Runbook Contracts in the South East

Runbook
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Runbook skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Runbook over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 172 190 219
Rank change year-on-year +18 +29 -5
Contract jobs citing Runbook 28 25 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.49% 0.44% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.50% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 23 36
10th Percentile £463 £158 -
25th Percentile £469 £161 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £450 £385
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +16.88% -17.20%
75th Percentile £606 £694 £458
90th Percentile £653 £715 £588
England median daily rate £512 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.91% +4.76% +12.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £30.38 - -
25th Percentile £34.69 - -
Median hourly rate £42.75 - -
75th Percentile £51.19 - -
90th Percentile £55.73 - -
England median hourly rate £23.07 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Runbook falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,758 5,043 6,873
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 82.70% 89.05% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,760 3,463 4,677
10th Percentile £260 £250 £246
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% +1.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 468 218 275
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £12.31
25th Percentile £18.32 £25.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £49.50 £52.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +133.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.16 £48.67
90th Percentile £76.90 £75.00 £64.90
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

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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 13 June 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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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Runbook in the South East over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 13 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
Thames Valley +11 13 £600 -14.29% 2
Berkshire -2 12 £625 -7.41% 2
West Sussex - 9 £475 - 2
Hampshire - 5 - - 1
Buckinghamshire +23 1 £400 -44.06%
Home Counties - 1 £600 -
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England

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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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (7.14%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 12 (42.86%) Azure
2 6 (21.43%) Entra ID
3 5 (17.86%) IaaS
4 2 (7.14%) AWS
4 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (7.14%) OpenShift
5 1 (3.57%) GitHub
5 1 (3.57%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.29%) Firewall
2 3 (10.71%) DNS
3 2 (7.14%) DHCP
4 1 (3.57%) Network Security
4 1 (3.57%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) MongoDB
1 4 (14.29%) MySQL
1 4 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (14.29%) RDBMS
1 4 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (21.43%) Git
2 5 (17.86%) GitLab
3 1 (3.57%) Subversion
General
1 3 (10.71%) Social Skills
1 3 (10.71%) Telecoms
2 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (7.14%) Banking
2 2 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (7.14%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (32.14%) Linux Engineer
2 5 (17.86%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
3 4 (14.29%) Senior
4 3 (10.71%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Active Directory Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Specialist
5 2 (7.14%) Cyber Threat Specialist
5 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Security Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Senior Linux Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Active Directory Consultant
6 1 (3.57%) Cloud Security Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Data Centre Technician
6 1 (3.57%) Lead
6 1 (3.57%) Linux Support Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Platform Specialist
6 1 (3.57%) Service Operations Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Site Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) YAML
2 1 (3.57%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (21.43%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (17.86%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (10.71%) Smart Meter
4 1 (3.57%) Clustering
4 1 (3.57%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.57%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (42.86%) Linux
2 8 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (21.43%) Unix
4 5 (17.86%) VMS
5 3 (10.71%) Solaris
5 3 (10.71%) Windows
6 2 (7.14%) Ubuntu
6 2 (7.14%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (53.57%) Continuous Improvement
2 10 (35.71%) Project Delivery
3 7 (25.00%) Agile
3 7 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (25.00%) High Availability
3 7 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
3 7 (25.00%) Remediation Plan
3 7 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 6 (21.43%) Risk Management
5 5 (17.86%) Actionable Insight
5 5 (17.86%) Behavioural Analysis
5 5 (17.86%) Cyber Intelligence
5 5 (17.86%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 5 (17.86%) Information Security
5 5 (17.86%) ITIL
5 5 (17.86%) Mentoring
5 5 (17.86%) OSINT
5 5 (17.86%) Privileged Access Management
5 5 (17.86%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 8 (28.57%) Python
2 7 (25.00%) Bash
3 5 (17.86%) PowerShell
4 2 (7.14%) Bicep
4 2 (7.14%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (7.14%) Shell Script
4 2 (7.14%) VBScript
5 1 (3.57%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 4 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) GDPR
1 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 8 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 7 (25.00%) vSphere
3 3 (10.71%) Docker
3 3 (10.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (10.71%) VMware NSX
4 2 (7.14%) Ceph
4 2 (7.14%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 2 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (7.14%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 10 (35.71%) Ansible
2 7 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 5 (17.86%) Packer
3 5 (17.86%) Terraform
3 5 (17.86%) vRealize
4 3 (10.71%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (7.14%) Pacemaker
5 2 (7.14%) Podman
5 2 (7.14%) SCCM
6 1 (3.57%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (3.57%) SELinux
6 1 (3.57%) VxRail
Vendors
1 9 (32.14%) VMware
2 8 (28.57%) SolarWinds
3 6 (21.43%) Red Hat
4 5 (17.86%) CyberArk
4 5 (17.86%) Okta
4 5 (17.86%) Veritas
5 4 (14.29%) Arqiva
5 4 (14.29%) Oracle
6 2 (7.14%) Citrix
6 2 (7.14%) Ivanti
6 2 (7.14%) Sun
6 2 (7.14%) Symantec
7 1 (3.57%) Dell
7 1 (3.57%) Microsoft