CMDB Contract Job Trends in Reading

Configuration Management Database (CMDB)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term CMDB in contract job vacancies in Reading. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CMDB over the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 85 84
Rank change year-on-year +15 -1 +9
Contract jobs citing CMDB 5 4 4
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.68% 0.39% 0.39%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.12% 1.18% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 4
10th Percentile £425 £230 -
25th Percentile £458 £275 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year +31.17% -27.23% +12.82%
75th Percentile £538 £539 £700
90th Percentile - £609 -
Berkshire median daily rate £420 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -16.00% +2.56% -1.27%

All Generic Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 236 340 306
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 32.33% 32.88% 29.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 164 207
10th Percentile £350 £300 £205
25th Percentile £421 £409 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £574 £479
Median % change year-on-year -8.50% +19.78% -8.76%
75th Percentile £605 £638 £615
90th Percentile £664 £708 £675
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 5 8
10th Percentile £55.15 £34.40 £60.54
25th Percentile £58.00 £42.50 £61.52
Median hourly rate £80.00 £57.50 £63.29
Median % change year-on-year +39.13% -9.15% +15.07%
75th Percentile £95.00 £69.69 £65.55
90th Percentile £102.20 £72.80 £66.83
Berkshire median hourly rate £58.00 £42.88 £61.65
% change year-on-year +35.26% -30.44% +84.01%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CMDB relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading.

CMDB job vacancy trend in Reading

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Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing CMDB.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing CMDB

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Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing CMDB.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing CMDB

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Remedy AR System
1 2 (40.00%) Remedy ITSM
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) Remedy Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) REST
1 2 (40.00%) SOAP
1 2 (40.00%) Web Services
2 1 (20.00%) Middleware
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) ITSM
2 3 (60.00%) ITIL
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) API Development
3 2 (40.00%) Data Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) IT Asset Management
3 2 (40.00%) Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Operations Management
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (40.00%) Security Operations
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (40.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 2 (40.00%) Technical Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 2 (40.00%) Waterfall
4 1 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) GRC
2 1 (20.00%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (40.00%) BMC
2 2 (40.00%) Remedy
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft