Runbook Contracts

Runbook
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 414 420 534
Rank change year-on-year +6 +114 +52
Contract jobs citing Runbook 107 163 184
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.37% 0.37% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.43% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 92 124
10th Percentile £393 £319 £200
25th Percentile £436 £422 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Median hourly rate £18.13 £28.00 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.25% -45.10% -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £28.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Runbook
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Runbook as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Runbook in the UK

Runbook
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Runbook in the UK

Runbook
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Runbook in the UK

Runbook
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Runbook in the UK

Runbook
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 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
England +4 84 £510 +2.00% 67
London +16 53 £500 - 45
UK excluding London +36 38 £550 +15.79% 32
Work from Home +27 35 £505 -4.94% 31
North of England +11 12 £450 +18.42% 11
Scotland +18 11 £595 +25.26% 3
South East +28 9 £575 +9.52% 11
North West +17 9 £500 +2.56% 6
South West +47 3 £660 +10.00% 2
Yorkshire +1 3 £400 +17.65% 5
Midlands +14 2 - - 1
West Midlands +6 2 - -
East of England - 1 - - 2

Runbook
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 5 (4.67%) Confluence
2 3 (2.80%) JBoss
2 3 (2.80%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.87%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 8 (7.48%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (5.61%) MS Visio
3 3 (2.80%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (1.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.87%) MultiFonds
1 2 (1.87%) OpenText VIM for SAP
Cloud Services
1 34 (31.78%) AWS
2 30 (28.04%) Azure
3 10 (9.35%) GitHub
3 10 (9.35%) OpenShift
4 7 (6.54%) GCP
5 5 (4.67%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (4.67%) IaaS
5 5 (4.67%) PaaS
5 5 (4.67%) SaaS
6 4 (3.74%) Entra ID
6 4 (3.74%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (2.80%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (2.80%) OCI
8 2 (1.87%) AWS Fargate
8 2 (1.87%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (1.87%) Copilot Studio
8 2 (1.87%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (1.87%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.87%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 21 (19.63%) Firewall
2 14 (13.08%) VPN
3 11 (10.28%) WAN
4 10 (9.35%) DNS
5 7 (6.54%) BGP
5 7 (6.54%) OSPF
6 5 (4.67%) LAN
6 5 (4.67%) Network Security
7 4 (3.74%) MPLS
7 4 (3.74%) Multicast
7 4 (3.74%) Software-Defined Networking
7 4 (3.74%) TCP/IP
7 4 (3.74%) Wireless
8 3 (2.80%) Cisco Nexus
8 3 (2.80%) DWDM
8 3 (2.80%) Fibre Channel
8 3 (2.80%) NGFW
8 3 (2.80%) SAN
8 3 (2.80%) SD-WAN
9 2 (1.87%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.74%) Azure SQL Database
1 4 (3.74%) MySQL
2 3 (2.80%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (2.80%) RDBMS
2 3 (2.80%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.87%) Big Data
3 2 (1.87%) Data Mining
3 2 (1.87%) Data Vault
3 2 (1.87%) Delta Lake
3 2 (1.87%) Hadoop
3 2 (1.87%) MariaDB
3 2 (1.87%) Metadata
3 2 (1.87%) Power BI
4 1 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.93%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.93%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.93%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (0.93%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.93%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (8.41%) Jenkins
2 8 (7.48%) Git
3 6 (5.61%) JIRA
3 6 (5.61%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (4.67%) GitLab
5 3 (2.80%) Bitbucket Server
5 3 (2.80%) CA Release Automation
5 3 (2.80%) SonarQube
5 3 (2.80%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.87%) Subversion
General
1 34 (31.78%) Social Skills
2 13 (12.15%) Finance
3 12 (11.21%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.67%) Banking
4 5 (4.67%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.80%) Retail
5 3 (2.80%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.87%) Back Office
6 2 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.93%) Billing
7 1 (0.93%) Fire and Rescue
7 1 (0.93%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.93%) Local Government
7 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.93%) Police
7 1 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (12.15%) Architect
2 10 (9.35%) Lead
3 9 (8.41%) Analyst
3 9 (8.41%) Consultant
4 8 (7.48%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (6.54%) Network Engineer
5 7 (6.54%) Senior
6 5 (4.67%) Business Analyst
6 5 (4.67%) Data Engineer
7 4 (3.74%) Implementation Engineer
7 4 (3.74%) Service Continuity Leader
7 4 (3.74%) Service Manager
7 4 (3.74%) Technical Architect
7 4 (3.74%) VMware Consultant
7 4 (3.74%) WAN Engineer
8 3 (2.80%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
8 3 (2.80%) Oracle Technical Architect
8 3 (2.80%) Security Architect
8 3 (2.80%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
8 3 (2.80%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.67%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (4.67%) Spring Boot
2 4 (3.74%) ADO
3 3 (2.80%) XML
4 2 (1.87%) Kafka
4 2 (1.87%) LDAP
4 2 (1.87%) Node.js
4 2 (1.87%) PySpark
4 2 (1.87%) Spring
4 2 (1.87%) YAML
5 1 (0.93%) JSON
5 1 (0.93%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 1 (0.93%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.41%) Onboarding
2 6 (5.61%) Data Centre
2 6 (5.61%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (2.80%) PKI
3 3 (2.80%) Security Posture
4 2 (1.87%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.87%) CMDB
4 2 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.87%) Insider Threat
4 2 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.87%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.87%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.87%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.87%) Replication
4 2 (1.87%) Shadow IT
5 1 (0.93%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.93%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (0.93%) Mobile Payment
5 1 (0.93%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.93%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 16 (14.95%) Windows
2 12 (11.21%) Linux
3 6 (5.61%) Windows Server
4 5 (4.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (4.67%) VMS
5 2 (1.87%) Solaris
5 2 (1.87%) Unix
6 1 (0.93%) Android
6 1 (0.93%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (21.50%) DevOps
1 23 (21.50%) Migration
1 23 (21.50%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (20.56%) CI/CD
3 18 (16.82%) High Availability
4 16 (14.95%) Disaster Recovery
5 14 (13.08%) Project Management
6 12 (11.21%) Containerisation
6 12 (11.21%) Incident Response
6 12 (11.21%) ITIL
7 11 (10.28%) Agile
7 11 (10.28%) Analytics
7 11 (10.28%) Cloud Security
7 11 (10.28%) Computer Science
7 11 (10.28%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (9.35%) Mentoring
8 10 (9.35%) Technical Leadership
9 9 (8.41%) Business Continuity
9 9 (8.41%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (8.41%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 35 (32.71%) Python
2 8 (7.48%) Bash
3 7 (6.54%) SQL
4 6 (5.61%) Java
4 6 (5.61%) PowerShell
5 5 (4.67%) Perl
6 3 (2.80%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.87%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (1.87%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.93%) Go
8 1 (0.93%) Groovy
8 1 (0.93%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.93%) R
8 1 (0.93%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (21.50%) Security Cleared
2 19 (17.76%) Degree
3 18 (16.82%) SC Cleared
4 8 (7.48%) CISSP
5 7 (6.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (5.61%) AWS Certification
6 6 (5.61%) CISM
6 6 (5.61%) PMI Certification
6 6 (5.61%) PMP
7 4 (3.74%) Azure Certification
7 4 (3.74%) CCNA
7 4 (3.74%) CEH
7 4 (3.74%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (3.74%) VCAP
8 3 (2.80%) CCNP
8 3 (2.80%) CISA
8 3 (2.80%) CRISC
8 3 (2.80%) JNCIA
8 3 (2.80%) JNCIS
8 3 (2.80%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.41%) QA
2 6 (5.61%) GDPR
3 5 (4.67%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 4 (3.74%) Data Quality
4 4 (3.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.80%) NIST
5 3 (2.80%) PCI DSS
5 3 (2.80%) PMO
6 2 (1.87%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.87%) GRC
6 2 (1.87%) SLA
7 1 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 13 (12.15%) Active Directory
2 11 (10.28%) Docker
3 6 (5.61%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (3.74%) VMware NSX
5 3 (2.80%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (1.87%) Ceph
6 2 (1.87%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.87%) vSphere
7 1 (0.93%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 22 (20.56%) Ansible
1 22 (20.56%) Kubernetes
2 13 (12.15%) Terraform
3 5 (4.67%) Progress Chef
4 4 (3.74%) Data Guard
4 4 (3.74%) PowerCLI
4 4 (3.74%) vRealize
5 3 (2.80%) Kibana
5 3 (2.80%) Puppet
5 3 (2.80%) QRadar
5 3 (2.80%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.87%) Argo
6 2 (1.87%) NetBackup
6 2 (1.87%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (1.87%) SELinux
7 1 (0.93%) CSIRT
7 1 (0.93%) Grafana
7 1 (0.93%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.93%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.93%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (20.56%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.48%) Google
2 8 (7.48%) Palo Alto
2 8 (7.48%) VMware
3 7 (6.54%) Oracle
3 7 (6.54%) Red Hat
3 7 (6.54%) Splunk
3 7 (6.54%) Zscaler
4 6 (5.61%) Cisco
5 5 (4.67%) CyberArk
5 5 (4.67%) Dell
5 5 (4.67%) SolarWinds
6 4 (3.74%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.80%) AppDynamics
7 3 (2.80%) Arista
7 3 (2.80%) Aruba
7 3 (2.80%) Cloudera
7 3 (2.80%) Ruckus Wireless
8 2 (1.87%) HP
8 2 (1.87%) Trend Micro