Entity Framework Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Microsoft Entity Framework
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Entity Framework skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 201 157 175
Rank change year-on-year -44 +18 +62
Contract jobs citing Entity Framework 3 5 12
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.065% 0.14% 0.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.29% 0.77% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 12
10th Percentile - - £305
25th Percentile £418 £567 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £570 £375
Median % change year-on-year -23.68% +52.00% -25.93%
75th Percentile £453 £573 £489
90th Percentile - - £494
England median daily rate £525 £572 £568
% change year-on-year -8.14% +0.70% +3.18%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 1,021 651 1,007
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 22.02% 18.18% 21.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 729 414 772
10th Percentile £350 £356 £363
25th Percentile £400 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £496 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.15% -0.89% -6.98%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £656 £650
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 13 37
10th Percentile £48.55 £28.40 £42.55
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +24.51% - -1.74%
75th Percentile £70.00 £87.50 £62.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £100.93 £69.25
England median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £52.20
% change year-on-year -2.40% +19.74% -19.70%

Entity Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Entity Framework job vacancy trend in the North of England

Entity Framework
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Entity Framework.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Entity Framework

Entity Framework
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Entity Framework.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Entity Framework

Entity Framework
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 15 December 2025. 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
North West -21 3 £435 - 20
Entity Framework
England

Entity Framework
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Software Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Backend Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (66.67%) .NET Core
2 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET
2 2 (66.67%) OAuth
2 2 (66.67%) React
2 2 (66.67%) RESTful
2 2 (66.67%) YAML
3 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (33.33%) CSS
3 1 (33.33%) HTML
3 1 (33.33%) HTML5
3 1 (33.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 3 (100.00%) Integration Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Application Security
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Code Quality
2 2 (66.67%) Data Management
2 2 (66.67%) Design Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) OOP
2 2 (66.67%) Pair Programming
2 2 (66.67%) Project Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Software Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) SOLID
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Debt
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft