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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 268 316 312
Rank change year-on-year +48 -4 +70
Contract jobs citing CMDB 189 57 82
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.93% 0.42% 0.51%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.48% 1.11% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 31 51
10th Percentile £400 £400 £281
25th Percentile £489 £490 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £613 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.02% +22.50% -7.41%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £575
90th Percentile £739 £738 £600
England median daily rate £516 £507 £500
% change year-on-year +1.82% +1.40% -6.76%
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% -7.28%

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 7,626 5,130 5,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.72% 38.10% 33.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,773 3,361 3,725
10th Percentile £354 £333 £331
25th Percentile £450 £438 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% -0.87% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £748
90th Percentile £788 £825 £863
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 179 120 79
10th Percentile £18.50 £15.84 £17.25
25th Percentile £22.00 £23.21 £22.90
Median hourly rate £32.63 £27.25 £31.62
Median % change year-on-year +19.72% -13.82% -9.66%
75th Percentile £55.00 £46.15 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £65.06 £71.25
England median hourly rate £38.72 £32.71 £52.50
% change year-on-year +18.37% -37.70% +14.50%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 25 £600 -7.69% 9
West London - 9 £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 2 (1.06%) Confluence
2 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 14 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.65%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.06%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.53%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 39 (20.63%) Azure
2 32 (16.93%) AWS
3 14 (7.41%) Entra ID
4 13 (6.88%) GCP
5 12 (6.35%) SaaS
6 9 (4.76%) Power Platform
7 6 (3.17%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (2.65%) Datadog
9 4 (2.12%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (1.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (1.59%) AWS Control Tower
10 3 (1.59%) GitHub
11 1 (0.53%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.53%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.53%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (0.53%) OpenShift
11 1 (0.53%) PaaS
11 1 (0.53%) Sentry
11 1 (0.53%) Serverless
11 1 (0.53%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.23%) Firewall
2 6 (3.17%) DNS
3 3 (1.59%) HTTP
3 3 (1.59%) Kerberos
3 3 (1.59%) NGFW
3 3 (1.59%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.59%) VPN
4 2 (1.06%) Internet
5 1 (0.53%) DHCP
5 1 (0.53%) Modbus
5 1 (0.53%) NaaS
5 1 (0.53%) Network Security
5 1 (0.53%) SNMP
5 1 (0.53%) SSH
5 1 (0.53%) VLAN
5 1 (0.53%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.76%) Power BI
2 1 (0.53%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.53%) Flink
2 1 (0.53%) InfluxDB
2 1 (0.53%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.53%) MySQL
2 1 (0.53%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.53%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.53%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.53%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 7 (3.70%) JIRA
2 2 (1.06%) Git
2 2 (1.06%) MSI
3 1 (0.53%) GitLab
3 1 (0.53%) Robot Framework
General
1 44 (23.28%) Social Skills
2 36 (19.05%) Finance
3 34 (17.99%) Telecoms
4 23 (12.17%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (6.35%) Public Sector
6 11 (5.82%) Banking
7 9 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.59%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.59%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.06%) Aviation
10 2 (1.06%) German Language
10 2 (1.06%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.53%) Billing
11 1 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.53%) Legal
11 1 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.53%) Retail
Job Titles
1 52 (27.51%) Architect
2 37 (19.58%) ServiceNow Architect
3 26 (13.76%) Developer
3 26 (13.76%) ServiceNow Developer
4 23 (12.17%) Consultant
5 20 (10.58%) Analyst
6 17 (8.99%) Senior
7 16 (8.47%) ServiceNow Consultant
8 15 (7.94%) Business Consultant
8 15 (7.94%) Designer
9 13 (6.88%) Business Process Consultant
9 13 (6.88%) Process Consultant
10 9 (4.76%) Business Analyst
11 8 (4.23%) Senior Developer
11 8 (4.23%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
12 7 (3.70%) Service Designer
12 7 (3.70%) ServiceNow Specialist
13 5 (2.65%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 5 (2.65%) ITSM Specialist
13 5 (2.65%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (27.51%) REST
2 44 (23.28%) SOAP
3 14 (7.41%) Web Services
4 8 (4.23%) JSON
4 8 (4.23%) Terraform
5 7 (3.70%) XML
6 5 (2.65%) FIDO
6 5 (2.65%) WebAuthn
7 4 (2.12%) Azure Blueprints
7 4 (2.12%) CSS
7 4 (2.12%) HTML
7 4 (2.12%) Kafka
7 4 (2.12%) OAuth
8 3 (1.59%) Ajax
8 3 (1.59%) OAuth2
8 3 (1.59%) OpenID
8 3 (1.59%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (1.06%) Middleware
9 2 (1.06%) YAML
10 1 (0.53%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.94%) Onboarding
2 12 (6.35%) Product Ownership
3 10 (5.29%) Data Centre
4 8 (4.23%) Cloud Native
4 8 (4.23%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (4.23%) Security Posture
5 7 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (3.17%) AI Agents
6 6 (3.17%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (3.17%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (3.17%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.12%) Operational Technology
7 4 (2.12%) Replication
8 3 (1.59%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.59%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.59%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.59%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.06%) N-Tier
9 2 (1.06%) Taxonomies
10 1 (0.53%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.41%) Windows
2 7 (3.70%) Linux
3 6 (3.17%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.12%) Alpine Linux
4 4 (2.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (59.26%) ITSM
2 71 (37.57%) ITIL
3 62 (32.80%) Service Management
4 48 (25.40%) Roadmaps
5 40 (21.16%) Stakeholder Management
6 38 (20.11%) Workflow
7 37 (19.58%) Agile
8 34 (17.99%) Data Modelling
9 33 (17.46%) AI
9 33 (17.46%) Problem-Solving
10 26 (13.76%) Continuous Improvement
11 25 (13.23%) Asset Management
11 25 (13.23%) Configuration Management
12 24 (12.70%) Security Operations
12 24 (12.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 22 (11.64%) Service Design
14 21 (11.11%) Enterprise Architecture
14 21 (11.11%) Order Management
14 21 (11.11%) Translating Business Requirements
15 19 (10.05%) CAD
Programming Languages
1 31 (16.40%) JavaScript
2 17 (8.99%) PowerShell
3 14 (7.41%) Python
4 8 (4.23%) Bicep
5 5 (2.65%) SQL
6 3 (1.59%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.53%) C++
7 1 (0.53%) Java
7 1 (0.53%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 55 (29.10%) Security Cleared
2 43 (22.75%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.70%) DV Cleared
4 6 (3.17%) CISM
4 6 (3.17%) CISSP
4 6 (3.17%) Degree
5 5 (2.65%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.12%) PMP
7 3 (1.59%) MCSE
8 2 (1.06%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.06%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.06%) GCIH
8 2 (1.06%) ISSAP
8 2 (1.06%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (1.06%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.53%) CEH
9 1 (0.53%) CISMP
9 1 (0.53%) CSSLP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.52%) Data Quality
2 13 (6.88%) GRC
3 11 (5.82%) NIST
4 10 (5.29%) SLA
5 5 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.59%) ISO 22301
6 3 (1.59%) QA
7 2 (1.06%) COBIT
7 2 (1.06%) GDPR
7 2 (1.06%) HIPAA
7 2 (1.06%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 19770
8 1 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (4.23%) IAG
2 7 (3.70%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.06%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.53%) etcd
4 1 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (4.23%) Ansible
1 8 (4.23%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (2.65%) SCCM
3 4 (2.12%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.06%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.53%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (0.53%) Fluentd
5 1 (0.53%) Grafana
5 1 (0.53%) Nagios
5 1 (0.53%) SCOM
5 1 (0.53%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 144 (76.19%) ServiceNow
2 24 (12.70%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.23%) Qualys
3 8 (4.23%) Splunk
4 7 (3.70%) CrowdStrike
4 7 (3.70%) Dynatrace
4 7 (3.70%) SAP
5 5 (2.65%) Google
5 5 (2.65%) Nexthink
5 5 (2.65%) Rapid7
5 5 (2.65%) Remedy
5 5 (2.65%) Tenable
6 4 (2.12%) BMC
6 4 (2.12%) Okta
7 3 (1.59%) Commvault
7 3 (1.59%) TOWER Software
8 2 (1.06%) IBM
8 2 (1.06%) Siebel
8 2 (1.06%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.06%) VMware