Hybrid/Remote CRUD Contract Job Trends

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work 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 323 305 353
Rank change year-on-year -18 +48 +145
Contract jobs citing CRUD 3 6 2
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.027% 0.056% 0.012%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.030% 0.062% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 0
10th Percentile £375 £616 -
25th Percentile £397 £619 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 £644 -
Median % change year-on-year -32.23% - -
75th Percentile £479 £663 -
90th Percentile £503 £669 -
UK median daily rate £513 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -21.15% - +10.64%

All Process & 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 10,113 9,646 14,421
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 89.42% 90.42% 88.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,616 6,322 9,674
10th Percentile £345 £330 £340
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £733
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 443 193 527
10th Percentile £17.00 £18.28 £15.22
25th Percentile £27.00 £23.50 £22.74
Median hourly rate £57.30 £38.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.83% -14.44% -18.18%
75th Percentile £66.75 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.84 £75.00 £80.40
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £33.50
% change year-on-year -15.38% -2.99% -4.29%

CRUD
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CRUD and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

CRUD job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

CRUD
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing CRUD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing CRUD

CRUD
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing CRUD over the 6 months to 28 February 2026.

CRUD daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

CRUD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (33.33%) MariaDB
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Data Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Data Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Data Integration Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Integration Developer
1 1 (33.33%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) QA Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) QA Test Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Gherkin
1 1 (33.33%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Learning Management System
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) API Development
1 1 (33.33%) API Integration
1 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
1 1 (33.33%) BDD
1 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
1 1 (33.33%) Data Transformation
1 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (33.33%) QA Automation
1 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) SAP