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 21 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 589 460 431
Rank change year-on-year -129 -29 +49
Contract jobs citing Entity Framework 63 60 91
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.13% 0.21% 0.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.63% 0.83% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 39 60
10th Percentile £331 £345 £300
25th Percentile £385 £421 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £575 £567
Median % change year-on-year -14.13% +1.41% -0.09%
75th Percentile £552 £700 £625
90th Percentile £675 £750 £703
UK median daily rate £475 £523 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £46.80 - -
UK median hourly rate £46.80 - -

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.

6 months to
21 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 10,073 7,268 7,817
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.57% 25.60% 24.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,650 4,896 5,076
10th Percentile £381 £356 £361
25th Percentile £447 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.47% -5.64% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £738 £736 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 288 167 140
10th Percentile £33.78 £31.25 £27.00
25th Percentile £54.84 £41.42 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.83 £54.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.91% -16.92% +13.04%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.00 £73.20 £71.73
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £50.72 £64.18
% change year-on-year +28.15% -20.97% +10.65%

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 21 October 2026.

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 21 October 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -108 29 £481 -28.70% 35
South East -38 17 £500 +21.21% 10
North of England -66 6 - - 21
East of England -27 4 - - 4
Yorkshire - 4 - - 5
Midlands -40 3 £425 +23.64% 12
West Midlands -41 3 £425 +23.64% 7
North West -47 2 - - 10
Entity Framework
UK

Entity Framework Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1.NET98.4%62
2.NET Framework93.7%59
3.NET Core50.8%32
4REST47.6%30
5ASP.NET42.9%27
5React42.9%27
7RESTful34.9%22
8ASP.NET Web API33.3%21
9Terraform25.4%16
10CSS19.0%12
11AngularJS17.5%11
11HTML17.5%11
11OAuth17.5%11
11WPF17.5%11
15OpenID15.9%10
16ASP.NET Core14.3%9
17ASP.NET MVC12.7%8
17Dapper ORM12.7%8
17JSON12.7%8
17SAML12.7%8