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 5 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 255 330 296
Rank change year-on-year +75 -34 +83
Contract jobs citing CMDB 186 50 86
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.92% 0.37% 0.53%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.49% 0.98% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 24 49
10th Percentile £386 £222 £275
25th Percentile £461 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +0.05% -6.10%
75th Percentile £641 £667 £575
90th Percentile £694 £781 £598
England median daily rate £515 £500 £490
% change year-on-year +3.00% +1.99% -6.62%
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 £42.00 £29.94 £52.50
% change year-on-year +40.30% -42.98% -0.94%

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 7,462 5,083 5,501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.07% 37.32% 33.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,675 3,351 3,850
10th Percentile £357 £335 £325
25th Percentile £450 £438 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £750
90th Percentile £795 £825 £863
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 117 80
10th Percentile £18.50 £15.84 £16.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £22.50 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.75 £27.50 £30.11
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -8.65% -13.99%
75th Percentile £59.12 £45.75 £54.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £31.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +39.56% -33.68% +11.76%

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 5 August 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 5 August 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 5 August 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 +1 24 £565 -1.74% 10
West London - 9 £650 -
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 (1.08%) Confluence
2 1 (0.54%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 15 (8.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.15%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.08%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.54%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 38 (20.43%) Azure
2 32 (17.20%) AWS
3 15 (8.06%) GCP
4 13 (6.99%) Entra ID
5 12 (6.45%) SaaS
6 10 (5.38%) Power Platform
7 5 (2.69%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (2.69%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (2.15%) Datadog
9 3 (1.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (1.61%) AWS Control Tower
9 3 (1.61%) GitHub
10 1 (0.54%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.54%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.54%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (0.54%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.54%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.54%) Sentry
10 1 (0.54%) Serverless
10 1 (0.54%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.23%) Firewall
2 5 (2.69%) DNS
3 3 (1.61%) HTTP
3 3 (1.61%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.61%) VPN
4 2 (1.08%) Internet
4 2 (1.08%) Kerberos
4 2 (1.08%) NGFW
4 2 (1.08%) SNMP
5 1 (0.54%) DHCP
5 1 (0.54%) Modbus
5 1 (0.54%) NaaS
5 1 (0.54%) Network Security
5 1 (0.54%) SSH
5 1 (0.54%) VLAN
5 1 (0.54%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.38%) Power BI
2 1 (0.54%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (0.54%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.54%) Flink
2 1 (0.54%) InfluxDB
2 1 (0.54%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.54%) MySQL
2 1 (0.54%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.54%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.54%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.54%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 8 (4.30%) JIRA
2 1 (0.54%) Git
2 1 (0.54%) GitLab
2 1 (0.54%) MSI
2 1 (0.54%) Robot Framework
General
1 48 (25.81%) Social Skills
2 34 (18.28%) Telecoms
3 32 (17.20%) Finance
4 24 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (6.45%) Banking
6 11 (5.91%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (4.84%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.61%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.08%) Aviation
10 2 (1.08%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.54%) Billing
11 1 (0.54%) German Language
11 1 (0.54%) Legal
11 1 (0.54%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 50 (26.88%) Architect
2 37 (19.89%) ServiceNow Architect
3 28 (15.05%) Developer
3 28 (15.05%) ServiceNow Developer
4 22 (11.83%) Consultant
5 18 (9.68%) Analyst
6 17 (9.14%) ServiceNow Consultant
7 16 (8.60%) Business Consultant
8 15 (8.06%) Designer
9 14 (7.53%) Business Process Consultant
9 14 (7.53%) Process Consultant
9 14 (7.53%) Senior
10 9 (4.84%) Business Analyst
11 7 (3.76%) Project Manager
11 7 (3.76%) Senior Developer
11 7 (3.76%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
11 7 (3.76%) Service Designer
11 7 (3.76%) ServiceNow Specialist
12 6 (3.23%) Service Manager
13 5 (2.69%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (26.88%) REST
2 44 (23.66%) SOAP
3 14 (7.53%) Web Services
4 7 (3.76%) JSON
4 7 (3.76%) XML
5 5 (2.69%) Kafka
6 4 (2.15%) Azure Blueprints
6 4 (2.15%) CSS
6 4 (2.15%) HTML
6 4 (2.15%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (1.61%) Ajax
7 3 (1.61%) Middleware
7 3 (1.61%) OAuth
7 3 (1.61%) OAuth2
8 2 (1.08%) FIDO
8 2 (1.08%) OpenID
8 2 (1.08%) RESTful
8 2 (1.08%) WebAuthn
8 2 (1.08%) YAML
9 1 (0.54%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.06%) Onboarding
2 12 (6.45%) Product Ownership
3 10 (5.38%) Data Centre
4 9 (4.84%) Cloud Native
5 8 (4.30%) Security Posture
6 7 (3.76%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (3.23%) AI Agents
7 6 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (2.69%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.69%) Management Information System
8 5 (2.69%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (2.15%) Data Structures
9 4 (2.15%) Replication
10 3 (1.61%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.61%) Operational Technology
10 3 (1.61%) Virtual Team
11 2 (1.08%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (1.08%) IBM Mainframe
11 2 (1.08%) Mainframe
11 2 (1.08%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 15 (8.06%) Windows
2 6 (3.23%) Linux
2 6 (3.23%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.15%) Alpine Linux
3 4 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (61.29%) ITSM
2 71 (38.17%) ITIL
3 57 (30.65%) Service Management
4 43 (23.12%) Roadmaps
5 40 (21.51%) Data Modelling
6 39 (20.97%) Agile
7 36 (19.35%) Workflow
8 34 (18.28%) Stakeholder Management
9 32 (17.20%) Problem-Solving
10 29 (15.59%) AI
11 26 (13.98%) Continuous Improvement
12 25 (13.44%) Asset Management
13 24 (12.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 21 (11.29%) Order Management
14 21 (11.29%) Security Operations
14 21 (11.29%) Service Design
15 20 (10.75%) CAD
15 20 (10.75%) Configuration Management
15 20 (10.75%) User Stories
16 19 (10.22%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 32 (17.20%) JavaScript
2 15 (8.06%) PowerShell
3 14 (7.53%) Python
4 7 (3.76%) Bicep
5 6 (3.23%) SQL
6 3 (1.61%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.54%) C++
7 1 (0.54%) Java
7 1 (0.54%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 52 (27.96%) Security Cleared
2 42 (22.58%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.30%) CISM
3 8 (4.30%) CISSP
3 8 (4.30%) DV Cleared
4 6 (3.23%) PMP
5 4 (2.15%) Degree
5 4 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.15%) PMI Certification
6 3 (1.61%) GCIH
7 2 (1.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (1.08%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.08%) CCSP
7 2 (1.08%) CEH
7 2 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.08%) CISMP
7 2 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.08%) CSSLP
7 2 (1.08%) ISSAP
7 2 (1.08%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.14%) Data Quality
2 14 (7.53%) GRC
3 12 (6.45%) NIST
4 11 (5.91%) SLA
5 7 (3.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.61%) ISO 22301
6 3 (1.61%) SOC 2
7 2 (1.08%) COBIT
7 2 (1.08%) GDPR
7 2 (1.08%) HIPAA
7 2 (1.08%) QA
8 1 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (4.30%) IAG
2 5 (2.69%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.54%) etcd
3 1 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (4.30%) Ansible
2 7 (3.76%) SCCM
2 7 (3.76%) Terraform
3 6 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (2.15%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.08%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.54%) Amdocs OSS
6 1 (0.54%) Fluentd
6 1 (0.54%) Grafana
Vendors
1 148 (79.57%) ServiceNow
2 21 (11.29%) Microsoft
3 9 (4.84%) Qualys
3 9 (4.84%) Splunk
4 6 (3.23%) CrowdStrike
4 6 (3.23%) SAP
4 6 (3.23%) Tenable
5 5 (2.69%) Dynatrace
5 5 (2.69%) Nexthink
5 5 (2.69%) Rapid7
6 4 (2.15%) Google
6 4 (2.15%) Okta
6 4 (2.15%) Remedy
7 3 (1.61%) Commvault
7 3 (1.61%) TOWER Software
8 2 (1.08%) IBM
8 2 (1.08%) Siebel
8 2 (1.08%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.08%) Sparx
8 2 (1.08%) VMware