Runbook Contracts in the UK excluding London

Runbook
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 326 370 433
Rank change year-on-year +44 +63 -55
Contract jobs citing Runbook 62 83 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.30% 0.35% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.39% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 60 57
10th Percentile £320 £161 -
25th Percentile £425 £377 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +16.67% +3.03%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £538
90th Percentile £620 £700 £680
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +6.46%
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 - - -
UK median hourly rate £18.13 £51.00 -
% change year-on-year -64.45% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,300 21,032 27,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.45% 89.50% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,314 14,532 18,929
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £653
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,056 1,281 1,348
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.44 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.00 £47.05
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.92
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

Runbook
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Runbook as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Runbook in the UK excluding London

Runbook
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Runbook in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Runbook in the UK excluding London

Runbook
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Runbook in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Runbook in the UK excluding London

Runbook
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Runbook in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Runbook in the UK excluding London

Runbook
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Runbook within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
South East +23 27 £540 +170.00% 7
North of England +23 18 £380 -44.73% 4
Yorkshire +26 10 £340 -45.60% 1
Midlands +23 10 £300 -42.86% 3
West Midlands +12 10 £300 -42.86% 1
North West +14 7 £450 -34.55% 3
Scotland +39 5 £475 +18.75% 1
South West +10 2 £600 +200.00% 2
North East +13 1 - -
Runbook
UK

Runbook
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (1.61%) Apache
1 1 (1.61%) Confluence
1 1 (1.61%) JBoss
1 1 (1.61%) nginx
1 1 (1.61%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.61%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 29 (46.77%) Azure
2 11 (17.74%) Serverless
3 9 (14.52%) Azure Functions
3 9 (14.52%) Power Platform
4 8 (12.90%) AWS
5 6 (9.68%) Entra ID
5 6 (9.68%) IaaS
6 5 (8.06%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (6.45%) Apigee
7 4 (6.45%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (6.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (6.45%) GCP
7 4 (6.45%) Power Automate
8 3 (4.84%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (4.84%) GitHub
9 2 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (3.23%) OpenShift
9 2 (3.23%) PowerApps
10 1 (1.61%) Mimecast
10 1 (1.61%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 13 (20.97%) DNS
2 11 (17.74%) DHCP
3 7 (11.29%) Remote Desktop
3 7 (11.29%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (8.06%) Firewall
5 2 (3.23%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.61%) Network Security
6 1 (1.61%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.52%) Power BI
2 6 (9.68%) MySQL
2 6 (9.68%) RDBMS
2 6 (9.68%) Relational Database
3 5 (8.06%) MongoDB
3 5 (8.06%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (6.45%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (6.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (4.84%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.61%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 8 (12.90%) Git
2 6 (9.68%) GitLab
3 3 (4.84%) Cypress.io
4 2 (3.23%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.23%) Selenium
5 1 (1.61%) GoCD
5 1 (1.61%) JUnit
5 1 (1.61%) Subversion
General
1 14 (22.58%) Social Skills
2 8 (12.90%) Finance
3 7 (11.29%) Banking
4 4 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.84%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.61%) Legal
7 1 (1.61%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (17.74%) Linux Engineer
2 8 (12.90%) Senior
3 6 (9.68%) Analyst
3 6 (9.68%) Data Centre Engineer
3 6 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (6.45%) Data Centre Technician
4 4 (6.45%) Data Technician
4 4 (6.45%) Developer
4 4 (6.45%) IT Engineer
4 4 (6.45%) IT Technician
4 4 (6.45%) Java Engineer
4 4 (6.45%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (4.84%) SOC Analyst
5 3 (4.84%) Support Engineer
6 2 (3.23%) Applications Developer
6 2 (3.23%) Business Analyst
6 2 (3.23%) Desktop Support
6 2 (3.23%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (3.23%) Senior Developer
6 2 (3.23%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.45%) Microsoft Graph
2 3 (4.84%) Jest
2 3 (4.84%) Node.js
2 3 (4.84%) React
3 2 (3.23%) CSS
3 2 (3.23%) CSS3
3 2 (3.23%) HTML
3 2 (3.23%) HTML5
3 2 (3.23%) Middleware
3 2 (3.23%) React Native
3 2 (3.23%) REST
3 2 (3.23%) YAML
4 1 (1.61%) Android Jetpack
4 1 (1.61%) Dagger
4 1 (1.61%) IBM Integration Bus
4 1 (1.61%) Jetpack Compose
4 1 (1.61%) Retrofit
4 1 (1.61%) RxJava
4 1 (1.61%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.90%) Data Centre
2 7 (11.29%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (6.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 3 (4.84%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (4.84%) Smart Meter
5 1 (1.61%) Clustering
5 1 (1.61%) CMDB
5 1 (1.61%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.61%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.61%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 20 (32.26%) Windows
2 15 (24.19%) Linux
3 10 (16.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (12.90%) Unix
5 7 (11.29%) Windows 10
5 7 (11.29%) Windows 7
6 6 (9.68%) VMS
7 3 (4.84%) Solaris
8 2 (3.23%) Ubuntu
8 2 (3.23%) Windows Server
8 2 (3.23%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (3.23%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (1.61%) Android
9 1 (1.61%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (19.35%) Project Delivery
2 10 (16.13%) Agile
2 10 (16.13%) Continuous Improvement
2 10 (16.13%) Migration
2 10 (16.13%) Roadmaps
3 9 (14.52%) CI/CD
3 9 (14.52%) ITIL
3 9 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (14.52%) Product Roadmap
4 8 (12.90%) Incident Management
4 8 (12.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 7 (11.29%) Computer Science
5 7 (11.29%) High Availability
5 7 (11.29%) Network Monitoring
5 7 (11.29%) Remediation Plan
6 6 (9.68%) Build Automation
6 6 (9.68%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (9.68%) Scrum
6 6 (9.68%) Test Automation
6 6 (9.68%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 14 (22.58%) Python
2 10 (16.13%) PowerShell
3 9 (14.52%) Bash
4 4 (6.45%) Java
4 4 (6.45%) SQL
5 3 (4.84%) Kotlin
5 3 (4.84%) Shell Script
5 3 (4.84%) TypeScript
6 2 (3.23%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (3.23%) VBScript
7 1 (1.61%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.61%) Perl
7 1 (1.61%) PHP
Qualifications
1 7 (11.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 7 (11.29%) Degree
1 7 (11.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 5 (8.06%) SC Cleared
2 5 (8.06%) Security Cleared
3 4 (6.45%) A+ Certification
3 4 (6.45%) CCNA
3 4 (6.45%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (6.45%) Network+ Certification
4 3 (4.84%) CISM
4 3 (4.84%) CISSP
4 3 (4.84%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.06%) QA
2 3 (4.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.84%) SLA
3 1 (1.61%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.61%) GDPR
3 1 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 15 (24.19%) Active Directory
2 12 (19.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (14.52%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (12.90%) vSphere
5 7 (11.29%) KVM
5 7 (11.29%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (11.29%) VMware Workstation
6 5 (8.06%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (6.45%) Hyper-V
8 3 (4.84%) Docker
8 3 (4.84%) VMware NSX
9 2 (3.23%) Ceph
9 2 (3.23%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 2 (3.23%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 14 (22.58%) Ansible
2 8 (12.90%) Kubernetes
2 8 (12.90%) Terraform
3 7 (11.29%) vCenter Server
4 6 (9.68%) Packer
4 6 (9.68%) vRealize
5 5 (8.06%) SysTrack
6 3 (4.84%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (3.23%) Pacemaker
7 2 (3.23%) Podman
7 2 (3.23%) SCCM
8 1 (1.61%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (1.61%) SELinux
8 1 (1.61%) VxRail
Vendors
1 19 (30.65%) VMware
2 13 (20.97%) Microsoft
3 7 (11.29%) Citrix
3 7 (11.29%) Red Hat
4 6 (9.68%) Oracle
4 6 (9.68%) SolarWinds
4 6 (9.68%) Veritas
5 5 (8.06%) Arqiva
5 5 (8.06%) CyberArk
5 5 (8.06%) New Relic
5 5 (8.06%) Okta
5 5 (8.06%) OpenAI
6 2 (3.23%) Ivanti
6 2 (3.23%) Sun
6 2 (3.23%) Symantec
7 1 (1.61%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.61%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (1.61%) Dell
7 1 (1.61%) IBM
7 1 (1.61%) Temenos