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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 487 563 514
Rank change year-on-year +76 -49 +24
Contract jobs citing Entity Framework 88 119 364
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.21% 0.42%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.97% 0.92% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 91 246
10th Percentile £313 £400 £375
25th Percentile £375 £450 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +9.47% +11.76%
75th Percentile £628 £638 £575
90th Percentile £700 £700 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £429 £475 £430
% change year-on-year -9.68% +10.47% +6.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 10
10th Percentile - - £48.50
25th Percentile - £75.00 £51.38
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £62.55
Median % change year-on-year - +27.90% +78.71%
75th Percentile - £85.00 £64.65
90th Percentile - - £65.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £80.00 £62.55
% change year-on-year - +27.90% +83.97%

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 9,058 12,870 23,572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.04% 22.96% 26.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,281 9,398 17,328
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £669
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 147 222
10th Percentile £21.89 £30.45 £25.05
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £66.25 £75.00 £67.36
90th Percentile £74.46 £80.55 £76.96
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.43 £65.00 £55.25
% change year-on-year -25.49% +17.65% +22.78%

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 1 June 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 13 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 1 June 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 +67 74 £475 -9.52% 219
Work from Home +94 46 £475 -6.86% 180
London +105 42 £495 -14.29% 66
UK excluding London -8 32 £429 -9.68% 164
North of England +14 12 £450 -5.26% 50
North West +16 11 £450 -5.26% 28
South East +6 7 £521 +4.25% 26
Midlands +22 6 £425 -19.05% 36
East of England +2 5 £350 -26.32% 15
West Midlands +12 4 - - 19
Scotland +22 2 £427 -10.21% 10
East Midlands +13 2 £425 -10.53% 17
Yorkshire +16 1 £350 -33.33% 16

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 (7.95%) CMS
2 2 (2.27%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.14%) EPiServer
3 1 (1.14%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (1.14%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 7 (7.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 64 (72.73%) Azure
2 31 (35.23%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (21.59%) AWS
4 12 (13.64%) Azure Service Bus
5 10 (11.36%) Dynamics 365
5 10 (11.36%) Power Platform
6 8 (9.09%) Serverless
7 6 (6.82%) Azure Key Vault
8 5 (5.68%) Azure Functions
8 5 (5.68%) PaaS
9 4 (4.55%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (4.55%) Power Automate
9 4 (4.55%) PowerApps
10 3 (3.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (3.41%) Entra ID
11 2 (2.27%) GitHub
12 1 (1.14%) Azure API Management
12 1 (1.14%) Azure Storage
12 1 (1.14%) Microsoft 365
12 1 (1.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.14%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (63.64%) SQL Server
2 8 (9.09%) MySQL
2 8 (9.09%) Redis
3 7 (7.95%) Relational Database
4 6 (6.82%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (5.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (5.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (4.55%) BusinessObjects
6 4 (4.55%) Power BI
7 2 (2.27%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.14%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 20 (22.73%) Git
2 19 (21.59%) Visual Studio
3 8 (9.09%) TeamCity
4 7 (7.95%) SpecFlow
4 7 (7.95%) Team Foundation Server
5 6 (6.82%) NUnit
5 6 (6.82%) Selenium
6 5 (5.68%) Moq
6 5 (5.68%) MSI
6 5 (5.68%) Octopus Deploy
6 5 (5.68%) WiX
7 3 (3.41%) Jasmine
7 3 (3.41%) JIRA
8 2 (2.27%) GitLab
9 1 (1.14%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.14%) git-flow
9 1 (1.14%) InstallShield
9 1 (1.14%) MSTest
General
1 28 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 13 (14.77%) Finance
3 10 (11.36%) Banking
4 9 (10.23%) Front Office
5 6 (6.82%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.68%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (5.68%) Investment Banking
7 4 (4.55%) Retail
8 1 (1.14%) Back Office
8 1 (1.14%) French Language
8 1 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 71 (80.68%) Developer
2 41 (46.59%) .NET Developer
3 17 (19.32%) C# Developer
4 11 (12.50%) Full Stack Developer
5 10 (11.36%) Senior
6 9 (10.23%) Architect
6 9 (10.23%) Full Stack .NET Developer
7 8 (9.09%) Software Engineer
8 7 (7.95%) Senior Developer
9 6 (6.82%) Power Platform Developer
9 6 (6.82%) Software Developer
9 6 (6.82%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (5.68%) Azure Developer
10 5 (5.68%) Dynamics 365 Architect
11 4 (4.55%) C# .NET Developer
11 4 (4.55%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
12 3 (3.41%) Full-Stack C# Developer
12 3 (3.41%) Lead
12 3 (3.41%) SSIS Developer
12 3 (3.41%) SSRS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (97.73%) .NET
2 75 (85.23%) .NET Framework
3 28 (31.82%) .NET Core
4 26 (29.55%) HTML
5 24 (27.27%) ASP.NET
5 24 (27.27%) React
6 23 (26.14%) ASP.NET Web API
6 23 (26.14%) CSS
7 22 (25.00%) AngularJS
8 20 (22.73%) WCF
9 17 (19.32%) Blazor
9 17 (19.32%) jQuery
10 14 (15.91%) REST
11 13 (14.77%) Web Services
12 12 (13.64%) LINQ
13 11 (12.50%) JSON
14 10 (11.36%) HTML5
15 9 (10.23%) XML
15 9 (10.23%) XSLT
16 8 (9.09%) Angular 2
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.82%) Derivative
1 6 (6.82%) Replication
2 5 (5.68%) Client/Server
2 5 (5.68%) Web 2.0
3 4 (4.55%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.55%) Interest Rate Derivative
3 4 (4.55%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.41%) N-Tier
5 2 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.27%) Market Risk
5 2 (2.27%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.14%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.14%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.14%) NHS
6 1 (1.14%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.14%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.09%) Windows
2 1 (1.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (54.55%) DevOps
2 38 (43.18%) MVC
3 32 (36.36%) Agile
4 17 (19.32%) Software Engineering
5 16 (18.18%) Full Stack Development
5 16 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (18.18%) Scrum
6 15 (17.05%) Microservices
7 14 (15.91%) Design Patterns
7 14 (15.91%) Performance Tuning
7 14 (15.91%) TDD
8 13 (14.77%) Unit Testing
9 10 (11.36%) OO
10 9 (10.23%) Computer Science
10 9 (10.23%) Data Migration
10 9 (10.23%) Migration
11 8 (9.09%) CI/CD
11 8 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
12 7 (7.95%) Business Intelligence
12 7 (7.95%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 79 (89.77%) C#
2 39 (44.32%) SQL
3 36 (40.91%) JavaScript
4 13 (14.77%) T-SQL
5 9 (10.23%) PowerShell
6 7 (7.95%) TypeScript
7 4 (4.55%) PL/SQL
8 3 (3.41%) Python
9 2 (2.27%) VB.NET
10 1 (1.14%) Bicep
10 1 (1.14%) Java
10 1 (1.14%) XAML
Qualifications
1 16 (18.18%) Degree
2 6 (6.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.41%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.41%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.14%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.14%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.68%) QA
2 1 (1.14%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.14%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (2.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (4.55%) Terraform
2 1 (1.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (20.45%) Microsoft
2 12 (13.64%) Oracle
3 5 (5.68%) Optimizely
4 4 (4.55%) SAP
5 1 (1.14%) Nintex
5 1 (1.14%) Sitecore