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 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 525 425 471
Rank change year-on-year -100 +46 +74
Contract jobs citing Entity Framework 55 53 70
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.14% 0.22% 0.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.70% 0.99% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 35 56
10th Percentile £359 £410 £334
25th Percentile £463 £450 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £495 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% +4.21% -8.65%
75th Percentile £638 £544 £638
90th Percentile £720 £619 £700
UK median daily rate £496 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +4.42% - -6.86%
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 7,812 5,375 7,466
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.23% 22.29% 20.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,180 3,720 5,298
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.79%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.78% -2.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 99 226
10th Percentile £32.06 £33.25 £22.12
25th Percentile £52.38 £51.88 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £65.02
90th Percentile £77.50 £81.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -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 14 May 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 14 May 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 -71 27 £519 +4.27% 29
South East -48 12 £605 +88.47% 22
Midlands -61 6 £450 -5.26% 8
North West -32 5 £663 +6.00% 18
West Midlands -56 5 £425 -10.53% 4
North of England -62 5 £663 +6.00% 32
South West -31 2 £625 +25.00% 3
East Midlands -30 1 £525 +5.00% 4
East of England - 1 - - 8
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 (7.27%) Confluence
2 3 (5.45%) CMS
2 3 (5.45%) IIS
3 2 (3.64%) Umbraco
4 1 (1.82%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (1.82%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.82%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 42 (76.36%) Azure
2 17 (30.91%) Entra ID
3 15 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (23.64%) PaaS
5 12 (21.82%) Azure Service Fabric
6 7 (12.73%) GitHub
7 6 (10.91%) IaaS
8 5 (9.09%) AWS
8 5 (9.09%) Azure API Management
8 5 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
8 5 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
8 5 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (7.27%) Serverless
10 3 (5.45%) Azure AKS
10 3 (5.45%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (5.45%) Azure Storage
11 2 (3.64%) Azure App Service
11 2 (3.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (3.64%) Azure Functions
11 2 (3.64%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.45%) HTTP
2 2 (3.64%) 3GPP
2 2 (3.64%) RTCP
2 2 (3.64%) RTP
2 2 (3.64%) XCAP
3 1 (1.82%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (41.82%) SQL Server
2 5 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (7.27%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (5.45%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.64%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.82%) DocumentDB
6 1 (1.82%) GIS
6 1 (1.82%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.82%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.82%) Parquet
6 1 (1.82%) Pinecone
6 1 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.82%) Power BI
6 1 (1.82%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (25.45%) Git
2 6 (10.91%) Visual Studio
3 5 (9.09%) JIRA
4 3 (5.45%) NUnit
5 2 (3.64%) Moq
5 2 (3.64%) Postman
5 2 (3.64%) TeamCity
5 2 (3.64%) webpack
6 1 (1.82%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.82%) ClearCase
6 1 (1.82%) git-flow
6 1 (1.82%) GitLab
6 1 (1.82%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.82%) JMeter
6 1 (1.82%) MSBuild
6 1 (1.82%) MSI
6 1 (1.82%) Rational Robot
6 1 (1.82%) Spinnaker
6 1 (1.82%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.82%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 5 (9.09%) Banking
1 5 (9.09%) Social Skills
2 4 (7.27%) Finance
3 3 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.45%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.82%) Automotive
4 1 (1.82%) Publishing
4 1 (1.82%) Retail
Job Titles
1 35 (63.64%) Developer
2 14 (25.45%) Senior
3 13 (23.64%) Full-Stack Developer
4 12 (21.82%) .NET Developer
5 11 (20.00%) Senior Developer
6 9 (16.36%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (14.55%) Azure Engineer
7 8 (14.55%) C# Developer
8 6 (10.91%) Senior .NET Developer
9 5 (9.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 4 (7.27%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
10 4 (7.27%) Software Engineer
11 3 (5.45%) Azure Developer
11 3 (5.45%) C# .NET Developer
11 3 (5.45%) React Developer
11 3 (5.45%) SQL Developer
11 3 (5.45%) Web Developer
12 2 (3.64%) Python Developer
12 2 (3.64%) Senior Software Engineer
12 2 (3.64%) Senior Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (74.55%) .NET
2 35 (63.64%) .NET Framework
3 22 (40.00%) React
4 20 (36.36%) ASP.NET
5 18 (32.73%) RESTful
6 16 (29.09%) YAML
7 14 (25.45%) .NET Core
7 14 (25.45%) CSS
8 13 (23.64%) ARM Templates
9 11 (20.00%) ASP.NET Core
10 10 (18.18%) REST
11 9 (16.36%) AngularJS
12 8 (14.55%) HTML
13 7 (12.73%) SailPoint
14 6 (10.91%) ASP.NET Web API
15 5 (9.09%) Material-UI
16 4 (7.27%) Next.js
16 4 (7.27%) OAuth
16 4 (7.27%) Razor View Engine
16 4 (7.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 5 (9.09%) Legacy Code
2 4 (7.27%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.64%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.64%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.64%) Fixed Income
3 2 (3.64%) Media Streaming
4 1 (1.82%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.82%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.82%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.82%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.82%) Linux
1 1 (1.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (65.45%) CI/CD
2 34 (61.82%) DevOps
3 21 (38.18%) Microservices
4 18 (32.73%) Agile
5 17 (30.91%) Full-Stack Development
5 17 (30.91%) Infrastructure as Code
6 13 (23.64%) B2C
6 13 (23.64%) Containerisation
6 13 (23.64%) Unit Testing
7 11 (20.00%) Test Automation
8 10 (18.18%) ETL
9 9 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (16.36%) TDD
10 8 (14.55%) Mentoring
10 8 (14.55%) SOLID
11 7 (12.73%) Code Quality
11 7 (12.73%) Performance Tuning
12 6 (10.91%) Clean Code
12 6 (10.91%) Design Patterns
12 6 (10.91%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 37 (67.27%) C#
2 33 (60.00%) SQL
3 15 (27.27%) JavaScript
4 13 (23.64%) TypeScript
5 9 (16.36%) Python
6 6 (10.91%) PowerShell
7 5 (9.09%) T-SQL
8 4 (7.27%) Bicep
9 3 (5.45%) VB.NET
10 1 (1.82%) C++
10 1 (1.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (1.82%) Java
10 1 (1.82%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.82%) VB
10 1 (1.82%) VB6
10 1 (1.82%) XPath
Qualifications
1 24 (43.64%) Security Cleared
2 22 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.27%) Degree
4 3 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.64%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.82%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.73%) QA
2 3 (5.45%) WCAG
3 2 (3.64%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.82%) GDPR
System Software
1 23 (41.82%) Docker
2 9 (16.36%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (27.27%) Terraform
2 8 (14.55%) Kubernetes
2 8 (14.55%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (12.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 13 (23.64%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.27%) Oracle
3 2 (3.64%) Databricks
4 1 (1.82%) Adobe
4 1 (1.82%) Google
4 1 (1.82%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.82%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.82%) Telerik