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 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 568 450 444
Rank change year-on-year -118 -6 +60
Contract jobs citing Entity Framework 54 61 90
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.12% 0.22% 0.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.54% 0.87% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 40 58
10th Percentile £330 £348 £300
25th Percentile £376 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £552 £559
Median % change year-on-year -11.68% -1.16% -1.59%
75th Percentile £583 £691 £611
90th Percentile £675 £750 £709
UK median daily rate £450 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -14.29% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 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 9,915 7,035 7,999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.30% 25.48% 24.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,512 4,783 5,317
10th Percentile £381 £354 £363
25th Percentile £443 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.88% -5.45% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £738 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 279 168 180
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.50 £27.68
25th Percentile £51.88 £42.88 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.00 £55.00 £62.93
Median % change year-on-year +21.82% -12.60% +0.68%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.54
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.35 £61.60
% change year-on-year +19.60% -11.77% +2.67%

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 23 September 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 23 September 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 -105 22 £481 -25.96% 39
South East -50 16 £500 +25.00% 27
East of England -29 4 - - 15
West Midlands -39 4 £400 +16.36% 12
Midlands -48 4 £400 +16.36% 20
North of England -77 4 - - 38
North West -50 2 - - 25
Yorkshire - 2 - - 9
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 5 (9.26%) Confluence
2 3 (5.56%) CMS
3 2 (3.70%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 3 (5.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.85%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.85%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 43 (79.63%) Azure
2 28 (51.85%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (22.22%) Entra ID
4 11 (20.37%) Azure App Service
5 9 (16.67%) AWS
5 9 (16.67%) Azure AKS
5 9 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
6 8 (14.81%) Azure Key Vault
6 8 (14.81%) IaaS
6 8 (14.81%) PaaS
7 7 (12.96%) GitHub
8 5 (9.26%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (7.41%) Azure API Management
9 4 (7.41%) SaaS
10 3 (5.56%) Azure Storage
10 3 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (3.70%) npm
11 2 (3.70%) Power Platform
11 2 (3.70%) Yarn
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (40.74%) SQL Server
2 9 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (11.11%) Relational Database
4 5 (9.26%) NoSQL
4 5 (9.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (5.56%) Db2
5 3 (5.56%) DocumentDB
5 3 (5.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (3.70%) MongoDB
6 2 (3.70%) Oracle Database
6 2 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (3.70%) Redis
7 1 (1.85%) MySQL
7 1 (1.85%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 21 (38.89%) Git
2 10 (18.52%) Visual Studio
3 6 (11.11%) NUnit
4 4 (7.41%) JetBrains Rider
5 3 (5.56%) TeamCity
6 2 (3.70%) Bitbucket
6 2 (3.70%) ClearCase
6 2 (3.70%) git-flow
6 2 (3.70%) JIRA
6 2 (3.70%) JMeter
6 2 (3.70%) Moq
6 2 (3.70%) MSBuild
6 2 (3.70%) Rational Robot
6 2 (3.70%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (3.70%) Visual Studio Coded UI
6 2 (3.70%) webpack
7 1 (1.85%) GitLab
7 1 (1.85%) REST Assured
General
1 14 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 5 (9.26%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (3.70%) Automotive
3 2 (3.70%) Banking
3 2 (3.70%) Finance
3 2 (3.70%) Investment Banking
3 2 (3.70%) Retail
4 1 (1.85%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.85%) Marketing
4 1 (1.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 38 (70.37%) Developer
2 18 (33.33%) .NET Developer
3 13 (24.07%) Full-Stack Developer
4 11 (20.37%) Senior
5 8 (14.81%) C# Developer
6 7 (12.96%) C# .NET Developer
6 7 (12.96%) Senior Developer
7 5 (9.26%) Senior .NET Developer
8 4 (7.41%) C# WPF Developer
8 4 (7.41%) WPF Developer
9 3 (5.56%) Architect
9 3 (5.56%) Azure Developer
9 3 (5.56%) Dynamics 365 Architect
9 3 (5.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 3 (5.56%) SQL Developer
9 3 (5.56%) Web Developer
10 2 (3.70%) Senior Software Engineer
10 2 (3.70%) Software Developer
10 2 (3.70%) Software Engineer
10 2 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (98.15%) .NET
2 51 (94.44%) .NET Framework
3 29 (53.70%) .NET Core
4 22 (40.74%) ASP.NET
4 22 (40.74%) REST
5 18 (33.33%) ASP.NET Web API
5 18 (33.33%) React
6 17 (31.48%) RESTful
7 12 (22.22%) CSS
8 11 (20.37%) HTML
8 11 (20.37%) Terraform
9 9 (16.67%) AngularJS
9 9 (16.67%) OAuth
10 8 (14.81%) NHibernate
10 8 (14.81%) OpenID
10 8 (14.81%) Web Services
11 7 (12.96%) WCF
11 7 (12.96%) XML
12 6 (11.11%) SAML
12 6 (11.11%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 7 (12.96%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (9.26%) Product Ownership
4 4 (7.41%) Legacy Code
5 3 (5.56%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.85%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.85%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.85%) Spread Betting
7 1 (1.85%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.85%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (72.22%) DevOps
2 37 (68.52%) CI/CD
3 23 (42.59%) Agile
4 21 (38.89%) Full-Stack Development
5 19 (35.19%) MVC
6 15 (27.78%) Dependency Injection
6 15 (27.78%) Test Automation
7 14 (25.93%) Unit Testing
8 13 (24.07%) Scrum
9 12 (22.22%) Software Engineering
10 11 (20.37%) SOLID
10 11 (20.37%) TDD
11 10 (18.52%) B2C
11 10 (18.52%) Deployment Automation
11 10 (18.52%) Design Patterns
11 10 (18.52%) Integration Testing
12 9 (16.67%) Code Quality
12 9 (16.67%) Microservices
12 9 (16.67%) SDLC
13 8 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 48 (88.89%) C#
2 32 (59.26%) SQL
3 23 (42.59%) JavaScript
4 20 (37.04%) TypeScript
5 7 (12.96%) Bicep
5 7 (12.96%) Python
6 4 (7.41%) PowerShell
6 4 (7.41%) XAML
7 3 (5.56%) VB.NET
8 2 (3.70%) T-SQL
8 2 (3.70%) VB
8 2 (3.70%) VB6
9 1 (1.85%) XPath
Qualifications
1 11 (20.37%) Security Cleared
2 8 (14.81%) Degree
3 7 (12.96%) SC Cleared
4 5 (9.26%) Master's Degree
5 4 (7.41%) Azure Certification
5 4 (7.41%) PhD
6 2 (3.70%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.85%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.11%) QA
2 4 (7.41%) Accessibility
2 4 (7.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (29.63%) Docker
2 5 (9.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (18.52%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 19 (35.19%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.11%) Oracle
3 2 (3.70%) IBM
4 1 (1.85%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.85%) Telerik