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

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 512 404 450
Rank change year-on-year -108 +46 +106
Contract jobs citing Entity Framework 52 74 93
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.15% 0.30% 0.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.67% 1.30% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 55 73
10th Percentile £435 £385 £330
25th Percentile £490 £450 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £525 £568
Median % change year-on-year +3.02% -7.49% +9.13%
75th Percentile £681 £656 £650
90th Percentile £705 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £506 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
UK median hourly rate - - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - -12.50%

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 7,707 5,673 7,657
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.65% 22.67% 20.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,175 3,746 5,458
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £420 £431 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £626 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -1.90% -0.94% -7.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 78 209
10th Percentile £35.10 £26.92 £21.16
25th Percentile £52.50 £45.75 £40.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.40 £81.34 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

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 3 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 3 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 -52 27 £558 -6.62% 18
South East -32 8 £525 +16.67% 32
North of England -58 5 £663 +16.23% 29
North West - 5 £663 - 15
South West -13 4 £625 +25.00% 13
Midlands -68 4 £450 -15.65% 9
West Midlands -63 3 £425 -25.04% 2
East of England -28 1 - - 14
East Midlands -30 1 £525 +5.00% 6
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 (11.54%) Confluence
2 2 (3.85%) IIS
3 1 (1.92%) CMS
3 1 (1.92%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.92%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (1.92%) InDesign
Cloud Services
1 32 (61.54%) Azure
2 17 (32.69%) Entra ID
3 12 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (23.08%) PaaS
4 11 (21.15%) Azure Service Fabric
5 7 (13.46%) GitHub
6 5 (9.62%) IaaS
7 4 (7.69%) Azure API Management
7 4 (7.69%) Azure Key Vault
7 4 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (7.69%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (5.77%) AWS
8 3 (5.77%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (5.77%) Azure Storage
8 3 (5.77%) Serverless
9 2 (3.85%) Azure AKS
9 2 (3.85%) Azure Functions
9 2 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (3.85%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.92%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.77%) HTTP
2 2 (3.85%) 3GPP
2 2 (3.85%) RTCP
2 2 (3.85%) RTP
2 2 (3.85%) XCAP
3 1 (1.92%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (57.69%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.92%) GIS
3 1 (1.92%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.92%) Parquet
3 1 (1.92%) Power BI
3 1 (1.92%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (1.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (23.08%) Git
2 9 (17.31%) SpecFlow
3 8 (15.38%) JIRA
4 3 (5.77%) Visual Studio
5 2 (3.85%) Bitbucket
5 2 (3.85%) webpack
6 1 (1.92%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.92%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.92%) MSBuild
6 1 (1.92%) MSI
6 1 (1.92%) Postman
6 1 (1.92%) TeamCity
General
1 8 (15.38%) Finance
2 7 (13.46%) Social Skills
3 2 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (3.85%) Banking
3 2 (3.85%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.92%) Health Technology
4 1 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.92%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 32 (61.54%) Developer
2 16 (30.77%) .NET Developer
3 15 (28.85%) C# Developer
4 13 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 13 (25.00%) Senior
5 11 (21.15%) Angular Developer
6 10 (19.23%) C# .NET Developer
6 10 (19.23%) Senior Developer
7 8 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
8 7 (13.46%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
8 7 (13.46%) Senior .NET Developer
9 6 (11.54%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (11.54%) Senior C# Developer
9 6 (11.54%) Software Engineer
10 5 (9.62%) Agile .NET Developer
10 5 (9.62%) Agile C# Developer
10 5 (9.62%) Agile Developer
11 4 (7.69%) Azure Developer
11 4 (7.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 4 (7.69%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (75.00%) .NET
2 35 (67.31%) .NET Framework
3 16 (30.77%) React
4 15 (28.85%) YAML
5 14 (26.92%) ASP.NET
5 14 (26.92%) RESTful
6 13 (25.00%) AngularJS
6 13 (25.00%) REST
7 12 (23.08%) .NET Core
7 12 (23.08%) ARM Templates
8 11 (21.15%) NHibernate
9 10 (19.23%) Playwright
10 8 (15.38%) CSS
11 7 (13.46%) SailPoint
12 6 (11.54%) ASP.NET Core
13 5 (9.62%) ASP.NET Web API
13 5 (9.62%) HTML
14 4 (7.69%) ASP.NET MVC
14 4 (7.69%) HTML5
14 4 (7.69%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.62%) Enterprise Software
1 5 (9.62%) Management Information System
1 5 (9.62%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.85%) Fixed Income
2 2 (3.85%) Media Streaming
3 1 (1.92%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.92%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.92%) Legacy Code
3 1 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.92%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.92%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.85%) Windows
2 1 (1.92%) Android
2 1 (1.92%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (57.69%) CI/CD
2 26 (50.00%) DevOps
2 26 (50.00%) Microservices
3 22 (42.31%) Agile
4 19 (36.54%) Full-Stack Development
5 12 (23.08%) B2C
5 12 (23.08%) Clean Code
5 12 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (21.15%) Unit Testing
7 9 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (17.31%) Scrum
8 7 (13.46%) Containerisation
8 7 (13.46%) SOLID
9 6 (11.54%) ETRM
9 6 (11.54%) Line Management
9 6 (11.54%) Mentoring
9 6 (11.54%) MVC
9 6 (11.54%) OOP
9 6 (11.54%) Risk Management
9 6 (11.54%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 40 (76.92%) C#
2 29 (55.77%) SQL
3 9 (17.31%) JavaScript
4 7 (13.46%) TypeScript
5 5 (9.62%) PowerShell
6 4 (7.69%) Python
7 2 (3.85%) Bicep
7 2 (3.85%) C++
7 2 (3.85%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.92%) Java
8 1 (1.92%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (32.69%) Security Cleared
2 16 (30.77%) SC Cleared
3 5 (9.62%) Degree
4 2 (3.85%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.62%) QA
2 2 (3.85%) WCAG
3 1 (1.92%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.92%) GDPR
System Software
1 13 (25.00%) Docker
2 10 (19.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (19.23%) Terraform
2 9 (17.31%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (13.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (1.92%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (28.85%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.85%) Oracle
3 1 (1.92%) Adobe
3 1 (1.92%) Google
3 1 (1.92%) ServiceNow