ASP.NET Web API Job Trends

Microsoft ASP.NET Web API
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring ASP.NET Web API skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 623 462 235
Rank change year-on-year -161 -227 +201
Permanent jobs citing ASP.NET Web API 60 212 1,083
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.083% 0.46% 1.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.76% 2.04% 5.86%
Number of salaries quoted 54 166 1,042
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £54,825 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £88,750 £81,875 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,325 £55,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.76% +1.36% -

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 permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,931 10,385 18,496
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.96% 22.43% 22.83%
Number of salaries quoted 5,811 6,820 14,909
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +10.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%

ASP.NET Web API
Job Vacancy Trend

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

ASP.NET Web API job vacancy trend in the UK

ASP.NET Web API
Salary Trend

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

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

ASP.NET Web API
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing ASP.NET Web API over the 6 months to 7 March 2026.

Salary histogram for ASP.NET Web API in the UK

ASP.NET Web API
Top 11 Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 7 March 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
Work from Home -24 48 £65,000 +13.04% 64
England -123 45 £60,000 - 71
London +1 25 £75,000 -11.76% 23
UK excluding London -133 21 £55,325 -0.76% 53
North of England -48 11 £52,500 -14.29% 15
North West -16 10 £56,250 -6.25% 7
South East -7 6 £60,325 +9.68% 16
South West -14 2 £40,000 -48.39% 6
Scotland -38 1 £55,000 +6.80% 1
Yorkshire -40 1 £40,000 -5.88% 6
Wales - 1 £42,000 - 2

ASP.NET Web API
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 1 (1.67%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 47 (78.33%) Azure
2 21 (35.00%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (28.33%) Azure App Service
4 16 (26.67%) AWS
5 14 (23.33%) GitHub
5 14 (23.33%) SaaS
6 13 (21.67%) Entra ID
6 13 (21.67%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (20.00%) PaaS
8 11 (18.33%) Serverless
9 5 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (6.67%) Azure API Management
11 3 (5.00%) Power Automate
12 2 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (3.33%) Amazon S3
12 2 (3.33%) Azure Key Vault
12 2 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
12 2 (3.33%) GCP
12 2 (3.33%) Zapier
13 1 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.67%) DNS
1 1 (1.67%) Hyperconnected
1 1 (1.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (53.33%) SQL Server
2 24 (40.00%) MongoDB
3 19 (31.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 16 (26.67%) NoSQL
5 11 (18.33%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (6.67%) Relational Database
7 3 (5.00%) NonStop SQL
8 2 (3.33%) MySQL
8 2 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (1.67%) RavenDB
9 1 (1.67%) RDBMS
9 1 (1.67%) Redis
9 1 (1.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 20 (33.33%) Git
2 4 (6.67%) Visual Studio
3 2 (3.33%) ESLint
3 2 (3.33%) Storybook
4 1 (1.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (1.67%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.67%) CA Release Automation
4 1 (1.67%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.67%) JIRA
4 1 (1.67%) Moq
4 1 (1.67%) MSTest
4 1 (1.67%) NUnit
4 1 (1.67%) Postman
4 1 (1.67%) SpecFlow
General
1 18 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (23.33%) Finance
3 3 (5.00%) Advertising
4 1 (1.67%) Back Office
4 1 (1.67%) Marketing
4 1 (1.67%) Military
4 1 (1.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 45 (75.00%) Developer
2 40 (66.67%) .NET Developer
3 19 (31.67%) Lead
4 14 (23.33%) Azure Developer
5 12 (20.00%) Lead .NET Developer
5 12 (20.00%) Lead Developer
6 10 (16.67%) SaaS Developer
7 9 (15.00%) Senior
8 7 (11.67%) Technical Leader
9 6 (10.00%) Senior Developer
9 6 (10.00%) Technical Developer
10 5 (8.33%) Senior .NET Developer
11 4 (6.67%) Software Engineer
12 3 (5.00%) .NET Web Developer
12 3 (5.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 3 (5.00%) Web Developer
13 2 (3.33%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 2 (3.33%) Integration Developer
13 2 (3.33%) Senior DevOps
13 2 (3.33%) Senior Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (100.00%) .NET
2 33 (55.00%) .NET Core
3 30 (50.00%) .NET Framework
3 30 (50.00%) React
4 28 (46.67%) Entity Framework
5 27 (45.00%) ASP.NET
6 21 (35.00%) RESTful
7 20 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
8 19 (31.67%) AngularJS
9 15 (25.00%) Razor View Engine
10 14 (23.33%) ASP.NET Web Forms
10 14 (23.33%) HTML
11 10 (16.67%) Node.js
12 9 (15.00%) CSS
12 9 (15.00%) HTML5
12 9 (15.00%) Vue
13 8 (13.33%) LINQ
14 6 (10.00%) REST
15 5 (8.33%) Akka.NET
15 5 (8.33%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (3.33%) IoT
3 1 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.67%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (1.67%) Legacy Code
3 1 (1.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.00%) VMS
2 2 (3.33%) Linux
2 2 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (78.33%) Microservices
2 43 (71.67%) Agile
3 36 (60.00%) MVC
4 35 (58.33%) CI/CD
4 35 (58.33%) Full-Stack Development
5 31 (51.67%) Scrum
6 29 (48.33%) DevOps
7 25 (41.67%) Kanban
8 20 (33.33%) Mentoring
9 16 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 16 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (25.00%) Design Patterns
11 14 (23.33%) Test Automation
12 12 (20.00%) B2C
12 12 (20.00%) Code Quality
12 12 (20.00%) TDD
13 11 (18.33%) Project Delivery
13 11 (18.33%) Sprint Planning
13 11 (18.33%) Sprint Retrospective
13 11 (18.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 44 (73.33%) C#
2 35 (58.33%) SQL
3 26 (43.33%) TypeScript
4 25 (41.67%) JavaScript
5 4 (6.67%) Bicep
6 3 (5.00%) Erlang
6 3 (5.00%) Python
7 1 (1.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (23.33%) Degree
2 11 (18.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (16.67%) Master's Degree
4 5 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (6.67%) Azure Certification
6 2 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (3.33%) PhD
7 1 (1.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (21.67%) QA
2 2 (3.33%) GDPR
3 1 (1.67%) HL7
3 1 (1.67%) IFRS
System Software
1 11 (18.33%) Docker
2 10 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.33%) VMware NSX
3 2 (3.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (11.67%) Kubernetes
2 6 (10.00%) Terraform
3 2 (3.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 36 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.00%) Facebook
2 3 (5.00%) YouTube
3 2 (3.33%) Google
3 2 (3.33%) Mapbox
3 2 (3.33%) Oracle
3 2 (3.33%) VMware
4 1 (1.67%) Foundry
4 1 (1.67%) IBM