Entity Framework Contract Job Trends

Microsoft Entity Framework
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Entity Framework skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 606 485 466
Rank change year-on-year -121 -19 +42
Contract jobs citing Entity Framework 74 66 106
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.20% 0.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.63% 0.77% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 42 71
10th Percentile £332 £355 £280
25th Percentile £385 £419 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £523 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £529 £688 £610
90th Percentile £660 £750 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £430 £506
% change year-on-year +16.28% -15.06% +6.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £46.80 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.80 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 11,840 8,596 9,395
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.69% 25.95% 24.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,770 5,701 6,067
10th Percentile £380 £356 £355
25th Percentile £440 £413 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 188 183
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.18 £25.60
25th Percentile £50.38 £39.56 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £51.97 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.07% -20.05% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.60 £74.79
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +22.67% -15.38% +10.11%

Entity Framework
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Entity Framework job vacancy trend in the UK

Entity Framework
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Entity Framework
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Entity Framework over the 6 months to 10 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Entity Framework in the UK

Entity Framework
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Entity Framework
Top 12 Contract Job 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 10 October 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
England -121 62 £494 -14.13% 126
UK excluding London -77 31 £500 +16.28% 75
London -98 28 £481 -28.70% 57
Work from Home -64 20 £400 -11.11% 76
South East -55 17 £500 +21.21% 15
North of England -72 5 - - 25
East of England -34 4 - - 5
Midlands -42 3 £425 +23.64% 14
West Midlands -45 3 £425 +23.64% 12
Yorkshire - 3 - - 6
Scotland -19 2 £368 -31.63% 6
North West -51 2 - - 16

Entity Framework
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 7 (9.46%) Confluence
2 4 (5.41%) nginx
3 3 (4.05%) CMS
4 2 (2.70%) IIS
4 2 (2.70%) Umbraco
5 1 (1.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (1.35%) SAS
Business Applications
1 3 (4.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.35%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.35%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 56 (75.68%) Azure
2 36 (48.65%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (21.62%) AWS
3 16 (21.62%) Azure App Service
3 16 (21.62%) Entra ID
4 12 (16.22%) Azure AKS
5 11 (14.86%) Azure Key Vault
5 11 (14.86%) Azure Monitor
6 10 (13.51%) GitHub
6 10 (13.51%) IaaS
6 10 (13.51%) PaaS
7 6 (8.11%) Azure API Management
8 5 (6.76%) Azure Logic Apps
8 5 (6.76%) Azure Storage
9 4 (5.41%) Amazon SageMaker
9 4 (5.41%) SaaS
10 3 (4.05%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (4.05%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (4.05%) npm
10 3 (4.05%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.41%) OpenVPN
1 4 (5.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (40.54%) SQL Server
2 14 (18.92%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (10.81%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (9.46%) NoSQL
5 6 (8.11%) Relational Database
6 5 (6.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (4.05%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (4.05%) Db2
7 3 (4.05%) DocumentDB
7 3 (4.05%) Parquet
7 3 (4.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (2.70%) MongoDB
8 2 (2.70%) Oracle Database
8 2 (2.70%) Redis
9 1 (1.35%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 30 (40.54%) Git
2 12 (16.22%) Visual Studio
3 7 (9.46%) GitLab
4 6 (8.11%) Jenkins
5 5 (6.76%) NUnit
5 5 (6.76%) TeamCity
6 4 (5.41%) Bitbucket
6 4 (5.41%) JetBrains Rider
6 4 (5.41%) JIRA
6 4 (5.41%) MSBuild
7 3 (4.05%) webpack
8 2 (2.70%) Claude Code
8 2 (2.70%) ClearCase
8 2 (2.70%) git-flow
8 2 (2.70%) JMeter
8 2 (2.70%) Rational Robot
8 2 (2.70%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (2.70%) Visual Studio Coded UI
9 1 (1.35%) Artifactory
9 1 (1.35%) Moq
General
1 18 (24.32%) Social Skills
2 9 (12.16%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (6.76%) Finance
4 4 (5.41%) Banking
5 3 (4.05%) Investment Banking
5 3 (4.05%) Police
6 2 (2.70%) Law
6 2 (2.70%) Retail
7 1 (1.35%) Automotive
7 1 (1.35%) Front Office
7 1 (1.35%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.35%) Marketing
7 1 (1.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 52 (70.27%) Developer
2 24 (32.43%) .NET Developer
3 19 (25.68%) Full-Stack Developer
3 19 (25.68%) Senior
4 13 (17.57%) Senior Developer
5 11 (14.86%) C# Developer
6 9 (12.16%) C# .NET Developer
6 9 (12.16%) Senior .NET Developer
7 7 (9.46%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 5 (6.76%) Azure Developer
8 5 (6.76%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
9 4 (5.41%) C# WPF Developer
9 4 (5.41%) React Developer
9 4 (5.41%) Software Developer
9 4 (5.41%) WPF Developer
10 3 (4.05%) Architect
10 3 (4.05%) C# Software Developer
10 3 (4.05%) Principal Engineer
10 3 (4.05%) SQL Developer
10 3 (4.05%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (98.65%) .NET
2 70 (94.59%) .NET Framework
3 38 (51.35%) .NET Core
4 34 (45.95%) REST
5 30 (40.54%) ASP.NET
5 30 (40.54%) React
6 22 (29.73%) RESTful
7 21 (28.38%) ASP.NET Web API
8 17 (22.97%) AngularJS
8 17 (22.97%) Terraform
9 16 (21.62%) CSS
10 15 (20.27%) HTML
11 13 (17.57%) WPF
12 11 (14.86%) ASP.NET Core
12 11 (14.86%) OAuth
13 10 (13.51%) OpenID
14 8 (10.81%) ASP.NET MVC
14 8 (10.81%) Dapper ORM
14 8 (10.81%) JSON
14 8 (10.81%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.16%) Cloud Native
1 9 (12.16%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (8.11%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.41%) Legacy Code
4 3 (4.05%) Enterprise Cloud
4 3 (4.05%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (4.05%) Wiki
5 2 (2.70%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.70%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.35%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.35%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.35%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.35%) Spread Betting
6 1 (1.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (13.51%) Windows
2 5 (6.76%) Linux
3 1 (1.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (71.62%) DevOps
2 52 (70.27%) CI/CD
3 35 (47.30%) Agile
4 31 (41.89%) Full-Stack Development
5 22 (29.73%) MVC
5 22 (29.73%) Test Automation
6 18 (24.32%) Microservices
7 17 (22.97%) Scrum
8 16 (21.62%) SOLID
9 14 (18.92%) Software Engineering
10 13 (17.57%) Dependency Injection
10 13 (17.57%) Deployment Automation
10 13 (17.57%) Integration Testing
10 13 (17.57%) Unit Testing
11 12 (16.22%) B2C
11 12 (16.22%) Code Quality
11 12 (16.22%) TDD
12 11 (14.86%) Analytics
12 11 (14.86%) SDLC
13 10 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 69 (93.24%) C#
2 36 (48.65%) SQL
3 30 (40.54%) JavaScript
4 22 (29.73%) TypeScript
5 14 (18.92%) Python
6 8 (10.81%) Bicep
7 7 (9.46%) PowerShell
8 4 (5.41%) XAML
9 3 (4.05%) Groovy
9 3 (4.05%) VB.NET
10 2 (2.70%) T-SQL
10 2 (2.70%) VB
10 2 (2.70%) VB6
11 1 (1.35%) Bash
11 1 (1.35%) CodeQL
11 1 (1.35%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.35%) XPath
Qualifications
1 17 (22.97%) Security Cleared
2 11 (14.86%) SC Cleared
3 7 (9.46%) Degree
4 6 (8.11%) Azure Certification
5 5 (6.76%) Master's Degree
6 4 (5.41%) PhD
7 2 (2.70%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.81%) QA
2 5 (6.76%) Accessibility
2 5 (6.76%) WCAG
3 1 (1.35%) GDPR
System Software
1 25 (33.78%) Docker
2 7 (9.46%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.05%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 14 (18.92%) Kubernetes
2 6 (8.11%) Kibana
Vendors
1 25 (33.78%) Microsoft
2 7 (9.46%) Oracle
3 5 (6.76%) ServiceNow
4 3 (4.05%) Snow
4 3 (4.05%) Telerik
5 2 (2.70%) IBM
5 2 (2.70%) Syncfusion
6 1 (1.35%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.35%) OpenAI