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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 170 192
Rank change year-on-year +30 +22 +35
Contract jobs citing Runbook 23 17 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.65% 0.35% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 0.42% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 9 16
10th Percentile £469 £450 £475
25th Percentile £500 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £475 £644
Median % change year-on-year +9.47% -26.21% +59.44%
75th Percentile £575 £540 £704
90th Percentile £600 £555 £715
England median daily rate £510 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -5.56% -1.82% -0.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £32.77 £57.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -43.01% - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £28.00 -
% change year-on-year +132.14% - -

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 3,163 4,068 4,988
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 89.86% 82.68% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,977 2,484 3,367
10th Percentile £250 £255 £256
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £518
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -0.58% +3.60%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £623
90th Percentile £671 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 294 322 236
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.00 £15.38
25th Percentile £15.13 £26.25 £21.05
Median hourly rate £21.41 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.67% +14.70% +100.00%
75th Percentile £50.00 £70.14 £63.75
90th Percentile £70.92 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +3.61% +56.60%

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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 14 August 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 14 August 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 +11 11 £500 -7.41% 1
Berkshire +9 9 £500 -7.41%
Surrey - 8 £488 -
West Sussex -2 2 £550 +15.79%
Oxfordshire - 2 £600 - 1
Hampshire +15 1 £600 - 4
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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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.35%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (26.09%) Azure
2 5 (21.74%) Entra ID
3 3 (13.04%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (13.04%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (8.70%) AWS
4 2 (8.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 2 (8.70%) GitHub
4 2 (8.70%) OpenShift
5 1 (4.35%) IaaS
5 1 (4.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (39.13%) Firewall
2 6 (26.09%) DNS
3 5 (21.74%) NGFW
4 4 (17.39%) BGP
4 4 (17.39%) Ethernet VPN
4 4 (17.39%) Fibre Channel
4 4 (17.39%) IPv6
4 4 (17.39%) OSPF
4 4 (17.39%) SAN
4 4 (17.39%) Spanning Tree
4 4 (17.39%) TACACS
4 4 (17.39%) VSAN
5 3 (13.04%) VPN
6 2 (8.70%) DHCP
6 2 (8.70%) LAN
6 2 (8.70%) Wireless
7 1 (4.35%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (4.35%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Git
1 2 (8.70%) GitLab
1 2 (8.70%) Subversion
General
1 10 (43.48%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Telecoms
3 2 (8.70%) Legal
4 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Finance
4 1 (4.35%) Local Government
4 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) Analyst
1 8 (34.78%) Security Analyst
2 3 (13.04%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 3 (13.04%) Network Engineer
2 3 (13.04%) Senior
2 3 (13.04%) Senior Analyst
2 3 (13.04%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
2 3 (13.04%) Senior Security Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) Administrator
3 2 (8.70%) Architect
3 2 (8.70%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (8.70%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Linux Administrator
3 2 (8.70%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Migration Architect
3 2 (8.70%) Release Manager
4 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (4.35%) Service Manager
4 1 (4.35%) Telecoms Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Data Centre
1 2 (8.70%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.35%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (4.35%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Linux
1 2 (8.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (8.70%) Solaris
1 2 (8.70%) Unix
2 1 (4.35%) Windows
2 1 (4.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (34.78%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (30.43%) Incident Management
2 7 (30.43%) Network Load Balancing
2 7 (30.43%) Zero Trust
3 5 (21.74%) Migration
4 4 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (17.39%) DevOps
4 4 (17.39%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (13.04%) Data Security
5 3 (13.04%) Penetration Testing
5 3 (13.04%) Project Management
5 3 (13.04%) SIEM
5 3 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (13.04%) Vulnerability Management
6 2 (8.70%) Agile
6 2 (8.70%) Computer Science
6 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Management
6 2 (8.70%) PRINCE2
6 2 (8.70%) Process Management
6 2 (8.70%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.70%) Bash
1 2 (8.70%) Perl
1 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
1 2 (8.70%) Python
2 1 (4.35%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (8.70%) Degree
1 2 (8.70%) PMP
2 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (17.39%) QA
2 2 (8.70%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (8.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (8.70%) GDPR
2 2 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (17.39%) Ceph
2 3 (13.04%) Active Directory
3 2 (8.70%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (8.70%) vSphere
4 1 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (8.70%) Ansible
2 2 (8.70%) Argo
2 2 (8.70%) Red Hat Satellite
2 2 (8.70%) SELinux
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) Cisco
1 7 (30.43%) CrowdStrike
1 7 (30.43%) F5
2 5 (21.74%) Palo Alto
3 4 (17.39%) Dell
3 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
3 4 (17.39%) Red Hat
4 3 (13.04%) Qualys
4 3 (13.04%) VMware
5 2 (8.70%) ServiceNow
5 2 (8.70%) SolarWinds
5 2 (8.70%) Sophos
5 2 (8.70%) Symantec
5 2 (8.70%) Veritas
5 2 (8.70%) Zscaler
6 1 (4.35%) Aruba
6 1 (4.35%) Citrix
6 1 (4.35%) SAP