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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 646 544 558
Rank change year-on-year -102 +14 +110
Contract jobs citing CRUD 21 2 14
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.040% 0.006% 0.035%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.047% 0.007% 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 1 9
10th Percentile £358 - -
25th Percentile £360 £613 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £640
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -2.34% +11.30%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £663
90th Percentile £584 - £668
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 - £650
% 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 44,902 29,618 34,312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.94% 90.44% 85.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,798 18,592 22,057
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.10% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £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 2,679 1,619 2,026
10th Percentile £14.79 £14.20 £13.56
25th Percentile £20.06 £17.33 £17.55
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.39 £68.75 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +87.06% -41.25% -

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 July 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 9 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 July 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 -98 17 £506 -19.00% 4
UK excluding London - 14 £500 - 5
Work from Home -49 11 £360 -42.40% 3
East of England - 7 £359 -
South East - 5 £625 - 1
London -64 4 £538 -14.00%
Midlands - 1 £513 - 1
Wales - 1 £500 - 1
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 (4.76%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 4 (19.05%) Azure
2 3 (14.29%) AWS
3 2 (9.52%) Azure AKS
3 2 (9.52%) Azure Functions
3 2 (9.52%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (9.52%) GitHub
3 2 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (9.52%) Serverless
4 1 (4.76%) Azure App Service
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (4.76%) Datadog
4 1 (4.76%) GCP
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) 3GPP
1 2 (9.52%) HTTP
1 2 (9.52%) RTCP
1 2 (9.52%) RTP
1 2 (9.52%) XCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (4.76%) Data Lake
1 1 (4.76%) InfluxDB
1 1 (4.76%) MariaDB
1 1 (4.76%) Metadata
1 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
1 1 (4.76%) Power BI
1 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Postman
2 1 (4.76%) Vite
General
1 4 (19.05%) Public Sector
2 2 (9.52%) Legal
2 2 (9.52%) Marketing
2 2 (9.52%) Police
2 2 (9.52%) Retail
3 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Finance
3 1 (4.76%) Military
3 1 (4.76%) Social Housing
3 1 (4.76%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Analyst
1 6 (28.57%) Data Analyst
1 6 (28.57%) Developer
2 4 (19.05%) Architect
2 4 (19.05%) Data Architect
3 3 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Senior
4 2 (9.52%) C# Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Integration Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Applications Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Business Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Data Business Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Data Integration Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Governance Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Java Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365 Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (28.57%) XML
2 4 (19.05%) .NET
2 4 (19.05%) JSON
2 4 (19.05%) RESTful
3 3 (14.29%) ASP.NET
3 3 (14.29%) Kafka
3 3 (14.29%) React
3 3 (14.29%) SignalR
4 2 (9.52%) .NET Core
4 2 (9.52%) .NET Framework
4 2 (9.52%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (9.52%) Entity Framework
4 2 (9.52%) REST
4 2 (9.52%) WCF
4 2 (9.52%) WebSockets
4 2 (9.52%) XML Schema
4 2 (9.52%) XSD
5 1 (4.76%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (4.76%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.76%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (4.76%) IoT
2 1 (4.76%) Learning Management System
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) Migration
2 6 (28.57%) Asset Management
3 4 (19.05%) CI/CD
3 4 (19.05%) CRM
3 4 (19.05%) Data Management
3 4 (19.05%) Event-Driven
4 3 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (14.29%) Data Integration
4 3 (14.29%) Data Migration
4 3 (14.29%) Data Modelling
4 3 (14.29%) Data Transformation
4 3 (14.29%) Software Engineering
4 3 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (14.29%) Workshop Facilitation
5 2 (9.52%) Agile
5 2 (9.52%) Data Cleansing
5 2 (9.52%) Data Governance
5 2 (9.52%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 2 (9.52%) OOP
5 2 (9.52%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (28.57%) SQL
2 4 (19.05%) C#
2 4 (19.05%) PL/SQL
3 3 (14.29%) Python
3 3 (14.29%) TypeScript
4 1 (4.76%) Java
4 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.76%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) SAP
2 4 (19.05%) Oracle
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft