Runbook Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Runbook
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of 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 110 118 140
Rank change year-on-year +8 +22 +37
Contract jobs citing Runbook 8 6 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.45% 0.29% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.31% 0.57%
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 - - -
Central London median daily rate £613 £633 £585
% change year-on-year -3.16% +8.12% -5.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,686 1,923 2,807
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.14% 92.10% 90.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,117 1,231 1,943
10th Percentile £325 £388 £363
25th Percentile £424 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £713
90th Percentile £774 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 17 14
10th Percentile £17.35 £15.20 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.98 £20.22 £14.84
Median hourly rate £28.33 £27.00 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +4.91% -13.60% -27.33%
75th Percentile £53.50 £78.75 £49.96
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £64.03
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -16.94% +27.27% -35.29%

Runbook
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Runbook in the City of London

Runbook
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Runbook.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Runbook

Runbook
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

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

Daily rate histogram for Runbook in the City of London

Runbook
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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