Entity Framework Contract Job Trends in England

Microsoft Entity Framework
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Entity Framework skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 494 426 459
Rank change year-on-year -68 +33 +91
Contract jobs citing Entity Framework 45 79 96
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.14% 0.28% 0.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.64% 1.27% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 56 70
10th Percentile £405 £338 £361
25th Percentile £438 £455 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £573 £568
Median % change year-on-year -8.38% +0.97% +3.18%
75th Percentile £700 £688 £665
90th Percentile £735 £713 £700
UK median daily rate £513 £573 £513
% change year-on-year -10.56% +11.80% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £64.75
25th Percentile - - £68.13
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +3.70%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

Entity Framework 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 7,028 6,212 7,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.25% 21.84% 21.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,694 3,978 5,743
10th Percentile £352 £360 £363
25th Percentile £413 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £633 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £505 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -6.48% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 73 164
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £32.90
25th Percentile £45.00 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £60.50 £62.50 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year -3.20% +20.45% -20.17%
75th Percentile £66.88 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.35 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -2.40% +19.05% -19.23%

Entity Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Entity Framework relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Entity Framework job vacancy trend in England

Entity Framework
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Entity Framework.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Entity Framework

Entity Framework
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Entity Framework in England over the 6 months to 28 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Entity Framework in England

Entity Framework
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Entity Framework.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Entity Framework

Entity Framework
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 Entity Framework within the England region over the 6 months to 28 December 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
London -13 31 £581 -5.14% 41
South East -20 4 £413 -12.00% 38
North West -21 3 £435 - 15
North of England -42 3 £435 -23.68% 37
South West -2 2 - - 10
West Midlands -39 2 £400 -29.45% 15
Midlands -55 2 £400 -25.02% 31
East of England -28 1 - - 19
Entity Framework
UK

Entity Framework
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 (6.67%) Confluence
2 1 (2.22%) CMS
2 1 (2.22%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 24 (53.33%) Azure
2 11 (24.44%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 8 (17.78%) Azure Service Fabric
4 8 (17.78%) GitHub
4 8 (17.78%) PaaS
5 5 (11.11%) AWS
6 4 (8.89%) Serverless
7 3 (6.67%) Azure API Management
7 3 (6.67%) Azure Functions
7 3 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (6.67%) IaaS
8 2 (4.44%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (4.44%) GCP
9 1 (2.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (2.22%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (2.22%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (2.22%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (2.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (26.67%) SpecFlow
2 8 (17.78%) Git
2 8 (17.78%) JIRA
3 1 (2.22%) Artifactory
3 1 (2.22%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.22%) MSTest
General
1 14 (31.11%) Finance
2 8 (17.78%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.89%) Banking
4 3 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Health Technology
5 1 (2.22%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 32 (71.11%) Developer
2 16 (35.56%) .NET Developer
2 16 (35.56%) Angular Developer
3 14 (31.11%) C# Developer
4 12 (26.67%) Senior
5 9 (20.00%) C# .NET Developer
5 9 (20.00%) Senior Developer
6 7 (15.56%) Full-Stack Developer
7 6 (13.33%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
7 6 (13.33%) Senior C# Developer
8 5 (11.11%) Agile .NET Developer
8 5 (11.11%) Agile C# Developer
8 5 (11.11%) Agile Developer
8 5 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (8.89%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (8.89%) Senior .NET Developer
9 4 (8.89%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (8.89%) Software Engineer
10 3 (6.67%) Full-Stack C# Developer
10 3 (6.67%) Senior C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (77.78%) .NET
1 35 (77.78%) .NET Framework
2 17 (37.78%) AngularJS
3 16 (35.56%) NHibernate
4 12 (26.67%) Playwright
4 12 (26.67%) REST
5 11 (24.44%) RESTful
6 10 (22.22%) YAML
7 8 (17.78%) ARM Templates
7 8 (17.78%) ASP.NET
8 7 (15.56%) React
9 5 (11.11%) .NET Core
9 5 (11.11%) SailPoint
10 4 (8.89%) ASP.NET MVC
10 4 (8.89%) ASP.NET Web API
10 4 (8.89%) CSS
10 4 (8.89%) HTML
10 4 (8.89%) NgRx
11 3 (6.67%) Blazor
11 3 (6.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 4 (8.89%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (8.89%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.44%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.44%) Fixed Income
3 2 (4.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (4.44%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.22%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.22%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.22%) Android
1 1 (2.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (55.56%) Microservices
2 22 (48.89%) Agile
3 20 (44.44%) DevOps
4 18 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 17 (37.78%) CI/CD
5 17 (37.78%) Clean Code
6 13 (28.89%) Scrum
7 11 (24.44%) Unit Testing
8 10 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (20.00%) ETRM
9 9 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (20.00%) Line Management
9 9 (20.00%) Risk Management
10 8 (17.78%) B2C
11 7 (15.56%) Containerisation
11 7 (15.56%) MVC
12 6 (13.33%) Software Engineering
12 6 (13.33%) SOLID
13 5 (11.11%) OOP
13 5 (11.11%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (82.22%) C#
2 25 (55.56%) SQL
3 6 (13.33%) JavaScript
4 3 (6.67%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.44%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.22%) C++
6 1 (2.22%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (13.33%) Degree
3 1 (2.22%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.67%) QA
2 1 (2.22%) Accessibility
System Software
1 12 (26.67%) Docker
2 6 (13.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (13.33%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (11.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 4 (8.89%) Terraform
4 1 (2.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.44%) Murex
3 1 (2.22%) Oracle