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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 703 698 1016
Rank change year-on-year -5 +318 -253
Permanent jobs citing CMDB 210 267 228
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.27% 0.14%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.59% 0.64% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 148 202 146
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,858 £22,438
25th Percentile £37,101 £45,000 £33,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +2.86% +5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £76,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £88,750 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,235 £50,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -17.53% +17.65% +17.73%

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 35,507 41,619 80,468
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.38% 42.84% 48.30%
Number of salaries quoted 23,113 22,631 34,154
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,084 £46,350 £45,607
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 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £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 29 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 29 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 -17 185 £55,000 +1.85% 44
UK excluding London -37 130 £41,235 -17.53% 27
Work from Home +22 94 £64,108 -5.03% 23
London +64 68 £74,000 +2.07% 19
South East +22 53 £34,000 -29.90% 4
Midlands -5 27 £56,250 +63.27% 8
West Midlands +4 20 £57,500 +66.90% 4
North of England -22 20 £41,235 -17.53% 8
North West -20 16 £41,235 -17.53% 7
Wales +14 9 £41,067 +49.33% 2
South West -25 9 £46,958 +43.60% 2
East Midlands -19 7 £40,000 -25.93% 4
East of England -12 6 £55,000 +2.80% 1
Scotland -58 4 - - 2
Yorkshire +44 3 £62,500 -7.41% 1
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
North East -2 1 £42,750 +23.91%

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 (10.48%) SAS
2 11 (5.24%) IIS
3 7 (3.33%) CMS
4 5 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.43%) Confluence
6 1 (0.48%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 23 (10.95%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.95%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 18 (8.57%) Azure
1 18 (8.57%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (4.76%) AWS
3 9 (4.29%) SaaS
4 7 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
4 7 (3.33%) Slack
5 6 (2.86%) Power Platform
6 4 (1.90%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.48%) ChatGPT
7 1 (0.48%) GCP
7 1 (0.48%) Google App Engine
7 1 (0.48%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.48%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 24 (11.43%) SNMP
2 20 (9.52%) Firewall
3 14 (6.67%) TCP/IP
4 13 (6.19%) SSH
5 11 (5.24%) DHCP
5 11 (5.24%) DNS
5 11 (5.24%) VPN
6 7 (3.33%) SAN
6 7 (3.33%) SSL
7 3 (1.43%) Broadband
7 3 (1.43%) DSL
7 3 (1.43%) NaaS
7 3 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (1.43%) Wireless
8 2 (0.95%) Internet
8 2 (0.95%) NAS
8 2 (0.95%) VoIP
9 1 (0.48%) BGP
9 1 (0.48%) MPLS
9 1 (0.48%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.00%) Relational Database
2 13 (6.19%) MySQL
3 6 (2.86%) Power BI
4 5 (2.38%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.48%) QlikView
5 1 (0.48%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.48%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (6.19%) Eclipse
2 5 (2.38%) MSI
3 4 (1.90%) JIRA
General
1 35 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 32 (15.24%) Finance
3 20 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 19 (9.05%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.71%) Law
6 7 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.86%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.38%) Fire and Rescue
9 4 (1.90%) Retail
10 3 (1.43%) Banking
10 3 (1.43%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.43%) Turkish Language
11 2 (0.95%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.95%) Billing
11 2 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.48%) Legal
12 1 (0.48%) Police
12 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (22.86%) Developer
1 48 (22.86%) ServiceNow Developer
2 41 (19.52%) Senior
3 22 (10.48%) Systems Engineer
3 22 (10.48%) Windows Engineer
3 22 (10.48%) Windows Systems Engineer
4 15 (7.14%) Architect
5 14 (6.67%) Support Engineer
6 13 (6.19%) Analyst
6 13 (6.19%) Senior Support Engineer
6 13 (6.19%) Senior Technical Engineer
6 13 (6.19%) Senior Technical Support
6 13 (6.19%) Senior Technical Support Engineer
6 13 (6.19%) Technical Engineer
6 13 (6.19%) Technical Support
6 13 (6.19%) Technical Support Engineer
7 12 (5.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 11 (5.24%) Applications Support
9 10 (4.76%) IT Manager
10 9 (4.29%) Configuration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (27.62%) CSS
1 58 (27.62%) HTML
2 57 (27.14%) AngularJS
3 55 (26.19%) Web Services
4 38 (18.10%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 33 (15.71%) XML
6 26 (12.38%) SOAP
7 23 (10.95%) LDAP
8 22 (10.48%) REST
9 17 (8.10%) Ajax
10 16 (7.62%) JSON
10 16 (7.62%) ODBC
11 13 (6.19%) JDBC
11 13 (6.19%) XHTML
12 6 (2.86%) Middleware
13 3 (1.43%) Kafka
13 3 (1.43%) Software Packaging
14 1 (0.48%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.48%) Legacy Systems
2 18 (8.57%) Management Information System
3 11 (5.24%) Data Centre
4 10 (4.76%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (2.38%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.43%) TM Forum
7 2 (0.95%) Driving Licence
7 2 (0.95%) Fat Client
7 2 (0.95%) N-Tier
7 2 (0.95%) Smartcard
7 2 (0.95%) Thin Client
7 2 (0.95%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.48%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.48%) Housing Association
8 1 (0.48%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.48%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 67 (31.90%) Windows
2 36 (17.14%) Linux
3 29 (13.81%) Windows Server
4 13 (6.19%) Unix
5 6 (2.86%) Mac OS
5 6 (2.86%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.95%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (54.29%) ITSM
2 95 (45.24%) ITIL
3 77 (36.67%) Configuration Management
4 76 (36.19%) Service Management
5 51 (24.29%) Change Management
6 42 (20.00%) Service Catalogue
7 40 (19.05%) Asset Management
8 39 (18.57%) Continuous Improvement
9 36 (17.14%) Problem Management
10 34 (16.19%) Mentoring
11 31 (14.76%) Security Operations
12 29 (13.81%) Agile
12 29 (13.81%) IT Asset Management
12 29 (13.81%) Root Cause Analysis
13 28 (13.33%) Incident Management
13 28 (13.33%) Service Delivery
14 23 (10.95%) Problem-Solving
15 22 (10.48%) Actionable Insight
15 22 (10.48%) ChatOps
15 22 (10.48%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 48 (22.86%) JavaScript
2 22 (10.48%) SQL
3 15 (7.14%) PowerShell
4 14 (6.67%) Java
5 13 (6.19%) Perl
5 13 (6.19%) Python
6 4 (1.90%) C
Qualifications
1 52 (24.76%) Security Cleared
2 50 (23.81%) SC Cleared
3 28 (13.33%) Degree
4 25 (11.90%) DV Cleared
5 12 (5.71%) ITIL Certification
6 8 (3.81%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (2.86%) CCNA
7 6 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.43%) A+ Certification
9 3 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.43%) PMI Certification
9 3 (1.43%) PMP
10 2 (0.95%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (0.95%) MCITP
11 1 (0.48%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.29%) SLA
2 6 (2.86%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.86%) GRC
3 3 (1.43%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.95%) NCSC
5 1 (0.48%) GDPR
5 1 (0.48%) PMO
System Software
1 32 (15.24%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.90%) Virtual Desktop
2 4 (1.90%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (0.95%) Terminal Services
3 2 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.95%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (7.62%) Single Sign-On
2 15 (7.14%) SCOM
3 13 (6.19%) WMI
4 7 (3.33%) Ansible
4 7 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (3.33%) Terraform
5 6 (2.86%) SCCM
6 4 (1.90%) HP UCMDB
6 4 (1.90%) Nagios
7 3 (1.43%) Nessus
8 2 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.95%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.48%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 84 (40.00%) ServiceNow
2 35 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 24 (11.43%) BMC
4 23 (10.95%) Remedy
5 20 (9.52%) HP
6 13 (6.19%) Oracle
6 13 (6.19%) Splunk
7 11 (5.24%) Dynatrace
8 8 (3.81%) Snow
9 5 (2.38%) Apple
9 5 (2.38%) Cisco
10 3 (1.43%) CA
10 3 (1.43%) Cadence
10 3 (1.43%) Infoblox
10 3 (1.43%) Meraki
11 2 (0.95%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.95%) CrowdStrike
11 2 (0.95%) SolarWinds
11 2 (0.95%) Sparx
11 2 (0.95%) VMware