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 13 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 274 303 312
Rank change year-on-year +29 +9 +52
Contract jobs citing CMDB 181 57 84
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.89% 0.42% 0.52%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.37% 1.10% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 31 50
10th Percentile £400 £400 £278
25th Percentile £483 £490 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £613 £529
Median % change year-on-year -13.47% +15.78% -2.04%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £584
90th Percentile £772 £738 £601
England median daily rate £519 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -1.19% +5.00% -8.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £32.80 - £31.76
25th Percentile £35.88 - £43.14
Median hourly rate £42.00 - £62.09
75th Percentile £70.88 - £81.05
90th Percentile £87.60 - £92.42
England median hourly rate £25.75 £18.87 £35.00
% change year-on-year +36.46% -46.09% -45.31%

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 7,624 5,164 5,491
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.68% 38.39% 33.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,777 3,344 3,667
10th Percentile £350 £335 £325
25th Percentile £450 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -2.17% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £738
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 122 69
10th Percentile £18.00 £15.91 £17.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.71 £23.80
Median hourly rate £33.60 £27.81 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.81% -10.28% -11.43%
75th Percentile £55.00 £46.55 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.31 £71.38
England median hourly rate £37.50 £32.89 £57.35
% change year-on-year +14.02% -42.65% +20.74%

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 13 September 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 13 September 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 13 September 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 -6 26 £600 -7.69% 4
West London - 9 £650 - 3
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 (1.10%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (6.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.76%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.55%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 39 (21.55%) Azure
2 30 (16.57%) AWS
3 16 (8.84%) Entra ID
4 11 (6.08%) GCP
4 11 (6.08%) SaaS
5 8 (4.42%) Azure Monitor
5 8 (4.42%) Power Platform
6 6 (3.31%) Datadog
7 5 (2.76%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (1.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (1.66%) AWS Control Tower
8 3 (1.66%) GitHub
9 1 (0.55%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.55%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.55%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.55%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.55%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.55%) Sentry
9 1 (0.55%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.97%) Firewall
2 6 (3.31%) DNS
3 4 (2.21%) Kerberos
3 4 (2.21%) NGFW
4 3 (1.66%) HTTP
4 3 (1.66%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.66%) VPN
5 2 (1.10%) Internet
6 1 (0.55%) DHCP
6 1 (0.55%) Network Security
6 1 (0.55%) SNMP
6 1 (0.55%) SSH
6 1 (0.55%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.42%) Power BI
2 2 (1.10%) Metadata
3 1 (0.55%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (3.87%) JIRA
2 2 (1.10%) Git
2 2 (1.10%) MSI
3 1 (0.55%) GitLab
General
1 41 (22.65%) Social Skills
2 34 (18.78%) Finance
3 31 (17.13%) Telecoms
4 21 (11.60%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (7.18%) Public Sector
6 9 (4.97%) Banking
7 7 (3.87%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.66%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.66%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.10%) Aviation
10 2 (1.10%) German Language
10 2 (1.10%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.55%) Legal
11 1 (0.55%) Marketing
11 1 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 49 (27.07%) Architect
2 34 (18.78%) ServiceNow Architect
3 26 (14.36%) Developer
3 26 (14.36%) ServiceNow Developer
4 25 (13.81%) Consultant
5 20 (11.05%) Analyst
6 18 (9.94%) Senior
7 16 (8.84%) ServiceNow Consultant
8 15 (8.29%) Business Consultant
9 13 (7.18%) Business Process Consultant
9 13 (7.18%) Process Consultant
10 11 (6.08%) Designer
11 8 (4.42%) Business Analyst
11 8 (4.42%) Senior Developer
11 8 (4.42%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
12 7 (3.87%) ServiceNow Specialist
13 6 (3.31%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 6 (3.31%) Security Analyst
13 6 (3.31%) Service Designer
14 5 (2.76%) ITSM Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (23.76%) REST
2 36 (19.89%) SOAP
3 10 (5.52%) Terraform
4 8 (4.42%) JSON
4 8 (4.42%) Web Services
5 7 (3.87%) XML
6 6 (3.31%) FIDO
6 6 (3.31%) WebAuthn
7 5 (2.76%) OAuth
8 4 (2.21%) Azure Blueprints
8 4 (2.21%) CSS
8 4 (2.21%) HTML
8 4 (2.21%) OAuth2
8 4 (2.21%) OpenID
9 3 (1.66%) Ajax
9 3 (1.66%) Kafka
10 2 (1.10%) Middleware
10 2 (1.10%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (1.10%) YAML
11 1 (0.55%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.73%) Onboarding
2 10 (5.52%) Data Centre
3 9 (4.97%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (3.87%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (3.31%) AI Agents
5 6 (3.31%) Cloud Native
5 6 (3.31%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (3.31%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.31%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.76%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.76%) Security Posture
7 4 (2.21%) Enterprise Cloud
7 4 (2.21%) Replication
8 3 (1.66%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.66%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.66%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.66%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.10%) N-Tier
10 1 (0.55%) PKI
10 1 (0.55%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.18%) Windows
2 7 (3.87%) Linux
3 6 (3.31%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.21%) Alpine Linux
4 4 (2.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.21%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (59.12%) ITSM
2 63 (34.81%) Service Management
3 62 (34.25%) ITIL
4 45 (24.86%) Roadmaps
5 40 (22.10%) Stakeholder Management
6 35 (19.34%) Workflow
7 34 (18.78%) Agile
8 33 (18.23%) AI
8 33 (18.23%) Data Modelling
9 30 (16.57%) Problem-Solving
10 27 (14.92%) Asset Management
11 25 (13.81%) Continuous Improvement
12 23 (12.71%) Configuration Management
12 23 (12.71%) Security Operations
13 21 (11.60%) Order Management
13 21 (11.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 20 (11.05%) Translating Business Requirements
15 19 (10.50%) DevOps
15 19 (10.50%) Observability
16 18 (9.94%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 30 (16.57%) JavaScript
2 17 (9.39%) PowerShell
3 12 (6.63%) Python
4 9 (4.97%) Bicep
5 4 (2.21%) SQL
6 3 (1.66%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.55%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 47 (25.97%) Security Cleared
2 36 (19.89%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.31%) Degree
3 6 (3.31%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (2.76%) CISM
4 5 (2.76%) CISSP
5 4 (2.21%) MCSE
5 4 (2.21%) PMP
6 3 (1.66%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.10%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.10%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.10%) ISSAP
7 2 (1.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (1.10%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.55%) CISA
8 1 (0.55%) GCIH
8 1 (0.55%) GIAC
8 1 (0.55%) GSEC
8 1 (0.55%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.29%) Data Quality
2 11 (6.08%) GRC
3 8 (4.42%) NIST
3 8 (4.42%) SLA
4 3 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.66%) QA
5 2 (1.10%) COBIT
5 2 (1.10%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.10%) ISO 22301
5 2 (1.10%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.55%) GDPR
6 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 19770
System Software
1 8 (4.42%) Active Directory
1 8 (4.42%) IAG
2 3 (1.66%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.55%) etcd
3 1 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (4.97%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (4.42%) Ansible
3 5 (2.76%) SCCM
4 4 (2.21%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.55%) Fluentd
5 1 (0.55%) Grafana
5 1 (0.55%) Nagios
5 1 (0.55%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.55%) SCOM
5 1 (0.55%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 134 (74.03%) ServiceNow
2 26 (14.36%) Microsoft
3 9 (4.97%) Splunk
4 8 (4.42%) CrowdStrike
4 8 (4.42%) Qualys
5 7 (3.87%) Dynatrace
5 7 (3.87%) SAP
6 5 (2.76%) Google
6 5 (2.76%) Nexthink
6 5 (2.76%) Rapid7
6 5 (2.76%) Remedy
6 5 (2.76%) Tenable
7 4 (2.21%) BMC
7 4 (2.21%) Okta
8 3 (1.66%) TOWER Software
9 2 (1.10%) Commvault
9 2 (1.10%) Computacenter
9 2 (1.10%) Oracle
9 2 (1.10%) Siebel
9 2 (1.10%) VMware