Entity Framework Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Entity Framework
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Entity Framework skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 106 146
Rank change year-on-year -24 +40 +16
Contract jobs citing Entity Framework 2 8 4
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.093% 0.47% 0.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.56% 2.64% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 4
10th Percentile £423 £385 £373
25th Percentile £438 £442 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £469 £425
Median % change year-on-year +1.33% +10.29% -8.11%
75th Percentile £513 £566 £477
90th Percentile £528 £688 £491
South East median daily rate £525 £469 £481
% change year-on-year +12.00% -2.60% -6.78%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 359 303 399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 16.63% 17.69% 15.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 201 212
10th Percentile £363 £382 £325
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £499 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.32% +4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £625
90th Percentile £648 £670 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 15
10th Percentile - £72.18 £56.24
25th Percentile - £73.01 £56.65
Median hourly rate £81.00 £75.22 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +22.11% -20.49%
75th Percentile £81.25 £76.61 £66.00
90th Percentile £81.70 £76.96 £90.25
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +0.81% -4.62%

Entity Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Entity Framework job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Entity Framework
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Entity Framework.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Entity Framework

Entity Framework
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Entity Framework.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Entity Framework

Entity Framework
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 25 January 2026. 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
Buckinghamshire - 2 £475 - 2
Entity Framework
South East

Entity Framework
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (50.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Postman
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (50.00%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Applications Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# Application Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# Web Application Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# Web Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Applications Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior C# Application Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior C# Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Web Applications Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Web Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Web Applications Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) React
2 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (50.00%) CSS3
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) JSON
2 1 (50.00%) LINQ
2 1 (50.00%) Material-UI
2 1 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) Swagger
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Single Sign-On