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 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 575 437 445
Rank change year-on-year -138 +8 +72
Contract jobs citing Entity Framework 58 64 83
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.13% 0.23% 0.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.69% 1.05% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 45 52
10th Percentile £333 £370 £303
25th Percentile £393 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% +3.09% -11.82%
75th Percentile £644 £650 £588
90th Percentile £730 £730 £703
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £482
% change year-on-year - +3.84% -12.45%
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 8,457 6,078 7,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.49% 22.01% 22.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,528 4,153 5,023
10th Percentile £366 £350 £359
25th Percentile £431 £411 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £514 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.24% -6.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 158 216
10th Percentile £28.58 £31.25 £24.09
25th Percentile £45.94 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £58.60
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -6.15% -2.33%
75th Percentile £73.11 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.03 £81.01 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.88 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.45% -0.23% -8.33%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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 23 £519 -1.19% 47
South East -58 20 £500 +25.00% 18
North West -44 5 £663 +25.00% 12
North of England -76 5 £663 +25.00% 19
West Midlands -45 3 £400 +39.13% 6
Midlands -51 3 £400 +39.13% 10
East of England -25 2 - - 12
South West -40 2 £625 +66.67% 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 7 (12.07%) Confluence
2 3 (5.17%) CMS
3 2 (3.45%) IIS
3 2 (3.45%) Umbraco
4 1 (1.72%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (1.72%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.72%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.72%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 45 (77.59%) Azure
2 25 (43.10%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (25.86%) Entra ID
4 12 (20.69%) Azure App Service
5 11 (18.97%) Azure Monitor
6 10 (17.24%) Azure AKS
6 10 (17.24%) Azure Key Vault
6 10 (17.24%) GitHub
7 9 (15.52%) IaaS
7 9 (15.52%) PaaS
8 6 (10.34%) AWS
9 5 (8.62%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (6.90%) Azure API Management
10 4 (6.90%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (6.90%) Azure Storage
10 4 (6.90%) SaaS
11 3 (5.17%) Serverless
12 2 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
12 2 (3.45%) npm
12 2 (3.45%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.72%) HTTP
1 1 (1.72%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (48.28%) SQL Server
2 11 (18.97%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (10.34%) NoSQL
3 6 (10.34%) Relational Database
4 5 (8.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (5.17%) DocumentDB
5 3 (5.17%) MongoDB
5 3 (5.17%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (5.17%) Redis
6 2 (3.45%) Db2
6 2 (3.45%) Parquet
7 1 (1.72%) GIS
7 1 (1.72%) MySQL
7 1 (1.72%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.72%) Pinecone
7 1 (1.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (31.03%) Git
2 10 (17.24%) Visual Studio
3 6 (10.34%) NUnit
4 4 (6.90%) JetBrains Rider
4 4 (6.90%) JIRA
5 3 (5.17%) TeamCity
5 3 (5.17%) webpack
6 2 (3.45%) Bitbucket
6 2 (3.45%) git-flow
6 2 (3.45%) JMeter
6 2 (3.45%) Moq
6 2 (3.45%) MSBuild
7 1 (1.72%) ClearCase
7 1 (1.72%) GitLab
7 1 (1.72%) Jenkins
7 1 (1.72%) MSI
7 1 (1.72%) Rational Robot
7 1 (1.72%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (1.72%) Visual Studio Coded UI
7 1 (1.72%) Vite
General
1 10 (17.24%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.07%) Banking
3 5 (8.62%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.17%) Finance
4 3 (5.17%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.45%) Automotive
5 2 (3.45%) Investment Banking
5 2 (3.45%) Retail
6 1 (1.72%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.72%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 46 (79.31%) Developer
2 19 (32.76%) .NET Developer
3 18 (31.03%) Full-Stack Developer
4 12 (20.69%) Senior
5 9 (15.52%) C# Developer
5 9 (15.52%) Senior Developer
6 5 (8.62%) C# .NET Developer
6 5 (8.62%) Senior .NET Developer
7 4 (6.90%) Azure Developer
7 4 (6.90%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
8 3 (5.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) Lead
8 3 (5.17%) React Developer
8 3 (5.17%) Software Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) SQL Developer
8 3 (5.17%) Web Developer
9 2 (3.45%) ETL Developer
9 2 (3.45%) Python Developer
9 2 (3.45%) Senior Software Engineer
9 2 (3.45%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (96.55%) .NET
2 49 (84.48%) .NET Framework
3 29 (50.00%) React
4 26 (44.83%) .NET Core
4 26 (44.83%) ASP.NET
5 23 (39.66%) RESTful
6 21 (36.21%) REST
7 14 (24.14%) CSS
8 13 (22.41%) ASP.NET Web API
9 12 (20.69%) AngularJS
9 12 (20.69%) ASP.NET Core
10 10 (17.24%) HTML
10 10 (17.24%) OAuth
11 9 (15.52%) OpenID
12 7 (12.07%) NHibernate
12 7 (12.07%) SAML
13 6 (10.34%) Dapper ORM
13 6 (10.34%) YAML
14 5 (8.62%) ASP.NET MVC
14 5 (8.62%) ASP.NET Web Forms
Miscellaneous
1 10 (17.24%) Cloud Native
2 6 (10.34%) Legacy Code
3 5 (8.62%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (8.62%) Product Ownership
4 3 (5.17%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.45%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.72%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.72%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.72%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.72%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.17%) Windows
2 1 (1.72%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (68.97%) CI/CD
2 38 (65.52%) DevOps
3 27 (46.55%) Full-Stack Development
4 22 (37.93%) Agile
5 19 (32.76%) Test Automation
6 16 (27.59%) Unit Testing
7 13 (22.41%) Microservices
7 13 (22.41%) MVC
8 11 (18.97%) B2C
8 11 (18.97%) Dependency Injection
8 11 (18.97%) Scrum
8 11 (18.97%) TDD
9 10 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (15.52%) Code Quality
10 9 (15.52%) Containerisation
10 9 (15.52%) ETL
10 9 (15.52%) User Experience
11 8 (13.79%) RBAC
11 8 (13.79%) Software Engineering
11 8 (13.79%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 51 (87.93%) C#
2 33 (56.90%) SQL
3 22 (37.93%) TypeScript
4 21 (36.21%) JavaScript
5 12 (20.69%) Python
6 9 (15.52%) Bicep
7 5 (8.62%) PowerShell
8 4 (6.90%) T-SQL
9 3 (5.17%) VB.NET
10 2 (3.45%) XAML
11 1 (1.72%) C++
11 1 (1.72%) Java
11 1 (1.72%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.72%) VB
11 1 (1.72%) VB6
11 1 (1.72%) XPath
Qualifications
1 14 (24.14%) Security Cleared
2 10 (17.24%) SC Cleared
3 6 (10.34%) Degree
4 5 (8.62%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.45%) Master's Degree
5 2 (3.45%) PhD
6 1 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.72%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (1.72%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.34%) QA
2 5 (8.62%) Accessibility
3 4 (6.90%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (34.48%) Docker
2 6 (10.34%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (29.31%) Terraform
2 13 (22.41%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (29.31%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.34%) Oracle
3 2 (3.45%) Databricks
3 2 (3.45%) IBM
4 1 (1.72%) Adobe
4 1 (1.72%) Google
4 1 (1.72%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.72%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.72%) Telerik