CAP Theorem Contract Job Trends

CAP Theorem
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring CAP Theorem skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 671 - 566
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing CAP Theorem 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.002% - 0.003%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.002% - 0.003%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £313 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - £525
75th Percentile £338 - £538
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £325 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

CAP Theorem 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 45,351 29,931 33,545
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.01% 90.42% 85.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,028 18,763 21,568
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £734 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,760 1,659 1,891
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.30 £18.15
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.90% -4.71%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.10 £74.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.50 £41.25
% change year-on-year +87.06% -43.03% +3.13%

CAP Theorem
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CAP Theorem relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

CAP Theorem job vacancy trend in the UK

CAP Theorem
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CAP Theorem.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CAP Theorem

CAP Theorem
Top 2 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CAP Theorem within the UK over the 6 months to 2 August 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
Scotland - 1 £325 - 1
UK excluding London - 1 £325 - 1

CAP Theorem
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Camunda
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (100.00%) InterSystems Cache
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Batch
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Case Management
1 1 (100.00%) Concurrent Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Due Diligence
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (100.00%) Solace