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 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 532 416 449
Rank change year-on-year -116 +33 +124
Contract jobs citing Entity Framework 47 59 83
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.12% 0.24% 0.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.59% 1.08% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 40 66
10th Percentile £445 £423 £322
25th Percentile £492 £450 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £498 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.72% +4.74% -6.86%
75th Percentile £647 £551 £638
90th Percentile £750 £689 £700
UK median daily rate £513 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +7.89% - -5.00%

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 7,966 5,484 7,476
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.21% 22.39% 20.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,329 3,802 5,345
10th Percentile £358 £365 £350
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £799 £775
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 89 180
10th Percentile £34.00 £28.76 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.50 £37.49
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.85 £83.17 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

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 18 April 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 18 April 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 -67 21 £541 +6.31% 29
South East -38 10 £605 +51.25% 20
Midlands -68 6 £450 -5.26% 7
West Midlands -65 5 £425 -10.53% 4
North West - 5 £663 - 11
North of England - 5 £663 - 23
South West -26 2 £625 +25.00% 9
East Midlands -34 1 £525 +5.00% 3
East of England - 1 - - 12
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
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 38 (80.85%) Azure
2 16 (34.04%) Entra ID
3 14 (29.79%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (25.53%) PaaS
5 11 (23.40%) Azure Service Fabric
6 6 (12.77%) GitHub
7 5 (10.64%) IaaS
8 4 (8.51%) AWS
8 4 (8.51%) Azure API Management
8 4 (8.51%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (8.51%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (8.51%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (8.51%) Serverless
9 3 (6.38%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (6.38%) Azure Storage
10 2 (4.26%) Azure AKS
10 2 (4.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (4.26%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (4.26%) Azure Functions
10 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 22 (46.81%) SQL Server
2 4 (8.51%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (6.38%) 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
Development Applications
1 13 (27.66%) Git
2 6 (12.77%) JIRA
3 5 (10.64%) Visual Studio
4 2 (4.26%) NUnit
4 2 (4.26%) Postman
4 2 (4.26%) webpack
5 1 (2.13%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.13%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.13%) Moq
5 1 (2.13%) MSBuild
5 1 (2.13%) MSI
5 1 (2.13%) Spinnaker
5 1 (2.13%) TeamCity
5 1 (2.13%) Vite
General
1 5 (10.64%) Banking
2 4 (8.51%) Finance
2 4 (8.51%) Social Skills
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 27 (57.45%) Developer
2 12 (25.53%) Full-Stack Developer
2 12 (25.53%) Senior
3 10 (21.28%) .NET Developer
4 8 (17.02%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (17.02%) Senior Developer
5 7 (14.89%) Azure Engineer
5 7 (14.89%) C# Developer
6 5 (10.64%) Senior .NET Developer
6 5 (10.64%) Software Engineer
7 4 (8.51%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 4 (8.51%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
8 3 (6.38%) Azure Developer
8 3 (6.38%) C# .NET Developer
8 3 (6.38%) React Developer
8 3 (6.38%) Senior Software Engineer
9 2 (4.26%) Python Developer
9 2 (4.26%) Senior C# .NET Developer
9 2 (4.26%) Senior C# Developer
9 2 (4.26%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (72.34%) .NET
2 28 (59.57%) .NET Framework
3 22 (46.81%) React
4 17 (36.17%) RESTful
5 16 (34.04%) ASP.NET
5 16 (34.04%) YAML
6 13 (27.66%) .NET Core
7 12 (25.53%) ARM Templates
8 11 (23.40%) ASP.NET Core
9 10 (21.28%) REST
10 9 (19.15%) AngularJS
10 9 (19.15%) CSS
11 7 (14.89%) SailPoint
12 5 (10.64%) Material-UI
13 4 (8.51%) Razor View Engine
13 4 (8.51%) Vue
14 3 (6.38%) ASP.NET Web API
14 3 (6.38%) RabbitMQ
14 3 (6.38%) SignalR
14 3 (6.38%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.64%) Product Ownership
2 4 (8.51%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.38%) Legacy Code
4 2 (4.26%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.26%) Fixed Income
4 2 (4.26%) Media Streaming
5 1 (2.13%) AI Agents
5 1 (2.13%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.13%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (2.13%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.13%) Linux
1 1 (2.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (68.09%) CI/CD
2 29 (61.70%) DevOps
3 19 (40.43%) Microservices
4 16 (34.04%) Full-Stack Development
5 15 (31.91%) Agile
5 15 (31.91%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (25.53%) B2C
7 11 (23.40%) Containerisation
8 9 (19.15%) Test Automation
9 7 (14.89%) ETL
9 7 (14.89%) Mentoring
9 7 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (14.89%) TDD
9 7 (14.89%) Unit Testing
10 6 (12.77%) Performance Tuning
10 6 (12.77%) SOLID
11 5 (10.64%) API Development
11 5 (10.64%) Disaster Recovery
11 5 (10.64%) Technical Leadership
11 5 (10.64%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 33 (70.21%) C#
2 27 (57.45%) SQL
3 12 (25.53%) TypeScript
4 10 (21.28%) JavaScript
5 7 (14.89%) Python
6 5 (10.64%) PowerShell
7 4 (8.51%) T-SQL
8 3 (6.38%) 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 22 (46.81%) Security Cleared
2 21 (44.68%) 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 19 (40.43%) 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 6 (12.77%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (29.79%) 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
3 1 (2.13%) Telerik