Runbook Contract Job Trends in Central London

Runbook
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Runbook skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 128 150
Rank change year-on-year +10 +22 +36
Contract jobs citing Runbook 8 7 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.41% 0.30% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.33% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 12
10th Percentile £468 £526 £261
25th Percentile £509 £546 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £633 £585
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% +8.12% -5.65%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £700
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £508 £560 £585
% change year-on-year -9.38% -4.27% -5.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,850 2,127 3,014
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.81% 92.12% 90.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,235 1,387 2,095
10th Percentile £323 £375 £359
25th Percentile £419 £475 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £785 £813
London median daily rate £538 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 27 15
10th Percentile £19.05 £17.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.75 £22.56 £15.43
Median hourly rate £29.07 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.94% +27.27% -35.29%
75th Percentile £50.75 £41.25 £47.41
90th Percentile £63.75 £110.50 £62.45
London median hourly rate £31.75 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -9.29% -12.50% +7.79%

Runbook
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Runbook in Central London

Runbook
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Runbook.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Runbook

Runbook
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Runbook in Central London over the 6 months to 13 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Runbook in Central London

Runbook
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Runbook within the Central London region over the 6 months to 13 September 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
City of London +8 8 £613 -3.16% 4
Runbook
London

Runbook
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 1 (12.50%) CICS
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (12.50%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
1 1 (12.50%) GCP
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) LAN
1 2 (25.00%) WAN
1 2 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (12.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle Database
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle Exadata
1 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Banking
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
3 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Administrator
1 2 (25.00%) Database Specialist
1 2 (25.00%) DBA
1 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL DBA
1 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Architect
2 1 (12.50%) CICS Programmer
2 1 (12.50%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) Mainframe Support
2 1 (12.50%) Mainframe Systems Programmer
2 1 (12.50%) Network Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Programmer
2 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Subject Matter Expert
2 1 (12.50%) Systems Support
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Transformation Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Data Centre
2 2 (25.00%) Clustering
2 2 (25.00%) Replication
3 1 (12.50%) Fat Client
3 1 (12.50%) Mainframe
3 1 (12.50%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
2 2 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (25.00%) Windows
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
3 1 (12.50%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) High Availability
2 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (25.00%) ITIL
2 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 2 (25.00%) SQL Optimisation
2 2 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (12.50%) Architecture Roadmap
3 1 (12.50%) Break/Fix
3 1 (12.50%) Business Strategy
3 1 (12.50%) Cost Reduction
3 1 (12.50%) Data Sharing
3 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
3 1 (12.50%) Feasibility Study
3 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
3 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
3 1 (12.50%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (12.50%) Tech Ops
3 1 (12.50%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) AWK
1 2 (25.00%) Bash
1 2 (25.00%) sed
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) GPFS
1 2 (25.00%) NFS
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
2 1 (12.50%) RACF
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (12.50%) OMEGAMON
2 1 (12.50%) SCCM
2 1 (12.50%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle
1 2 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) Citrix
2 1 (12.50%) Infoblox
2 1 (12.50%) Palo Alto
2 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds
2 1 (12.50%) VMware