CMDB Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Configuration Management Database (CMDB)
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term CMDB in contract job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CMDB over the 6 months leading up to 26 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 109 121
Rank change year-on-year -7 +12 +55
Contract jobs citing CMDB 10 14 18
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.54% 0.68% 0.72%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.44% 2.17% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 12
10th Percentile £389 £476 £300
25th Percentile £488 £477 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £494 £568
Median % change year-on-year +23.93% -12.91% +5.58%
75th Percentile £675 £603 £850
90th Percentile £750 £652 -
Central London median daily rate £613 £483 £568
% change year-on-year +26.88% -14.93% +5.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.82 - -
Median hourly rate £22.27 - -
75th Percentile £23.71 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £22.27 - -

All Generic Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 694 645 793
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 37.66% 31.39% 31.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 510 405 523
10th Percentile £350 £368 £300
25th Percentile £435 £475 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £595
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +0.84% -0.83%
75th Percentile £688 £708 £722
90th Percentile £788 £825 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £590 £600
% change year-on-year -6.78% -1.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 9
10th Percentile £20.41 - -
25th Percentile £23.54 £77.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £85.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -67.06% +240.00% -47.09%
75th Percentile £38.88 £92.50 £36.50
90th Percentile £41.83 - £52.15
Central London median hourly rate £26.81 £55.40 £24.00
% change year-on-year -51.61% +130.81% -44.19%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

CMDB job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing CMDB.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing CMDB

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CMDB in the City of London over the 6 months to 26 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CMDB in the City of London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing CMDB.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing CMDB

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (20.00%) MS Visio
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (10.00%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) IPv4
1 1 (10.00%) IPv6
1 1 (10.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 6 (60.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) ServiceNow Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Business Change Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Business Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Change Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Configuration Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Configuration Management Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Remedy Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) REST
1 3 (30.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) ITSM
2 3 (30.00%) Business Continuity
2 3 (30.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) Agile
3 2 (20.00%) API Integration
3 2 (20.00%) Asset Management
3 2 (20.00%) Change Management
3 2 (20.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (20.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 2 (20.00%) ITIL
3 2 (20.00%) Scrum
3 2 (20.00%) Swim Lanes
3 2 (20.00%) Target Operating Model
3 2 (20.00%) User Stories
3 2 (20.00%) Workflow
4 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (10.00%) Quality Management
4 1 (10.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) Data Quality
1 3 (30.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) NIST
2 1 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) BMC
3 1 (10.00%) Citrix
3 1 (10.00%) Remedy
3 1 (10.00%) VMware
3 1 (10.00%) Zerto