Runbook Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Runbook
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Runbook skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 102 109
Rank change year-on-year +14 +7 +17
Contract jobs citing Runbook 10 8 10
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.82% 0.49% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 0.56% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 10
10th Percentile - - £501
25th Percentile - - £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £588
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -8.09% -
75th Percentile £566 - £673
90th Percentile £594 - £689
South East median daily rate £500 £520 £631
% change year-on-year -3.85% -17.62% +54.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
South East median hourly rate £32.77 £57.50 -
% change year-on-year -43.01% - -

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 1,103 1,431 1,552
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 90.48% 87.47% 89.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 700 749 975
10th Percentile £320 £325 £260
25th Percentile £413 £438 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £650 £690 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 64 60
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.32 £21.23
25th Percentile £18.19 £41.25 £48.18
Median hourly rate £37.28 £60.53 £60.63
Median % change year-on-year -38.41% -0.16% +20.05%
75th Percentile £64.38 £64.73 £74.06
90th Percentile £87.35 £75.35 £77.27
South East median hourly rate £22.19 £60.00 £53.50
% change year-on-year -63.02% +12.15% +66.12%

Runbook
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Runbook relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Runbook job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Runbook
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Runbook.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Runbook

Runbook
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Runbook.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Runbook

Runbook
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 8 October 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 +28 2 £575 +6.48% 2
Wokingham -11 2 - -
Bracknell - 2 £600 -
Runbook
South East

Runbook
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (30.00%) GitHub
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (10.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) BGP
1 4 (40.00%) DNS
1 4 (40.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 4 (40.00%) Fibre Channel
1 4 (40.00%) IPv6
1 4 (40.00%) OSPF
1 4 (40.00%) SAN
1 4 (40.00%) Spanning Tree
1 4 (40.00%) TACACS
1 4 (40.00%) VSAN
2 2 (20.00%) LAN
3 1 (10.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) GitLab
General
1 4 (40.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Release Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) SAP Manager
3 1 (10.00%) SAP Release Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Security Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) SOC Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Software Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Software Release Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (10.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (20.00%) Migration
3 2 (20.00%) PRINCE2
3 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) Process Management
3 2 (20.00%) Project Management
3 2 (20.00%) Release Management
3 2 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (20.00%) SDLC
3 2 (20.00%) Test Scripting
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (10.00%) Privileged Identity Management
4 1 (10.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (10.00%) Python
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
1 2 (20.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Ceph
2 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Argo
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Cisco
1 4 (40.00%) Dell
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (20.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (20.00%) Zscaler
3 1 (10.00%) Databricks
3 1 (10.00%) SAP