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 5 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
5 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Runbook 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.72% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £438 - -
25th Percentile £440 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 - -
75th Percentile £537 - -
90th Percentile £569 - -
England median daily rate £510 £510 £500
% change year-on-year - +2.00% -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 880 461 607
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 79.28% 86.17% 78.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 479 304 409
10th Percentile £200 £201 £200
25th Percentile £381 £322 £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £445 £410
Median % change year-on-year +1.18% +8.48% -8.89%
75th Percentile £540 £525 £550
90th Percentile £613 £596 £625
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 31 56
10th Percentile £13.51 £13.81 £11.33
25th Percentile £16.35 £15.17 £12.75
Median hourly rate £20.75 £18.87 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.96% +11.00% -7.43%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.91 £26.15
90th Percentile £31.15 £33.75 £38.75
England median hourly rate £45.46 £30.00 £36.05
% change year-on-year +51.53% -16.77% -2.97%

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 5 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Runbook in the East Midlands

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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 5 May 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 - 2
Nottinghamshire - 2 £600 - 1
Derbyshire - 1 - - 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%) Entra ID
1 3 (37.50%) GCP
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
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 Monitor
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (12.50%) SaaS
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
2 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
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%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Migration Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Migration Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Migration Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) SaaS Project Manager
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%) Onboarding
3 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 5 (62.50%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (62.50%) DevOps
2 5 (62.50%) SDLC
3 4 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (50.00%) Migration
3 4 (50.00%) Validation
4 3 (37.50%) Change Control
4 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (37.50%) Data Protection
4 3 (37.50%) Data Security
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
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Bicep
2 2 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
3 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (75.00%) GDPR
2 5 (62.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (62.50%) PCI DSS
3 3 (37.50%) GRC
3 3 (37.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 3 (37.50%) NIST
3 3 (37.50%) SOC 2
4 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
4 1 (12.50%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Terraform
2 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (37.50%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (37.50%) Splunk
3 1 (12.50%) Databricks
3 1 (12.50%) F5
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