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 12 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 256 314 309
Rank change year-on-year +58 -5 +65
Contract jobs citing CMDB 176 53 84
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.89% 0.39% 0.48%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.42% 1.05% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 25 47
10th Percentile £384 £222 £363
25th Percentile £486 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -1.96% -4.23%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £581
90th Percentile £700 £775 £600
England median daily rate £520 £491 £493
% change year-on-year +5.91% -0.41% -6.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £32.80 - -
25th Percentile £35.88 - -
Median hourly rate £42.00 - £24.18
75th Percentile £70.88 - -
90th Percentile £87.60 - -
England median hourly rate £31.50 £41.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year -23.17% +69.56% -54.38%

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 7,280 5,031 5,865
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.64% 36.97% 33.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,566 3,313 4,098
10th Percentile £350 £331 £315
25th Percentile £450 £444 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £730 £738
90th Percentile £800 £838 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 156 108 129
10th Percentile £19.14 £15.84 £15.50
25th Percentile £24.73 £22.38 £21.22
Median hourly rate £37.50 £29.75 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.05% -0.83% -14.29%
75th Percentile £63.75 £46.19 £50.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £64.30 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £33.00 £38.50
% change year-on-year +33.21% -14.29% +20.31%

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 12 July 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CMDB in London over the 6 months to 12 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for CMDB in London

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 12 July 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 0 21 £600 +33.33% 12
West London - 6 £650 - 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 (1.70%) Confluence
2 1 (0.57%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 15 (8.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.84%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.57%) Maximo
3 1 (0.57%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 32 (18.18%) Azure
2 27 (15.34%) AWS
3 13 (7.39%) Entra ID
4 11 (6.25%) GCP
5 10 (5.68%) Power Platform
6 8 (4.55%) SaaS
7 5 (2.84%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (2.27%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (1.70%) AWS Control Tower
9 3 (1.70%) Datadog
10 2 (1.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (1.14%) GitHub
11 1 (0.57%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.57%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.57%) Azure Service Bus
11 1 (0.57%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (0.57%) OpenShift
11 1 (0.57%) PaaS
11 1 (0.57%) Serverless
11 1 (0.57%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.70%) Firewall
2 2 (1.14%) DNS
2 2 (1.14%) Internet
2 2 (1.14%) Kerberos
2 2 (1.14%) NGFW
2 2 (1.14%) SNMP
3 1 (0.57%) DHCP
3 1 (0.57%) Modbus
3 1 (0.57%) NaaS
3 1 (0.57%) Network Security
3 1 (0.57%) SSH
3 1 (0.57%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.57%) VPN
3 1 (0.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.68%) Power BI
2 2 (1.14%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.57%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (0.57%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.57%) Flink
3 1 (0.57%) InfluxDB
3 1 (0.57%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.57%) MySQL
3 1 (0.57%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.57%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.57%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 9 (5.11%) JIRA
2 1 (0.57%) Git
2 1 (0.57%) GitLab
2 1 (0.57%) Robot Framework
General
1 40 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 28 (15.91%) Telecoms
3 25 (14.20%) Finance
4 20 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (7.39%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (5.68%) Public Sector
7 9 (5.11%) Banking
8 3 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.14%) Aviation
10 1 (0.57%) Billing
10 1 (0.57%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.57%) Legal
10 1 (0.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 47 (26.70%) Architect
2 35 (19.89%) ServiceNow Architect
3 29 (16.48%) Developer
3 29 (16.48%) ServiceNow Developer
4 24 (13.64%) Consultant
5 20 (11.36%) ServiceNow Consultant
6 19 (10.80%) Analyst
7 16 (9.09%) Business Consultant
8 14 (7.95%) Business Process Consultant
8 14 (7.95%) Process Consultant
9 11 (6.25%) Business Analyst
9 11 (6.25%) Senior
10 10 (5.68%) Designer
11 6 (3.41%) Senior Developer
11 6 (3.41%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
11 6 (3.41%) Service Manager
12 5 (2.84%) Lead
12 5 (2.84%) Service Designer
12 5 (2.84%) ServiceNow Manager
12 5 (2.84%) ServiceNow Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (23.86%) REST
2 38 (21.59%) SOAP
3 10 (5.68%) Web Services
4 6 (3.41%) JSON
5 5 (2.84%) Kafka
5 5 (2.84%) XML
6 4 (2.27%) Azure Blueprints
6 4 (2.27%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (1.70%) Middleware
7 3 (1.70%) OAuth
7 3 (1.70%) OAuth2
8 2 (1.14%) CSS
8 2 (1.14%) HTML
8 2 (1.14%) LDAP
8 2 (1.14%) OpenID
8 2 (1.14%) RESTful
8 2 (1.14%) YAML
9 1 (0.57%) ADO
9 1 (0.57%) AngularJS
9 1 (0.57%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.82%) Product Ownership
2 11 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 10 (5.68%) Data Centre
4 8 (4.55%) Cloud Native
4 8 (4.55%) Security Posture
5 5 (2.84%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.84%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.27%) AI Agents
6 4 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.27%) Replication
7 3 (1.70%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.70%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.14%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.14%) IBM Mainframe
8 2 (1.14%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.14%) N-Tier
8 2 (1.14%) Shadow IT
8 2 (1.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.95%) Windows
2 6 (3.41%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.84%) Linux
4 4 (2.27%) Alpine Linux
4 4 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (60.23%) ITSM
2 65 (36.93%) ITIL
3 49 (27.84%) Service Management
4 40 (22.73%) Data Modelling
5 38 (21.59%) Workflow
6 35 (19.89%) Roadmaps
7 34 (19.32%) Agile
8 31 (17.61%) Problem-Solving
9 29 (16.48%) Asset Management
10 26 (14.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 26 (14.77%) Stakeholder Management
11 24 (13.64%) AI
12 23 (13.07%) Continuous Improvement
12 23 (13.07%) User Stories
13 21 (11.93%) Order Management
14 20 (11.36%) Service Design
15 18 (10.23%) Change Management
16 16 (9.09%) Configuration Management
16 16 (9.09%) Migration
16 16 (9.09%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 27 (15.34%) JavaScript
2 12 (6.82%) PowerShell
2 12 (6.82%) Python
3 7 (3.98%) Bicep
3 7 (3.98%) SQL
4 3 (1.70%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.57%) C++
5 1 (0.57%) Java
5 1 (0.57%) Korn
5 1 (0.57%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 47 (26.70%) Security Cleared
2 38 (21.59%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.55%) DV Cleared
4 6 (3.41%) CISM
4 6 (3.41%) CISSP
5 4 (2.27%) Degree
5 4 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.27%) PMI Certification
5 4 (2.27%) PMP
6 3 (1.70%) GCIH
7 2 (1.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (1.14%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.14%) CCSP
7 2 (1.14%) CEH
7 2 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.14%) CISMP
7 2 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.14%) CSSLP
7 2 (1.14%) ISSAP
7 2 (1.14%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.23%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.68%) GRC
2 10 (5.68%) NIST
3 9 (5.11%) SLA
4 6 (3.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.70%) ISO 22301
5 3 (1.70%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.14%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.14%) COBIT
6 2 (1.14%) GDPR
6 2 (1.14%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.57%) QA
7 1 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (2.84%) IAG
2 4 (2.27%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.57%) etcd
3 1 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (4.55%) SCCM
2 7 (3.98%) Ansible
2 7 (3.98%) Terraform
3 5 (2.84%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.70%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.14%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.57%) Amdocs OSS
6 1 (0.57%) Fluentd
6 1 (0.57%) Grafana
6 1 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 142 (80.68%) ServiceNow
2 20 (11.36%) Microsoft
3 9 (5.11%) Splunk
4 7 (3.98%) Qualys
5 6 (3.41%) CrowdStrike
5 6 (3.41%) Tenable
6 5 (2.84%) Rapid7
6 5 (2.84%) Remedy
7 4 (2.27%) Google
7 4 (2.27%) Nexthink
7 4 (2.27%) Okta
7 4 (2.27%) SAP
8 3 (1.70%) Commvault
8 3 (1.70%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.70%) TOWER Software
9 2 (1.14%) AppDynamics
9 2 (1.14%) BMC
9 2 (1.14%) IBM
9 2 (1.14%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.14%) VMware