CMDB Contract Job Trends in the South East

Configuration Management Database (CMDB)
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term CMDB in contract job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CMDB over the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 164 165
Rank change year-on-year +23 +1 +88
Contract jobs citing CMDB 21 18 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.60% 0.39% 0.79%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.90% 1.33% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 10 29
10th Percentile £261 £170 £380
25th Percentile £346 £203 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £205 £525
Median % change year-on-year +104.88% -60.95% +20.69%
75th Percentile £559 £352 £630
90th Percentile £635 £508 £680
England median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +3.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 4
10th Percentile - £32.38 £21.08
25th Percentile - £34.06 £21.19
Median hourly rate £41.00 £35.00 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year +17.14% -30.35% +195.59%
75th Percentile - £39.69 £78.00
90th Percentile - £48.13 -
England median hourly rate £18.87 £35.00 £64.00
% change year-on-year -46.09% -45.31% +276.47%

All Generic Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,105 1,357 1,766
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 31.68% 29.35% 31.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 699 778 1,205
10th Percentile £204 £224 £205
25th Percentile £350 £376 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £612 £619
90th Percentile £665 £690 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 109 101
10th Percentile £15.13 £13.02 £16.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £31.25 £21.25
Median hourly rate £33.05 £57.35 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.37% +4.27% +132.12%
75th Percentile £58.00 £70.00 £67.75
90th Percentile £70.16 £75.16 £77.50
England median hourly rate £33.05 £57.35 £45.88
% change year-on-year -42.37% +25.00% +76.46%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for CMDB in the South East

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Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing CMDB

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CMDB in the South East over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CMDB in the South East

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing CMDB

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CMDB within the South East region over the 6 months to 18 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
Thames Valley +27 13 £416 -20.71% 9
Berkshire +25 13 £416 -20.71% 2
Hampshire +7 4 £550 +37.50% 5
Surrey +4 2 £208 +1.22% 2
Kent - 1 £220 - 1
Home Counties - 1 £644 -
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (4.76%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Remedy AR System
1 1 (4.76%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (4.76%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2 (9.52%) AWS
1 2 (9.52%) Azure
1 2 (9.52%) GCP
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) FTP
1 1 (4.76%) HTTP
1 1 (4.76%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) RDBMS
1 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
1 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) JIRA
1 1 (4.76%) Subversion
1 1 (4.76%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (14.29%) Developer
2 2 (9.52%) Analyst
2 2 (9.52%) Architect
2 2 (9.52%) Data Centre Analyst
2 2 (9.52%) Data Centre Specialist
2 2 (9.52%) IT Manager
2 2 (9.52%) ServiceNow Developer
2 2 (9.52%) Technical Support
3 1 (4.76%) Configuration Manager
3 1 (4.76%) Data Analyst
3 1 (4.76%) Data Centre Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared Project Manager
3 1 (4.76%) ITSM Project Manager
3 1 (4.76%) Project Manager
3 1 (4.76%) Remedy Developer
3 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow Architect
3 1 (4.76%) Support Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Technical Support Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Telecoms Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) Ajax
1 1 (4.76%) CSS
1 1 (4.76%) HTML
1 1 (4.76%) REST
1 1 (4.76%) SOAP
1 1 (4.76%) Web Services
1 1 (4.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Unix
2 2 (9.52%) Linux
2 2 (9.52%) Windows
3 1 (4.76%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) Change Management
2 6 (28.57%) Incident Management
2 6 (28.57%) ITSM
2 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (23.81%) Capacity Management
3 5 (23.81%) Configuration Management
3 5 (23.81%) ITIL
3 5 (23.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (19.05%) IT Asset Management
4 4 (19.05%) Service Delivery
4 4 (19.05%) Service Design
4 4 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (19.05%) Strategic Planning
5 3 (14.29%) Data Centre Operations
5 3 (14.29%) Migration
6 2 (9.52%) Agile
6 2 (9.52%) Asset Management
6 2 (9.52%) Risk Management
6 2 (9.52%) Security Operations
6 2 (9.52%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.52%) Java
1 2 (9.52%) JavaScript
1 2 (9.52%) Python
2 1 (4.76%) Shell Script
2 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) Degree
3 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) HNC
3 1 (4.76%) NVQ Level 5
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 19770
2 1 (4.76%) QA
Vendors
1 15 (71.43%) ServiceNow
2 7 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (14.29%) Oracle
4 2 (9.52%) Google
4 2 (9.52%) IBM
4 2 (9.52%) Snow
5 1 (4.76%) BMC
5 1 (4.76%) Okta
5 1 (4.76%) Remedy