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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 295 276 291
Rank change year-on-year -19 +15 +54
Contract jobs citing CMDB 114 71 103
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.68% 0.56% 0.57%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.86% 1.57% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 38 66
10th Percentile £340 £384 £363
25th Percentile £421 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £483 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.72% -8.05% -
75th Percentile £650 £592 £642
90th Percentile £707 £675 £850
England median daily rate £491 £493 £506
% change year-on-year -0.30% -2.62% -3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £22.81 - -
25th Percentile £25.79 - -
Median hourly rate £31.50 - £13.16
75th Percentile £65.50 - -
90th Percentile £85.45 - -
England median hourly rate £16.00 £32.50 £14.53
% change year-on-year -50.77% +123.75% -

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 6,130 4,510 5,908
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.39% 35.71% 32.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,973 3,032 4,194
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 £725 £713
90th Percentile £800 £838 £825
England median daily rate £513 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -5.53% -1.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 75 165
10th Percentile £17.50 £16.20 £15.50
25th Percentile £20.82 £24.23 £18.93
Median hourly rate £34.06 £35.00 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.69% +20.69% -17.14%
75th Percentile £61.69 £55.38 £47.50
90th Percentile £82.50 £80.75 £66.05
England median hourly rate £45.00 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +28.57% +27.27% +22.22%

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 31 March 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 31 March 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 31 March 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 -26 9 £513 +7.44% 7
West London - 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 3 (2.63%) Confluence
2 1 (0.88%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (8.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.88%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (2.63%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.88%) Remedy AR System
2 1 (0.88%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 21 (18.42%) Azure
2 17 (14.91%) AWS
3 7 (6.14%) Entra ID
4 6 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (5.26%) GCP
5 5 (4.39%) Power Platform
6 4 (3.51%) SaaS
7 2 (1.75%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.88%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.88%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (0.88%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.88%) PaaS
8 1 (0.88%) Rubrik
8 1 (0.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.75%) Modbus
2 1 (0.88%) DHCP
2 1 (0.88%) IPv4
2 1 (0.88%) IPv6
2 1 (0.88%) NaaS
2 1 (0.88%) SNMP
2 1 (0.88%) VPN
2 1 (0.88%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.39%) Power BI
2 2 (1.75%) Relational Database
2 2 (1.75%) Tableau
3 1 (0.88%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (0.88%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.88%) Flink
3 1 (0.88%) InfluxDB
3 1 (0.88%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.88%) MySQL
3 1 (0.88%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.88%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 10 (8.77%) JIRA
2 6 (5.26%) Git
3 3 (2.63%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.88%) Robot Framework
General
1 30 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 23 (20.18%) Finance
3 19 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (9.65%) Documentation Skills
5 9 (7.89%) Public Sector
6 7 (6.14%) Banking
6 7 (6.14%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.75%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.75%) Legal
9 1 (0.88%) Billing
9 1 (0.88%) Military
Job Titles
1 24 (21.05%) Architect
2 19 (16.67%) Developer
2 19 (16.67%) ServiceNow Architect
2 19 (16.67%) ServiceNow Developer
3 14 (12.28%) Analyst
4 9 (7.89%) Consultant
5 7 (6.14%) Designer
5 7 (6.14%) ServiceNow Consultant
5 7 (6.14%) ServiceNow Manager
6 6 (5.26%) Business Analyst
6 6 (5.26%) Business Manager
6 6 (5.26%) Change Manager
6 6 (5.26%) Project Manager
6 6 (5.26%) Technical Architect
7 5 (4.39%) Business Change Manager
8 4 (3.51%) Data Analyst
8 4 (3.51%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (3.51%) ITSM Consultant
8 4 (3.51%) Platform Architect
8 4 (3.51%) ServiceNow Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (28.07%) REST
2 31 (27.19%) SOAP
3 8 (7.02%) CSS
3 8 (7.02%) HTML
3 8 (7.02%) Web Services
4 5 (4.39%) AngularJS
5 4 (3.51%) XML
6 3 (2.63%) Kafka
7 2 (1.75%) Bootstrap
7 2 (1.75%) JSON
7 2 (1.75%) LDAP
7 2 (1.75%) Middleware
7 2 (1.75%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (0.88%) Ajax
8 1 (0.88%) Fluent Bit
8 1 (0.88%) GraphQL
8 1 (0.88%) gRPC
8 1 (0.88%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.88%) OpenTelemetry
8 1 (0.88%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.89%) Product Ownership
2 7 (6.14%) Data Centre
3 5 (4.39%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (4.39%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.39%) Security Posture
4 4 (3.51%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.75%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.75%) IBM Mainframe
6 2 (1.75%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.75%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.75%) Shadow IT
7 1 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.88%) Fat Client
7 1 (0.88%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.88%) N-Tier
7 1 (0.88%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.88%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.14%) Windows
2 3 (2.63%) Linux
3 1 (0.88%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (61.40%) ITSM
2 48 (42.11%) ITIL
3 34 (29.82%) Workflow
4 28 (24.56%) Change Management
5 27 (23.68%) Agile
6 25 (21.93%) Data Modelling
6 25 (21.93%) Service Management
7 24 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (17.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 18 (15.79%) Roadmaps
10 16 (14.04%) Asset Management
11 15 (13.16%) Configuration Management
11 15 (13.16%) Problem Management
12 14 (12.28%) Stakeholder Management
13 13 (11.40%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (11.40%) Enterprise Architecture
13 13 (11.40%) User Stories
13 13 (11.40%) Workshop Facilitation
14 12 (10.53%) AI
14 12 (10.53%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 17 (14.91%) JavaScript
2 10 (8.77%) Python
3 6 (5.26%) PowerShell
4 4 (3.51%) SQL
5 1 (0.88%) Bash
5 1 (0.88%) C++
5 1 (0.88%) Java
5 1 (0.88%) Korn
5 1 (0.88%) Perl
5 1 (0.88%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 26 (22.81%) Security Cleared
2 21 (18.42%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.02%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.51%) PMI Certification
4 4 (3.51%) PMP
5 3 (2.63%) CISM
5 3 (2.63%) CISSP
5 3 (2.63%) Degree
6 2 (1.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (1.75%) CCSP
6 2 (1.75%) CEH
6 2 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.75%) CISMP
6 2 (1.75%) CSSLP
6 2 (1.75%) GCIH
6 2 (1.75%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.88%) CGEIT
7 1 (0.88%) CRISC
7 1 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (18.42%) Data Quality
2 9 (7.89%) NIST
3 5 (4.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.51%) GRC
4 4 (3.51%) SLA
5 3 (2.63%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.63%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.88%) GDPR
6 1 (0.88%) QA
6 1 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.88%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (1.75%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.88%) etcd
2 1 (0.88%) IAG
Systems Management
1 6 (5.26%) SCCM
2 3 (2.63%) Ansible
2 3 (2.63%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.75%) Grafana
3 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.88%) Amdocs OSS
4 1 (0.88%) Fluentd
4 1 (0.88%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 95 (83.33%) ServiceNow
2 11 (9.65%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.39%) Salesforce
4 3 (2.63%) Commvault
4 3 (2.63%) Remedy
4 3 (2.63%) Splunk
5 2 (1.75%) BMC
5 2 (1.75%) IBM
5 2 (1.75%) VMware
6 1 (0.88%) Amdocs
6 1 (0.88%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.88%) Ciena
6 1 (0.88%) Citrix
6 1 (0.88%) CyberArk
6 1 (0.88%) Planview
6 1 (0.88%) PTC
6 1 (0.88%) Qualys
6 1 (0.88%) SAP
6 1 (0.88%) SolarWinds
6 1 (0.88%) Zerto