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 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 626 521 578
Rank change year-on-year -105 +57 +97
Contract jobs citing CRUD 15 2 7
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.031% 0.007% 0.016%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.036% 0.008% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 3
10th Percentile £345 - £445
25th Percentile £358 £613 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £625 £500
Median % change year-on-year -42.40% +25.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £527 £638 £556
90th Percentile £573 - £590
UK excluding London median daily rate £360 - £500
% change year-on-year - - -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.00 - -
Median hourly rate £47.00 - -
75th Percentile £48.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.00 - -

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 41,377 26,173 36,711
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.59% 91.02% 85.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,864 16,755 23,656
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,474 1,096 2,500
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.87 £17.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.30 £27.59 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.34% -24.42% +1.04%
75th Percentile £67.65 £57.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.76 £74.38 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -33.82% +8.57%

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 29 May 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 8 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 29 May 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
England -116 11 £360 -42.40% 3
UK excluding London - 10 £360 - 2
Work from Home -27 7 £360 -42.40% 3
East of England - 6 £358 -
South East - 3 £625 - 1
London -75 1 - - 2
Midlands - 1 £513 -
West Midlands - 1 £513 -

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 (6.67%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) AWS
3 1 (6.67%) Azure AKS
3 1 (6.67%) Azure App Service
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Functions
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (6.67%) Datadog
3 1 (6.67%) GCP
3 1 (6.67%) GitHub
3 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) 3GPP
1 2 (13.33%) HTTP
1 2 (13.33%) RTCP
1 2 (13.33%) RTP
1 2 (13.33%) XCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (6.67%) Data Lake
1 1 (6.67%) InfluxDB
1 1 (6.67%) MariaDB
1 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
1 1 (6.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Postman
2 1 (6.67%) Cucumber
General
1 2 (13.33%) Police
2 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Finance
2 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Analyst
1 5 (33.33%) Data Analyst
1 5 (33.33%) Developer
2 4 (26.67%) Architect
2 4 (26.67%) Data Architect
3 2 (13.33%) C# Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Integration Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Data Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Data Integration Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Java Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365 Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle Developer
4 1 (6.67%) QA Automation Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) QA Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) QA Test Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) .NET
1 4 (26.67%) XML
2 3 (20.00%) ASP.NET
2 3 (20.00%) SignalR
3 2 (13.33%) .NET Core
3 2 (13.33%) .NET Framework
3 2 (13.33%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (13.33%) Entity Framework
3 2 (13.33%) JSON
3 2 (13.33%) Kafka
3 2 (13.33%) RESTful
3 2 (13.33%) WCF
3 2 (13.33%) XML Schema
3 2 (13.33%) XSD
4 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (6.67%) Playwright
4 1 (6.67%) Spring
4 1 (6.67%) Spring MVC
4 1 (6.67%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Learning Management System
2 1 (6.67%) Mobile App
2 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Asset Management
2 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
3 3 (20.00%) Data Integration
3 3 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (20.00%) Event-Driven
3 3 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (13.33%) Agile
4 2 (13.33%) API Development
4 2 (13.33%) API Integration
4 2 (13.33%) CRM
4 2 (13.33%) Data Migration
4 2 (13.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 2 (13.33%) Key Management
4 2 (13.33%) Migration
4 2 (13.33%) OOP
4 2 (13.33%) SOLID
4 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (13.33%) Validation
4 2 (13.33%) Workshop Facilitation
5 1 (6.67%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) C#
2 3 (20.00%) SQL
3 2 (13.33%) PL/SQL
3 2 (13.33%) TypeScript
4 1 (6.67%) Java
4 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.67%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
1 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) SAP
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft