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 5 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 142 174
Rank change year-on-year -31 +32 +7
Contract jobs citing CMDB 58 21 18
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.87% 0.60% 0.36%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.92% 1.90% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 17 11
10th Percentile £214 £313 £170
25th Percentile £259 £375 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £420 £205
Median % change year-on-year +13.10% +104.88% -60.95%
75th Percentile £525 £500 £378
90th Percentile £621 £633 £500
England median daily rate £515 £500 £490
% change year-on-year +3.00% +1.99% -6.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £49.24 - -
25th Percentile £50.72 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £54.88 £41.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.84% -21.90% +133.33%
75th Percentile £57.47 - £53.75
90th Percentile £58.01 - -
England median hourly rate £42.00 £29.94 £52.50
% change year-on-year +40.30% -42.98% -0.94%

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 1,989 1,105 1,450
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 29.85% 31.69% 29.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,241 674 858
10th Percentile £273 £204 £213
25th Percentile £412 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £631
90th Percentile £700 £665 £715
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 100 143
10th Percentile £16.43 £15.13 £11.97
25th Percentile £27.20 £16.95 £20.06
Median hourly rate £57.50 £33.05 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +73.98% -42.37% +14.70%
75th Percentile £85.00 £60.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £85.50 £75.16
England median hourly rate £43.96 £31.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +39.56% -33.68% +11.76%

CMDB
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

CMDB
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

CMDB
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CMDB in the South East over the 6 months to 5 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CMDB in the South East

CMDB
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

CMDB
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 5 August 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 -39 34 £471 +12.14% 3
Berkshire -14 27 £425 +1.19% 2
Hampshire -26 14 £500 -20.00% 4
Middlesex - 7 - -
Buckinghamshire - 5 £488 - 1
West Sussex - 2 £600 -
Oxfordshire - 2 £250 -
Surrey - 1 £208 - 1
CMDB
England

CMDB
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:

Business Applications
1 5 (8.62%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (6.90%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 12 (20.69%) Azure
2 11 (18.97%) AWS
3 10 (17.24%) SaaS
4 6 (10.34%) GitHub
5 5 (8.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (8.62%) Azure Monitor
5 5 (8.62%) Datadog
5 5 (8.62%) Power Platform
6 4 (6.90%) iPaaS
7 2 (3.45%) Entra ID
7 2 (3.45%) GCP
7 2 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (3.45%) OCI
7 2 (3.45%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.72%) AWS Control Tower
8 1 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.45%) BGP
1 2 (3.45%) Cisco IOS
1 2 (3.45%) DHCP
1 2 (3.45%) DNS
1 2 (3.45%) EIGRP
1 2 (3.45%) Firewall
1 2 (3.45%) Junos
1 2 (3.45%) OSPF
1 2 (3.45%) SD-WAN
1 2 (3.45%) SNMP
1 2 (3.45%) Spanning Tree
1 2 (3.45%) TACACS
1 2 (3.45%) VLAN
1 2 (3.45%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.62%) Power BI
2 2 (3.45%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (1.72%) GitLab
General
1 22 (37.93%) Social Skills
2 14 (24.14%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (12.07%) Telecoms
4 5 (8.62%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.17%) Finance
5 3 (5.17%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.45%) Police
Job Titles
1 12 (20.69%) Architect
2 10 (17.24%) Analyst
3 8 (13.79%) Lead
4 6 (10.34%) ServiceNow Architect
5 5 (8.62%) Service Owner
6 4 (6.90%) Consultant
6 4 (6.90%) Coordinator
6 4 (6.90%) Service Analyst
7 3 (5.17%) Senior
7 3 (5.17%) ServiceNow Consultant
7 3 (5.17%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (5.17%) Technical Architect
8 2 (3.45%) ITSM Analyst
8 2 (3.45%) ITSM Consultant
8 2 (3.45%) Logistics Coordinator
8 2 (3.45%) Oracle Architect
8 2 (3.45%) Service Architect
8 2 (3.45%) Service Operations Analyst
8 2 (3.45%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
8 2 (3.45%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (17.24%) REST
1 10 (17.24%) SOAP
2 3 (5.17%) Middleware
3 2 (3.45%) JWT
3 2 (3.45%) OAuth
3 2 (3.45%) OAuth2
3 2 (3.45%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.72%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.62%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.17%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.45%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.72%) Life Science
4 1 (1.72%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.72%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.72%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.45%) Linux
1 2 (3.45%) Windows
2 1 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (82.76%) ITSM
2 23 (39.66%) ITIL
3 19 (32.76%) Data Modelling
4 16 (27.59%) Migration
4 16 (27.59%) Service Management
5 14 (24.14%) Stakeholder Management
6 12 (20.69%) Agile
7 11 (18.97%) AI
7 11 (18.97%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (17.24%) Process Improvement
8 10 (17.24%) Roadmaps
9 9 (15.52%) DevOps
9 9 (15.52%) Observability
10 8 (13.79%) Data Governance
10 8 (13.79%) Incident Management
11 7 (12.07%) Configuration Management
11 7 (12.07%) Service Design
11 7 (12.07%) SIAM
12 6 (10.34%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 6 (10.34%) JavaScript
2 4 (6.90%) Bash
2 4 (6.90%) PowerShell
2 4 (6.90%) Python
Qualifications
1 17 (29.31%) Security Cleared
2 11 (18.97%) SC Cleared
3 6 (10.34%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (3.45%) CCNA
4 2 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (3.45%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.72%) RHCA
5 1 (1.72%) RHCE
5 1 (1.72%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (29.31%) Data Quality
2 8 (13.79%) QA
3 5 (8.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (6.90%) SLA
5 3 (5.17%) COBIT
6 2 (3.45%) GDPR
7 1 (1.72%) OpenSCAP
System Software
1 5 (8.62%) IAG
2 4 (6.90%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (10.34%) Ansible
2 5 (8.62%) Kubernetes
3 4 (6.90%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (3.45%) Nagios
4 2 (3.45%) SCCM
5 1 (1.72%) Packer
5 1 (1.72%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 32 (55.17%) ServiceNow
2 11 (18.97%) BMC
3 7 (12.07%) Microsoft
4 5 (8.62%) Dynatrace
4 5 (8.62%) Nexthink
4 5 (8.62%) Remedy
5 2 (3.45%) Cisco
5 2 (3.45%) Juniper
5 2 (3.45%) Meraki
5 2 (3.45%) NetScout
5 2 (3.45%) Oracle
5 2 (3.45%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.45%) SevOne
5 2 (3.45%) SolarWinds
5 2 (3.45%) VMware
6 1 (1.72%) Google
6 1 (1.72%) Okta
6 1 (1.72%) Red Hat