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 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 68 60
Rank change year-on-year -13 -8 +11
Contract jobs citing Runbook 2 4 8
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.14% 0.48% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.55% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £574 - -
25th Percentile £591 £406 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £413 -
Median % change year-on-year +51.52% - -
75th Percentile £653 £419 -
90th Percentile £666 - -
England median daily rate £532 £500 £560
% change year-on-year +6.40% -10.71% +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 1,032 725 638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 74.51% 86.62% 84.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 424 499 392
10th Percentile £230 £222 £263
25th Percentile £391 £350 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £415 £445
Median % change year-on-year +14.46% -6.74% -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £519 £550
90th Percentile £675 £625 £613
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 68 27
10th Percentile £12.76 £16.17 £14.86
25th Percentile £13.50 £17.87 £17.00
Median hourly rate £17.87 £18.87 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.30% -16.13% -
75th Percentile £25.75 £25.15 £50.00
90th Percentile £33.75 - £52.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -5.56%

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 13 October 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 -10 1 £575 +39.39% 2
Nottinghamshire -10 1 £675 - 3
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) SSL
1 1 (50.00%) X.509
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Cutover Manager
2 1 (50.00%) SAP Cutover Manager
2 1 (50.00%) SAP Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (50.00%) PKI
1 1 (50.00%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) API Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Architecture Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (50.00%) Contingency Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Cryptography
2 1 (50.00%) Cutover Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CISM
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (50.00%) PMP
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Concur
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) SAP
1 1 (50.00%) VMware