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 27 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 96 114
Rank change year-on-year -26 +18 +52
Contract jobs citing CMDB 9 20 14
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.42% 1.16% 0.60%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.26% 3.33% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 10
10th Percentile £356 £404 £280
25th Percentile £414 £472 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £477 £588
Median % change year-on-year +7.44% -18.81% +18.69%
75th Percentile £725 £500 £850
90th Percentile £800 £623 -
Central London median daily rate £513 £477 £588
% change year-on-year +7.44% -18.81% +18.69%
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 712 600 723
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 33.44% 34.68% 31.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 503 393 498
10th Percentile £356 £365 £271
25th Percentile £458 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £700
90th Percentile £788 £775 £838
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 7
10th Percentile £18.92 - £12.75
25th Percentile £20.82 - £14.88
Median hourly rate £32.07 £31.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.44% +63.16% -63.11%
75th Percentile £41.94 - £38.88
90th Percentile £63.13 - £59.65
Central London median hourly rate £28.00 £29.07 £19.00
% change year-on-year -3.68% +53.00% -45.71%

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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 27 March 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

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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 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
3 1 (11.11%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) IPv4
1 1 (11.11%) IPv6
1 1 (11.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
1 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
2 4 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 2 (22.22%) Banking
5 1 (11.11%) Financial Institution
5 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Analyst
1 2 (22.22%) Architect
1 2 (22.22%) Business Process Analyst
1 2 (22.22%) Process Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Business Change Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Business Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Business Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Business Process Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Change Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Developer
2 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Integration Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Platform Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Process Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow Architect
2 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) REST
1 2 (22.22%) SOAP
1 2 (22.22%) XML
2 1 (11.11%) CSS
2 1 (11.11%) HTML
2 1 (11.11%) JSON
2 1 (11.11%) Kafka
2 1 (11.11%) Middleware
2 1 (11.11%) OAuth
2 1 (11.11%) OAuth2
2 1 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (11.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (11.11%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Mac OS
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) ITIL
1 6 (66.67%) ITSM
2 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (33.33%) Asset Management
4 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (22.22%) Configuration Management
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
4 2 (22.22%) Operations Management
4 2 (22.22%) Scenario Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Service Delivery
5 1 (11.11%) Analytics
5 1 (11.11%) ArchiMate
5 1 (11.11%) Data Analytics
5 1 (11.11%) Data Entry
5 1 (11.11%) DevOps
5 1 (11.11%) Portfolio Management
5 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (11.11%) User Stories
5 1 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
3 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (11.11%) GDPR
2 1 (11.11%) NIST
2 1 (11.11%) QA
2 1 (11.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) BiZZdesign
3 1 (11.11%) BMC
3 1 (11.11%) Citrix
3 1 (11.11%) Planview
3 1 (11.11%) VMware
3 1 (11.11%) Zerto