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 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 339 359 426
Rank change year-on-year +20 +67 -30
Contract jobs citing Runbook 55 83 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.36% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.41% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 61 67
10th Percentile £380 £161 -
25th Percentile £453 £363 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +16.67% +0.28%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £584
90th Percentile £631 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £505 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -8.18% +10.00% +5.26%
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 17,263 20,432 27,469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.19% 89.17% 89.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,230 14,021 19,224
10th Percentile £246 £260 £240
25th Percentile £375 £400 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £580
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,129 1,241 1,350
10th Percentile £12.41 £10.63 £12.43
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £62.28
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +10.45%

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 3 June 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 3 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
South East +17 29 £540 +20.00% 7
North of England +23 13 £450 -33.33% 6
Midlands +15 8 £300 -42.86% 3
West Midlands +10 8 £300 -42.86% 3
North West +3 7 £450 -33.33% 5
Yorkshire +17 5 £360 -34.55% 1
Scotland +41 3 £475 +18.75% 1
South West +6 2 £600 +200.00% 1
North East +11 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 (1.82%) Apache
1 1 (1.82%) CMS
1 1 (1.82%) Confluence
1 1 (1.82%) JBoss
1 1 (1.82%) nginx
1 1 (1.82%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (5.45%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.82%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 28 (50.91%) Azure
2 9 (16.36%) Serverless
3 7 (12.73%) AWS
3 7 (12.73%) Azure Functions
3 7 (12.73%) Power Platform
4 6 (10.91%) Azure Monitor
4 6 (10.91%) Entra ID
4 6 (10.91%) IaaS
5 3 (5.45%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (5.45%) GitHub
6 2 (3.64%) Apigee
6 2 (3.64%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (3.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (3.64%) GCP
6 2 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (3.64%) OpenShift
6 2 (3.64%) Power Automate
6 2 (3.64%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.82%) Mimecast
7 1 (1.82%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 8 (14.55%) DNS
2 6 (10.91%) DHCP
3 5 (9.09%) Firewall
4 2 (3.64%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (3.64%) TCP/IP
4 2 (3.64%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.82%) Network Security
5 1 (1.82%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.73%) Power BI
2 6 (10.91%) MySQL
2 6 (10.91%) RDBMS
2 6 (10.91%) Relational Database
3 5 (9.09%) MongoDB
3 5 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (5.45%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.82%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 8 (14.55%) Git
2 6 (10.91%) GitLab
3 3 (5.45%) Cypress.io
4 2 (3.64%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.64%) Selenium
5 1 (1.82%) GoCD
5 1 (1.82%) JUnit
5 1 (1.82%) Subversion
General
1 8 (14.55%) Social Skills
2 6 (10.91%) Finance
3 5 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.45%) Banking
4 3 (5.45%) Telecoms
5 2 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.64%) Legal
6 1 (1.82%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.82%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
2 8 (14.55%) Senior
3 6 (10.91%) Analyst
3 6 (10.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (7.27%) Java Engineer
4 4 (7.27%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (5.45%) SOC Analyst
5 3 (5.45%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
6 2 (3.64%) Active Directory Engineer
6 2 (3.64%) Business Analyst
6 2 (3.64%) Data Centre Technician
6 2 (3.64%) Data Technician
6 2 (3.64%) Developer
6 2 (3.64%) Full Stack Engineer
6 2 (3.64%) IT Engineer
6 2 (3.64%) Power Apps Developer
6 2 (3.64%) Python Engineer
6 2 (3.64%) Senior Power Apps Developer
6 2 (3.64%) Senior SQL Developer
6 2 (3.64%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.45%) Jest
1 3 (5.45%) Node.js
1 3 (5.45%) React
2 2 (3.64%) CSS
2 2 (3.64%) CSS3
2 2 (3.64%) HTML
2 2 (3.64%) HTML5
2 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Graph
2 2 (3.64%) Middleware
2 2 (3.64%) React Native
2 2 (3.64%) REST
2 2 (3.64%) YAML
3 1 (1.82%) Android Jetpack
3 1 (1.82%) Dagger
3 1 (1.82%) IBM Integration Bus
3 1 (1.82%) Jetpack Compose
3 1 (1.82%) Retrofit
3 1 (1.82%) RxJava
3 1 (1.82%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.73%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (7.27%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (5.45%) Data Centre
3 3 (5.45%) Smart Meter
4 2 (3.64%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.82%) Clustering
5 1 (1.82%) CMDB
5 1 (1.82%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.82%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.82%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 15 (27.27%) Linux
1 15 (27.27%) Windows
2 10 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (14.55%) Unix
4 6 (10.91%) VMS
5 3 (5.45%) Solaris
6 2 (3.64%) Ubuntu
6 2 (3.64%) Windows 10
6 2 (3.64%) Windows 7
6 2 (3.64%) Windows Server
6 2 (3.64%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (3.64%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.82%) Android
7 1 (1.82%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (21.82%) Continuous Improvement
2 11 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 10 (18.18%) Agile
3 10 (18.18%) CI/CD
3 10 (18.18%) ITIL
4 9 (16.36%) Incident Management
4 9 (16.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 9 (16.36%) Product Roadmap
4 9 (16.36%) Roadmaps
5 7 (12.73%) High Availability
5 7 (12.73%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (12.73%) Remediation Plan
6 6 (10.91%) Build Automation
6 6 (10.91%) Disaster Recovery
6 6 (10.91%) Incident Response
6 6 (10.91%) Scrum
6 6 (10.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 5 (9.09%) Containerisation
7 5 (9.09%) Privileged Access Management
7 5 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 14 (25.45%) Python
2 11 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 9 (16.36%) Bash
4 4 (7.27%) Java
5 3 (5.45%) Kotlin
5 3 (5.45%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (5.45%) Shell Script
5 3 (5.45%) TypeScript
6 2 (3.64%) SQL
6 2 (3.64%) VBScript
7 1 (1.82%) Bicep
7 1 (1.82%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.82%) Perl
7 1 (1.82%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (9.09%) Degree
1 5 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 5 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.45%) CISM
2 3 (5.45%) CISSP
2 3 (5.45%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (3.64%) A+ Certification
3 2 (3.64%) CCNA
3 2 (3.64%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (3.64%) Network+ Certification
3 2 (3.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (5.45%) SLA
2 2 (3.64%) QA
3 1 (1.82%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.82%) GDPR
3 1 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 10 (18.18%) Active Directory
2 8 (14.55%) vSphere
3 7 (12.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (9.09%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (7.27%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (5.45%) Docker
6 3 (5.45%) VMware NSX
7 2 (3.64%) Ceph
7 2 (3.64%) Hyper-V
7 2 (3.64%) KVM
7 2 (3.64%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 2 (3.64%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (3.64%) VMware Workstation
7 2 (3.64%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 14 (25.45%) Ansible
2 9 (16.36%) Terraform
3 8 (14.55%) Kubernetes
4 6 (10.91%) Packer
4 6 (10.91%) vRealize
5 5 (9.09%) SysTrack
6 3 (5.45%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (3.64%) Pacemaker
7 2 (3.64%) Podman
7 2 (3.64%) SCCM
7 2 (3.64%) vCenter Server
8 1 (1.82%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (1.82%) SELinux
8 1 (1.82%) VxRail
Vendors
1 14 (25.45%) VMware
2 8 (14.55%) Microsoft
3 7 (12.73%) Citrix
3 7 (12.73%) Red Hat
3 7 (12.73%) SolarWinds
4 6 (10.91%) Oracle
4 6 (10.91%) Veritas
5 5 (9.09%) Arqiva
5 5 (9.09%) CyberArk
5 5 (9.09%) New Relic
5 5 (9.09%) Okta
5 5 (9.09%) OpenAI
6 2 (3.64%) Ivanti
6 2 (3.64%) Sun
6 2 (3.64%) Symantec
7 1 (1.82%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (1.82%) Dell
7 1 (1.82%) IBM
7 1 (1.82%) Netskope
7 1 (1.82%) Temenos