Runbook Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Runbook
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Runbook skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 110 128
Rank change year-on-year +15 +18 +25
Contract jobs citing Runbook 15 2 8
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 1.03% 0.13% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 0.14% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 2 5
10th Percentile £469 £727 £453
25th Percentile £488 £730 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £735 £475
Median % change year-on-year -25.17% +54.74% +15.15%
75th Percentile £576 £740 -
90th Percentile £580 £743 £610
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -16.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,273 1,408 2,062
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 87.01% 90.20% 89.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 722 822 1,271
10th Percentile £246 £230 £259
25th Percentile £383 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £567 £538 £588
90th Percentile £638 £649 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 48 54
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.56 £14.32
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £16.50
Median hourly rate £20.00 £23.59 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.22% +20.97% +4.00%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £56.05
90th Percentile £56.50 £42.96 £74.63
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -19.75% +16.41%

Runbook
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Runbook job vacancy trend in Scotland

Runbook
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Runbook

Runbook
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Runbook in Scotland over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Runbook in Scotland

Runbook
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Runbook within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 11 January 2026. 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
Glasgow +8 7 £568 -22.79% 3
Edinburgh - 7 £500 - 6
Runbook
UK

Runbook
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 5 (33.33%) Confluence
2 1 (6.67%) FileNet
Cloud Services
1 10 (66.67%) AWS
2 8 (53.33%) Azure
3 4 (26.67%) GCP
3 4 (26.67%) OCI
4 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) MySQL
1 3 (20.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (13.33%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 7 (46.67%) JIRA
General
1 7 (46.67%) Finance
2 5 (33.33%) Legal
3 4 (26.67%) Banking
3 4 (26.67%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (26.67%) Public Sector
3 4 (26.67%) Retail
4 3 (20.00%) Retail Banking
4 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Implementation Specialist
1 4 (26.67%) Project Manager
2 3 (20.00%) Implementation Manager
2 3 (20.00%) Implementation Project Manager
2 3 (20.00%) Project Implementation Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Elasticsearch Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Operations Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Python Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Release Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Service Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Data Centre Project Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Data Migration Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Data Migration Project Manager
4 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Migration Project Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Technical Project Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Site Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) React
2 1 (6.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (20.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (13.33%) CMDB
3 2 (13.33%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (13.33%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
4 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Windows
2 2 (13.33%) Linux
2 2 (13.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Agile
1 8 (53.33%) Incident Response
2 7 (46.67%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (46.67%) Migration
3 6 (40.00%) Dependency Management
3 6 (40.00%) ITIL
3 6 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 4 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (26.67%) Decision-Making
5 4 (26.67%) DevOps
5 4 (26.67%) Incident Management
5 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (26.67%) Platform Engineering
5 4 (26.67%) Risk Assessment
6 3 (20.00%) Change Management
6 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 3 (20.00%) Microservices
6 3 (20.00%) SDLC
6 3 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) Java
2 3 (20.00%) Python
3 2 (13.33%) Shell Script
3 2 (13.33%) TypeScript
4 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) PMI Certification
1 2 (13.33%) PMP
1 2 (13.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 1 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) COBIT
2 3 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) Terraform
2 4 (26.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) CheckPoint
1 4 (26.67%) Dell
1 4 (26.67%) Dynatrace
1 4 (26.67%) F5
1 4 (26.67%) HP
1 4 (26.67%) Oracle
2 3 (20.00%) IBM
3 2 (13.33%) ServiceNow
3 2 (13.33%) Splunk