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 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 531 413 457
Rank change year-on-year -118 +44 +96
Contract jobs citing Entity Framework 48 67 94
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.13% 0.27% 0.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.61% 1.21% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 49 74
10th Percentile £459 £400 £333
25th Percentile £491 £450 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £500 £559
Median % change year-on-year +8.18% -10.51% +9.56%
75th Percentile £678 £638 £650
90th Percentile £724 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -1.96%

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 7,829 5,557 7,567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.25% 22.62% 19.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,242 3,775 5,401
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -0.46% -6.09%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £663
90th Percentile £738 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 87 193
10th Percentile £35.05 £27.34 £21.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.78 £40.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £78.70 £83.38 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

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 17 March 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 17 March 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 -69 23 £541 +4.52% 24
South East -44 9 £600 +39.13% 22
Midlands -60 5 £463 -2.63% 10
North West - 5 £663 - 13
North of England - 5 £663 - 23
West Midlands -68 4 £450 -5.26% 5
South West -22 3 £625 +25.00% 4
East of England -28 1 - - 8
East Midlands -31 1 £525 +5.00% 5
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 (10.42%) Confluence
2 3 (6.25%) IIS
3 1 (2.08%) CMS
3 1 (2.08%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (2.08%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) InDesign
Cloud Services
1 35 (72.92%) Azure
2 16 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 12 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (25.00%) PaaS
4 11 (22.92%) Azure Service Fabric
5 7 (14.58%) GitHub
6 5 (10.42%) IaaS
6 5 (10.42%) Serverless
7 4 (8.33%) AWS
7 4 (8.33%) Azure API Management
7 4 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (6.25%) Azure Functions
8 3 (6.25%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (6.25%) Azure Storage
8 3 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (4.17%) Azure AKS
9 2 (4.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.25%) HTTP
2 2 (4.17%) 3GPP
2 2 (4.17%) RTCP
2 2 (4.17%) RTP
2 2 (4.17%) XCAP
3 1 (2.08%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (54.17%) SQL Server
2 4 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (4.17%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.08%) GIS
4 1 (2.08%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.08%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.08%) Parquet
4 1 (2.08%) Pinecone
4 1 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.08%) Power BI
4 1 (2.08%) Redis
4 1 (2.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (22.92%) Git
2 7 (14.58%) JIRA
3 5 (10.42%) Visual Studio
4 4 (8.33%) SpecFlow
5 2 (4.17%) Postman
5 2 (4.17%) webpack
6 1 (2.08%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.08%) Jenkins
6 1 (2.08%) MSBuild
6 1 (2.08%) MSI
6 1 (2.08%) Spinnaker
6 1 (2.08%) TeamCity
6 1 (2.08%) Vite
General
1 6 (12.50%) Finance
1 6 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (6.25%) Banking
3 2 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.17%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.08%) Health Technology
4 1 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.08%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 29 (60.42%) Developer
2 13 (27.08%) Full-Stack Developer
3 11 (22.92%) .NET Developer
3 11 (22.92%) C# Developer
3 11 (22.92%) Senior
4 8 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (16.67%) Senior Developer
5 6 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (10.42%) Angular Developer
6 5 (10.42%) C# .NET Developer
6 5 (10.42%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
6 5 (10.42%) Senior .NET Developer
6 5 (10.42%) Software Engineer
7 4 (8.33%) Azure Developer
7 4 (8.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 4 (8.33%) Senior C# Developer
8 3 (6.25%) React Developer
9 2 (4.17%) Agile .NET Developer
9 2 (4.17%) Agile Developer
9 2 (4.17%) Senior C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (70.83%) .NET
2 29 (60.42%) .NET Framework
3 20 (41.67%) React
4 17 (35.42%) RESTful
5 15 (31.25%) YAML
6 14 (29.17%) ASP.NET
7 12 (25.00%) AngularJS
7 12 (25.00%) ARM Templates
8 11 (22.92%) CSS
9 10 (20.83%) .NET Core
9 10 (20.83%) REST
10 8 (16.67%) ASP.NET Core
11 7 (14.58%) SailPoint
12 6 (12.50%) Playwright
13 5 (10.42%) ASP.NET Web API
13 5 (10.42%) HTML
13 5 (10.42%) Material-UI
13 5 (10.42%) NHibernate
14 3 (6.25%) JSON
14 3 (6.25%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.42%) Product Ownership
2 3 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.17%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.17%) Fixed Income
3 2 (4.17%) Legacy Code
3 2 (4.17%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.17%) Media Streaming
4 1 (2.08%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.08%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.08%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.08%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.17%) Windows
2 1 (2.08%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 28 (58.33%) DevOps
3 23 (47.92%) Microservices
4 18 (37.50%) Agile
4 18 (37.50%) Full-Stack Development
5 13 (27.08%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (25.00%) B2C
7 10 (20.83%) Unit Testing
8 8 (16.67%) Containerisation
8 8 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (14.58%) Scrum
9 7 (14.58%) TDD
9 7 (14.58%) Test Automation
10 6 (12.50%) Clean Code
10 6 (12.50%) ETL
10 6 (12.50%) Mentoring
10 6 (12.50%) SOLID
11 5 (10.42%) Disaster Recovery
11 5 (10.42%) MVC
11 5 (10.42%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 35 (72.92%) C#
2 27 (56.25%) SQL
3 10 (20.83%) JavaScript
3 10 (20.83%) TypeScript
4 5 (10.42%) PowerShell
4 5 (10.42%) Python
5 3 (6.25%) T-SQL
6 2 (4.17%) Bicep
7 1 (2.08%) C++
7 1 (2.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (2.08%) Java
7 1 (2.08%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (39.58%) Security Cleared
2 18 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.33%) Degree
4 3 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.17%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.50%) QA
2 2 (4.17%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.17%) WCAG
3 1 (2.08%) GDPR
System Software
1 15 (31.25%) Docker
2 9 (18.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (25.00%) Terraform
2 9 (18.75%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (14.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.17%) Oracle
3 1 (2.08%) Adobe
3 1 (2.08%) Google
3 1 (2.08%) OpenAI
3 1 (2.08%) ServiceNow