Runbook Contracts in the South West

Runbook
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 140 154
Rank change year-on-year +28 +14 +12
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Runbook 7 2 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.36% 0.073% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.088% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 4
10th Percentile - £492 £253
25th Percentile £550 £510 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +2.86% +31.25%
75th Percentile £650 £570 £648
90th Percentile - £588 £666
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,725 2,270 2,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 89.84% 83.03% 87.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 998 1,432 2,034
10th Percentile £213 £263 £313
25th Percentile £363 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% +2.48%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £650
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 245 257
10th Percentile £14.98 £13.86 £20.50
25th Percentile £18.51 £36.25 £45.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.74% +3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £63.75 £72.50 £76.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £83.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +54.55%

Runbook
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Runbook in the South West

Runbook
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Runbook.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Runbook

Runbook
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 28 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Somerset - 4 - - 2
Wiltshire - 3 £600 -
Runbook
England

Runbook
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (28.57%) Documentum
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (14.29%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) MySQL
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Data Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Data Migration Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Migration Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Active Directory Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Deployment Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) IT Manager
3 1 (14.29%) IT Services Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Service Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Service Transition Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Transition Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Deployment Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) JDBC
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (14.29%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) Windows Server
3 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (14.29%) Linux
4 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (14.29%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Migration
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Operations
2 2 (28.57%) Data Migration
2 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
2 2 (28.57%) Data Virtualisation
2 2 (28.57%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (28.57%) Observability
2 2 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Secure Coding
2 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) System Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Validation
3 1 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (14.29%) API Integration
3 1 (14.29%) High Availability
3 1 (14.29%) Operational Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (14.29%) Privileged Access Management
3 1 (14.29%) Service Design
3 1 (14.29%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) EMC
1 2 (28.57%) Google
1 2 (28.57%) McAfee
1 2 (28.57%) Sophos
2 1 (14.29%) CyberArk
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) PTC
2 1 (14.29%) Remedy
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow