Runbook Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Runbook
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Runbook skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 73 77
Rank change year-on-year +14 +4 +11
Contract jobs citing Runbook 14 6 4
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 1.98% 0.73% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.41% 0.79% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 3
10th Percentile £503 £404 -
25th Percentile £559 £524 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £735 £475
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% +54.74% +15.15%
75th Percentile £575 £814 -
90th Percentile £580 £838 -
Scotland median daily rate £568 £595 £475
% change year-on-year -4.62% +25.26% +15.15%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 580 763 862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 82.04% 93.39% 91.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 367 487 544
10th Percentile £306 £313 £313
25th Percentile £378 £376 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £498
Median % change year-on-year - -9.55% +4.74%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £668 £606 £691
Scotland median daily rate £450 £453 £480
% change year-on-year -0.55% -5.73% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 8 39
10th Percentile £16.11 £16.75 £13.50
25th Percentile £16.17 £18.88 £16.00
Median hourly rate £16.25 £23.17 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.85% +28.69% +44.00%
75th Percentile £46.61 £67.56 £47.35
90th Percentile £54.00 £77.63 £65.00
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year -13.04% +17.95% +18.18%

Runbook
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Runbook job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Runbook
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Runbook

Runbook
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Runbook in Glasgow over the 6 months to 28 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Runbook in Glasgow

Runbook
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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 (7.14%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (78.57%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
2 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
2 1 (7.14%) Serverless
2 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (64.29%) MySQL
1 9 (64.29%) Relational Database
2 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.14%) Power BI
2 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) GitLab
General
1 8 (57.14%) Public Sector
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Operations Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Site Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Lead
4 1 (7.14%) Release Manager
4 1 (7.14%) SCCM Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Service Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) React
2 1 (7.14%) FastAPI
2 1 (7.14%) Fluent Bit
2 1 (7.14%) Kafka
2 1 (7.14%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 8 (57.14%) Product Ownership
2 2 (14.29%) CMDB
3 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
2 1 (7.14%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Microservices
1 8 (57.14%) SDLC
1 8 (57.14%) User Acceptance Testing
2 6 (42.86%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (28.57%) Agile
3 4 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
5 2 (14.29%) AI
5 2 (14.29%) Change Management
5 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (14.29%) Decision-Making
5 2 (14.29%) Incident Management
5 2 (14.29%) Incident Response
5 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (14.29%) ITIL
5 2 (14.29%) ITSM
5 2 (14.29%) LLM
5 2 (14.29%) Observability
6 1 (7.14%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) Java
2 5 (35.71%) TypeScript
3 2 (14.29%) Python
4 1 (7.14%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (7.14%) PMI Certification
2 1 (7.14%) PMP
2 1 (7.14%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (64.29%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.14%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
1 1 (7.14%) etcd
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Fluentd
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
1 1 (7.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) IBM
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle
1 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow
1 1 (7.14%) Splunk