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 30 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 275 294 299
Rank change year-on-year +19 +5 +62
Contract jobs citing CMDB 142 56 98
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.77% 0.46% 0.56%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.16% 1.27% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 27 57
10th Percentile £340 £330 £367
25th Percentile £494 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.71% -2.30% -5.21%
75th Percentile £650 £649 £550
90th Percentile £700 £693 £675
England median daily rate £515 £485 £490
% change year-on-year +6.19% -1.07% -6.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £22.81 - -
25th Percentile £25.79 - -
Median hourly rate £31.50 - £24.18
75th Percentile £65.50 - -
90th Percentile £85.45 - -
England median hourly rate £26.88 £41.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year -34.43% +69.56% -

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 6,588 4,396 5,825
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.66% 36.13% 33.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,200 2,949 4,108
10th Percentile £356 £335 £313
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £725
90th Percentile £800 £838 £850
England median daily rate £520 £531 £550
% change year-on-year -2.12% -3.41% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 83 149
10th Percentile £18.93 £15.84 £15.49
25th Percentile £22.91 £22.86 £18.79
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £27.84
Median % change year-on-year +12.90% +11.35% -20.02%
75th Percentile £61.44 £48.13 £50.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £44.50 £33.91 £35.50
% change year-on-year +31.23% -4.48% +58.94%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 30 May 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 -11 18 £600 +25.79% 6
West London - 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 2 (1.41%) Confluence
2 1 (0.70%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 14 (9.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.82%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.70%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 25 (17.61%) Azure
2 20 (14.08%) AWS
3 13 (9.15%) Entra ID
4 10 (7.04%) GCP
4 10 (7.04%) Power Platform
5 5 (3.52%) Azure Sentinel
5 5 (3.52%) SaaS
6 3 (2.11%) AWS Control Tower
7 2 (1.41%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (1.41%) Datadog
7 2 (1.41%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.70%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.70%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.70%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.70%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (0.70%) GitHub
8 1 (0.70%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.70%) PaaS
8 1 (0.70%) Rubrik
8 1 (0.70%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.41%) Firewall
1 2 (1.41%) Internet
1 2 (1.41%) Kerberos
1 2 (1.41%) NGFW
2 1 (0.70%) IPv4
2 1 (0.70%) IPv6
2 1 (0.70%) Modbus
2 1 (0.70%) NaaS
2 1 (0.70%) Network Security
2 1 (0.70%) SNMP
2 1 (0.70%) SSH
2 1 (0.70%) VPN
2 1 (0.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.04%) Power BI
2 1 (0.70%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (0.70%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.70%) Flink
2 1 (0.70%) InfluxDB
2 1 (0.70%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.70%) MySQL
2 1 (0.70%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.70%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.70%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 8 (5.63%) JIRA
2 3 (2.11%) Git
3 1 (0.70%) GitLab
3 1 (0.70%) Robot Framework
General
1 31 (21.83%) Social Skills
2 25 (17.61%) Finance
3 17 (11.97%) Telecoms
4 14 (9.86%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (8.45%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (7.04%) Banking
6 10 (7.04%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.41%) Aviation
9 1 (0.70%) Billing
9 1 (0.70%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.70%) Legal
Job Titles
1 42 (29.58%) Architect
2 34 (23.94%) ServiceNow Architect
3 19 (13.38%) Developer
3 19 (13.38%) ServiceNow Developer
4 17 (11.97%) Analyst
5 11 (7.75%) Consultant
6 10 (7.04%) Business Analyst
7 8 (5.63%) Designer
7 8 (5.63%) ServiceNow Consultant
8 6 (4.23%) Project Manager
8 6 (4.23%) Senior
8 6 (4.23%) Service Manager
8 6 (4.23%) ServiceNow Manager
9 5 (3.52%) Automation Engineer
9 5 (3.52%) Business Consultant
9 5 (3.52%) ServiceNow Project Manager
10 4 (2.82%) Delivery Manager
10 4 (2.82%) Platform Architect
10 4 (2.82%) Service Delivery Manager
10 4 (2.82%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (23.24%) REST
2 31 (21.83%) SOAP
3 8 (5.63%) Web Services
4 5 (3.52%) CSS
4 5 (3.52%) HTML
4 5 (3.52%) Kafka
5 4 (2.82%) Azure Blueprints
5 4 (2.82%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (2.11%) AngularJS
6 3 (2.11%) JSON
6 3 (2.11%) Middleware
6 3 (2.11%) OAuth
6 3 (2.11%) OAuth2
7 2 (1.41%) LDAP
7 2 (1.41%) OpenID
7 2 (1.41%) XML
7 2 (1.41%) YAML
8 1 (0.70%) ADO
8 1 (0.70%) Gherkin
8 1 (0.70%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.45%) Data Centre
2 10 (7.04%) Product Ownership
3 8 (5.63%) Onboarding
3 8 (5.63%) Security Posture
4 7 (4.93%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.41%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.41%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.41%) IBM Mainframe
6 2 (1.41%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.41%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.41%) N-Tier
6 2 (1.41%) Replication
6 2 (1.41%) Shadow IT
7 1 (0.70%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (0.70%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.70%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 14 (9.86%) Windows
2 8 (5.63%) Linux
3 5 (3.52%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.82%) Alpine Linux
4 4 (2.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.82%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.70%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (59.15%) ITSM
2 63 (44.37%) ITIL
3 39 (27.46%) Workflow
4 31 (21.83%) Service Management
5 30 (21.13%) Data Modelling
6 29 (20.42%) Asset Management
7 28 (19.72%) Roadmaps
8 22 (15.49%) Agile
9 19 (13.38%) Change Management
10 18 (12.68%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (12.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 17 (11.97%) Migration
12 16 (11.27%) User Stories
13 15 (10.56%) Service Design
13 15 (10.56%) Stakeholder Management
14 14 (9.86%) AI
14 14 (9.86%) Configuration Management
14 14 (9.86%) Problem Management
14 14 (9.86%) Service Delivery
14 14 (9.86%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 19 (13.38%) JavaScript
2 13 (9.15%) Python
3 9 (6.34%) PowerShell
4 7 (4.93%) Bicep
5 6 (4.23%) SQL
6 3 (2.11%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.70%) Bash
7 1 (0.70%) C++
7 1 (0.70%) Java
7 1 (0.70%) Korn
7 1 (0.70%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 33 (23.24%) Security Cleared
2 24 (16.90%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.63%) DV Cleared
4 5 (3.52%) CISM
4 5 (3.52%) CISSP
5 4 (2.82%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.82%) PMI Certification
5 4 (2.82%) PMP
6 3 (2.11%) GCIH
7 2 (1.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (1.41%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.41%) CCSP
7 2 (1.41%) CEH
7 2 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.41%) CISMP
7 2 (1.41%) CSSLP
7 2 (1.41%) Degree
7 2 (1.41%) ISSAP
7 2 (1.41%) MCSE
8 1 (0.70%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (12.68%) Data Quality
2 11 (7.75%) NIST
3 7 (4.93%) SLA
4 6 (4.23%) GRC
4 6 (4.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.11%) ISO 22301
5 3 (2.11%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.41%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.41%) COBIT
6 2 (1.41%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.70%) GDPR
7 1 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (2.82%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.41%) IAG
3 1 (0.70%) etcd
3 1 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (6.34%) Ansible
1 9 (6.34%) SCCM
2 7 (4.93%) Terraform
3 5 (3.52%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (2.11%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.41%) Grafana
5 2 (1.41%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.70%) Amdocs OSS
6 1 (0.70%) Fluentd
6 1 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 111 (78.17%) ServiceNow
2 17 (11.97%) Microsoft
3 8 (5.63%) Splunk
4 5 (3.52%) CrowdStrike
4 5 (3.52%) Qualys
4 5 (3.52%) Tenable
5 4 (2.82%) Google
5 4 (2.82%) Okta
5 4 (2.82%) Rapid7
5 4 (2.82%) Remedy
6 3 (2.11%) Commvault
6 3 (2.11%) Nexthink
6 3 (2.11%) TOWER Software
6 3 (2.11%) VMware
7 2 (1.41%) BMC
7 2 (1.41%) CyberArk
7 2 (1.41%) IBM
7 2 (1.41%) SAP
7 2 (1.41%) Sparx
8 1 (0.70%) BiZZdesign