Runbook Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Runbook
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring Runbook skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Runbook 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 2.04% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.31% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
South East median daily rate £500 £520 £631
% change year-on-year -3.85% -17.62% +54.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 130 114 203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 88.44% 73.55% 86.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 79 140
10th Percentile £175 £204 £189
25th Percentile £250 £344 £297
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% - -
75th Percentile £550 £506 £600
90th Percentile £678 £640 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 5 13
10th Percentile £17.00 £15.99 £25.19
25th Percentile £22.47 £22.50 £26.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £25.99 £32.32
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -19.59% +61.60%
75th Percentile £80.25 £67.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £89.63 £83.25 -
South East median hourly rate £22.19 £60.00 £53.50
% change year-on-year -63.02% +12.15% +66.12%

Runbook
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Runbook job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Runbook
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Runbook.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Runbook

Runbook
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Runbook within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 8 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
Oxford - 3 £600 - 1
Runbook
South East

Runbook
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECR
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ELB
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 2 (66.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Migration Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Backend Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Python Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Backend Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Django
1 1 (33.33%) FastAPI
1 1 (33.33%) Flask
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth2
1 1 (33.33%) OpenAPI
1 1 (33.33%) OpenID
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
2 2 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Transformation
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) RBAC
2 2 (66.67%) SIEM
3 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) Low Latency
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) OWASP
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Security Hardening
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (66.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (66.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (33.33%) GDPR
3 1 (33.33%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (33.33%) Argo
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) Sophos