CMDB Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Configuration Management Database (CMDB)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term CMDB in contract job vacancies in Birmingham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CMDB over the 6 months leading up to 21 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 54 60
Rank change year-on-year -18 +6 +13
Contract jobs citing CMDB 3 2 7
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.35% 0.38% 0.91%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.01% 1.27% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile - - £508
25th Percentile - £513 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -4.55% +145.54%
75th Percentile - £538 £750
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £514 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.37% -2.27% -3.93%

All Generic Skills
Birmingham

CMDB falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 298 157 245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 34.53% 30.08% 31.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 115 163
10th Percentile £263 £200 £265
25th Percentile £413 £369 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £521 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.34% +15.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £622 £575
90th Percentile £625 £678 £663
West Midlands median daily rate £488 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +5.00% +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 5 14
10th Percentile £17.09 £16.00 £19.65
25th Percentile £17.17 £22.00 £23.12
Median hourly rate £18.87 £30.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.10% -9.09% +59.38%
75th Percentile £23.50 £30.68 £52.63
90th Percentile £24.85 - £64.13
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.15 £19.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +32.37% -15.56% +4.37%

CMDB
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CMDB relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

CMDB job vacancy trend in Birmingham

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Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing CMDB.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing CMDB

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Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing CMDB.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing CMDB

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 2 (66.67%) OpenShift
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL Manager
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL Service Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Service Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Service Transition Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Fluent Bit
1 2 (66.67%) Kafka
1 2 (66.67%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) AIOps
1 2 (66.67%) Anomaly Detection
1 2 (66.67%) ChatOps
1 2 (66.67%) Cost Optimisation
1 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (66.67%) ITSM
1 2 (66.67%) Observability
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (66.67%) RBAC
1 2 (66.67%) Runbook
1 2 (66.67%) Service-Level Objective
1 2 (66.67%) Webhook
2 1 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) etcd
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Fluentd
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk
2 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow