Runbook Contracts in the East of England

Runbook
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring Runbook skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Runbook over the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 - 112
Rank change year-on-year - - +29
Contract jobs citing Runbook 8 0 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.64% - 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% - 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 7
10th Percentile - - £453
25th Percentile - - £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £680 - £550
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £500 £539 £550
% change year-on-year -7.19% -2.05% +1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £45.00 - -
25th Percentile £47.50 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £82.50 - -
90th Percentile £85.00 - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £28.00 -
% change year-on-year +96.43% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,110 1,347 1,709
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 88.17% 82.84% 87.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 519 521 970
10th Percentile £200 £200 £225
25th Percentile £364 £310 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £551 £600
90th Percentile £650 £645 £704
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 503 357
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.48 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.97 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +90.48% +6.01%
75th Percentile £66.31 £60.00 £64.50
90th Percentile £82.03 £70.00 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +63.46%

Runbook
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Runbook as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Runbook in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Runbook in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Runbook in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Runbook in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Runbook in the East of England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Runbook in the East of England over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Runbook in the East of England

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Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 2 August 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
Hertfordshire - 8 £680 - 4
Runbook
England

Runbook
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) DNS
1 8 (100.00%) FTP
1 8 (100.00%) HTTP
1 8 (100.00%) Network Security
1 8 (100.00%) SMTP
1 8 (100.00%) SSL
General
1 7 (87.50%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (87.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Analyst
1 8 (100.00%) SOC Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (100.00%) Cyberattack
2 7 (87.50%) Analytical Mindset
2 7 (87.50%) CSOC
2 7 (87.50%) Cyber Threat
2 7 (87.50%) Management Information System
2 7 (87.50%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 8 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 8 (100.00%) Information Security
1 8 (100.00%) Network Packet Capture
1 8 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 8 (100.00%) SIEM
1 8 (100.00%) SOAR
2 7 (87.50%) Analytics
2 7 (87.50%) Artificial Intelligence
2 7 (87.50%) Behavioural Analytics
2 7 (87.50%) Incident Response
2 7 (87.50%) Information Management
2 7 (87.50%) Machine Learning
2 7 (87.50%) Security Operations
2 7 (87.50%) Threat Detection
2 7 (87.50%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 8 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (50.00%) DV Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Sun