Runbook Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Runbook
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire citing Runbook skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 14 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	42	-	-
Rank change year-on-year	-	-	-
Contract jobs citing Runbook	9	0	0
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire	1.79%	-	-
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	2.48%	-	-
Number of daily rates quoted	7	0	0
10^th Percentile	£445	-	-
25^th Percentile	£538	-	-
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£551	-	-
75^th Percentile	£619	-	-
90^th Percentile	£673	-	-
South West median daily rate	£556	£488	£480
% change year-on-year	+14.05%	+1.56%	-13.90%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Gloucestershire

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 citing process or methodology skills in Gloucestershire.

	6 months to 14 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing process or methodology skills	363	334	363
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire	72.02%	88.13%	88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted	202	246	216
10^th Percentile	£369	£300	£400
25^th Percentile	£475	£413	£467
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£550	£475	£575
Median % change year-on-year	+15.79%	-17.39%	+4.55%
75^th Percentile	£638	£647	£676
90^th Percentile	£723	£700	£750
South West median daily rate	£550	£519	£525
% change year-on-year	+5.92%	-1.10%	-4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted	73	18	24
10^th Percentile	£13.95	£19.14	£24.15
25^th Percentile	£15.88	£26.96	£28.00
Median hourly rate	£37.50	£33.76	£33.00
Median % change year-on-year	+11.09%	+2.29%	-32.27%
75^th Percentile	£48.75	£67.96	£70.00
90^th Percentile	£75.00	£68.60	£73.75
South West median hourly rate	£57.50	£25.15	£65.00
% change year-on-year	+128.63%	-61.31%	+8.33%

Runbook Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Runbook Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Runbook Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Runbook in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 14 November 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Runbook in Gloucestershire

Runbook Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Runbook within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 14 November 2026. 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
Gloucester	-	6	£550	-	2
Tewkesbury	-	1	£671	-	2
Cheltenham	-	1	-	-	1
Runbook South West

Runbook Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire

For the 6 months to 14 November 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Runbook also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Gloucestershire region citing Runbook.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Disaster Recovery	88.9%	8
2	Security Cleared	77.8%	7
3	Business Continuity	66.7%	6
4	Operational Resilience	55.6%	5
4	SC Cleared	55.6%	5
6	Cyber Resilience	44.4%	4
6	Cybersecurity	44.4%	4
6	Technical Architecture	44.4%	4
6	Translating Business Requirements	44.4%	4
10	Business Impact Analysis	33.3%	3
10	Impact Analysis	33.3%	3
10	ISO 22301	33.3%	3
10	ISO/IEC 27001	33.3%	3
10	Microsoft	33.3%	3
10	Microsoft 365	33.3%	3
10	NIST	33.3%	3
17	Azure	22.2%	2
17	Data Protection	22.2%	2
17	Hyper-V	22.2%	2
17	PowerShell	22.2%	2
17	Problem-Solving	22.2%	2
17	Service Management	22.2%	2
17	Stakeholder Engagement	22.2%	2
17	Stakeholder Management	22.2%	2
17	Validation	22.2%	2
26	Ansible	11.1%	1
26	Asset Management	11.1%	1
26	AWS	11.1%	1
26	Azure Certification	11.1%	1
26	BC Cleared	11.1%	1

Runbook Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Processes & Methodologies

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Disaster Recovery	88.9%	8
2	Business Continuity	66.7%	6
3	Operational Resilience	55.6%	5
4	Cyber Resilience	44.4%	4
4	Cybersecurity	44.4%	4
4	Technical Architecture	44.4%	4
4	Translating Business Requirements	44.4%	4
8	Business Impact Analysis	33.3%	3
8	Impact Analysis	33.3%	3
10	Data Protection	22.2%	2
10	Problem-Solving	22.2%	2
10	Service Management	22.2%	2
10	Stakeholder Engagement	22.2%	2
10	Stakeholder Management	22.2%	2
10	Validation	22.2%	2
16	Asset Management	11.1%	1
16	Break/Fix	11.1%	1
16	Business Continuity Management	11.1%	1
16	Customer Service	11.1%	1
16	High Availability	11.1%	1