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

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 102 113
Rank change year-on-year -15 +11 +64
Contract jobs citing CMDB 8 17 17
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.41% 0.94% 0.72%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.17% 2.89% 2.34%
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 £685
Median % change year-on-year +7.44% -30.36% +28.94%
75th Percentile £650 £500 £850
90th Percentile £750 £623 -
Central London median daily rate £513 £477 £685
% change year-on-year +7.44% -30.36% +28.94%
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 685 588 725
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 34.88% 32.59% 30.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 497 370 491
10th Percentile £350 £374 £275
25th Percentile £429 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -2.52%
75th Percentile £675 £696 £713
90th Percentile £788 £800 £830
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 10
10th Percentile £19.03 - £12.75
25th Percentile £22.24 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.25 £31.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.48% +63.16% -53.09%
75th Percentile £41.89 - £41.94
90th Percentile £50.83 - £52.60
Central London median hourly rate £27.06 £31.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -12.73% +63.16% -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 24 February 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 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (12.50%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
2 1 (12.50%) GCP
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (12.50%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) IPv4
1 1 (12.50%) IPv6
1 1 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Analyst
1 2 (25.00%) Developer
1 2 (25.00%) ServiceNow Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Business Change Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Business Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Business Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Business Process Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Business Process Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Change Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Process Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Process Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow Architect
2 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) REST
1 3 (37.50%) SOAP
2 1 (12.50%) CSS
2 1 (12.50%) HTML
2 1 (12.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Mac OS
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) ITSM
2 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (37.50%) ITIL
4 2 (25.00%) Agile
4 2 (25.00%) Business Continuity
4 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (25.00%) DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) Operations Management
5 1 (12.50%) Business Continuity Planning
5 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 1 (12.50%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 1 (12.50%) Information Security
5 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
5 1 (12.50%) Service Continuity Management
5 1 (12.50%) Technical Debt
5 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (12.50%) User Stories
5 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
5 1 (12.50%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) BMC
3 1 (12.50%) Citrix
3 1 (12.50%) VMware
3 1 (12.50%) Zerto