Runbook Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Runbook
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Runbook skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 55 58
Rank change year-on-year -19 +3 +22
Contract jobs citing Runbook 4 4 11
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.47% 0.72% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.79% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £483 - £320
25th Percentile £484 - £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £750 £400
Median % change year-on-year -35.20% +87.50% -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile £489 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £495 £750 £400
% change year-on-year -34.00% +87.50% -23.81%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 742 505 627
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 86.89% 90.83% 82.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 455 348 404
10th Percentile £263 £200 £241
25th Percentile £401 £396 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +16.17% -10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £575
90th Percentile £673 £700 £661
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 14 41
10th Percentile £13.25 £13.24 £13.18
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.34 £18.50
Median hourly rate £17.69 £29.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.03% +13.46% +87.39%
75th Percentile £23.58 £47.04 £48.75
90th Percentile £29.38 £56.65 £67.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £21.46 £20.12 £23.00
% change year-on-year +6.66% -12.52% +29.94%

Runbook
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Runbook job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Runbook
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Runbook

Runbook
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure AKS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure API Management
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (50.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) SSL
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) CircleCI
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Operations Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Operations Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Build Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Legacy Applications
1 2 (50.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 4 (100.00%) Migration
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (50.00%) API Management
3 2 (50.00%) Auto-Scaling
3 2 (50.00%) Change Management
3 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) IT Governance
3 2 (50.00%) Key Management
3 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (50.00%) RBAC
3 2 (50.00%) Secrets Management
4 1 (25.00%) API Integration
4 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
4 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (50.00%) CISM
1 2 (50.00%) CISSP
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (50.00%) Ansible
2 2 (50.00%) Terraform
3 1 (25.00%) Grafana
3 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft