Rundeck Contract Job Trends

Rundeck
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Rundeck skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 640 530 581
Rank change year-on-year -110 +51 +99
Contract jobs citing Rundeck 4 3 6
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.008% 0.010% 0.014%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.060% 0.064% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 6
10th Percentile - - £400
25th Percentile - £713 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £725 £550
Median % change year-on-year -58.62% +31.82% -
75th Percentile £450 £738 £588
90th Percentile £540 - £613
UK excluding London median daily rate £300 - £550

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Rundeck falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 6,695 4,699 5,318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.28% 15.79% 12.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,564 3,150 3,833
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £417 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -0.34% -0.49% -6.36%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 50 102
10th Percentile £18.69 £13.75 £15.15
25th Percentile £22.31 £19.50 £20.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £37.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.67% +15.38% -43.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.40 £50.19
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.83 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £57.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -3.51% +42.50% -6.98%

Rundeck
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Rundeck job vacancy trend in the UK

Rundeck
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Rundeck.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Rundeck

Rundeck
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Rundeck over the 6 months to 18 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Rundeck in the UK

Rundeck
Top 6 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Rundeck within the UK over the 6 months to 18 June 2026. 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 -121 3 £300 -58.62% 2
UK excluding London - 3 £300 - 1
East of England - 2 £300 - 1
Work from Home -49 1 - -
London -56 1 £600 -17.24% 1
Scotland - 1 - -

Rundeck
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (50.00%) Confluence
2 1 (25.00%) Apache
2 1 (25.00%) JBoss
2 1 (25.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub
1 2 (50.00%) Sauce Labs
1 2 (50.00%) TestFlight
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) SSH
1 1 (25.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) OpenStack Swift
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Android Studio
1 2 (50.00%) Appium
1 2 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
1 2 (50.00%) Postman
1 2 (50.00%) Selenium
1 2 (50.00%) Sourcetree
1 2 (50.00%) Xcode
2 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Integration Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Quality Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) UAT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Android
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Rocky
2 1 (25.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) API Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Black-Box Testing
1 2 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Fintech
1 2 (50.00%) Manual Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (50.00%) Time Management
1 2 (50.00%) White-Box Testing
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Runbook
2 1 (25.00%) Service Management
2 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) iptables
1 1 (25.00%) NFS
1 1 (25.00%) Samba
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Grafana
2 2 (50.00%) Kibana
3 1 (25.00%) SELinux
3 1 (25.00%) systemd
3 1 (25.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (25.00%) SaltStack
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow