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 16 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 541 431 466
Rank change year-on-year -110 +35 +71
Contract jobs citing Entity Framework 64 59 76
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.15% 0.24% 0.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.78% 1.06% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 42 55
10th Percentile £352 £328 £315
25th Percentile £456 £450 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £498 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.53% +4.74% -9.52%
75th Percentile £638 £579 £586
90th Percentile £698 £673 £675
UK median daily rate £515 £465 £475
% change year-on-year +10.75% -2.11% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,174 5,566 7,819
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.08% 22.54% 20.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,387 3,859 5,456
10th Percentile £363 £358 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £518 £535
% change year-on-year +1.45% -3.27% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 110 257
10th Percentile £30.45 £32.10 £22.75
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.12% +11.36% -15.38%
75th Percentile £73.46 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.05 £74.70
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £51.75
% change year-on-year +13.04% +11.11% -20.38%

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 16 June 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 16 June 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 -99 30 £519 +1.97% 20
South East -45 16 £605 +88.47% 21
Midlands -52 7 £425 +47.83% 8
West Midlands -54 6 £400 +39.13% 4
North West -36 5 £663 +6.00% 11
North of England -67 5 £663 +6.00% 24
South West -26 2 £625 +66.67% 1
East of England -32 1 - - 5
East Midlands - 1 £525 - 4
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 4 (6.25%) CMS
1 4 (6.25%) Confluence
2 3 (4.69%) IIS
2 3 (4.69%) Umbraco
3 1 (1.56%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (1.56%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.56%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.56%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 50 (78.13%) Azure
2 19 (29.69%) Entra ID
3 17 (26.56%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (20.31%) PaaS
5 12 (18.75%) Azure Service Fabric
6 8 (12.50%) GitHub
7 7 (10.94%) AWS
8 6 (9.38%) Azure Key Vault
8 6 (9.38%) Azure Logic Apps
8 6 (9.38%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (9.38%) IaaS
9 5 (7.81%) Azure AKS
9 5 (7.81%) Azure API Management
10 4 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (6.25%) Serverless
11 3 (4.69%) Azure App Service
11 3 (4.69%) Azure Storage
11 3 (4.69%) npm
11 3 (4.69%) Yarn
12 2 (3.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.69%) HTTP
2 2 (3.13%) 3GPP
2 2 (3.13%) RTCP
2 2 (3.13%) RTP
2 2 (3.13%) XCAP
3 1 (1.56%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (39.06%) SQL Server
2 6 (9.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (4.69%) MongoDB
4 3 (4.69%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.13%) DocumentDB
5 2 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.13%) Redis
6 1 (1.56%) GIS
6 1 (1.56%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.56%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.56%) Parquet
6 1 (1.56%) Pinecone
6 1 (1.56%) Power BI
6 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (25.00%) Git
2 6 (9.38%) NUnit
2 6 (9.38%) Visual Studio
3 5 (7.81%) JIRA
4 4 (6.25%) TeamCity
4 4 (6.25%) webpack
5 3 (4.69%) Bitbucket
5 3 (4.69%) MSBuild
6 2 (3.13%) git-flow
6 2 (3.13%) JMeter
6 2 (3.13%) Moq
6 2 (3.13%) Postman
7 1 (1.56%) ClearCase
7 1 (1.56%) GitLab
7 1 (1.56%) MSI
7 1 (1.56%) Rational Robot
7 1 (1.56%) Spinnaker
7 1 (1.56%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (1.56%) Visual Studio Coded UI
7 1 (1.56%) Vite
General
1 8 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 7 (10.94%) Banking
3 4 (6.25%) Finance
4 3 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.69%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.13%) Automotive
5 2 (3.13%) Investment Banking
5 2 (3.13%) Retail
6 1 (1.56%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.56%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 39 (60.94%) Developer
2 15 (23.44%) .NET Developer
2 15 (23.44%) Senior
3 13 (20.31%) Full-Stack Developer
4 11 (17.19%) Senior Developer
5 9 (14.06%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
6 8 (12.50%) C# Developer
7 6 (9.38%) Senior .NET Developer
8 5 (7.81%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 4 (6.25%) Azure Developer
9 4 (6.25%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
9 4 (6.25%) Software Engineer
9 4 (6.25%) Web Developer
10 3 (4.69%) C# .NET Developer
10 3 (4.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 3 (4.69%) Lead
10 3 (4.69%) React Developer
10 3 (4.69%) SQL Developer
11 2 (3.13%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (78.13%) .NET
2 42 (65.63%) .NET Framework
3 27 (42.19%) ASP.NET
3 27 (42.19%) React
4 21 (32.81%) RESTful
5 17 (26.56%) .NET Core
5 17 (26.56%) CSS
5 17 (26.56%) YAML
6 14 (21.88%) ASP.NET Core
7 13 (20.31%) ARM Templates
8 12 (18.75%) AngularJS
8 12 (18.75%) REST
9 11 (17.19%) ASP.NET Web API
9 11 (17.19%) HTML
10 7 (10.94%) SailPoint
11 5 (7.81%) Material-UI
11 5 (7.81%) OAuth
11 5 (7.81%) Razor View Engine
11 5 (7.81%) Swagger
11 5 (7.81%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.38%) Cloud Native
1 6 (9.38%) Product Ownership
2 5 (7.81%) Legacy Code
3 3 (4.69%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.13%) Fixed Income
4 2 (3.13%) Media Streaming
5 1 (1.56%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.56%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.56%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.56%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.56%) Linux
1 1 (1.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (68.75%) CI/CD
2 39 (60.94%) DevOps
3 24 (37.50%) Agile
4 22 (34.38%) Microservices
5 21 (32.81%) Full-Stack Development
6 18 (28.13%) Infrastructure as Code
7 16 (25.00%) Unit Testing
8 14 (21.88%) Test Automation
9 13 (20.31%) B2C
9 13 (20.31%) Containerisation
10 11 (17.19%) TDD
11 10 (15.63%) ETL
11 10 (15.63%) SOLID
11 10 (15.63%) User Experience
12 9 (14.06%) Mentoring
12 9 (14.06%) MVC
12 9 (14.06%) Problem-Solving
13 8 (12.50%) Code Quality
13 8 (12.50%) Scrum
14 7 (10.94%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 45 (70.31%) C#
2 37 (57.81%) SQL
3 20 (31.25%) JavaScript
4 19 (29.69%) TypeScript
5 9 (14.06%) Python
6 6 (9.38%) Bicep
6 6 (9.38%) PowerShell
7 5 (7.81%) T-SQL
8 3 (4.69%) VB.NET
9 1 (1.56%) C++
9 1 (1.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.56%) Java
9 1 (1.56%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.56%) VB
9 1 (1.56%) VB6
9 1 (1.56%) XPath
Qualifications
1 26 (40.63%) Security Cleared
2 23 (35.94%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.81%) Degree
4 3 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.13%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.56%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (1.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (14.06%) QA
2 6 (9.38%) WCAG
3 5 (7.81%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.56%) GDPR
System Software
1 28 (43.75%) Docker
2 9 (14.06%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (28.13%) Terraform
2 11 (17.19%) Kubernetes
3 8 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (10.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 16 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.38%) Oracle
3 2 (3.13%) Databricks
4 1 (1.56%) Adobe
4 1 (1.56%) Google
4 1 (1.56%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.56%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.56%) Telerik