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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 299 287 298
Rank change year-on-year -12 +11 +71
Contract jobs citing CMDB 122 61 96
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.69% 0.49% 0.54%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.94% 1.35% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 30 60
10th Percentile £340 £383 £363
25th Percentile £431 £419 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.36% -2.33% -1.41%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £598
90th Percentile £700 £689 £850
England median daily rate £491 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.75% - -4.76%
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 £15.33 £24.18
% change year-on-year +75.36% -36.60% -

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 6,287 4,518 5,874
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.60% 35.97% 33.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,025 3,052 4,152
10th Percentile £350 £325 £300
25th Percentile £440 £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 £850 £850
England median daily rate £513 £549 £550
% change year-on-year -6.56% -0.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 75 161
10th Percentile £18.07 £15.84 £15.50
25th Percentile £24.13 £22.93 £18.93
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% +32.69% -25.71%
75th Percentile £61.38 £50.50 £46.86
90th Percentile £88.75 £79.81 £67.00
England median hourly rate £45.46 £33.91 £30.00
% change year-on-year +34.06% +13.03% +33.33%

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 April 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 April 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 April 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 -19 10 £530 +8.50% 7
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 3 (2.46%) Confluence
2 1 (0.82%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.82%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (9.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.46%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.64%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.82%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 20 (16.39%) Azure
2 18 (14.75%) AWS
3 8 (6.56%) Entra ID
4 7 (5.74%) GCP
5 6 (4.92%) Power Platform
6 5 (4.10%) SaaS
7 3 (2.46%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.64%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.82%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.82%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.82%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.82%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.82%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (0.82%) Datadog
9 1 (0.82%) GitHub
9 1 (0.82%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.82%) PaaS
9 1 (0.82%) Rubrik
9 1 (0.82%) Serverless
9 1 (0.82%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.64%) Modbus
2 1 (0.82%) DHCP
2 1 (0.82%) Firewall
2 1 (0.82%) IPv4
2 1 (0.82%) IPv6
2 1 (0.82%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.82%) NaaS
2 1 (0.82%) Network Security
2 1 (0.82%) NGFW
2 1 (0.82%) SNMP
2 1 (0.82%) VPN
2 1 (0.82%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.92%) Power BI
2 2 (1.64%) Tableau
3 1 (0.82%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (0.82%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.82%) Flink
3 1 (0.82%) InfluxDB
3 1 (0.82%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.82%) MySQL
3 1 (0.82%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.82%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.82%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 7 (5.74%) JIRA
2 4 (3.28%) Git
3 1 (0.82%) GitLab
3 1 (0.82%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.82%) Robot Framework
General
1 28 (22.95%) Social Skills
2 25 (20.49%) Finance
3 14 (11.48%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (8.20%) Documentation Skills
4 10 (8.20%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.56%) Banking
6 7 (5.74%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.46%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.64%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.82%) Aviation
9 1 (0.82%) Billing
9 1 (0.82%) Legal
Job Titles
1 32 (26.23%) Architect
2 27 (22.13%) ServiceNow Architect
3 19 (15.57%) Developer
3 19 (15.57%) ServiceNow Developer
4 13 (10.66%) Analyst
5 10 (8.20%) Consultant
6 8 (6.56%) Business Analyst
6 8 (6.56%) Designer
7 7 (5.74%) ServiceNow Consultant
7 7 (5.74%) ServiceNow Manager
8 6 (4.92%) Business Manager
8 6 (4.92%) Change Manager
8 6 (4.92%) Project Manager
8 6 (4.92%) Technical Architect
9 5 (4.10%) Business Change Manager
10 4 (3.28%) Data Analyst
10 4 (3.28%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (3.28%) ITSM Consultant
10 4 (3.28%) Platform Architect
10 4 (3.28%) ServiceNow Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (22.13%) REST
2 25 (20.49%) SOAP
3 8 (6.56%) Web Services
4 5 (4.10%) CSS
4 5 (4.10%) HTML
5 3 (2.46%) AngularJS
5 3 (2.46%) Kafka
5 3 (2.46%) Middleware
6 2 (1.64%) LDAP
6 2 (1.64%) OAuth
6 2 (1.64%) OAuth2
6 2 (1.64%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (1.64%) XML
7 1 (0.82%) ADO
7 1 (0.82%) Ajax
7 1 (0.82%) Gherkin
7 1 (0.82%) JSON
7 1 (0.82%) OpenID
7 1 (0.82%) RESTful
7 1 (0.82%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.20%) Product Ownership
2 9 (7.38%) Data Centre
3 7 (5.74%) Onboarding
4 6 (4.92%) Security Posture
5 4 (3.28%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.46%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.46%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.64%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.64%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.64%) IBM Mainframe
7 2 (1.64%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.64%) N-Tier
7 2 (1.64%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.64%) Shadow IT
8 1 (0.82%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.82%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.82%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.56%) Windows
2 3 (2.46%) Linux
3 1 (0.82%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (57.38%) ITSM
2 49 (40.16%) ITIL
3 32 (26.23%) Workflow
4 27 (22.13%) Data Modelling
5 26 (21.31%) Change Management
6 24 (19.67%) Agile
6 24 (19.67%) Service Management
7 19 (15.57%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (15.57%) Roadmaps
8 18 (14.75%) Asset Management
9 16 (13.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 15 (12.30%) Problem Management
11 14 (11.48%) AI
11 14 (11.48%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (11.48%) Enterprise Architecture
11 14 (11.48%) User Stories
12 13 (10.66%) Workshop Facilitation
13 12 (9.84%) Decision-Making
13 12 (9.84%) Integration Patterns
13 12 (9.84%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 11 (9.02%) JavaScript
2 8 (6.56%) Python
3 5 (4.10%) PowerShell
4 3 (2.46%) SQL
5 2 (1.64%) Bicep
6 1 (0.82%) Bash
6 1 (0.82%) C++
6 1 (0.82%) Java
6 1 (0.82%) Korn
6 1 (0.82%) Perl
6 1 (0.82%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 28 (22.95%) Security Cleared
2 24 (19.67%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.56%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.28%) PMI Certification
4 4 (3.28%) PMP
5 3 (2.46%) CISM
5 3 (2.46%) CISSP
6 2 (1.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (1.64%) CCSP
6 2 (1.64%) CEH
6 2 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.64%) CISMP
6 2 (1.64%) CSSLP
6 2 (1.64%) GCIH
6 2 (1.64%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.82%) CGEIT
7 1 (0.82%) CRISC
7 1 (0.82%) Degree
7 1 (0.82%) MCSE
7 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (16.39%) Data Quality
2 10 (8.20%) NIST
3 6 (4.92%) GRC
4 5 (4.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (4.10%) SLA
5 3 (2.46%) ISO 22301
6 2 (1.64%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.82%) COBIT
7 1 (0.82%) GDPR
7 1 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.82%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (2.46%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.64%) IAG
3 1 (0.82%) etcd
Systems Management
1 7 (5.74%) SCCM
2 3 (2.46%) Ansible
2 3 (2.46%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (2.46%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.64%) Grafana
3 2 (1.64%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.64%) Terraform
4 1 (0.82%) Amdocs OSS
4 1 (0.82%) Fluentd
4 1 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 100 (81.97%) ServiceNow
2 11 (9.02%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.10%) Salesforce
4 3 (2.46%) Commvault
4 3 (2.46%) Remedy
4 3 (2.46%) Splunk
5 2 (1.64%) BMC
5 2 (1.64%) IBM
5 2 (1.64%) SAP
5 2 (1.64%) Sparx
5 2 (1.64%) VMware
6 1 (0.82%) Amdocs
6 1 (0.82%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.82%) Arista
6 1 (0.82%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (0.82%) Ciena
6 1 (0.82%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.82%) Nexthink
6 1 (0.82%) Tenable
6 1 (0.82%) Zerto