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 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 540 443 456
Rank change year-on-year -97 +13 +80
Contract jobs citing Entity Framework 59 68 90
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.13% 0.25% 0.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.70% 1.12% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 49 59
10th Percentile £341 £324 £313
25th Percentile £400 £450 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £586
90th Percentile £735 £678 £703
UK median daily rate £509 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +1.75% +5.26% -13.64%
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 8,450 6,067 7,560
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.84% 22.26% 21.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,540 4,172 5,263
10th Percentile £363 £355 £356
25th Percentile £431 £413 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% -5.41% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £745 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £510 £543
% change year-on-year +2.94% -5.99% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 135 243
10th Percentile £30.00 £31.25 £23.84
25th Percentile £51.25 £45.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -0.86% -7.20%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.61 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -12.00%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 -92 24 £519 +0.24% 13
South East -59 16 £605 +88.47% 9
Midlands -42 7 £425 +47.83% 10
West Midlands -49 6 £400 +39.13% 7
North West -43 5 £663 +6.00% 6
North of England -69 5 £663 +6.00% 8
East of England -24 2 - - 4
South West -36 2 £625 +66.67% 1
East Midlands - 1 £525 - 3
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 (6.78%) Confluence
2 3 (5.08%) CMS
3 2 (3.39%) IIS
3 2 (3.39%) Umbraco
4 1 (1.69%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (1.69%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.69%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.69%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 46 (77.97%) Azure
2 21 (35.59%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (23.73%) Entra ID
4 11 (18.64%) GitHub
5 8 (13.56%) PaaS
6 7 (11.86%) Azure App Service
6 7 (11.86%) IaaS
7 6 (10.17%) Azure AKS
7 6 (10.17%) Azure Key Vault
7 6 (10.17%) Azure Monitor
7 6 (10.17%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (8.47%) AWS
9 4 (6.78%) Azure Service Bus
9 4 (6.78%) SaaS
10 3 (5.08%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (5.08%) Azure Service Fabric
10 3 (5.08%) Azure Storage
10 3 (5.08%) npm
10 3 (5.08%) Serverless
10 3 (5.08%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.08%) HTTP
2 2 (3.39%) 3GPP
2 2 (3.39%) RTCP
2 2 (3.39%) RTP
2 2 (3.39%) XCAP
3 1 (1.69%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (47.46%) SQL Server
2 8 (13.56%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (10.17%) Relational Database
4 5 (8.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (5.08%) MongoDB
5 3 (5.08%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (5.08%) Redis
6 2 (3.39%) DocumentDB
7 1 (1.69%) Db2
7 1 (1.69%) GIS
7 1 (1.69%) MySQL
7 1 (1.69%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.69%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.69%) Parquet
7 1 (1.69%) Pinecone
7 1 (1.69%) Power BI
7 1 (1.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (23.73%) Git
2 11 (18.64%) Visual Studio
3 6 (10.17%) NUnit
4 5 (8.47%) JIRA
5 4 (6.78%) JetBrains Rider
5 4 (6.78%) TeamCity
5 4 (6.78%) webpack
6 3 (5.08%) Bitbucket
6 3 (5.08%) MSBuild
7 2 (3.39%) git-flow
7 2 (3.39%) JMeter
7 2 (3.39%) Moq
8 1 (1.69%) ClearCase
8 1 (1.69%) GitLab
8 1 (1.69%) Jenkins
8 1 (1.69%) MSI
8 1 (1.69%) Rational Robot
8 1 (1.69%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (1.69%) Visual Studio Coded UI
8 1 (1.69%) Vite
General
1 9 (15.25%) Social Skills
2 7 (11.86%) Banking
3 4 (6.78%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (6.78%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.08%) Finance
5 2 (3.39%) Automotive
5 2 (3.39%) Investment Banking
5 2 (3.39%) Retail
6 1 (1.69%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.69%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 42 (71.19%) Developer
2 17 (28.81%) .NET Developer
3 16 (27.12%) Full-Stack Developer
4 12 (20.34%) Senior
5 9 (15.25%) C# Developer
5 9 (15.25%) Senior Developer
6 5 (8.47%) C# .NET Developer
6 5 (8.47%) Senior .NET Developer
7 4 (6.78%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (6.78%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
7 4 (6.78%) Lead
7 4 (6.78%) Software Engineer
8 3 (5.08%) Azure Developer
8 3 (5.08%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 3 (5.08%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (5.08%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 3 (5.08%) React Developer
8 3 (5.08%) SQL Developer
8 3 (5.08%) Web Developer
9 2 (3.39%) C# WPF Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (93.22%) .NET
2 47 (79.66%) .NET Framework
3 30 (50.85%) React
4 28 (47.46%) ASP.NET
5 23 (38.98%) .NET Core
6 22 (37.29%) RESTful
7 16 (27.12%) CSS
7 16 (27.12%) REST
8 14 (23.73%) ASP.NET Core
9 13 (22.03%) ASP.NET Web API
10 11 (18.64%) AngularJS
10 11 (18.64%) HTML
11 8 (13.56%) YAML
12 6 (10.17%) Dapper ORM
12 6 (10.17%) Next.js
12 6 (10.17%) OAuth
12 6 (10.17%) XML
13 5 (8.47%) NHibernate
13 5 (8.47%) OpenID
13 5 (8.47%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.95%) Cloud Native
2 6 (10.17%) Product Ownership
3 5 (8.47%) Legacy Code
4 4 (6.78%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (5.08%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (3.39%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (3.39%) Fixed Income
6 2 (3.39%) Media Streaming
7 1 (1.69%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.69%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.69%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.08%) Windows
2 1 (1.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (66.10%) CI/CD
2 35 (59.32%) DevOps
3 24 (40.68%) Full-Stack Development
4 23 (38.98%) Agile
5 17 (28.81%) Unit Testing
6 14 (23.73%) Microservices
6 14 (23.73%) Test Automation
7 13 (22.03%) MVC
8 11 (18.64%) Dependency Injection
8 11 (18.64%) TDD
9 10 (16.95%) ETL
9 10 (16.95%) Scrum
9 10 (16.95%) User Experience
10 9 (15.25%) Code Quality
10 9 (15.25%) Containerisation
10 9 (15.25%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (15.25%) Software Engineering
10 9 (15.25%) SOLID
11 8 (13.56%) Infrastructure as Code
11 8 (13.56%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 49 (83.05%) C#
2 32 (54.24%) SQL
3 23 (38.98%) TypeScript
4 20 (33.90%) JavaScript
5 8 (13.56%) Python
6 6 (10.17%) Bicep
7 4 (6.78%) T-SQL
8 3 (5.08%) PowerShell
8 3 (5.08%) VB.NET
9 2 (3.39%) XAML
10 1 (1.69%) C++
10 1 (1.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (1.69%) Java
10 1 (1.69%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.69%) VB
10 1 (1.69%) VB6
10 1 (1.69%) XPath
Qualifications
1 17 (28.81%) Security Cleared
2 14 (23.73%) SC Cleared
3 7 (11.86%) Degree
4 3 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.39%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.39%) Master's Degree
5 2 (3.39%) PhD
6 1 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.69%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (1.69%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.86%) QA
2 6 (10.17%) Accessibility
3 5 (8.47%) WCAG
4 1 (1.69%) GDPR
System Software
1 21 (35.59%) Docker
2 3 (5.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (25.42%) Terraform
2 11 (18.64%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.39%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 12 (20.34%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.47%) Oracle
3 2 (3.39%) Databricks
4 1 (1.69%) Adobe
4 1 (1.69%) Google
4 1 (1.69%) IBM
4 1 (1.69%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.69%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.69%) Telerik