Runbook Contracts in Berkshire

Runbook
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 112 113
Rank change year-on-year +24 +1 +18
Contract jobs citing Runbook 5 12 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.43% 0.60% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.68% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 1
10th Percentile - £574 -
25th Percentile £500 £600 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -3.85% +62.50%
75th Percentile £659 £653 £675
90th Percentile £764 £670 -
South East median daily rate £575 £525 £200
% change year-on-year +9.52% +162.50% -48.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £28.00 -
South East median hourly rate - £28.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,096 1,764 1,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.44% 88.91% 90.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 918 1,053
10th Percentile £313 £213 £341
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £615 £608 £626
90th Percentile £675 £675 £711
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 101 48
10th Percentile £22.29 £20.17 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%
75th Percentile £76.77 £71.75 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £87.46 £79.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Runbook in Berkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Runbook in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Runbook in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Runbook in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Runbook in Berkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Runbook in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Runbook in Berkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Runbook within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Reading +21 1 £823 +31.68% 3
Slough -6 1 £600 - 3
Wokingham - 1 - -
Runbook
South East

Runbook
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub
1 2 (40.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) BGP
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 2 (40.00%) Fibre Channel
1 2 (40.00%) IPv6
1 2 (40.00%) OSPF
1 2 (40.00%) SAN
1 2 (40.00%) Spanning Tree
1 2 (40.00%) TACACS
1 2 (40.00%) VSAN
2 1 (20.00%) LAN
2 1 (20.00%) Modbus
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (20.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (40.00%) SIEM
2 1 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (20.00%) Data Security
2 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (20.00%) Malware Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Privileged Access Management
2 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (20.00%) Threat Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CISM
1 1 (20.00%) CISSP
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Ceph
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Argo
2 1 (20.00%) CSIRT
2 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco
1 2 (40.00%) Dell
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (20.00%) CyberArk
2 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (20.00%) Zscaler