Runbook Contracts in the Thames Valley

Runbook
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 97 133 144
Rank change year-on-year +36 +11 +17
Contract jobs citing Runbook 5 12 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.33% 0.45% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.51% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 6
10th Percentile - £574 £450
25th Percentile £500 £600 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £675
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -7.41% +18.42%
75th Percentile £659 £653 £711
90th Percentile £764 £670 £715
South East median daily rate £575 £525 £200
% change year-on-year +9.52% +162.50% -48.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £28.00 -
South East median hourly rate - £28.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Runbook as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Runbook in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Runbook in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Runbook in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Runbook in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Runbook in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Runbook in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Runbook within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +24 5 £550 -12.00% 6
Runbook
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (40.00%) GitHub
1 2 (40.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) BGP
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 2 (40.00%) Fibre Channel
1 2 (40.00%) IPv6
1 2 (40.00%) OSPF
1 2 (40.00%) SAN
1 2 (40.00%) Spanning Tree
1 2 (40.00%) TACACS
1 2 (40.00%) VSAN
2 1 (20.00%) LAN
2 1 (20.00%) Modbus
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (20.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (40.00%) SIEM
2 1 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (20.00%) Data Security
2 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (20.00%) Malware Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Privileged Access Management
2 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (20.00%) Threat Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CISM
1 1 (20.00%) CISSP
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Ceph
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Argo
2 1 (20.00%) CSIRT
2 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco
1 2 (40.00%) Dell
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (20.00%) CyberArk
2 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (20.00%) Zscaler