Runbook Contracts in the North West

Runbook
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 128 137 162
Rank change year-on-year +9 +25 -33
Contract jobs citing Runbook 8 18 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.30% 0.57% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.63% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 14 12
10th Percentile - £264 £495
25th Percentile £425 £634 £593
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year -30.36% +7.69% +122.22%
75th Percentile £548 - £691
90th Percentile £588 - £700
England median daily rate £500 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -9.09% +3.29% +18.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,327 2,859 3,565
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.25% 90.59% 88.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,486 2,033 2,605
10th Percentile £306 £313 £240
25th Percentile £405 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £593 £588 £575
90th Percentile £689 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 143 163
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.31 £23.15 £14.25
Median hourly rate £22.11 £37.30 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.72% +77.62% +14.50%
75th Percentile £45.88 £49.52 £43.25
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.95 £58.75
England median hourly rate £36.33 £37.15 £24.35
% change year-on-year -2.21% +52.57% +3.62%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Runbook in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Runbook in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Runbook in the North West over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Runbook in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 4 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
Manchester +13 7 £450 -35.71% 4
Cumbria - 1 £528 -
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (12.50%) Apache
1 1 (12.50%) JBoss
1 1 (12.50%) nginx
1 1 (12.50%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (25.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MySQL
1 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
1 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
1 1 (12.50%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Cypress.io
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) GoCD
1 1 (12.50%) JUnit
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Analyst
2 3 (37.50%) SOC Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Java Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Android Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) PHP Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Android Jetpack
1 1 (12.50%) Dagger
1 1 (12.50%) IBM Integration Bus
1 1 (12.50%) Jest
1 1 (12.50%) Jetpack Compose
1 1 (12.50%) Middleware
1 1 (12.50%) Node.js
1 1 (12.50%) React
1 1 (12.50%) Retrofit
1 1 (12.50%) RxJava
1 1 (12.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Android
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Unix
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Business Continuity
1 3 (37.50%) Continuous Delivery
1 3 (37.50%) Data Security
1 3 (37.50%) Design Patterns
1 3 (37.50%) Incident Management
1 3 (37.50%) Incident Response
1 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
1 3 (37.50%) Test Strategy
2 2 (25.00%) Critical Thinking
2 2 (25.00%) Prototyping
3 1 (12.50%) Architectural Design
3 1 (12.50%) Availability Management
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (12.50%) Micro Frontends
3 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
3 1 (12.50%) Security Operations
3 1 (12.50%) Server Management
3 1 (12.50%) Service Design
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (12.50%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Java
1 2 (25.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) Bash
2 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 1 (12.50%) Kotlin
2 1 (12.50%) PHP
2 1 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
2 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) CISM
1 3 (37.50%) CISSP
1 3 (37.50%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (12.50%) SLA
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) IBM
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
2 1 (12.50%) Temenos