Runbook Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Runbook
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Runbook skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 188 143 169
Rank change year-on-year -45 +26 +33
Contract jobs citing Runbook 15 24 19
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.33% 0.60% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.71% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 10 9
10th Percentile £307 £358 £223
25th Percentile £333 £368 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £426 £550 £370
Median % change year-on-year -22.55% +48.65% -43.08%
75th Percentile £481 £580 £500
90th Percentile £523 £580 £619
England median daily rate £500 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -9.09% +0.92% -9.17%

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 4,079 3,376 4,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.81% 85.10% 88.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,719 1,842 2,877
10th Percentile £215 £288 £275
25th Percentile £363 £393 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £551 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £672 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 187 198
10th Percentile £15.18 £14.20 £15.93
25th Percentile £18.87 £17.25 £17.81
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £28.30
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% +14.84% +34.76%
75th Percentile £45.46 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £70.03 £69.85 £61.99
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.36 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.87% -21.42% +26.76%

Runbook
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Runbook job vacancy trend in the North of England

Runbook
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Runbook.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Runbook

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 22 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Runbook in the North of England

Runbook
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 22 November 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 -29 9 £387 -18.47% 5
Yorkshire -51 6 £487 -13.82% 2
Runbook
England

Runbook
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (26.67%) JBoss
2 3 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) AWS
2 6 (40.00%) Azure
3 4 (26.67%) GCP
3 4 (26.67%) OpenShift
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Event Grid
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Functions
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (13.33%) OCI
4 2 (13.33%) Power Platform
4 2 (13.33%) Serverless
5 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (6.67%) Copilot Studio
5 1 (6.67%) Google Tag Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Firewall
2 1 (6.67%) DNS
2 1 (6.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) RDBMS
1 4 (26.67%) Relational Database
2 3 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (13.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (13.33%) Power BI
3 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
4 1 (6.67%) BigQuery
4 1 (6.67%) Looker
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) JIRA
2 5 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 4 (26.67%) Git
3 4 (26.67%) SonarQube
3 4 (26.67%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (26.67%) TeamCity
4 3 (20.00%) Bitbucket Server
4 3 (20.00%) CA Release Automation
5 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket
5 1 (6.67%) Browser DevTools
General
1 4 (26.67%) Finance
1 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Banking
3 2 (13.33%) Legal
3 2 (13.33%) Retail
4 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.67%) Retail Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) DevOps Specialist
2 2 (13.33%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) DBA
2 2 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Implementation Specialist
2 2 (13.33%) Lead
2 2 (13.33%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Project Manager
3 1 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Developer
3 1 (6.67%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Platform Specialist
3 1 (6.67%) Power Platform Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Senior
3 1 (6.67%) Service Continuity Leader
3 1 (6.67%) Support Officer
3 1 (6.67%) Technical Project Manager
3 1 (6.67%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (26.67%) Spring Boot
2 2 (13.33%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (13.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.67%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Windows
2 4 (26.67%) Linux
2 4 (26.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (6.67%) pSOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) CI/CD
1 7 (46.67%) DevOps
1 7 (46.67%) Migration
2 6 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (33.33%) Analytics
3 5 (33.33%) Change Management
4 4 (26.67%) Agile
4 4 (26.67%) Code Quality
4 4 (26.67%) Incident Response
4 4 (26.67%) Microservices
4 4 (26.67%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (20.00%) Build Automation
5 3 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (20.00%) Decision-Making
5 3 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (20.00%) ITIL
5 3 (20.00%) Observability
5 3 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) Perl
1 4 (26.67%) Python
2 3 (20.00%) Java
2 3 (20.00%) SQL
3 2 (13.33%) Bicep
3 2 (13.33%) T-SQL
4 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
4 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
1 1 (6.67%) VCAP
1 1 (6.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) COBIT
2 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Active Directory
1 4 (26.67%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.67%) VMware NSX
2 1 (6.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) Terraform
2 4 (26.67%) Kibana
2 4 (26.67%) Kubernetes
2 4 (26.67%) Progress Chef
3 2 (13.33%) Ansible
4 1 (6.67%) PowerCLI
4 1 (6.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) AppDynamics
1 4 (26.67%) Cloudera
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
1 4 (26.67%) Red Hat
1 4 (26.67%) Splunk
2 3 (20.00%) F5
3 2 (13.33%) CheckPoint
3 2 (13.33%) Dell
3 2 (13.33%) Dynatrace
3 2 (13.33%) HP
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle
4 1 (6.67%) Broadcom
4 1 (6.67%) Google
4 1 (6.67%) VMware