Runbook Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Runbook
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Runbook skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 42 -
Rank change year-on-year -33 - -
Contract jobs citing Runbook 4 10 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.43% 1.83% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 2.11% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 0
10th Percentile £409 - -
25th Percentile £414 £313 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £371 -
Median % change year-on-year +14.48% - -
75th Percentile £433 £427 -
90th Percentile £436 £429 -
England median daily rate £500 £500 £518
% change year-on-year - -3.38% -13.75%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 793 473 622
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 85.36% 86.63% 83.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 472 280 442
10th Percentile £190 £248 £201
25th Percentile £350 £348 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £428 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.78% -4.97% -2.70%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £550
90th Percentile £625 £626 £672
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 21 49
10th Percentile £15.15 - £11.15
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £17.87 £22.50 £17.95
Median % change year-on-year -20.58% +25.38% +6.63%
75th Percentile £24.36 £30.00 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £39.68 £54.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -12.50% +14.29%

Runbook
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Runbook job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Runbook
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Runbook.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Runbook

Runbook
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Runbook within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 January 2026. 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
Derbyshire -5 3 £413 - 3
Northamptonshire - 1 £438 - 2
Runbook
England

Runbook
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) GitHub
1 3 (75.00%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
1 1 (25.00%) Reverse Proxy
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) CircleCI
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Migration Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (25.00%) OAuth
1 1 (25.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (25.00%) OpenID
1 1 (25.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (25.00%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) BCP
3 2 (50.00%) Business Continuity
3 2 (50.00%) Business Continuity Planning
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (50.00%) GitOps
3 2 (50.00%) High Availability
3 2 (50.00%) Identity Management
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Log Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Data Security
4 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
4 1 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
4 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) GRC
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
1 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (25.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) F5
2 1 (25.00%) Splunk