Runbook Contract Job Trends in Wales

Runbook
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Runbook skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Runbook 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.30% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £431 - -
25th Percentile £459 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - -
75th Percentile £559 - -
90th Percentile £584 - -
UK median daily rate £530 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +6.05% -9.09% -5.98%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 466 313 339
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 70.29% 83.24% 78.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 183 181
10th Percentile £270 £190 £140
25th Percentile £350 £266 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £413 £425
Median % change year-on-year +15.15% -2.94% -5.56%
75th Percentile £583 £498 £550
90th Percentile £675 £648 £644
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 61 46
10th Percentile £12.76 £14.23 £15.48
25th Percentile - £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £14.10 £20.50 £25.18
Median % change year-on-year -31.22% -18.59% -7.31%
75th Percentile £24.50 £25.15 £40.00
90th Percentile £51.79 - £51.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -9.60%

Runbook
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Runbook job vacancy trend in Wales

Runbook
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Runbook.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Runbook

Runbook
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Runbook in Wales over the 6 months to 12 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Runbook in Wales

Runbook
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Runbook within the Wales region over the 6 months to 12 October 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
South Wales - 1 £425 - 13
Dyfed - 1 £600 -
Runbook
UK

Runbook
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Senior IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
1 1 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Availability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Management
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) SOA
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft