CMDB Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Configuration Management Database (CMDB)
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term CMDB in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CMDB over the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 255 272 339
Rank change year-on-year +17 +67 +131
Contract jobs citing CMDB 55 61 94
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.55% 0.47% 0.43%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.55% 1.57% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 37 64
10th Percentile £334 £203 £391
25th Percentile £375 £300 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £593
90th Percentile £644 £593 £636
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £530
% change year-on-year - -5.66% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £72.28
25th Percentile - - £72.31
Median hourly rate - - £74.75
75th Percentile - - £77.31
90th Percentile - - £77.43
UK median hourly rate £24.66 £35.00 £63.75
% change year-on-year -29.54% -45.10% +244.59%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,548 3,890 6,721
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 35.26% 29.92% 31.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,288 2,618 4,801
10th Percentile £340 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £445 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £650 £700 £688
90th Percentile £813 £850 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 115 135
10th Percentile £13.60 £19.00 £19.40
25th Percentile £22.69 £29.19 £25.71
Median hourly rate £33.89 £62.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.35% +24.00% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £68.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £76.05
UK median hourly rate £29.50 £45.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -34.44% +12.50% +50.94%

CMDB
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing CMDB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

CMDB trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

CMDB
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing CMDB.

CMDB daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

CMDB
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing CMDB over the 6 months to 15 August 2025.

CMDB daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

CMDB
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing CMDB.

CMDB hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

CMDB
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.64%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.82%) Confluence
2 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (3.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (3.64%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (7.27%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.82%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.82%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 6 (10.91%) SaaS
2 5 (9.09%) Azure
3 3 (5.45%) Entra ID
4 2 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.82%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (1.82%) Datadog
5 1 (1.82%) IaaS
5 1 (1.82%) OneDrive
5 1 (1.82%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.27%) HTTP
2 1 (1.82%) BGP
2 1 (1.82%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (1.82%) DHCP
2 1 (1.82%) DNS
2 1 (1.82%) EIGRP
2 1 (1.82%) Firewall
2 1 (1.82%) Internet
2 1 (1.82%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (1.82%) Network Security
2 1 (1.82%) OSPF
2 1 (1.82%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.82%) SNMP
2 1 (1.82%) Spanning Tree
2 1 (1.82%) TACACS
2 1 (1.82%) VLAN
2 1 (1.82%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.82%) Metadata
1 1 (1.82%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (3.64%) JIRA
General
1 16 (29.09%) Social Skills
2 13 (23.64%) Finance
3 9 (16.36%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (14.55%) Public Sector
5 7 (12.73%) Telecoms
6 5 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (7.27%) Manufacturing
8 3 (5.45%) Electronics
8 3 (5.45%) Legal
8 3 (5.45%) Marketing
9 2 (3.64%) Banking
9 2 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.82%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.82%) Portuguese Language
10 1 (1.82%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (29.09%) Architect
2 9 (16.36%) Developer
2 9 (16.36%) ServiceNow Developer
3 8 (14.55%) ServiceNow Architect
4 6 (10.91%) Analyst
5 5 (9.09%) Lead
6 4 (7.27%) Consultant
7 3 (5.45%) Administrator
7 3 (5.45%) Business Analyst
7 3 (5.45%) Incident Manager
7 3 (5.45%) ITIL Incident Manager
7 3 (5.45%) ITIL Manager
7 3 (5.45%) Senior
7 3 (5.45%) Telecoms Architect
8 2 (3.64%) Data Architect
8 2 (3.64%) Product Manager
8 2 (3.64%) Remedy Consultant
8 2 (3.64%) ServiceNow Administrator
8 2 (3.64%) ServiceNow Consultant
8 2 (3.64%) ServiceNow Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.91%) REST
1 6 (10.91%) SOAP
2 5 (9.09%) CSS
2 5 (9.09%) HTML
2 5 (9.09%) Web Services
2 5 (9.09%) XML
3 4 (7.27%) Ajax
4 1 (1.82%) .NET
4 1 (1.82%) JSON
4 1 (1.82%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (1.82%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.27%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.64%) Life Science
2 2 (3.64%) Virtual Team
3 1 (1.82%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.82%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.82%) Operational Technology
3 1 (1.82%) PKI
3 1 (1.82%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.82%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (54.55%) ITSM
2 25 (45.45%) ITIL
3 22 (40.00%) Configuration Management
4 15 (27.27%) Service Management
5 14 (25.45%) Change Management
6 13 (23.64%) Problem Management
7 11 (20.00%) Agile
7 11 (20.00%) IT Asset Management
8 10 (18.18%) Asset Management
9 9 (16.36%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (14.55%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (14.55%) Scrum
10 8 (14.55%) Service Catalogue
11 7 (12.73%) Incident Management
11 7 (12.73%) Service Delivery
11 7 (12.73%) Workshop Facilitation
12 6 (10.91%) Roadmaps
12 6 (10.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 5 (9.09%) Business Analysis
13 5 (9.09%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (3.64%) JavaScript
2 1 (1.82%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (32.73%) Security Cleared
2 16 (29.09%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.27%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (5.45%) Degree
4 3 (5.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (3.64%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.82%) CCNA
6 1 (1.82%) CCNP
6 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.82%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.82%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.27%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.45%) ISO/IEC 19770
3 1 (1.82%) COBIT
3 1 (1.82%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.82%) GDPR
3 1 (1.82%) GxP
3 1 (1.82%) PMO
3 1 (1.82%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.82%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.82%) BitLocker
1 1 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (1.82%) Nagios
Vendors
1 41 (74.55%) ServiceNow
2 7 (12.73%) Remedy
3 4 (7.27%) SAP
4 3 (5.45%) Dynatrace
4 3 (5.45%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.64%) BMC
5 2 (3.64%) Cisco
5 2 (3.64%) Snow
5 2 (3.64%) SolarWinds
5 2 (3.64%) VMware
6 1 (1.82%) Ariba
6 1 (1.82%) Aveksa
6 1 (1.82%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.82%) Databricks
6 1 (1.82%) Dell
6 1 (1.82%) Meraki
6 1 (1.82%) NetScout
6 1 (1.82%) Oracle
6 1 (1.82%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.82%) SevOne