ASP.NET Web API Job Trends in the North West

Microsoft ASP.NET Web API
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring ASP.NET Web API skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 242 218 198
Rank change year-on-year -24 -20 -31
Permanent jobs citing ASP.NET Web API 24 18 43
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.19% 0.35% 0.57%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.00% 1.69% 2.92%
Number of salaries quoted 22 18 40
10th Percentile £41,500 £50,000 £47,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £51,563 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -2.04% +22.50%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £78,375 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% -3.85% +1.96%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

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 permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 1,198 1,068 1,474
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 9.25% 20.52% 19.61%
Number of salaries quoted 936 410 827
10th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £44,738
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £79,813 £77,500 £69,800
90th Percentile £93,750 £87,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -6.40%

ASP.NET Web API
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing ASP.NET Web API relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North West.

ASP.NET Web API job vacancy trend in the North West

ASP.NET Web API
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing ASP.NET Web API.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing ASP.NET Web API

ASP.NET Web API
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing ASP.NET Web API in the North West over the 6 months to 30 September 2026.

Salary histogram for ASP.NET Web API in the North West

ASP.NET Web API
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ASP.NET Web API within the North West region over the 6 months to 30 September 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester -53 8 £57,500 -4.17% 7
Lancashire - 8 £55,000 - 2
Cumbria - 6 £47,500 - 1
Cheshire +4 1 £75,000 +42.86%
Merseyside -12 1 £35,000 -39.13% 1
ASP.NET Web API
England

ASP.NET Web API
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 5 (20.83%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 20 (83.33%) Azure
2 10 (41.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 5 (20.83%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (16.67%) AWS
4 4 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (8.33%) GitHub
5 2 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (8.33%) Serverless
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon Bedrock
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
6 1 (4.17%) Anthropic Claude
6 1 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
6 1 (4.17%) Figma
6 1 (4.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) HTTPS
2 2 (8.33%) HTTP
3 1 (4.17%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (54.17%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (29.17%) SQL Server
3 5 (20.83%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (20.83%) MySQL
4 3 (12.50%) MongoDB
4 3 (12.50%) Relational Database
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (4.17%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 6 (25.00%) Git
2 3 (12.50%) GitLab
3 2 (8.33%) JIRA
4 1 (4.17%) Bitbucket
4 1 (4.17%) Claude Code
4 1 (4.17%) NUnit
General
1 7 (29.17%) Retail
2 3 (12.50%) Banking
3 2 (8.33%) Marketing
3 2 (8.33%) Music Industry
4 1 (4.17%) Games
Job Titles
1 23 (95.83%) Developer
2 15 (62.50%) .NET Developer
3 6 (25.00%) Software Developer
4 4 (16.67%) C# Developer
4 4 (16.67%) C# Software Developer
5 3 (12.50%) Senior
5 3 (12.50%) Senior C# Developer
5 3 (12.50%) Senior C# Software Developer
5 3 (12.50%) Senior Developer
5 3 (12.50%) Senior Software Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Junior
6 2 (8.33%) Junior Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Lead
6 2 (8.33%) Lead Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Azure Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Blazor Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Graduate
7 1 (4.17%) Graduate .NET Developer
7 1 (4.17%) JavaScript Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (100.00%) .NET
2 21 (87.50%) ASP.NET
3 20 (83.33%) .NET Core
4 15 (62.50%) ASP.NET Core
5 14 (58.33%) Entity Framework
6 11 (45.83%) LINQ
6 11 (45.83%) Vue
7 10 (41.67%) AngularJS
8 9 (37.50%) RESTful
9 8 (33.33%) .NET Framework
10 7 (29.17%) CSS
10 7 (29.17%) HTML
10 7 (29.17%) Node.js
10 7 (29.17%) React
11 6 (25.00%) Blazor
12 5 (20.83%) ASP.NET MVC
12 5 (20.83%) CSS3
12 5 (20.83%) HTML5
12 5 (20.83%) REST
13 4 (16.67%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Enterprise Software
1 5 (20.83%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 2 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (8.33%) Management Information System
3 2 (8.33%) Marketing Technology
3 2 (8.33%) Online Gambling
3 2 (8.33%) Video\Live Streaming
4 1 (4.17%) IoT
4 1 (4.17%) Legacy Code
4 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.17%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Android
1 1 (4.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (70.83%) Full-Stack Development
2 13 (54.17%) Agile
3 8 (33.33%) DevOps
3 8 (33.33%) Multithreading
4 7 (29.17%) CI/CD
5 6 (25.00%) Microservices
6 5 (20.83%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
6 5 (20.83%) MVC
7 4 (16.67%) API Integration
7 4 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
7 4 (16.67%) Webhook
8 3 (12.50%) API Development
8 3 (12.50%) Dependency Injection
8 3 (12.50%) Fintech
8 3 (12.50%) Kalman Filter
8 3 (12.50%) Mentoring
8 3 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
9 2 (8.33%) High Availability
9 2 (8.33%) Software Testing
9 2 (8.33%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 23 (95.83%) C#
2 21 (87.50%) SQL
3 15 (62.50%) TypeScript
4 14 (58.33%) JavaScript
5 2 (8.33%) Go
5 2 (8.33%) VB.NET
6 1 (4.17%) Bicep
6 1 (4.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) GDPR
2 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (20.83%) Docker
Vendors
1 17 (70.83%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.50%) Splunk
3 1 (4.17%) DevExpress
3 1 (4.17%) OpenAI