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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 687 685 1011
Rank change year-on-year -2 +326 -247
Permanent jobs citing CMDB 210 272 230
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.28% 0.14%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.60% 0.65% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 150 209 150
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,552 £22,688
25th Percentile £37,101 £45,000 £33,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +2.86% +0.96%
75th Percentile £69,688 £76,250 £76,188
90th Percentile £88,750 £88,750 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,235 £50,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -17.53% +17.65% +15.49%

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 35,224 42,073 78,783
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.90% 42.71% 48.09%
Number of salaries quoted 23,037 22,960 34,085
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,500 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,066 £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 £86,250 £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 23 May 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 23 May 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 +18 185 £52,500 -2.78% 59
UK excluding London -15 130 £41,235 -17.53% 40
Work from Home +24 95 £64,108 -5.03% 26
London +82 69 £74,000 +2.07% 29
South East +34 52 £34,000 -32.00% 15
Midlands 0 26 £57,500 +66.90% 12
North of England -15 20 £41,235 -17.53% 9
West Midlands +11 19 £60,804 +76.49% 9
North West -19 15 £41,235 -17.53% 8
South West -20 11 £46,958 +43.60% 1
Wales +17 9 £41,067 +49.33%
East Midlands 0 7 £40,000 -25.93% 3
East of England -4 6 £55,000 +3.77%
Yorkshire +47 4 £57,500 -14.81% 1
Scotland -54 4 - - 3
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
North East -6 1 £42,750 +23.91%

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 (10.48%) SAS
2 11 (5.24%) IIS
3 6 (2.86%) CMS
4 5 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.43%) Confluence
6 2 (0.95%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 24 (11.43%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.95%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 19 (9.05%) Azure
2 18 (8.57%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (5.24%) SaaS
4 10 (4.76%) AWS
5 7 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
5 7 (3.33%) Power Platform
5 7 (3.33%) Slack
6 4 (1.90%) Entra ID
7 2 (0.95%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.48%) ChatGPT
8 1 (0.48%) GCP
8 1 (0.48%) Google App Engine
8 1 (0.48%) IaaS
8 1 (0.48%) PaaS
8 1 (0.48%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 24 (11.43%) SNMP
2 22 (10.48%) Firewall
3 15 (7.14%) TCP/IP
4 13 (6.19%) SSH
5 12 (5.71%) DNS
5 12 (5.71%) VPN
6 11 (5.24%) DHCP
7 8 (3.81%) SSL
8 7 (3.33%) SAN
9 3 (1.43%) Broadband
9 3 (1.43%) DSL
9 3 (1.43%) NaaS
9 3 (1.43%) VoIP
9 3 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (1.43%) Wireless
10 2 (0.95%) Cisco IOS
10 2 (0.95%) ICMP
10 2 (0.95%) NAS
10 2 (0.95%) OSPF
10 2 (0.95%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.00%) Relational Database
2 13 (6.19%) MySQL
3 6 (2.86%) Power BI
4 5 (2.38%) 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 (6.19%) Eclipse
2 5 (2.38%) MSI
3 4 (1.90%) JIRA
General
1 35 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 32 (15.24%) Finance
3 20 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (6.67%) Law
5 7 (3.33%) Telecoms
6 6 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.38%) Fire and Rescue
8 4 (1.90%) Retail
9 3 (1.43%) Banking
9 3 (1.43%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.43%) Turkish Language
10 2 (0.95%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.48%) Billing
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 (22.86%) Developer
1 48 (22.86%) ServiceNow Developer
2 43 (20.48%) Senior
3 22 (10.48%) Systems Engineer
3 22 (10.48%) Windows Engineer
3 22 (10.48%) Windows Systems Engineer
4 14 (6.67%) Analyst
4 14 (6.67%) Support Engineer
5 13 (6.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 13 (6.19%) Senior Support Engineer
5 13 (6.19%) Senior Technical Engineer
5 13 (6.19%) Senior Technical Support
5 13 (6.19%) Senior Technical Support Engineer
5 13 (6.19%) Technical Engineer
5 13 (6.19%) Technical Support
5 13 (6.19%) Technical Support Engineer
6 12 (5.71%) Architect
7 11 (5.24%) Applications Support
8 10 (4.76%) Consultant
8 10 (4.76%) ServiceNow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (28.10%) CSS
1 59 (28.10%) HTML
2 57 (27.14%) AngularJS
3 56 (26.67%) Web Services
4 38 (18.10%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 34 (16.19%) XML
6 27 (12.86%) SOAP
7 24 (11.43%) LDAP
8 22 (10.48%) REST
9 18 (8.57%) Ajax
10 16 (7.62%) JSON
10 16 (7.62%) ODBC
11 13 (6.19%) JDBC
11 13 (6.19%) XHTML
12 5 (2.38%) Middleware
13 3 (1.43%) Kafka
13 3 (1.43%) Software Packaging
14 1 (0.48%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.48%) Legacy Systems
2 16 (7.62%) Management Information System
3 11 (5.24%) Data Centre
4 10 (4.76%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.90%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.43%) TM Forum
8 2 (0.95%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.95%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.95%) N-Tier
8 2 (0.95%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.95%) Smartcard
8 2 (0.95%) Video Conferencing
9 1 (0.48%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.48%) Fat Client
9 1 (0.48%) iPhone
9 1 (0.48%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 67 (31.90%) Windows
2 36 (17.14%) Linux
3 29 (13.81%) Windows Server
4 13 (6.19%) Unix
5 7 (3.33%) Windows 10
6 6 (2.86%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.95%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.48%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (54.76%) ITSM
2 96 (45.71%) ITIL
3 75 (35.71%) Service Management
4 74 (35.24%) Configuration Management
5 52 (24.76%) Change Management
6 42 (20.00%) Service Catalogue
7 40 (19.05%) Asset Management
8 38 (18.10%) Continuous Improvement
9 36 (17.14%) Problem Management
10 34 (16.19%) Mentoring
11 31 (14.76%) IT Asset Management
11 31 (14.76%) Security Operations
12 29 (13.81%) Root Cause Analysis
13 28 (13.33%) Agile
13 28 (13.33%) Incident Management
14 27 (12.86%) Service Delivery
15 23 (10.95%) Problem-Solving
16 22 (10.48%) Actionable Insight
16 22 (10.48%) ChatOps
16 22 (10.48%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 49 (23.33%) JavaScript
2 22 (10.48%) SQL
3 16 (7.62%) PowerShell
4 14 (6.67%) Java
5 13 (6.19%) Perl
5 13 (6.19%) Python
6 4 (1.90%) C
Qualifications
1 52 (24.76%) Security Cleared
2 50 (23.81%) SC Cleared
3 29 (13.81%) Degree
4 24 (11.43%) DV Cleared
5 12 (5.71%) ITIL Certification
6 8 (3.81%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (2.86%) CCNA
7 6 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.43%) A+ Certification
9 3 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.43%) PMI Certification
9 3 (1.43%) PMP
10 2 (0.95%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (0.95%) MCITP
11 1 (0.48%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.29%) SLA
2 7 (3.33%) GRC
3 6 (2.86%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.43%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.95%) NCSC
6 1 (0.48%) GDPR
6 1 (0.48%) PMO
System Software
1 32 (15.24%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.90%) Virtual Desktop
2 4 (1.90%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.95%) vSphere
4 1 (0.48%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 16 (7.62%) Single Sign-On
2 15 (7.14%) SCOM
3 13 (6.19%) WMI
4 7 (3.33%) Ansible
4 7 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (3.33%) Terraform
5 6 (2.86%) SCCM
6 5 (2.38%) HP UCMDB
7 4 (1.90%) Nagios
8 3 (1.43%) Nessus
9 2 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.95%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.48%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 84 (40.00%) ServiceNow
2 35 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 25 (11.90%) BMC
4 24 (11.43%) Remedy
5 21 (10.00%) HP
6 13 (6.19%) Oracle
6 13 (6.19%) Splunk
7 11 (5.24%) Dynatrace
8 7 (3.33%) Cisco
8 7 (3.33%) Snow
9 6 (2.86%) Apple
10 3 (1.43%) Cadence
10 3 (1.43%) Infoblox
10 3 (1.43%) Meraki
11 2 (0.95%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.95%) CrowdStrike
11 2 (0.95%) SolarWinds
11 2 (0.95%) Sparx
11 2 (0.95%) VMware
12 1 (0.48%) Salesforce