Entity Framework Contracts in England

Microsoft Entity Framework
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Entity Framework skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Entity Framework over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 433 471 546
Rank change year-on-year +38 +75 -61
Contract jobs citing Entity Framework 65 85 93
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.25% 0.23% 0.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.11% 1.07% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 62 73
10th Percentile £340 £313 £403
25th Percentile £450 £377 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% +15.79%
75th Percentile £613 £588 £650
90th Percentile £680 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £75.00
Median hourly rate - - £80.00
75th Percentile - - £85.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £80.00
% change year-on-year - - +25.79%

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 5,868 7,952 10,648
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.48% 21.28% 22.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,045 5,540 7,925
10th Percentile £355 £350 £385
25th Percentile £413 £435 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £788 £800 £798
UK median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.74% -2.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 264 138
10th Percentile £30.50 £23.80 £30.53
25th Percentile £43.44 £43.00 £50.31
Median hourly rate £57.63 £58.15 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% -10.54% +22.64%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.51 £74.48 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -15.38% +23.81%

Entity Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Entity Framework as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Entity Framework in England

Entity Framework
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Entity Framework in England.

Daily rate trend for Entity Framework in England

Entity Framework
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Entity Framework in England over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Entity Framework in England

Entity Framework
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Entity Framework in England.

Hourly rate trend for Entity Framework in England

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 3 July 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 +53 53 £518 +6.15% 83
East of England +22 4 £425 +21.43% 44
South East +32 3 £321 -38.86% 54
Midlands +10 2 £288 -32.35% 26
West Midlands +6 2 £288 - 19
South West +32 1 £375 +50.00% 19
North West -3 1 £625 +38.89% 24
North of England -3 1 £625 +38.89% 50
Entity Framework
UK

Entity Framework
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (4.62%) Confluence
1 3 (4.62%) Umbraco
2 1 (1.54%) CMS
2 1 (1.54%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.54%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 3 (4.62%) Aladdin
2 2 (3.08%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.54%) Eikon
3 1 (1.54%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 30 (46.15%) Azure
2 19 (29.23%) AWS
3 14 (21.54%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (9.23%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (9.23%) Azure Service Bus
4 6 (9.23%) GitHub
4 6 (9.23%) Power Platform
5 4 (6.15%) Azure Functions
5 4 (6.15%) PaaS
5 4 (6.15%) PowerApps
5 4 (6.15%) Serverless
6 3 (4.62%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (4.62%) Entra ID
6 3 (4.62%) Power Automate
7 2 (3.08%) Azure AKS
7 2 (3.08%) Azure API Management
7 2 (3.08%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (3.08%) Azure Storage
7 2 (3.08%) Copilot Studio
7 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (47.69%) SQL Server
2 17 (26.15%) Relational Database
3 12 (18.46%) Amazon RDS
3 12 (18.46%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (9.23%) MongoDB
5 5 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (6.15%) MySQL
7 3 (4.62%) NoSQL
7 3 (4.62%) Power BI
8 2 (3.08%) DocumentDB
8 2 (3.08%) Redis
8 2 (3.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (1.54%) Parquet
9 1 (1.54%) RDBMS
9 1 (1.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 15 (23.08%) Git
2 9 (13.85%) JIRA
3 5 (7.69%) SpecFlow
4 4 (6.15%) NUnit
5 3 (4.62%) Visual Studio
6 2 (3.08%) GitLab
6 2 (3.08%) Jenkins
7 1 (1.54%) gulp
7 1 (1.54%) JetBrains Rider
7 1 (1.54%) Moq
7 1 (1.54%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 31 (47.69%) Finance
2 20 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 9 (13.85%) Banking
4 5 (7.69%) Billing
5 3 (4.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (4.62%) Legal
6 2 (3.08%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.08%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.08%) Retail
7 1 (1.54%) Front Office
7 1 (1.54%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 48 (73.85%) Developer
2 26 (40.00%) .NET Developer
3 15 (23.08%) Senior
4 11 (16.92%) Angular Developer
4 11 (16.92%) Senior Developer
5 9 (13.85%) Cloud Developer
6 8 (12.31%) C# Developer
7 7 (10.77%) C# .NET Developer
8 5 (7.69%) Data Engineer
8 5 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
9 4 (6.15%) Architect
9 4 (6.15%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (6.15%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 4 (6.15%) Senior .NET Developer
9 4 (6.15%) Senior C# Developer
9 4 (6.15%) Software Engineer
10 3 (4.62%) .NET Software Engineer
10 3 (4.62%) Azure Developer
10 3 (4.62%) C# Software Engineer
10 3 (4.62%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (98.46%) .NET
1 64 (98.46%) .NET Framework
2 21 (32.31%) REST
3 20 (30.77%) AngularJS
4 19 (29.23%) .NET Core
5 17 (26.15%) HTML
6 16 (24.62%) ASP.NET
7 15 (23.08%) CSS
8 14 (21.54%) RESTful
9 11 (16.92%) NHibernate
10 10 (15.38%) ASP.NET MVC
10 10 (15.38%) ASP.NET Web API
10 10 (15.38%) Dapper ORM
11 9 (13.85%) jQuery
11 9 (13.85%) WCF
12 8 (12.31%) React
13 6 (9.23%) Web Services
14 5 (7.69%) ASP.NET Core
14 5 (7.69%) LINQ
14 5 (7.69%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.69%) N-Tier
2 3 (4.62%) Fixed Income
2 3 (4.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (3.08%) Algorithms
3 2 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.08%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.54%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.54%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.54%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.54%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.54%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (49.23%) Agile
2 21 (32.31%) CI/CD
3 20 (30.77%) Microservices
3 20 (30.77%) MVC
4 19 (29.23%) DevOps
5 18 (27.69%) Unit Testing
6 17 (26.15%) Full-Stack Development
7 15 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (20.00%) Scrum
9 12 (18.46%) Containerisation
10 11 (16.92%) Infrastructure as Code
10 11 (16.92%) TDD
11 8 (12.31%) Test Automation
12 7 (10.77%) API Development
12 7 (10.77%) Business Intelligence
12 7 (10.77%) CRM
12 7 (10.77%) Software Engineering
12 7 (10.77%) System Integration Testing
12 7 (10.77%) User Acceptance Testing
13 6 (9.23%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 56 (86.15%) C#
2 38 (58.46%) SQL
3 14 (21.54%) JavaScript
4 12 (18.46%) PL/SQL
5 11 (16.92%) RPG
5 11 (16.92%) RPG IV
6 6 (9.23%) Python
6 6 (9.23%) T-SQL
7 2 (3.08%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.08%) VB
7 2 (3.08%) VB6
8 1 (1.54%) Bicep
8 1 (1.54%) Java
8 1 (1.54%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (15.38%) Degree
2 5 (7.69%) MCPD
2 5 (7.69%) MCSD
2 5 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (4.62%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.54%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.69%) QA
2 3 (4.62%) Accessibility
System Software
1 21 (32.31%) Docker
2 2 (3.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.15%) Terraform
3 1 (1.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 19 (29.23%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.15%) Oracle
2 4 (6.15%) Solace
2 4 (6.15%) TIBCO
3 2 (3.08%) Murex
4 1 (1.54%) Bloomberg
4 1 (1.54%) IBM
4 1 (1.54%) Reuters
4 1 (1.54%) Splunk