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 8 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 586 459 439
Rank change year-on-year -127 -20 +86
Contract jobs citing Entity Framework 53 58 83
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.12% 0.21% 0.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.54% 0.85% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 40 52
10th Percentile £331 £348 £300
25th Percentile £380 £434 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £538 £489
Median % change year-on-year -8.14% +9.97% -12.53%
75th Percentile £570 £688 £588
90th Percentile £675 £750 £702
UK median daily rate £475 £518 £485
% change year-on-year -8.21% +6.70% -9.77%
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 9,815 6,851 8,071
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.35% 25.05% 24.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,453 4,687 5,516
10th Percentile £380 £356 £363
25th Percentile £438 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 267 162 178
10th Percentile £30.00 £31.29 £27.53
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.63 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £54.35 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.20% -13.04% -
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.40 £71.80 £74.61
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +27.62% -15.32% +3.33%

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 8 September 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 8 September 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 -95 23 £503 -22.69% 50
South East -57 17 £500 +38.89% 22
West Midlands -44 5 £438 +27.27% 7
Midlands -54 5 £438 +27.27% 12
East of England -25 2 - - 15
North West -54 2 - - 20
North of England -73 2 - - 30
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 6 (11.32%) Confluence
2 3 (5.66%) CMS
3 2 (3.77%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 3 (5.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.89%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.89%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 42 (79.25%) Azure
2 23 (43.40%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (22.64%) Entra ID
4 11 (20.75%) Azure App Service
5 9 (16.98%) Azure AKS
5 9 (16.98%) Azure Monitor
5 9 (16.98%) GitHub
6 8 (15.09%) Azure Key Vault
6 8 (15.09%) IaaS
6 8 (15.09%) PaaS
7 6 (11.32%) AWS
8 5 (9.43%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (7.55%) Azure API Management
9 4 (7.55%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (7.55%) SaaS
10 3 (5.66%) Azure Storage
10 3 (5.66%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (3.77%) Azure Service Bus
11 2 (3.77%) Power Platform
11 2 (3.77%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (41.51%) SQL Server
2 9 (16.98%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (9.43%) NoSQL
3 5 (9.43%) Relational Database
3 5 (9.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (5.66%) DocumentDB
4 3 (5.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (3.77%) Db2
5 2 (3.77%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.77%) Redis
6 1 (1.89%) MySQL
6 1 (1.89%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.89%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 16 (30.19%) Git
2 8 (15.09%) Visual Studio
3 6 (11.32%) NUnit
4 4 (7.55%) JetBrains Rider
5 3 (5.66%) JIRA
5 3 (5.66%) TeamCity
6 2 (3.77%) Bitbucket
6 2 (3.77%) git-flow
6 2 (3.77%) JMeter
6 2 (3.77%) Moq
6 2 (3.77%) MSBuild
6 2 (3.77%) webpack
7 1 (1.89%) ClearCase
7 1 (1.89%) GitLab
7 1 (1.89%) Rational Robot
7 1 (1.89%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (1.89%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 11 (20.75%) Social Skills
2 5 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (9.43%) Banking
3 2 (3.77%) Automotive
3 2 (3.77%) Investment Banking
3 2 (3.77%) Public Sector
3 2 (3.77%) Retail
4 1 (1.89%) Finance
4 1 (1.89%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.89%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 38 (71.70%) Developer
2 15 (28.30%) .NET Developer
2 15 (28.30%) Full-Stack Developer
3 11 (20.75%) Senior
4 7 (13.21%) C# Developer
4 7 (13.21%) Senior Developer
5 5 (9.43%) C# .NET Developer
6 3 (5.66%) Architect
6 3 (5.66%) Azure Developer
6 3 (5.66%) Dynamics 365 Architect
6 3 (5.66%) Senior .NET Developer
6 3 (5.66%) SQL Developer
6 3 (5.66%) Web Developer
7 2 (3.77%) ETL Developer
7 2 (3.77%) Python Developer
7 2 (3.77%) Senior Python Developer
7 2 (3.77%) Software Engineer
7 2 (3.77%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.77%) Technical Leader
7 2 (3.77%) WPF Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (98.11%) .NET
2 49 (92.45%) .NET Framework
3 26 (49.06%) .NET Core
4 23 (43.40%) ASP.NET
5 21 (39.62%) React
6 18 (33.96%) REST
6 18 (33.96%) RESTful
7 15 (28.30%) ASP.NET Web API
8 14 (26.42%) CSS
9 13 (24.53%) Terraform
10 12 (22.64%) HTML
11 10 (18.87%) AngularJS
12 9 (16.98%) ASP.NET Core
12 9 (16.98%) OAuth
13 8 (15.09%) OpenID
14 7 (13.21%) NHibernate
15 6 (11.32%) JSON
15 6 (11.32%) SAML
15 6 (11.32%) XML
16 5 (9.43%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.98%) Cloud Native
2 6 (11.32%) Product Ownership
3 5 (9.43%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (9.43%) Legacy Code
4 3 (5.66%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (3.77%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.89%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.89%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.89%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.89%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.77%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (66.04%) CI/CD
1 35 (66.04%) DevOps
2 24 (45.28%) Full-Stack Development
3 22 (41.51%) Agile
4 14 (26.42%) MVC
4 14 (26.42%) Test Automation
5 13 (24.53%) Unit Testing
6 12 (22.64%) Dependency Injection
7 10 (18.87%) B2C
7 10 (18.87%) Microservices
7 10 (18.87%) Scrum
8 9 (16.98%) Code Quality
8 9 (16.98%) TDD
8 9 (16.98%) User Experience
9 8 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (15.09%) Software Engineering
9 8 (15.09%) SOLID
10 7 (13.21%) Deployment Automation
10 7 (13.21%) Integration Testing
10 7 (13.21%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 47 (88.68%) C#
2 32 (60.38%) SQL
3 20 (37.74%) JavaScript
4 18 (33.96%) TypeScript
5 9 (16.98%) Python
6 7 (13.21%) Bicep
7 4 (7.55%) PowerShell
8 3 (5.66%) VB.NET
9 2 (3.77%) T-SQL
9 2 (3.77%) XAML
10 1 (1.89%) VB
10 1 (1.89%) VB6
10 1 (1.89%) XPath
Qualifications
1 12 (22.64%) Security Cleared
2 8 (15.09%) SC Cleared
3 6 (11.32%) Degree
4 4 (7.55%) Azure Certification
5 3 (5.66%) Master's Degree
6 2 (3.77%) PhD
6 2 (3.77%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.89%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.32%) QA
2 4 (7.55%) Accessibility
2 4 (7.55%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (33.96%) Docker
2 5 (9.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (20.75%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 19 (35.85%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.43%) Oracle
3 2 (3.77%) Databricks
3 2 (3.77%) IBM
4 1 (1.89%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.89%) Telerik