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 2 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 292 269 287
Rank change year-on-year -23 +18 +125
Contract jobs citing CMDB 84 88 110
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.58% 0.61% 0.60%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.52% 1.77% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 50 76
10th Percentile £345 £356 £380
25th Percentile £458 £409 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £494 £550
Median % change year-on-year +13.81% -10.14% +2.23%
75th Percentile £688 £573 £647
90th Percentile £723 £623 £850
England median daily rate £508 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +1.65% -13.04% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £19.09
25th Percentile £20.82 - £28.00
Median hourly rate £22.27 £100.00 £44.08
Median % change year-on-year -77.74% +126.86% +126.05%
75th Percentile £23.71 - £61.42
90th Percentile - - £71.07
England median hourly rate £15.00 £35.00 £48.50
% change year-on-year -57.14% -27.84% +185.29%

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 5,531 4,959 6,120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.36% 34.22% 33.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,582 3,145 4,348
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £435 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £719
90th Percentile £800 £838 £819
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 63 111
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.30 £18.57
25th Percentile £20.00 £24.15 £19.99
Median hourly rate £26.11 £34.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.32% +15.00% -11.30%
75th Percentile £46.88 £59.75 £49.48
90th Percentile £66.50 £80.75 £65.11
England median hourly rate £29.00 £36.25 £42.92
% change year-on-year -20.00% -15.53% +29.07%

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 2 January 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 2 January 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 -7 10 £613 +26.88% 5
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 1 (1.19%) Confluence
1 1 (1.19%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (4.76%) Autodesk Inventor
1 4 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.38%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (3.57%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.19%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 22 (26.19%) Azure
2 19 (22.62%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (8.33%) AWS
4 3 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.19%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.19%) GCP
5 1 (1.19%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.19%) Rubrik
5 1 (1.19%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.19%) DHCP
1 1 (1.19%) IPv4
1 1 (1.19%) IPv6
1 1 (1.19%) Modbus
1 1 (1.19%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.38%) Tableau
2 1 (1.19%) GIS
2 1 (1.19%) Power BI
2 1 (1.19%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (21.43%) JIRA
2 6 (7.14%) Git
3 3 (3.57%) Jenkins
General
1 31 (36.90%) Social Skills
2 18 (21.43%) Finance
3 17 (20.24%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (10.71%) Telecoms
5 5 (5.95%) Legal
5 5 (5.95%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.57%) Banking
6 3 (3.57%) Military
7 2 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.19%) Billing
8 1 (1.19%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 23 (27.38%) Developer
1 23 (27.38%) ServiceNow Developer
2 15 (17.86%) Analyst
3 14 (16.67%) Architect
4 13 (15.48%) ServiceNow Architect
5 8 (9.52%) Business Analyst
6 6 (7.14%) Change Manager
6 6 (7.14%) Consultant
6 6 (7.14%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
6 6 (7.14%) ServiceNow Manager
7 5 (5.95%) Business Change Manager
7 5 (5.95%) Business Manager
7 5 (5.95%) Project Manager
7 5 (5.95%) Technical Architect
8 4 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (4.76%) ServiceNow Project Manager
9 3 (3.57%) Automation Analyst
9 3 (3.57%) Automation Engineer
9 3 (3.57%) Senior
9 3 (3.57%) ServiceNow Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (38.10%) REST
1 32 (38.10%) SOAP
2 7 (8.33%) CSS
2 7 (8.33%) HTML
3 6 (7.14%) Web Services
4 5 (5.95%) AngularJS
5 2 (2.38%) Bootstrap
5 2 (2.38%) XML
6 1 (1.19%) Ajax
6 1 (1.19%) JSON
6 1 (1.19%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.57%) Data Centre
1 3 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (2.38%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.19%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.19%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.19%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.19%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.19%) Operational Technology
3 1 (1.19%) Private Cloud
3 1 (1.19%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.19%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.19%) Reinsurance
3 1 (1.19%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.57%) Linux
2 2 (2.38%) Windows
3 1 (1.19%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (64.29%) ITSM
2 30 (35.71%) Agile
2 30 (35.71%) Configuration Management
3 28 (33.33%) Workflow
4 24 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (27.38%) DevOps
6 21 (25.00%) Change Management
6 21 (25.00%) ITIL
6 21 (25.00%) Service Management
7 20 (23.81%) Scrum
8 19 (22.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 17 (20.24%) CAD
9 17 (20.24%) Data Protection
10 15 (17.86%) Analytics
10 15 (17.86%) API Integration
10 15 (17.86%) Dashboard Development
10 15 (17.86%) Data-Driven Decision Making
11 14 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
12 13 (15.48%) Data Management
13 12 (14.29%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (30.95%) JavaScript
2 5 (5.95%) Python
3 2 (2.38%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.19%) Bash
4 1 (1.19%) Perl
4 1 (1.19%) SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 15 (17.86%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.76%) Degree
4 2 (2.38%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.19%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.19%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.19%) PMP
5 1 (1.19%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (15.48%) Data Quality
2 9 (10.71%) QA
3 2 (2.38%) GRC
3 2 (2.38%) NIST
3 2 (2.38%) SLA
4 1 (1.19%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 19770
4 1 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (2.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (3.57%) Ansible
2 1 (1.19%) Grafana
2 1 (1.19%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.19%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.19%) SCCM
Vendors
1 74 (88.10%) ServiceNow
2 8 (9.52%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.76%) Salesforce
4 3 (3.57%) BMC
4 3 (3.57%) Remedy
5 1 (1.19%) Arista
5 1 (1.19%) Citrix
5 1 (1.19%) IBM
5 1 (1.19%) Snow
5 1 (1.19%) VMware
5 1 (1.19%) Zerto