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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 271 307 310
Rank change year-on-year +36 +3 +67
Contract jobs citing CMDB 184 62 87
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.90% 0.46% 0.53%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.38% 1.19% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 34 52
10th Percentile £400 £467 £283
25th Percentile £500 £516 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £645 £518
Median % change year-on-year -17.25% +24.64% -5.91%
75th Percentile £647 £688 £578
90th Percentile £775 £726 £600
England median daily rate £520 £530 £500
% change year-on-year -1.89% +6.00% -9.09%
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 £14.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +83.93% -60.00% -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 7,745 5,208 5,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.09% 38.63% 33.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,895 3,365 3,596
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £450 £447 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -2.61% -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 204 123 71
10th Percentile £16.96 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.98 £23.80
Median hourly rate £34.62 £26.50 £31.62
Median % change year-on-year +30.62% -16.19% +14.98%
75th Percentile £59.13 £45.85 £53.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £67.11 £71.25
England median hourly rate £35.82 £30.50 £57.35
% change year-on-year +17.44% -46.82% +27.44%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -7 30 £600 -7.69% 12
West London - 8 £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 (1.63%) Confluence
2 2 (1.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (7.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.63%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.54%) Maximo
2 1 (0.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 43 (23.37%) Azure
2 29 (15.76%) AWS
3 18 (9.78%) Entra ID
4 12 (6.52%) Azure Monitor
5 11 (5.98%) GCP
6 10 (5.43%) SaaS
7 8 (4.35%) Datadog
8 7 (3.80%) Azure Sentinel
8 7 (3.80%) Power Platform
9 4 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (1.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (1.63%) AWS Control Tower
10 3 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.63%) GitHub
11 1 (0.54%) Amazon S3
11 1 (0.54%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.54%) Cloudflare
11 1 (0.54%) Sentry
11 1 (0.54%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.43%) Firewall
2 6 (3.26%) DNS
3 5 (2.72%) Kerberos
3 5 (2.72%) NGFW
4 4 (2.17%) VPN
5 3 (1.63%) HTTP
5 3 (1.63%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.09%) Internet
7 1 (0.54%) DHCP
7 1 (0.54%) Network Security
7 1 (0.54%) SNMP
7 1 (0.54%) SSH
7 1 (0.54%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.80%) Power BI
2 3 (1.63%) Metadata
3 1 (0.54%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.54%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (3.80%) JIRA
2 2 (1.09%) Git
2 2 (1.09%) MSI
3 1 (0.54%) GitLab
General
1 40 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 36 (19.57%) Finance
3 31 (16.85%) Telecoms
4 20 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (7.07%) Public Sector
6 12 (6.52%) Banking
7 5 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.17%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.63%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.09%) Aviation
10 2 (1.09%) German Language
10 2 (1.09%) Legal
10 2 (1.09%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.09%) Marketing
10 2 (1.09%) Retail
11 1 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 53 (28.80%) Architect
2 35 (19.02%) ServiceNow Architect
3 26 (14.13%) Consultant
4 23 (12.50%) Developer
4 23 (12.50%) ServiceNow Developer
5 20 (10.87%) Analyst
6 18 (9.78%) Senior
7 16 (8.70%) ServiceNow Consultant
8 15 (8.15%) Business Consultant
9 13 (7.07%) Business Process Consultant
9 13 (7.07%) Process Consultant
10 8 (4.35%) Designer
10 8 (4.35%) Lead
10 8 (4.35%) Senior Developer
10 8 (4.35%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
11 7 (3.80%) Business Analyst
11 7 (3.80%) ServiceNow Specialist
12 6 (3.26%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 6 (3.26%) IT Manager
12 6 (3.26%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (21.20%) REST
2 32 (17.39%) SOAP
3 13 (7.07%) Terraform
4 8 (4.35%) JSON
5 7 (3.80%) XML
6 6 (3.26%) FIDO
6 6 (3.26%) OAuth
6 6 (3.26%) Web Services
6 6 (3.26%) WebAuthn
7 5 (2.72%) OAuth2
7 5 (2.72%) OpenID
8 4 (2.17%) Azure Blueprints
8 4 (2.17%) CSS
8 4 (2.17%) HTML
9 3 (1.63%) Ajax
9 3 (1.63%) Middleware
10 2 (1.09%) Kafka
10 2 (1.09%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (1.09%) YAML
11 1 (0.54%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.15%) Onboarding
2 10 (5.43%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (4.35%) Data Centre
4 7 (3.80%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (3.26%) Cloud Native
5 6 (3.26%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.72%) AI Agents
6 5 (2.72%) Enterprise Cloud
6 5 (2.72%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.17%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.17%) Replication
8 3 (1.63%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.63%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.63%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.63%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.63%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.54%) Cloud Security Posture
9 1 (0.54%) N-Tier
9 1 (0.54%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.61%) Windows
2 8 (4.35%) Linux
3 7 (3.80%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (2.17%) Alpine Linux
5 4 (2.17%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.54%) CentOS
6 1 (0.54%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (56.52%) ITSM
2 62 (33.70%) Service Management
3 61 (33.15%) ITIL
4 42 (22.83%) Roadmaps
4 42 (22.83%) Stakeholder Management
5 35 (19.02%) Data Modelling
6 34 (18.48%) Workflow
7 33 (17.93%) Agile
8 32 (17.39%) AI
9 29 (15.76%) Problem-Solving
10 27 (14.67%) Asset Management
11 26 (14.13%) Configuration Management
12 24 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
13 23 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 22 (11.96%) IT Asset Management
14 22 (11.96%) Security Operations
15 21 (11.41%) DevOps
15 21 (11.41%) Order Management
16 20 (10.87%) Observability
16 20 (10.87%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 29 (15.76%) JavaScript
2 17 (9.24%) PowerShell
3 10 (5.43%) Bicep
3 10 (5.43%) Python
4 4 (2.17%) SQL
5 3 (1.63%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (23.37%) Security Cleared
2 33 (17.93%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.35%) Degree
4 7 (3.80%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (3.26%) PMP
6 5 (2.72%) CISM
6 5 (2.72%) CISSP
6 5 (2.72%) MCSE
7 4 (2.17%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.63%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.09%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.09%) ISSAP
9 2 (1.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (1.09%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 2 (1.09%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.54%) CISA
10 1 (0.54%) GCIH
10 1 (0.54%) GIAC
10 1 (0.54%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.15%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.98%) GRC
3 8 (4.35%) SLA
4 6 (3.26%) NIST
5 4 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.17%) QA
6 2 (1.09%) COBIT
6 2 (1.09%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.09%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.54%) GDPR
7 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 19770
System Software
1 10 (5.43%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.80%) IAG
3 4 (2.17%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.54%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 11 (5.98%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (4.89%) Ansible
3 6 (3.26%) SCCM
4 3 (1.63%) Grafana
4 3 (1.63%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.54%) Nagios
5 1 (0.54%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (0.54%) SCOM
5 1 (0.54%) WSUS
5 1 (0.54%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 139 (75.54%) ServiceNow
2 32 (17.39%) Microsoft
3 11 (5.98%) Splunk
4 10 (5.43%) Dynatrace
5 8 (4.35%) CrowdStrike
5 8 (4.35%) Qualys
6 6 (3.26%) SAP
7 5 (2.72%) Google
7 5 (2.72%) Nexthink
7 5 (2.72%) Rapid7
7 5 (2.72%) Tenable
8 4 (2.17%) BMC
8 4 (2.17%) Okta
9 3 (1.63%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.63%) Remedy
9 3 (1.63%) SolarWinds
9 3 (1.63%) TOWER Software
9 3 (1.63%) VMware
10 2 (1.09%) Computacenter
10 2 (1.09%) Tanium