Runbook Contracts in the North of England

Runbook
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Runbook skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Runbook over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 166 195 222
Rank change year-on-year +29 +27 -43
Contract jobs citing Runbook 19 22 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.40% 0.38% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.42% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 16 13
10th Percentile £319 £306 £471
25th Percentile £320 £606 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year -45.71% +7.69% +122.22%
75th Percentile £475 - £688
90th Percentile £548 - £700
England median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Runbook is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,026 5,268 6,350
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.79% 90.69% 88.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,465 3,659 4,646
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.21%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 357 207 257
10th Percentile £11.04 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £16.22 £12.75
Median hourly rate £17.72 £29.30 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.52% +58.38% +2.45%
75th Percentile £44.74 £47.25 £29.50
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £52.07
England median hourly rate £36.33 £36.40 £24.35
% change year-on-year -0.18% +49.47% +3.62%

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 5 May 2024.

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 5 May 2024. 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
Yorkshire +24 10 £340 -51.43% 2
North West +17 8 £488 -30.36% 5
North East +14 1 - - 1
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 1 (5.26%) Apache
1 1 (5.26%) Confluence
1 1 (5.26%) JBoss
1 1 (5.26%) nginx
1 1 (5.26%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) Azure
2 3 (15.79%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (10.53%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (52.63%) DNS
2 9 (47.37%) DHCP
3 7 (36.84%) Remote Desktop
3 7 (36.84%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (5.26%) Firewall
4 1 (5.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) MySQL
1 1 (5.26%) RDBMS
1 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
1 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
1 1 (5.26%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Cypress.io
1 1 (5.26%) Git
1 1 (5.26%) GoCD
1 1 (5.26%) JUnit
General
1 10 (52.63%) Social Skills
2 7 (36.84%) Banking
2 7 (36.84%) Finance
3 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.26%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Data Centre Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) Analyst
3 4 (21.05%) IT Engineer
3 4 (21.05%) IT Technician
4 3 (15.79%) Data Centre Technician
4 3 (15.79%) Data Technician
4 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) SOC Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) Java Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Senior
5 2 (10.53%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) Software Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Test Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Android Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Java Software Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) PHP Software Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Service Design Specialist
6 1 (5.26%) Service Transition Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) Android Jetpack
1 1 (5.26%) Dagger
1 1 (5.26%) IBM Integration Bus
1 1 (5.26%) Jest
1 1 (5.26%) Jetpack Compose
1 1 (5.26%) Middleware
1 1 (5.26%) Node.js
1 1 (5.26%) React
1 1 (5.26%) Retrofit
1 1 (5.26%) RxJava
1 1 (5.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (36.84%) Data Centre
2 4 (21.05%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 2 (10.53%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 10 (52.63%) Windows
2 7 (36.84%) Windows 10
2 7 (36.84%) Windows 7
3 1 (5.26%) Android
3 1 (5.26%) Linux
3 1 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.26%) Unix
3 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) Migration
2 7 (36.84%) Network Monitoring
2 7 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (31.58%) Validation
4 4 (21.05%) Business Continuity
4 4 (21.05%) Computer Science
4 4 (21.05%) Project Management
5 3 (15.79%) Continuous Delivery
5 3 (15.79%) Data Security
5 3 (15.79%) Design Patterns
5 3 (15.79%) Incident Management
5 3 (15.79%) Incident Response
5 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (15.79%) Knowledge Transfer
5 3 (15.79%) Software Engineering
5 3 (15.79%) Test Automation
5 3 (15.79%) Test Strategy
6 2 (10.53%) Critical Thinking
6 2 (10.53%) Prototyping
6 2 (10.53%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) Java
1 2 (10.53%) Kusto Query Language
1 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.26%) Bash
2 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.26%) Kotlin
2 1 (5.26%) PHP
2 1 (5.26%) Python
2 1 (5.26%) Shell Script
2 1 (5.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (36.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 4 (21.05%) A+ Certification
2 4 (21.05%) CCNA
2 4 (21.05%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (21.05%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (21.05%) Degree
2 4 (21.05%) Network+ Certification
3 3 (15.79%) CISM
3 3 (15.79%) CISSP
3 3 (15.79%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) QA
2 3 (15.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
3 1 (5.26%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (47.37%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (36.84%) Active Directory
2 7 (36.84%) KVM
2 7 (36.84%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (36.84%) VMware ESXi
2 7 (36.84%) VMware Workstation
3 4 (21.05%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (36.84%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 12 (63.16%) Microsoft
2 9 (47.37%) VMware
3 1 (5.26%) IBM
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle
3 1 (5.26%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.26%) Temenos