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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 489 436 466
Rank change year-on-year -53 +30 +64
Contract jobs citing Entity Framework 56 86 108
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.18% 0.28% 0.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.81% 1.27% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 60 80
10th Percentile £370 £300 £374
25th Percentile £421 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £573 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.38% +4.18% -
75th Percentile £700 £678 £650
90th Percentile £750 £700 £682
UK median daily rate £519 £570 £538
% change year-on-year -8.99% +6.05% +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 - - +6.40%

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 6,942 6,790 8,689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.70% 21.72% 21.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,677 4,330 6,328
10th Percentile £350 £356 £375
25th Percentile £413 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £631 £666 £675
90th Percentile £734 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 102 183
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £36.37
25th Percentile £43.00 £42.63 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.25 £73.98 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £55.25
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.12% -14.67%

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 22 November 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 22 November 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 +4 39 £663 +9.28% 49
South East -14 4 £413 -21.43% 53
East of England -19 3 £350 +16.67% 19
North West -22 3 £435 - 40
West Midlands -34 3 £344 -39.37% 16
North of England -38 3 £435 -23.68% 58
Midlands -44 3 £344 -39.37% 21
South West -2 2 - - 17
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 4 (7.14%) Confluence
2 2 (3.57%) CMS
2 2 (3.57%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 5 (8.93%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.79%) Eikon
2 1 (1.79%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 27 (48.21%) Azure
2 16 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (17.86%) GitHub
4 5 (8.93%) Serverless
5 4 (7.14%) AWS
5 4 (7.14%) Azure Functions
6 3 (5.36%) Power Platform
7 2 (3.57%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (3.57%) Copilot Studio
7 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (3.57%) Power Automate
7 2 (3.57%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.79%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.79%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.79%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.79%) GCP
8 1 (1.79%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.57%) Power BI
2 2 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.79%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 15 (26.79%) SpecFlow
2 11 (19.64%) JIRA
3 8 (14.29%) Git
4 1 (1.79%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.79%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.79%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.79%) JetBrains Rider
4 1 (1.79%) MSTest
4 1 (1.79%) NUnit
4 1 (1.79%) Visual Studio
General
1 25 (44.64%) Finance
2 13 (23.21%) Social Skills
3 7 (12.50%) Banking
4 6 (10.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 3 (5.36%) Legal
7 2 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (3.57%) Retail
8 1 (1.79%) Front Office
8 1 (1.79%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.79%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 44 (78.57%) Developer
2 23 (41.07%) Angular Developer
3 19 (33.93%) .NET Developer
4 15 (26.79%) Senior
5 14 (25.00%) C# Developer
6 12 (21.43%) Senior Developer
7 10 (17.86%) C# .NET Developer
8 7 (12.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 6 (10.71%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
9 6 (10.71%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (10.71%) Senior C# Developer
10 5 (8.93%) Agile .NET Developer
10 5 (8.93%) Agile C# Developer
10 5 (8.93%) Agile Developer
10 5 (8.93%) Software Engineer
11 4 (7.14%) Senior .NET Developer
11 4 (7.14%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 3 (5.36%) .NET Software Engineer
12 3 (5.36%) C# Developer - Commodities
12 3 (5.36%) Senior C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (98.21%) .NET
1 55 (98.21%) .NET Framework
2 28 (50.00%) AngularJS
3 23 (41.07%) NHibernate
4 22 (39.29%) REST
5 17 (30.36%) RESTful
6 15 (26.79%) Playwright
7 11 (19.64%) CSS
7 11 (19.64%) HTML
8 10 (17.86%) ASP.NET
8 10 (17.86%) React
9 8 (14.29%) .NET Core
10 7 (12.50%) NgRx
10 7 (12.50%) Vue
11 6 (10.71%) LINQ
12 5 (8.93%) Dapper ORM
12 5 (8.93%) jQuery
12 5 (8.93%) SOAP
13 4 (7.14%) ASP.NET Core
13 4 (7.14%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.93%) Enterprise Software
1 5 (8.93%) Fixed Income
1 5 (8.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 5 (8.93%) Management Information System
2 4 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.36%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.36%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.57%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.79%) Android
1 1 (1.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (57.14%) Agile
2 30 (53.57%) Microservices
3 27 (48.21%) Full-Stack Development
4 21 (37.50%) DevOps
5 20 (35.71%) Clean Code
6 17 (30.36%) CI/CD
7 16 (28.57%) Scrum
8 15 (26.79%) Unit Testing
9 13 (23.21%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (21.43%) ETRM
10 12 (21.43%) Line Management
10 12 (21.43%) MVC
10 12 (21.43%) Risk Management
11 10 (17.86%) Front End Development
11 10 (17.86%) Software Engineering
12 9 (16.07%) Continuous Delivery
12 9 (16.07%) SOLID
13 8 (14.29%) Cloud Security
13 8 (14.29%) Project Management
13 8 (14.29%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 54 (96.43%) C#
2 21 (37.50%) SQL
3 13 (23.21%) JavaScript
4 3 (5.36%) Python
4 3 (5.36%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.79%) C++
5 1 (1.79%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (16.07%) Degree
2 2 (3.57%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.79%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.93%) QA
2 1 (1.79%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (14.29%) Docker
2 1 (1.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.79%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (30.36%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.14%) Murex
2 4 (7.14%) Oracle
3 1 (1.79%) Bloomberg
3 1 (1.79%) Reuters