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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 452 437 499
Rank change year-on-year -15 +62 -4
Contract jobs citing Entity Framework 60 91 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.22% 0.28% 0.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.96% 1.23% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 58 74
10th Percentile £348 £300 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £552 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.14% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £691 £588 £688
90th Percentile £750 £703 £720
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +0.96%
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 - - +8.86%

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 6,247 7,369 9,192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.48% 22.37% 21.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,237 4,862 6,744
10th Percentile £350 £356 £380
25th Percentile £413 £443 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.91% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £810 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 177 164
10th Percentile £31.39 £27.45 £36.84
25th Percentile £43.00 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +2.04% -3.16%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £73.67
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.46 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -12.34% +2.67% -4.00%

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
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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +22 43 £650 +13.04% 59
East of England 0 4 £425 +41.67% 21
South East +10 3 £400 -23.81% 47
North West -17 3 £530 +11.58% 29
West Midlands -19 3 £344 -39.37% 11
North of England -20 3 £530 +0.52% 45
Midlands -27 3 £344 -39.37% 20
South West +26 2 £375 +50.00% 11
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 4 (6.67%) Confluence
1 4 (6.67%) Umbraco
2 2 (3.33%) CMS
Business Applications
1 5 (8.33%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.67%) Eikon
2 1 (1.67%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 30 (50.00%) Azure
2 15 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (18.33%) GitHub
4 6 (10.00%) AWS
5 5 (8.33%) Serverless
6 4 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (6.67%) Azure Functions
6 4 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
6 4 (6.67%) Power Platform
7 2 (3.33%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (3.33%) Copilot Studio
7 2 (3.33%) Entra ID
7 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (3.33%) Power Automate
7 2 (3.33%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.67%) Azure API Management
8 1 (1.67%) Boomi
8 1 (1.67%) Figma
8 1 (1.67%) GCP
8 1 (1.67%) NuGet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 6 (10.00%) Relational Database
3 3 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.33%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.33%) Power BI
5 1 (1.67%) Redis
5 1 (1.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (21.67%) SpecFlow
2 10 (16.67%) JIRA
3 8 (13.33%) Git
4 3 (5.00%) Visual Studio
5 2 (3.33%) NUnit
6 1 (1.67%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.67%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.67%) gulp
6 1 (1.67%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.67%) JetBrains Rider
6 1 (1.67%) MSTest
General
1 29 (48.33%) Finance
2 14 (23.33%) Social Skills
3 9 (15.00%) Banking
4 5 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 3 (5.00%) Legal
7 2 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (3.33%) Retail
8 1 (1.67%) Billing
8 1 (1.67%) Front Office
8 1 (1.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 48 (80.00%) Developer
2 21 (35.00%) Angular Developer
3 20 (33.33%) .NET Developer
4 17 (28.33%) Senior
5 13 (21.67%) Senior Developer
6 9 (15.00%) C# Developer
7 7 (11.67%) C# .NET Developer
7 7 (11.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 7 (11.67%) Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (8.33%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
9 4 (6.67%) Senior .NET Developer
9 4 (6.67%) Senior C# Developer
10 3 (5.00%) Agile .NET Developer
10 3 (5.00%) Agile C# Developer
10 3 (5.00%) Agile Developer
10 3 (5.00%) Data Engineer
10 3 (5.00%) Energy Trading Developer
10 3 (5.00%) Senior Data Engineer
10 3 (5.00%) Software Engineer
10 3 (5.00%) Umbraco Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (100.00%) .NET
1 60 (100.00%) .NET Framework
2 28 (46.67%) AngularJS
3 23 (38.33%) REST
4 21 (35.00%) NHibernate
5 16 (26.67%) RESTful
6 14 (23.33%) ASP.NET
6 14 (23.33%) HTML
7 13 (21.67%) CSS
7 13 (21.67%) Playwright
8 12 (20.00%) .NET Core
9 8 (13.33%) Dapper ORM
9 8 (13.33%) jQuery
9 8 (13.33%) NgRx
9 8 (13.33%) React
10 7 (11.67%) LINQ
10 7 (11.67%) Vue
11 6 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC
11 6 (10.00%) ASP.NET Web API
11 6 (10.00%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.33%) Fixed Income
1 5 (8.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (5.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (5.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.00%) N-Tier
2 3 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.33%) Algorithms
3 2 (3.33%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (55.00%) Agile
2 28 (46.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 28 (46.67%) Microservices
3 20 (33.33%) DevOps
4 18 (30.00%) Scrum
4 18 (30.00%) Unit Testing
5 17 (28.33%) Clean Code
6 16 (26.67%) MVC
7 15 (25.00%) CI/CD
8 14 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (18.33%) ETRM
9 11 (18.33%) Line Management
9 11 (18.33%) Risk Management
10 10 (16.67%) Front End Development
10 10 (16.67%) TDD
11 9 (15.00%) Containerisation
11 9 (15.00%) Continuous Delivery
12 8 (13.33%) API Design
12 8 (13.33%) API Development
12 8 (13.33%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 57 (95.00%) C#
2 30 (50.00%) SQL
3 13 (21.67%) JavaScript
4 4 (6.67%) T-SQL
5 3 (5.00%) PL/SQL
5 3 (5.00%) Python
5 3 (5.00%) TypeScript
6 2 (3.33%) RPG
6 2 (3.33%) RPG IV
7 1 (1.67%) C++
7 1 (1.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 13 (21.67%) Degree
2 3 (5.00%) MCPD
2 3 (5.00%) MCSD
2 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (3.33%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.67%) QA
2 3 (5.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (18.33%) Docker
2 1 (1.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.67%) Murex
2 4 (6.67%) Oracle
3 2 (3.33%) Solace
3 2 (3.33%) TIBCO
4 1 (1.67%) Bloomberg
4 1 (1.67%) IBM
4 1 (1.67%) Reuters
4 1 (1.67%) Splunk