Runbook Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Runbook
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring Runbook skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 20 -
Rank change year-on-year -40 - -
Contract jobs citing Runbook 1 11 0
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 0.21% 6.04% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 6.88% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £655 £425 -
Median % change year-on-year +54.12% - -
South West median daily rate £550 £488 £540
% change year-on-year +12.82% -9.72% -13.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £63.00 -
South West median hourly rate £93.75 £63.00 -
% change year-on-year +48.81% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 346 160 145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 74.25% 87.91% 75.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 101 93
10th Percentile £252 £160 £200
25th Percentile £444 £248 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -15.00% -7.06%
75th Percentile £672 £538 £625
90th Percentile £750 £649 £720
South West median daily rate £538 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +7.50% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 17 7
10th Percentile £19.40 - £12.50
25th Percentile £52.50 £18.51 £14.00
Median hourly rate £62.25 £60.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% +140.00% -51.82%
75th Percentile £90.00 £63.75 £54.38
90th Percentile £100.00 £64.05 £63.75
South West median hourly rate £62.00 £25.15 £67.50
% change year-on-year +146.52% -62.74% +12.50%

Runbook
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Runbook job vacancy trend in Somerset

Runbook
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Runbook

Runbook
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Runbook within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 12 October 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
Bath - 1 £655 - 4
Runbook
South West

Runbook
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) OCI
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Loki
1 1 (100.00%) ModSecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle