CMDB Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Configuration Management Database (CMDB)
South West > Somerset

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term CMDB in contract job vacancies in Somerset. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CMDB over the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 - 29
Rank change year-on-year - - 0
Contract jobs citing CMDB 1 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 0.55% - 2.13%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.49% - 8.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £253
25th Percentile - - £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £440
Median % change year-on-year - - +95.56%
75th Percentile - - £560
90th Percentile - - £628
South West median daily rate £580 £318 £615
% change year-on-year +82.68% -48.37% +32.97%

All Generic Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 67 41 47
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 36.61% 21.35% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 22 32
10th Percentile £225 £185 £227
25th Percentile £263 £350 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +2.27% +29.41%
75th Percentile £600 £667 £641
90th Percentile £685 £817 £726
South West median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 3
10th Percentile - £28.50 -
25th Percentile £57.50 £33.75 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £45.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.44% +28.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile £72.50 £57.50 -
90th Percentile - £63.50 -
South West median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year -73.04% -10.26% +37.18%

CMDB
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

CMDB job vacancy trend in Somerset

CMDB
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing CMDB

CMDB
Hourly Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing CMDB

CMDB
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CMDB within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 13 October 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
Taunton - 1 £550 -
CMDB
South West

CMDB
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) NAS
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Architect
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Network Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Architect
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BCP
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) FinOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) MODAF
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Privileged Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware