ASP.NET Web API Contracts

Microsoft ASP.NET Web API
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring ASP.NET Web API skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ASP.NET Web API over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 454 539 436
Rank change year-on-year +85 -103 -24
Contract jobs citing ASP.NET Web API 65 61 288
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.14% 0.48%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.98% 0.68% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 50 235
10th Percentile £350 £350 £406
25th Percentile £458 £375 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £521 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.77% -13.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £719 £750
90th Percentile £813 £776 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £444 £375 £500
% change year-on-year +18.33% -25.00% +5.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £29.25 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.25 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,629 8,962 13,891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.67% 20.56% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,551 6,219 10,140
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £769 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 231 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £75.00 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

ASP.NET Web API
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing ASP.NET Web API as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for ASP.NET Web API in the UK

ASP.NET Web API
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ASP.NET Web API.

Daily rate trend for ASP.NET Web API in the UK

ASP.NET Web API
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ASP.NET Web API over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ASP.NET Web API in the UK

ASP.NET Web API
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ASP.NET Web API.

Hourly rate trend for ASP.NET Web API in the UK

ASP.NET Web API
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 30 April 2025. 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
England +67 55 £554 -5.10% 120
London +43 42 £600 -11.11% 37
UK excluding London +55 19 £444 +18.33% 92
Work from Home +44 16 £488 +21.88% 103
South East +49 8 £475 -8.87% 21
Midlands +27 5 £488 +187.93% 17
East Midlands +12 3 £500 +165.08% 7
Scotland +10 3 £438 +9.38% 6
Wales - 3 £164 - 2
West Midlands +17 2 £224 +49.33% 10
North of England +22 1 £413 +6.45% 33
North West +9 1 £413 +3.13% 19

ASP.NET Web API
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.54%) IIS
1 1 (1.54%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 16 (24.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.54%) FastStats
Cloud Services
1 39 (60.00%) Azure
2 21 (32.31%) Dynamics 365
2 21 (32.31%) Power Platform
3 18 (27.69%) PowerApps
4 14 (21.54%) Power Automate
5 11 (16.92%) Azure Logic Apps
6 10 (15.38%) AWS
6 10 (15.38%) Azure Service Bus
6 10 (15.38%) Serverless
7 7 (10.77%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (10.77%) Azure Functions
8 5 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (7.69%) SaaS
9 4 (6.15%) Entra ID
10 3 (4.62%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (4.62%) GCP
11 2 (3.08%) Azure API Management
12 1 (1.54%) GitHub
12 1 (1.54%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.54%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (49.23%) SQL Server
2 15 (23.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 6 (9.23%) Relational Database
4 4 (6.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (4.62%) ClickHouse
5 3 (4.62%) Power BI
6 2 (3.08%) DocumentDB
6 2 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 17 (26.15%) Git
2 10 (15.38%) TeamCity
3 9 (13.85%) Bitbucket
4 4 (6.15%) NUnit
5 3 (4.62%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (1.54%) JIRA
6 1 (1.54%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (1.54%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.54%) tSQLt
General
1 14 (21.54%) Banking
1 14 (21.54%) Social Skills
2 12 (18.46%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (18.46%) Investment Banking
3 10 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 9 (13.85%) Finance
5 8 (12.31%) Front Office
5 8 (12.31%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.08%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.54%) Law
7 1 (1.54%) Local Government
7 1 (1.54%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 41 (63.08%) Developer
2 18 (27.69%) .NET Developer
3 12 (18.46%) Senior
4 10 (15.38%) C# Developer
5 9 (13.85%) Architect
5 9 (13.85%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 7 (10.77%) CRM Architect
6 7 (10.77%) Senior Developer
7 5 (7.69%) C# .NET Developer
7 5 (7.69%) Data Engineer
7 5 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (7.69%) Lead
7 5 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
7 5 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (6.15%) CRM Solutions Architect
8 4 (6.15%) Dynamics CRM Architect
8 4 (6.15%) Power Platform Developer
8 4 (6.15%) Senior C# Developer
8 4 (6.15%) Software Developer
9 3 (4.62%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (100.00%) .NET
2 35 (53.85%) .NET Framework
3 26 (40.00%) HTML
4 24 (36.92%) ASP.NET
5 23 (35.38%) CSS
6 21 (32.31%) WCF
7 16 (24.62%) .NET Core
7 16 (24.62%) REST
8 15 (23.08%) Entity Framework
8 15 (23.08%) JSON
9 14 (21.54%) React
9 14 (21.54%) XML
10 13 (20.00%) AngularJS
10 13 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
10 13 (20.00%) HTML5 Canvas
11 11 (16.92%) HTML5
12 9 (13.85%) Node.js
12 9 (13.85%) Web Services
13 8 (12.31%) LESS
13 8 (12.31%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (9.23%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (7.69%) N-Tier
4 3 (4.62%) NHS
4 3 (4.62%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.08%) Mobile App
5 2 (3.08%) Wiki
6 1 (1.54%) Clustering
6 1 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.54%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.54%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.54%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.54%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.54%) Replication
6 1 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (15.38%) Windows
2 1 (1.54%) Unix
2 1 (1.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (44.62%) DevOps
2 27 (41.54%) Scrum
3 24 (36.92%) Agile
4 21 (32.31%) CRM
4 21 (32.31%) MVC
5 17 (26.15%) Full-Stack Development
5 17 (26.15%) Web Development
6 15 (23.08%) OOP
7 13 (20.00%) TDD
8 12 (18.46%) CI/CD
9 11 (16.92%) Microservices
9 11 (16.92%) Software Engineering
9 11 (16.92%) Unit Testing
10 9 (13.85%) OO
10 9 (13.85%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (13.85%) SOA
11 8 (12.31%) Clean Code
11 8 (12.31%) Refactoring
12 7 (10.77%) API Development
12 7 (10.77%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 63 (96.92%) C#
2 39 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 36 (55.38%) SQL
4 21 (32.31%) TypeScript
5 6 (9.23%) C++
5 6 (9.23%) Java
5 6 (9.23%) T-SQL
6 3 (4.62%) Python
7 2 (3.08%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (16.92%) Degree
2 10 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (7.69%) MCPD
3 5 (7.69%) MCSD
4 1 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.54%) MCAD
4 1 (1.54%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.62%) Accessibility
1 3 (4.62%) QA
2 2 (3.08%) HL7
3 1 (1.54%) SEPA
System Software
1 6 (9.23%) Docker
2 4 (6.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (10.77%) Terraform
2 5 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 27 (41.54%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.08%) Databricks
3 1 (1.54%) Cognizant
3 1 (1.54%) RedGate
3 1 (1.54%) Siemens