Configuration Management Database (CMDB)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term CMDB in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited CMDB over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 619 700 705
Rank change year-on-year +81 +5 +330
Permanent jobs citing CMDB 83 209 267
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.20% 0.28%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.40% 0.59% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 37 148 203
10th Percentile £35,300 £30,000 £32,957
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,101 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -7.41% +2.86%
75th Percentile £61,250 £70,000 £76,875
90th Percentile £107,250 £88,750 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £41,235 £50,000
% change year-on-year +27.32% -17.53% +17.65%

All Generic Skills
UK

CMDB falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 20,763 35,685 41,757
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 37.18% 34.42% 43.59%
Number of salaries quoted 9,606 23,135 22,550
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £35,750
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,085 £46,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

CMDB
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing CMDB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for CMDB in the UK

CMDB
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing CMDB.

Salary trend for CMDB in the UK

CMDB
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing CMDB over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for CMDB in the UK

CMDB
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CMDB within the UK over the 6 months to 31 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +67 81 £55,000 - 52
London +83 46 £57,500 -22.30% 28
UK excluding London +90 37 £52,500 +27.32% 28
Work from Home +55 27 £60,000 -7.05% 17
North of England +33 17 £30,000 -27.25% 8
Yorkshire +62 10 - - 2
South East +33 8 £57,500 +69.12% 9
South West +111 7 £52,500 +11.80% 5
North West -10 5 £30,000 -27.25% 6
Scotland +120 2 - - 3
North East +51 2 - -
East of England +46 2 £24,781 -54.94% 1
Midlands +40 1 £53,000 -5.78% 2
East Midlands +37 1 £53,000 +32.50% 1

CMDB
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 11 (13.25%) Confluence
2 3 (3.61%) nginx
2 3 (3.61%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 10 (12.05%) AWS
1 10 (12.05%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (9.64%) Azure
3 6 (7.23%) GitHub
4 5 (6.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (6.02%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (6.02%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (6.02%) AWS Step Functions
4 5 (6.02%) Serverless
5 3 (3.61%) AWS CloudTrail
6 2 (2.41%) Datadog
7 1 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.20%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.20%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.82%) Firewall
2 3 (3.61%) VoIP
3 1 (1.20%) SSL
3 1 (1.20%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.61%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (3.61%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 17 (20.48%) JIRA
General
1 39 (46.99%) Social Skills
2 30 (36.14%) Finance
3 21 (25.30%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (9.64%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (4.82%) Games
5 4 (4.82%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (3.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.61%) Law
6 3 (3.61%) Retail
7 2 (2.41%) Billing
7 2 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.20%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (21.69%) Analyst
2 13 (15.66%) ServiceNow Manager
3 12 (14.46%) Service Manager
4 11 (13.25%) Developer
4 11 (13.25%) ServiceNow Developer
5 9 (10.84%) Administrator
5 9 (10.84%) Service Analyst
6 8 (9.64%) Configuration Analyst
6 8 (9.64%) Configuration Management Analyst
6 8 (9.64%) IT Manager
7 7 (8.43%) Architect
7 7 (8.43%) Consultant
7 7 (8.43%) Service Management Analyst
8 6 (7.23%) IT Analyst
9 5 (6.02%) Database Analyst
9 5 (6.02%) Development Manager
9 5 (6.02%) ITIL Manager
9 5 (6.02%) ITIL Service Manager
10 4 (4.82%) Configuration Management Consultant
10 4 (4.82%) Network Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (19.28%) SOAP
2 11 (13.25%) REST
3 10 (12.05%) Web Services
4 2 (2.41%) Ajax
4 2 (2.41%) CSS
4 2 (2.41%) HTML
4 2 (2.41%) LDAP
4 2 (2.41%) XML
5 1 (1.20%) Bootstrap
5 1 (1.20%) jQuery
5 1 (1.20%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 14 (16.87%) Management Information System
2 5 (6.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (4.82%) Mobile Games
3 4 (4.82%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.41%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.20%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.23%) Windows
1 6 (7.23%) Windows 10
2 1 (1.20%) Mac OS
2 1 (1.20%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (71.08%) ITIL
2 51 (61.45%) ITSM
2 51 (61.45%) Service Management
3 32 (38.55%) Configuration Management
4 27 (32.53%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (21.69%) Asset Management
5 18 (21.69%) Continuous Improvement
5 18 (21.69%) Stakeholder Management
6 17 (20.48%) IT Asset Management
7 16 (19.28%) Agile
7 16 (19.28%) Data Modelling
7 16 (19.28%) DevOps
8 13 (15.66%) Roadmaps
9 11 (13.25%) Change Management
9 11 (13.25%) Customer Service
9 11 (13.25%) Dashboard Development
9 11 (13.25%) Service Delivery
10 10 (12.05%) CI/CD
11 9 (10.84%) Scrum
12 8 (9.64%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 11 (13.25%) JavaScript
2 3 (3.61%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.20%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 11 (13.25%) Security Cleared
2 10 (12.05%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 9 (10.84%) Degree
4 8 (9.64%) ITIL Certification
5 7 (8.43%) SC Cleared
6 4 (4.82%) DV Cleared
7 3 (3.61%) Master's Degree
7 3 (3.61%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 3 (3.61%) Six Sigma Green Belt
7 3 (3.61%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.05%) SLA
2 3 (3.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (2.41%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (9.64%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.61%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 6 (7.23%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (6.02%) SCCM
3 2 (2.41%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.20%) HP UCMDB
4 1 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.20%) Terraform
Vendors
1 58 (69.88%) ServiceNow
2 12 (14.46%) Microsoft
3 5 (6.02%) Cisco
4 4 (4.82%) Juniper
5 3 (3.61%) Apple
6 2 (2.41%) Google
6 2 (2.41%) HP
6 2 (2.41%) Splunk
7 1 (1.20%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.20%) BMC
7 1 (1.20%) NetApp
7 1 (1.20%) Remedy
7 1 (1.20%) Snow
7 1 (1.20%) VMware