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 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 67 58
Rank change year-on-year -5 -9 +8
Contract jobs citing Runbook 5 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.43% 0.26% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.30% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £536 - -
25th Percentile £537 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 - -
75th Percentile £619 - -
90th Percentile £653 - -
England median daily rate £520 £500 £540
% change year-on-year +4.00% -7.41% -1.82%

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 872 663 608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 75.04% 85.99% 79.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 443 459 415
10th Percentile £214 £222 £252
25th Percentile £400 £334 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £410 £450
Median % change year-on-year +18.90% -8.89% -5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £566
90th Percentile £650 £625 £622
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 57 39
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.58 £12.64
25th Percentile £15.25 £17.87 £13.90
Median hourly rate £18.00 £19.00 £18.32
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +3.71% -64.08%
75th Percentile £27.73 £25.15 £27.45
90th Percentile £44.12 £25.69 £50.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -40.82% -

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

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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 4 August 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 4 August 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
Nottinghamshire -14 3 £638 -
Northamptonshire - 2 £536 - 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 (20.00%) Apache
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (20.00%) SaaS
1 1 (20.00%) Serverless
1 1 (20.00%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Financial Institution
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Programme Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Cutover Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Migration Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Migration Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) SaaS Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Cutover Manager
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) PySpark
1 1 (20.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Migration
1 4 (80.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (60.00%) Change Control
2 3 (60.00%) Programme Governance
3 2 (40.00%) Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
3 2 (40.00%) Cost Control
3 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (40.00%) Data Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Observability
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Metrics
3 2 (40.00%) PRINCE2
3 2 (40.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 2 (40.00%) Release Management
3 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (40.00%) SDLC
3 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Target Operating Model
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (20.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (20.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) GDPR
2 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (40.00%) PCI DSS
3 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (20.00%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Concur
1 1 (20.00%) Databricks
1 1 (20.00%) SAP