CMDB Contracts in England

Configuration Management Database (CMDB)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term CMDB in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CMDB over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 339 345 412
Rank change year-on-year +6 +67 +90
Contract jobs citing CMDB 146 199 253
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.60% 0.54% 0.50%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.76% 1.74% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 116 176
10th Percentile £196 £343 £325
25th Percentile £354 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £652
90th Percentile £653 £723 £700
UK median daily rate £489 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.30% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £15.33 £24.18 -
Median % change year-on-year -36.60% - -
UK median hourly rate £24.66 £24.18 -
% change year-on-year +1.99% - -

All Generic Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 8,317 11,465 17,000
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.15% 30.83% 33.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,436 7,505 11,795
10th Percentile £300 £263 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 827 591
10th Percentile £15.84 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.01 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%
75th Percentile £64.63 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £84.40 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing CMDB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for CMDB in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CMDB in England.

Daily rate trend for CMDB in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CMDB in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CMDB in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CMDB in England.

Hourly rate trend for CMDB in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CMDB within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -2 61 £513 -2.33% 27
South East +58 29 £475 +18.75% 13
North of England +4 22 £511 +4.75% 12
North West +6 17 £473 -3.08% 10
South West +33 11 £493 +9.44% 10
East of England +32 8 £200 -60.00% 2
Yorkshire +3 5 £525 -12.79% 2
Midlands +11 3 £538 -2.27% 9
West Midlands +7 3 £538 -2.27% 6
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.37%) CMS
2 1 (0.68%) Confluence
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (6.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (3.42%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.68%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (4.79%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.37%) assyst
3 1 (0.68%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.68%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 7 (4.79%) AWS
1 7 (4.79%) Azure
2 5 (3.42%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (2.05%) GCP
3 3 (2.05%) SaaS
4 2 (1.37%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (1.37%) Entra ID
5 1 (0.68%) Amazon S3
5 1 (0.68%) Datadog
5 1 (0.68%) IaaS
5 1 (0.68%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.90%) Firewall
2 8 (5.48%) HTTP
2 8 (5.48%) LAN
2 8 (5.48%) WAN
2 8 (5.48%) Wireless
3 7 (4.79%) VPN
4 5 (3.42%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (3.42%) WLAN
5 3 (2.05%) SD-WAN
5 3 (2.05%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.37%) DHCP
6 2 (1.37%) DNS
6 2 (1.37%) Network Security
6 2 (1.37%) SNMP
7 1 (0.68%) NGFW
7 1 (0.68%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.68%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (0.68%) Data Lake
1 1 (0.68%) Pentaho
1 1 (0.68%) Power BI
1 1 (0.68%) RDBMS
1 1 (0.68%) Relational Database
1 1 (0.68%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (3.42%) JIRA
2 2 (1.37%) Git
3 1 (0.68%) Subversion
3 1 (0.68%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 39 (26.71%) Social Skills
2 20 (13.70%) Analytical Skills
2 20 (13.70%) Finance
3 17 (11.64%) Public Sector
4 9 (6.16%) Organisational Skills
5 7 (4.79%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.74%) Law
6 4 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.05%) Banking
7 3 (2.05%) Legal
8 2 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.68%) Aviation
9 1 (0.68%) Billing
9 1 (0.68%) Electronics
9 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.68%) Marketing
9 1 (0.68%) Retail
9 1 (0.68%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 31 (21.23%) Architect
2 27 (18.49%) ServiceNow Architect
3 22 (15.07%) Developer
4 21 (14.38%) Analyst
5 20 (13.70%) Consultant
6 18 (12.33%) ServiceNow Developer
7 15 (10.27%) ServiceNow Consultant
8 12 (8.22%) Lead
9 11 (7.53%) Administrator
9 11 (7.53%) Solutions Architect
10 9 (6.16%) Business Analyst
10 9 (6.16%) Senior
11 8 (5.48%) Network Administrator
12 7 (4.79%) Lead Architect
12 7 (4.79%) Lead Solutions Architect
12 7 (4.79%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
13 6 (4.11%) Network Engineer
14 5 (3.42%) Data Analyst
14 5 (3.42%) Senior Business Analyst
14 5 (3.42%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (13.70%) Web Services
2 16 (10.96%) REST
2 16 (10.96%) SOAP
3 15 (10.27%) HTML
4 13 (8.90%) AngularJS
5 9 (6.16%) Ajax
5 9 (6.16%) CSS
6 7 (4.79%) XML
7 2 (1.37%) Bootstrap
7 2 (1.37%) LDAP
7 2 (1.37%) NETCONF
7 2 (1.37%) Node.js
7 2 (1.37%) RESTful
8 1 (0.68%) Oracle Fusion
8 1 (0.68%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.27%) Management Information System
2 5 (3.42%) Data Centre
2 5 (3.42%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (1.37%) Data Structures
3 2 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (1.37%) Onboarding
3 2 (1.37%) Private Cloud
3 2 (1.37%) Smartphone
4 1 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.68%) Driving Licence
4 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.68%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.68%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.68%) Reinsurance
4 1 (0.68%) Replication
4 1 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.16%) Windows
2 5 (3.42%) Windows 10
3 4 (2.74%) Linux
4 3 (2.05%) Unix
5 2 (1.37%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.68%) Android
6 1 (0.68%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (55.48%) ITSM
2 61 (41.78%) Service Management
3 56 (38.36%) ITIL
4 50 (34.25%) Configuration Management
5 35 (23.97%) Asset Management
5 35 (23.97%) Change Management
6 32 (21.92%) IT Asset Management
7 31 (21.23%) Problem-Solving
8 30 (20.55%) Agile
9 21 (14.38%) Incident Management
9 21 (14.38%) Service Catalogue
10 20 (13.70%) Problem Management
11 16 (10.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 14 (9.59%) Customer Service
13 13 (8.90%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (8.90%) Process Improvement
13 13 (8.90%) Service Delivery
14 12 (8.22%) Data Modelling
14 12 (8.22%) Stakeholder Management
15 11 (7.53%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 17 (11.64%) JavaScript
2 5 (3.42%) Python
3 4 (2.74%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.37%) Java
4 2 (1.37%) SQL
5 1 (0.68%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 47 (32.19%) Security Cleared
2 35 (23.97%) SC Cleared
3 25 (17.12%) Degree
4 9 (6.16%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (5.48%) DV Cleared
5 8 (5.48%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (4.11%) CCNA
6 6 (4.11%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.05%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (1.37%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.68%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.68%) CISSP
9 1 (0.68%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.68%) ECDL
9 1 (0.68%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.42%) QA
2 4 (2.74%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.37%) NIST
3 2 (1.37%) SLA
4 1 (0.68%) GRC
4 1 (0.68%) PMO
4 1 (0.68%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 3 (2.05%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.37%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (2.74%) Terraform
2 2 (1.37%) Ansible
2 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.37%) SCCM
2 2 (1.37%) WSUS
3 1 (0.68%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.68%) Nagios
3 1 (0.68%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 89 (60.96%) ServiceNow
2 12 (8.22%) Microsoft
3 11 (7.53%) BMC
4 10 (6.85%) Cisco
5 8 (5.48%) Juniper
6 7 (4.79%) Remedy
7 4 (2.74%) Snow
8 2 (1.37%) Avaya
8 2 (1.37%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.37%) Google
8 2 (1.37%) Oracle
8 2 (1.37%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.37%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.68%) Ab Initio
9 1 (0.68%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.68%) Dell
9 1 (0.68%) IBM
9 1 (0.68%) SAP
9 1 (0.68%) Splunk
9 1 (0.68%) VMware