Configuration Management Database (CMDB)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term CMDB in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited CMDB over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 697 682 1033
Rank change year-on-year -15 +351 -258
Permanent jobs citing CMDB 209 267 232
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.28% 0.14%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.58% 0.65% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 148 200 148
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £22,125
25th Percentile £37,101 £45,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £88,750 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £41,250
% change year-on-year -15.00% +21.21% +10.00%

All Generic Skills
UK

CMDB is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 35,876 40,905 81,966
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.09% 43.15% 48.47%
Number of salaries quoted 23,224 22,549 34,301
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,116 £46,350 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

CMDB
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for CMDB in the UK

CMDB
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing CMDB.

Salary trend for CMDB in the UK

CMDB
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing CMDB over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for CMDB in the UK

CMDB
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CMDB within the UK over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England 0 185 £57,500 +6.48% 50
UK excluding London -58 130 £42,500 -15.00% 33
Work from Home +16 94 £64,108 -5.03% 24
London +72 68 £74,000 -1.33% 18
South East +15 52 £34,000 -22.73% 8
Midlands -1 27 £57,500 +65.58% 11
North of England -19 22 £41,235 -17.53% 8
West Midlands -6 20 £57,500 +66.90% 6
North West -30 17 £41,235 -17.53% 6
Wales +13 9 £41,067 +49.33% 1
South West -35 8 £46,958 +43.60% 1
East Midlands -9 7 £40,000 -25.93% 5
East of England -16 6 £55,000 +2.80% 2
Yorkshire +28 4 £66,250 -1.85% 2
Scotland -64 4 - - 2
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
North East -12 1 £42,750 +32.56%

CMDB
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:

Application Platforms
1 22 (10.53%) SAS
2 10 (4.78%) IIS
3 7 (3.35%) CMS
4 5 (2.39%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.44%) Confluence
6 1 (0.48%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (3.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 23 (11.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.96%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 18 (8.61%) Microsoft 365
2 16 (7.66%) Azure
3 10 (4.78%) AWS
4 9 (4.31%) SaaS
5 7 (3.35%) Cloud Computing
5 7 (3.35%) Slack
6 6 (2.87%) Power Platform
7 4 (1.91%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.48%) ChatGPT
8 1 (0.48%) GCP
8 1 (0.48%) Google App Engine
8 1 (0.48%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.48%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 23 (11.00%) SNMP
2 18 (8.61%) Firewall
3 13 (6.22%) SSH
3 13 (6.22%) TCP/IP
4 10 (4.78%) DHCP
4 10 (4.78%) DNS
4 10 (4.78%) VPN
5 7 (3.35%) SAN
5 7 (3.35%) SSL
6 3 (1.44%) Broadband
6 3 (1.44%) DSL
6 3 (1.44%) NaaS
6 3 (1.44%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (1.44%) Wireless
7 2 (0.96%) Internet
7 2 (0.96%) NAS
8 1 (0.48%) LAN
8 1 (0.48%) VoIP
8 1 (0.48%) WAN
8 1 (0.48%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.05%) Relational Database
2 13 (6.22%) MySQL
3 6 (2.87%) Power BI
4 5 (2.39%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.48%) QlikView
5 1 (0.48%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.48%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (6.22%) Eclipse
2 5 (2.39%) MSI
3 4 (1.91%) JIRA
General
1 35 (16.75%) Social Skills
2 31 (14.83%) Finance
3 21 (10.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 18 (8.61%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.74%) Law
6 7 (3.35%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.39%) Fire and Rescue
7 5 (2.39%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.91%) Retail
9 3 (1.44%) Banking
9 3 (1.44%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.44%) Turkish Language
10 2 (0.96%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.96%) Billing
10 2 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.48%) Legal
11 1 (0.48%) Police
11 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (22.97%) Developer
1 48 (22.97%) ServiceNow Developer
2 40 (19.14%) Senior
3 21 (10.05%) Systems Engineer
3 21 (10.05%) Windows Engineer
3 21 (10.05%) Windows Systems Engineer
4 15 (7.18%) Architect
5 14 (6.70%) Support Engineer
6 13 (6.22%) Analyst
6 13 (6.22%) Senior Support Engineer
6 13 (6.22%) Senior Technical Engineer
6 13 (6.22%) Senior Technical Support
6 13 (6.22%) Senior Technical Support Engineer
6 13 (6.22%) Technical Engineer
6 13 (6.22%) Technical Support
6 13 (6.22%) Technical Support Engineer
7 12 (5.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 11 (5.26%) Applications Support
8 11 (5.26%) IT Manager
9 10 (4.78%) Configuration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (27.75%) CSS
1 58 (27.75%) HTML
2 57 (27.27%) AngularJS
3 56 (26.79%) Web Services
4 38 (18.18%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 34 (16.27%) XML
6 26 (12.44%) SOAP
7 24 (11.48%) LDAP
8 22 (10.53%) REST
9 18 (8.61%) Ajax
10 16 (7.66%) JSON
10 16 (7.66%) ODBC
11 13 (6.22%) JDBC
11 13 (6.22%) XHTML
12 6 (2.87%) Middleware
13 3 (1.44%) Kafka
13 3 (1.44%) Software Packaging
14 1 (0.48%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.53%) Legacy Systems
2 18 (8.61%) Management Information System
3 10 (4.78%) Data Centre
3 10 (4.78%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (2.39%) Virtual Team
5 3 (1.44%) TM Forum
6 2 (0.96%) Driving Licence
6 2 (0.96%) Fat Client
6 2 (0.96%) N-Tier
6 2 (0.96%) Smartcard
6 2 (0.96%) Thin Client
6 2 (0.96%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (0.48%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.48%) Housing Association
7 1 (0.48%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.48%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.48%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.48%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 65 (31.10%) Windows
2 34 (16.27%) Linux
3 28 (13.40%) Windows Server
4 13 (6.22%) Unix
5 6 (2.87%) Mac OS
5 6 (2.87%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.96%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (55.02%) ITSM
2 94 (44.98%) ITIL
3 77 (36.84%) Configuration Management
4 76 (36.36%) Service Management
5 51 (24.40%) Change Management
6 42 (20.10%) Service Catalogue
7 39 (18.66%) Asset Management
7 39 (18.66%) Continuous Improvement
8 37 (17.70%) Problem Management
9 34 (16.27%) Mentoring
10 31 (14.83%) Security Operations
11 29 (13.88%) IT Asset Management
11 29 (13.88%) Root Cause Analysis
12 28 (13.40%) Agile
12 28 (13.40%) Incident Management
12 28 (13.40%) Service Delivery
13 23 (11.00%) Problem-Solving
14 22 (10.53%) Actionable Insight
14 22 (10.53%) ChatOps
14 22 (10.53%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 49 (23.44%) JavaScript
2 21 (10.05%) SQL
3 15 (7.18%) Java
3 15 (7.18%) PowerShell
4 13 (6.22%) Perl
4 13 (6.22%) Python
5 3 (1.44%) C
Qualifications
1 50 (23.92%) Security Cleared
2 48 (22.97%) SC Cleared
3 28 (13.40%) Degree
4 24 (11.48%) DV Cleared
5 13 (6.22%) ITIL Certification
6 8 (3.83%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (2.39%) CCNA
7 5 (2.39%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (2.39%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.44%) A+ Certification
8 3 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.44%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.44%) PMP
9 2 (0.96%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (0.96%) MCITP
10 1 (0.48%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.78%) SLA
2 6 (2.87%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.87%) GRC
3 3 (1.44%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.96%) NCSC
5 1 (0.48%) GDPR
5 1 (0.48%) PMO
System Software
1 33 (15.79%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.91%) Virtual Desktop
2 4 (1.91%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (0.96%) Terminal Services
3 2 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.96%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (7.66%) Single Sign-On
2 14 (6.70%) SCOM
3 13 (6.22%) WMI
4 7 (3.35%) Ansible
4 7 (3.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (3.35%) Terraform
5 6 (2.87%) SCCM
6 4 (1.91%) HP UCMDB
7 3 (1.44%) Nagios
7 3 (1.44%) Nessus
8 2 (0.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.96%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.48%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 86 (41.15%) ServiceNow
2 34 (16.27%) Microsoft
3 24 (11.48%) BMC
4 23 (11.00%) Remedy
5 20 (9.57%) HP
6 13 (6.22%) Oracle
6 13 (6.22%) Splunk
7 10 (4.78%) Dynatrace
8 8 (3.83%) Snow
9 5 (2.39%) Apple
10 4 (1.91%) Cisco
11 3 (1.44%) CA
11 3 (1.44%) Cadence
11 3 (1.44%) Meraki
11 3 (1.44%) SolarWinds
12 2 (0.96%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.96%) CrowdStrike
12 2 (0.96%) Infoblox
12 2 (0.96%) Sparx
12 2 (0.96%) VMware