CMDB Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Configuration Management Database (CMDB)
North West > Cheshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term CMDB in contract job vacancies in Cheshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CMDB over the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 53 -
Rank change year-on-year -15 - -
Contract jobs citing CMDB 3 6 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.47% 1.32% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.42% 3.30% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 0
10th Percentile £370 £358 -
25th Percentile £381 £360 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £415 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - -
75th Percentile £497 £538 -
90th Percentile £555 £550 -
North West median daily rate £430 £470 £570
% change year-on-year -8.41% -17.63% -9.52%

All Generic Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 212 182 164
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 33.28% 39.91% 41.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 97 112
10th Percentile £255 £307 £432
25th Percentile £358 £363 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.78% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £514 £550 £566
90th Percentile £638 £639 £612
North West median daily rate £450 £486 £513
% change year-on-year -7.41% -5.17% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 10 6
10th Percentile - £20.46 £14.89
25th Percentile £15.50 £21.83 £17.37
Median hourly rate £16.25 £26.71 £19.86
Median % change year-on-year -39.15% +34.47% +14.43%
75th Percentile £30.44 £33.75 £38.56
90th Percentile £67.25 £78.50 £59.38
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £30.12 £42.50
% change year-on-year +50.95% -29.14% +37.83%

CMDB
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

CMDB job vacancy trend in Cheshire

CMDB
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing CMDB

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CMDB in Cheshire over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CMDB in Cheshire

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Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing CMDB

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Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CMDB within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 20 December 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Macclesfield +1 1 £375 -31.82%
Knutsford -26 1 £593 +64.58%
Warrington - 1 £400 -
CMDB
North West

CMDB
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Internet
1 1 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Automation Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Product Owner
1 1 (33.33%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 1 (33.33%) Bootstrap
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) SOAP
1 1 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) ITSM
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Line Management
2 1 (33.33%) Network Design
2 1 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Product Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) User Experience
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) CCNA CyberOps
2 1 (33.33%) CCSA
2 1 (33.33%) CCSE
2 1 (33.33%) Check Point Certification
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (33.33%) CISSP
2 1 (33.33%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto
2 1 (33.33%) Zscaler