Entity Framework Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Entity Framework
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Entity Framework skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Entity Framework over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 292 382 387
Rank change year-on-year +90 +5 -2
Contract jobs citing Entity Framework 49 86 241
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.33% 0.34% 0.55%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.35% 1.36% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 61 163
10th Percentile £299 £363 £376
25th Percentile £350 £450 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £510 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% +13.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £500 £600 £538
90th Percentile £700 £693 £638
UK median daily rate £475 £510 £475
% change year-on-year -6.86% +7.37% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 5
10th Percentile - £68.75 -
25th Percentile - £75.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate - £82.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year - +68.37% +40.00%
75th Percentile - £85.00 £65.00
90th Percentile - £86.25 £66.20
UK median hourly rate - £83.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year - +53.21% +55.71%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

Entity Framework is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,636 6,344 12,982
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 24.12% 25.29% 29.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,551 4,723 9,580
10th Percentile £331 £399 £400
25th Percentile £430 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +12.82%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £638
90th Percentile £788 £750 £730
UK median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 80 116
10th Percentile £24.45 £22.50 £21.00
25th Percentile - £43.60 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +27.55% +8.89%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £60.31
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.25 £67.65
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.75
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.65% +10.56%

Entity Framework
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Entity Framework as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Entity Framework trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Entity Framework.

Entity Framework daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Entity Framework
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Entity Framework over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Entity Framework daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Entity Framework
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Entity Framework.

Entity Framework hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (4.08%) CMS
2 1 (2.04%) EPiServer
2 1 (2.04%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.04%) Sitecore CMS
Business Applications
1 6 (12.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.04%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 31 (63.27%) Azure
2 22 (44.90%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (16.33%) Dynamics 365
3 8 (16.33%) Serverless
4 5 (10.20%) AWS
4 5 (10.20%) Azure Functions
4 5 (10.20%) PaaS
5 3 (6.12%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (6.12%) Azure Key Vault
5 3 (6.12%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (6.12%) Entra ID
5 3 (6.12%) Power Platform
6 2 (4.08%) Azure App Service
6 2 (4.08%) Azure Event Grid
6 2 (4.08%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (4.08%) Azure Service Fabric
7 1 (2.04%) Azure API Management
7 1 (2.04%) Azure Storage
7 1 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.04%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.08%) FTP
2 1 (2.04%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (61.22%) SQL Server
2 8 (16.33%) Relational Database
3 4 (8.16%) MySQL
4 3 (6.12%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (4.08%) Data Lake
5 2 (4.08%) MongoDB
5 2 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.04%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 16 (32.65%) Git
2 13 (26.53%) Visual Studio
3 5 (10.20%) Moq
3 5 (10.20%) MSI
3 5 (10.20%) SpecFlow
3 5 (10.20%) WiX
4 4 (8.16%) JIRA
4 4 (8.16%) TeamCity
5 3 (6.12%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (4.08%) GitLab
6 2 (4.08%) NUnit
7 1 (2.04%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.04%) git-flow
7 1 (2.04%) InstallShield
7 1 (2.04%) Jasmine
7 1 (2.04%) MSTest
7 1 (2.04%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (2.04%) Selenium
General
1 11 (22.45%) Social Skills
2 8 (16.33%) Finance
3 4 (8.16%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.12%) Banking
5 2 (4.08%) Electronics
5 2 (4.08%) Manufacturing
5 2 (4.08%) Marketing
5 2 (4.08%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.04%) French Language
6 1 (2.04%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 34 (69.39%) Developer
2 23 (46.94%) .NET Developer
3 10 (20.41%) C# Developer
4 8 (16.33%) Architect
5 6 (12.24%) Software Engineer
6 5 (10.20%) Azure Developer
6 5 (10.20%) C# .NET Developer
6 5 (10.20%) Senior
6 5 (10.20%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (8.16%) Dynamics 365 Architect
7 4 (8.16%) Lead
8 3 (6.12%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (6.12%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
8 3 (6.12%) Full Stack Developer
8 3 (6.12%) Senior Software Engineer
9 2 (4.08%) Applications Developer
9 2 (4.08%) ASP.NET Developer
9 2 (4.08%) Lead Developer
9 2 (4.08%) Senior Developer
9 2 (4.08%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (95.92%) .NET
2 39 (79.59%) .NET Framework
3 23 (46.94%) ASP.NET
4 15 (30.61%) .NET Core
4 15 (30.61%) ASP.NET Web API
5 12 (24.49%) AngularJS
5 12 (24.49%) React
5 12 (24.49%) WCF
6 11 (22.45%) CSS
6 11 (22.45%) HTML
6 11 (22.45%) REST
7 9 (18.37%) LINQ
8 7 (14.29%) JSON
9 6 (12.24%) ASP.NET MVC
9 6 (12.24%) jQuery
9 6 (12.24%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
9 6 (12.24%) NHibernate
10 5 (10.20%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 5 (10.20%) Web Services
10 5 (10.20%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.20%) Client/Server
1 5 (10.20%) Web 2.0
2 4 (8.16%) Derivative
2 4 (8.16%) Interest Rate Derivative
2 4 (8.16%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.08%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.08%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (4.08%) NHS
3 2 (4.08%) N-Tier
3 2 (4.08%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.04%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.04%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (16.33%) Windows
2 1 (2.04%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (59.18%) DevOps
2 20 (40.82%) MVC
3 19 (38.78%) Agile
4 14 (28.57%) Design Patterns
5 13 (26.53%) Performance Tuning
6 12 (24.49%) Microservices
6 12 (24.49%) Software Engineering
7 11 (22.45%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (20.41%) CI/CD
8 10 (20.41%) OO
8 10 (20.41%) TDD
8 10 (20.41%) Unit Testing
9 9 (18.37%) Computer Science
10 7 (14.29%) Clean Code
10 7 (14.29%) Full Stack Development
10 7 (14.29%) SOLID
11 6 (12.24%) Customer Requirements
11 6 (12.24%) Data Integration
11 6 (12.24%) Data Migration
11 6 (12.24%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 39 (79.59%) C#
2 24 (48.98%) SQL
3 18 (36.73%) JavaScript
4 7 (14.29%) T-SQL
5 4 (8.16%) PowerShell
6 3 (6.12%) TypeScript
7 2 (4.08%) Python
7 2 (4.08%) VB.NET
8 1 (2.04%) Bicep
8 1 (2.04%) XAML
Qualifications
1 14 (28.57%) Degree
2 6 (12.24%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (6.12%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.12%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.04%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.04%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.20%) QA
2 1 (2.04%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (4.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (10.20%) Terraform
2 3 (6.12%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (4.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (2.04%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (26.53%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.20%) SAP
3 3 (6.12%) Oracle
4 2 (4.08%) Optimizely
5 1 (2.04%) Sitecore