Runbook Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Runbook
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Runbook skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 143 116 138
Rank change year-on-year -27 +22 +65
Contract jobs citing Runbook 10 18 11
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.36% 0.67% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.79% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 9
10th Percentile £304 - £364
25th Percentile £309 £165 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £369 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year -7.81% - -11.11%
75th Percentile £436 £738 £606
90th Percentile £467 £750 £625
England median daily rate £500 £555 £550
% change year-on-year -9.91% +0.91% -8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,450 2,266 2,491
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 88.99% 83.83% 85.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,581 1,426 1,705
10th Percentile £250 £253 £250
25th Percentile £363 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.04% -1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 196 69 105
10th Percentile £13.83 £14.10 £13.82
25th Percentile £17.87 £15.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £21.28 £22.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.44% -18.18% +55.90%
75th Percentile £26.51 £39.68 £51.50
90th Percentile £41.86 £53.00 £68.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% -4.49% +36.92%

Runbook
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Runbook job vacancy trend in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Runbook.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Runbook

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Runbook in the Midlands over the 6 months to 9 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Runbook in the Midlands

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Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Runbook.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Runbook

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Runbook within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 October 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
West Midlands -16 6 £325 -25.29% 7
East Midlands -10 4 £413 - 3
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England

Runbook
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) GitHub
2 3 (30.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (20.00%) Azure AKS
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (10.00%) AWS
4 1 (10.00%) Azure API Management
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DHCP
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) CircleCI
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Coordinator
2 1 (10.00%) IT Support
2 1 (10.00%) Lead
2 1 (10.00%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Programme Coordinator
2 1 (10.00%) Project Coordinator
2 1 (10.00%) Project Support Coordinator
2 1 (10.00%) SCADA Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Senior
2 1 (10.00%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (10.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Operations Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Service Continuity Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (10.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Legacy Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Operational Technology
1 2 (20.00%) SCADA
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (10.00%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (30.00%) Change Management
2 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (30.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (20.00%) BCP
3 2 (20.00%) Business Continuity
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (20.00%) Incident Response
3 2 (20.00%) Information Security
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) ITSM
3 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (20.00%) Service Delivery
3 2 (20.00%) Service Management
3 2 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Bash
1 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (20.00%) Terraform
3 1 (10.00%) Dell DRAC
3 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (10.00%) Dell