CRUD (Create, read, update and delete)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for CRUD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited CRUD over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 585 703 809
Rank change year-on-year +118 +106 -128
Contract jobs citing CRUD 6 15 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.025% 0.051%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.016% 0.028% 0.056%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 14 37
10th Percentile £412 £471 £443
25th Percentile £419 £563 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -28.17% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £522 £684 £675
90th Percentile £576 £770 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £431 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -25.04% +9.52% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

CRUD is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,262 53,150 80,380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.35% 89.86% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,013 36,862 56,431
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,756 1,916
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

CRUD
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing CRUD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for CRUD in the UK

CRUD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CRUD.

Daily rate trend for CRUD in the UK

CRUD
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CRUD over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CRUD in the UK

CRUD
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CRUD within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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 +103 6 £431 -28.17% 3
UK excluding London +65 4 £431 -25.04% 1
North of England - 3 £423 -
North East - 3 £423 -
Work from Home +126 2 - - 1
London +95 2 - - 2
South West +23 1 £575 +31.43% 1

CRUD
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Snowflake
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) AMQP
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
1 3 (50.00%) MQTT
2 2 (33.33%) DMZ
2 2 (33.33%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Tableau
2 1 (16.67%) Big Data
2 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
2 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (16.67%) Delta Lake
2 1 (16.67%) SAP BW
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (33.33%) Manufacturing
2 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Build Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Data Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Linux Build Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Linux Server Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Server Build Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Server Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Build Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Server Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Workday Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Apache NiFi
1 3 (50.00%) JSON
1 3 (50.00%) Web Services
1 3 (50.00%) XML
1 3 (50.00%) XSLT
2 1 (16.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) IoT
1 3 (50.00%) PKI
2 1 (16.67%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (16.67%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
1 3 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) Analytics
2 2 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 2 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Performance Management
2 2 (33.33%) Reverse Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Security Management
2 2 (33.33%) Server Building
2 2 (33.33%) Use Case
2 2 (33.33%) Visualisation
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 1 (16.67%) Data Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Data Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Kimball Methodology
3 1 (16.67%) Logical Data Model
3 1 (16.67%) Open Source
3 1 (16.67%) Secure Coding
3 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 2 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Databricks
2 1 (16.67%) SAP
2 1 (16.67%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) Workday