CRUD Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

CRUD (Create, read, update and delete)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 298 343 471
Rank change year-on-year +45 +128 +133
Contract jobs citing CRUD 6 2 6
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.061% 0.013% 0.023%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.067% 0.015% 0.026%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 5
10th Percentile £616 - £428
25th Percentile £619 - £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £644 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.96%
75th Percentile £663 - £588
90th Percentile £669 - £595
UK median daily rate £650 £423 £600
% change year-on-year +53.66% -29.50% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

CRUD
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing CRUD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

CRUD trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

CRUD
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing CRUD.

CRUD daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

CRUD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (16.67%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) Oracle Database
1 5 (83.33%) Oracle Database 11g
1 5 (83.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (16.67%) Back Office
1 1 (16.67%) Banking
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Front Office
1 1 (16.67%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Software Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
1 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
1 1 (16.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Derivative
1 1 (16.67%) Equities
1 1 (16.67%) Fixed Income
1 1 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
1 1 (16.67%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (83.33%) Data Migration
2 5 (83.33%) Migration
2 5 (83.33%) Performance Tuning
2 5 (83.33%) Prototyping
2 5 (83.33%) Secure Coding
2 5 (83.33%) Software Testing
2 5 (83.33%) Unit Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Client Onboarding
3 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven
3 1 (16.67%) KYC
3 1 (16.67%) MVC
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
2 5 (83.33%) PL/SQL
3 1 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) Ruby
3 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) EMIR
1 1 (16.67%) MiFID
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Bloomberg
2 1 (16.67%) CQG
2 1 (16.67%) ION Trading
2 1 (16.67%) Reuters