Entity Framework Contracts

Microsoft Entity Framework
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 465 515 558
Rank change year-on-year +50 +43 -42
Contract jobs citing Entity Framework 65 85 158
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.20% 0.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.98% 0.96% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 69 117
10th Percentile £404 £311 £363
25th Percentile £450 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -6.86% +7.37%
75th Percentile £550 £576 £625
90th Percentile £645 £700 £694
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £406 £475
% change year-on-year +13.85% -14.47% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £70.00
25th Percentile - - £75.00
Median hourly rate - - £83.50
75th Percentile - - £86.25
90th Percentile - - £87.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £80.00
% change year-on-year - - +63.27%

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 6,620 8,884 13,739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.77% 20.58% 23.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,545 6,170 10,017
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £788 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 238 152
10th Percentile £27.22 £21.25 £31.18
25th Percentile £50.00 £40.08 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.84 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.77% -27.94% +30.65%
75th Percentile £68.56 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.70 £74.61 £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £63.25
% change year-on-year +36.84% -24.90% +28.43%

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 5 May 2025.

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 10 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 5 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
England +47 56 £485 +2.11% 179
London +52 41 £500 +2.04% 40
Work from Home +20 21 £465 -2.11% 180
UK excluding London +39 16 £463 +13.85% 153
Midlands +24 8 £475 +26.67% 25
West Midlands +21 6 £475 +26.67% 17
South East +40 5 £400 -15.79% 30
Scotland - 2 £513 - 9
East Midlands - 1 £500 - 7
South West - 1 £500 - 19

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 5 (7.69%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.54%) Apache
2 1 (1.54%) Confluence
2 1 (1.54%) IIS
2 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.54%) nginx
2 1 (1.54%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.54%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (7.69%) InfoPath
2 3 (4.62%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (9.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (3.08%) Aladdin
3 1 (1.54%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 33 (50.77%) Azure
2 22 (33.85%) AWS
3 9 (13.85%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (13.85%) Power Platform
4 7 (10.77%) Azure Logic Apps
4 7 (10.77%) Azure Service Bus
4 7 (10.77%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (9.23%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (9.23%) Azure Functions
5 6 (9.23%) PowerApps
5 6 (9.23%) Serverless
6 5 (7.69%) Entra ID
6 5 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (7.69%) Power Automate
7 3 (4.62%) PaaS
8 2 (3.08%) Azure AKS
8 2 (3.08%) Azure API Management
8 2 (3.08%) Azure Storage
8 2 (3.08%) GCP
8 2 (3.08%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.08%) Firewall
1 2 (3.08%) HTTP
1 2 (3.08%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (32.31%) Relational Database
1 21 (32.31%) SQL Server
2 18 (27.69%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (18.46%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (9.23%) MongoDB
4 6 (9.23%) Power BI
5 5 (7.69%) MySQL
5 5 (7.69%) RDBMS
6 4 (6.15%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (6.15%) Redis
6 4 (6.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (4.62%) NoSQL
8 2 (3.08%) DocumentDB
8 2 (3.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (1.54%) Oracle Database
9 1 (1.54%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 15 (23.08%) Git
2 4 (6.15%) JIRA
2 4 (6.15%) NUnit
3 3 (4.62%) Visual Studio
4 2 (3.08%) GitLab
4 2 (3.08%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.08%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (1.54%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.54%) gulp
5 1 (1.54%) Moq
5 1 (1.54%) Postman
5 1 (1.54%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 20 (30.77%) Finance
2 18 (27.69%) Social Skills
3 8 (12.31%) Banking
4 7 (10.77%) Public Sector
5 5 (7.69%) Billing
6 3 (4.62%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.08%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.08%) Law
8 1 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.54%) Front Office
8 1 (1.54%) Marketing
8 1 (1.54%) Police
8 1 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (70.77%) Developer
2 36 (55.38%) .NET Developer
3 14 (21.54%) Senior
4 9 (13.85%) C# .NET Developer
4 9 (13.85%) C# Developer
4 9 (13.85%) Cloud Developer
4 9 (13.85%) Senior Developer
5 7 (10.77%) Senior .NET Developer
6 6 (9.23%) Architect
6 6 (9.23%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (7.69%) Data Engineer
7 5 (7.69%) Senior C# .NET Developer
7 5 (7.69%) Senior C# Developer
7 5 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
8 4 (6.15%) Automation Architect
8 4 (6.15%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (4.62%) AWS Developer
9 3 (4.62%) Azure Developer
9 3 (4.62%) Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (4.62%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (96.92%) .NET
2 61 (93.85%) .NET Framework
3 28 (43.08%) .NET Core
4 23 (35.38%) ASP.NET
5 22 (33.85%) HTML
6 20 (30.77%) CSS
7 15 (23.08%) ASP.NET MVC
8 14 (21.54%) ASP.NET Web API
9 13 (20.00%) AngularJS
9 13 (20.00%) RESTful
10 11 (16.92%) REST
11 10 (15.38%) WCF
12 9 (13.85%) RabbitMQ
13 8 (12.31%) React
14 7 (10.77%) Dapper ORM
14 7 (10.77%) LINQ
15 6 (9.23%) ASP.NET Core
15 6 (9.23%) Web Services
16 5 (7.69%) OAuth
16 5 (7.69%) StructureMap
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.69%) Enterprise Cloud
1 5 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
1 5 (7.69%) N-Tier
2 3 (4.62%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.62%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (3.08%) Fixed Income
3 2 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.08%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.54%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.54%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.54%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (1.54%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.54%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.54%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.08%) AIX
1 2 (3.08%) Linux
1 2 (3.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (49.23%) Agile
2 22 (33.85%) MVC
3 21 (32.31%) CI/CD
4 17 (26.15%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (24.62%) DevOps
6 15 (23.08%) Unit Testing
7 13 (20.00%) Scrum
8 12 (18.46%) Containerisation
8 12 (18.46%) TDD
9 11 (16.92%) Business Intelligence
9 11 (16.92%) CRM
10 10 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
10 10 (15.38%) Sprint Planning
10 10 (15.38%) Web Development
11 9 (13.85%) Full-Stack Development
11 9 (13.85%) Microservices
12 8 (12.31%) Design Patterns
13 7 (10.77%) Migration
13 7 (10.77%) Software Engineering
13 7 (10.77%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 52 (80.00%) C#
2 41 (63.08%) SQL
3 23 (35.38%) JavaScript
4 14 (21.54%) PL/SQL
5 11 (16.92%) RPG
5 11 (16.92%) RPG IV
6 5 (7.69%) T-SQL
7 4 (6.15%) Python
8 3 (4.62%) VB
8 3 (4.62%) VB6
9 2 (3.08%) Java
9 2 (3.08%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.54%) Bicep
10 1 (1.54%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.54%) X++
10 1 (1.54%) XAML
Qualifications
1 8 (12.31%) Degree
2 6 (9.23%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (7.69%) MCPD
3 5 (7.69%) MCSD
3 5 (7.69%) Security Cleared
4 4 (6.15%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.54%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.54%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.23%) Accessibility
2 4 (6.15%) QA
3 2 (3.08%) NCSC
System Software
1 21 (32.31%) Docker
2 2 (3.08%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (27.69%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.15%) Terraform
3 1 (1.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (1.54%) MIIS
Vendors
1 16 (24.62%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.15%) Solace
2 4 (6.15%) TIBCO
3 3 (4.62%) Oracle
4 2 (3.08%) Murex
4 2 (3.08%) VMware
5 1 (1.54%) IBM
5 1 (1.54%) Siemens
5 1 (1.54%) Splunk