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 3 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 127 189
Rank change year-on-year -46 +62 -6
Contract jobs citing CMDB 40 25 12
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.67% 0.85% 0.21%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.29% 2.60% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 18 5
10th Percentile £206 £286 -
25th Percentile £250 £322 £170
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £431 £350
Median % change year-on-year -10.14% +23.21% -30.69%
75th Percentile £500 £537 £400
90th Percentile £520 £598 £461
England median daily rate £515 £491 £493
% change year-on-year +4.89% -0.41% -6.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £41.00 -
England median hourly rate £26.88 £41.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year -34.43% +69.56% -54.38%

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 1,749 962 1,584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 29.42% 32.86% 28.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,149 613 950
10th Percentile £267 £200 £205
25th Percentile £400 £350 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.96%
75th Percentile £600 £594 £614
90th Percentile £700 £650 £688
England median daily rate £521 £533 £550
% change year-on-year -2.16% -3.18% -3.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 69 160
10th Percentile £18.65 £15.13 £11.78
25th Percentile £28.00 £16.95 £18.35
Median hourly rate £67.50 £47.81 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.20% -4.39% -4.76%
75th Percentile £85.75 £62.24 £61.30
90th Percentile £88.00 £85.81 £75.16
England median hourly rate £43.96 £34.50 £35.83
% change year-on-year +27.42% -3.70% +59.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

CMDB job vacancy trend 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 3 June 2026.

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 3 June 2026. 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 -43 34 £388 -18.42% 4
Berkshire -17 27 £270 -43.16% 2
Buckinghamshire -35 5 £488 - 2
Hampshire -27 2 - - 2
Middlesex - 2 - -
Oxfordshire - 2 £250 -
West Sussex -18 1 £500 +108.33%
Surrey - 1 £208 - 1
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (12.50%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (5.00%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 10 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 7 (17.50%) Azure
3 6 (15.00%) AWS
4 3 (7.50%) GCP
5 2 (5.00%) Entra ID
5 2 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (5.00%) OCI
5 2 (5.00%) OneDrive
5 2 (5.00%) SaaS
6 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.50%) GitHub
6 1 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (25.00%) Power BI
2 4 (10.00%) Metadata
3 2 (5.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (2.50%) GitLab
General
1 10 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 7 (17.50%) Social Skills
3 5 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Police
4 2 (5.00%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (35.00%) Architect
2 9 (22.50%) ServiceNow Architect
3 4 (10.00%) Coordinator
3 4 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (7.50%) Developer
4 3 (7.50%) ServiceNow Developer
5 2 (5.00%) Analyst
5 2 (5.00%) IT Analyst
5 2 (5.00%) ITSM Analyst
5 2 (5.00%) Logistics Coordinator
5 2 (5.00%) Oracle Architect
5 2 (5.00%) Service Analyst
5 2 (5.00%) Service Architect
5 2 (5.00%) Service Management Analyst
5 2 (5.00%) Technical Support
6 1 (2.50%) Integration Engineer
6 1 (2.50%) Remedy Architect
6 1 (2.50%) Technical Engineer
6 1 (2.50%) Technical Support Engineer
6 1 (2.50%) Technical Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (27.50%) REST
2 10 (25.00%) SOAP
3 4 (10.00%) Middleware
4 2 (5.00%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (5.00%) Web Services
5 1 (2.50%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (5.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.50%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.50%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.50%) Windows
2 2 (5.00%) Linux
3 1 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (80.00%) ITSM
2 14 (35.00%) Service Management
3 10 (25.00%) Migration
4 9 (22.50%) Configuration Management
4 9 (22.50%) Data Modelling
5 8 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
5 8 (20.00%) CAD
5 8 (20.00%) Data Analysis
5 8 (20.00%) ITIL
5 8 (20.00%) Performance Metrics
5 8 (20.00%) Process Improvement
5 8 (20.00%) Security Operations
6 7 (17.50%) Roadmaps
7 6 (15.00%) Agile
7 6 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (15.00%) IT Asset Management
7 6 (15.00%) Technical Leadership
8 5 (12.50%) Data Governance
8 5 (12.50%) Scrum
8 5 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 14 (35.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (17.50%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.50%) RHCA
4 1 (2.50%) RHCE
4 1 (2.50%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (30.00%) Data Quality
2 8 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (17.50%) SLA
4 6 (15.00%) GRC
5 3 (7.50%) QA
6 1 (2.50%) OpenSCAP
6 1 (2.50%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (7.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (7.50%) SCCM
3 1 (2.50%) Ansible
3 1 (2.50%) Packer
3 1 (2.50%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 7 (17.50%) Microsoft
3 5 (12.50%) Remedy
4 3 (7.50%) BMC
5 2 (5.00%) Oracle
6 1 (2.50%) Google
6 1 (2.50%) Okta
6 1 (2.50%) Red Hat