Entity Framework Contract Job Trends in the South East

Microsoft Entity Framework
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Entity Framework skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 164 161 198
Rank change year-on-year -3 +37 +2
Contract jobs citing Entity Framework 4 16 6
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.11% 0.37% 0.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.65% 2.29% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 15 4
10th Percentile £344 £405 £458
25th Percentile £380 £444 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +7.69% +5.41%
75th Percentile £459 £588 £528
90th Percentile £499 £688 £579
England median daily rate £600 £567 £568
% change year-on-year +5.82% -0.09% +3.18%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 613 700 857
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 16.93% 16.33% 15.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 430 457 556
10th Percentile £280 £320 £313
25th Percentile £375 £413 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £565 £625 £625
90th Percentile £625 £670 £684
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 26 44
10th Percentile £18.97 £41.19 £50.00
25th Percentile £47.19 £61.60 £54.55
Median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £53.75 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £55.00 - £77.85
England median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -16.92% +13.04% -11.54%

Entity Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Entity Framework job vacancy trend in the South East

Entity Framework
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Entity Framework.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Entity Framework

Entity Framework
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Entity Framework in the South East over the 6 months to 16 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Entity Framework in the South East

Entity Framework
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Entity Framework.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Entity Framework

Entity Framework
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 16 October 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
Thames Valley -7 3 £400 -23.81% 17
Berkshire +7 2 £360 -31.43% 7
Buckinghamshire - 1 £425 - 4
Surrey - 1 £525 - 9
Entity Framework
England

Entity Framework
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (25.00%) CMS
1 1 (25.00%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Functions
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 1 (25.00%) Health Technology
1 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) C# Developer
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Software Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Applications Developer
3 1 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) C# Application Developer
3 1 (25.00%) C# Software Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) C# Web Application Developer
3 1 (25.00%) C# Web Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Applications Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior C# Application Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior C# Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Web Applications Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Web Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Umbraco Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Web Applications Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (50.00%) RESTful
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Core
3 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (25.00%) Blazor
3 1 (25.00%) CSS
3 1 (25.00%) CSS3
3 1 (25.00%) HTML
3 1 (25.00%) HTML5
3 1 (25.00%) Razor View Engine
3 1 (25.00%) React
3 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) MVC
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Backlog Management
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) OO
3 1 (25.00%) OOP
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory