Runbook Contracts in the South East

Runbook
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Runbook skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Runbook over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 150 178 200
Rank change year-on-year +28 +22 +34
Contract jobs citing Runbook 9 27 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.30% 0.49% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.57% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 17 20
10th Percentile £500 £463 £158
25th Percentile £519 £475 £161
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £200
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +162.50% -48.05%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £670 £655 £702
England median daily rate £510 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +2.00% -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £28.00 -
England median hourly rate £18.13 £28.00 -
% change year-on-year -35.25% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Runbook as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Runbook in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Runbook in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Runbook in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Runbook in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Runbook in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Runbook in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Runbook in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Runbook within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Thames Valley +36 5 £550 -12.00% 5
Berkshire +24 5 £550 -12.00% 4
Hampshire +22 2 £600 -
West Sussex +7 2 £550 +15.79%
Runbook
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) AWS
1 3 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) GitHub
2 2 (22.22%) OpenShift
3 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) DNS
1 4 (44.44%) Firewall
2 2 (22.22%) BGP
2 2 (22.22%) DHCP
2 2 (22.22%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (22.22%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (22.22%) IPv6
2 2 (22.22%) NGFW
2 2 (22.22%) OSPF
2 2 (22.22%) SAN
2 2 (22.22%) Spanning Tree
2 2 (22.22%) TACACS
2 2 (22.22%) VSAN
3 1 (11.11%) LAN
3 1 (11.11%) Modbus
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Git
1 2 (22.22%) GitLab
1 2 (22.22%) Subversion
General
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Telecoms
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Administrator
1 2 (22.22%) Consultant
1 2 (22.22%) Linux Administrator
1 2 (22.22%) Linux Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Security Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Network Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Onboarding
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) Operational Technology
2 1 (11.11%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
1 2 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (22.22%) Solaris
1 2 (22.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
2 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (22.22%) Data Loss Prevention
2 2 (22.22%) DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) High Availability
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (22.22%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (22.22%) Patch Management
2 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (22.22%) Product Roadmap
2 2 (22.22%) Project Delivery
2 2 (22.22%) Remediation Plan
2 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
2 2 (22.22%) SIEM
2 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (11.11%) Incident Response
3 1 (11.11%) Malware Analysis
3 1 (11.11%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Bash
1 2 (22.22%) Perl
1 2 (22.22%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) CISM
2 1 (11.11%) CISSP
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) GDPR
1 2 (22.22%) QA
2 1 (11.11%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (11.11%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Ceph
1 2 (22.22%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (22.22%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (22.22%) vSphere
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Ansible
1 2 (22.22%) Argo
1 2 (22.22%) Red Hat Satellite
1 2 (22.22%) SELinux
2 1 (11.11%) CSIRT
2 1 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Red Hat
2 2 (22.22%) Cisco
2 2 (22.22%) Dell
2 2 (22.22%) Palo Alto
2 2 (22.22%) SolarWinds
2 2 (22.22%) Symantec
2 2 (22.22%) Veritas
2 2 (22.22%) VMware
3 1 (11.11%) CyberArk
3 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow
3 1 (11.11%) Zscaler