Entity Framework Contract Job Trends in the South West

Microsoft Entity Framework
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Entity Framework skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 128 136
Rank change year-on-year +12 +8 +19
Contract jobs citing Entity Framework 3 2 19
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.15% 0.082% 0.60%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.96% 0.47% 3.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 10
10th Percentile - - £643
25th Percentile £313 - £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £250 £683
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -63.37% +5.00%
75th Percentile £438 - £721
90th Percentile - - £738
England median daily rate £575 £567 £568
% change year-on-year +1.41% -0.09% +3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £64.75
25th Percentile - - £68.13
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +6.40%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 313 424 572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 15.51% 17.33% 18.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 230 422
10th Percentile £321 £362 £360
25th Percentile £413 £438 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £659
90th Percentile £681 £700 £725
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 41 51
10th Percentile £61.60 - £48.32
25th Percentile - £65.00 £48.72
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £68.00 - £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.00 £78.00
England median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £56.06
% change year-on-year -16.92% +15.95% -13.75%

Entity Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Entity Framework job vacancy trend in the South West

Entity Framework
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Entity Framework
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Entity Framework
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 20 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
Bristol -3 1 £375 - 2
Dorset - 1 - -
Gloucestershire - 1 - - 3
Entity Framework
England

Entity Framework
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 (33.33%) Umbraco
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) Artifactory
2 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) C++ Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior C++ Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Umbraco Developer
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%) .NET Core
2 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (66.67%) CSS
2 2 (66.67%) HTML
3 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
3 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (33.33%) Blazor
3 1 (33.33%) CSS3
3 1 (33.33%) HTML5
3 1 (33.33%) jQuery
3 1 (33.33%) Universal Windows Platform
3 1 (33.33%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Android
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) MVC
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Android Development
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Mobile Application Development
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Responsive Web Design
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) C++
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker