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 1 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 134 196
Rank change year-on-year -26 +62 -12
Contract jobs citing CMDB 59 21 12
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.94% 0.67% 0.21%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.15% 2.07% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 16 6
10th Percentile £223 £273 £170
25th Percentile £268 £313 £178
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £394 £278
Median % change year-on-year +20.63% +41.89% -45.05%
75th Percentile £517 £500 £389
90th Percentile £538 £606 £450
England median daily rate £518 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +8.95% -5.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £41.00 -
England median hourly rate £31.50 £41.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year -23.17% +69.56% -35.95%

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 1,875 1,016 1,626
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 29.73% 32.31% 28.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,203 620 954
10th Percentile £280 £205 £213
25th Percentile £405 £350 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% - -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £623
90th Percentile £700 £660 £689
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 99 175
10th Percentile £17.50 £15.13 £11.79
25th Percentile £27.19 £16.95 £17.64
Median hourly rate £60.00 £33.89 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +77.07% -38.39% +4.76%
75th Percentile £85.40 £61.12 £61.30
90th Percentile £88.00 £85.50 £75.16
England median hourly rate £43.96 £33.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year +33.21% -10.81% +56.48%

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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 1 July 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 1 July 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 -35 38 £425 +3.03% 7
Berkshire -19 31 £388 -6.06% 6
Hampshire -20 13 £500 -20.00% 3
Buckinghamshire - 5 £488 - 1
Middlesex - 4 - - 1
West Sussex -12 3 £550 +129.17% 1
Oxfordshire - 2 £250 -
Surrey - 1 £208 -
CMDB
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 (3.39%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (8.47%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (3.39%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 10 (16.95%) Power Platform
2 9 (15.25%) Azure
3 8 (13.56%) AWS
4 5 (8.47%) SaaS
5 3 (5.08%) GCP
5 3 (5.08%) GitHub
6 2 (3.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (3.39%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (3.39%) Datadog
6 2 (3.39%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.39%) iPaaS
6 2 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (3.39%) OCI
6 2 (3.39%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.39%) Firewall
1 2 (3.39%) Junos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (16.95%) Power BI
2 3 (5.08%) Metadata
3 2 (3.39%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (1.69%) GitLab
General
1 17 (28.81%) Social Skills
2 10 (16.95%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (15.25%) Public Sector
4 8 (13.56%) Telecoms
5 3 (5.08%) Finance
6 2 (3.39%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.39%) Police
7 1 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (25.42%) Architect
2 11 (18.64%) Analyst
3 10 (16.95%) ServiceNow Architect
4 7 (11.86%) Lead
5 6 (10.17%) Service Analyst
6 4 (6.78%) Coordinator
6 4 (6.78%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (5.08%) Developer
7 3 (5.08%) ITSM Analyst
7 3 (5.08%) Senior
7 3 (5.08%) ServiceNow Developer
7 3 (5.08%) Technical Architect
8 2 (3.39%) Administrator
8 2 (3.39%) IT Analyst
8 2 (3.39%) Logistics Coordinator
8 2 (3.39%) Oracle Architect
8 2 (3.39%) Service Architect
8 2 (3.39%) Service Operations Analyst
8 2 (3.39%) Service Owner
8 2 (3.39%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (18.64%) REST
1 11 (18.64%) SOAP
2 3 (5.08%) Middleware
3 2 (3.39%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.69%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.08%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.39%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (3.39%) Cloud Native
2 2 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (3.39%) Low-Code
2 2 (3.39%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.69%) Operational Technology
3 1 (1.69%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.39%) Linux
1 2 (3.39%) Windows
2 1 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (86.44%) ITSM
2 21 (35.59%) Data Modelling
3 20 (33.90%) Service Management
4 19 (32.20%) ITIL
5 16 (27.12%) Migration
6 13 (22.03%) Stakeholder Management
7 11 (18.64%) Configuration Management
7 11 (18.64%) Data Governance
7 11 (18.64%) Roadmaps
8 10 (16.95%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (16.95%) Process Improvement
9 8 (13.56%) Business Intelligence
9 8 (13.56%) Data Analysis
9 8 (13.56%) Performance Metrics
10 7 (11.86%) CAD
10 7 (11.86%) Incident Management
10 7 (11.86%) IT Asset Management
10 7 (11.86%) Security Operations
10 7 (11.86%) SIAM
11 6 (10.17%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 6 (10.17%) JavaScript
2 2 (3.39%) Bash
2 2 (3.39%) PowerShell
2 2 (3.39%) Python
Qualifications
1 18 (30.51%) Security Cleared
2 9 (15.25%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.78%) DV Cleared
4 3 (5.08%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.69%) RHCA
5 1 (1.69%) RHCE
5 1 (1.69%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (38.98%) Data Quality
2 8 (13.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (10.17%) SLA
4 5 (8.47%) GRC
4 5 (8.47%) QA
5 3 (5.08%) COBIT
6 2 (3.39%) GDPR
7 1 (1.69%) OpenSCAP
System Software
1 4 (6.78%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.39%) IAG
Systems Management
1 4 (6.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (5.08%) Ansible
2 3 (5.08%) SCCM
3 2 (3.39%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.69%) Packer
4 1 (1.69%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (54.24%) ServiceNow
2 9 (15.25%) BMC
3 7 (11.86%) Microsoft
4 5 (8.47%) Remedy
5 2 (3.39%) Dynatrace
5 2 (3.39%) Juniper
5 2 (3.39%) Nexthink
5 2 (3.39%) Oracle
6 1 (1.69%) Google
6 1 (1.69%) Okta
6 1 (1.69%) Red Hat