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 24 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 113 115
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 +35
Contract jobs citing CMDB 17 10 9
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.73% 0.54% 0.43%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.09% 1.46% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 3 8
10th Percentile £404 £575 £165
25th Percentile £494 £594 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £583 £650 £499
Median % change year-on-year -10.38% +30.33% +0.25%
75th Percentile £699 £706 £514
90th Percentile £743 £725 £554
Central London median daily rate £600 £650 £499
% change year-on-year -7.69% +30.33% +0.25%
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 813 686 634
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 35.01% 37.38% 30.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 557 463 407
10th Percentile £368 £358 £350
25th Percentile £463 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £593
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +1.27% -1.25%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £722
90th Percentile £775 £813 £838
Central London median daily rate £565 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -5.83% +2.13% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 9 5
10th Percentile £19.36 £16.96 £18.40
25th Percentile £21.75 £19.79 £22.00
Median hourly rate £28.07 £27.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.05% +1.85% -25.00%
75th Percentile £41.69 £65.57 -
90th Percentile £62.80 £91.00 £66.30
Central London median hourly rate £35.00 £26.98 £25.79
% change year-on-year +29.75% +4.59% -26.31%

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

CMDB
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

CMDB
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 24 August 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 (17.65%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) AWS
1 5 (29.41%) Azure
2 4 (23.53%) GCP
3 3 (17.65%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) DNS
1 1 (5.88%) Firewall
1 1 (5.88%) HTTP
1 1 (5.88%) SNMP
1 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
1 1 (5.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Power BI
2 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
General
1 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Finance
2 3 (17.65%) Telecoms
3 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Legal
4 1 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Architect
2 4 (23.53%) Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Developer
3 2 (11.76%) ServiceNow Architect
3 2 (11.76%) ServiceNow Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Asset Management Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Business Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Business Process Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Designer
4 1 (5.88%) Engineering Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Business Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Integration Architect
4 1 (5.88%) IT Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Platform Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Process Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Senior
4 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (29.41%) REST
2 3 (17.65%) SOAP
2 3 (17.65%) XML
3 2 (11.76%) JSON
4 1 (5.88%) Ajax
4 1 (5.88%) CSS
4 1 (5.88%) HTML
4 1 (5.88%) Kafka
4 1 (5.88%) Middleware
4 1 (5.88%) OAuth
4 1 (5.88%) OAuth2
4 1 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (5.88%) RESTful
4 1 (5.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Taxonomies
2 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) ITIL
2 10 (58.82%) ITSM
3 6 (35.29%) Asset Management
4 5 (29.41%) Data Modelling
4 5 (29.41%) IT Asset Management
4 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (23.53%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (23.53%) Configuration Management
5 4 (23.53%) Enterprise Architecture
5 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (23.53%) Workflow
6 3 (17.65%) Agile
6 3 (17.65%) Decision-Making
6 3 (17.65%) Integration Patterns
6 3 (17.65%) Roadmaps
6 3 (17.65%) Service Management
7 2 (11.76%) Architecture Governance
7 2 (11.76%) Inventory Management
7 2 (11.76%) Strategic Roadmap
7 2 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) PowerShell
1 3 (17.65%) Python
2 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) Degree
3 1 (5.88%) CISM
3 1 (5.88%) CISSP
3 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) Data Quality
2 2 (11.76%) GDPR
2 2 (11.76%) GRC
3 1 (5.88%) COBIT
3 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 19770
3 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (5.88%) NIST
3 1 (5.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) SCCM
Vendors
1 14 (82.35%) ServiceNow
2 2 (11.76%) Nexthink
2 2 (11.76%) Remedy
3 1 (5.88%) Adobe
3 1 (5.88%) BiZZdesign
3 1 (5.88%) BMC
3 1 (5.88%) Google
3 1 (5.88%) IBM
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle
3 1 (5.88%) Planview
3 1 (5.88%) Qualys
3 1 (5.88%) SAP
3 1 (5.88%) SolarWinds
3 1 (5.88%) VMware