CMDB Contracts 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 113 159
Rank change year-on-year +10 +46 +5
Contract jobs citing CMDB 16 13 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.91% 0.59% 0.36%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.62% 1.93% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 8
10th Percentile £358 £280 £268
25th Percentile £464 £316 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £438 £495
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% -11.62% -10.00%
75th Percentile £549 £850 £528
90th Percentile £649 - £554
Central London median daily rate £489 £438 £495
% change year-on-year +11.66% -11.62% -10.00%

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 611 673 1,295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 34.78% 30.63% 35.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 460 882
10th Percentile £363 £274 £350
25th Percentile £475 £423 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +3.04% -8.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £750
90th Percentile £806 £850 £856
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £613
% change year-on-year - -6.12% +6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 12
10th Percentile £23.80 £12.75 £16.97
25th Percentile £26.50 £14.38 £31.31
Median hourly rate £31.00 £23.00 £43.25
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -46.82% -9.90%
75th Percentile £65.50 £27.25 £88.30
90th Percentile £86.20 £36.60 -
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £23.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +26.39% -34.29% -27.08%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing CMDB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for CMDB in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CMDB in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for CMDB in the City of London

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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 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CMDB in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CMDB in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for CMDB in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (12.50%) Entra ID
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.25%) AWS
3 1 (6.25%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) VPN
General
1 4 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Finance
3 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Architect
1 6 (37.50%) ServiceNow Architect
2 5 (31.25%) Developer
2 5 (31.25%) ServiceNow Developer
3 4 (25.00%) Lead
4 2 (12.50%) Consultant
4 2 (12.50%) Lead Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Lead Solutions Architect
4 2 (12.50%) ServiceNow Consultant
4 2 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Business Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Desktop Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Technical Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 4 (25.00%) Web Services
2 3 (18.75%) HTML
3 2 (12.50%) CSS
3 2 (12.50%) SOAP
4 1 (6.25%) Ajax
4 1 (6.25%) REST
4 1 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
1 1 (6.25%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
1 1 (6.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (81.25%) ITSM
2 7 (43.75%) Agile
3 6 (37.50%) IT Asset Management
4 5 (31.25%) Service Management
5 4 (25.00%) Service Catalogue
6 3 (18.75%) Configuration Management
6 3 (18.75%) Incident Management
6 3 (18.75%) ITIL
6 3 (18.75%) Service Delivery
7 2 (12.50%) Analytics
7 2 (12.50%) Asset Management
7 2 (12.50%) Change Management
7 2 (12.50%) Cost Management
7 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
7 2 (12.50%) High Availability
7 2 (12.50%) Identity Management
7 2 (12.50%) Mentoring
7 2 (12.50%) RBAC
7 2 (12.50%) Security Management
7 2 (12.50%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (12.50%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Terraform
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 12 (75.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (6.25%) Avaya
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Salesforce
2 1 (6.25%) Splunk