CMDB Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Configuration Management Database (CMDB)
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term CMDB in contract job vacancies in Hertfordshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CMDB over the 6 months leading up to 7 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 - 49
Rank change year-on-year - - +10
Contract jobs citing CMDB 20 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 2.11% - 0.69%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.39% - 2.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 0 2
10th Percentile £465 - £537
25th Percentile £625 - £548
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £715 - £565
Median % change year-on-year - - -19.25%
75th Percentile £800 - £583
90th Percentile £807 - £593
East of England median daily rate £650 £675 £563
% change year-on-year -3.70% +20.00% -19.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
East of England median hourly rate £14.50 £14.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +3.57% -60.00% -

All Generic Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 313 164 138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 32.95% 34.67% 23.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 61 54
10th Percentile £190 £225 £251
25th Percentile £343 £400 £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £563 £475
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +18.42% -12.64%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £588
90th Percentile £779 £700 £685
East of England median daily rate £488 £505 £450
% change year-on-year -3.47% +12.22% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 52 25
10th Percentile £17.52 £17.36 £35.00
25th Percentile £67.50 £30.34 £60.00
Median hourly rate £70.50 £52.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.58% -20.00% -
75th Percentile £80.00 £67.00 £85.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.00 £98.00
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £42.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +52.94% -32.00% +4.17%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CMDB relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

CMDB job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing CMDB.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing CMDB

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Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CMDB in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 7 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CMDB in Hertfordshire

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Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing CMDB.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing CMDB

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Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CMDB within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 7 October 2026. 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
Stevenage - 13 £752 - 13
Hemel Hempstead - 5 £724 -
Hatfield - 1 £650 - 1
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East of England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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:

Business Applications
1 10 (50.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) Power Platform
2 4 (20.00%) GCP
3 3 (15.00%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) Ethernet
1 3 (15.00%) Fibre Channel
1 3 (15.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (30.00%) BigQuery
1 6 (30.00%) Looker
2 5 (25.00%) Power BI
General
1 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Aerospace
2 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (55.00%) Developer
2 10 (50.00%) Applications Developer
2 10 (50.00%) Report Developer
3 9 (45.00%) Applications Specialist
3 9 (45.00%) Report Specialist
4 3 (15.00%) Data Centre Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Consultant
5 2 (10.00%) ITSM Consultant
5 2 (10.00%) Remedy Consultant
6 1 (5.00%) Data Steward
6 1 (5.00%) Engineering Specialist
6 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (15.00%) Enterprise Storage
2 2 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (10.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (85.00%) ITSM
2 9 (45.00%) ITIL
2 9 (45.00%) Service Management
3 8 (40.00%) Asset Management
4 6 (30.00%) Configuration Management
4 6 (30.00%) Data Collection
4 6 (30.00%) Data Modelling
5 5 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (25.00%) Data Governance
5 5 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (20.00%) Analytics
6 4 (20.00%) Dashboard Development
6 4 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (20.00%) Mentoring
7 3 (15.00%) API Integration
7 3 (15.00%) Change Management
7 3 (15.00%) ETL
7 3 (15.00%) IT Asset Management
7 3 (15.00%) Knowledge Transfer
7 3 (15.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 5 (25.00%) Python
1 5 (25.00%) SQL
2 4 (20.00%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 18 (90.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (75.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) SLA
2 2 (10.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 12 (60.00%) ServiceNow
2 10 (50.00%) Remedy
3 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
4 4 (20.00%) BMC
4 4 (20.00%) Google