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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 541 421 458
Rank change year-on-year -120 +37 +111
Contract jobs citing Entity Framework 47 56 92
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.12% 0.23% 0.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.59% 1.03% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 40 74
10th Percentile £461 £398 £333
25th Percentile £492 £450 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £469 £485
Median % change year-on-year +15.39% -3.35% -4.90%
75th Percentile £669 £541 £638
90th Percentile £750 £689 £700
UK median daily rate £513 £465 £483
% change year-on-year +10.22% -3.78% -3.35%

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 7,915 5,454 7,538
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.81% 22.47% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,304 3,765 5,406
10th Percentile £359 £363 £343
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £537 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% -1.47% -5.22%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £798 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 88 169
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.85 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.20 £37.08
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% +35.79% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £78.78 £83.27 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%

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 31 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 31 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 -80 22 £541 +8.18% 23
South East -49 10 £605 +61.33% 19
Midlands -68 5 £463 -2.63% 13
North West - 5 £663 - 15
North of England - 5 £663 - 28
West Midlands -57 4 £450 -5.26% 8
South West -24 3 £625 +25.00% 7
East Midlands -37 1 £525 +5.00% 5
East of England - 1 - - 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 4 (8.51%) Confluence
2 3 (6.38%) IIS
3 1 (2.13%) CMS
3 1 (2.13%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (2.13%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (2.13%) InDesign
Cloud Services
1 36 (76.60%) Azure
2 16 (34.04%) Entra ID
3 12 (25.53%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (25.53%) PaaS
4 11 (23.40%) Azure Service Fabric
5 7 (14.89%) GitHub
6 5 (10.64%) AWS
6 5 (10.64%) IaaS
7 4 (8.51%) Azure API Management
7 4 (8.51%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (8.51%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (8.51%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (8.51%) Serverless
8 3 (6.38%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (6.38%) Azure Storage
9 2 (4.26%) Azure AKS
9 2 (4.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (4.26%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (4.26%) Azure Functions
9 2 (4.26%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.38%) HTTP
2 2 (4.26%) 3GPP
2 2 (4.26%) RTCP
2 2 (4.26%) RTP
2 2 (4.26%) XCAP
3 1 (2.13%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (48.94%) SQL Server
2 4 (8.51%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (4.26%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.13%) GIS
4 1 (2.13%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.13%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.13%) Parquet
4 1 (2.13%) Pinecone
4 1 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.13%) Power BI
4 1 (2.13%) Redis
4 1 (2.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (23.40%) Git
2 6 (12.77%) JIRA
3 5 (10.64%) Visual Studio
4 2 (4.26%) Postman
4 2 (4.26%) webpack
5 1 (2.13%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.13%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.13%) MSBuild
5 1 (2.13%) MSI
5 1 (2.13%) SpecFlow
5 1 (2.13%) Spinnaker
5 1 (2.13%) TeamCity
5 1 (2.13%) Vite
General
1 6 (12.77%) Banking
1 6 (12.77%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.64%) Finance
3 3 (6.38%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.13%) Automotive
5 1 (2.13%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 28 (59.57%) Developer
2 12 (25.53%) Full-Stack Developer
2 12 (25.53%) Senior
3 10 (21.28%) .NET Developer
4 9 (19.15%) Senior Developer
5 8 (17.02%) C# Developer
5 8 (17.02%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (12.77%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (10.64%) Senior .NET Developer
7 5 (10.64%) Software Engineer
8 4 (8.51%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 4 (8.51%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
9 3 (6.38%) Azure Developer
9 3 (6.38%) C# .NET Developer
9 3 (6.38%) React Developer
9 3 (6.38%) Senior C# Developer
10 2 (4.26%) Python Developer
10 2 (4.26%) Senior C# .NET Developer
10 2 (4.26%) Senior Python Developer
10 2 (4.26%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (72.34%) .NET
2 28 (59.57%) .NET Framework
3 23 (48.94%) React
4 18 (38.30%) RESTful
5 17 (36.17%) ASP.NET
6 15 (31.91%) YAML
7 12 (25.53%) .NET Core
7 12 (25.53%) ARM Templates
8 11 (23.40%) AngularJS
8 11 (23.40%) ASP.NET Core
9 10 (21.28%) CSS
10 9 (19.15%) REST
11 7 (14.89%) SailPoint
12 5 (10.64%) Material-UI
13 4 (8.51%) ASP.NET Web API
13 4 (8.51%) HTML
13 4 (8.51%) Vue
14 3 (6.38%) Blazor
14 3 (6.38%) JSON
14 3 (6.38%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.64%) Product Ownership
2 3 (6.38%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.38%) Legacy Code
3 2 (4.26%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.26%) Fixed Income
3 2 (4.26%) Media Streaming
4 1 (2.13%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.13%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.13%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.13%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.13%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.26%) Windows
2 1 (2.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (65.96%) CI/CD
2 27 (57.45%) DevOps
3 19 (40.43%) Microservices
4 17 (36.17%) Full-Stack Development
5 14 (29.79%) Agile
5 14 (29.79%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (25.53%) B2C
7 9 (19.15%) Containerisation
8 8 (17.02%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (17.02%) Test Automation
8 8 (17.02%) Unit Testing
9 7 (14.89%) ETL
9 7 (14.89%) Mentoring
9 7 (14.89%) SOLID
10 6 (12.77%) API Development
10 6 (12.77%) Performance Tuning
10 6 (12.77%) TDD
11 5 (10.64%) Disaster Recovery
11 5 (10.64%) OOP
11 5 (10.64%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 34 (72.34%) C#
2 28 (59.57%) SQL
3 12 (25.53%) TypeScript
4 11 (23.40%) JavaScript
5 7 (14.89%) Python
6 5 (10.64%) PowerShell
7 3 (6.38%) T-SQL
8 2 (4.26%) Bicep
9 1 (2.13%) C++
9 1 (2.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (2.13%) Java
9 1 (2.13%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (44.68%) Security Cleared
2 20 (42.55%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.51%) Degree
4 3 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.26%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.13%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.77%) QA
2 2 (4.26%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.26%) WCAG
3 1 (2.13%) GDPR
System Software
1 17 (36.17%) Docker
2 9 (19.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (25.53%) Terraform
2 9 (19.15%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (14.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 5 (10.64%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (25.53%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.26%) Databricks
2 2 (4.26%) Oracle
3 1 (2.13%) Adobe
3 1 (2.13%) Google
3 1 (2.13%) OpenAI
3 1 (2.13%) ServiceNow