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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 113 112
Rank change year-on-year -11 -1 +46
Contract jobs citing CMDB 12 10 13
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.49% 0.57% 0.60%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.57% 1.65% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 10
10th Percentile £304 £266 £165
25th Percentile £456 £335 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £499
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -9.77% +0.76%
75th Percentile £711 £594 £521
90th Percentile £750 £680 £850
Central London median daily rate £600 £450 £499
% change year-on-year +33.33% -9.77% +0.76%
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 766 605 665
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 31.54% 34.77% 30.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 528 392 436
10th Percentile £363 £356 £275
25th Percentile £463 £475 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.46% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £688 £711 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £850
Central London median daily rate £551 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.25% +4.35% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 6 7
10th Percentile £19.25 £19.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £21.25 £24.25 £14.38
Median hourly rate £32.07 £47.36 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.29% +105.90% -55.34%
75th Percentile £51.36 £82.96 £27.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £94.38 £36.30
Central London median hourly rate £42.00 £29.07 £23.40
% change year-on-year +44.48% +24.23% -37.46%

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 June 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 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (8.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
General
1 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (16.67%) Banking
1 2 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Financial Institution
2 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) ServiceNow Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Business Process Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Process Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Asset Management Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Business Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Business Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Business Process Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Engineering Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Business Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Integration Architect
4 1 (8.33%) IT Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Platform Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Process Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow Architect
4 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) REST
1 3 (25.00%) XML
2 2 (16.67%) JSON
2 2 (16.67%) SOAP
3 1 (8.33%) CSS
3 1 (8.33%) HTML
3 1 (8.33%) Kafka
3 1 (8.33%) Middleware
3 1 (8.33%) OAuth
3 1 (8.33%) OAuth2
3 1 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (8.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Taxonomies
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (8.33%) Mobile App
2 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) ITIL
2 6 (50.00%) ITSM
3 5 (41.67%) Asset Management
4 4 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (33.33%) Data Modelling
5 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (25.00%) Workflow
6 2 (16.67%) Decision-Making
6 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
6 2 (16.67%) IT Asset Management
6 2 (16.67%) Operations Management
6 2 (16.67%) Service Delivery
7 1 (8.33%) Data Extraction
7 1 (8.33%) Data Protection
7 1 (8.33%) Data Visualisation
7 1 (8.33%) Time Management
7 1 (8.33%) Unit Testing
7 1 (8.33%) User Acceptance Testing
7 1 (8.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) COBIT
1 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (8.33%) GDPR
1 1 (8.33%) GRC
1 1 (8.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (91.67%) ServiceNow
2 2 (16.67%) Nexthink
3 1 (8.33%) BiZZdesign
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) Planview
3 1 (8.33%) Remedy
3 1 (8.33%) SolarWinds