CMDB Contracts in Scotland

Configuration Management Database (CMDB)
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term CMDB in contract job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CMDB over the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 112 133
Rank change year-on-year +24 +21 +33
Contract jobs citing CMDB 28 8 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.68% 0.39% 1.00%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.07% 1.20% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 4 18
10th Percentile £169 £390 £300
25th Percentile £334 £413 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £525 £490
Median % change year-on-year -10.48% +7.14% +15.29%
75th Percentile £527 £644 £543
90th Percentile £584 £678 £552
UK median daily rate £470 £500 £511
% change year-on-year -6.00% -2.20% -2.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £24.31 - -
25th Percentile £24.54 - -
Median hourly rate £24.66 - -
75th Percentile £25.49 - -
90th Percentile £26.99 - -
UK median hourly rate £26.33 £24.18 £37.75
% change year-on-year +8.87% -35.95% -26.70%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 688 668 972
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 41.40% 32.22% 36.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 320 405 648
10th Percentile £200 £213 £250
25th Percentile £362 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £460 £495
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -7.07% +1.54%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £550
90th Percentile £600 £668 £633
UK median daily rate £525 £539 £550
% change year-on-year -2.51% -2.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 33 30
10th Percentile - £12.49 -
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.22 £10.63
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.27 £15.25
Median % change year-on-year +20.42% +19.84% -64.55%
75th Percentile £25.49 £35.00 £22.39
90th Percentile £58.25 £60.10 £48.33
UK median hourly rate £31.76 £36.00 £22.41
% change year-on-year -11.78% +60.64% -16.94%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for CMDB in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CMDB in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for CMDB in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CMDB in Scotland over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CMDB in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CMDB in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for CMDB in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CMDB within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 25 June 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
Glasgow -4 13 £500 -9.09%
Edinburgh +13 9 £483 -12.18% 1
East Lothian - 6 £168 -
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (10.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (14.29%) Azure
2 3 (10.71%) Entra ID
3 1 (3.57%) AWS
3 1 (3.57%) IaaS
3 1 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.57%) OneDrive
3 1 (3.57%) PaaS
3 1 (3.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) Internet
1 1 (3.57%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) Relational Database
General
1 11 (39.29%) Finance
1 11 (39.29%) Social Skills
2 10 (35.71%) Banking
3 6 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (17.86%) Investment Banking
5 3 (10.71%) Public Sector
6 2 (7.14%) Publishing
7 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (25.00%) Analyst
2 6 (21.43%) Architect
3 5 (17.86%) Data Architect
3 5 (17.86%) Data Centre Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Business Analyst
4 4 (14.29%) Hardware Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Technical Analyst
4 4 (14.29%) Technical Business Analyst
5 3 (10.71%) Cloud Technical Analyst
5 3 (10.71%) Developer
5 3 (10.71%) ServiceNow Architect
5 3 (10.71%) ServiceNow Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Data Analyst
6 2 (7.14%) Senior
6 2 (7.14%) ServiceNow Manager
7 1 (3.57%) Asset Management Analyst
7 1 (3.57%) Configuration Management Analyst
7 1 (3.57%) Investment Banking Project Manager
7 1 (3.57%) Platform Manager
7 1 (3.57%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.71%) CSS
1 3 (10.71%) HTML
1 3 (10.71%) JSON
1 3 (10.71%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 6 (21.43%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (10.71%) Virtual Team
5 2 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (7.14%) Management Information System
6 1 (3.57%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Windows
1 1 (3.57%) Windows 10
1 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
1 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (60.71%) ITSM
2 13 (46.43%) ITIL
3 12 (42.86%) Configuration Management
4 11 (39.29%) Agile
5 9 (32.14%) Data Modelling
5 9 (32.14%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (32.14%) Service Management
6 8 (28.57%) Programme Management
6 8 (28.57%) Time Management
7 7 (25.00%) Data Architecture
8 6 (21.43%) Asset Management
8 6 (21.43%) Business Analysis
9 5 (17.86%) Break/Fix
9 5 (17.86%) Change Control
9 5 (17.86%) Data Management
9 5 (17.86%) Waterfall
10 4 (14.29%) IT Strategy
10 4 (14.29%) Story Mapping
10 4 (14.29%) User Stories
10 4 (14.29%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.71%) JavaScript
2 2 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (17.86%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (3.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.86%) Data Quality
2 4 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (7.14%) QA
4 1 (3.57%) GRC
4 1 (3.57%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (7.14%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 21 (75.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.57%) Snow