Runbook Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Runbook
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Runbook skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 80 91
Rank change year-on-year -12 +11 +16
Contract jobs citing Runbook 5 5 6
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.43% 0.48% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.53% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £372 - £577
25th Percentile £470 £488 £579
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £649 £500 £603
Median % change year-on-year +29.70% -17.01% -7.31%
75th Percentile £747 £513 £623
90th Percentile - - £624
North West median daily rate £623 £500 £603
% change year-on-year +24.60% -17.01% -7.31%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,046 952 1,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.17% 90.67% 87.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 712 569 955
10th Percentile £305 £294 £301
25th Percentile £380 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -7.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £585
90th Percentile £638 £676 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 35 42
10th Percentile £17.30 £15.97 £14.26
25th Percentile £19.75 £21.25 £17.73
Median hourly rate £29.60 £32.50 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.92% -10.96% -8.75%
75th Percentile £57.50 £33.75 £60.94
90th Percentile £64.63 £63.00 £77.13
North West median hourly rate £41.68 £30.20 £40.00
% change year-on-year +38.01% -24.50% +14.29%

Runbook
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Runbook job vacancy trend in Manchester

Runbook
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Runbook

Runbook
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Runbook in Manchester over the 6 months to 9 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Runbook in Manchester

Runbook
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) GCP
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (20.00%) Copilot Studio
3 1 (20.00%) Google Tag Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Power BI
2 1 (20.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (20.00%) Looker
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Browser DevTools
General
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Governance Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Power Platform Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Validation
2 3 (60.00%) Attestation
2 3 (60.00%) Information Security
2 3 (60.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) AI
4 1 (20.00%) Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Change Management
4 1 (20.00%) Conflict Resolution
4 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
4 1 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (20.00%) Logistics
4 1 (20.00%) Low Latency
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Storytelling
4 1 (20.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
1 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Google
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft