Runbook Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Runbook
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Runbook skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 117 127
Rank change year-on-year +11 +10 +49
Contract jobs citing Runbook 13 9 13
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.76% 0.42% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 0.49% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 13
10th Percentile - £428 £513
25th Percentile £500 £470 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £540 £613
Median % change year-on-year -0.46% -11.84% -5.77%
75th Percentile £600 - £700
90th Percentile - - £715
South East median daily rate £500 £520 £631
% change year-on-year -3.85% -17.62% +54.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
South East median hourly rate £32.77 £57.50 -
% change year-on-year -43.01% - -

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 1,537 1,844 2,388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 90.41% 85.49% 90.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 953 1,039 1,599
10th Percentile £268 £300 £250
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £510 £520
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% -1.92% +4.00%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £650 £677 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 76 84
10th Percentile £14.75 £18.73 £16.40
25th Percentile £15.91 £29.44 £25.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £58.34 £51.05
Median % change year-on-year -56.89% +14.28% +155.25%
75th Percentile £51.00 £63.75 £70.50
90th Percentile £79.00 £75.32 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £22.19 £60.00 £53.50
% change year-on-year -63.02% +12.15% +66.12%

Runbook
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Runbook job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Runbook.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Runbook

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Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Runbook.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Runbook

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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 8 October 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 +14 10 £500 -7.41% 2
Oxfordshire - 3 £600 - 2
Runbook
South East

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) Entra ID
2 4 (30.77%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) GitHub
3 3 (23.08%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (15.38%) AWS
4 2 (15.38%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 2 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (15.38%) OpenShift
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECR
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
5 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) IaaS
5 1 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) BGP
1 4 (30.77%) DNS
1 4 (30.77%) Ethernet VPN
1 4 (30.77%) Fibre Channel
1 4 (30.77%) IPv6
1 4 (30.77%) OSPF
1 4 (30.77%) SAN
1 4 (30.77%) Spanning Tree
1 4 (30.77%) TACACS
1 4 (30.77%) VSAN
2 2 (15.38%) LAN
2 2 (15.38%) VPN
3 1 (7.69%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) GitLab
2 1 (7.69%) Git
General
1 4 (30.77%) Telecoms
2 2 (15.38%) Legal
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Network Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Cloud Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Migration Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Release Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Backend Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Data Analytics Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Developer
3 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Python Developer
3 1 (7.69%) SAP Manager
3 1 (7.69%) SAP Release Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Security Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Python Developer
3 1 (7.69%) SOC Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Software Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) YAML
2 1 (7.69%) Django
2 1 (7.69%) FastAPI
2 1 (7.69%) Flask
2 1 (7.69%) OAuth
2 1 (7.69%) OAuth2
2 1 (7.69%) OpenAPI
2 1 (7.69%) OpenID
2 1 (7.69%) REST
2 1 (7.69%) RESTful
2 1 (7.69%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Data Centre
1 2 (15.38%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (7.69%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) DevOps
2 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
2 4 (30.77%) Identity Access Management
2 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (30.77%) Migration
3 3 (23.08%) Agile
3 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (23.08%) RBAC
3 3 (23.08%) SIEM
4 2 (15.38%) Computer Science
4 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (15.38%) Data Protection
4 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (15.38%) PRINCE2
4 2 (15.38%) Process Management
4 2 (15.38%) Project Management
4 2 (15.38%) Release Management
4 2 (15.38%) Risk Management
4 2 (15.38%) SDLC
4 2 (15.38%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
2 2 (15.38%) Python
3 1 (7.69%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
1 2 (15.38%) PMP
2 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (15.38%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (15.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (15.38%) QA
3 1 (7.69%) GDPR
3 1 (7.69%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Ceph
2 3 (23.08%) Active Directory
3 1 (7.69%) Docker
3 1 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Argo
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (15.38%) Terraform
3 1 (7.69%) Grafana
3 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Cisco
2 4 (30.77%) Dell
2 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
3 2 (15.38%) Red Hat
3 2 (15.38%) ServiceNow
3 2 (15.38%) Sophos
3 2 (15.38%) Zscaler
4 1 (7.69%) Databricks
4 1 (7.69%) SAP