Entity Framework Job Trends

Microsoft Entity Framework
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Entity Framework skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 473 520 311
Rank change year-on-year +47 -209 +147
Permanent jobs citing Entity Framework 294 162 910
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.33% 0.90%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.89% 1.81% 4.49%
Number of salaries quoted 285 119 785
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +2.68%
75th Percentile £68,750 £83,125 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £110,000 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 10,189 8,956 20,257
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.36% 18.27% 19.98%
Number of salaries quoted 7,627 5,918 15,290
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -9.77%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%

Entity Framework
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Entity Framework job vacancy trend in the UK

Entity Framework
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Entity Framework.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Entity Framework

Entity Framework
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Entity Framework over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Entity Framework in the UK

Entity Framework
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Entity Framework within the UK over the 6 months to 11 July 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +51 277 £55,000 -8.33% 77
UK excluding London +98 257 £55,000 - 62
Work from Home +88 220 £55,000 -8.33% 63
South East +40 77 £57,500 +4.55% 17
North of England +15 70 £55,000 -8.33% 22
Midlands -18 42 £55,000 -4.35% 12
East of England +12 38 £58,750 +11.90% 8
North West +11 34 £55,000 -8.33% 11
London -58 29 £75,000 -6.25% 20
East Midlands -8 24 £54,000 +10.77% 4
North East -30 22 £52,500 +20.69% 5
South West -51 19 £55,000 +15.79% 1
West Midlands -25 18 £65,000 +13.04% 8
Yorkshire -14 14 £47,500 -36.67% 6
Wales - 8 £50,000 - 1
Scotland +4 2 £37,250 -12.35% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1

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 6 (2.04%) IIS
1 6 (2.04%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.36%) CMS
3 3 (1.02%) DNN
3 3 (1.02%) EPiServer
3 3 (1.02%) Immediacy CMS
3 3 (1.02%) Kentico
3 3 (1.02%) Sitecore CMS
3 3 (1.02%) Sitefinity
3 3 (1.02%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Magento
1 1 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.34%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 234 (79.59%) Azure
2 111 (37.76%) Azure DevOps
3 52 (17.69%) AWS
4 38 (12.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 16 (5.44%) GitHub
5 16 (5.44%) SaaS
6 12 (4.08%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (3.40%) Azure AKS
8 8 (2.72%) Entra ID
9 7 (2.38%) Azure Key Vault
9 7 (2.38%) Azure Service Bus
9 7 (2.38%) Power Platform
9 7 (2.38%) Serverless
10 6 (2.04%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (2.04%) Figma
11 5 (1.70%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (1.70%) Anthropic Claude
11 5 (1.70%) AWS CodePipeline
11 5 (1.70%) Power Automate
11 5 (1.70%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 20 (6.80%) Internet
2 3 (1.02%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (59.52%) Azure SQL Database
2 156 (53.06%) MongoDB
3 78 (26.53%) SQL Server
4 44 (14.97%) Elasticsearch
5 14 (4.76%) NoSQL
6 11 (3.74%) NonStop SQL
7 9 (3.06%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.04%) MySQL
9 5 (1.70%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (1.70%) DynamoDB
9 5 (1.70%) Power BI
9 5 (1.70%) Redis
10 4 (1.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
12 2 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 1 (0.34%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 30 (10.20%) Git
2 9 (3.06%) JIRA
3 7 (2.38%) GitLab
3 7 (2.38%) Moq
4 4 (1.36%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.36%) NUnit
5 3 (1.02%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.68%) ESLint
6 2 (0.68%) Postman
6 2 (0.68%) Storybook
6 2 (0.68%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.68%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.68%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.68%) Vite
7 1 (0.34%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.34%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (0.34%) webpack
General
1 37 (12.59%) Games
2 26 (8.84%) Finance
3 21 (7.14%) Advertising
4 13 (4.42%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (3.74%) Music Industry
6 9 (3.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (3.06%) Social Skills
7 8 (2.72%) Retail
8 7 (2.38%) Aerospace
8 7 (2.38%) Automotive
8 7 (2.38%) Electronics
8 7 (2.38%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.02%) Banking
9 3 (1.02%) Law
9 3 (1.02%) Public Sector
10 2 (0.68%) Legal
Job Titles
1 248 (84.35%) Developer
2 203 (69.05%) .NET Developer
3 31 (10.54%) Senior
4 28 (9.52%) Full-Stack Developer
4 28 (9.52%) Software Engineer
5 21 (7.14%) Senior Developer
6 16 (5.44%) Software Developer
7 13 (4.42%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
7 13 (4.42%) Lead
8 10 (3.40%) Senior Software Engineer
9 9 (3.06%) .NET Software Engineer
9 9 (3.06%) .NET Web Developer
9 9 (3.06%) Principal Engineer
9 9 (3.06%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
9 9 (3.06%) Senior Software Developer
9 9 (3.06%) Web Developer
10 8 (2.72%) Full-Stack Web Developer
11 7 (2.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 7 (2.38%) Lead Developer
12 6 (2.04%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 290 (98.64%) .NET
2 244 (82.99%) ASP.NET
3 218 (74.15%) .NET Core
4 208 (70.75%) ASP.NET Core
5 127 (43.20%) .NET Framework
6 124 (42.18%) ASP.NET Web API
7 114 (38.78%) AngularJS
8 104 (35.37%) LINQ
8 104 (35.37%) Vue
9 101 (34.35%) CSS
10 100 (34.01%) HTML
11 91 (30.95%) RESTful
12 43 (14.63%) Node.js
13 35 (11.90%) React
14 21 (7.14%) ASP.NET MVC
15 20 (6.80%) REST
16 16 (5.44%) WPF
17 15 (5.10%) Blazor
17 15 (5.10%) XML
18 12 (4.08%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 45 (15.31%) Greenfield Project
2 44 (14.97%) Enterprise Software
3 20 (6.80%) Cloud Native
4 9 (3.06%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (2.72%) Mobile App
6 7 (2.38%) Acoustics
7 4 (1.36%) Contactless
7 4 (1.36%) EMV
7 4 (1.36%) Java Card
7 4 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.36%) Smartcard
8 3 (1.02%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.02%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.02%) Tandem
9 1 (0.34%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.34%) Learning Management System
9 1 (0.34%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.34%) Lidar
9 1 (0.34%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.36%) Android
2 2 (0.68%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.68%) Windows
3 1 (0.34%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 227 (77.21%) Full-Stack Development
2 186 (63.27%) Agile
3 127 (43.20%) CI/CD
3 127 (43.20%) DevOps
4 86 (29.25%) Multithreading
5 50 (17.01%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
6 44 (14.97%) Microservices
7 39 (13.27%) Software Engineering
8 32 (10.88%) MVC
9 31 (10.54%) Mentoring
9 31 (10.54%) OO
10 25 (8.50%) TDD
11 23 (7.82%) AI
11 23 (7.82%) Scrum
12 22 (7.48%) Problem-Solving
13 21 (7.14%) High Availability
13 21 (7.14%) Kanban
13 21 (7.14%) Video Advertising
14 19 (6.46%) Analytics
15 18 (6.12%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 268 (91.16%) C#
2 223 (75.85%) SQL
3 131 (44.56%) TypeScript
4 60 (20.41%) JavaScript
5 11 (3.74%) C++
6 8 (2.72%) Java
7 7 (2.38%) XAML
8 6 (2.04%) T-SQL
8 6 (2.04%) VB.NET
9 4 (1.36%) Bicep
9 4 (1.36%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.02%) VBA
11 2 (0.68%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.34%) PHP
12 1 (0.34%) Python
Qualifications
1 18 (6.12%) Degree
2 5 (1.70%) AWS Certification
2 5 (1.70%) AWS Certified Developer
2 5 (1.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.68%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.34%) HND
4 1 (0.34%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.34%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.34%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.42%) QA
2 4 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 14443
2 4 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 7816
3 1 (0.34%) GDPR
3 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 26 (8.84%) Docker
2 1 (0.34%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 21 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 14 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 224 (76.19%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.14%) Facebook
2 21 (7.14%) YouTube
3 12 (4.08%) Google
4 4 (1.36%) DevExpress
5 3 (1.02%) Alterian
5 3 (1.02%) Optimizely
5 3 (1.02%) Sitecore
5 3 (1.02%) Splunk
6 2 (0.68%) Mapbox
6 2 (0.68%) Rollbar
6 2 (0.68%) Xamarin