Runbook Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Runbook
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Runbook skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 33 53
Rank change year-on-year -37 +20 -2
Contract jobs citing Runbook 14 8 1
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 1.91% 2.92% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.01% 3.15% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 0
10th Percentile £404 - -
25th Percentile £411 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 - -
75th Percentile £482 - -
90th Percentile £490 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £465 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 696 254 366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 94.82% 92.70% 95.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 474 147 230
10th Percentile £325 £220 £383
25th Percentile £402 £422 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.22% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £538 £600 £650
90th Percentile £613 £683 £721
South Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -5.88% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 8
10th Percentile £16.11 £12.79 £12.11
25th Percentile £19.50 £14.35 £17.03
Median hourly rate £25.15 £18.10 £21.25
Median % change year-on-year +38.99% -14.85% +11.84%
75th Percentile - £20.38 £23.75
90th Percentile - £21.05 £26.00
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £18.10 £21.25
% change year-on-year +38.99% -14.85% +116.84%

Runbook
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Runbook job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Runbook
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Runbook

Runbook
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Runbook in Sheffield over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Runbook in Sheffield

Runbook
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 (28.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2013
2 2 (14.29%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) OpenShift
2 4 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Purview
3 3 (21.43%) AWS
3 3 (21.43%) GCP
4 2 (14.29%) Azure
4 2 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 2 (14.29%) GitHub
4 2 (14.29%) OneDrive
4 2 (14.29%) ShareGate
5 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) DNS
2 2 (14.29%) DKIM
2 2 (14.29%) DMARC
2 2 (14.29%) Firewall
2 2 (14.29%) SMTP
2 2 (14.29%) SSL
2 2 (14.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
2 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Git
1 2 (14.29%) GitLab
1 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Legal
3 3 (21.43%) Finance
4 2 (14.29%) Banking
4 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Architect
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft 365 Architect
2 3 (21.43%) Project Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Build Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Exchange Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Identity Management Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Lead
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Service Delivery Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Service Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) PKI
2 3 (21.43%) Onboarding
3 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Windows
2 2 (14.29%) Linux
2 2 (14.29%) Unix
2 2 (14.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) CI/CD
2 9 (64.29%) Migration
3 7 (50.00%) DevOps
4 6 (42.86%) API Integration
4 6 (42.86%) Incident Response
5 5 (35.71%) Risk Management
6 4 (28.57%) Change Management
6 4 (28.57%) Cloud Security
6 4 (28.57%) Data Loss Prevention
6 4 (28.57%) E-Discovery
6 4 (28.57%) Identity Access Management
6 4 (28.57%) Incident Management
6 4 (28.57%) IT Governance
6 4 (28.57%) Key Management
6 4 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 3 (21.43%) Architectural Design
7 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (21.43%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 2 (14.29%) Bash
2 2 (14.29%) Java
2 2 (14.29%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (14.29%) Python
2 2 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) CISM
1 4 (28.57%) CISSP
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) GDPR
2 2 (14.29%) FINRA
2 2 (14.29%) MiFID
2 2 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) Ansible
1 6 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 5 (35.71%) Terraform
3 4 (28.57%) Grafana
4 2 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) AppDynamics
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle
2 2 (14.29%) Splunk