CRUD Contracts

CRUD (Create, read, update and delete)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring CRUD skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CRUD over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 528 581 675
Rank change year-on-year +53 +94 +177
Contract jobs citing CRUD 2 6 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.006% 0.014% 0.020%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.007% 0.016% 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 10
10th Percentile - £504 £549
25th Percentile £613 £509 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £538 £588
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% -8.51% +17.50%
75th Percentile £638 £584 £684
90th Percentile - £601 £710
UK excluding London median daily rate - £538 £575
% change year-on-year - -6.52% +9.52%

All Process and 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 28,184 37,006 49,957
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.85% 85.27% 89.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,766 23,597 34,412
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.86% -4.55% +1.38%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,384 2,548 1,711
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £11.87
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.06 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +4.17% +38.46%
75th Percentile £53.88 £61.30 £64.81
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.66 £38.12 £35.00
% change year-on-year -35.31% +8.91% +64.71%

CRUD
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing CRUD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for CRUD in the UK

CRUD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CRUD.

Daily rate trend for CRUD in the UK

CRUD
Top 3 Contract 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 2 July 2025. 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 +55 2 £625 +16.28% 9
Work from Home +38 2 £625 +25.00% 2
London +37 2 £625 - 6

CRUD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) npm
1 1 (50.00%) Yarn
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) CouchDB
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) PouchDB
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (50.00%) Back Office
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Front Office
1 1 (50.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Analyst Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 1 (50.00%) Software Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (50.00%) D3.js
1 1 (50.00%) Ember.js
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Derivative
1 1 (50.00%) Equities
1 1 (50.00%) Fixed Income
1 1 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (50.00%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Client Onboarding
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) KYC
2 1 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Prototyping
2 1 (50.00%) Rapid Prototyping
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Ruby
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) EMIR
1 1 (50.00%) MiFID
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Bloomberg
1 1 (50.00%) CQG
1 1 (50.00%) ION Trading
1 1 (50.00%) Reuters