Runbook Contracts with Work from Home Options

Runbook
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 300 392 501
Rank change year-on-year +92 +109 -124
Contract jobs citing Runbook 49 74 119
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.33% 0.29% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.33% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 54 70
10th Percentile £367 £424 £385
25th Percentile £463 £518 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £488
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +23.08% -2.50%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £625
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +6.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £51.00 -
UK median hourly rate £18.13 £51.00 -
% change year-on-year -64.45% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,143 22,599 40,333
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.00% 89.72% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,800 15,969 29,287
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 519 542
10th Percentile £14.96 £18.63 £14.28
25th Percentile £25.50 £29.31 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £53.35 £37.39
Median % change year-on-year -19.40% +42.69% +52.60%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £71.80
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

Runbook
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Runbook as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Runbook trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Runbook.

Runbook daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Runbook over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Runbook daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Runbook
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Runbook.

Runbook hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Runbook
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (10.20%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 3 (6.12%) Apache
2 3 (6.12%) JBoss
2 3 (6.12%) nginx
2 3 (6.12%) Tomcat
3 2 (4.08%) Confluence
3 2 (4.08%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 1 (2.04%) IIS
4 1 (2.04%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (2.04%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 3 (6.12%) Temenos T24
2 1 (2.04%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 16 (32.65%) Azure
2 11 (22.45%) AWS
3 8 (16.33%) GitHub
4 7 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (10.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (6.12%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (4.08%) Entra ID
7 2 (4.08%) OpenShift
7 2 (4.08%) SaaS
8 1 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.04%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (2.04%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.04%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (2.04%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (2.04%) GCP
8 1 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (2.04%) OCI
8 1 (2.04%) OneDrive
8 1 (2.04%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (22.45%) Firewall
2 5 (10.20%) DNS
3 2 (4.08%) DHCP
3 2 (4.08%) LAN
3 2 (4.08%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (4.08%) SD-WAN
3 2 (4.08%) SSH
3 2 (4.08%) WAN
4 1 (2.04%) BGP
4 1 (2.04%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (2.04%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (2.04%) CTI
4 1 (2.04%) H.323
4 1 (2.04%) HTTP
4 1 (2.04%) MPLS
4 1 (2.04%) Network Security
4 1 (2.04%) OSPF
4 1 (2.04%) VLAN
4 1 (2.04%) VPN
4 1 (2.04%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 3 (6.12%) MySQL
2 3 (6.12%) RDBMS
2 3 (6.12%) Relational Database
3 2 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.04%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.04%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.04%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (2.04%) JIRA
General
1 11 (22.45%) Social Skills
2 8 (16.33%) Finance
3 5 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.16%) Back Office
5 3 (6.12%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.08%) Aviation
6 2 (4.08%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.04%) Aerospace
7 1 (2.04%) Banking
7 1 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.04%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.04%) Police
7 1 (2.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (16.33%) Analyst
2 7 (14.29%) Architect
2 7 (14.29%) Business Analyst
3 5 (10.20%) Asset Management Analyst
3 5 (10.20%) Asset Management Business Analyst
3 5 (10.20%) Senior
4 4 (8.16%) Applications Support
4 4 (8.16%) Consultant
4 4 (8.16%) Linux Engineer
4 4 (8.16%) Regulatory Business Analyst
5 3 (6.12%) Linux Support
5 3 (6.12%) Technical Architect
6 2 (4.08%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) IT Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) Senior Linux Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) Service Manager
6 2 (4.08%) Service Transition Manager
6 2 (4.08%) Technical Analyst
6 2 (4.08%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.16%) Middleware
2 3 (6.12%) IBM Integration Bus
3 2 (4.08%) OpenID
3 2 (4.08%) SailPoint
3 2 (4.08%) SAML
3 2 (4.08%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.16%) DTCC
1 4 (8.16%) Equities
2 3 (6.12%) Data Centre
2 3 (6.12%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (4.08%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.08%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.08%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.04%) Clustering
4 1 (2.04%) Cyberattack
4 1 (2.04%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.04%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.04%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 12 (24.49%) Linux
2 9 (18.37%) Windows
3 5 (10.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (10.20%) Windows Server
4 4 (8.16%) Unix
5 3 (6.12%) Ubuntu
6 2 (4.08%) Solaris
7 1 (2.04%) Android
7 1 (2.04%) Apple iOS
7 1 (2.04%) Mac OS
7 1 (2.04%) Mac OS X
7 1 (2.04%) Windows 10
7 1 (2.04%) Windows 7
7 1 (2.04%) Windows Mobile
7 1 (2.04%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (2.04%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (20.41%) Roadmaps
2 8 (16.33%) Migration
2 8 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (16.33%) Product Roadmap
3 7 (14.29%) Agile
3 7 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (10.20%) Asset Management
4 5 (10.20%) High Availability
4 5 (10.20%) Investment Management
4 5 (10.20%) Privileged Access Management
4 5 (10.20%) Project Delivery
4 5 (10.20%) Wealth Management
5 4 (8.16%) Cash Management
5 4 (8.16%) Collateral Management
5 4 (8.16%) Computer Science
5 4 (8.16%) Incident Management
5 4 (8.16%) Remediation Plan
5 4 (8.16%) User Stories
6 3 (6.12%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 9 (18.37%) Python
2 7 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 3 (6.12%) Shell Script
4 2 (4.08%) Bash
4 2 (4.08%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.04%) Java
5 1 (2.04%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (2.04%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (24.49%) Security Cleared
2 10 (20.41%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.16%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (8.16%) Degree
4 2 (4.08%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.04%) A+ Certification
5 1 (2.04%) CCNA
5 1 (2.04%) CCNP
5 1 (2.04%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (2.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.08%) QA
2 1 (2.04%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (2.04%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (12.24%) Active Directory
2 4 (8.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (6.12%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (6.12%) vSphere
4 2 (4.08%) Ceph
4 2 (4.08%) Docker
4 2 (4.08%) Hyper-V
4 2 (4.08%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 2 (4.08%) VMware NSX
5 1 (2.04%) Firmware
5 1 (2.04%) KVM
5 1 (2.04%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.04%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 9 (18.37%) Terraform
2 4 (8.16%) Ansible
3 3 (6.12%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (4.08%) Kubernetes
4 2 (4.08%) Pacemaker
4 2 (4.08%) Podman
4 2 (4.08%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (4.08%) SCOM
4 2 (4.08%) SCOrch
4 2 (4.08%) vCenter Server
5 1 (2.04%) Data Guard
5 1 (2.04%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.04%) SCCM
5 1 (2.04%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 8 (16.33%) Red Hat
2 7 (14.29%) Oracle
3 6 (12.24%) VMware
4 5 (10.20%) CyberArk
5 4 (8.16%) Cisco
6 3 (6.12%) IBM
6 3 (6.12%) Temenos
7 2 (4.08%) Atlassian
7 2 (4.08%) BeyondTrust
7 2 (4.08%) CheckPoint
7 2 (4.08%) Microsoft
7 2 (4.08%) Okta
7 2 (4.08%) ServiceNow
7 2 (4.08%) SolarWinds
7 2 (4.08%) Sun
8 1 (2.04%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (2.04%) F5
8 1 (2.04%) Infoblox
8 1 (2.04%) Sparx
8 1 (2.04%) Zscaler