CMDB Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Configuration Management Database (CMDB)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term CMDB in contract job vacancies in Sheffield. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CMDB over the 6 months leading up to 12 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 40 46
Rank change year-on-year -53 +6 +11
Contract jobs citing CMDB 4 1 6
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.44% 0.37% 1.70%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.03% 0.86% 4.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £401 - £680
25th Percentile £453 £681 £684
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £688 £707
Median % change year-on-year -26.62% -2.76% -
75th Percentile £526 £694 £727
90th Percentile £548 - £729
South Yorkshire median daily rate £431 £688 £707
% change year-on-year -37.38% -2.76% -

All Generic Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 387 116 129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 42.25% 43.45% 36.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 81 74
10th Percentile £365 £220 £393
25th Percentile £442 £375 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -14.89%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £587
90th Percentile £684 £650 £599
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £479 £450
% change year-on-year +4.49% +6.33% -18.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 8
10th Percentile £15.74 - -
25th Percentile £16.34 - £10.90
Median hourly rate £18.01 - £17.63
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.88%
75th Percentile £19.01 - £23.75
90th Percentile £19.21 - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.01 - £12.75
% change year-on-year - - +22.18%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

CMDB job vacancy trend in Sheffield

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Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing CMDB

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Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CMDB in Sheffield over the 6 months to 12 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CMDB in Sheffield

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Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing CMDB

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) NAS
1 1 (25.00%) SAN
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Automation Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Delivery Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Service Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Storage Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Fluent Bit
1 2 (50.00%) Kafka
1 2 (50.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (25.00%) Replication
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) ITSM
2 3 (75.00%) Observability
2 3 (75.00%) RBAC
2 3 (75.00%) Runbook
3 2 (50.00%) AIOps
3 2 (50.00%) Anomaly Detection
3 2 (50.00%) ChatOps
3 2 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (50.00%) Service-Level Objective
3 2 (50.00%) Webhook
4 1 (25.00%) GitOps
4 1 (25.00%) Migration
4 1 (25.00%) Programme Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Virtual Team Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Search Processing Language
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) etcd
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (50.00%) Fluentd
2 2 (50.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (25.00%) Ansible
3 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Splunk
2 1 (25.00%) Brocade
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) EMC
2 1 (25.00%) NetApp