CMake Contract Job Trends

CMake
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring CMake skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 590 523 593
Rank change year-on-year -67 +70 +178
Contract jobs citing CMake 2 3 6
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.005% 0.010% 0.013%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.037% 0.071% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 4
10th Percentile £687 - £458
25th Percentile £693 - £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £733 £400 £513
Median % change year-on-year +83.13% -21.95% +105.00%
75th Percentile £768 £430 £584
90th Percentile £772 £448 £646
UK excluding London median daily rate - £400 £513
% change year-on-year - -21.95% +105.00%

All Development Application Skills
UK

CMake falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,443 4,208 5,428
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.96% 13.62% 12.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,735 2,650 3,787
10th Percentile £343 £340 £363
25th Percentile £406 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £629
90th Percentile £692 £725 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £500
% change year-on-year -0.42% -4.60% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 63 211
10th Percentile £36.38 £26.30 £40.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £47.50 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £75.25
90th Percentile £83.60 £77.25 £88.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

CMake
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CMake relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

CMake job vacancy trend in the UK

CMake
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CMake.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CMake

CMake
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CMake.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CMake

CMake
Top 2 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CMake within the UK over the 6 months to 9 February 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
London -37 2 £733 +59.24% 1
England -69 2 £733 +83.13% 20

CMake
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) CloudBees
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Gradle
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Build Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Bazel
1 1 (50.00%) COM
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) C
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) C++
2 1 (50.00%) Groovy
2 1 (50.00%) Java
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet