Runbook Contracts with Work from Home Options

Runbook
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Runbook skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Runbook over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 298 392 505
Rank change year-on-year +94 +113 -138
Contract jobs citing Runbook 48 79 115
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.32% 0.31% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.34% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 57 63
10th Percentile £340 £435 £385
25th Percentile £463 £513 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £600 £488
Median % change year-on-year -11.46% +23.08% -2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £613
90th Percentile £636 £700 £670
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +6.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £51.00 -
UK median hourly rate £18.13 £51.00 -
% change year-on-year -64.45% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Runbook is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,390 22,975 40,674
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.75% 91.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,954 16,256 29,514
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.81%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £720
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 577 528 541
10th Percentile £15.17 £19.00 £13.75
25th Percentile £25.00 £30.54 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

Runbook
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Runbook as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Runbook trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Runbook.

Runbook daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Runbook
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Runbook over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Runbook daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Runbook
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Runbook.

Runbook hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Runbook
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (8.33%) IIS
2 3 (6.25%) Apache
2 3 (6.25%) JBoss
2 3 (6.25%) nginx
2 3 (6.25%) Tomcat
3 2 (4.17%) Confluence
3 2 (4.17%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 1 (2.08%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (2.08%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 3 (6.25%) Temenos T24
2 1 (2.08%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 20 (41.67%) Azure
2 12 (25.00%) AWS
3 5 (10.42%) Entra ID
4 4 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (6.25%) GitHub
6 2 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (4.17%) OpenShift
6 2 (4.17%) SaaS
7 1 (2.08%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.08%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (2.08%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.08%) GCP
7 1 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.08%) OCI
7 1 (2.08%) OneDrive
7 1 (2.08%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 10 (20.83%) Firewall
2 8 (16.67%) DNS
3 4 (8.33%) Network Security
4 3 (6.25%) SSL
5 2 (4.17%) DHCP
5 2 (4.17%) LAN
5 2 (4.17%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (4.17%) SD-WAN
5 2 (4.17%) SSH
5 2 (4.17%) WAN
6 1 (2.08%) BGP
6 1 (2.08%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (2.08%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (2.08%) CTI
6 1 (2.08%) HTTP
6 1 (2.08%) MPLS
6 1 (2.08%) OSPF
6 1 (2.08%) VLAN
6 1 (2.08%) VPN
6 1 (2.08%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.58%) SQL Server
2 3 (6.25%) MySQL
2 3 (6.25%) RDBMS
2 3 (6.25%) Relational Database
3 2 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.08%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.08%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.08%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (2.08%) JIRA
General
1 14 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 8 (16.67%) Finance
3 5 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (10.42%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (8.33%) Back Office
5 2 (4.17%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.17%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.08%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.08%) Banking
6 1 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.08%) Police
Job Titles
1 7 (14.58%) Analyst
2 6 (12.50%) Business Analyst
2 6 (12.50%) Senior
3 4 (8.33%) Applications Support
3 4 (8.33%) Asset Management Analyst
3 4 (8.33%) Asset Management Business Analyst
3 4 (8.33%) Consultant
3 4 (8.33%) Lead
3 4 (8.33%) Linux Engineer
3 4 (8.33%) Regulatory Business Analyst
4 3 (6.25%) Linux Support
4 3 (6.25%) Technical Leader
5 2 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (4.17%) Network Engineer
5 2 (4.17%) Release Manager
5 2 (4.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (4.17%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 2 (4.17%) Service Transition Manager
5 2 (4.17%) Technical Analyst
5 2 (4.17%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.33%) Middleware
2 3 (6.25%) ARM Templates
2 3 (6.25%) IBM Integration Bus
3 2 (4.17%) OpenID
3 2 (4.17%) SailPoint
3 2 (4.17%) SAML
3 2 (4.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (8.33%) DTCC
2 4 (8.33%) Equities
3 3 (6.25%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.17%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.17%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.17%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.08%) Clustering
5 1 (2.08%) Cyberattack
5 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.08%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.08%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.08%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 15 (31.25%) Linux
2 12 (25.00%) Windows
3 5 (10.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (10.42%) Windows Server
4 4 (8.33%) Unix
5 3 (6.25%) Ubuntu
5 3 (6.25%) VMS
6 2 (4.17%) Solaris
7 1 (2.08%) Android
7 1 (2.08%) Apple iOS
7 1 (2.08%) Mac OS
7 1 (2.08%) Mac OS X
7 1 (2.08%) Windows 10
7 1 (2.08%) Windows 7
7 1 (2.08%) Windows Mobile
7 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (22.92%) Migration
1 11 (22.92%) Roadmaps
2 8 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (16.67%) Product Roadmap
3 7 (14.58%) Agile
3 7 (14.58%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (14.58%) Disaster Recovery
3 7 (14.58%) Project Delivery
4 6 (12.50%) DevOps
5 5 (10.42%) Computer Science
5 5 (10.42%) High Availability
5 5 (10.42%) Privileged Access Management
5 5 (10.42%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (8.33%) Asset Management
6 4 (8.33%) Cash Management
6 4 (8.33%) Decision-Making
6 4 (8.33%) Investment Management
6 4 (8.33%) RBAC
6 4 (8.33%) Use Case
6 4 (8.33%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (20.83%) PowerShell
2 4 (8.33%) Python
2 4 (8.33%) SQL
3 3 (6.25%) Shell Script
4 2 (4.17%) Bash
4 2 (4.17%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.08%) Java
5 1 (2.08%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 7 (14.58%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.42%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (10.42%) Degree
2 5 (10.42%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.08%) A+ Certification
4 1 (2.08%) CCNA
4 1 (2.08%) CCNP
4 1 (2.08%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (2.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.25%) QA
2 1 (2.08%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (2.08%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (18.75%) Active Directory
2 4 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (6.25%) vSphere
4 2 (4.17%) Ceph
4 2 (4.17%) Docker
4 2 (4.17%) Hyper-V
4 2 (4.17%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 2 (4.17%) VMware NSX
5 1 (2.08%) Firmware
5 1 (2.08%) KVM
5 1 (2.08%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.08%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 4 (8.33%) Ansible
1 4 (8.33%) SCCM
1 4 (8.33%) Terraform
2 3 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (4.17%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.17%) Pacemaker
3 2 (4.17%) Podman
3 2 (4.17%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (4.17%) SCOM
3 2 (4.17%) SCOrch
3 2 (4.17%) vCenter Server
4 1 (2.08%) Data Guard
4 1 (2.08%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.08%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 8 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 7 (14.58%) Oracle
3 6 (12.50%) VMware
4 5 (10.42%) CyberArk
5 4 (8.33%) Cisco
6 3 (6.25%) Atlassian
6 3 (6.25%) IBM
6 3 (6.25%) Temenos
7 2 (4.17%) BeyondTrust
7 2 (4.17%) CheckPoint
7 2 (4.17%) Microsoft
7 2 (4.17%) Okta
7 2 (4.17%) ServiceNow
7 2 (4.17%) SolarWinds
7 2 (4.17%) Sun
8 1 (2.08%) Avaya
8 1 (2.08%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (2.08%) Progress
8 1 (2.08%) Sparx
8 1 (2.08%) Zscaler