CMDB Contract Job Trends 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 3 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 120 130
Rank change year-on-year +13 +10 +43
Contract jobs citing CMDB 14 8 12
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.76% 0.38% 0.45%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.17% 1.23% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 9
10th Percentile £293 £250 £400
25th Percentile £385 £350 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +7.69% +5.69%
75th Percentile £500 £613 £638
90th Percentile £538 £625 £700
South East median daily rate £475 £205 £500
% change year-on-year +131.71% -59.00% +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £21.03
25th Percentile £20.50 - £21.06
Median hourly rate £22.00 - £22.25
75th Percentile £23.50 - £23.56
90th Percentile - - £23.68
South East median hourly rate £31.50 £35.00 £50.25
% change year-on-year -10.00% -30.35% +195.59%

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 644 650 859
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 35.11% 30.55% 32.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 400 362 542
10th Percentile £266 £300 £210
25th Percentile £400 £401 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% -
75th Percentile £600 £620 £625
90th Percentile £670 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 22 34
10th Percentile £15.13 £18.81 £21.00
25th Percentile £15.72 £26.43 £24.00
Median hourly rate £24.50 £49.87 £44.27
Median % change year-on-year -50.87% +12.66% +157.23%
75th Percentile £58.00 £60.44 £66.14
90th Percentile £80.50 £62.24 £74.05
South East median hourly rate £25.00 £52.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -52.38% - +54.41%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

CMDB job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing CMDB.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing CMDB

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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 3 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CMDB in the Thames Valley

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Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing CMDB.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing CMDB

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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 3 November 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 +19 13 £420 +4.93% 3
Oxfordshire - 1 £200 -
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South East

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (7.14%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) AWS
1 1 (7.14%) Azure
1 1 (7.14%) GCP
1 1 (7.14%) SaaS
General
1 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
3 2 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Architect
1 6 (42.86%) ServiceNow Architect
2 2 (14.29%) Developer
2 2 (14.29%) ServiceNow Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Technical Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) ITSM Architect
3 1 (7.14%) SaaS Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) REST
1 5 (35.71%) SOAP
2 1 (7.14%) Ajax
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Driving Licence
1 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) ITSM
2 7 (50.00%) ITIL
2 7 (50.00%) Security Operations
3 5 (35.71%) Change Management
3 5 (35.71%) Data Modelling
3 5 (35.71%) IT Asset Management
3 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (35.71%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (35.71%) Technical Architecture
4 4 (28.57%) Configuration Management
4 4 (28.57%) Enterprise Architecture
4 4 (28.57%) Roadmaps
4 4 (28.57%) Service Delivery
4 4 (28.57%) Service Design
4 4 (28.57%) Strategic Planning
4 4 (28.57%) Strategic Roadmap
4 4 (28.57%) Translating Business Requirements
5 3 (21.43%) Agile
5 3 (21.43%) Scrum
6 2 (14.29%) Operations Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (14.29%) Java
2 2 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (7.14%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) GRC
Vendors
1 12 (85.71%) ServiceNow
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) Commvault
3 1 (7.14%) Snow