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 25 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 115 114
Rank change year-on-year -9 -1 +33
Contract jobs citing CMDB 15 11 10
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.62% 0.59% 0.48%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.92% 1.62% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 8
10th Percentile £374 £289 £165
25th Percentile £410 £392 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £575 £436
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% +31.81% -11.87%
75th Percentile £675 £663 £503
90th Percentile £738 £708 £515
Central London median daily rate £565 £575 £436
% change year-on-year -1.74% +31.81% -11.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41.00 - -
Median hourly rate £42.00 - -
75th Percentile £43.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £42.00 - -

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 783 679 667
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 32.58% 36.37% 32.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 539 446 431
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £463 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -6.31%
75th Percentile £684 £700 £706
90th Percentile £775 £805 £850
Central London median daily rate £550 £580 £575
% change year-on-year -5.17% +0.87% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 9 6
10th Percentile £19.36 £16.96 £14.38
25th Percentile £21.75 £22.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £31.03 £31.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% +24.00% -56.71%
75th Percentile £47.18 £65.57 £27.00
90th Percentile £64.47 £91.00 £59.75
Central London median hourly rate £37.50 £28.29 £23.80
% change year-on-year +32.58% +18.84% -40.25%

CMDB
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 25 July 2026.

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

CMDB
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 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) AWS
1 3 (20.00%) Azure
1 3 (20.00%) GCP
1 3 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) DNS
1 1 (6.67%) Firewall
1 1 (6.67%) HTTP
1 1 (6.67%) SNMP
1 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
1 1 (6.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) Power BI
2 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
General
1 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Telecoms
3 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Banking
3 2 (13.33%) Finance
4 1 (6.67%) Financial Institution
4 1 (6.67%) Legal
4 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Business Process Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Process Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) ServiceNow Architect
3 2 (13.33%) ServiceNow Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Asset Management Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Business Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Business Process Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Designer
4 1 (6.67%) Engineering Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Business Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) IT Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Platform Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Process Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) REST
2 3 (20.00%) SOAP
2 3 (20.00%) XML
3 2 (13.33%) JSON
4 1 (6.67%) Ajax
4 1 (6.67%) CSS
4 1 (6.67%) HTML
4 1 (6.67%) Kafka
4 1 (6.67%) Middleware
4 1 (6.67%) OAuth
4 1 (6.67%) OAuth2
4 1 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (6.67%) RESTful
4 1 (6.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Taxonomies
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (6.67%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) ITIL
2 8 (53.33%) ITSM
3 5 (33.33%) Asset Management
3 5 (33.33%) Data Modelling
4 4 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (26.67%) IT Asset Management
4 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (20.00%) Decision-Making
5 3 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
5 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (20.00%) Workflow
6 2 (13.33%) Agile
6 2 (13.33%) Configuration Management
6 2 (13.33%) Integration Patterns
6 2 (13.33%) Roadmaps
6 2 (13.33%) Scrum
6 2 (13.33%) Strategic Roadmap
7 1 (6.67%) Acceptance Criteria
7 1 (6.67%) Budgeting
7 1 (6.67%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
1 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
1 2 (13.33%) Python
2 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) CISM
3 1 (6.67%) CISSP
3 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Data Quality
1 2 (13.33%) GDPR
1 2 (13.33%) GRC
2 1 (6.67%) COBIT
2 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.67%) NIST
2 1 (6.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (86.67%) ServiceNow
2 2 (13.33%) Nexthink
3 1 (6.67%) BiZZdesign
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) Planview
3 1 (6.67%) Qualys
3 1 (6.67%) Remedy
3 1 (6.67%) SolarWinds