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 have cited CMDB over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 700 700 1000
Rank change year-on-year 0 +300 -248
Permanent jobs citing CMDB 204 277 229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.27% 0.15%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.58% 0.64% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 146 217 153
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,655 £23,100
25th Percentile £34,000 £45,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +0.96%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £88,750 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,151 £50,000 £43,500
% change year-on-year -17.70% +14.94% +12.26%

All Generic Skills
UK

CMDB is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 35,043 43,311 74,759
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.36% 42.74% 47.65%
Number of salaries quoted 23,056 23,480 33,820
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £84,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,550 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for CMDB in the UK

CMDB
Top 17 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 9 May 2024. 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 +15 179 £50,000 -4.76% 43
UK excluding London -20 128 £41,151 -17.70% 29
Work from Home +32 94 £64,108 -5.03% 44
London +57 66 £74,000 +5.71% 14
South East +28 54 £34,000 -32.00% 3
North of England +5 22 £41,235 -17.53% 13
Midlands -7 20 £64,108 +86.08% 12
North West -5 14 £41,235 -17.53% 11
West Midlands +9 13 £64,108 +86.08% 9
South West -25 12 £46,958 +43.60%
Wales +12 9 £41,067 +49.33%
East Midlands -10 7 £40,000 -23.81% 3
Yorkshire +59 6 £57,500 +4.55% 1
East of England +6 5 £60,000 +14.29%
Scotland -62 4 - - 1
North East -3 2 £35,625 +3.26% 1
Northern Ireland - 2 - -

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 22 (10.78%) SAS
2 13 (6.37%) IIS
3 5 (2.45%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.96%) CMS
5 3 (1.47%) Confluence
5 3 (1.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 25 (12.25%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.98%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 22 (10.78%) Azure
2 17 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (6.37%) SaaS
4 10 (4.90%) AWS
5 7 (3.43%) Cloud Computing
5 7 (3.43%) Power Platform
5 7 (3.43%) Slack
6 4 (1.96%) Entra ID
7 2 (0.98%) IaaS
7 2 (0.98%) PaaS
7 2 (0.98%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.49%) ChatGPT
8 1 (0.49%) GCP
8 1 (0.49%) Google App Engine
8 1 (0.49%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 26 (12.75%) SNMP
2 24 (11.76%) Firewall
3 15 (7.35%) DNS
3 15 (7.35%) TCP/IP
4 13 (6.37%) DHCP
4 13 (6.37%) SSH
4 13 (6.37%) VPN
5 9 (4.41%) SSL
6 7 (3.43%) SAN
7 3 (1.47%) Broadband
7 3 (1.47%) NaaS
7 3 (1.47%) VoIP
7 3 (1.47%) WAN
7 3 (1.47%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (1.47%) Wireless
8 2 (0.98%) BGP
8 2 (0.98%) DSL
8 2 (0.98%) Ethernet
8 2 (0.98%) ICMP
8 2 (0.98%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.29%) Relational Database
2 13 (6.37%) MySQL
3 5 (2.45%) Power BI
3 5 (2.45%) RDBMS
4 2 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.98%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.49%) QlikView
5 1 (0.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (6.37%) Eclipse
2 5 (2.45%) JIRA
2 5 (2.45%) MSI
General
1 29 (14.22%) Finance
2 27 (13.24%) Social Skills
3 20 (9.80%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (9.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (6.86%) Law
6 7 (3.43%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.45%) Fire and Rescue
8 4 (1.96%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.96%) Retail
9 3 (1.47%) Turkish Language
10 2 (0.98%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.49%) Banking
11 1 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.49%) Police
11 1 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (23.53%) Developer
1 48 (23.53%) ServiceNow Developer
2 44 (21.57%) Senior
3 24 (11.76%) Systems Engineer
3 24 (11.76%) Windows Engineer
3 24 (11.76%) Windows Systems Engineer
4 14 (6.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 14 (6.86%) Support Engineer
5 13 (6.37%) Senior Support Engineer
5 13 (6.37%) Senior Technical Engineer
5 13 (6.37%) Senior Technical Support
5 13 (6.37%) Senior Technical Support Engineer
5 13 (6.37%) Technical Engineer
5 13 (6.37%) Technical Support
5 13 (6.37%) Technical Support Engineer
6 12 (5.88%) Analyst
6 12 (5.88%) Consultant
6 12 (5.88%) ServiceNow Consultant
7 11 (5.39%) Applications Support
8 10 (4.90%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (29.41%) CSS
1 60 (29.41%) HTML
2 57 (27.94%) AngularJS
2 57 (27.94%) Web Services
3 38 (18.63%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 35 (17.16%) XML
5 28 (13.73%) SOAP
6 25 (12.25%) LDAP
7 22 (10.78%) REST
8 19 (9.31%) Ajax
9 16 (7.84%) JSON
9 16 (7.84%) ODBC
10 13 (6.37%) JDBC
10 13 (6.37%) XHTML
11 5 (2.45%) Middleware
12 3 (1.47%) Kafka
13 2 (0.98%) Software Packaging
14 1 (0.49%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.78%) Legacy Systems
2 11 (5.39%) Management Information System
3 10 (4.90%) Data Centre
3 10 (4.90%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.47%) TM Forum
5 3 (1.47%) Virtual Team
6 2 (0.98%) Driving Licence
6 2 (0.98%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.98%) N-Tier
6 2 (0.98%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.98%) Smartcard
7 1 (0.49%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.49%) iPhone
7 1 (0.49%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 68 (33.33%) Windows
2 37 (18.14%) Linux
3 31 (15.20%) Windows Server
4 13 (6.37%) Unix
5 7 (3.43%) Windows 10
6 6 (2.94%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.98%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.49%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (53.43%) ITSM
2 89 (43.63%) ITIL
3 69 (33.82%) Configuration Management
4 66 (32.35%) Service Management
5 49 (24.02%) Change Management
6 43 (21.08%) Service Catalogue
7 37 (18.14%) Continuous Improvement
7 37 (18.14%) Problem Management
8 34 (16.67%) Asset Management
8 34 (16.67%) Mentoring
9 31 (15.20%) IT Asset Management
9 31 (15.20%) Security Operations
10 30 (14.71%) Agile
11 29 (14.22%) Root Cause Analysis
12 28 (13.73%) Incident Management
13 24 (11.76%) Service Delivery
14 22 (10.78%) Actionable Insight
14 22 (10.78%) ChatOps
14 22 (10.78%) Code Quality
14 22 (10.78%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 50 (24.51%) JavaScript
2 23 (11.27%) SQL
3 17 (8.33%) PowerShell
4 14 (6.86%) Java
5 13 (6.37%) Perl
5 13 (6.37%) Python
6 3 (1.47%) C
Qualifications
1 54 (26.47%) Security Cleared
2 52 (25.49%) SC Cleared
3 29 (14.22%) Degree
4 26 (12.75%) DV Cleared
5 12 (5.88%) ITIL Certification
6 8 (3.92%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (2.45%) CCNA
7 5 (2.45%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.47%) A+ Certification
8 3 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.47%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.47%) PMP
9 2 (0.98%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (0.98%) MCITP
10 1 (0.49%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.41%) SLA
2 7 (3.43%) GRC
3 4 (1.96%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.47%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.98%) NCSC
6 1 (0.49%) GDPR
6 1 (0.49%) PMO
System Software
1 33 (16.18%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.47%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (1.47%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (0.98%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.98%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (8.33%) SCOM
2 16 (7.84%) Single Sign-On
3 13 (6.37%) WMI
4 7 (3.43%) Ansible
4 7 (3.43%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (3.43%) Terraform
5 6 (2.94%) HP UCMDB
5 6 (2.94%) SCCM
6 3 (1.47%) Nagios
7 2 (0.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.98%) Nessus
7 2 (0.98%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.49%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 86 (42.16%) ServiceNow
2 37 (18.14%) Microsoft
3 26 (12.75%) BMC
4 25 (12.25%) Remedy
5 22 (10.78%) HP
6 13 (6.37%) Dynatrace
6 13 (6.37%) Oracle
6 13 (6.37%) Splunk
7 6 (2.94%) Apple
7 6 (2.94%) Cisco
7 6 (2.94%) Snow
8 3 (1.47%) Cadence
8 3 (1.47%) Meraki
9 2 (0.98%) Infoblox
9 2 (0.98%) SolarWinds
9 2 (0.98%) Sparx
9 2 (0.98%) VMware
10 1 (0.49%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.49%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.49%) Salesforce