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 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 470 421 480
Rank change year-on-year -49 +59 +25
Contract jobs citing Entity Framework 60 91 107
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.21% 0.29% 0.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.92% 1.30% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 59 86
10th Percentile £345 £300 £400
25th Percentile £421 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £567 £568
Median % change year-on-year +1.41% -0.09% +3.18%
75th Percentile £700 £625 £674
90th Percentile £750 £705 £714
UK median daily rate £523 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £64.75
25th Percentile - - £68.13
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +6.40%

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 6,502 6,978 8,983
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.88% 22.05% 22.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,378 4,453 6,631
10th Percentile £350 £356 £375
25th Percentile £413 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £507 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -7.02% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 135 186
10th Percentile £31.00 £27.30 £38.80
25th Percentile £41.56 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £55.78
Median % change year-on-year -16.92% +16.53% -14.18%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £73.50 £72.85 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £51.44 £65.00 £56.03
% change year-on-year -20.86% +16.01% -13.80%

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 October 2025.

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 October 2025. 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 +15 41 £675 +12.73% 67
South East +2 4 £413 -21.43% 72
East of England -12 4 £425 +41.67% 24
South West +15 3 £375 +50.00% 16
North West -16 3 £530 +8.72% 29
West Midlands -26 3 £344 -39.37% 15
North of England -32 3 £530 -6.53% 45
Midlands -41 3 £344 -39.37% 23
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 (8.33%) Confluence
2 3 (5.00%) Umbraco
3 2 (3.33%) CMS
Business Applications
1 5 (8.33%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.67%) Eikon
2 1 (1.67%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 27 (45.00%) Azure
2 16 (26.67%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (21.67%) GitHub
4 5 (8.33%) AWS
4 5 (8.33%) Serverless
5 4 (6.67%) Azure Functions
6 3 (5.00%) Power Platform
7 2 (3.33%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (3.33%) Copilot Studio
7 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (3.33%) Power Automate
7 2 (3.33%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.67%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.67%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (1.67%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.67%) GCP
8 1 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.67%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (73.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (3.33%) Power BI
2 2 (3.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.67%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.67%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 17 (28.33%) SpecFlow
2 12 (20.00%) JIRA
3 7 (11.67%) Git
4 2 (3.33%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.67%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.67%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.67%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.67%) JetBrains Rider
5 1 (1.67%) MSTest
5 1 (1.67%) NUnit
General
1 29 (48.33%) Finance
2 16 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 9 (15.00%) Banking
4 6 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 3 (5.00%) Legal
7 2 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (3.33%) Retail
8 1 (1.67%) Front Office
8 1 (1.67%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 49 (81.67%) Developer
2 25 (41.67%) Angular Developer
3 20 (33.33%) .NET Developer
4 16 (26.67%) Senior
5 15 (25.00%) C# Developer
6 14 (23.33%) Senior Developer
7 10 (16.67%) C# .NET Developer
8 7 (11.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 7 (11.67%) Full-Stack Developer
8 7 (11.67%) Senior C# Developer
9 6 (10.00%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
10 5 (8.33%) Agile .NET Developer
10 5 (8.33%) Agile C# Developer
10 5 (8.33%) Agile Developer
11 4 (6.67%) Senior .NET Developer
11 4 (6.67%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 4 (6.67%) Software Engineer
12 3 (5.00%) C# Developer - Commodities
12 3 (5.00%) Energy Trading Developer
12 3 (5.00%) Umbraco Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (98.33%) .NET
1 59 (98.33%) .NET Framework
2 31 (51.67%) AngularJS
3 25 (41.67%) NHibernate
4 21 (35.00%) REST
5 17 (28.33%) Playwright
5 17 (28.33%) RESTful
6 13 (21.67%) CSS
6 13 (21.67%) HTML
7 12 (20.00%) ASP.NET
8 9 (15.00%) React
9 8 (13.33%) .NET Core
9 8 (13.33%) NgRx
10 7 (11.67%) jQuery
11 6 (10.00%) LINQ
11 6 (10.00%) Vue
12 5 (8.33%) ASP.NET MVC
12 5 (8.33%) ASP.NET Web API
12 5 (8.33%) Dapper ORM
12 5 (8.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.33%) Fixed Income
1 5 (8.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 5 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 4 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.00%) Mobile App
3 3 (5.00%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.33%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.67%) Android
1 1 (1.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (55.00%) Agile
2 32 (53.33%) Microservices
3 29 (48.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 21 (35.00%) DevOps
5 20 (33.33%) Clean Code
6 19 (31.67%) Scrum
7 17 (28.33%) CI/CD
7 17 (28.33%) Unit Testing
8 15 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (23.33%) ETRM
9 14 (23.33%) Line Management
9 14 (23.33%) Risk Management
10 13 (21.67%) MVC
11 10 (16.67%) Front End Development
12 9 (15.00%) API Design
12 9 (15.00%) API Development
12 9 (15.00%) Continuous Delivery
12 9 (15.00%) Project Management
12 9 (15.00%) Software Engineering
13 8 (13.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 58 (96.67%) C#
2 25 (41.67%) SQL
3 13 (21.67%) JavaScript
4 3 (5.00%) Python
4 3 (5.00%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.67%) C++
5 1 (1.67%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.67%) RPG
5 1 (1.67%) RPG IV
5 1 (1.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (18.33%) Degree
2 1 (1.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.67%) QA
2 1 (1.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (15.00%) Docker
2 1 (1.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (3.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.67%) Murex
2 4 (6.67%) Oracle
3 1 (1.67%) Bloomberg
3 1 (1.67%) Reuters
3 1 (1.67%) Solace
3 1 (1.67%) TIBCO