Runbook Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Runbook
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Runbook skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 - 78
Rank change year-on-year - - +22
Contract jobs citing Runbook 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.25% - 0.095%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% - 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £383 - -
25th Percentile £431 - £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £625
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.64%
75th Percentile £631 - £638
90th Percentile £688 - -
South West median daily rate £488 £480 £558
% change year-on-year +1.56% -13.90% +17.37%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 699 662 916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 87.48% 84.33% 87.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 351 350 574
10th Percentile £231 £225 £300
25th Percentile £388 £383 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £700
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 96 124
10th Percentile £15.12 £35.50 £33.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £60.75 £51.88
Median hourly rate £60.00 £66.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.77% +2.31% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.25 £80.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -61.31% +8.33% -7.69%

Runbook
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Runbook job vacancy trend in Bristol

Runbook
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Runbook

Runbook
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Runbook in Bristol over the 6 months to 22 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Runbook in Bristol

Runbook
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Datadog
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (50.00%) Power Automate
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Applications Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Data Development
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Predictive Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (50.00%) Resilience Testing
1 1 (50.00%) SDLC
1 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Supplier Management
1 1 (50.00%) Synthetic Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Go
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft