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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 552 441 471
Rank change year-on-year -111 +30 +84
Contract jobs citing Entity Framework 59 65 86
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.13% 0.24% 0.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.70% 1.09% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 47 62
10th Percentile £341 £340 £313
25th Percentile £400 £450 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -11.63%
75th Percentile £650 £613 £588
90th Percentile £720 £680 £675
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +4.00% +5.26% -9.52%
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 8,412 5,963 7,945
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.96% 22.44% 21.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,545 4,100 5,535
10th Percentile £363 £355 £350
25th Percentile £428 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £780 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.74% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 129 266
10th Percentile £30.30 £30.65 £23.80
25th Percentile £51.25 £46.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.75 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +12.55% -0.94% -10.31%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.42 £80.20 £74.47
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -15.38%

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 7 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 7 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 -110 23 £518 - 18
South East -51 17 £610 +90.03% 40
Midlands -52 7 £425 +47.83% 25
West Midlands -56 6 £400 +39.13% 10
North West -38 5 £663 +6.00% 23
North of England -65 5 £663 +6.00% 47
East of England -30 2 - - 25
South West -32 2 £625 +66.67% 11
East Midlands - 1 £525 - 15
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%) CMS
1 4 (6.78%) Confluence
2 3 (5.08%) IIS
2 3 (5.08%) Umbraco
3 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 13 (22.03%) Entra ID
4 10 (16.95%) GitHub
5 7 (11.86%) PaaS
6 6 (10.17%) Azure AKS
6 6 (10.17%) Azure App Service
6 6 (10.17%) Azure Key Vault
6 6 (10.17%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (10.17%) IaaS
7 5 (8.47%) AWS
7 5 (8.47%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (6.78%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (5.08%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (5.08%) Azure Service Fabric
9 3 (5.08%) Azure Storage
9 3 (5.08%) npm
9 3 (5.08%) SaaS
9 3 (5.08%) Serverless
9 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 7 (11.86%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (10.17%) Relational Database
3 6 (10.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (5.08%) MongoDB
4 3 (5.08%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (5.08%) Redis
5 2 (3.39%) DocumentDB
6 1 (1.69%) GIS
6 1 (1.69%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.69%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.69%) Parquet
6 1 (1.69%) Pinecone
6 1 (1.69%) Power BI
6 1 (1.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 15 (25.42%) Git
2 11 (18.64%) Visual Studio
3 6 (10.17%) NUnit
4 5 (8.47%) JIRA
5 4 (6.78%) TeamCity
5 4 (6.78%) webpack
6 3 (5.08%) Bitbucket
6 3 (5.08%) JetBrains Rider
6 3 (5.08%) MSBuild
7 2 (3.39%) git-flow
7 2 (3.39%) JMeter
7 2 (3.39%) Moq
7 2 (3.39%) Postman
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
General
1 9 (15.25%) Social Skills
2 7 (11.86%) Banking
3 3 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.08%) Finance
3 3 (5.08%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.39%) Automotive
4 2 (3.39%) Investment Banking
4 2 (3.39%) Retail
5 1 (1.69%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.69%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 42 (71.19%) Developer
2 17 (28.81%) .NET Developer
3 15 (25.42%) Full-Stack Developer
4 14 (23.73%) Senior
5 11 (18.64%) Senior Developer
6 9 (15.25%) C# Developer
7 6 (10.17%) Senior .NET Developer
8 5 (8.47%) C# .NET Developer
9 4 (6.78%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (6.78%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
9 4 (6.78%) Lead
9 4 (6.78%) Software Engineer
9 4 (6.78%) Web Developer
10 3 (5.08%) Azure Developer
10 3 (5.08%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 3 (5.08%) DevOps Engineer
10 3 (5.08%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 3 (5.08%) React Developer
10 3 (5.08%) SQL Developer
11 2 (3.39%) 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
5 23 (38.98%) RESTful
6 18 (30.51%) CSS
7 14 (23.73%) ASP.NET Core
7 14 (23.73%) REST
8 12 (20.34%) ASP.NET Web API
8 12 (20.34%) HTML
9 11 (18.64%) AngularJS
10 8 (13.56%) YAML
11 6 (10.17%) Next.js
12 5 (8.47%) Material-UI
12 5 (8.47%) OAuth
12 5 (8.47%) Razor View Engine
12 5 (8.47%) Swagger
12 5 (8.47%) WCF
12 5 (8.47%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.25%) Cloud Native
2 7 (11.86%) Product Ownership
3 5 (8.47%) Legacy Code
4 3 (5.08%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (3.39%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.39%) Fixed Income
5 2 (3.39%) Media Streaming
6 1 (1.69%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.69%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.69%) Legacy Applications
6 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 36 (61.02%) DevOps
3 24 (40.68%) Agile
4 23 (38.98%) Full-Stack Development
5 18 (30.51%) Unit Testing
6 16 (27.12%) Microservices
7 14 (23.73%) Test Automation
8 12 (20.34%) MVC
9 11 (18.64%) TDD
9 11 (18.64%) User Experience
10 10 (16.95%) Code Quality
10 10 (16.95%) Containerisation
10 10 (16.95%) Dependency Injection
10 10 (16.95%) ETL
10 10 (16.95%) Scrum
10 10 (16.95%) SOLID
11 9 (15.25%) Mentoring
11 9 (15.25%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (15.25%) Software Engineering
12 8 (13.56%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 49 (83.05%) C#
2 31 (52.54%) SQL
3 23 (38.98%) TypeScript
4 21 (35.59%) JavaScript
5 8 (13.56%) Python
6 6 (10.17%) Bicep
7 5 (8.47%) 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 18 (30.51%) Security Cleared
2 15 (25.42%) SC Cleared
3 7 (11.86%) Degree
4 3 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.39%) Master's Degree
5 2 (3.39%) PhD
6 1 (1.69%) Azure Certification
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 9 (15.25%) QA
2 6 (10.17%) Accessibility
2 6 (10.17%) WCAG
3 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 3 (5.08%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 10 (16.95%) 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%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.69%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.69%) Telerik