CMDB Contracts

Configuration Management Database (CMDB)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term CMDB in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CMDB over the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 393 428 510
Rank change year-on-year +35 +82 -18
Contract jobs citing CMDB 193 268 362
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.45% 0.48% 0.41%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.48% 1.46% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 178 218
10th Percentile £200 £312 £360
25th Percentile £400 £406 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% +10.53%
75th Percentile £553 £629 £625
90th Percentile £625 £675 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £24.43 -
25th Percentile - £29.19 £50.75
Median hourly rate £24.18 £37.75 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.95% -26.70% -6.11%
75th Percentile - £45.69 £52.25
90th Percentile - £50.08 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £22.50 -

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 contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,068 18,305 29,349
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.13% 32.93% 33.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,298 12,595 20,602
10th Percentile £280 £313 £325
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £671
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +12.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 928 580 684
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.39 £11.87 £17.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £22.50 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.22% -15.09% +6.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.16 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.05 £22.50 £21.25
% change year-on-year +60.20% +5.88% -4.49%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CMDB.

Daily rate trend for CMDB in the UK

CMDB
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CMDB over the 6 months to 27 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CMDB in the UK

CMDB
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CMDB.

Hourly rate trend for CMDB in the UK

CMDB
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CMDB within the UK over the 6 months to 27 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +48 167 £500 -1.96% 33
UK excluding London +11 92 £450 -10.00% 23
London +68 85 £525 - 11
Work from Home +65 61 £500 -4.76% 20
North of England +32 37 £490 -7.72% 6
North West +11 29 £490 -23.10% 2
South West +15 19 £450 +38.46% 4
South East -14 12 £278 -44.80% 5
Yorkshire +21 9 £500 - 4
Scotland +16 8 £525 +7.14%
Midlands +6 8 £511 +27.81% 7
West Midlands +11 7 £513 +0.49% 5
East of England 0 6 £500 -9.09% 1
Wales +16 5 £135 -77.50% 1
East Midlands +6 1 £120 -39.62% 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 7 (3.63%) Skype for Business
2 3 (1.55%) CMS
3 1 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.52%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (5.18%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (3.11%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.04%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 13 (6.74%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (4.66%) Power Platform
3 5 (2.59%) SaaS
4 4 (2.07%) IaaS
5 3 (1.55%) Azure
5 3 (1.55%) GCP
6 2 (1.04%) AWS
6 2 (1.04%) Google App Engine
7 1 (0.52%) Datadog
7 1 (0.52%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.70%) LAN
2 8 (4.15%) WAN
3 7 (3.63%) Skype
4 5 (2.59%) Firewall
4 5 (2.59%) WLAN
5 4 (2.07%) Network Security
6 3 (1.55%) Internet
6 3 (1.55%) MPLS
6 3 (1.55%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.04%) Cisco ICM
7 2 (1.04%) DHCP
7 2 (1.04%) DNS
7 2 (1.04%) H.323
7 2 (1.04%) ISDN
7 2 (1.04%) MGCP
7 2 (1.04%) QSIG
7 2 (1.04%) SCCP
7 2 (1.04%) VLAN
7 2 (1.04%) VoIP
7 2 (1.04%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.66%) Power BI
2 4 (2.07%) Data Lake
3 3 (1.55%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.52%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (3.63%) JIRA
2 2 (1.04%) Hudson
General
1 69 (35.75%) Social Skills
2 28 (14.51%) Public Sector
3 27 (13.99%) Finance
4 25 (12.95%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (4.66%) Legal
5 9 (4.66%) Retail
6 5 (2.59%) Banking
6 5 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (2.07%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.52%) Automotive
9 1 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.52%) Military
9 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (20.21%) Developer
2 35 (18.13%) ServiceNow Developer
3 29 (15.03%) Analyst
4 25 (12.95%) Architect
5 20 (10.36%) Consultant
6 16 (8.29%) Senior
7 13 (6.74%) Service Manager
8 10 (5.18%) Configuration Manager
8 10 (5.18%) IT Analyst
8 10 (5.18%) Software Asset Manager
8 10 (5.18%) Software Manager
8 10 (5.18%) Support Engineer
9 8 (4.15%) Asset and Configuration Manager
9 8 (4.15%) Desktop Support
9 8 (4.15%) Service Analyst
9 8 (4.15%) ServiceNow Consultant
9 8 (4.15%) ServiceNow Specialist
10 7 (3.63%) Lead
10 7 (3.63%) Senior Analyst
11 6 (3.11%) ServiceNow Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.74%) CSS
1 13 (6.74%) HTML
2 9 (4.66%) AngularJS
2 9 (4.66%) LDAP
2 9 (4.66%) REST
3 8 (4.15%) XML
4 7 (3.63%) Ajax
4 7 (3.63%) SOAP
4 7 (3.63%) Web Services
5 6 (3.11%) JSON
6 2 (1.04%) React Native
6 2 (1.04%) SAML
7 1 (0.52%) .NET
7 1 (0.52%) DHTML
7 1 (0.52%) JAX-WS
7 1 (0.52%) JDBC
7 1 (0.52%) ODBC
7 1 (0.52%) SailPoint
7 1 (0.52%) WSDL
7 1 (0.52%) XHTML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (15.03%) Management Information System
2 11 (5.70%) Virtual Team
3 9 (4.66%) Freedom of Information
4 8 (4.15%) Operational Technology
5 7 (3.63%) iPhone
6 4 (2.07%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.55%) FMCG
8 2 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.04%) IVR
8 2 (1.04%) PDA
8 2 (1.04%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.04%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.52%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.52%) BYOD
9 1 (0.52%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.52%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.52%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.52%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.52%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 18 (9.33%) Windows
2 12 (6.22%) Windows 10
3 8 (4.15%) Apple iOS
4 4 (2.07%) Windows 7
5 3 (1.55%) Linux
6 1 (0.52%) Unix
6 1 (0.52%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (43.52%) ITSM
2 73 (37.82%) Configuration Management
3 66 (34.20%) ITIL
4 58 (30.05%) Service Management
5 36 (18.65%) Asset Management
6 32 (16.58%) Agile
6 32 (16.58%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (15.03%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
8 24 (12.44%) Analytics
9 19 (9.84%) IT Asset Management
10 17 (8.81%) Data Modelling
10 17 (8.81%) Incident Management
10 17 (8.81%) Roadmaps
11 16 (8.29%) Computer Science
12 15 (7.77%) Customer Service
13 14 (7.25%) Business Intelligence
13 14 (7.25%) Change Management
13 14 (7.25%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (7.25%) Service Catalogue
14 13 (6.74%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 15 (7.77%) JavaScript
2 10 (5.18%) SQL
3 9 (4.66%) PowerShell
4 6 (3.11%) Python
5 4 (2.07%) Java
6 3 (1.55%) Perl
7 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.52%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 44 (22.80%) Security Cleared
2 40 (20.73%) SC Cleared
3 27 (13.99%) Degree
4 10 (5.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (4.66%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (4.15%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (1.55%) CCNA
7 3 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.04%) ISEB
8 2 (1.04%) ISEB Practitioner
8 2 (1.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (1.04%) Network+ Certification
8 2 (1.04%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.04%) PMP
9 1 (0.52%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.52%) CCNP
9 1 (0.52%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.52%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.25%) Data Quality
2 12 (6.22%) SLA
3 7 (3.63%) GRC
4 6 (3.11%) QA
5 2 (1.04%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.04%) NIST
6 1 (0.52%) COBIT
System Software
1 15 (7.77%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.55%) Firmware
2 3 (1.55%) Virtual Servers
2 3 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (3.63%) Jamf Pro
2 6 (3.11%) Nagios
3 5 (2.59%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (2.07%) SCOM
5 3 (1.55%) SCCM
5 3 (1.55%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 2 (1.04%) Cisco CUCM
6 2 (1.04%) Cisco UCCE
6 2 (1.04%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.52%) Ansible
7 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 89 (46.11%) ServiceNow
2 20 (10.36%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.15%) Apple
4 7 (3.63%) Citrix
4 7 (3.63%) Remedy
5 6 (3.11%) BMC
6 4 (2.07%) AppDynamics
6 4 (2.07%) VMware
7 3 (1.55%) Adobe
7 3 (1.55%) Cisco
7 3 (1.55%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.04%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.04%) CyberArk
8 2 (1.04%) Genesys
8 2 (1.04%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.04%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.52%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.52%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.52%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.52%) Splunk