Entity Framework Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Microsoft Entity Framework
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Entity Framework skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 - 100
Rank change year-on-year - - +18
Contract jobs citing Entity Framework 3 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.22% - 0.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.79% - 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £651 - £318
25th Percentile £653 - £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 - £350
Median % change year-on-year - - -26.32%
75th Percentile £678 - £375
90th Percentile £684 - £383
North West median daily rate £663 - £313
% change year-on-year - - -38.27%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 379 242 386
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 27.50% 23.80% 24.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 252 176 319
10th Percentile £345 £375 £363
25th Percentile £400 £411 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £457 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.19% -7.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £575
90th Percentile £617 £650 £660
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 0 11
10th Percentile - - £65.00
25th Percentile £52.50 - £67.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £71.87
Median % change year-on-year - - +59.71%
75th Percentile £77.50 - £79.88
90th Percentile £94.00 - £82.50
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £67.75 £46.18
% change year-on-year +3.32% +46.71% +2.99%

Entity Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Entity Framework relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Entity Framework job vacancy trend in Manchester

Entity Framework
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Entity Framework.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Entity Framework

Entity Framework
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Entity Framework.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Entity Framework

Entity Framework
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) .NET Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior .NET Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) React
2 2 (66.67%) .NET Core
2 2 (66.67%) .NET Framework
2 2 (66.67%) AngularJS
2 2 (66.67%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (66.67%) REST
2 2 (66.67%) RESTful
2 2 (66.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Data Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
3 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform