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 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 60 69
Rank change year-on-year -8 +9 -
Contract jobs citing Runbook 4 8 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.47% 1.05% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 1.25% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £406 - £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - £600
75th Percentile £419 - £625
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £500 £560 £556
% change year-on-year -10.71% +0.67% -7.29%

All Process and 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 734 641 712
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.66% 84.34% 84.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 509 394 520
10th Percentile £222 £264 £213
25th Percentile £350 £356 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £445 £490
Median % change year-on-year -6.74% -9.18% +3.16%
75th Percentile £519 £550 £607
90th Percentile £626 £613 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 28 49
10th Percentile £16.17 £14.90 £12.80
25th Percentile £17.87 £17.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.87 £23.25 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.84% +3.33% +28.57%
75th Percentile £25.15 £50.00 £53.75
90th Percentile - £51.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% -5.56% +36.36%

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 15 October 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
Derbyshire -3 2 £413 - 1
Nottinghamshire - 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 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) CircleCI
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (75.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) ITSM
2 2 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Service Management
3 1 (25.00%) BCP
3 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) GitOps
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Management
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (25.00%) Log Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft