Runbook Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Runbook
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Runbook skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Runbook 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 1.21% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £420 - -
25th Percentile £469 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £504 - -
Scotland median daily rate £550 £735 £475
% change year-on-year -25.17% +54.74% +15.15%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 527 539 817
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 91.02% 92.61% 90.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 285 495
10th Percentile £233 £226 £212
25th Percentile £412 £391 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.44% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £538 £550
90th Percentile £661 £638 £626
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +3.33% -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 30 11
10th Percentile £17.23 £20.23 £13.28
25th Percentile - £21.01 £16.00
Median hourly rate £17.87 £23.59 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -24.25% +33.13% -16.65%
75th Percentile £37.88 £24.18 £44.35
90th Percentile £73.63 £28.97 £61.50
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.59 £19.50
% change year-on-year -15.22% +20.97% +4.00%

Runbook
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Runbook relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Runbook job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Runbook
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Runbook.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Runbook

Runbook
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 5 (71.43%) Confluence
2 1 (14.29%) FileNet
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) GCP
2 4 (57.14%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) JIRA
General
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
1 5 (71.43%) Legal
2 4 (57.14%) Banking
2 4 (57.14%) Documentation Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Retail
3 3 (42.86%) Retail Banking
4 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Implementation Specialist
1 4 (57.14%) Project Manager
2 3 (42.86%) Implementation Manager
2 3 (42.86%) Implementation Project Manager
2 3 (42.86%) Project Implementation Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Data Centre Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Data Centre Migration Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Data Centre Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Data Migration Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Data Migration Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Migration Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Migration Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Technical Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Technical Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Test Leader
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Agile
2 5 (71.43%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (71.43%) Migration
2 5 (71.43%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 4 (57.14%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (57.14%) Decision-Making
3 4 (57.14%) Dependency Management
3 4 (57.14%) Incident Management
3 4 (57.14%) Incident Response
3 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (57.14%) ITIL
3 4 (57.14%) Platform Engineering
3 4 (57.14%) Risk Assessment
3 4 (57.14%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (14.29%) Change Management
4 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
4 1 (14.29%) Integration Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Validation
4 1 (14.29%) Waterfall
4 1 (14.29%) Workflow
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) COBIT
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Ansible
1 4 (57.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) CheckPoint
1 4 (57.14%) Dell
1 4 (57.14%) Dynatrace
1 4 (57.14%) F5
1 4 (57.14%) HP
1 4 (57.14%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) IBM