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 18 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 113 135
Rank change year-on-year -1 +22 +45
Contract jobs citing CMDB 9 10 14
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.53% 0.47% 0.48%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.35% 1.54% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 5
10th Percentile £588 £165 £517
25th Percentile £625 £472 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £498 £565
Median % change year-on-year +30.65% -11.95% +7.62%
75th Percentile £738 £510 £570
90th Percentile £790 £544 £603
Central London median daily rate £650 £477 £565
% change year-on-year +36.27% -15.58% +7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £53.00
Central London median hourly rate - - £53.00
% change year-on-year - - +171.79%

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 669 651 914
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.19% 30.78% 31.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 480 405 589
10th Percentile £361 £352 £325
25th Percentile £456 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £593 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% -1.25% -
75th Percentile £688 £725 £738
90th Percentile £788 £838 £831
Central London median daily rate £575 £585 £600
% change year-on-year -1.71% -2.50% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 10
10th Percentile £16.90 £32.05 £17.00
25th Percentile £19.11 £39.63 £19.31
Median hourly rate £24.75 £56.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -55.80% +57.75% -29.70%
75th Percentile £43.39 £76.13 £45.64
90th Percentile £72.53 £85.95 £54.58
Central London median hourly rate £25.08 £26.40 £35.00
% change year-on-year -5.00% -24.59% -30.69%

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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 18 October 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (22.22%) MS Visio
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (11.11%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (11.11%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (11.11%) PaaS
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Analyst
1 3 (33.33%) Architect
1 3 (33.33%) ServiceNow Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Business Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) ServiceNow Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Configuration Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Configuration Management Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Remedy Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) REST
2 2 (22.22%) SOAP
3 1 (11.11%) .NET
3 1 (11.11%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (11.11%) RESTful
3 1 (11.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) ITSM
2 4 (44.44%) Data Modelling
3 2 (22.22%) Agile
3 2 (22.22%) API Integration
3 2 (22.22%) Business Continuity
3 2 (22.22%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) ITIL
3 2 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) Project Delivery
3 2 (22.22%) Scrum
3 2 (22.22%) SDLC
3 2 (22.22%) Swim Lanes
3 2 (22.22%) Target Operating Model
3 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (22.22%) User Stories
3 2 (22.22%) Workflow
4 1 (11.11%) Artefact Management
4 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (11.11%) COBIT
2 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 1 (11.11%) GDPR
2 1 (11.11%) GRC
2 1 (11.11%) SLA
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) ServiceNow
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) Databricks
3 1 (11.11%) Remedy
3 1 (11.11%) Salesforce
3 1 (11.11%) Workday