Entity Framework Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Entity Framework
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Entity Framework skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Entity Framework over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 320 371 364
Rank change year-on-year +51 -7 -22
Contract jobs citing Entity Framework 16 28 99
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.13% 0.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.67% 0.85% 2.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 22 72
10th Percentile £321 £313 £363
25th Percentile £400 £350 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £406 £475
Median % change year-on-year +13.85% -14.47% +11.76%
75th Percentile £519 £488 £600
90th Percentile £550 £567 £688
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £510
% change year-on-year - -6.86% +7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £75.00
Median hourly rate - - £80.00
75th Percentile - - £85.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £83.50
% change year-on-year - - +70.41%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,378 3,296 4,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.63% 15.87% 18.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,644 2,154 3,299
10th Percentile £350 £324 £357
25th Percentile £406 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 198 91
10th Percentile £30.98 £21.59 £22.50
25th Percentile £56.25 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £74.13
90th Percentile £81.95 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Entity Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Entity Framework as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Entity Framework in the UK excluding London

Entity Framework
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Entity Framework in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Entity Framework in the UK excluding London

Entity Framework
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Entity Framework in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Entity Framework in the UK excluding London

Entity Framework
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Entity Framework in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Entity Framework in the UK excluding London

Entity Framework
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Midlands +27 8 £475 +26.67% 29
West Midlands +17 6 £475 +26.67% 21
South East +43 5 £400 -15.79% 32
Scotland - 2 £513 - 6
South West - 1 £500 - 19
East Midlands - 1 £500 - 7
Entity Framework
UK

Entity Framework
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (31.25%) SharePoint
2 1 (6.25%) Apache
2 1 (6.25%) Confluence
2 1 (6.25%) IIS
2 1 (6.25%) nginx
2 1 (6.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (31.25%) InfoPath
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (6.25%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 9 (56.25%) Azure
2 6 (37.50%) Dynamics 365
2 6 (37.50%) Power Platform
3 5 (31.25%) Azure Functions
3 5 (31.25%) Azure Logic Apps
3 5 (31.25%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (31.25%) Power Automate
3 5 (31.25%) PowerApps
3 5 (31.25%) Serverless
4 3 (18.75%) AWS
5 1 (6.25%) Azure AKS
5 1 (6.25%) Azure App Service
5 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Storage
5 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
5 1 (6.25%) IaaS
5 1 (6.25%) PaaS
5 1 (6.25%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (37.50%) Power BI
2 5 (31.25%) RDBMS
2 5 (31.25%) Relational Database
3 4 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (18.75%) SQL Server
5 2 (12.50%) DocumentDB
6 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
6 1 (6.25%) Parquet
6 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (12.50%) Finance
1 2 (12.50%) Law
1 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
1 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Police
2 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Developer
2 7 (43.75%) .NET Developer
3 5 (31.25%) Architect
3 5 (31.25%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (25.00%) Automation Architect
5 3 (18.75%) Lead
5 3 (18.75%) Technical Leader
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Junior
6 1 (6.25%) Junior .NET Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Junior Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Platform Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Power Platform Architect
6 1 (6.25%) React Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Senior
6 1 (6.25%) Senior .NET Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (93.75%) .NET
1 15 (93.75%) .NET Framework
2 10 (62.50%) CSS
2 10 (62.50%) HTML
3 9 (56.25%) .NET Core
4 7 (43.75%) ASP.NET
5 5 (31.25%) ASP.NET MVC
5 5 (31.25%) HTML5 Canvas
6 4 (25.00%) AngularJS
6 4 (25.00%) ASP.NET Web API
6 4 (25.00%) REST
7 2 (12.50%) ActiveMQ
7 2 (12.50%) Ajax
7 2 (12.50%) Ember.js
7 2 (12.50%) JMS
7 2 (12.50%) Middleware
7 2 (12.50%) NHibernate
7 2 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (12.50%) RESTful
8 1 (6.25%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Enterprise Cloud
1 5 (31.25%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
2 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
2 1 (6.25%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) AIX
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Agile
2 6 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 5 (31.25%) CRM
3 5 (31.25%) Migration
3 5 (31.25%) MVC
3 5 (31.25%) Workflow
4 4 (25.00%) DevOps
4 4 (25.00%) TDD
4 4 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 3 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (18.75%) Front End Development
5 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (18.75%) Scrum
5 3 (18.75%) User Experience
5 3 (18.75%) Web Development
6 2 (12.50%) Data Modelling
6 2 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (12.50%) Pair Programming
6 2 (12.50%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 13 (81.25%) SQL
2 12 (75.00%) C#
3 10 (62.50%) JavaScript
4 2 (12.50%) PL/SQL
4 2 (12.50%) Python
5 1 (6.25%) Bicep
5 1 (6.25%) Java
5 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
5 1 (6.25%) VB
5 1 (6.25%) VB6
5 1 (6.25%) X++
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (6.25%) Degree
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) NCSC
2 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Terraform
2 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Oracle
2 2 (12.50%) VMware
3 1 (6.25%) Siemens