Entity Framework Contract Job Trends in the North West

Microsoft Entity Framework
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Entity Framework skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 - 131
Rank change year-on-year - - +28
Contract jobs citing Entity Framework 5 0 7
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.17% - 0.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.82% - 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile £651 - £288
25th Percentile £653 - £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 - £350
Median % change year-on-year - - -24.32%
75th Percentile £678 - £434
90th Percentile £684 - £450
England median daily rate £541 £500 £559
% change year-on-year +8.18% -10.51% +9.56%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

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 in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 613 417 518
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 20.41% 20.74% 18.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 410 309 395
10th Percentile £350 £360 £355
25th Percentile £400 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.68% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £565 £575
90th Percentile £638 £638 £664
England median daily rate £525 £538 £540
% change year-on-year -2.42% -0.37% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 4 23
10th Percentile £52.50 - £39.28
25th Percentile £53.75 £65.25 £46.03
Median hourly rate £70.00 £67.75 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +3.32% +46.71% +2.62%
75th Percentile £77.50 £74.38 £71.87
90th Percentile £95.00 £82.25 £77.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%

Entity Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Entity Framework relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Entity Framework job vacancy trend in the North West

Entity Framework
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Entity Framework.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Entity Framework

Entity Framework
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Entity Framework.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Entity Framework

Entity Framework
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 18 March 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester - 4 £663 - 5
Cheshire - 1 - - 5
Entity Framework
England

Entity Framework
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (40.00%) GitHub
3 2 (40.00%) Serverless
4 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Functions
4 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (20.00%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Senior
2 3 (60.00%) .NET Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Senior .NET Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Software Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Lead
4 1 (20.00%) Lead Software Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) React
2 4 (80.00%) .NET Core
2 4 (80.00%) .NET Framework
2 4 (80.00%) RESTful
2 4 (80.00%) YAML
3 3 (60.00%) AngularJS
3 3 (60.00%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (40.00%) REST
5 1 (20.00%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (60.00%) Data Integration
3 3 (60.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (60.00%) ETL
3 3 (60.00%) Microservices
3 3 (60.00%) TDD
3 3 (60.00%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (40.00%) API Development
4 2 (40.00%) Data Migration
4 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
4 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (40.00%) Migration
4 2 (40.00%) Scrum
4 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
5 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
5 1 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft