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 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 510 429 454
Rank change year-on-year -81 +25 +80
Contract jobs citing Entity Framework 45 66 94
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.14% 0.25% 0.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.64% 1.11% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 51 69
10th Percentile £415 £350 £360
25th Percentile £492 £453 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £570 £568
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% +0.44% +3.18%
75th Percentile £700 £688 £670
90th Percentile £735 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £518 £569 £550
% change year-on-year -8.97% +3.36% +4.76%
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 - - -12.50%

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 7,072 5,937 7,847
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.13% 22.06% 21.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,728 3,792 5,644
10th Percentile £356 £363 £363
25th Percentile £413 £430 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £670
90th Percentile £738 £788 £752
UK median daily rate £510 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -5.12% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 77 173
10th Percentile £33.00 £26.25 £28.75
25th Percentile £45.25 £43.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £54.56
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +14.55% -16.06%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.95 £74.61 £77.90
UK median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -2.40% +13.64% -15.38%

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 17 January 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 17 January 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 -8 32 £581 -7.96% 21
South East -22 3 £525 +12.00% 43
North of England -61 3 £435 -23.68% 43
North West - 3 £435 - 24
South West -13 2 - - 19
West Midlands -48 2 £400 -29.45% 11
Midlands -52 2 £400 -25.02% 27
East of England -25 1 - - 18
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 1 (2.22%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 23 (51.11%) Azure
2 10 (22.22%) Entra ID
3 9 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (20.00%) Azure Service Fabric
3 9 (20.00%) PaaS
4 8 (17.78%) GitHub
5 5 (11.11%) AWS
6 3 (6.67%) Azure API Management
6 3 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (6.67%) IaaS
6 3 (6.67%) Serverless
7 2 (4.44%) Azure Functions
7 2 (4.44%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (4.44%) GCP
8 1 (2.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (2.22%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (2.22%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.22%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (64.44%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (4.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (2.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (26.67%) SpecFlow
2 9 (20.00%) Git
3 8 (17.78%) JIRA
4 1 (2.22%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.22%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.22%) MSTest
General
1 13 (28.89%) Finance
2 10 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.89%) Banking
4 3 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.22%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 31 (68.89%) Developer
2 16 (35.56%) .NET Developer
2 16 (35.56%) Angular Developer
3 14 (31.11%) C# Developer
3 14 (31.11%) Senior
4 11 (24.44%) Senior Developer
5 9 (20.00%) C# .NET Developer
6 7 (15.56%) Full-Stack Developer
6 7 (15.56%) Senior C# Developer
7 6 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (13.33%) Full-Stack .NET 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%) Senior .NET Developer
9 4 (8.89%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (8.89%) Senior C# .NET Developer
9 4 (8.89%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (8.89%) Software Engineer
10 3 (6.67%) Full-Stack C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (75.56%) .NET
1 34 (75.56%) .NET Framework
2 18 (40.00%) AngularJS
3 16 (35.56%) NHibernate
4 12 (26.67%) Playwright
5 11 (24.44%) YAML
6 10 (22.22%) ASP.NET
6 10 (22.22%) REST
6 10 (22.22%) RESTful
7 9 (20.00%) ARM Templates
8 7 (15.56%) .NET Core
8 7 (15.56%) React
9 6 (13.33%) SailPoint
10 5 (11.11%) ASP.NET Web API
10 5 (11.11%) CSS
10 5 (11.11%) HTML
11 4 (8.89%) ASP.NET MVC
11 4 (8.89%) NgRx
12 3 (6.67%) Blazor
12 3 (6.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.11%) Management Information System
1 5 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 4 (8.89%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.44%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.22%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
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 26 (57.78%) Microservices
2 23 (51.11%) Agile
3 21 (46.67%) DevOps
4 19 (42.22%) CI/CD
5 18 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 17 (37.78%) Clean Code
7 13 (28.89%) Scrum
8 11 (24.44%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (24.44%) Unit Testing
9 10 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
10 9 (20.00%) B2C
10 9 (20.00%) ETRM
10 9 (20.00%) Line Management
10 9 (20.00%) Risk Management
11 7 (15.56%) MVC
12 6 (13.33%) Architectural Patterns
12 6 (13.33%) Containerisation
12 6 (13.33%) SOLID
13 5 (11.11%) Design Patterns
13 5 (11.11%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 36 (80.00%) C#
2 25 (55.56%) SQL
3 7 (15.56%) JavaScript
4 3 (6.67%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.44%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.22%) C++
6 1 (2.22%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 10 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 6 (13.33%) Degree
3 1 (2.22%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.11%) QA
2 1 (2.22%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (26.67%) Docker
2 7 (15.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (15.56%) Single Sign-On
2 6 (13.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 4 (8.89%) Terraform
4 1 (2.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (28.89%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.22%) Murex
2 1 (2.22%) Oracle