CRUD Contract Job Trends in England

CRUD (Create, read, update and delete)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring CRUD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 539 465 546
Rank change year-on-year -74 +81 +160
Contract jobs citing CRUD 4 24 18
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.012% 0.091% 0.047%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.014% 0.10% 0.054%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 15 12
10th Percentile £507 - £369
25th Percentile £508 £619 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £650 £613
Median % change year-on-year -20.19% +6.12% +2.08%
75th Percentile £533 £663 £725
90th Percentile £536 £683 -
UK median daily rate £519 £650 £613
% change year-on-year -20.19% +6.12% +2.08%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

CRUD falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 28,849 23,705 33,384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.71% 89.48% 87.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,454 14,499 22,354
10th Percentile £305 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% -4.09%
75th Percentile £619 £643 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,790 754 1,912
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £13.50
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.63% -3.47% +2.86%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £62.12
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +7.69%

CRUD
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CRUD relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

CRUD job vacancy trend in England

CRUD
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing CRUD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing CRUD

CRUD
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing CRUD.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing CRUD

CRUD
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CRUD within the England region over the 6 months to 1 February 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
London -30 3 £525 -17.65%
West Midlands -42 1 £513 - 1
Midlands -55 1 £513 - 2
CRUD
UK

CRUD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (25.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Functions
3 1 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) Power Automate
3 1 (25.00%) PowerApps
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) MariaDB
2 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (25.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) ERwin
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Marketing
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Developer
2 1 (25.00%) CRM Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Integration Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modeller
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Dynamics 365 CRM Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Dynamics 365 Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) Spring
1 1 (25.00%) Spring MVC
1 1 (25.00%) Spring WebFlux
1 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Learning Management System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) CRM
2 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) ETL
2 1 (25.00%) Kanban
2 1 (25.00%) Low Latency
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) MVC
2 1 (25.00%) Non-Blocking Code
2 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) Sparx