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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 428 466 548
Rank change year-on-year +38 +82 -56
Contract jobs citing Entity Framework 57 76 105
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.23% 0.20% 0.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.05% 1.01% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 61 77
10th Percentile £420 £319 £360
25th Percentile £450 £375 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year +4.21% -8.65% +9.47%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £675
90th Percentile £678 £700 £697
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £510
% change year-on-year - -6.86% +7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £67.50
25th Percentile - - £75.00
Median hourly rate - - £80.00
75th Percentile - - £87.50
90th Percentile - - £87.65
UK median hourly rate - - £83.50
% change year-on-year - - +70.41%

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 5,454 7,511 11,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.39% 20.19% 23.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,783 5,341 8,633
10th Percentile £368 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £800 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 218 138
10th Percentile £30.13 £22.27 £28.73
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.00 £48.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.19 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.19 £75.00 £80.08
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +36 42 £500 +1.01% 31
Midlands +27 8 £475 +26.67% 29
West Midlands +17 6 £475 +26.67% 21
South East +43 5 £400 -15.79% 32
South West - 1 £500 - 19
East Midlands - 1 £500 - 7
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 5 (8.77%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.75%) Confluence
2 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.75%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (8.77%) InfoPath
2 3 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (10.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (3.51%) Aladdin
3 1 (1.75%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 28 (49.12%) Azure
2 19 (33.33%) AWS
3 9 (15.79%) Power Platform
4 7 (12.28%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (12.28%) Azure Logic Apps
4 7 (12.28%) Azure Service Bus
4 7 (12.28%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (10.53%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (10.53%) Azure Functions
5 6 (10.53%) PowerApps
5 6 (10.53%) Serverless
6 5 (8.77%) Entra ID
6 5 (8.77%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (8.77%) Power Automate
7 3 (5.26%) PaaS
8 2 (3.51%) Azure AKS
8 2 (3.51%) Azure API Management
8 2 (3.51%) Azure Storage
8 2 (3.51%) Boomi
8 2 (3.51%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.51%) Firewall
1 2 (3.51%) HTTP
1 2 (3.51%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (36.84%) Relational Database
2 19 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 16 (28.07%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (21.05%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (10.53%) Power BI
6 5 (8.77%) MongoDB
6 5 (8.77%) RDBMS
6 5 (8.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (7.02%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (7.02%) MySQL
7 4 (7.02%) Redis
8 3 (5.26%) NoSQL
8 3 (5.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (3.51%) DocumentDB
10 1 (1.75%) Oracle Database
10 1 (1.75%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 12 (21.05%) Git
2 5 (8.77%) NUnit
3 4 (7.02%) JIRA
4 2 (3.51%) GitLab
4 2 (3.51%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.75%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.75%) gulp
5 1 (1.75%) Moq
5 1 (1.75%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (1.75%) Postman
5 1 (1.75%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.75%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.75%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.75%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 21 (36.84%) Finance
2 16 (28.07%) Social Skills
3 9 (15.79%) Banking
4 5 (8.77%) Billing
5 3 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.51%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.51%) Law
7 1 (1.75%) Front Office
7 1 (1.75%) Marketing
7 1 (1.75%) Police
7 1 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.75%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 40 (70.18%) Developer
2 30 (52.63%) .NET Developer
3 15 (26.32%) Senior
4 10 (17.54%) Senior Developer
5 9 (15.79%) C# Developer
5 9 (15.79%) Cloud Developer
6 8 (14.04%) C# .NET Developer
7 7 (12.28%) Senior .NET Developer
8 6 (10.53%) Architect
8 6 (10.53%) Senior C# Developer
8 6 (10.53%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (8.77%) Data Engineer
9 5 (8.77%) Senior C# .NET Developer
9 5 (8.77%) Senior Data Engineer
10 4 (7.02%) Automation Architect
10 4 (7.02%) Azure Engineer
11 3 (5.26%) AWS Developer
11 3 (5.26%) Azure Developer
11 3 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
11 3 (5.26%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (96.49%) .NET
2 54 (94.74%) .NET Framework
3 23 (40.35%) .NET Core
4 19 (33.33%) ASP.NET
5 18 (31.58%) HTML
6 16 (28.07%) CSS
7 13 (22.81%) ASP.NET MVC
7 13 (22.81%) ASP.NET Web API
8 11 (19.30%) REST
9 10 (17.54%) RESTful
10 9 (15.79%) AngularJS
10 9 (15.79%) WCF
11 7 (12.28%) Dapper ORM
12 6 (10.53%) RabbitMQ
12 6 (10.53%) React
13 5 (8.77%) Autofac
13 5 (8.77%) HTML5 Canvas
13 5 (8.77%) LINQ
13 5 (8.77%) OAuth
13 5 (8.77%) StructureMap
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.77%) Enterprise Cloud
1 5 (8.77%) Enterprise Software
1 5 (8.77%) N-Tier
2 3 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (3.51%) Fixed Income
3 2 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.51%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.75%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.75%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.75%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (1.75%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.75%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.75%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.75%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (43.86%) Agile
2 19 (33.33%) MVC
3 17 (29.82%) CI/CD
4 15 (26.32%) Unit Testing
5 14 (24.56%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (21.05%) DevOps
7 11 (19.30%) CRM
8 10 (17.54%) Business Intelligence
8 10 (17.54%) Containerisation
8 10 (17.54%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (15.79%) Scrum
9 9 (15.79%) TDD
10 8 (14.04%) Full-Stack Development
10 8 (14.04%) Microservices
10 8 (14.04%) Web Development
11 7 (12.28%) Design Patterns
11 7 (12.28%) Migration
11 7 (12.28%) System Integration Testing
11 7 (12.28%) Test Automation
11 7 (12.28%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 48 (84.21%) C#
2 40 (70.18%) SQL
3 19 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 12 (21.05%) PL/SQL
5 11 (19.30%) RPG
5 11 (19.30%) RPG IV
6 5 (8.77%) T-SQL
7 4 (7.02%) Python
8 2 (3.51%) VB
8 2 (3.51%) VB6
9 1 (1.75%) Bicep
9 1 (1.75%) Java
9 1 (1.75%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.75%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.75%) X++
Qualifications
1 7 (12.28%) Degree
2 6 (10.53%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (8.77%) MCPD
3 5 (8.77%) MCSD
4 3 (5.26%) Security Cleared
5 2 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.51%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.02%) QA
2 3 (5.26%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.75%) SEPA
System Software
1 19 (33.33%) Docker
2 2 (3.51%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (28.07%) Kubernetes
2 4 (7.02%) Terraform
3 1 (1.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 15 (26.32%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.02%) Solace
2 4 (7.02%) TIBCO
3 2 (3.51%) Murex
4 1 (1.75%) IBM
4 1 (1.75%) Oracle
4 1 (1.75%) Siemens
4 1 (1.75%) Splunk