CMDB Contracts in the Thames Valley

Configuration Management Database (CMDB)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term CMDB in contract job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CMDB over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 - 136
Rank change year-on-year - - +23
Contract jobs citing CMDB 24 0 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.59% - 0.51%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.40% - 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 0 10
10th Percentile £269 - £323
25th Percentile £331 - £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.79%
75th Percentile £549 - £497
90th Percentile £628 - £572
South East median daily rate £475 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +18.75% -20.04% +2.56%

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 545 801 934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 36.07% 29.82% 31.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 473 613
10th Percentile £303 £205 £280
25th Percentile £423 £295 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -1.96% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £620
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 62 24
10th Percentile £14.16 £11.79 £18.08
25th Percentile £24.08 £22.50 £19.63
Median hourly rate £52.50 £30.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% -38.46% +143.75%
75th Percentile £66.12 £59.97 £70.90
90th Percentile £88.60 £65.00 £77.93
South East median hourly rate £47.81 £47.19 £51.25
% change year-on-year +1.31% -7.93% +138.37%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing CMDB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for CMDB in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CMDB in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for CMDB in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CMDB in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CMDB in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CMDB in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for CMDB in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CMDB within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Berkshire - 17 £450 - 7
Buckinghamshire - 7 £361 - 2
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Business Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (4.17%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 3 (12.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) HTTP
2 2 (8.33%) Firewall
2 2 (8.33%) VPN
2 2 (8.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) RDBMS
1 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
1 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) JIRA
1 1 (4.17%) Subversion
1 1 (4.17%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
1 5 (20.83%) Telecoms
2 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.17%) Electronics
4 1 (4.17%) Finance
4 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.17%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) Architect
2 5 (20.83%) Analyst
3 4 (16.67%) Data Analyst
3 4 (16.67%) ServiceNow Architect
4 3 (12.50%) Configuration Management Consultant
4 3 (12.50%) Consultant
4 3 (12.50%) Telecoms Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Data Centre Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) Data Centre Specialist
5 2 (8.33%) Desktop Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Desktop Support
5 2 (8.33%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Lead
5 2 (8.33%) Management Consultant
5 2 (8.33%) Support Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Remedy Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Security Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Senior
6 1 (4.17%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.67%) Ajax
1 4 (16.67%) CSS
1 4 (16.67%) HTML
1 4 (16.67%) REST
1 4 (16.67%) SOAP
1 4 (16.67%) Web Services
1 4 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 2 (8.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Unix
1 1 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (75.00%) Configuration Management
2 13 (54.17%) ITSM
3 10 (41.67%) Service Management
4 9 (37.50%) Change Management
4 9 (37.50%) Incident Management
4 9 (37.50%) IT Asset Management
4 9 (37.50%) ITIL
5 7 (29.17%) Problem Management
5 7 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (25.00%) Agile
6 6 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (20.83%) Data Modelling
7 5 (20.83%) Roadmaps
8 4 (16.67%) Capacity Management
8 4 (16.67%) Scrum
9 3 (12.50%) Asset Management
9 3 (12.50%) Data Centre Operations
10 2 (8.33%) Migration
10 2 (8.33%) Prototyping
10 2 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.33%) PowerShell
1 2 (8.33%) Python
2 1 (4.17%) Shell Script
2 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 8 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.17%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) SCCM
1 2 (8.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 9 (37.50%) ServiceNow
2 7 (29.17%) BMC
3 4 (16.67%) Remedy
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.17%) Oracle
4 1 (4.17%) SAP
4 1 (4.17%) Snow