CMDB Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Configuration Management Database (CMDB)
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term CMDB in contract job vacancies in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CMDB over the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 124 129
Rank change year-on-year -17 +5 +56
Contract jobs citing CMDB 5 8 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.19% 0.29% 0.48%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.52% 1.01% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 9
10th Percentile £148 £428 £189
25th Percentile £194 £431 £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £335 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year -25.56% +12.50% +24.03%
75th Percentile £500 £469 -
90th Percentile £545 £473 £543
England median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +3.53%

All Generic Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 969 792 938
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 36.50% 28.91% 31.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 617 471 593
10th Percentile £243 £240 £264
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £626 £600
90th Percentile £663 £738 £710
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 22 43
10th Percentile - £15.13 £17.78
25th Percentile £18.87 £17.10 £20.25
Median hourly rate £26.67 £26.23 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.65% -4.61% +55.90%
75th Percentile £43.12 £53.75 £66.25
90th Percentile £50.00 £57.05 £69.75
England median hourly rate £33.03 £57.35 £45.88
% change year-on-year -42.41% +25.00% +81.06%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing CMDB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for CMDB in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing CMDB.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing CMDB

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CMDB in the Midlands over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CMDB in the Midlands

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Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing CMDB.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing CMDB

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CMDB within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 September 2025. 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
West Midlands -8 4 £450 - 3
East Midlands -7 1 £117 - 2
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Law
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Configuration Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Configuration Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Deployment Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Desktop Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Desktop Support
1 1 (20.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Security Tester
1 1 (20.00%) Service Manager
1 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Data Migration
1 2 (40.00%) Migration
1 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) Antivirus Management
2 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Data Deduplication
2 1 (20.00%) Inventory Management
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (20.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 1 (20.00%) Workflow Management
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (20.00%) Apple
2 1 (20.00%) Tenable