Entity Framework Contract Job Trends in the North West

Microsoft Entity Framework
England > North West

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

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 113 135
Rank change year-on-year -14 +22 +37
Contract jobs citing Entity Framework 3 5 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.14% 0.21% 0.42%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.65% 1.34% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 11
10th Percentile £438 - £400
25th Percentile £469 £463 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.58% - +13.10%
75th Percentile £582 £489 £494
90th Percentile £608 £492 £538
England median daily rate £552 £525 £559
% change year-on-year +5.14% -6.04% +6.94%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 460 373 580
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 21.48% 15.74% 20.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 351 249 449
10th Percentile £313 £350 £363
25th Percentile £368 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £489 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.04% -6.86% -
75th Percentile £503 £610 £625
90th Percentile £614 £825 £675
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 28
10th Percentile £27.20 £40.07 £45.88
25th Percentile £29.00 - -
Median hourly rate £51.00 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +10.44% - -34.03%
75th Percentile £74.69 £71.50 £53.44
90th Percentile £83.13 £73.30 £67.63
England median hourly rate £54.35 £62.93 £61.25
% change year-on-year -13.63% +2.74% -2.00%

Entity Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Entity Framework as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Entity Framework in the North West

Entity Framework
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Entity Framework
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Entity Framework in the North West over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Entity Framework in the North West

Entity Framework
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Entity Framework
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 15 September 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
Manchester +3 1 £625 +29.87% 17
Cheshire -24 1 - - 4
Merseyside - 1 £435 - 2
Entity Framework
England

Entity Framework
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

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