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 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 574 460 486
Rank change year-on-year -114 +26 -16
Contract jobs citing ASP.NET Web API 42 48 44
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.091% 0.17% 0.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.43% 0.69% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 39 32
10th Percentile £347 £307 £356
25th Percentile £419 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £500 £460
Median % change year-on-year +6.65% +8.70% -18.22%
75th Percentile £656 £622 £588
90th Percentile £750 £813 £673
UK median daily rate £529 £488 £460
% change year-on-year +8.51% +5.98% -16.36%

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 9,825 6,909 8,105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.37% 24.90% 24.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,474 4,744 5,564
10th Percentile £375 £355 £363
25th Percentile £438 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 166 183
10th Percentile £29.44 £31.25 £32.00
25th Percentile £50.00 £42.63 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £54.79 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.15% -12.34% -2.34%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.43 £76.85 £74.49
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +20.37% -12.34% -1.44%

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 30 August 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 30 August 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 -87 19 £558 +6.19% 24
South East -50 12 £500 +5.26% 19
Midlands -48 4 £463 +73.22% 10
South West -41 2 £600 +52.87% 3
North of England -82 2 £525 +7.69% 21
East Midlands - 2 £650 - 3
East of England -23 1 £550 +10.00% 9
West Midlands -45 1 £275 +3.00% 7
North West -56 1 - - 13
Yorkshire -56 1 £525 +6.22% 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 (7.14%) IIS
2 2 (4.76%) CMS
2 2 (4.76%) Umbraco
3 1 (2.38%) Confluence
3 1 (2.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (19.05%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 30 (71.43%) Azure
2 13 (30.95%) Dynamics 365
3 12 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (26.19%) Power Platform
5 10 (23.81%) PowerApps
6 7 (16.67%) AWS
6 7 (16.67%) Azure Functions
6 7 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
6 7 (16.67%) Serverless
7 6 (14.29%) Power Automate
8 5 (11.90%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (9.52%) Azure AKS
9 4 (9.52%) Azure API Management
10 3 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (4.76%) Azure Event Grid
11 2 (4.76%) Azure Key Vault
11 2 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (4.76%) PaaS
12 1 (2.38%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (35.71%) SQL Server
2 5 (11.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (9.52%) DocumentDB
3 4 (9.52%) MongoDB
4 3 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (7.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (4.76%) ClickHouse
5 2 (4.76%) Db2
5 2 (4.76%) NoSQL
5 2 (4.76%) Redis
6 1 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.38%) MS Access
6 1 (2.38%) MySQL
6 1 (2.38%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.38%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (33.33%) Git
2 4 (9.52%) NUnit
2 4 (9.52%) Visual Studio
3 3 (7.14%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (4.76%) Bitbucket
4 2 (4.76%) Cucumber
4 2 (4.76%) Jenkins
4 2 (4.76%) TeamCity
4 2 (4.76%) Vite
5 1 (2.38%) Claude Code
5 1 (2.38%) GitLab
5 1 (2.38%) Moq
5 1 (2.38%) MSTest
5 1 (2.38%) SpecFlow
5 1 (2.38%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 17 (40.48%) Social Skills
2 10 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (11.90%) Finance
4 4 (9.52%) Marketing
5 3 (7.14%) Front Office
6 2 (4.76%) Banking
6 2 (4.76%) Investment Banking
6 2 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (4.76%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.38%) Automotive
7 1 (2.38%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 26 (61.90%) Developer
2 12 (28.57%) .NET Developer
3 8 (19.05%) Architect
4 6 (14.29%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 5 (11.90%) Dynamics 365 Architect
6 4 (9.52%) C# .NET Developer
6 4 (9.52%) C# Developer
6 4 (9.52%) Lead
6 4 (9.52%) Senior
6 4 (9.52%) Senior Developer
7 3 (7.14%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
7 3 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (4.76%) Azure Architect
8 2 (4.76%) C# Software Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Lead Developer
8 2 (4.76%) React Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Senior .NET Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Senior React Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Technology Architect
8 2 (4.76%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (90.48%) .NET
2 19 (45.24%) .NET Framework
2 19 (45.24%) ASP.NET
3 16 (38.10%) REST
4 14 (33.33%) Entity Framework
5 11 (26.19%) .NET Core
5 11 (26.19%) HTML
5 11 (26.19%) React
6 10 (23.81%) CSS
6 10 (23.81%) Terraform
7 9 (21.43%) AngularJS
8 8 (19.05%) WCF
9 7 (16.67%) HTML5 Canvas
10 6 (14.29%) ASP.NET Web Forms
10 6 (14.29%) JSON
10 6 (14.29%) NHibernate
11 5 (11.90%) OAuth
11 5 (11.90%) XML
12 4 (9.52%) RESTful
12 4 (9.52%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (9.52%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (2.38%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.38%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.38%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.38%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.38%) Grid Computing
4 1 (2.38%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (59.52%) DevOps
2 21 (50.00%) Agile
3 19 (45.24%) CI/CD
4 12 (28.57%) CRM
5 11 (26.19%) MVC
5 11 (26.19%) Scrum
5 11 (26.19%) SOLID
6 9 (21.43%) Clean Code
6 9 (21.43%) Software Engineering
6 9 (21.43%) TDD
7 8 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (16.67%) API Development
9 6 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
10 5 (11.90%) API Design
10 5 (11.90%) API Integration
10 5 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (11.90%) Customer Service
10 5 (11.90%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (11.90%) Web Development
11 4 (9.52%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 35 (83.33%) C#
2 26 (61.90%) JavaScript
2 26 (61.90%) SQL
3 19 (45.24%) TypeScript
4 3 (7.14%) PowerShell
4 3 (7.14%) T-SQL
5 2 (4.76%) Python
6 1 (2.38%) Bicep
6 1 (2.38%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.38%) VB.NET
6 1 (2.38%) VBA
6 1 (2.38%) VBScript
6 1 (2.38%) X++
6 1 (2.38%) XPath
Qualifications
1 12 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 6 (14.29%) Degree
3 4 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.76%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (4.76%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.76%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.76%) Accessibility
1 2 (4.76%) QA
1 2 (4.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (23.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (21.43%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.38%) Ansible
Vendors
1 16 (38.10%) Microsoft
2 6 (14.29%) Oracle
3 3 (7.14%) IBM
4 1 (2.38%) Genesys
4 1 (2.38%) Telerik