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 14 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 275 297 305
Rank change year-on-year +22 +8 +60
Contract jobs citing CMDB 154 50 86
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.82% 0.41% 0.49%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.27% 1.11% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 24 54
10th Percentile £358 £222 £368
25th Percentile £491 £405 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £647 £664 £591
90th Percentile £694 £696 £675
England median daily rate £514 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +8.21% -5.00% -3.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £23.80 - -
25th Percentile £28.27 - -
Median hourly rate £36.75 - £24.18
75th Percentile £56.94 - -
90th Percentile £82.03 - -
England median hourly rate £28.63 £41.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year -30.18% +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 6,794 4,493 5,867
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.02% 36.50% 33.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,316 2,990 4,114
10th Percentile £360 £331 £315
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £725
90th Percentile £800 £838 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 89 144
10th Percentile £19.03 £15.84 £15.45
25th Percentile £23.16 £23.45 £18.41
Median hourly rate £35.00 £32.89 £27.92
Median % change year-on-year +6.42% +17.80% -20.23%
75th Percentile £63.75 £49.50 £50.38
90th Percentile £88.75 £78.72 £71.25
England median hourly rate £42.30 £33.91 £36.50
% change year-on-year +24.74% -7.10% +62.33%

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 14 June 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 14 June 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 14 June 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 -9 19 £600 +4.35% 6
West London - 2 - - 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 2 (1.30%) Confluence
2 1 (0.65%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 14 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (3.25%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.65%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 27 (17.53%) Azure
2 21 (13.64%) AWS
3 13 (8.44%) Entra ID
4 10 (6.49%) Power Platform
5 9 (5.84%) GCP
6 5 (3.25%) Azure Sentinel
6 5 (3.25%) SaaS
7 3 (1.95%) AWS Control Tower
7 3 (1.95%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (1.30%) Datadog
8 2 (1.30%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.65%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.65%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.65%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.65%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (0.65%) GitHub
9 1 (0.65%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.65%) PaaS
9 1 (0.65%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.30%) Firewall
1 2 (1.30%) Internet
1 2 (1.30%) Kerberos
1 2 (1.30%) NGFW
1 2 (1.30%) SNMP
2 1 (0.65%) DHCP
2 1 (0.65%) DNS
2 1 (0.65%) IPv4
2 1 (0.65%) IPv6
2 1 (0.65%) Modbus
2 1 (0.65%) NaaS
2 1 (0.65%) Network Security
2 1 (0.65%) SSH
2 1 (0.65%) VPN
2 1 (0.65%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.49%) Power BI
2 1 (0.65%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (0.65%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.65%) Flink
2 1 (0.65%) InfluxDB
2 1 (0.65%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.65%) MySQL
2 1 (0.65%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.65%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.65%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.65%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 8 (5.19%) JIRA
2 1 (0.65%) GitLab
2 1 (0.65%) Robot Framework
General
1 30 (19.48%) Social Skills
2 23 (14.94%) Telecoms
3 21 (13.64%) Finance
4 14 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
5 13 (8.44%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (5.84%) Banking
6 9 (5.84%) Public Sector
7 3 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.30%) Aviation
9 1 (0.65%) Billing
9 1 (0.65%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.65%) Legal
9 1 (0.65%) Retail
Job Titles
1 44 (28.57%) Architect
2 35 (22.73%) ServiceNow Architect
3 23 (14.94%) Developer
3 23 (14.94%) ServiceNow Developer
4 18 (11.69%) Analyst
4 18 (11.69%) Consultant
5 15 (9.74%) ServiceNow Consultant
6 11 (7.14%) Business Analyst
6 11 (7.14%) Business Consultant
7 9 (5.84%) Business Process Consultant
7 9 (5.84%) Process Consultant
8 8 (5.19%) Designer
9 6 (3.90%) Project Manager
9 6 (3.90%) Senior
9 6 (3.90%) Service Manager
9 6 (3.90%) ServiceNow Manager
10 5 (3.25%) ServiceNow Project Manager
11 4 (2.60%) Lead
11 4 (2.60%) Platform Architect
11 4 (2.60%) Resilience Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (22.73%) REST
2 32 (20.78%) SOAP
3 10 (6.49%) Web Services
4 6 (3.90%) JSON
5 5 (3.25%) Kafka
5 5 (3.25%) XML
6 4 (2.60%) Azure Blueprints
6 4 (2.60%) CSS
6 4 (2.60%) HTML
6 4 (2.60%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (1.95%) Middleware
7 3 (1.95%) OAuth
7 3 (1.95%) OAuth2
8 2 (1.30%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.30%) LDAP
8 2 (1.30%) OpenID
8 2 (1.30%) YAML
9 1 (0.65%) ADO
9 1 (0.65%) Gherkin
9 1 (0.65%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.49%) Data Centre
2 9 (5.84%) Product Ownership
3 8 (5.19%) Onboarding
3 8 (5.19%) Security Posture
4 7 (4.55%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.60%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (2.60%) Replication
6 3 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.95%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.30%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.30%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.30%) IBM Mainframe
7 2 (1.30%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.30%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.30%) N-Tier
7 2 (1.30%) Shadow IT
7 2 (1.30%) Taxonomies
7 2 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (9.74%) Windows
2 6 (3.90%) Windows Server
3 5 (3.25%) Linux
4 4 (2.60%) Alpine Linux
4 4 (2.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.60%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.65%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (58.44%) ITSM
2 62 (40.26%) ITIL
3 42 (27.27%) Service Management
4 37 (24.03%) Workflow
5 33 (21.43%) Data Modelling
6 29 (18.83%) Asset Management
7 27 (17.53%) Roadmaps
8 25 (16.23%) Agile
9 22 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 20 (12.99%) Problem-Solving
10 20 (12.99%) User Stories
11 19 (12.34%) Change Management
12 18 (11.69%) Stakeholder Management
13 17 (11.04%) Migration
13 17 (11.04%) Service Design
14 16 (10.39%) Continuous Improvement
14 16 (10.39%) Order Management
15 15 (9.74%) AI
16 14 (9.09%) Problem Management
16 14 (9.09%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 19 (12.34%) JavaScript
2 11 (7.14%) PowerShell
2 11 (7.14%) Python
3 7 (4.55%) Bicep
4 6 (3.90%) SQL
5 3 (1.95%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.65%) C++
6 1 (0.65%) Java
6 1 (0.65%) Korn
6 1 (0.65%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 36 (23.38%) Security Cleared
2 28 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.19%) DV Cleared
4 5 (3.25%) CISM
4 5 (3.25%) CISSP
5 4 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.60%) PMI Certification
5 4 (2.60%) PMP
6 3 (1.95%) GCIH
7 2 (1.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (1.30%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.30%) CCSP
7 2 (1.30%) CEH
7 2 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.30%) CISMP
7 2 (1.30%) CSSLP
7 2 (1.30%) Degree
7 2 (1.30%) ISSAP
7 2 (1.30%) MCSE
8 1 (0.65%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (10.39%) Data Quality
2 10 (6.49%) NIST
3 8 (5.19%) SLA
4 7 (4.55%) GRC
5 6 (3.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.95%) ISO 22301
6 3 (1.95%) SOC 2
7 2 (1.30%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.30%) COBIT
7 2 (1.30%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.65%) GDPR
8 1 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (3.25%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.30%) IAG
3 1 (0.65%) etcd
3 1 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (5.84%) SCCM
2 7 (4.55%) Terraform
3 6 (3.90%) Ansible
4 5 (3.25%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.30%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.30%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.65%) Amdocs OSS
6 1 (0.65%) Fluentd
6 1 (0.65%) Grafana
6 1 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 123 (79.87%) ServiceNow
2 19 (12.34%) Microsoft
3 9 (5.84%) Splunk
4 5 (3.25%) CrowdStrike
4 5 (3.25%) Qualys
4 5 (3.25%) Remedy
4 5 (3.25%) Tenable
5 4 (2.60%) Google
5 4 (2.60%) Okta
5 4 (2.60%) Rapid7
6 3 (1.95%) Commvault
6 3 (1.95%) Nexthink
6 3 (1.95%) TOWER Software
7 2 (1.30%) AppDynamics
7 2 (1.30%) BMC
7 2 (1.30%) CyberArk
7 2 (1.30%) IBM
7 2 (1.30%) SAP
7 2 (1.30%) SolarWinds
7 2 (1.30%) VMware