Runbook Contracts in the North of England

Runbook
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 154 165 197
Rank change year-on-year +11 +32 +18
Contract jobs citing Runbook 12 20 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.36% 0.42% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.49% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 13 17
10th Percentile £384 £319 £328
25th Percentile £393 £320 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £380 £700
Median % change year-on-year +18.42% -45.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £513 £475 -
90th Percentile £615 £548 -
England median daily rate £510 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +2.00% -9.09% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
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 the North of England

Job postings citing Runbook as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Runbook in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Runbook in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Runbook in the North of England

Runbook
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Runbook in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Runbook within the North of England 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
North West +17 9 £500 +2.56% 6
Yorkshire +1 3 £400 +17.65% 4
Runbook
England

Runbook
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 3 (25.00%) JBoss
2 2 (16.67%) Apache Spark
2 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (8.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) AWS
2 3 (25.00%) OpenShift
3 2 (16.67%) Azure
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (16.67%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (8.33%) DNS
1 1 (8.33%) DWDM
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
1 1 (8.33%) LAN
1 1 (8.33%) Network Security
1 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (8.33%) VPN
1 1 (8.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (25.00%) RDBMS
1 3 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (16.67%) Big Data
2 2 (16.67%) Data Mining
2 2 (16.67%) Data Vault
2 2 (16.67%) Delta Lake
2 2 (16.67%) Hadoop
2 2 (16.67%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Git
2 4 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (25.00%) Bitbucket Server
3 3 (25.00%) CA Release Automation
3 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (25.00%) JIRA
3 3 (25.00%) SonarQube
3 3 (25.00%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) Lead
3 2 (16.67%) Senior
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Service Continuity Leader
4 1 (8.33%) Applications Support
4 1 (8.33%) Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Data Centre Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) IT Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Network Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Service Continuity Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (16.67%) ADO
2 2 (16.67%) Kafka
2 2 (16.67%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Linux
1 3 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (41.67%) Analytics
3 4 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 4 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (33.33%) DevOps
3 4 (33.33%) Migration
4 3 (25.00%) BCP
4 3 (25.00%) Build Automation
4 3 (25.00%) Business Continuity
4 3 (25.00%) Business Continuity Planning
4 3 (25.00%) Change Management
4 3 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (25.00%) High Availability
4 3 (25.00%) ITIL
4 3 (25.00%) Load Balancing
4 3 (25.00%) Microservices
4 3 (25.00%) Observability
4 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Python
2 3 (25.00%) Java
2 3 (25.00%) Perl
3 2 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) CCNA
2 1 (8.33%) CCNP
2 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (8.33%) JNCIA
2 1 (8.33%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 3 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Kibana
1 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (25.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (8.33%) Ansible
2 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) AppDynamics
1 3 (25.00%) Cloudera
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (25.00%) Red Hat
1 3 (25.00%) Splunk
2 2 (16.67%) Databricks
3 1 (8.33%) Arista
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco