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 22 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 46 -
Rank change year-on-year -30 - -
Contract jobs citing Runbook 8 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.79% 0.78% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 0.90% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 0
10th Percentile £438 - -
25th Percentile £440 £313 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £371 -
Median % change year-on-year +32.26% - -
75th Percentile £537 £427 -
90th Percentile £569 £429 -
England median daily rate £514 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.80% - -9.09%

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 847 444 593
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 83.20% 86.55% 79.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 461 301 405
10th Percentile £199 £201 £186
25th Percentile £360 £325 £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £425 £418
Median % change year-on-year +5.18% +1.80% -7.22%
75th Percentile £540 £510 £538
90th Percentile £626 £588 £625
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 20 62
10th Percentile £13.54 £13.81 £11.79
25th Percentile £16.35 £14.97 £14.00
Median hourly rate £19.19 £22.05 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.97% +25.97% +3.98%
75th Percentile £25.00 £26.00 £26.50
90th Percentile £26.81 £35.38 £51.50
England median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -4.41% +4.62% -13.33%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Runbook in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 22 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Runbook in the East Midlands

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 22 March 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
Northamptonshire - 5 £447 - 1
Derbyshire - 2 - -
Nottinghamshire -18 1 £600 +61.62% 1
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Apache
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
1 3 (37.50%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
1 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (37.50%) Entra ID
1 3 (37.50%) GCP
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (25.00%) GitHub
2 2 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Functions
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) Network Security
1 3 (37.50%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (12.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 2 (25.00%) Banking
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
1 2 (25.00%) Financial Institution
1 2 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Programme Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Security Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Migration Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Security Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) OAuth
1 3 (37.50%) OAuth2
1 3 (37.50%) OpenID
1 3 (37.50%) SAML
2 1 (12.50%) PySpark
2 1 (12.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Native
1 3 (37.50%) Product Ownership
2 2 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (75.00%) DevOps
2 5 (62.50%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (62.50%) SDLC
2 5 (62.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (37.50%) Analytics
4 3 (37.50%) Data Protection
4 3 (37.50%) Data Security
4 3 (37.50%) DevSecOps
4 3 (37.50%) Migration
4 3 (37.50%) OWASP
4 3 (37.50%) Penetration Testing
4 3 (37.50%) SABSA
4 3 (37.50%) Security Architecture
4 3 (37.50%) SIEM
4 3 (37.50%) TOGAF
4 3 (37.50%) Use Case
4 3 (37.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Bicep
1 3 (37.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Bash
2 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) GDPR
1 5 (62.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (62.50%) PCI DSS
2 3 (37.50%) GRC
2 3 (37.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 3 (37.50%) NIST
2 3 (37.50%) SOC 2
3 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Terraform
2 5 (62.50%) Kubernetes
3 3 (37.50%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (37.50%) Splunk
3 1 (12.50%) Databricks
3 1 (12.50%) F5