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 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 523 419 458
Rank change year-on-year -104 +39 +102
Contract jobs citing Entity Framework 51 57 78
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.13% 0.23% 0.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.64% 1.04% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 40 62
10th Percentile £365 £423 £319
25th Percentile £464 £450 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £498 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.53% +4.74% -6.86%
75th Percentile £631 £551 £638
90th Percentile £735 £689 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -5.00%
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 7,933 5,504 7,511
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.90% 22.38% 20.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,304 3,816 5,356
10th Percentile £358 £368 £350
25th Percentile £419 £425 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.55% -3.05% -2.65%
75th Percentile £625 £668 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 98 198
10th Percentile £33.75 £29.90 £21.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.56 £39.94
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.13 £82.36 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 -82 25 £520 +2.21% 26
South East -59 10 £605 +51.25% 20
Midlands -60 6 £450 -5.26% 9
West Midlands -58 5 £425 -10.53% 5
North West - 5 £663 - 11
North of England - 5 £663 - 21
South West -40 2 £625 +25.00% 6
East Midlands -33 1 £525 +5.00% 4
East of England - 1 - - 10
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 (7.84%) Confluence
2 3 (5.88%) IIS
3 2 (3.92%) CMS
4 1 (1.96%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (1.96%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (1.96%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.96%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 39 (76.47%) Azure
2 16 (31.37%) Entra ID
3 15 (29.41%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (23.53%) PaaS
5 11 (21.57%) Azure Service Fabric
6 6 (11.76%) GitHub
7 5 (9.80%) IaaS
8 4 (7.84%) AWS
8 4 (7.84%) Azure API Management
8 4 (7.84%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (7.84%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (7.84%) Serverless
9 3 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (5.88%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (5.88%) Azure Storage
10 2 (3.92%) Azure AKS
10 2 (3.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (3.92%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (3.92%) Azure Functions
10 2 (3.92%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.88%) HTTP
2 2 (3.92%) 3GPP
2 2 (3.92%) RTCP
2 2 (3.92%) RTP
2 2 (3.92%) XCAP
3 1 (1.96%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (43.14%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.84%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (7.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (5.88%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.96%) GIS
4 1 (1.96%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.96%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.96%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.96%) Parquet
4 1 (1.96%) Pinecone
4 1 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.96%) Power BI
4 1 (1.96%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (25.49%) Git
2 6 (11.76%) JIRA
2 6 (11.76%) Visual Studio
3 2 (3.92%) NUnit
3 2 (3.92%) Postman
3 2 (3.92%) TeamCity
3 2 (3.92%) webpack
4 1 (1.96%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.96%) ClearCase
4 1 (1.96%) GitLab
4 1 (1.96%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.96%) Moq
4 1 (1.96%) MSBuild
4 1 (1.96%) MSI
4 1 (1.96%) Rational Robot
4 1 (1.96%) Spinnaker
4 1 (1.96%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.96%) Visual Studio Coded UI
4 1 (1.96%) Vite
General
1 5 (9.80%) Banking
1 5 (9.80%) Social Skills
2 4 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (7.84%) Finance
3 3 (5.88%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.96%) Automotive
4 1 (1.96%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 32 (62.75%) Developer
2 13 (25.49%) Full-Stack Developer
2 13 (25.49%) Senior
3 10 (19.61%) .NET Developer
3 10 (19.61%) Senior Developer
4 8 (15.69%) C# Developer
4 8 (15.69%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (13.73%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (9.80%) Senior .NET Developer
7 4 (7.84%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 4 (7.84%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
7 4 (7.84%) Software Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) Azure Developer
8 3 (5.88%) C# .NET Developer
8 3 (5.88%) React Developer
8 3 (5.88%) SQL Developer
9 2 (3.92%) ETL Developer
9 2 (3.92%) Senior C# Developer
9 2 (3.92%) Senior Software Engineer
9 2 (3.92%) Senior Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (74.51%) .NET
2 32 (62.75%) .NET Framework
3 22 (43.14%) React
4 17 (33.33%) ASP.NET
4 17 (33.33%) RESTful
5 15 (29.41%) YAML
6 13 (25.49%) CSS
7 12 (23.53%) .NET Core
7 12 (23.53%) ARM Templates
8 11 (21.57%) ASP.NET Core
9 10 (19.61%) REST
10 9 (17.65%) AngularJS
11 7 (13.73%) HTML
11 7 (13.73%) SailPoint
12 5 (9.80%) Material-UI
13 4 (7.84%) Razor View Engine
13 4 (7.84%) Vue
13 4 (7.84%) XML
14 3 (5.88%) ASP.NET Web API
14 3 (5.88%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.80%) Cloud Native
1 5 (9.80%) Legacy Code
2 4 (7.84%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.92%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.92%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.92%) Fixed Income
3 2 (3.92%) Media Streaming
4 1 (1.96%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.96%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.96%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.96%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.96%) Linux
1 1 (1.96%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (62.75%) CI/CD
2 30 (58.82%) DevOps
3 19 (37.25%) Microservices
4 16 (31.37%) Agile
4 16 (31.37%) Full-Stack Development
5 15 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (23.53%) B2C
7 11 (21.57%) Containerisation
8 10 (19.61%) ETL
8 10 (19.61%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (19.61%) Test Automation
8 10 (19.61%) Unit Testing
9 8 (15.69%) TDD
10 7 (13.73%) Mentoring
10 7 (13.73%) Performance Tuning
10 7 (13.73%) SOLID
11 6 (11.76%) Code Quality
12 5 (9.80%) Clean Code
12 5 (9.80%) Design Patterns
12 5 (9.80%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 34 (66.67%) C#
2 30 (58.82%) SQL
3 14 (27.45%) JavaScript
4 12 (23.53%) TypeScript
5 9 (17.65%) Python
6 5 (9.80%) PowerShell
7 4 (7.84%) T-SQL
8 3 (5.88%) Bicep
8 3 (5.88%) VB.NET
9 1 (1.96%) C++
9 1 (1.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.96%) Java
9 1 (1.96%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.96%) VB
9 1 (1.96%) VB6
9 1 (1.96%) XPath
Qualifications
1 23 (45.10%) Security Cleared
2 22 (43.14%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.84%) Degree
4 3 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.92%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.96%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.76%) QA
2 2 (3.92%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.92%) WCAG
3 1 (1.96%) GDPR
System Software
1 19 (37.25%) Docker
2 9 (17.65%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (23.53%) Terraform
2 8 (15.69%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (13.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 6 (11.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (25.49%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.88%) Oracle
3 2 (3.92%) Databricks
4 1 (1.96%) Adobe
4 1 (1.96%) Google
4 1 (1.96%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.96%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.96%) Telerik