Runbook Contracts in the South East

Runbook
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Runbook skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Runbook over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 167 197 229
Rank change year-on-year +30 +32 -28
Contract jobs citing Runbook 27 22 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.49% 0.38% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.43% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 20 21
10th Percentile £463 £158 -
25th Percentile £475 £161 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £200 £385
Median % change year-on-year +162.50% -48.05% -17.20%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £411
90th Percentile £655 £702 £580
England median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27.50 - -
Median hourly rate £28.00 - -
75th Percentile £28.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £18.13 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Runbook is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,700 5,156 6,968
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.75% 89.24% 89.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,740 3,588 4,724
10th Percentile £243 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £405 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.91% +2.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £623 £619 £593
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 437 224 288
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.25 £12.21
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.34 £15.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.99
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +127.43% -20.05%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.72 £48.62
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.55 £62.48
England median hourly rate £36.00 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -3.59% +53.69% +1.23%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Runbook as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Runbook in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Runbook in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Runbook in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Runbook in the South East over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Runbook in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Runbook in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Runbook in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Runbook within the South East region over the 6 months to 2 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley +12 12 £625 -7.41% 1
Berkshire -2 12 £625 -3.85% 1
West Sussex - 7 £475 -
Hampshire +4 6 - - 3
Surrey +5 1 £500 +189.86% 1
Home Counties - 1 £600 -
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 13 (48.15%) Azure
2 6 (22.22%) AWS
2 6 (22.22%) Entra ID
2 6 (22.22%) IaaS
3 2 (7.41%) OpenShift
4 1 (3.70%) GitHub
4 1 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.70%) Mimecast
4 1 (3.70%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.81%) Firewall
2 3 (11.11%) DNS
3 2 (7.41%) DHCP
4 1 (3.70%) Network Security
4 1 (3.70%) SAN
4 1 (3.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) MongoDB
1 5 (18.52%) MySQL
1 5 (18.52%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (18.52%) RDBMS
1 5 (18.52%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (25.93%) Git
2 6 (22.22%) GitLab
3 1 (3.70%) Subversion
General
1 3 (11.11%) Social Skills
1 3 (11.11%) Telecoms
2 2 (7.41%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.70%) Finance
3 1 (3.70%) Legal
Job Titles
1 10 (37.04%) Linux Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) Platform Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) Senior
3 3 (11.11%) Release Manager
3 3 (11.11%) Telecoms Manager
4 2 (7.41%) Active Directory Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Active Directory Consultant
5 1 (3.70%) Consultant
5 1 (3.70%) Data Centre Technician
5 1 (3.70%) Data Technician
5 1 (3.70%) Disaster Recovery Project Manager
5 1 (3.70%) Linux Support Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Project Manager
5 1 (3.70%) Service Operations Manager
5 1 (3.70%) Support Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) YAML
2 1 (3.70%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.93%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (11.11%) Smart Meter
3 1 (3.70%) Clustering
3 1 (3.70%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (3.70%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (51.85%) Linux
2 9 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (25.93%) Unix
4 6 (22.22%) VMS
5 4 (14.81%) Windows
6 3 (11.11%) Solaris
7 2 (7.41%) Ubuntu
7 2 (7.41%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (7.41%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (3.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (51.85%) Project Delivery
2 12 (44.44%) Roadmaps
3 9 (33.33%) Agile
3 9 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
4 8 (29.63%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (25.93%) High Availability
5 7 (25.93%) Remediation Plan
6 6 (22.22%) Build Automation
6 6 (22.22%) CI/CD
6 6 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (22.22%) Scrum
7 5 (18.52%) Containerisation
7 5 (18.52%) Privileged Access Management
8 4 (14.81%) Disaster Recovery
8 4 (14.81%) Platform Engineering
8 4 (14.81%) Technical Leadership
9 3 (11.11%) Asset Management
9 3 (11.11%) ITIL
9 3 (11.11%) Service Delivery
9 3 (11.11%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 10 (37.04%) Python
2 8 (29.63%) Bash
3 3 (11.11%) PowerShell
4 2 (7.41%) Shell Script
4 2 (7.41%) VBScript
5 1 (3.70%) Perl
Qualifications
1 5 (18.52%) SC Cleared
1 5 (18.52%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) QA
2 1 (3.70%) GDPR
2 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 8 (29.63%) Active Directory
1 8 (29.63%) vSphere
2 3 (11.11%) Docker
2 3 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (11.11%) VMware NSX
3 2 (7.41%) Ceph
3 2 (7.41%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 2 (7.41%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (7.41%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 11 (40.74%) Ansible
2 8 (29.63%) Kubernetes
3 6 (22.22%) Packer
3 6 (22.22%) vRealize
4 3 (11.11%) Red Hat Satellite
4 3 (11.11%) Terraform
5 2 (7.41%) Pacemaker
5 2 (7.41%) Podman
5 2 (7.41%) SCCM
6 1 (3.70%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (3.70%) SELinux
6 1 (3.70%) VxRail
Vendors
1 10 (37.04%) VMware
2 6 (22.22%) Red Hat
2 6 (22.22%) SolarWinds
2 6 (22.22%) Veritas
3 5 (18.52%) Arqiva
3 5 (18.52%) CyberArk
3 5 (18.52%) Okta
3 5 (18.52%) Oracle
4 3 (11.11%) Atlassian
5 2 (7.41%) Citrix
5 2 (7.41%) Ivanti
5 2 (7.41%) Sun
5 2 (7.41%) Symantec
6 1 (3.70%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (3.70%) Dell
6 1 (3.70%) Microsoft
6 1 (3.70%) Netskope
6 1 (3.70%) Zscaler