £450 -7.69% 13
South West - 3 £600 - 7
South East -55 2 £478 +0.63% 17
North of England -78 1 £525 +15.07% 20
East of England - 1 £475 - 4
Yorkshire - 1 £525 - 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 2 (5.56%) IIS
2 1 (2.78%) CMS
2 1 (2.78%) Confluence
2 1 (2.78%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 9 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 19 (52.78%) Azure
2 10 (27.78%) Azure DevOps
2 10 (27.78%) Azure Service Bus
2 10 (27.78%) Serverless
3 9 (25.00%) Azure Functions
3 9 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
4 8 (22.22%) Power Automate
5 7 (19.44%) Azure Logic Apps
6 5 (13.89%) Power Platform
7 4 (11.11%) PowerApps
8 3 (8.33%) AWS
9 2 (5.56%) Azure AKS
9 2 (5.56%) Azure API Management
9 2 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (5.56%) PaaS
10 1 (2.78%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 1 (2.78%) AWS Fargate
10 1 (2.78%) Azure Event Grid
10 1 (2.78%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (2.78%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.33%) DNS
2 2 (5.56%) 3GPP
2 2 (5.56%) DHCP
2 2 (5.56%) HTTP
2 2 (5.56%) RTCP
2 2 (5.56%) RTP
2 2 (5.56%) TCP/IP
2 2 (5.56%) XCAP
3 1 (2.78%) Kerberos
3 1 (2.78%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (2.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (41.67%) SQL Server
2 5 (13.89%) Relational Database
3 4 (11.11%) MongoDB
4 2 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (5.56%) ClickHouse
4 2 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (5.56%) Redis
4 2 (5.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (2.78%) DataStage
5 1 (2.78%) DocumentDB
5 1 (2.78%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Git
2 2 (5.56%) Bitbucket
2 2 (5.56%) Cucumber
2 2 (5.56%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.56%) NUnit
2 2 (5.56%) SpecFlow
2 2 (5.56%) TeamCity
2 2 (5.56%) Vite
3 1 (2.78%) GitLab
3 1 (2.78%) Moq
3 1 (2.78%) MSTest
3 1 (2.78%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (2.78%) Postman
3 1 (2.78%) Serilog
General
1 10 (27.78%) Public Sector
2 7 (19.44%) Social Skills
3 5 (13.89%) Banking
3 5 (13.89%) Finance
4 3 (8.33%) Front Office
5 2 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.56%) Investment Banking
5 2 (5.56%) Marketing
5 2 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (69.44%) Developer
2 12 (33.33%) .NET Developer
3 6 (16.67%) C# Developer
3 6 (16.67%) Senior
3 6 (16.67%) Senior Developer
4 5 (13.89%) C# .NET Developer
5 4 (11.11%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 3 (8.33%) React Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Architect
7 2 (5.56%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Python Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Scrum Master
7 2 (5.56%) Senior .NET Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Senior React Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Senior UI Developer
7 2 (5.56%) UI Developer
8 1 (2.78%) Azure Architect
8 1 (2.78%) Azure Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) DataStage ETL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (97.22%) .NET
2 15 (41.67%) ASP.NET
3 12 (33.33%) .NET Framework
4 9 (25.00%) .NET Core
5 8 (22.22%) AngularJS
5 8 (22.22%) RESTful
6 6 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
7 5 (13.89%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (13.89%) React
7 5 (13.89%) WCF
8 4 (11.11%) CSS
8 4 (11.11%) Entity Framework
8 4 (11.11%) HTML
8 4 (11.11%) OAuth
8 4 (11.11%) OAuth2
8 4 (11.11%) SignalR
9 3 (8.33%) HTML5
9 3 (8.33%) Kafka
9 3 (8.33%) REST
9 3 (8.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (8.33%) AI Agents
3 2 (5.56%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (5.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (5.56%) Media Streaming
4 1 (2.78%) Grid Computing
4 1 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.78%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.78%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (19.44%) Windows
2 3 (8.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.78%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (47.22%) DevOps
2 14 (38.89%) CI/CD
3 11 (30.56%) Agile
4 9 (25.00%) CRM
4 9 (25.00%) MVC
5 8 (22.22%) API Development
6 7 (19.44%) Scrum
6 7 (19.44%) SOLID
7 6 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
7 6 (16.67%) TDD
8 5 (13.89%) Clean Code
8 5 (13.89%) OOP
9 4 (11.11%) API Integration
9 4 (11.11%) Design Patterns
9 4 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
9 4 (11.11%) SOA
9 4 (11.11%) Software Engineering
9 4 (11.11%) Test Automation
10 3 (8.33%) AI
10 3 (8.33%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 32 (88.89%) C#
2 14 (38.89%) JavaScript
3 12 (33.33%) SQL
4 10 (27.78%) TypeScript
5 4 (11.11%) Python
6 3 (8.33%) PowerShell
6 3 (8.33%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.78%) Bicep
7 1 (2.78%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (30.56%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (8.33%) Degree
4 2 (5.56%) DV Cleared
4 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.78%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.78%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (2.78%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.78%) QA
1 1 (2.78%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (13.89%) Docker
2 3 (8.33%) Active Directory
3 2 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (16.67%) Terraform
2 4 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.78%) Ansible
3 1 (2.78%) Nagios
3 1 (2.78%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.78%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.33%) Oracle
3 2 (5.56%) Atlassian
3 2 (5.56%) VMware
4 1 (2.78%) Databricks
4 1 (2.78%) SaltStack