Runbook Contracts in London

Runbook
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 300 316 417
Rank change year-on-year +16 +101 +46
Contract jobs citing Runbook 53 75 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.42% 0.42% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.47% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 47 49
10th Percentile £404 £307 £390
25th Percentile £413 £453 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £551 £599 £650
90th Percentile £632 £658 £700
England median daily rate £510 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +2.00% -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £18.13 - -
England median hourly rate £18.13 £28.00 -
% change year-on-year -35.25% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Runbook
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Runbook in London

Runbook
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Runbook in London

Runbook
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Runbook in London

Runbook
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Runbook in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Runbook within the London 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
Central London -1 7 £413 -18.27% 2
West London +12 1 - -
Runbook
England

Runbook
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 1 (1.89%) Confluence
1 1 (1.89%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (11.32%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (9.43%) MS Visio
3 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (3.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (3.77%) MultiFonds
Cloud Services
1 16 (30.19%) Azure
2 15 (28.30%) AWS
3 5 (9.43%) GCP
3 5 (9.43%) PaaS
3 5 (9.43%) SaaS
4 4 (7.55%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (7.55%) GitHub
4 4 (7.55%) OpenShift
5 3 (5.66%) Entra ID
5 3 (5.66%) IaaS
5 3 (5.66%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (5.66%) OCI
6 2 (3.77%) Amazon EventBridge
6 2 (3.77%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.77%) AWS Fargate
6 2 (3.77%) AWS KMS
6 2 (3.77%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.77%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (3.77%) Serverless
7 1 (1.89%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 15 (28.30%) Firewall
2 12 (22.64%) VPN
3 9 (16.98%) WAN
4 5 (9.43%) DNS
5 4 (7.55%) BGP
5 4 (7.55%) Network Security
5 4 (7.55%) OSPF
5 4 (7.55%) Wireless
6 3 (5.66%) LAN
6 3 (5.66%) MPLS
6 3 (5.66%) Multicast
6 3 (5.66%) SD-WAN
6 3 (5.66%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (5.66%) TCP/IP
7 2 (3.77%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (3.77%) DWDM
8 1 (1.89%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (1.89%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (1.89%) EIGRP
8 1 (1.89%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.77%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (3.77%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.89%) MySQL
2 1 (1.89%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.89%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.89%) Oracle Database 12c
2 1 (1.89%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (7.55%) Jenkins
2 3 (5.66%) JIRA
3 2 (3.77%) GitLab
3 2 (3.77%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.89%) Git
General
1 16 (30.19%) Social Skills
2 10 (18.87%) Finance
3 4 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (7.55%) Banking
4 2 (3.77%) Back Office
4 2 (3.77%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (3.77%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.89%) Billing
5 1 (1.89%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.89%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (15.09%) Architect
2 7 (13.21%) Analyst
2 7 (13.21%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (9.43%) Network Engineer
4 4 (7.55%) Consultant
4 4 (7.55%) Technical Architect
5 3 (5.66%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (5.66%) Business Analyst
5 3 (5.66%) Cloud Architect
5 3 (5.66%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
5 3 (5.66%) Data Migration Engineer
5 3 (5.66%) Implementation Engineer
5 3 (5.66%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
5 3 (5.66%) Migration Engineer
5 3 (5.66%) Oracle Architect
5 3 (5.66%) Oracle Technical Architect
5 3 (5.66%) Senior
5 3 (5.66%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
5 3 (5.66%) VMware Consultant
5 3 (5.66%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.77%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (3.77%) Node.js
2 1 (1.89%) JSON
2 1 (1.89%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (1.89%) REST
2 1 (1.89%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.43%) Data Centre
1 5 (9.43%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (5.66%) PKI
3 2 (3.77%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.77%) Insider Threat
3 2 (3.77%) Shadow IT
4 1 (1.89%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.89%) CMDB
4 1 (1.89%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.89%) Life Science
4 1 (1.89%) Mobile Payment
4 1 (1.89%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.89%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.89%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.89%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.89%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 10 (18.87%) Windows
2 6 (11.32%) Linux
2 6 (11.32%) Windows Server
3 4 (7.55%) VMS
4 1 (1.89%) Android
4 1 (1.89%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (30.19%) Migration
2 13 (24.53%) DevOps
3 11 (20.75%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (18.87%) Containerisation
5 8 (15.09%) CI/CD
5 8 (15.09%) Cloud Security
5 8 (15.09%) Computer Science
5 8 (15.09%) Disaster Recovery
5 8 (15.09%) High Availability
5 8 (15.09%) Project Management
6 7 (13.21%) Configuration Management
7 6 (11.32%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (11.32%) Task Automation
7 6 (11.32%) Technical Leadership
8 5 (9.43%) Decision-Making
8 5 (9.43%) Incident Response
8 5 (9.43%) ITIL
8 5 (9.43%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (7.55%) Change Management
9 4 (7.55%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 20 (37.74%) Python
2 5 (9.43%) Bash
3 4 (7.55%) PowerShell
3 4 (7.55%) SQL
4 2 (3.77%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (1.89%) Go
5 1 (1.89%) Groovy
5 1 (1.89%) Java
5 1 (1.89%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.89%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.89%) R
5 1 (1.89%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.89%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (26.42%) Security Cleared
2 12 (22.64%) SC Cleared
3 10 (18.87%) Degree
4 6 (11.32%) AWS Certification
5 5 (9.43%) CISSP
6 4 (7.55%) Azure Certification
6 4 (7.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (5.66%) CCNA
7 3 (5.66%) CISA
7 3 (5.66%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (5.66%) CISM
7 3 (5.66%) CRISC
7 3 (5.66%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (5.66%) PMI Certification
7 3 (5.66%) PMP
7 3 (5.66%) VCAP
8 2 (3.77%) CEH
8 2 (3.77%) DV Cleared
8 2 (3.77%) JNCIA
8 2 (3.77%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.55%) QA
2 2 (3.77%) GDPR
2 2 (3.77%) GRC
2 2 (3.77%) PMO
2 2 (3.77%) SLA
3 1 (1.89%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.89%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (11.32%) Docker
2 4 (7.55%) Active Directory
2 4 (7.55%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (5.66%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.89%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (30.19%) Kubernetes
2 15 (28.30%) Ansible
3 10 (18.87%) Terraform
4 4 (7.55%) Data Guard
5 3 (5.66%) PowerCLI
5 3 (5.66%) Puppet
5 3 (5.66%) vRealize
6 2 (3.77%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.89%) Grafana
7 1 (1.89%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (1.89%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (1.89%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.89%) QRadar
Vendors
1 15 (28.30%) Microsoft
2 7 (13.21%) Oracle
3 6 (11.32%) Google
3 6 (11.32%) Palo Alto
3 6 (11.32%) Zscaler
4 4 (7.55%) VMware
5 3 (5.66%) Aruba
5 3 (5.66%) Cisco
5 3 (5.66%) Ruckus Wireless
5 3 (5.66%) ServiceNow
6 2 (3.77%) Arista
6 2 (3.77%) Dell
6 2 (3.77%) HP
7 1 (1.89%) Apple
7 1 (1.89%) Bloomberg
7 1 (1.89%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.89%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (1.89%) Darktrace
7 1 (1.89%) Refinitiv
7 1 (1.89%) Temenos