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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 485 565 509
Rank change year-on-year +80 -56 +22
Contract jobs citing Entity Framework 86 122 369
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.21% 0.42%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.96% 0.93% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 91 252
10th Percentile £313 £363 £368
25th Percentile £375 £413 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £510 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% +7.37% +11.76%
75th Percentile £634 £625 £575
90th Percentile £700 £695 £650
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 3 12
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £75.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year - +46.79% +55.71%
75th Percentile - £85.00 £63.95
90th Percentile - - £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 8,924 13,173 23,604
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.96% 23.13% 26.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,198 9,621 17,311
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £665
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 144 237
10th Percentile £21.25 £25.75 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £74.47 £80.25 £76.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.25
% change year-on-year -26.92% +29.35% +11.67%

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 18 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 12 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 18 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 +93 73 £475 -8.65% 231
Work from Home +85 47 £475 -6.86% 318
London +109 42 £500 -3.85% 57
UK excluding London +8 29 £438 -7.89% 196
North of England +24 12 £450 -5.26% 60
North West +16 11 £450 -5.26% 31
South East +30 7 £521 +6.92% 29
Midlands +22 5 £425 -27.66% 43
East of England +3 5 £350 -24.32% 18
West Midlands +21 3 - - 27
East Midlands +15 2 £425 -10.53% 16
Yorkshire +13 1 £350 -33.33% 22

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%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.16%) EPiServer
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 61 (70.93%) Azure
2 30 (34.88%) Azure DevOps
3 18 (20.93%) AWS
4 10 (11.63%) Azure Service Bus
4 10 (11.63%) Dynamics 365
5 9 (10.47%) Power Platform
6 7 (8.14%) Serverless
7 5 (5.81%) PaaS
8 4 (4.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (4.65%) Azure Functions
8 4 (4.65%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (3.49%) Entra ID
9 3 (3.49%) Power Automate
9 3 (3.49%) PowerApps
10 2 (2.33%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (2.33%) Azure Service Fabric
11 1 (1.16%) Azure API Management
11 1 (1.16%) Azure Storage
11 1 (1.16%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (1.16%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.16%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (59.30%) SQL Server
2 7 (8.14%) MySQL
2 7 (8.14%) Relational Database
3 6 (6.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 6 (6.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 5 (5.81%) Redis
5 4 (4.65%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (3.49%) BusinessObjects
6 3 (3.49%) Power BI
7 2 (2.33%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.16%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 20 (23.26%) Git
2 18 (20.93%) Visual Studio
3 9 (10.47%) TeamCity
4 7 (8.14%) NUnit
4 7 (8.14%) SpecFlow
4 7 (8.14%) Team Foundation Server
5 6 (6.98%) Octopus Deploy
5 6 (6.98%) Selenium
6 5 (5.81%) Moq
6 5 (5.81%) MSI
6 5 (5.81%) WiX
7 3 (3.49%) Jasmine
7 3 (3.49%) JIRA
8 2 (2.33%) GitLab
9 1 (1.16%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.16%) git-flow
9 1 (1.16%) InstallShield
9 1 (1.16%) MSTest
General
1 26 (30.23%) Social Skills
2 14 (16.28%) Finance
3 11 (12.79%) Banking
4 6 (6.98%) Front Office
4 6 (6.98%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.81%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.81%) Investment Banking
6 4 (4.65%) Retail
7 1 (1.16%) Back Office
7 1 (1.16%) French Language
7 1 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 66 (76.74%) Developer
2 36 (41.86%) .NET Developer
3 18 (20.93%) C# Developer
4 11 (12.79%) Senior
5 9 (10.47%) Architect
6 8 (9.30%) Full Stack Developer
6 8 (9.30%) Senior Developer
6 8 (9.30%) Software Engineer
7 6 (6.98%) Full Stack .NET Developer
7 6 (6.98%) Software Developer
7 6 (6.98%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (5.81%) Azure Developer
8 5 (5.81%) Dynamics 365 Architect
8 5 (5.81%) Power Platform Developer
9 4 (4.65%) C# .NET Developer
9 4 (4.65%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
9 4 (4.65%) Lead
9 4 (4.65%) Senior C# Developer
10 3 (3.49%) Azure Engineer
10 3 (3.49%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (95.35%) .NET
2 71 (82.56%) .NET Framework
3 27 (31.40%) .NET Core
4 26 (30.23%) HTML
5 24 (27.91%) AngularJS
5 24 (27.91%) ASP.NET
5 24 (27.91%) ASP.NET Web API
5 24 (27.91%) React
6 21 (24.42%) CSS
7 19 (22.09%) WCF
8 16 (18.60%) jQuery
9 14 (16.28%) Blazor
9 14 (16.28%) REST
10 12 (13.95%) JSON
10 12 (13.95%) LINQ
11 10 (11.63%) HTML5
11 10 (11.63%) Web Services
12 8 (9.30%) Angular 2
12 8 (9.30%) XML
12 8 (9.30%) XSLT
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%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.49%) N-Tier
5 2 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.33%) Market Risk
5 2 (2.33%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.16%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.16%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.16%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.16%) NHS
6 1 (1.16%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.16%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.30%) Windows
2 1 (1.16%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (54.65%) DevOps
2 37 (43.02%) MVC
3 31 (36.05%) Agile
4 18 (20.93%) Microservices
5 17 (19.77%) Software Engineering
6 16 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (16.28%) Design Patterns
7 14 (16.28%) Performance Tuning
7 14 (16.28%) Scrum
7 14 (16.28%) TDD
7 14 (16.28%) Unit Testing
8 13 (15.12%) Full Stack Development
9 10 (11.63%) OO
10 9 (10.47%) Computer Science
10 9 (10.47%) Continuous Integration
11 8 (9.30%) CI/CD
12 7 (8.14%) Customer Requirements
12 7 (8.14%) Data Integration
12 7 (8.14%) Data Migration
12 7 (8.14%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 75 (87.21%) C#
2 40 (46.51%) SQL
3 35 (40.70%) JavaScript
4 11 (12.79%) T-SQL
5 7 (8.14%) PowerShell
5 7 (8.14%) TypeScript
6 5 (5.81%) PL/SQL
7 3 (3.49%) Python
7 3 (3.49%) VB.NET
8 1 (1.16%) Bicep
8 1 (1.16%) Java
8 1 (1.16%) XAML
Qualifications
1 16 (18.60%) Degree
2 6 (6.98%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (5.81%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.81%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.16%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.16%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.81%) QA
2 1 (1.16%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (2.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (4.65%) Terraform
2 3 (3.49%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (2.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (1.16%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 19 (22.09%) Microsoft
2 12 (13.95%) Oracle
3 5 (5.81%) Optimizely
4 4 (4.65%) SAP
5 1 (1.16%) Nintex
5 1 (1.16%) Sitecore