Entity Framework Contracts

Microsoft Entity Framework
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Entity Framework skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Entity Framework over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 512 565 508
Rank change year-on-year +53 -57 +7
Contract jobs citing Entity Framework 86 154 380
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.26% 0.43%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.97% 1.11% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 113 261
10th Percentile £318 £364 £375
25th Percentile £375 £413 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £510 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% +7.37% +11.76%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £575
90th Percentile £700 £688 £669
UK excluding London median daily rate £406 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -14.47% +11.76% +7.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 13
10th Percentile - £70.00 -
25th Percentile - £75.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate - £83.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year - +70.41% +40.00%
75th Percentile - £86.25 £63.60
90th Percentile - £87.60 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £80.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year - +63.27% +44.12%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Entity Framework is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,876 13,931 24,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.50% 23.29% 27.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,162 10,182 17,689
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £660
90th Percentile £767 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 153 242
10th Percentile £20.91 £31.60 £21.10
25th Percentile £39.98 £48.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £64.94
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.85 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +32.65% +8.89%

Entity Framework
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Entity Framework as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Entity Framework in the UK

Entity Framework
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Entity Framework.

Daily rate trend for Entity Framework in the UK

Entity Framework
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Entity Framework over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Entity Framework in the UK

Entity Framework
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Entity Framework.

Hourly rate trend for Entity Framework in the UK

Entity Framework
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
England +101 75 £475 -8.65% 255
Work from Home +91 48 £475 -6.86% 328
London +99 44 £495 -4.81% 49
UK excluding London -3 27 £406 -14.47% 221
North of England +29 13 £413 -13.16% 56
North West +14 11 £450 -5.26% 29
South East +22 8 £475 +4.11% 55
East of England +15 4 £350 -24.32% 34
West Midlands +28 2 £375 -36.17% 23
Yorkshire +20 2 £350 -33.33% 24
Midlands +19 2 £375 -25.00% 38

Entity Framework
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 7 (8.14%) CMS
2 2 (2.33%) EPiServer
2 2 (2.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.16%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (1.16%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 7 (8.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 58 (67.44%) Azure
2 33 (38.37%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (16.28%) AWS
4 11 (12.79%) Serverless
5 10 (11.63%) Dynamics 365
6 8 (9.30%) Azure Service Bus
6 8 (9.30%) PaaS
7 7 (8.14%) Azure Functions
8 6 (6.98%) Power Platform
9 5 (5.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 5 (5.81%) Azure Key Vault
9 5 (5.81%) Entra ID
10 3 (3.49%) Azure Service Fabric
11 2 (2.33%) Azure API Management
11 2 (2.33%) Azure App Service
11 2 (2.33%) Azure Event Grid
11 2 (2.33%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (2.33%) Azure Storage
12 1 (1.16%) Azure Monitor
12 1 (1.16%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.33%) FTP
2 1 (1.16%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (55.81%) SQL Server
2 7 (8.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 7 (8.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 6 (6.98%) Relational Database
4 5 (5.81%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.33%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.33%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.33%) MySQL
5 2 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.16%) Redis
6 1 (1.16%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 25 (29.07%) Git
2 17 (19.77%) Visual Studio
3 11 (12.79%) TeamCity
4 10 (11.63%) SpecFlow
5 9 (10.47%) NUnit
5 9 (10.47%) Selenium
6 8 (9.30%) Octopus Deploy
7 6 (6.98%) Moq
8 5 (5.81%) MSI
8 5 (5.81%) WiX
9 4 (4.65%) Jasmine
9 4 (4.65%) JIRA
9 4 (4.65%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (2.33%) GitLab
11 1 (1.16%) Bitbucket
11 1 (1.16%) git-flow
11 1 (1.16%) InstallShield
11 1 (1.16%) MSTest
11 1 (1.16%) Postman
11 1 (1.16%) SoapUI
General
1 22 (25.58%) Social Skills
2 15 (17.44%) Finance
3 13 (15.12%) Banking
4 7 (8.14%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.81%) Investment Banking
6 4 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.65%) Retail
7 2 (2.33%) Electronics
7 2 (2.33%) Front Office
7 2 (2.33%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.33%) Marketing
7 2 (2.33%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.16%) Back Office
8 1 (1.16%) French Language
Job Titles
1 64 (74.42%) Developer
2 39 (45.35%) .NET Developer
3 19 (22.09%) C# Developer
4 12 (13.95%) Senior
5 9 (10.47%) Architect
5 9 (10.47%) Senior Developer
6 8 (9.30%) Software Engineer
7 7 (8.14%) Azure Developer
7 7 (8.14%) Full Stack Developer
8 6 (6.98%) C# .NET Developer
8 6 (6.98%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (5.81%) Dynamics 365 Architect
10 4 (4.65%) Azure Engineer
10 4 (4.65%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (4.65%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
10 4 (4.65%) Lead
10 4 (4.65%) Senior C# Developer
10 4 (4.65%) Software Developer
11 3 (3.49%) Angular Developer
11 3 (3.49%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (94.19%) .NET
2 69 (80.23%) .NET Framework
3 29 (33.72%) .NET Core
4 27 (31.40%) AngularJS
5 25 (29.07%) ASP.NET
5 25 (29.07%) ASP.NET Web API
6 23 (26.74%) HTML
7 21 (24.42%) React
8 20 (23.26%) WCF
9 18 (20.93%) CSS
10 16 (18.60%) jQuery
10 16 (18.60%) REST
11 14 (16.28%) LINQ
12 13 (15.12%) JSON
13 11 (12.79%) Blazor
14 10 (11.63%) HTML5
15 8 (9.30%) Angular 2
15 8 (9.30%) NHibernate
15 8 (9.30%) Web Services
16 7 (8.14%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.98%) Derivative
1 6 (6.98%) Replication
2 5 (5.81%) Client/Server
2 5 (5.81%) Web 2.0
3 4 (4.65%) Interest Rate Derivative
3 4 (4.65%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.49%) N-Tier
5 2 (2.33%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.33%) Market Risk
5 2 (2.33%) NHS
5 2 (2.33%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.16%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.16%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.16%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.14%) Windows
2 1 (1.16%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (56.98%) DevOps
2 39 (45.35%) MVC
3 31 (36.05%) Agile
4 21 (24.42%) Microservices
5 20 (23.26%) Unit Testing
6 19 (22.09%) Software Engineering
6 19 (22.09%) TDD
7 18 (20.93%) Scrum
8 17 (19.77%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (16.28%) Performance Tuning
10 13 (15.12%) Design Patterns
11 12 (13.95%) Continuous Integration
11 12 (13.95%) Full Stack Development
12 11 (12.79%) CI/CD
13 9 (10.47%) OO
14 8 (9.30%) Domain-Driven Design
15 7 (8.14%) CRM
15 7 (8.14%) Customer Requirements
15 7 (8.14%) Data Integration
15 7 (8.14%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 74 (86.05%) C#
2 45 (52.33%) SQL
3 35 (40.70%) JavaScript
4 12 (13.95%) T-SQL
5 8 (9.30%) PowerShell
6 7 (8.14%) TypeScript
7 6 (6.98%) PL/SQL
8 3 (3.49%) Python
8 3 (3.49%) VB.NET
9 2 (2.33%) Bicep
10 1 (1.16%) Java
Qualifications
1 13 (15.12%) Degree
2 6 (6.98%) SC Cleared
2 6 (6.98%) Security Cleared
3 5 (5.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.16%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.49%) QA
2 2 (2.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.16%) EMIR
3 1 (1.16%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.16%) MiFID
3 1 (1.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (4.65%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (6.98%) Terraform
2 3 (3.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 3 (3.49%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (2.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 22 (25.58%) Microsoft
2 11 (12.79%) Oracle
3 6 (6.98%) Optimizely
3 6 (6.98%) SAP
4 1 (1.16%) Nintex
4 1 (1.16%) Sitecore