Runbook Contracts in England

Runbook
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 401 405 499
Rank change year-on-year +4 +94 +54
Contract jobs citing Runbook 84 137 154
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.34% 0.37% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.43% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 83 108
10th Percentile £393 £313 £200
25th Percentile £447 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £653
90th Percentile £660 £650 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £18.13 £28.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -35.25% - -
UK median hourly rate £18.13 £28.00 £51.00
% change year-on-year -35.25% -45.10% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Runbook
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Runbook in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Runbook in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Runbook in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Runbook in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Runbook in England

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Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London +16 53 £500 - 48
North of England +11 12 £450 +18.42% 10
South East +28 9 £575 +9.52% 12
North West +17 9 £500 +2.56% 6
South West +47 3 £660 +10.00% 2
Yorkshire +1 3 £400 +17.65% 4
Midlands +14 2 - - 1
West Midlands +6 2 - -
East of England - 1 - - 2
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Runbook
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.57%) Confluence
1 3 (3.57%) JBoss
1 3 (3.57%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.38%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 8 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (7.14%) MS Visio
3 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (2.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.38%) MultiFonds
1 2 (2.38%) OpenText VIM for SAP
Cloud Services
1 25 (29.76%) AWS
2 21 (25.00%) Azure
3 9 (10.71%) OpenShift
4 6 (7.14%) GitHub
5 5 (5.95%) GCP
5 5 (5.95%) PaaS
5 5 (5.95%) SaaS
6 4 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (4.76%) Entra ID
7 3 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (3.57%) IaaS
7 3 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (3.57%) OCI
8 2 (2.38%) Amazon EventBridge
8 2 (2.38%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.38%) AWS Fargate
8 2 (2.38%) AWS KMS
8 2 (2.38%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (2.38%) dbt
8 2 (2.38%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 20 (23.81%) Firewall
2 13 (15.48%) VPN
3 10 (11.90%) DNS
3 10 (11.90%) WAN
4 6 (7.14%) BGP
4 6 (7.14%) OSPF
5 5 (5.95%) LAN
5 5 (5.95%) Network Security
6 4 (4.76%) TCP/IP
6 4 (4.76%) Wireless
7 3 (3.57%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (3.57%) DWDM
7 3 (3.57%) Fibre Channel
7 3 (3.57%) MPLS
7 3 (3.57%) Multicast
7 3 (3.57%) NGFW
7 3 (3.57%) SAN
7 3 (3.57%) SD-WAN
7 3 (3.57%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (2.38%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (3.57%) RDBMS
2 3 (3.57%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.38%) Big Data
3 2 (2.38%) Data Mining
3 2 (2.38%) Data Vault
3 2 (2.38%) Delta Lake
3 2 (2.38%) Hadoop
3 2 (2.38%) Metadata
4 1 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.19%) MySQL
4 1 (1.19%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.19%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.19%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (1.19%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 8 (9.52%) Git
2 7 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 6 (7.14%) JIRA
3 6 (7.14%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (4.76%) GitLab
5 3 (3.57%) Bitbucket Server
5 3 (3.57%) CA Release Automation
5 3 (3.57%) SonarQube
5 3 (3.57%) TeamCity
6 2 (2.38%) Subversion
General
1 27 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 11 (13.10%) Finance
3 6 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.76%) Banking
5 3 (3.57%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.57%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.38%) Back Office
6 2 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.19%) Billing
7 1 (1.19%) Fire and Rescue
7 1 (1.19%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.19%) Local Government
7 1 (1.19%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.19%) Police
7 1 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.19%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (10.71%) Analyst
1 9 (10.71%) Architect
2 8 (9.52%) Consultant
2 8 (9.52%) Lead
3 7 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (8.33%) Network Engineer
4 5 (5.95%) Business Analyst
4 5 (5.95%) Data Engineer
4 5 (5.95%) Senior
5 4 (4.76%) Service Continuity Leader
5 4 (4.76%) Technical Architect
6 3 (3.57%) Administrator
6 3 (3.57%) Data Migration Engineer
6 3 (3.57%) Implementation Engineer
6 3 (3.57%) Migration Engineer
6 3 (3.57%) Oracle Technical Architect
6 3 (3.57%) Project Manager
6 3 (3.57%) Security Analyst
6 3 (3.57%) Security Consultant
6 3 (3.57%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.95%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (3.57%) Spring Boot
3 2 (2.38%) ADO
3 2 (2.38%) Kafka
3 2 (2.38%) Node.js
3 2 (2.38%) PySpark
3 2 (2.38%) YAML
4 1 (1.19%) JSON
4 1 (1.19%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 1 (1.19%) REST
4 1 (1.19%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.14%) Data Centre
1 6 (7.14%) Onboarding
2 5 (5.95%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (3.57%) PKI
3 3 (3.57%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.38%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.38%) Insider Threat
4 2 (2.38%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.38%) Replication
4 2 (2.38%) Shadow IT
5 1 (1.19%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.19%) CMDB
5 1 (1.19%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.19%) Life Science
5 1 (1.19%) Mobile Payment
5 1 (1.19%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.19%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.19%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.19%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 13 (15.48%) Windows
2 11 (13.10%) Linux
3 6 (7.14%) Windows Server
4 5 (5.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (4.76%) VMS
6 2 (2.38%) Solaris
6 2 (2.38%) Unix
7 1 (1.19%) Android
7 1 (1.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (26.19%) Migration
2 19 (22.62%) DevOps
3 17 (20.24%) CI/CD
4 16 (19.05%) High Availability
5 15 (17.86%) Disaster Recovery
6 14 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (13.10%) ITIL
7 11 (13.10%) Project Management
7 11 (13.10%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (11.90%) Cloud Security
8 10 (11.90%) Containerisation
8 10 (11.90%) Incident Response
9 9 (10.71%) Analytics
9 9 (10.71%) Business Continuity
9 9 (10.71%) Change Management
9 9 (10.71%) Computer Science
9 9 (10.71%) Technical Leadership
10 8 (9.52%) Configuration Management
11 7 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (8.33%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 30 (35.71%) Python
2 7 (8.33%) Bash
3 6 (7.14%) SQL
4 5 (5.95%) Perl
5 4 (4.76%) Java
5 4 (4.76%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.38%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (1.19%) Go
7 1 (1.19%) Groovy
7 1 (1.19%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.19%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.19%) R
7 1 (1.19%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.19%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (20.24%) SC Cleared
3 14 (16.67%) Degree
4 6 (7.14%) AWS Certification
4 6 (7.14%) CISSP
5 5 (5.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (4.76%) Azure Certification
6 4 (4.76%) CCNA
6 4 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (4.76%) CISM
7 3 (3.57%) CCNP
7 3 (3.57%) CISA
7 3 (3.57%) CRISC
7 3 (3.57%) JNCIA
7 3 (3.57%) JNCIS
7 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (3.57%) PMI Certification
7 3 (3.57%) PMP
7 3 (3.57%) VCAP
8 2 (2.38%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.14%) QA
2 5 (5.95%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 4 (4.76%) Data Quality
3 4 (4.76%) GDPR
4 2 (2.38%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.38%) GRC
4 2 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.38%) PMO
4 2 (2.38%) SLA
5 1 (1.19%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.19%) NIST
5 1 (1.19%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (10.71%) Docker
2 8 (9.52%) Active Directory
3 6 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.57%) VMware NSX
5 2 (2.38%) Ceph
5 2 (2.38%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (2.38%) vSphere
6 1 (1.19%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 19 (22.62%) Kubernetes
2 18 (21.43%) Ansible
3 11 (13.10%) Terraform
4 5 (5.95%) Progress Chef
5 4 (4.76%) Data Guard
6 3 (3.57%) Kibana
6 3 (3.57%) PowerCLI
6 3 (3.57%) Puppet
6 3 (3.57%) vRealize
7 2 (2.38%) Argo
7 2 (2.38%) QRadar
7 2 (2.38%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (2.38%) SELinux
8 1 (1.19%) CSIRT
8 1 (1.19%) Grafana
8 1 (1.19%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (1.19%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (1.19%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (23.81%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.52%) Palo Alto
3 7 (8.33%) Oracle
3 7 (8.33%) Red Hat
3 7 (8.33%) Zscaler
4 6 (7.14%) Cisco
4 6 (7.14%) Google
4 6 (7.14%) VMware
5 5 (5.95%) Splunk
6 4 (4.76%) Dell
6 4 (4.76%) ServiceNow
7 3 (3.57%) AppDynamics
7 3 (3.57%) Arista
7 3 (3.57%) Aruba
7 3 (3.57%) Cloudera
7 3 (3.57%) Ruckus Wireless
7 3 (3.57%) SolarWinds
8 2 (2.38%) Foundry
8 2 (2.38%) HP
8 2 (2.38%) Veritas