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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 116 116
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 +26
Contract jobs citing CMDB 21 8 8
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.94% 0.46% 0.39%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.59% 1.19% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 3 7
10th Percentile £404 £575 £165
25th Percentile £494 £594 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £583 £650 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.38% +30.00% -11.50%
75th Percentile £693 £706 £518
90th Percentile £731 £725 £564
Central London median daily rate £600 £650 £499
% change year-on-year -7.69% +30.33% -11.73%
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 812 670 626
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 36.31% 38.57% 30.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 551 467 385
10th Percentile £363 £345 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £600 £593
Median % change year-on-year -5.08% +1.27% -1.25%
75th Percentile £688 £692 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £838
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £586
% change year-on-year -4.30% -1.92% -2.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 9 5
10th Percentile £19.28 £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% -23.94%
75th Percentile £41.69 £65.57 -
90th Percentile £62.80 £91.00 £66.30
Central London median hourly rate £35.41 £26.45 £25.79
% change year-on-year +33.88% +2.56% -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 23 September 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 8 (38.10%) Azure
2 5 (23.81%) AWS
3 3 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (14.29%) Datadog
3 3 (14.29%) GCP
3 3 (14.29%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) DNS
1 1 (4.76%) Firewall
1 1 (4.76%) HTTP
1 1 (4.76%) SNMP
1 1 (4.76%) TCP/IP
1 1 (4.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) Power BI
General
1 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Telecoms
3 2 (9.52%) Finance
3 2 (9.52%) Marketing
4 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) Architect
2 4 (19.05%) Analyst
3 3 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Lead
4 2 (9.52%) ServiceNow Architect
4 2 (9.52%) ServiceNow Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Asset Management Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Business Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Business Process Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) Designer
5 1 (4.76%) Engineering Specialist
5 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Business Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) IT Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Process Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Senior
5 1 (4.76%) Server Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (23.81%) REST
2 3 (14.29%) SOAP
2 3 (14.29%) Terraform
3 2 (9.52%) XML
4 1 (4.76%) Ajax
4 1 (4.76%) CSS
4 1 (4.76%) HTML
4 1 (4.76%) JSON
4 1 (4.76%) Middleware
4 1 (4.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.76%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.76%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) CentOS
1 1 (4.76%) Linux
1 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (4.76%) Windows
1 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
1 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (71.43%) ITSM
2 10 (47.62%) ITIL
3 5 (23.81%) AIOps
3 5 (23.81%) Anomaly Detection
3 5 (23.81%) Asset Management
3 5 (23.81%) Event Correlation
3 5 (23.81%) Observability
4 4 (19.05%) CI/CD
4 4 (19.05%) Configuration Management
4 4 (19.05%) Data Modelling
4 4 (19.05%) IT Asset Management
4 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (19.05%) Workflow
5 3 (14.29%) Agile
5 3 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (14.29%) Data Science
5 3 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
5 3 (14.29%) Service Management
5 3 (14.29%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 3 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 2 (9.52%) Python
3 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.52%) Degree
3 1 (4.76%) CISM
3 1 (4.76%) CISSP
3 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) Data Quality
1 2 (9.52%) GRC
1 2 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.76%) COBIT
2 1 (4.76%) GDPR
2 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 19770
2 1 (4.76%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.76%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Grafana
1 3 (14.29%) SCCM
2 1 (4.76%) Ansible
2 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (4.76%) WSUS
Vendors
1 15 (71.43%) ServiceNow
2 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
3 3 (14.29%) Dynatrace
3 3 (14.29%) Splunk
4 2 (9.52%) Nexthink
4 2 (9.52%) Remedy
4 2 (9.52%) VMware
5 1 (4.76%) Adobe
5 1 (4.76%) BMC
5 1 (4.76%) Google
5 1 (4.76%) IBM
5 1 (4.76%) Oracle
5 1 (4.76%) Qualys
5 1 (4.76%) SAP
5 1 (4.76%) SolarWinds