Runbook Contracts in the UK excluding London

Runbook
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 334 364
Rank change year-on-year +34 +30 +72
Contract jobs citing Runbook 39 65 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.30% 0.31% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.37% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 36 62
10th Percentile £393 £320 £161
25th Percentile £458 £425 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% +16.67%
75th Percentile £660 £600 £675
90th Percentile £781 £638 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £28.00 -
UK median hourly rate £18.13 £18.13 £51.00
% change year-on-year - -64.45% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,562 17,588 21,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.38% 84.75% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,253 10,507 14,891
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 821 2,055 1,305
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.32 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.22 £15.81
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +4.29% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.52 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

Runbook
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Runbook as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Runbook in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Runbook in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Runbook in the UK excluding London

Runbook
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Runbook in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Runbook in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Runbook in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Runbook in the UK excluding London

Runbook
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Runbook within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
North of England +15 12 £450 +18.42% 12
Scotland +18 11 £595 +25.26% 4
South East +29 10 £575 +9.52% 12
North West +14 9 £500 +2.56% 6
South West +44 3 £660 +10.00% 3
Yorkshire 0 3 £400 +17.65% 6
Midlands +11 2 - - 1
West Midlands +7 2 - -
East of England - 1 - - 2
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Runbook
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (7.69%) JBoss
2 2 (5.13%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (5.13%) OpenText VIM for SAP
Cloud Services
1 16 (41.03%) AWS
2 10 (25.64%) Azure
3 6 (15.38%) OpenShift
4 4 (10.26%) GitHub
5 2 (5.13%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (5.13%) dbt
5 2 (5.13%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.56%) Cloud Run
6 1 (2.56%) GCP
6 1 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.56%) Google Compute Engine
6 1 (2.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (2.56%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.82%) DNS
1 5 (12.82%) Firewall
2 3 (7.69%) Fibre Channel
2 3 (7.69%) LAN
2 3 (7.69%) SAN
3 2 (5.13%) BGP
3 2 (5.13%) DHCP
3 2 (5.13%) Ethernet VPN
3 2 (5.13%) IPv6
3 2 (5.13%) NGFW
3 2 (5.13%) OSPF
3 2 (5.13%) Spanning Tree
3 2 (5.13%) TACACS
3 2 (5.13%) VSAN
4 1 (2.56%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (2.56%) DWDM
4 1 (2.56%) Network Security
4 1 (2.56%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.56%) VPN
4 1 (2.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (7.69%) RDBMS
1 3 (7.69%) Relational Database
2 2 (5.13%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (5.13%) Big Data
2 2 (5.13%) Data Mining
2 2 (5.13%) Data Vault
2 2 (5.13%) Delta Lake
2 2 (5.13%) Hadoop
2 2 (5.13%) MariaDB
2 2 (5.13%) Metadata
2 2 (5.13%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (17.95%) Git
2 5 (12.82%) Jenkins
3 4 (10.26%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (7.69%) Bitbucket Server
4 3 (7.69%) CA Release Automation
4 3 (7.69%) GitLab
4 3 (7.69%) JIRA
4 3 (7.69%) SonarQube
4 3 (7.69%) TeamCity
5 2 (5.13%) Subversion
General
1 15 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (7.69%) Finance
3 3 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.13%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.56%) Banking
5 1 (2.56%) Fire and Rescue
5 1 (2.56%) Local Government
5 1 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Police
5 1 (2.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (15.38%) Lead
2 4 (10.26%) Consultant
2 4 (10.26%) Data Engineer
2 4 (10.26%) Service Continuity Leader
3 3 (7.69%) Architect
3 3 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (7.69%) Release Manager
3 3 (7.69%) Security Architect
4 2 (5.13%) Administrator
4 2 (5.13%) Data Protection Engineer
4 2 (5.13%) Head of Engineering
4 2 (5.13%) Linux Administrator
4 2 (5.13%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (5.13%) NetBackup Engineer
4 2 (5.13%) Network Engineer
4 2 (5.13%) Security Consultant
4 2 (5.13%) Senior
4 2 (5.13%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (5.13%) Service Manager
5 1 (2.56%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.82%) Spring Boot
2 3 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (5.13%) ADO
3 2 (5.13%) Kafka
3 2 (5.13%) PySpark
3 2 (5.13%) Spring
3 2 (5.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.38%) Onboarding
2 2 (5.13%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (5.13%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.13%) Public Cloud
2 2 (5.13%) Replication
3 1 (2.56%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.56%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.56%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.38%) Linux
1 6 (15.38%) Windows
2 5 (12.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (5.13%) Solaris
3 2 (5.13%) Unix
4 1 (2.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (35.90%) CI/CD
2 9 (23.08%) DevOps
3 8 (20.51%) High Availability
3 8 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (17.95%) Agile
4 7 (17.95%) Continuous Integration
4 7 (17.95%) Migration
5 6 (15.38%) Incident Response
5 6 (15.38%) ITIL
5 6 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (12.82%) Analytics
6 5 (12.82%) BCP
6 5 (12.82%) Business Continuity Planning
6 5 (12.82%) Business Impact Analysis
6 5 (12.82%) Change Management
6 5 (12.82%) Data Security
6 5 (12.82%) Impact Analysis
6 5 (12.82%) Microservices
6 5 (12.82%) Project Management
6 5 (12.82%) Service Catalogue
Programming Languages
1 12 (30.77%) Python
2 5 (12.82%) Java
2 5 (12.82%) Perl
3 3 (7.69%) Bash
4 2 (5.13%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.13%) SQL
5 1 (2.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (17.95%) Security Cleared
2 6 (15.38%) Degree
3 4 (10.26%) SC Cleared
4 3 (7.69%) PMI Certification
4 3 (7.69%) PMP
5 1 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.56%) CCNA
5 1 (2.56%) CCNP
5 1 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.56%) CISM
5 1 (2.56%) CISSP
5 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.56%) JNCIA
5 1 (2.56%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.82%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 5 (12.82%) QA
2 4 (10.26%) Data Quality
3 2 (5.13%) GDPR
4 1 (2.56%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.56%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.56%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (15.38%) Active Directory
2 5 (12.82%) Docker
3 2 (5.13%) Ceph
3 2 (5.13%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (5.13%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (5.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (12.82%) Ansible
1 5 (12.82%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.69%) Kibana
2 3 (7.69%) Progress Chef
2 3 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (7.69%) Terraform
3 2 (5.13%) Argo
3 2 (5.13%) NetBackup
3 2 (5.13%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (5.13%) SELinux
4 1 (2.56%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 7 (17.95%) Red Hat
2 4 (10.26%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.26%) Splunk
3 3 (7.69%) AppDynamics
3 3 (7.69%) Cisco
3 3 (7.69%) Cloudera
3 3 (7.69%) CyberArk
4 2 (5.13%) Databricks
4 2 (5.13%) Dell
4 2 (5.13%) Palo Alto
4 2 (5.13%) SAP
4 2 (5.13%) ServiceNow
4 2 (5.13%) SolarWinds
4 2 (5.13%) Symantec
4 2 (5.13%) Veritas
4 2 (5.13%) VMware
4 2 (5.13%) Zscaler
5 1 (2.56%) Arista
5 1 (2.56%) Google
5 1 (2.56%) ICL