CMDB Contract Job Trends 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 9 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 296 280 288
Rank change year-on-year -16 +8 +67
Contract jobs citing CMDB 96 76 109
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.60% 0.58% 0.60%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.62% 1.67% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 41 68
10th Percentile £340 £363 £356
25th Percentile £430 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -2.42%
75th Percentile £675 £598 £675
90th Percentile £723 £675 £850
England median daily rate £500 £500 £519
% change year-on-year - -3.61% -0.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.82 - -
Median hourly rate £22.27 - £13.16
75th Percentile £23.71 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £16.00 £32.50 £14.53
% change year-on-year -50.77% +123.75% -18.17%

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 5,912 4,546 5,974
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.86% 34.82% 32.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,845 2,996 4,212
10th Percentile £350 £325 £300
25th Percentile £438 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £700
90th Percentile £800 £850 £825
England median daily rate £513 £549 £550
% change year-on-year -6.57% -0.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 69 182
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.16 £15.55
25th Percentile £20.82 £24.66 £18.93
Median hourly rate £28.72 £35.89 £28.88
Median % change year-on-year -19.99% +24.29% -17.50%
75th Percentile £56.25 £57.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £34.25 £30.00
% change year-on-year +2.19% +14.17% +33.33%

CMDB
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

CMDB job vacancy trend in London

CMDB
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing CMDB

CMDB
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CMDB in London over the 6 months to 9 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CMDB in London

CMDB
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing CMDB

CMDB
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 9 March 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
Central London -25 10 £550 +15.30% 2
CMDB
England

CMDB
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 3 (3.13%) Confluence
2 1 (1.04%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (4.17%) Autodesk Inventor
1 4 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.04%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.04%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Remedy AR System
1 1 (1.04%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 19 (19.79%) Azure
2 11 (11.46%) AWS
3 10 (10.42%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (7.29%) Entra ID
5 4 (4.17%) GCP
6 3 (3.13%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.08%) SaaS
8 1 (1.04%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.04%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (1.04%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.04%) DHCP
1 1 (1.04%) IPv4
1 1 (1.04%) IPv6
1 1 (1.04%) Modbus
1 1 (1.04%) SNMP
1 1 (1.04%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.13%) Power BI
2 2 (2.08%) Relational Database
2 2 (2.08%) Tableau
3 1 (1.04%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 12 (12.50%) JIRA
2 6 (6.25%) Git
3 3 (3.13%) Jenkins
General
1 33 (34.38%) Social Skills
2 18 (18.75%) Finance
3 17 (17.71%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (9.38%) Telecoms
5 7 (7.29%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (6.25%) Banking
7 5 (5.21%) Public Sector
8 4 (4.17%) Legal
9 2 (2.08%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.08%) Military
9 2 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (20.83%) Developer
1 20 (20.83%) ServiceNow Developer
2 18 (18.75%) Architect
3 17 (17.71%) Analyst
4 14 (14.58%) ServiceNow Architect
5 10 (10.42%) Business Analyst
5 10 (10.42%) ServiceNow Manager
6 9 (9.38%) Project Manager
7 7 (7.29%) Consultant
7 7 (7.29%) ServiceNow Project Manager
8 6 (6.25%) Change Manager
8 6 (6.25%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
8 6 (6.25%) ServiceNow Consultant
8 6 (6.25%) Technical Architect
9 5 (5.21%) Business Change Manager
9 5 (5.21%) Business Manager
10 4 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (4.17%) ITSM Consultant
11 3 (3.13%) Automation Analyst
11 3 (3.13%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (30.21%) REST
1 29 (30.21%) SOAP
2 8 (8.33%) CSS
2 8 (8.33%) HTML
3 6 (6.25%) Web Services
4 5 (5.21%) AngularJS
5 4 (4.17%) XML
6 2 (2.08%) Bootstrap
6 2 (2.08%) JSON
6 2 (2.08%) LDAP
7 1 (1.04%) Ajax
7 1 (1.04%) Kafka
7 1 (1.04%) Middleware
7 1 (1.04%) OAuth
7 1 (1.04%) OAuth2
7 1 (1.04%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.04%) RESTful
7 1 (1.04%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.17%) Data Centre
1 4 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.08%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.08%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.08%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.08%) Shadow IT
4 1 (1.04%) Fat Client
4 1 (1.04%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (1.04%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.04%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.04%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.04%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.04%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.04%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.04%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.04%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.04%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.17%) Windows
2 3 (3.13%) Linux
3 1 (1.04%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (62.50%) ITSM
2 35 (36.46%) ITIL
3 28 (29.17%) Agile
3 28 (29.17%) Workflow
4 27 (28.13%) Change Management
5 26 (27.08%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (23.96%) Service Management
7 21 (21.88%) Data Modelling
8 19 (19.79%) Configuration Management
9 18 (18.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 16 (16.67%) Asset Management
11 13 (13.54%) DevOps
11 13 (13.54%) Problem Management
12 12 (12.50%) Roadmaps
12 12 (12.50%) Scrum
13 11 (11.46%) CAD
13 11 (11.46%) User Stories
14 10 (10.42%) Data Protection
14 10 (10.42%) Stakeholder Management
14 10 (10.42%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 19 (19.79%) JavaScript
2 6 (6.25%) Python
3 3 (3.13%) PowerShell
3 3 (3.13%) SQL
4 1 (1.04%) Bash
4 1 (1.04%) Korn
4 1 (1.04%) Perl
Qualifications
1 16 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 13 (13.54%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.17%) PMI Certification
3 4 (4.17%) PMP
4 3 (3.13%) Degree
4 3 (3.13%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.08%) CISM
5 2 (2.08%) CISSP
5 2 (2.08%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.04%) CCSP
6 1 (1.04%) CEH
6 1 (1.04%) CGEIT
6 1 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.04%) CISMP
6 1 (1.04%) CRISC
6 1 (1.04%) CSSLP
6 1 (1.04%) GCIH
6 1 (1.04%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 6 (6.25%) QA
3 4 (4.17%) NIST
4 3 (3.13%) Accessibility
4 3 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (2.08%) GRC
5 2 (2.08%) SLA
6 1 (1.04%) GDPR
6 1 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (1.04%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (2.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (6.25%) SCCM
2 3 (3.13%) Ansible
3 1 (1.04%) Grafana
3 1 (1.04%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 87 (90.63%) ServiceNow
2 7 (7.29%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.17%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.08%) BMC
4 2 (2.08%) Splunk
4 2 (2.08%) VMware
5 1 (1.04%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.04%) Arista
5 1 (1.04%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (1.04%) Citrix
5 1 (1.04%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.04%) IBM
5 1 (1.04%) Planview
5 1 (1.04%) Qualys
5 1 (1.04%) Remedy
5 1 (1.04%) Snow
5 1 (1.04%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.04%) Tenable
5 1 (1.04%) Zerto