Runbook Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Runbook
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 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 77 34 53
Rank change year-on-year -43 +19 +3
Contract jobs citing Runbook 14 8 1
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 1.78% 2.66% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.88% 2.87% 0.24%
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 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £465 £365 £340
% change year-on-year +27.40% +7.35% -51.43%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 744 279 419
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 94.66% 92.69% 95.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 499 165 255
10th Percentile £318 £211 £375
25th Percentile £402 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £538 £600 £628
90th Percentile £634 £675 £720
Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.05% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 10
10th Percentile £16.11 £12.79 £12.45
25th Percentile £19.50 £14.35 £14.55
Median hourly rate £25.15 £18.10 £21.25
Median % change year-on-year +38.99% -14.85% +116.84%
75th Percentile - £20.38 £23.75
90th Percentile - £21.05 £33.13
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £21.00 £20.35
% change year-on-year +19.76% +3.18% +8.55%

Runbook
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Runbook job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Runbook
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Runbook

Runbook
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Runbook in South Yorkshire

Runbook
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 31 December 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
Sheffield -37 14 £465 - 16
Runbook
Yorkshire

Runbook
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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