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 have cited CMDB over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 374 423 515
Rank change year-on-year +49 +92 -33
Contract jobs citing CMDB 208 279 363
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.48% 0.50% 0.41%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.61% 1.49% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 190 234
10th Percentile £295 £324 £353
25th Percentile £400 £409 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £525 £517
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% +1.60% +8.79%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £600
90th Percentile £610 £700 £684
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £501 £462
% change year-on-year -10.09% +8.33% +4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £19.36
25th Percentile - - £24.59
Median hourly rate £24.18 £53.00 £34.38
Median % change year-on-year -54.38% +54.18% -11.03%
75th Percentile - - £43.84
90th Percentile - - £48.89
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £17.25
% change year-on-year - - -55.35%

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,955 18,685 29,032
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.09% 33.33% 33.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,317 12,877 20,364
10th Percentile £270 £313 £315
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £678 £663
90th Percentile £800 £800 £770
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 922 612 691
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.18 £10.63 £17.19
Median hourly rate £35.00 £22.13 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +58.19% -17.99% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.30 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £71.25 £74.93 £65.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.61 £22.00 £21.25
% change year-on-year +57.30% +3.53% -7.61%

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 1 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 1 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 +41 178 £493 -6.10% 45
London +70 97 £500 -5.21% 16
UK excluding London +16 94 £450 -10.09% 29
Work from Home +62 61 £500 -2.91% 24
North of England +25 36 £475 -25.49% 9
North West +17 28 £475 -25.49% 7
South West +16 19 £450 +38.46% 1
South East -5 12 £350 -30.69% 6
Scotland +25 11 £481 +1.32%
Yorkshire +24 8 £391 - 2
Midlands +16 8 £511 +0.25% 10
West Midlands +10 7 £513 -1.44% 6
East of England +3 6 £500 -9.09% 1
Wales +19 4 £135 -77.50% 2
East Midlands +9 1 £120 -39.62% 4

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 (5.29%) Skype for Business
2 1 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.48%) CMS
2 1 (0.48%) Confluence
Applications
1 14 (6.73%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.48%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (3.85%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.96%) Maximo
2 2 (0.96%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 18 (8.65%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (4.33%) Power Platform
3 7 (3.37%) IaaS
4 5 (2.40%) SaaS
5 2 (0.96%) Azure
5 2 (0.96%) GCP
5 2 (0.96%) Google App Engine
6 1 (0.48%) AWS
6 1 (0.48%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.25%) LAN
2 11 (5.29%) Skype
3 9 (4.33%) WAN
4 7 (3.37%) Firewall
5 5 (2.40%) WLAN
6 3 (1.44%) DNS
6 3 (1.44%) Internet
6 3 (1.44%) MPLS
6 3 (1.44%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.96%) DHCP
7 2 (0.96%) VLAN
8 1 (0.48%) BGP
8 1 (0.48%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.48%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.48%) HTTP
8 1 (0.48%) IP Telephony
8 1 (0.48%) NX-OS
8 1 (0.48%) OSPF
8 1 (0.48%) SAN
8 1 (0.48%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.33%) Power BI
2 4 (1.92%) Data Lake
3 2 (0.96%) Relational Database
3 2 (0.96%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.96%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (4.33%) JIRA
2 2 (0.96%) Hudson
General
1 86 (41.35%) Social Skills
2 32 (15.38%) Finance
3 26 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 25 (12.02%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.37%) Retail
6 6 (2.88%) Legal
7 5 (2.40%) Banking
8 4 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.92%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.48%) Automotive
10 1 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.48%) Military
10 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (17.79%) Developer
2 34 (16.35%) Analyst
3 32 (15.38%) ServiceNow Developer
4 25 (12.02%) Consultant
5 18 (8.65%) Architect
6 17 (8.17%) Senior
7 13 (6.25%) Service Manager
8 12 (5.77%) Configuration Manager
8 12 (5.77%) ServiceNow Consultant
9 11 (5.29%) IT Analyst
10 10 (4.81%) Software Asset Manager
10 10 (4.81%) Software Manager
11 9 (4.33%) Support Engineer
12 8 (3.85%) Asset and Configuration Manager
12 8 (3.85%) Desktop Engineer
12 8 (3.85%) Desktop Support
12 8 (3.85%) Desktop Support Engineer
12 8 (3.85%) IT Support
12 8 (3.85%) Senior Analyst
12 8 (3.85%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (7.21%) CSS
1 15 (7.21%) HTML
2 10 (4.81%) LDAP
2 10 (4.81%) XML
3 9 (4.33%) AngularJS
4 8 (3.85%) Ajax
4 8 (3.85%) Web Services
5 7 (3.37%) JSON
5 7 (3.37%) SOAP
6 4 (1.92%) REST
7 2 (0.96%) React Native
7 2 (0.96%) SailPoint
8 1 (0.48%) .NET
8 1 (0.48%) DHTML
8 1 (0.48%) JAX-WS
8 1 (0.48%) RESTful
8 1 (0.48%) SAML
8 1 (0.48%) WSDL
8 1 (0.48%) XHTML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (15.38%) Management Information System
2 12 (5.77%) iPhone
2 12 (5.77%) Virtual Team
3 8 (3.85%) Freedom of Information
3 8 (3.85%) Operational Technology
4 3 (1.44%) Data Centre
4 3 (1.44%) FMCG
4 3 (1.44%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.44%) Taxonomies
5 2 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (0.96%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.48%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.48%) BYOD
6 1 (0.48%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.48%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.48%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.48%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.48%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.48%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 25 (12.02%) Windows
2 17 (8.17%) Windows 10
3 13 (6.25%) Apple iOS
4 5 (2.40%) Windows 7
5 4 (1.92%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.44%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.48%) Android
7 1 (0.48%) Linux
7 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.48%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (42.31%) ITSM
2 87 (41.83%) Configuration Management
3 81 (38.94%) ITIL
4 63 (30.29%) Service Management
5 41 (19.71%) Asset Management
6 34 (16.35%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (16.35%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
7 26 (12.50%) Agile
8 20 (9.62%) Analytics
8 20 (9.62%) Continuous Improvement
9 19 (9.13%) IT Asset Management
10 18 (8.65%) Customer Service
10 18 (8.65%) Incident Management
11 17 (8.17%) Computer Science
12 16 (7.69%) Change Management
12 16 (7.69%) Service Catalogue
12 16 (7.69%) Service Delivery
13 15 (7.21%) Data Modelling
13 15 (7.21%) Roadmaps
14 14 (6.73%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 17 (8.17%) JavaScript
2 12 (5.77%) SQL
3 11 (5.29%) PowerShell
4 6 (2.88%) Python
5 5 (2.40%) Java
6 2 (0.96%) Perl
7 1 (0.48%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 44 (21.15%) Security Cleared
2 40 (19.23%) SC Cleared
3 29 (13.94%) Degree
4 13 (6.25%) ITIL Certification
5 12 (5.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (4.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.44%) CCNA
7 3 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.44%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.96%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (0.96%) Network+ Certification
8 2 (0.96%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.96%) PMP
9 1 (0.48%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.48%) CCNP
9 1 (0.48%) ISEB
9 1 (0.48%) ISEB Practitioner
9 1 (0.48%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.48%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (9.62%) Data Quality
2 12 (5.77%) SLA
3 6 (2.88%) QA
4 5 (2.40%) GRC
5 2 (0.96%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.96%) NIST
6 1 (0.48%) COBIT
System Software
1 20 (9.62%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.40%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (1.44%) Firmware
5 1 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.48%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (5.29%) Jamf Pro
2 7 (3.37%) SCCM
3 6 (2.88%) Nagios
4 5 (2.40%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.92%) SCOM
5 4 (1.92%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 2 (0.96%) vRealize
6 2 (0.96%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.48%) Ansible
7 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.48%) Observium
7 1 (0.48%) Terraform
7 1 (0.48%) WSUS
Vendors
1 99 (47.60%) ServiceNow
2 24 (11.54%) Microsoft
3 12 (5.77%) Apple
4 11 (5.29%) Citrix
5 9 (4.33%) Remedy
6 7 (3.37%) VMware
7 6 (2.88%) BMC
8 4 (1.92%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.44%) Adobe
9 3 (1.44%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.44%) SolarWinds
10 2 (0.96%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.96%) Cisco
10 2 (0.96%) CyberArk
10 2 (0.96%) Iron Mountain
10 2 (0.96%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.96%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.96%) Splunk
10 2 (0.96%) WALLIX
11 1 (0.48%) Zscaler