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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 352 396 426
Rank change year-on-year +44 +30 +71
Contract jobs citing CMDB 134 165 215
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.53% 0.44% 0.46%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.54% 1.45% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 96 146
10th Percentile £202 £343 £320
25th Percentile £325 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £504
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -0.74% -6.71%
75th Percentile £538 £561 £630
90th Percentile £662 £663 £688
UK median daily rate £470 £500 £511
% change year-on-year -6.00% -2.20% -2.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £20.46 - £24.43
25th Percentile £28.17 - £29.19
Median hourly rate £41.00 £24.18 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year +69.56% -35.95% -26.70%
75th Percentile £49.88 - £45.69
90th Percentile £55.20 - £50.08
UK median hourly rate £26.33 £24.18 £37.75
% change year-on-year +8.87% -35.95% -26.70%

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 8,715 11,382 15,731
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.70% 30.40% 33.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,596 7,313 10,964
10th Percentile £304 £280 £313
25th Percentile £408 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.65% +2.73%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £801 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £539 £550
% change year-on-year -2.51% -2.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 405 852 542
10th Percentile £15.50 £12.16 £9.80
25th Percentile £19.25 £15.39 £10.63
Median hourly rate £33.05 £37.00 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year -10.68% +64.55% -15.15%
75th Percentile £62.24 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.22 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £31.76 £36.00 £22.41
% change year-on-year -11.78% +60.64% -16.94%

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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 25 June 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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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CMDB in England over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 25 June 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 +11 52 £500 -4.76% 44
North of England +7 25 £511 +4.29% 15
South East +57 21 £394 +12.50% 16
North West -7 19 £477 -2.80% 7
South West +40 9 £470 +4.44% 6
East of England +26 8 £200 -60.00% 1
Yorkshire +4 6 £525 +5.00% 6
Midlands +9 5 £488 -4.65% 6
West Midlands +4 5 £488 -4.88% 6
CMDB
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 4 (2.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.49%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.75%) CMS
3 1 (0.75%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (8.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (5.97%) MS Visio
3 6 (4.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.75%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.75%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 3 (2.24%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.49%) assyst
3 1 (0.75%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.75%) Remedy AR System
3 1 (0.75%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.75%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.75%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 11 (8.21%) Azure
2 9 (6.72%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (4.48%) AWS
4 5 (3.73%) SaaS
5 4 (2.99%) Entra ID
6 3 (2.24%) GCP
7 2 (1.49%) Lucidchart
8 1 (0.75%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.75%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.75%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (0.75%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.75%) Datadog
8 1 (0.75%) IaaS
8 1 (0.75%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.75%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.70%) Firewall
2 8 (5.97%) HTTP
2 8 (5.97%) LAN
2 8 (5.97%) WAN
3 6 (4.48%) Wireless
3 6 (4.48%) WLAN
4 5 (3.73%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (2.99%) DHCP
5 4 (2.99%) DNS
6 3 (2.24%) VPN
7 2 (1.49%) NAS
7 2 (1.49%) SAN
7 2 (1.49%) SD-WAN
7 2 (1.49%) SNMP
7 2 (1.49%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.75%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.75%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.75%) Network Security
8 1 (0.75%) NGFW
8 1 (0.75%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.49%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.75%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (0.75%) Metadata
2 1 (0.75%) Pentaho
2 1 (0.75%) RDBMS
2 1 (0.75%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (5.97%) JIRA
2 1 (0.75%) Subversion
2 1 (0.75%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 44 (32.84%) Social Skills
2 19 (14.18%) Public Sector
3 16 (11.94%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (11.94%) Finance
4 10 (7.46%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (3.73%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (3.73%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.24%) Banking
7 3 (2.24%) Legal
8 2 (1.49%) Law
9 1 (0.75%) Billing
9 1 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.75%) Local Government
9 1 (0.75%) Military
9 1 (0.75%) Retail
9 1 (0.75%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (16.42%) Analyst
1 22 (16.42%) Architect
2 20 (14.93%) Developer
3 18 (13.43%) ServiceNow Developer
4 16 (11.94%) ServiceNow Architect
5 13 (9.70%) Administrator
6 10 (7.46%) Business Analyst
6 10 (7.46%) Consultant
7 9 (6.72%) Network Administrator
8 8 (5.97%) Lead
8 8 (5.97%) Network Engineer
8 8 (5.97%) ServiceNow Consultant
9 6 (4.48%) Senior
9 6 (4.48%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
9 6 (4.48%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (4.48%) Support Engineer
10 5 (3.73%) Data Analyst
10 5 (3.73%) Desktop Engineer
10 5 (3.73%) Desktop Support
11 4 (2.99%) Desktop Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (11.94%) REST
1 16 (11.94%) Web Services
2 15 (11.19%) SOAP
3 11 (8.21%) HTML
4 7 (5.22%) Ajax
5 6 (4.48%) AngularJS
5 6 (4.48%) CSS
5 6 (4.48%) XML
6 1 (0.75%) .NET
6 1 (0.75%) Bootstrap
6 1 (0.75%) LDAP
6 1 (0.75%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (0.75%) Node.js
6 1 (0.75%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.75%) RESTful
6 1 (0.75%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.45%) Management Information System
2 8 (5.97%) Data Centre
3 5 (3.73%) Video Conferencing
4 4 (2.99%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.24%) Replication
6 2 (1.49%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.49%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.49%) Smartphone
7 1 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.75%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.75%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.75%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.75%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (11.19%) Windows
2 8 (5.97%) Windows 10
3 4 (2.99%) Linux
4 2 (1.49%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.75%) Android
5 1 (0.75%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.75%) Unix
5 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (47.76%) ITSM
2 57 (42.54%) ITIL
3 50 (37.31%) Service Management
4 41 (30.60%) Configuration Management
5 32 (23.88%) Change Management
6 28 (20.90%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (19.40%) Asset Management
8 23 (17.16%) Agile
9 21 (15.67%) IT Asset Management
10 17 (12.69%) Incident Management
11 16 (11.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 15 (11.19%) Problem Management
12 15 (11.19%) Service Catalogue
13 14 (10.45%) Stakeholder Management
14 12 (8.96%) Customer Service
14 12 (8.96%) Migration
15 11 (8.21%) Scrum
15 11 (8.21%) User Acceptance Testing
16 10 (7.46%) Continuous Improvement
16 10 (7.46%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 12 (8.96%) JavaScript
2 4 (2.99%) PowerShell
3 3 (2.24%) Java
4 2 (1.49%) Python
4 2 (1.49%) SQL
5 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 48 (35.82%) Security Cleared
2 36 (26.87%) SC Cleared
3 25 (18.66%) Degree
4 9 (6.72%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (5.97%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (5.97%) DV Cleared
6 7 (5.22%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (4.48%) CCNA
8 2 (1.49%) CCNP
9 1 (0.75%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.75%) CCIE
9 1 (0.75%) CISSP
9 1 (0.75%) ECDL
9 1 (0.75%) GIAC
9 1 (0.75%) HNC
9 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.75%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.75%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.75%) PMP
9 1 (0.75%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.73%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.24%) QA
3 2 (1.49%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 19770
4 1 (0.75%) COBIT
4 1 (0.75%) GDPR
4 1 (0.75%) GRC
4 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.75%) NIST
4 1 (0.75%) PMO
4 1 (0.75%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 8 (5.97%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.24%) BitLocker
3 2 (1.49%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (2.99%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.75%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.75%) Nagios
2 1 (0.75%) SCCM
2 1 (0.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 76 (56.72%) ServiceNow
2 15 (11.19%) Microsoft
3 11 (8.21%) Cisco
4 9 (6.72%) Juniper
5 7 (5.22%) BMC
6 4 (2.99%) Snow
6 4 (2.99%) VMware
7 3 (2.24%) Oracle
7 3 (2.24%) Remedy
7 3 (2.24%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.49%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.49%) Google
9 1 (0.75%) Aveksa
9 1 (0.75%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.75%) Databricks
9 1 (0.75%) Meraki
9 1 (0.75%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.75%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.75%) Workday
9 1 (0.75%) Zscaler