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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 297 314 426
Rank change year-on-year +17 +112 +32
Contract jobs citing Runbook 53 82 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.43% 0.47% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.53% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 56 45
10th Percentile £406 £300 £370
25th Percentile £449 £431 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £505 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -15.83% +8.11%
75th Percentile £578 £638 £650
90th Percentile £665 £650 £700
England median daily rate £518 £505 £550
% change year-on-year +2.48% -8.18% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £18.13 £18.13 -
England median hourly rate £18.13 £18.13 -

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 11,457 15,493 23,519
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.21% 88.65% 90.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,746 11,112 16,978
10th Percentile £350 £343 £375
25th Percentile £435 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £593
Median % change year-on-year - -7.17% +3.04%
75th Percentile £688 £680 £700
90th Percentile £808 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 307 266
10th Percentile £16.17 £15.77 £18.25
25th Percentile £22.75 £20.00 £22.43
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.84 £37.17
Median % change year-on-year +22.13% -25.10% +0.46%
75th Percentile £50.75 £48.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £66.85 £82.38
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.40
% change year-on-year -21.23% +0.29% +45.58%

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 19 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

Runbook
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 19 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 0 6 £425 -15.84% 2
West London +4 1 - - 1
East London - 1 £675 -
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 4 (7.55%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (7.55%) MS Visio
2 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (3.77%) MultiFonds
Cloud Services
1 19 (35.85%) Azure
2 17 (32.08%) AWS
3 6 (11.32%) SaaS
4 5 (9.43%) GCP
4 5 (9.43%) PaaS
5 4 (7.55%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (7.55%) Entra ID
5 4 (7.55%) GitHub
5 4 (7.55%) OpenShift
6 3 (5.66%) Amazon S3
6 3 (5.66%) AWS Fargate
6 3 (5.66%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (5.66%) IaaS
6 3 (5.66%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (5.66%) OCI
6 3 (5.66%) Serverless
7 2 (3.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (3.77%) Amazon EventBridge
7 2 (3.77%) AWS KMS
7 2 (3.77%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 17 (32.08%) Firewall
2 11 (20.75%) VPN
3 9 (16.98%) WAN
4 5 (9.43%) BGP
4 5 (9.43%) DNS
4 5 (9.43%) Network Security
5 4 (7.55%) MPLS
5 4 (7.55%) OSPF
5 4 (7.55%) Wireless
6 3 (5.66%) LAN
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%) EIGRP
8 1 (1.89%) Ethernet
8 1 (1.89%) SMS
8 1 (1.89%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.66%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (3.77%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.89%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.89%) MySQL
3 1 (1.89%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.89%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.89%) Oracle Database 12c
3 1 (1.89%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 5 (9.43%) Jenkins
2 3 (5.66%) JIRA
3 2 (3.77%) GitLab
3 2 (3.77%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.89%) Git
General
1 15 (28.30%) 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%) 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 7 (13.21%) Architect
1 7 (13.21%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (11.32%) Analyst
2 6 (11.32%) Network Engineer
3 5 (9.43%) Senior
4 4 (7.55%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (7.55%) Consultant
4 4 (7.55%) Migration Engineer
5 3 (5.66%) Business Analyst
5 3 (5.66%) Cloud Architect
5 3 (5.66%) Cloud Engineer
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%) Oracle Architect
5 3 (5.66%) Oracle Technical Architect
5 3 (5.66%) Technical Architect
5 3 (5.66%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
5 3 (5.66%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.66%) Node.js
2 2 (3.77%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.89%) AWS CDK
3 1 (1.89%) gRPC
3 1 (1.89%) JSON
3 1 (1.89%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 1 (1.89%) REST
3 1 (1.89%) ServiceStack
3 1 (1.89%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.32%) Data Centre
1 6 (11.32%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (5.66%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.66%) PKI
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%) Life Science
4 1 (1.89%) Linux Command Line
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 7 (13.21%) Linux
3 6 (11.32%) Windows Server
4 4 (7.55%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (33.96%) Migration
2 14 (26.42%) DevOps
3 11 (20.75%) Containerisation
3 11 (20.75%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (16.98%) CI/CD
4 9 (16.98%) Cloud Security
4 9 (16.98%) High Availability
5 8 (15.09%) Computer Science
5 8 (15.09%) Configuration Management
5 8 (15.09%) Disaster Recovery
5 8 (15.09%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (13.21%) Incident Response
7 6 (11.32%) Project Management
7 6 (11.32%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (11.32%) Task Automation
7 6 (11.32%) Technical Leadership
8 5 (9.43%) Mentoring
9 4 (7.55%) Analytics
9 4 (7.55%) Refactoring
9 4 (7.55%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 22 (41.51%) Python
2 5 (9.43%) Bash
3 4 (7.55%) PowerShell
3 4 (7.55%) SQL
4 2 (3.77%) Java
4 2 (3.77%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (1.89%) Go
5 1 (1.89%) Groovy
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 13 (24.53%) Security Cleared
2 11 (20.75%) SC Cleared
3 10 (18.87%) Degree
4 7 (13.21%) AWS Certification
5 5 (9.43%) CISSP
6 4 (7.55%) Azure Certification
6 4 (7.55%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (7.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (5.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) CCNA
7 3 (5.66%) CISA
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%) DV Cleared
8 2 (3.77%) JNCIA
8 2 (3.77%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.66%) QA
2 2 (3.77%) GDPR
2 2 (3.77%) GRC
2 2 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.77%) PMO
2 2 (3.77%) SLA
3 1 (1.89%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.89%) NIST
3 1 (1.89%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (13.21%) Docker
2 5 (9.43%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (7.55%) Active Directory
4 3 (5.66%) VMware NSX
5 2 (3.77%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (1.89%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (1.89%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 17 (32.08%) Kubernetes
2 16 (30.19%) Ansible
3 13 (24.53%) 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 12 (22.64%) Microsoft
2 7 (13.21%) Oracle
3 6 (11.32%) Palo Alto
3 6 (11.32%) Zscaler
4 5 (9.43%) Google
4 5 (9.43%) VMware
5 3 (5.66%) Aruba
5 3 (5.66%) Cisco
5 3 (5.66%) Ruckus Wireless
6 2 (3.77%) Arista
6 2 (3.77%) Dell
6 2 (3.77%) HP
6 2 (3.77%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.89%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (1.89%) Darktrace
7 1 (1.89%) Juniper
7 1 (1.89%) Mellanox
7 1 (1.89%) NVIDIA
7 1 (1.89%) Refinitiv
7 1 (1.89%) Temenos