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 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 117 130
Rank change year-on-year -24 +13 +49
Contract jobs citing Entity Framework 4 1 7
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.17% 0.043% 0.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.86% 0.29% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 7
10th Percentile £438 - £365
25th Percentile £469 - £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.70%
75th Percentile £582 - £491
90th Percentile £608 - £494
England median daily rate £575 £573 £568
% change year-on-year +0.35% +0.97% +3.18%

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 465 350 583
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 19.36% 14.89% 21.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 360 222 462
10th Percentile £317 £318 £382
25th Percentile £366 £375 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% -
75th Percentile £550 £552 £619
90th Percentile £675 £638 £675
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 33
10th Percentile £29.20 £41.09 £45.88
25th Percentile £59.75 £46.18 -
Median hourly rate £74.26 £56.59 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +31.22% +22.54% -36.52%
75th Percentile - £73.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £84.65 £81.00 £72.25
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -15.38%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Entity Framework in the North West over the 6 months to 5 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Entity Framework in the North West

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 5 November 2025. 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
Cheshire -18 2 - - 9
Merseyside - 1 £435 - 1
Manchester - 1 £625 - 17
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 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (25.00%) GitHub
4 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Backend Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) .NET Framework
2 3 (75.00%) ASP.NET
2 3 (75.00%) React
3 2 (50.00%) .NET Core
3 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET Core
3 2 (50.00%) OAuth
3 2 (50.00%) RESTful
3 2 (50.00%) YAML
4 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (25.00%) Blazor
4 1 (25.00%) CSS
4 1 (25.00%) HTML
4 1 (25.00%) HTML5
4 1 (25.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Clean Code
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Integration Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Application Security
2 2 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 2 (50.00%) Data Management
2 2 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) OOP
2 2 (50.00%) Pair Programming
2 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Software Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) SOLID
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Debt
3 1 (25.00%) MVC
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft