CRUD Contract Job Trends

CRUD (Create, read, update and delete)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring CRUD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 601 509 575
Rank change year-on-year -92 +66 +169
Contract jobs citing CRUD 7 11 14
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.017% 0.036% 0.031%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.019% 0.040% 0.036%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 10
10th Percentile £389 £618 £403
25th Percentile £433 £619 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -21.15% - +10.64%
75th Percentile £528 £663 £725
90th Percentile £534 £678 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -21.15% - +44.44%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,087 27,535 38,701
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.65% 89.98% 86.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,916 17,126 25,279
10th Percentile £313 £306 £300
25th Percentile £412 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £723 £739 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £482 £491 £500
% change year-on-year -1.83% -1.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,149 888 2,215
10th Percentile £14.64 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £18.13 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -2.99% -4.29%
75th Percentile £63.32 £63.75 £59.47
90th Percentile £72.71 £75.08 £72.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.76 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.81% -9.26% -

CRUD
Job Vacancy Trend

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

CRUD job vacancy trend in the UK

CRUD
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

CRUD
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CRUD over the 6 months to 28 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CRUD in the UK

CRUD
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CRUD.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CRUD

CRUD
Top 6 Contract Job 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 28 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
Work from Home -18 3 £436 -32.23% 2
England -95 3 £519 -20.19% 4
London -37 2 £525 -16.83% 3
West Midlands -49 1 £513 -
Midlands -55 1 £513 -
UK excluding London -99 1 £513 -21.15% 1

CRUD
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) 3GPP
1 2 (28.57%) HTTP
1 2 (28.57%) RTCP
1 2 (28.57%) RTP
1 2 (28.57%) XCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Power BI
2 1 (14.29%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
2 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (14.29%) MariaDB
2 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (14.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
1 1 (14.29%) ERwin
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
1 2 (28.57%) Police
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) C# Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Data Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Data Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Data Integration Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Data Modeller
3 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Integration Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) QA Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) QA Test Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Data Modeller
3 1 (14.29%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) .NET
1 2 (28.57%) .NET Core
1 2 (28.57%) .NET Framework
1 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET
1 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET Web API
1 2 (28.57%) Entity Framework
1 2 (28.57%) SignalR
1 2 (28.57%) WCF
1 2 (28.57%) XML
1 2 (28.57%) XML Schema
1 2 (28.57%) XSD
2 1 (14.29%) Gherkin
2 1 (14.29%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) Playwright
2 1 (14.29%) Spring
2 1 (14.29%) Spring MVC
2 1 (14.29%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
1 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Learning Management System
1 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
1 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Agile
1 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
2 2 (28.57%) Key Management
2 2 (28.57%) OOP
2 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) SOLID
3 1 (14.29%) BDD
3 1 (14.29%) Data Integration
3 1 (14.29%) Data Lineage
3 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
3 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven
3 1 (14.29%) Fintech
3 1 (14.29%) Integration Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Kanban
3 1 (14.29%) Non-Blocking Code
3 1 (14.29%) Observability
3 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) C#
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle
1 1 (14.29%) SAP
1 1 (14.29%) Sparx