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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 506 553 505
Rank change year-on-year +47 -48 +17
Contract jobs citing Entity Framework 85 153 370
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.26% 0.42%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.95% 1.13% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 113 251
10th Percentile £310 £365 £368
25th Percentile £372 £413 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £510 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% +7.37% +11.76%
75th Percentile £631 £625 £575
90th Percentile £700 £695 £656
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -7.89% +11.76% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 12
10th Percentile - £70.00 -
25th Percentile - £75.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate - £83.50 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year - +53.21% +55.71%
75th Percentile - £86.25 £63.95
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 8,929 13,500 23,602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.74% 23.27% 27.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,198 9,843 17,307
10th Percentile £343 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 154 232
10th Percentile £21.25 £30.23 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.01 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.65% +10.56%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.95 £81.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £64.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year -26.36% +31.63% +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 9 May 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 9 May 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 +84 72 £475 -8.65% 222
Work from Home +90 49 £475 -6.86% 307
London +91 42 £495 -4.81% 56
UK excluding London -22 28 £438 -7.89% 178
North of England +20 12 £450 -5.26% 50
North West +10 11 £450 -5.26% 26
South East +20 8 £475 +4.11% 27
East of England +7 5 £350 -24.32% 23
Midlands +32 3 - - 36
West Midlands +20 3 - - 21
Yorkshire +17 1 £350 -33.33% 21

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 (8.24%) CMS
2 2 (2.35%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.18%) EPiServer
3 1 (1.18%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (1.18%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 7 (8.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 58 (68.24%) Azure
2 31 (36.47%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (18.82%) AWS
4 10 (11.76%) Dynamics 365
5 9 (10.59%) Serverless
6 8 (9.41%) Azure Service Bus
6 8 (9.41%) Power Platform
7 6 (7.06%) Azure Functions
8 5 (5.88%) PaaS
9 4 (4.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (4.71%) Azure Key Vault
10 3 (3.53%) Entra ID
11 2 (2.35%) Azure App Service
11 2 (2.35%) Azure Event Grid
11 2 (2.35%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (2.35%) Azure Service Fabric
11 2 (2.35%) Power Automate
11 2 (2.35%) PowerApps
12 1 (1.18%) Azure API Management
12 1 (1.18%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.35%) FTP
2 1 (1.18%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (58.82%) SQL Server
2 8 (9.41%) Relational Database
3 6 (7.06%) MySQL
3 6 (7.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 6 (7.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (4.71%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (3.53%) Redis
6 2 (2.35%) BusinessObjects
6 2 (2.35%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.35%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.35%) Power BI
7 1 (1.18%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 24 (28.24%) Git
2 18 (21.18%) Visual Studio
3 9 (10.59%) TeamCity
4 7 (8.24%) NUnit
4 7 (8.24%) SpecFlow
5 6 (7.06%) Octopus Deploy
5 6 (7.06%) Selenium
6 5 (5.88%) Moq
6 5 (5.88%) MSI
6 5 (5.88%) Team Foundation Server
6 5 (5.88%) WiX
7 4 (4.71%) JIRA
8 3 (3.53%) Jasmine
9 2 (2.35%) GitLab
10 1 (1.18%) Bitbucket
10 1 (1.18%) git-flow
10 1 (1.18%) InstallShield
10 1 (1.18%) MSTest
General
1 24 (28.24%) Social Skills
2 16 (18.82%) Finance
3 11 (12.94%) Banking
4 6 (7.06%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.88%) Investment Banking
6 4 (4.71%) Front Office
6 4 (4.71%) Retail
7 2 (2.35%) Electronics
7 2 (2.35%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.35%) Marketing
7 2 (2.35%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.18%) Back Office
8 1 (1.18%) French Language
8 1 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 65 (76.47%) Developer
2 38 (44.71%) .NET Developer
3 21 (24.71%) C# Developer
4 11 (12.94%) Senior
5 9 (10.59%) Architect
6 8 (9.41%) Senior Developer
6 8 (9.41%) Software Engineer
7 7 (8.24%) Azure Developer
7 7 (8.24%) C# .NET Developer
8 6 (7.06%) Full Stack Developer
8 6 (7.06%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (5.88%) Dynamics 365 Architect
10 4 (4.71%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
10 4 (4.71%) Full Stack .NET Developer
10 4 (4.71%) Lead
10 4 (4.71%) Power Platform Developer
10 4 (4.71%) Senior C# Developer
10 4 (4.71%) Software Developer
11 3 (3.53%) Senior Software Engineer
11 3 (3.53%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (95.29%) .NET
2 70 (82.35%) .NET Framework
3 27 (31.76%) AngularJS
4 26 (30.59%) .NET Core
5 25 (29.41%) ASP.NET
6 24 (28.24%) ASP.NET Web API
6 24 (28.24%) HTML
7 23 (27.06%) React
8 19 (22.35%) CSS
8 19 (22.35%) WCF
9 14 (16.47%) jQuery
9 14 (16.47%) REST
10 12 (14.12%) Blazor
10 12 (14.12%) JSON
10 12 (14.12%) LINQ
11 10 (11.76%) HTML5
12 9 (10.59%) Web Services
13 8 (9.41%) Angular 2
14 7 (8.24%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 7 (8.24%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.06%) Derivative
1 6 (7.06%) Replication
2 5 (5.88%) Client/Server
2 5 (5.88%) Web 2.0
3 4 (4.71%) Interest Rate Derivative
3 4 (4.71%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.53%) N-Tier
5 2 (2.35%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.35%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.35%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.35%) Market Risk
5 2 (2.35%) NHS
5 2 (2.35%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.18%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.18%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.18%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.18%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.18%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.41%) Windows
2 1 (1.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (54.12%) DevOps
2 35 (41.18%) MVC
3 33 (38.82%) Agile
4 19 (22.35%) Software Engineering
5 18 (21.18%) Unit Testing
6 17 (20.00%) Microservices
6 17 (20.00%) TDD
7 16 (18.82%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (18.82%) Scrum
8 15 (17.65%) Design Patterns
9 14 (16.47%) Performance Tuning
10 12 (14.12%) Full Stack Development
11 10 (11.76%) CI/CD
11 10 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
11 10 (11.76%) OO
12 9 (10.59%) Computer Science
13 7 (8.24%) Business Intelligence
13 7 (8.24%) CRM
13 7 (8.24%) Migration
13 7 (8.24%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 74 (87.06%) C#
2 41 (48.24%) SQL
3 34 (40.00%) JavaScript
4 11 (12.94%) T-SQL
5 7 (8.24%) PowerShell
5 7 (8.24%) TypeScript
6 5 (5.88%) PL/SQL
7 3 (3.53%) Python
7 3 (3.53%) VB.NET
8 1 (1.18%) Bicep
8 1 (1.18%) Java
8 1 (1.18%) XAML
Qualifications
1 14 (16.47%) Degree
2 6 (7.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (5.88%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.88%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.18%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.18%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.88%) QA
2 1 (1.18%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (2.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (7.06%) Terraform
2 3 (3.53%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (2.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (1.18%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 18 (21.18%) Microsoft
2 12 (14.12%) Oracle
3 6 (7.06%) SAP
4 5 (5.88%) Optimizely
5 1 (1.18%) Nintex
5 1 (1.18%) Sitecore