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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 271 304 389
Rank change year-on-year +33 +85 +104
Contract jobs citing Runbook 46 42 67
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.45% 0.29% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.33% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 31 51
10th Percentile £426 £413 £400
25th Percentile £475 £493 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £580 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% -3.33% +23.08%
75th Percentile £675 £644 £663
90th Percentile £838 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £533 £550
% change year-on-year -1.45% -3.14% +5.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £30.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £31.39 £23.07 -
% change year-on-year +36.07% - -

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 9,332 12,732 21,621
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.78% 87.28% 89.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,321 8,571 15,258
10th Percentile £325 £325 £357
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +0.93%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £751 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 553 521
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.17 £18.49
25th Percentile £19.00 £25.50 £26.00
Median hourly rate £34.65 £43.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.42% -18.10% +31.25%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £37.34
% change year-on-year -33.82% +1.77% +43.62%

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

Runbook
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

Runbook
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 5 July 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 3 (6.52%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.35%) Confluence
3 1 (2.17%) CICS
Applications
1 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (6.52%) MS Visio
2 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) MultiFonds
Cloud Services
1 10 (21.74%) Azure
2 6 (13.04%) AWS
3 5 (10.87%) GitHub
3 5 (10.87%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (8.70%) GCP
4 4 (8.70%) Power Platform
5 3 (6.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 3 (6.52%) OpenShift
6 2 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (4.35%) Copilot Studio
6 2 (4.35%) dbt
6 2 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (4.35%) IaaS
6 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (4.35%) PaaS
6 2 (4.35%) SaaS
7 1 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.17%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.87%) Firewall
1 5 (10.87%) VPN
2 4 (8.70%) WAN
3 3 (6.52%) DNS
4 2 (4.35%) BGP
4 2 (4.35%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (4.35%) DWDM
4 2 (4.35%) LAN
4 2 (4.35%) MPLS
4 2 (4.35%) Multicast
4 2 (4.35%) Network Security
4 2 (4.35%) OSPF
4 2 (4.35%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.17%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (2.17%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (2.17%) Modbus
5 1 (2.17%) NGFW
5 1 (2.17%) SAN
5 1 (2.17%) SMS
5 1 (2.17%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (4.35%) BigQuery
1 2 (4.35%) Power BI
2 1 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.17%) DB2
2 1 (2.17%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.17%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.17%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (13.04%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.35%) JIRA
2 2 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (2.17%) GitLab
General
1 15 (32.61%) Social Skills
2 11 (23.91%) Finance
3 4 (8.70%) Banking
4 2 (4.35%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Back Office
5 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Local Government
5 1 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (19.57%) Lead
2 6 (13.04%) Service Continuity Leader
3 4 (8.70%) Architect
4 3 (6.52%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (6.52%) Consultant
4 3 (6.52%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (6.52%) Network Engineer
4 3 (6.52%) Security Architect
4 3 (6.52%) Senior
5 2 (4.35%) Analyst
5 2 (4.35%) Azure Data Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Developer
5 2 (4.35%) Implementation Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Mainframe Programmer
5 2 (4.35%) Mainframe Systems Programmer
5 2 (4.35%) Power Platform Developer
5 2 (4.35%) Senior Developer
5 2 (4.35%) Service Manager
5 2 (4.35%) Systems Programmer
5 2 (4.35%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.17%) .NET
1 1 (2.17%) ADO
1 1 (2.17%) ARM Templates
1 1 (2.17%) AWS CDK
1 1 (2.17%) LDAP
1 1 (2.17%) Node.js
1 1 (2.17%) OAuth
1 1 (2.17%) OAuth2
1 1 (2.17%) OpenID
1 1 (2.17%) RESTful
1 1 (2.17%) SAML
1 1 (2.17%) ServiceStack
1 1 (2.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.52%) Cloud Native
1 3 (6.52%) Onboarding
2 2 (4.35%) Cyber Defence
2 2 (4.35%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 2 (4.35%) Data Structures
2 2 (4.35%) Mainframe
2 2 (4.35%) Reference Data
2 2 (4.35%) Replication
2 2 (4.35%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (4.35%) YARA
3 1 (2.17%) Clustering
3 1 (2.17%) CMDB
3 1 (2.17%) Cyber Security Posture
3 1 (2.17%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.17%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.17%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.17%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.17%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.70%) Linux
2 3 (6.52%) VMS
3 2 (4.35%) Windows
4 1 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.17%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (26.09%) High Availability
1 12 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (21.74%) Incident Response
3 9 (19.57%) DevOps
3 9 (19.57%) Disaster Recovery
3 9 (19.57%) ITIL
4 8 (17.39%) CI/CD
4 8 (17.39%) Migration
5 7 (15.22%) Risk Management
5 7 (15.22%) SIEM
6 6 (13.04%) BCP
6 6 (13.04%) Business Continuity
6 6 (13.04%) Business Continuity Planning
6 6 (13.04%) Business Impact Analysis
6 6 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (13.04%) Impact Analysis
6 6 (13.04%) Load Balancing
6 6 (13.04%) Service Catalogue
6 6 (13.04%) Technical Leadership
7 5 (10.87%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 12 (26.09%) Python
2 6 (13.04%) Bash
3 3 (6.52%) SQL
4 2 (4.35%) Java
4 2 (4.35%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.17%) AWK
5 1 (2.17%) Bicep
5 1 (2.17%) Groovy
5 1 (2.17%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.17%) JCL
5 1 (2.17%) sed
5 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (10.87%) SC Cleared
1 5 (10.87%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.70%) Degree
3 3 (6.52%) CISM
3 3 (6.52%) CISSP
3 3 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.35%) CCNA
4 2 (4.35%) CCNP
4 2 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (4.35%) GCIA
4 2 (4.35%) GCIH
4 2 (4.35%) JNCIA
4 2 (4.35%) JNCIS
4 2 (4.35%) VCAP
5 1 (2.17%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.17%) DBS Check
5 1 (2.17%) PMP
5 1 (2.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.04%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 3 (6.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (6.52%) NIST
2 3 (6.52%) QA
3 2 (4.35%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.35%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.35%) GDPR
3 2 (4.35%) GRC
3 2 (4.35%) PCI DSS
3 2 (4.35%) SOC 2
4 1 (2.17%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (2.17%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (13.04%) Active Directory
2 5 (10.87%) Docker
3 2 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.35%) VMware NSX
4 1 (2.17%) GPFS
4 1 (2.17%) NFS
4 1 (2.17%) RACF
4 1 (2.17%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (2.17%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (23.91%) Terraform
2 10 (21.74%) Ansible
3 9 (19.57%) Kubernetes
4 4 (8.70%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (4.35%) PowerCLI
6 1 (2.17%) CSIRT
6 1 (2.17%) Data Guard
6 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (2.17%) NetBackup
6 1 (2.17%) OMEGAMON
6 1 (2.17%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (2.17%) QRadar
6 1 (2.17%) SCCM
6 1 (2.17%) vCenter Server
6 1 (2.17%) vRealize
6 1 (2.17%) WSUS
Vendors
1 9 (19.57%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.70%) Google
2 4 (8.70%) Splunk
2 4 (8.70%) VMware
3 3 (6.52%) CyberArk
4 2 (4.35%) Arista
4 2 (4.35%) Cisco
4 2 (4.35%) Databricks
4 2 (4.35%) Oracle
4 2 (4.35%) SolarWinds
5 1 (2.17%) Broadcom
5 1 (2.17%) Brocade
5 1 (2.17%) Citrix
5 1 (2.17%) Dell
5 1 (2.17%) F5
5 1 (2.17%) ICL
5 1 (2.17%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.17%) SAP
5 1 (2.17%) Temenos
5 1 (2.17%) Trend Micro