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 9 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 270 313 323
Rank change year-on-year +43 +10 +60
Contract jobs citing CMDB 173 54 85
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.88% 0.40% 0.48%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.40% 1.08% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 25 48
10th Percentile £380 £222 £375
25th Percentile £485 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -1.41%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £588
90th Percentile £700 £775 £605
England median daily rate £520 £497 £500
% change year-on-year +4.63% -0.60% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £32.80 - -
25th Percentile £35.88 - -
Median hourly rate £42.00 - £24.18
75th Percentile £70.88 - -
90th Percentile £87.60 - -
England median hourly rate £31.50 £41.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year -23.17% +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 7,199 4,984 5,923
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.54% 36.92% 33.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,514 3,279 4,151
10th Percentile £354 £332 £315
25th Percentile £450 £447 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £738
90th Percentile £800 £838 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 152 107 138
10th Percentile £19.25 £15.84 £15.48
25th Percentile £25.25 £22.50 £21.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £27.92
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +7.45% -20.23%
75th Percentile £63.75 £46.63 £49.88
90th Percentile £88.75 £64.48 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £32.95 £37.50
% change year-on-year +33.43% -12.15% +19.05%

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 9 July 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 9 July 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 9 July 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 +5 20 £600 +33.33% 8
West London - 6 £650 - 1
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 (1.16%) Confluence
2 1 (0.58%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 14 (8.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.89%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.58%) Maximo
3 1 (0.58%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 31 (17.92%) Azure
2 26 (15.03%) AWS
3 13 (7.51%) Entra ID
4 10 (5.78%) GCP
4 10 (5.78%) Power Platform
5 8 (4.62%) SaaS
6 5 (2.89%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (2.31%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (1.73%) AWS Control Tower
8 3 (1.73%) Datadog
9 2 (1.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (1.16%) GitHub
10 1 (0.58%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.58%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.58%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (0.58%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.58%) PaaS
10 1 (0.58%) Sentry
10 1 (0.58%) Serverless
10 1 (0.58%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.16%) Firewall
1 2 (1.16%) Internet
1 2 (1.16%) Kerberos
1 2 (1.16%) NGFW
1 2 (1.16%) SNMP
2 1 (0.58%) DHCP
2 1 (0.58%) DNS
2 1 (0.58%) Modbus
2 1 (0.58%) NaaS
2 1 (0.58%) Network Security
2 1 (0.58%) SSH
2 1 (0.58%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.78%) Power BI
2 2 (1.16%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.58%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (0.58%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.58%) Flink
3 1 (0.58%) InfluxDB
3 1 (0.58%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.58%) MySQL
3 1 (0.58%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.58%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.58%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 8 (4.62%) JIRA
2 1 (0.58%) Git
2 1 (0.58%) GitLab
2 1 (0.58%) Robot Framework
General
1 39 (22.54%) Social Skills
2 28 (16.18%) Telecoms
3 25 (14.45%) Finance
4 18 (10.40%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (7.51%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (5.78%) Public Sector
7 9 (5.20%) Banking
8 3 (1.73%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.16%) Aviation
9 2 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.58%) Billing
10 1 (0.58%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.58%) Retail
Job Titles
1 46 (26.59%) Architect
2 35 (20.23%) ServiceNow Architect
3 29 (16.76%) Developer
3 29 (16.76%) ServiceNow Developer
4 23 (13.29%) Consultant
5 20 (11.56%) ServiceNow Consultant
6 19 (10.98%) Analyst
7 16 (9.25%) Business Consultant
8 14 (8.09%) Business Process Consultant
8 14 (8.09%) Process Consultant
9 11 (6.36%) Business Analyst
10 10 (5.78%) Designer
10 10 (5.78%) Senior
11 6 (3.47%) Senior Developer
11 6 (3.47%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
11 6 (3.47%) Service Manager
12 5 (2.89%) Lead
12 5 (2.89%) Project Manager
12 5 (2.89%) ServiceNow Manager
12 5 (2.89%) ServiceNow Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (24.28%) REST
2 38 (21.97%) SOAP
3 10 (5.78%) Web Services
4 6 (3.47%) JSON
5 5 (2.89%) Kafka
5 5 (2.89%) XML
6 4 (2.31%) Azure Blueprints
6 4 (2.31%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (1.73%) Middleware
7 3 (1.73%) OAuth
7 3 (1.73%) OAuth2
8 2 (1.16%) CSS
8 2 (1.16%) HTML
8 2 (1.16%) LDAP
8 2 (1.16%) OpenID
8 2 (1.16%) RESTful
8 2 (1.16%) YAML
9 1 (0.58%) ADO
9 1 (0.58%) GraphQL
9 1 (0.58%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.94%) Product Ownership
2 10 (5.78%) Data Centre
2 10 (5.78%) Onboarding
3 8 (4.62%) Cloud Native
3 8 (4.62%) Security Posture
4 5 (2.89%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (2.89%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.31%) AI Agents
5 4 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.31%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (2.31%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.31%) Replication
6 3 (1.73%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.73%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.16%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.16%) IBM Mainframe
7 2 (1.16%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.16%) N-Tier
7 2 (1.16%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.16%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 14 (8.09%) Windows
2 6 (3.47%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.89%) Linux
4 4 (2.31%) Alpine Linux
4 4 (2.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.31%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (60.12%) ITSM
2 65 (37.57%) ITIL
3 48 (27.75%) Service Management
4 39 (22.54%) Data Modelling
5 36 (20.81%) Workflow
6 34 (19.65%) Agile
7 33 (19.08%) Roadmaps
8 30 (17.34%) Problem-Solving
9 29 (16.76%) Asset Management
10 26 (15.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 24 (13.87%) AI
11 24 (13.87%) Stakeholder Management
12 23 (13.29%) User Stories
13 22 (12.72%) Continuous Improvement
14 21 (12.14%) Order Management
15 20 (11.56%) Service Design
16 18 (10.40%) Change Management
17 16 (9.25%) DevOps
17 16 (9.25%) Migration
17 16 (9.25%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 27 (15.61%) JavaScript
2 11 (6.36%) PowerShell
2 11 (6.36%) Python
3 7 (4.05%) Bicep
3 7 (4.05%) SQL
4 3 (1.73%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.58%) C++
5 1 (0.58%) Java
5 1 (0.58%) Korn
5 1 (0.58%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 46 (26.59%) Security Cleared
2 37 (21.39%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.62%) DV Cleared
4 5 (2.89%) CISM
4 5 (2.89%) CISSP
5 4 (2.31%) Degree
5 4 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.31%) PMI Certification
5 4 (2.31%) PMP
6 3 (1.73%) GCIH
7 2 (1.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (1.16%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.16%) CCSP
7 2 (1.16%) CEH
7 2 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.16%) CISMP
7 2 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.16%) CSSLP
7 2 (1.16%) ISSAP
7 2 (1.16%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.83%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.78%) GRC
2 10 (5.78%) NIST
3 8 (4.62%) SLA
4 6 (3.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.73%) ISO 22301
5 3 (1.73%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.16%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.16%) COBIT
6 2 (1.16%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.58%) GDPR
7 1 (0.58%) QA
7 1 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (2.89%) IAG
2 4 (2.31%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.58%) etcd
3 1 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (4.62%) SCCM
2 7 (4.05%) Ansible
2 7 (4.05%) Terraform
3 5 (2.89%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.73%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.16%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.58%) Amdocs OSS
6 1 (0.58%) Fluentd
6 1 (0.58%) Grafana
6 1 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 141 (81.50%) ServiceNow
2 19 (10.98%) Microsoft
3 9 (5.20%) Splunk
4 6 (3.47%) CrowdStrike
4 6 (3.47%) Qualys
4 6 (3.47%) Tenable
5 5 (2.89%) Rapid7
5 5 (2.89%) Remedy
6 4 (2.31%) Google
6 4 (2.31%) Nexthink
6 4 (2.31%) Okta
6 4 (2.31%) SAP
7 3 (1.73%) Commvault
7 3 (1.73%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.73%) TOWER Software
8 2 (1.16%) AppDynamics
8 2 (1.16%) BMC
8 2 (1.16%) CyberArk
8 2 (1.16%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.16%) VMware