Runbook Contract Job Trends in Southampton

Runbook
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Southampton requiring Runbook skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Runbook 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Southampton 2.19% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.52% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
Hampshire median daily rate £600 £500 -
% change year-on-year +20.00% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 119 107 120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 86.86% 84.25% 71.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 72 80
10th Percentile £165 £170 £200
25th Percentile £263 £323 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £506
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -1.23% -3.57%
75th Percentile £588 £603 £634
90th Percentile £707 £686 £650
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £536 £575
% change year-on-year +2.61% -6.78% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 3 6
10th Percentile £12.71 £70.60 £46.00
25th Percentile £30.63 £70.75 -
Median hourly rate £37.24 £72.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.28% -10.00% +196.30%
75th Percentile £58.68 £74.00 -
90th Percentile £62.23 £74.60 -
Hampshire median hourly rate £49.00 £25.15 £57.35
% change year-on-year +94.83% -56.15% +4.27%

Runbook
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

Runbook job vacancy trend in Southampton

Runbook
Daily Rate Trend in Southampton

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Runbook

Runbook
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southampton 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 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
1 1 (33.33%) ITSM
1 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
1 1 (33.33%) Validation
1 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Qualys
2 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow