Runbook Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Runbook
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 269 296 395
Rank change year-on-year +27 +99 +123
Contract jobs citing Runbook 35 49 82
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.35% 0.32% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.36% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 32 59
10th Percentile £396 £340 £443
25th Percentile £450 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £531 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% -11.46% +23.75%
75th Percentile £656 £600 £650
90th Percentile £835 £636 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £51.00
UK median hourly rate £18.13 £28.00 £51.00
% change year-on-year -35.25% -45.10% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Runbook
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Runbook as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Runbook trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Runbook.

Runbook daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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 remote working options citing Runbook.

Runbook hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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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 1 (2.86%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (8.57%) MS Visio
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) MultiFonds
Cloud Services
1 7 (20.00%) Azure
2 6 (17.14%) AWS
3 5 (14.29%) GitHub
4 3 (8.57%) IaaS
4 3 (8.57%) OpenShift
4 3 (8.57%) PaaS
5 2 (5.71%) Copilot Studio
5 2 (5.71%) GCP
5 2 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (5.71%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.86%) Cloud Run
6 1 (2.86%) Datadog
6 1 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (2.86%) Google Play
6 1 (2.86%) OCI
6 1 (2.86%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 6 (17.14%) VPN
2 5 (14.29%) Firewall
3 4 (11.43%) WAN
4 2 (5.71%) BGP
4 2 (5.71%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (5.71%) DNS
4 2 (5.71%) DWDM
4 2 (5.71%) LAN
4 2 (5.71%) MPLS
4 2 (5.71%) Multicast
4 2 (5.71%) Network Security
4 2 (5.71%) OSPF
4 2 (5.71%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.86%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (2.86%) Modbus
5 1 (2.86%) NGFW
5 1 (2.86%) SAN
5 1 (2.86%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.71%) MySQL
1 2 (5.71%) Power BI
2 1 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.86%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.71%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (2.86%) GitLab
3 1 (2.86%) JIRA
General
1 10 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.43%) Finance
3 3 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.71%) Banking
4 2 (5.71%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.71%) Retail
5 1 (2.86%) Back Office
5 1 (2.86%) Billing
Job Titles
1 6 (17.14%) Architect
1 6 (17.14%) Lead
2 4 (11.43%) Service Continuity Leader
3 3 (8.57%) Consultant
3 3 (8.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (8.57%) Network Engineer
3 3 (8.57%) Security Architect
4 2 (5.71%) Analyst
4 2 (5.71%) CyberArk Architect
4 2 (5.71%) Developer
4 2 (5.71%) Implementation Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Power Platform Developer
4 2 (5.71%) Senior
4 2 (5.71%) Senior Developer
4 2 (5.71%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.71%) WAN Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Specialist
5 1 (2.86%) Brocade Consultant
5 1 (2.86%) NetBackup Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) Technical Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.71%) LDAP
2 1 (2.86%) ADO
2 1 (2.86%) Spring
2 1 (2.86%) Spring Boot
2 1 (2.86%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.71%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (5.71%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.86%) CMDB
2 1 (2.86%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.86%) Mobile Payment
2 1 (2.86%) Operational Technology
2 1 (2.86%) Private Cloud
2 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.86%) Public Cloud
2 1 (2.86%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.43%) VMS
2 3 (8.57%) Linux
3 1 (2.86%) Android
3 1 (2.86%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (31.43%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (20.00%) Incident Response
3 6 (17.14%) DevOps
3 6 (17.14%) High Availability
4 5 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (14.29%) ITIL
4 5 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 5 (14.29%) Migration
4 5 (14.29%) Privileged Access Management
4 5 (14.29%) SIEM
5 4 (11.43%) BCP
5 4 (11.43%) Business Continuity
5 4 (11.43%) Business Impact Analysis
5 4 (11.43%) CI/CD
5 4 (11.43%) Computer Science
5 4 (11.43%) Impact Analysis
5 4 (11.43%) Load Balancing
5 4 (11.43%) Risk Management
5 4 (11.43%) Task Automation
5 4 (11.43%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (25.71%) Python
2 3 (8.57%) Bash
3 2 (5.71%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.86%) Java
4 1 (2.86%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.86%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (14.29%) Degree
1 5 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 5 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (8.57%) CISM
3 3 (8.57%) CISSP
4 2 (5.71%) CCNA
4 2 (5.71%) CCNP
4 2 (5.71%) CEH
4 2 (5.71%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (5.71%) JNCIA
4 2 (5.71%) JNCIS
5 1 (2.86%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 3 (8.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (8.57%) NIST
3 2 (5.71%) GDPR
3 2 (5.71%) PCI DSS
3 2 (5.71%) QA
4 1 (2.86%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (2.86%) PMO
4 1 (2.86%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (17.14%) Active Directory
2 4 (11.43%) Docker
3 2 (5.71%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.86%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (25.71%) Ansible
2 6 (17.14%) Kubernetes
2 6 (17.14%) Terraform
3 3 (8.57%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.86%) CSIRT
4 1 (2.86%) Data Guard
4 1 (2.86%) NetBackup
4 1 (2.86%) PowerCLI
4 1 (2.86%) QRadar
4 1 (2.86%) vRealize
Vendors
1 5 (14.29%) CyberArk
1 5 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.57%) Google
3 2 (5.71%) Arista
3 2 (5.71%) Cisco
3 2 (5.71%) Palo Alto
3 2 (5.71%) Splunk
3 2 (5.71%) VMware
4 1 (2.86%) Apple
4 1 (2.86%) Brocade
4 1 (2.86%) CheckPoint
4 1 (2.86%) Dell
4 1 (2.86%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.86%) ICL
4 1 (2.86%) Oracle
4 1 (2.86%) SolarWinds
4 1 (2.86%) Temenos
4 1 (2.86%) Trend Micro