Runbook Contract Job Trends in Reading

Runbook
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading 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 62 90 80
Rank change year-on-year +28 -10 +17
Contract jobs citing Runbook 2 6 10
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.34% 0.55% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.64% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 10
10th Percentile - - £501
25th Percentile £563 - £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £540 £588
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% -8.09% -
75th Percentile £588 - £673
90th Percentile - - £689
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £540 £588
% change year-on-year -7.41% -8.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
Berkshire median hourly rate - £57.50 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 538 940 967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 91.03% 86.56% 88.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 341 512 652
10th Percentile £350 £350 £263
25th Percentile £450 £475 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £578 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.00% +6.80%
75th Percentile £609 £650 £638
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 24 13
10th Percentile - £14.50 £49.50
25th Percentile £14.75 £38.44 £58.75
Median hourly rate £37.28 £60.53 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.41% -8.29% +24.53%
75th Percentile £58.00 £63.74 £74.79
90th Percentile £68.75 £83.68 £75.20
Berkshire median hourly rate £37.28 £60.53 £60.63
% change year-on-year -38.41% -0.16% +20.05%

Runbook
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Runbook job vacancy trend in Reading

Runbook
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Runbook

Runbook
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Runbook.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Runbook

Runbook
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (50.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Privileged Identity Management
1 1 (50.00%) RBAC
1 1 (50.00%) Server Patching
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Databricks