CMDB Contracts in London

Configuration Management Database (CMDB)
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term CMDB in contract job vacancies in London. 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 292 290 364
Rank change year-on-year -2 +74 +101
Contract jobs citing CMDB 61 101 131
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.49% 0.57% 0.48%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.35% 1.71% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 64 90
10th Percentile £383 £373 £400
25th Percentile £419 £428 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -1.41% -4.05%
75th Percentile £638 £590 £638
90th Percentile £689 £798 £703
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £24.18 -
England median hourly rate £15.33 £24.18 -
% change year-on-year -36.60% - -

All Generic Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,516 5,909 9,701
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.99% 33.14% 35.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,054 4,182 6,966
10th Percentile £325 £301 £375
25th Percentile £451 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £583 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.29% -2.92% -
75th Percentile £738 £725 £750
90th Percentile £850 £850 £838
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 160 109
10th Percentile £15.84 £15.50 £18.93
25th Percentile £22.60 £18.93 £21.24
Median hourly rate £34.50 £26.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.69% -25.71% -21.35%
75th Percentile £50.31 £47.81 £64.50
90th Percentile £80.05 £66.78 £83.15
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for CMDB in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for CMDB in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for CMDB in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for CMDB in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CMDB within the London 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
Central London +8 17 £489 +11.66% 3
CMDB
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (3.28%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (3.28%) assyst
1 2 (3.28%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.64%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 7 (11.48%) AWS
1 7 (11.48%) Azure
2 3 (4.92%) GCP
2 3 (4.92%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (3.28%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (3.28%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.64%) Amazon S3
4 1 (1.64%) Datadog
4 1 (1.64%) IaaS
4 1 (1.64%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.56%) HTTP
1 4 (6.56%) VPN
2 2 (3.28%) Firewall
2 2 (3.28%) LAN
2 2 (3.28%) Network Security
2 2 (3.28%) SD-WAN
2 2 (3.28%) SNMP
2 2 (3.28%) WAN
3 1 (1.64%) DHCP
3 1 (1.64%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.64%) Data Lake
1 1 (1.64%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Git
1 2 (3.28%) JIRA
General
1 14 (22.95%) Social Skills
2 12 (19.67%) Finance
3 11 (18.03%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (11.48%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.28%) Banking
5 2 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.28%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.64%) Aviation
6 1 (1.64%) Billing
6 1 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.64%) Law
6 1 (1.64%) Retail
6 1 (1.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (32.79%) Architect
2 19 (31.15%) ServiceNow Architect
3 15 (24.59%) Developer
4 13 (21.31%) ServiceNow Developer
5 11 (18.03%) Consultant
6 10 (16.39%) Lead
7 9 (14.75%) ServiceNow Consultant
8 8 (13.11%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (11.48%) Lead Architect
9 7 (11.48%) Lead Solutions Architect
10 6 (9.84%) Analyst
11 3 (4.92%) Technical Architect
12 2 (3.28%) Automation Developer
12 2 (3.28%) Business Analyst
12 2 (3.28%) Designer
12 2 (3.28%) Desktop Engineer
12 2 (3.28%) Desktop Support
12 2 (3.28%) Senior
12 2 (3.28%) Senior Developer
12 2 (3.28%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (24.59%) Web Services
2 12 (19.67%) AngularJS
3 10 (16.39%) HTML
3 10 (16.39%) REST
3 10 (16.39%) SOAP
4 5 (8.20%) Ajax
4 5 (8.20%) CSS
5 3 (4.92%) XML
6 2 (3.28%) Bootstrap
6 2 (3.28%) LDAP
6 2 (3.28%) NETCONF
6 2 (3.28%) Node.js
6 2 (3.28%) RESTful
7 1 (1.64%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (3.28%) Onboarding
1 2 (3.28%) Private Cloud
2 1 (1.64%) Data Centre
2 1 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (1.64%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.64%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.64%) Public Cloud
2 1 (1.64%) Reinsurance
2 1 (1.64%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.56%) Windows
2 3 (4.92%) Linux
2 3 (4.92%) Windows 10
3 2 (3.28%) Unix
4 1 (1.64%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.64%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (62.30%) ITSM
2 19 (31.15%) ITIL
2 19 (31.15%) Service Management
3 13 (21.31%) Agile
3 13 (21.31%) IT Asset Management
4 12 (19.67%) Asset Management
4 12 (19.67%) Configuration Management
4 12 (19.67%) Service Catalogue
5 11 (18.03%) Change Management
5 11 (18.03%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (16.39%) Analytics
6 10 (16.39%) Incident Management
7 8 (13.11%) RBAC
8 7 (11.48%) Data Modelling
8 7 (11.48%) Service Delivery
9 6 (9.84%) Business Strategy
9 6 (9.84%) Enterprise Architecture
9 6 (9.84%) Performance Optimisation
9 6 (9.84%) Problem Management
9 6 (9.84%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 16 (26.23%) JavaScript
2 2 (3.28%) Java
2 2 (3.28%) Python
3 1 (1.64%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (26.23%) Security Cleared
2 15 (24.59%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.56%) Degree
4 1 (1.64%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.64%) CISSP
4 1 (1.64%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.64%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.28%) Data Quality
1 2 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (3.28%) NIST
2 1 (1.64%) GRC
2 1 (1.64%) PMO
2 1 (1.64%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (3.28%) Active Directory
1 2 (3.28%) BitLocker
2 1 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (6.56%) Terraform
2 2 (3.28%) Ansible
2 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.64%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 50 (81.97%) ServiceNow
2 6 (9.84%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.92%) BMC
4 2 (3.28%) Avaya
4 2 (3.28%) Cisco
4 2 (3.28%) Google
4 2 (3.28%) Remedy
4 2 (3.28%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.28%) Snow
5 1 (1.64%) Ab Initio
5 1 (1.64%) Dell
5 1 (1.64%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.64%) IBM
5 1 (1.64%) Oracle
5 1 (1.64%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.64%) Splunk
5 1 (1.64%) VMware