Runbook
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Runbook skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Runbook over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 795 839 855
Rank change year-on-year +44 +16 -102
Permanent jobs citing Runbook 110 134 376
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.13% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.13% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 71 89 176
10th Percentile £32,000 £38,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £56,000 £48,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,600 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.16% +0.92% +8.33%
75th Percentile £68,750 £87,500 £90,313
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £108,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +27.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,360 99,485 147,504
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.62% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 59,619 58,411 83,272
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Runbook
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Runbook as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Runbook in the UK

Runbook
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Runbook.

Salary trend for Runbook in the UK

Runbook
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Runbook over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Runbook in the UK

Runbook
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Runbook within the UK over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +72 89 £55,000 -15.77% 37
UK excluding London -12 52 £55,000 -4.35% 21
Work from Home +86 47 £55,000 -8.33% 16
London +122 44 £55,000 -26.67% 19
North of England +38 15 £47,500 -3.06% 5
North West +26 13 £48,750 -30.36% 4
South West -12 13 £67,500 - 2
South East +4 10 £63,750 +10.87% 7
Midlands -2 5 £27,000 -55.00% 3
West Midlands - 5 £27,000 - 2
Isle of Man - 3 - -
Wales +15 2 £65,000 +30.00% 3
East of England +11 2 £42,000 -
Scotland - 2 £72,000 - 1
North East - 2 £47,500 -

Runbook
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (5.45%) Confluence
2 5 (4.55%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (5.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.73%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.91%) Endur
1 1 (0.91%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 57 (51.82%) Azure
2 36 (32.73%) AWS
3 27 (24.55%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (18.18%) Power Platform
5 18 (16.36%) Azure Monitor
6 15 (13.64%) Azure Logic Apps
6 15 (13.64%) Power Automate
7 14 (12.73%) PowerApps
8 13 (11.82%) Dynamics 365
9 9 (8.18%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (8.18%) IaaS
9 9 (8.18%) PaaS
10 8 (7.27%) Entra ID
10 8 (7.27%) SaaS
11 7 (6.36%) Azure Sentinel
11 7 (6.36%) Cloud Computing
12 6 (5.45%) Azure Data Factory
13 4 (3.64%) GitHub
13 4 (3.64%) OneDrive
13 4 (3.64%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 33 (30.00%) Firewall
2 16 (14.55%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (3.64%) Wireless
4 2 (1.82%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (1.82%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (1.82%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.82%) VoIP
4 2 (1.82%) VPN
4 2 (1.82%) WPA
5 1 (0.91%) AMQP
5 1 (0.91%) MPLS
5 1 (0.91%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.91%) SSL
5 1 (0.91%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.45%) Data Lake
1 6 (5.45%) Power BI
2 4 (3.64%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.73%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.91%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.91%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.91%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (8.18%) Jenkins
2 6 (5.45%) CircleCI
2 6 (5.45%) JIRA
2 6 (5.45%) RStudio
3 4 (3.64%) GitLab
4 3 (2.73%) Bitbucket
4 3 (2.73%) Git
4 3 (2.73%) JUnit
4 3 (2.73%) Selenium
4 3 (2.73%) Subversion
4 3 (2.73%) TestNG
4 3 (2.73%) Travis CI
5 1 (0.91%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.91%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 31 (28.18%) Finance
2 25 (22.73%) Social Skills
3 9 (8.18%) Banking
4 8 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (7.27%) Legal
5 7 (6.36%) Law
6 4 (3.64%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.73%) Police
7 3 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.82%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.82%) Back Office
9 1 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.91%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 37 (33.64%) Analyst
2 26 (23.64%) Senior
3 21 (19.09%) Security Analyst
4 20 (18.18%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 13 (11.82%) Developer
5 13 (11.82%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 13 (11.82%) Senior Developer
5 13 (11.82%) Senior Dynamics 365 Developer
6 9 (8.18%) Lead
6 9 (8.18%) Platform Engineer
7 7 (6.36%) Security Engineer
7 7 (6.36%) SIEM Analyst
8 6 (5.45%) Architect
8 6 (5.45%) CISSP Analyst
8 6 (5.45%) Consultant
8 6 (5.45%) Data Engineer
8 6 (5.45%) Lead Data Engineer
8 6 (5.45%) Monitoring Analyst
8 6 (5.45%) Security Monitoring Analyst
8 6 (5.45%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (13.64%) .NET
2 3 (2.73%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (2.73%) SPFx
3 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (1.82%) Middleware
4 1 (0.91%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.91%) JMS
4 1 (0.91%) jQuery
4 1 (0.91%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (0.91%) Node.js
4 1 (0.91%) pytest
4 1 (0.91%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.91%) React
4 1 (0.91%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.55%) Cyber Threat
2 15 (13.64%) Data Centre
2 15 (13.64%) Management Information System
3 14 (12.73%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 14 (12.73%) Enterprise Software
4 13 (11.82%) Enterprise Cloud
5 9 (8.18%) Cyberattack
6 8 (7.27%) Security Operations Centre
7 6 (5.45%) Product Ownership
8 4 (3.64%) Cyber Defence
8 4 (3.64%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 4 (3.64%) Market Risk
9 3 (2.73%) Algorithms
9 3 (2.73%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.82%) BYOD
10 2 (1.82%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.82%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.82%) Security Posture
11 1 (0.91%) PKI
11 1 (0.91%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.91%) Linux
2 10 (9.09%) Windows
3 6 (5.45%) Unix
4 1 (0.91%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.91%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.91%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (34.55%) SIEM
2 37 (33.64%) Cybersecurity
3 36 (32.73%) Security Operations
3 36 (32.73%) Use Case
4 32 (29.09%) DevOps
4 32 (29.09%) Problem-Solving
5 31 (28.18%) Continuous Improvement
6 27 (24.55%) Agile
7 25 (22.73%) Penetration Testing
8 23 (20.91%) Technical Leadership
9 22 (20.00%) Problem Management
10 20 (18.18%) Collaborative Working
11 19 (17.27%) Application Security
11 19 (17.27%) Change Management
11 19 (17.27%) Security Monitoring
12 18 (16.36%) Information Security
13 17 (15.45%) Project Management
13 17 (15.45%) Scrum
14 16 (14.55%) Analytics
14 16 (14.55%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 14 (12.73%) C#
2 8 (7.27%) PowerShell
2 8 (7.27%) SQL
3 6 (5.45%) Java
3 6 (5.45%) Python
3 6 (5.45%) R
4 2 (1.82%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.91%) Bash
5 1 (0.91%) C
5 1 (0.91%) Go
5 1 (0.91%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.91%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.91%) T-SQL
5 1 (0.91%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (20.00%) Degree
2 21 (19.09%) Cisco Certification
3 20 (18.18%) CISSP
4 19 (17.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 19 (17.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 19 (17.27%) CCSP
4 19 (17.27%) CompTIA CySA+
5 16 (14.55%) CompTIA Security+
5 16 (14.55%) Network+ Certification
6 9 (8.18%) Azure Certification
7 6 (5.45%) AWS Certification
8 5 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (4.55%) SC Cleared
8 5 (4.55%) Security Cleared
9 3 (2.73%) Master's Degree
9 3 (2.73%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (1.82%) CCNA
10 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.91%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (19.09%) NIST
2 16 (14.55%) SOC 2
3 6 (5.45%) Data Quality
4 4 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.64%) PCI DSS
5 3 (2.73%) GDPR
5 3 (2.73%) QA
6 1 (0.91%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (14.55%) Active Directory
2 10 (9.09%) Docker
3 9 (8.18%) Hyper-V
4 4 (3.64%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (2.73%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (2.73%) VirtualBox
6 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.91%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.91%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 10 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 10 (9.09%) Terraform
2 6 (5.45%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (3.64%) Ansible
3 4 (3.64%) Grafana
4 3 (2.73%) Kibana
4 3 (2.73%) logstash
4 3 (2.73%) Nagios
4 3 (2.73%) Progress Chef
4 3 (2.73%) Puppet
4 3 (2.73%) QRadar
4 3 (2.73%) ZABBIX
5 2 (1.82%) CASB
5 2 (1.82%) CSIRT
5 2 (1.82%) SCCM
6 1 (0.91%) Nessus
6 1 (0.91%) Opsgenie
6 1 (0.91%) WSUS
Vendors
1 42 (38.18%) Microsoft
2 11 (10.00%) Splunk
3 10 (9.09%) VMware
4 6 (5.45%) Alteryx
4 6 (5.45%) Cisco
4 6 (5.45%) Databricks
5 5 (4.55%) LogRhythm
6 4 (3.64%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.73%) Meraki
7 3 (2.73%) New Relic
8 2 (1.82%) Apple
8 2 (1.82%) Barracuda Networks
8 2 (1.82%) Qualys
9 1 (0.91%) CA
9 1 (0.91%) Citrix
9 1 (0.91%) IBM
9 1 (0.91%) Ivanti
9 1 (0.91%) NEC
9 1 (0.91%) OpenLink
9 1 (0.91%) Sun