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 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 383 418 491
Rank change year-on-year +35 +73 +59
Contract jobs citing Runbook 113 135 145
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.44% 0.36% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.43% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 91 101
10th Percentile £398 £320 £200
25th Percentile £450 £419 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £528 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.57% -4.00% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £635 £650
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £527 £550
% change year-on-year -0.28% -4.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 0
10th Percentile £21.06 - -
25th Percentile £25.45 £18.13 -
Median hourly rate £32.77 £23.07 -
Median % change year-on-year +42.08% - -
75th Percentile £51.39 £36.06 -
90th Percentile £62.55 £49.68 -
UK median hourly rate £32.77 £23.07 -
% change year-on-year +42.08% - -

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 23,265 31,763 42,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.18% 85.54% 89.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,982 20,585 29,701
10th Percentile £300 £305 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £504 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,161 2,328 1,553
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £11.87
25th Percentile £17.80 £16.06 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +2.09% +45.40%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.60 £64.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.00 £75.82
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +4.17% +38.46%

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

Runbook
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Runbook in England over the 6 months to 30 June 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

Runbook
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Runbook in England over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 30 June 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 +30 66 £525 -4.55% 63
South East +46 16 £550 +10.00% 10
North of England +8 16 £426 -5.33% 15
North West +16 10 £398 -11.67% 11
Yorkshire 0 6 £488 +1.77% 1
Midlands +12 5 £325 - 8
South West +43 4 £630 +5.00% 8
West Midlands +6 3 £325 - 6
East Midlands - 2 - - 2
East of England - 1 - - 5
Runbook
UK

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 5 (4.42%) JBoss
2 3 (2.65%) Confluence
2 3 (2.65%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.77%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.77%) CICS
3 2 (1.77%) Documentum
Applications
1 8 (7.08%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (4.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (3.54%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.77%) MultiFonds
1 2 (1.77%) OpenText VIM for SAP
Cloud Services
1 30 (26.55%) AWS
2 28 (24.78%) Azure
3 11 (9.73%) OpenShift
4 8 (7.08%) SaaS
5 7 (6.19%) Entra ID
6 6 (5.31%) GCP
6 6 (5.31%) GitHub
7 5 (4.42%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (3.54%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.65%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.65%) AWS Fargate
9 3 (2.65%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (2.65%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (2.65%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (2.65%) dbt
9 3 (2.65%) OCI
9 3 (2.65%) PaaS
9 3 (2.65%) Serverless
10 2 (1.77%) Amazon EventBridge
10 2 (1.77%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (19.47%) Firewall
2 13 (11.50%) VPN
3 12 (10.62%) DNS
4 11 (9.73%) WAN
5 9 (7.96%) BGP
6 8 (7.08%) OSPF
7 7 (6.19%) LAN
8 6 (5.31%) Fibre Channel
8 6 (5.31%) Network Security
8 6 (5.31%) SAN
9 5 (4.42%) Ethernet VPN
9 5 (4.42%) VSAN
10 4 (3.54%) IPv6
10 4 (3.54%) MPLS
10 4 (3.54%) SD-WAN
10 4 (3.54%) Spanning Tree
10 4 (3.54%) TACACS
10 4 (3.54%) Wireless
11 3 (2.65%) DWDM
11 3 (2.65%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.42%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (4.42%) RDBMS
1 5 (4.42%) Relational Database
2 3 (2.65%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.65%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (2.65%) Oracle Database
3 2 (1.77%) Big Data
3 2 (1.77%) BigQuery
3 2 (1.77%) Data Mining
3 2 (1.77%) Data Vault
3 2 (1.77%) DB2
3 2 (1.77%) Hadoop
3 2 (1.77%) Looker
3 2 (1.77%) Oracle Exadata
3 2 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.77%) Power Query
3 2 (1.77%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.88%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.88%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 11 (9.73%) Jenkins
2 10 (8.85%) JIRA
3 9 (7.96%) Git
4 8 (7.08%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (4.42%) Bitbucket Server
5 5 (4.42%) CA Release Automation
5 5 (4.42%) SonarQube
5 5 (4.42%) TeamCity
6 4 (3.54%) GitLab
7 2 (1.77%) Subversion
General
1 32 (28.32%) Social Skills
2 20 (17.70%) Finance
3 8 (7.08%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (7.08%) Banking
4 5 (4.42%) Telecoms
5 4 (3.54%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.77%) Back Office
7 2 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.77%) Legal
7 2 (1.77%) Local Government
8 1 (0.88%) Games
8 1 (0.88%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.88%) Law
8 1 (0.88%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (9.73%) Lead
2 10 (8.85%) Network Engineer
3 9 (7.96%) Analyst
3 9 (7.96%) Architect
3 9 (7.96%) Consultant
4 8 (7.08%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (6.19%) Data Engineer
6 6 (5.31%) Azure Engineer
6 6 (5.31%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (5.31%) Migration Engineer
6 6 (5.31%) Senior
7 5 (4.42%) Administrator
7 5 (4.42%) Business Analyst
7 5 (4.42%) Data Migration Engineer
7 5 (4.42%) Project Manager
8 4 (3.54%) Mainframe Programmer
8 4 (3.54%) Programmer
8 4 (3.54%) Systems Programmer
8 4 (3.54%) Technical Manager
8 4 (3.54%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.19%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (4.42%) Spring Boot
3 3 (2.65%) Node.js
4 2 (1.77%) Kafka
4 2 (1.77%) YAML
5 1 (0.88%) .NET
5 1 (0.88%) ADO
5 1 (0.88%) gRPC
5 1 (0.88%) JSON
5 1 (0.88%) LDAP
5 1 (0.88%) OAuth
5 1 (0.88%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.88%) OpenID
5 1 (0.88%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 1 (0.88%) PySpark
5 1 (0.88%) REST
5 1 (0.88%) RESTful
5 1 (0.88%) SAML
5 1 (0.88%) ServiceStack
5 1 (0.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.96%) Data Centre
1 9 (7.96%) Onboarding
2 7 (6.19%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (5.31%) Replication
4 4 (3.54%) Mainframe
5 3 (2.65%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.65%) Clustering
5 3 (2.65%) PKI
5 3 (2.65%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.77%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (1.77%) Insider Threat
6 2 (1.77%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.77%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.77%) Shadow IT
7 1 (0.88%) CMDB
7 1 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.88%) Life Science
7 1 (0.88%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.88%) SCADA
7 1 (0.88%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 17 (15.04%) Windows
2 16 (14.16%) Linux
3 9 (7.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (7.96%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.65%) VMS
5 2 (1.77%) Solaris
5 2 (1.77%) Unix
5 2 (1.77%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (1.77%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (28.32%) Migration
2 23 (20.35%) High Availability
3 22 (19.47%) DevOps
4 20 (17.70%) CI/CD
5 19 (16.81%) Disaster Recovery
6 16 (14.16%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (13.27%) Stakeholder Management
8 14 (12.39%) ITIL
9 13 (11.50%) Change Management
10 12 (10.62%) Project Management
10 12 (10.62%) Technical Leadership
11 11 (9.73%) Analytics
11 11 (9.73%) Cloud Security
11 11 (9.73%) Containerisation
11 11 (9.73%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (8.85%) Business Continuity
12 10 (8.85%) Deployment Automation
12 10 (8.85%) Incident Response
13 9 (7.96%) Agile
13 9 (7.96%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 35 (30.97%) Python
2 9 (7.96%) Bash
3 8 (7.08%) Java
4 7 (6.19%) Perl
4 7 (6.19%) SQL
5 6 (5.31%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.65%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (1.77%) AWK
7 2 (1.77%) Groovy
7 2 (1.77%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.77%) sed
8 1 (0.88%) Bicep
8 1 (0.88%) Go
8 1 (0.88%) JCL
8 1 (0.88%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.88%) R
8 1 (0.88%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.88%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (17.70%) Security Cleared
2 17 (15.04%) SC Cleared
3 13 (11.50%) Degree
4 7 (6.19%) AWS Certification
5 6 (5.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (4.42%) CISSP
6 5 (4.42%) PMP
7 4 (3.54%) Azure Certification
7 4 (3.54%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (3.54%) CISM
7 4 (3.54%) PMI Certification
7 4 (3.54%) VCAP
8 3 (2.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (2.65%) CCNA
8 3 (2.65%) CCNP
8 3 (2.65%) CISA
8 3 (2.65%) CRISC
8 3 (2.65%) JNCIA
8 3 (2.65%) JNCIS
8 3 (2.65%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.19%) QA
2 5 (4.42%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 4 (3.54%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.54%) GDPR
3 4 (3.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.65%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.65%) NIST
5 2 (1.77%) GRC
5 2 (1.77%) SLA
6 1 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.88%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.88%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.88%) PMO
System Software
1 12 (10.62%) Active Directory
1 12 (10.62%) Docker
2 7 (6.19%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (5.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (4.42%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (4.42%) VMware NSX
5 4 (3.54%) Ceph
6 3 (2.65%) vSphere
7 2 (1.77%) GPFS
7 2 (1.77%) NFS
7 2 (1.77%) RACF
8 1 (0.88%) Firmware
8 1 (0.88%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 22 (19.47%) Kubernetes
2 21 (18.58%) Ansible
3 16 (14.16%) Terraform
4 7 (6.19%) Progress Chef
5 5 (4.42%) Kibana
5 5 (4.42%) PowerCLI
6 4 (3.54%) Data Guard
7 3 (2.65%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 3 (2.65%) Puppet
7 3 (2.65%) vRealize
8 2 (1.77%) Argo
8 2 (1.77%) OMEGAMON
8 2 (1.77%) QRadar
8 2 (1.77%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (1.77%) SELinux
8 2 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.77%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.88%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.88%) SCCM
9 1 (0.88%) WSUS
Vendors
1 22 (19.47%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.73%) Red Hat
3 10 (8.85%) VMware
4 9 (7.96%) Cisco
5 8 (7.08%) Oracle
5 8 (7.08%) Zscaler
6 7 (6.19%) Palo Alto
6 7 (6.19%) Splunk
7 6 (5.31%) Dell
8 5 (4.42%) AppDynamics
8 5 (4.42%) Cloudera
8 5 (4.42%) SolarWinds
9 4 (3.54%) Google
10 3 (2.65%) Arista
10 3 (2.65%) Aruba
10 3 (2.65%) Ruckus Wireless
10 3 (2.65%) SAP
10 3 (2.65%) ServiceNow
11 2 (1.77%) Databricks
11 2 (1.77%) F5