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 23 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 304 280 270
Rank change year-on-year -24 -10 +78
Contract jobs citing CMDB 88 76 116
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.57% 0.57% 0.63%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.53% 1.63% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 42 72
10th Percentile £340 £366 £363
25th Percentile £419 £428 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £494 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.20% -5.86% -2.42%
75th Percentile £669 £592 £675
90th Percentile £718 £671 £850
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
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 £46.95
% change year-on-year -50.77% -30.77% +176.15%

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 5,734 4,649 6,023
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.91% 34.67% 32.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,736 2,971 4,232
10th Percentile £350 £320 £300
25th Percentile £431 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -5.74%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £700
90th Percentile £800 £844 £813
England median daily rate £510 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -6.42% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 62 180
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.80 £15.50
25th Percentile £19.72 £24.93 £18.93
Median hourly rate £28.55 £39.02 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -26.83% +48.65% -21.06%
75th Percentile £54.25 £60.25 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.75 £65.18
England median hourly rate £32.50 £37.00 £32.12
% change year-on-year -12.16% +15.21% +42.73%

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 23 February 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 23 February 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 -20 8 £513 +7.44% 4
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 (3.41%) Confluence
2 1 (1.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (4.55%) Autodesk Inventor
2 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.14%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Remedy AR System
1 1 (1.14%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 17 (19.32%) Azure
2 10 (11.36%) AWS
2 10 (11.36%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (6.82%) Entra ID
4 3 (3.41%) GCP
5 2 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.27%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.27%) SaaS
6 1 (1.14%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.14%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.14%) DHCP
1 1 (1.14%) IPv4
1 1 (1.14%) IPv6
1 1 (1.14%) Modbus
1 1 (1.14%) SNMP
1 1 (1.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.27%) Power BI
1 2 (2.27%) Relational Database
1 2 (2.27%) Tableau
2 1 (1.14%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 12 (13.64%) JIRA
2 6 (6.82%) Git
3 3 (3.41%) Jenkins
General
1 30 (34.09%) Social Skills
2 15 (17.05%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (17.05%) Finance
3 9 (10.23%) Telecoms
4 6 (6.82%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (5.68%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.55%) Legal
7 3 (3.41%) Banking
8 2 (2.27%) Military
9 1 (1.14%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (21.59%) Developer
1 19 (21.59%) ServiceNow Developer
2 16 (18.18%) Analyst
2 16 (18.18%) Architect
3 13 (14.77%) ServiceNow Architect
4 10 (11.36%) ServiceNow Manager
5 9 (10.23%) Business Analyst
5 9 (10.23%) Project Manager
6 7 (7.95%) ServiceNow Project Manager
7 6 (6.82%) Change Manager
7 6 (6.82%) Consultant
7 6 (6.82%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
7 6 (6.82%) Technical Architect
8 5 (5.68%) Business Change Manager
8 5 (5.68%) Business Manager
8 5 (5.68%) ServiceNow Consultant
9 4 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
10 3 (3.41%) Automation Analyst
10 3 (3.41%) Automation Engineer
10 3 (3.41%) ITSM Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (30.68%) REST
1 27 (30.68%) SOAP
2 8 (9.09%) CSS
2 8 (9.09%) HTML
3 5 (5.68%) AngularJS
4 4 (4.55%) Web Services
5 3 (3.41%) XML
6 2 (2.27%) Bootstrap
6 2 (2.27%) LDAP
7 1 (1.14%) Ajax
7 1 (1.14%) JSON
7 1 (1.14%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.55%) Data Centre
1 4 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (2.27%) Data Structures
2 2 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (2.27%) Shadow IT
3 1 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.14%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.14%) Fat Client
3 1 (1.14%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.14%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.14%) Operational Technology
3 1 (1.14%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.14%) Reinsurance
3 1 (1.14%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (1.14%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.41%) Linux
1 3 (3.41%) Windows
2 1 (1.14%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (62.50%) ITSM
2 28 (31.82%) Agile
2 28 (31.82%) ITIL
3 26 (29.55%) Change Management
4 25 (28.41%) Workflow
5 23 (26.14%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (25.00%) Service Management
7 19 (21.59%) Configuration Management
8 18 (20.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 17 (19.32%) Data Modelling
10 14 (15.91%) Asset Management
11 13 (14.77%) DevOps
12 12 (13.64%) Scrum
13 11 (12.50%) CAD
13 11 (12.50%) Problem Management
13 11 (12.50%) Roadmaps
14 10 (11.36%) Stakeholder Management
14 10 (11.36%) Translating Business Requirements
14 10 (11.36%) User Stories
15 9 (10.23%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 18 (20.45%) JavaScript
2 5 (5.68%) Python
3 2 (2.27%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.27%) SQL
4 1 (1.14%) Bash
4 1 (1.14%) Korn
4 1 (1.14%) Perl
Qualifications
1 15 (17.05%) Security Cleared
2 11 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.55%) PMI Certification
3 4 (4.55%) PMP
4 3 (3.41%) Degree
5 2 (2.27%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.14%) CGEIT
6 1 (1.14%) CISM
6 1 (1.14%) CISSP
6 1 (1.14%) CRISC
6 1 (1.14%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.14%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (15.91%) Data Quality
2 6 (6.82%) QA
3 3 (3.41%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.41%) NIST
4 2 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.27%) SLA
5 1 (1.14%) GRC
5 1 (1.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (2.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (5.68%) SCCM
2 3 (3.41%) Ansible
3 1 (1.14%) Grafana
3 1 (1.14%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 78 (88.64%) ServiceNow
2 6 (6.82%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.55%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.27%) BMC
4 2 (2.27%) Splunk
4 2 (2.27%) VMware
5 1 (1.14%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.14%) Arista
5 1 (1.14%) Citrix
5 1 (1.14%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.14%) Qualys
5 1 (1.14%) Remedy
5 1 (1.14%) Snow
5 1 (1.14%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.14%) Tenable
5 1 (1.14%) Zerto