CRUD Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands 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 173 118 -
Rank change year-on-year -55 - -
Contract jobs citing CRUD 1 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.029% 0.19% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.034% 0.21% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £506 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - -
75th Percentile £519 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £519 £650 £613
% change year-on-year -20.19% +6.12% +2.08%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,910 1,895 2,262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 85.09% 87.81% 83.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,827 1,165 1,504
10th Percentile £259 £224 £223
25th Percentile £400 £373 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +5.26% -2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 71 161
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.70 £11.75
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £18.23 £22.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.16% -2.22% +33.69%
75th Percentile £25.00 £32.65 £43.75
90th Percentile £30.00 £52.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £36.00
% change year-on-year -27.63% -3.47% +2.86%

CRUD
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

CRUD job vacancy trend in the Midlands

CRUD
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing CRUD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing CRUD

CRUD
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CRUD within the Midlands 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
West Midlands -42 1 £513 - 1
CRUD
England

CRUD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) MariaDB
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Learning Management System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL