Runbook Jobs in the UK excluding London

Runbook
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Runbook skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Runbook over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 545 712 679
Rank change year-on-year +167 -33 +37
Permanent jobs citing Runbook 30 51 54
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.076% 0.072% 0.091%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.082% 0.086% 0.095%
Number of salaries quoted 21 42 33
10th Percentile £44,956 £31,250 £40,050
25th Percentile £51,000 £39,875 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,438 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £64,750
UK median annual salary £67,500 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +22.73% -15.38% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Runbook falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,661 59,520 56,714
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.93% 83.89% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 17,979 41,130 29,107
10th Percentile £26,929 £27,218 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

Runbook
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Runbook as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Runbook in the UK excluding London

Runbook
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Runbook in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Runbook in the UK excluding London

Runbook
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Runbook in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Runbook in the UK excluding London

Runbook
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Runbook within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 May 2025. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +50 14 £60,000 +26.32% 14
Yorkshire - 11 £67,500 - 7
South East +95 5 £70,000 +9.80% 17
Midlands +64 5 £53,500 +78.33% 6
West Midlands +56 4 £55,000 +83.33% 2
North West -4 3 £55,000 +12.82% 7
South West +98 2 £55,865 -17.24% 3
Wales +38 2 £49,104 -24.46%
Northern Ireland - 2 £57,500 - 2
East Midlands - 1 £49,000 - 4
Runbook
UK

Runbook
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (3.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (20.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 12 (40.00%) Azure
2 7 (23.33%) AWS
3 3 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (10.00%) GCP
3 3 (10.00%) GitHub
3 3 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (10.00%) SaaS
4 2 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (6.67%) IaaS
4 2 (6.67%) Nutanix
4 2 (6.67%) PaaS
4 2 (6.67%) Serverless
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Functions
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (3.33%) Power Automate
5 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.33%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 9 (30.00%) Firewall
2 8 (26.67%) DNS
3 6 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 6 (20.00%) DWDM
3 6 (20.00%) LAN
3 6 (20.00%) Network Security
3 6 (20.00%) TCP/IP
3 6 (20.00%) VPN
3 6 (20.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.33%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (3.33%) Couchbase
2 1 (3.33%) DB2
2 1 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.33%) Power BI
2 1 (3.33%) RDBMS
2 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (10.00%) JIRA
3 1 (3.33%) Git
3 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.33%) Liquibase
General
1 19 (63.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.67%) Finance
3 3 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (10.00%) Law
4 2 (6.67%) Advertising
5 1 (3.33%) Legal
5 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 4 (13.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Architect
3 3 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Security Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Senior
4 2 (6.67%) Analyst
4 2 (6.67%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) IT Manager
4 2 (6.67%) Lead
4 2 (6.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Information Analyst
5 1 (3.33%) Python Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Resilience Manager
5 1 (3.33%) Security Analyst
5 1 (3.33%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) JSON
2 1 (3.33%) AngularJS
2 1 (3.33%) EDI
2 1 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (3.33%) Kafka
2 1 (3.33%) Middleware
2 1 (3.33%) Spring
2 1 (3.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (13.33%) Management Information System
2 3 (10.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 3 (10.00%) Security Posture
3 2 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.67%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (3.33%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.33%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.33%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.33%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.00%) Windows
2 4 (13.33%) Linux
3 1 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.33%) Ubuntu
3 1 (3.33%) Windows 10
3 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (36.67%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (30.00%) Computer Science
3 8 (26.67%) DevOps
3 8 (26.67%) Network Architecture
4 7 (23.33%) Migration
4 7 (23.33%) Task Automation
4 7 (23.33%) Technical Leadership
5 6 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 6 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 6 (20.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 5 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 5 (16.67%) Incident Response
6 5 (16.67%) Security Operations
7 4 (13.33%) Agile
7 4 (13.33%) Digital Strategy
7 4 (13.33%) Incident Management
7 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure Automation
7 4 (13.33%) Observability
7 4 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 8 (26.67%) PowerShell
2 7 (23.33%) Python
3 2 (6.67%) Java
3 2 (6.67%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (6.67%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 13 (43.33%) Degree
2 6 (20.00%) CCNA
2 6 (20.00%) CCNP
2 6 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (20.00%) JNCIA
2 6 (20.00%) JNCIS
3 3 (10.00%) CEH
3 3 (10.00%) CISM
3 3 (10.00%) CISSP
3 3 (10.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (6.67%) Azure Certification
4 2 (6.67%) CISA
4 2 (6.67%) CRISC
4 2 (6.67%) GCIH
4 2 (6.67%) GIAC
4 2 (6.67%) GISF
4 2 (6.67%) ISACA
4 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.67%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (6.67%) ISO 22301
2 2 (6.67%) NIST
3 1 (3.33%) GDPR
3 1 (3.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (13.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.67%) Docker
2 2 (6.67%) Hyper-V
2 2 (6.67%) pfSense
2 2 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (36.67%) Ansible
1 11 (36.67%) Terraform
2 5 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 3 (10.00%) Puppet
4 2 (6.67%) Grafana
4 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (6.67%) vCenter Server
5 1 (3.33%) Control-M
5 1 (3.33%) Kibana
5 1 (3.33%) NetBackup
5 1 (3.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (46.67%) Microsoft
2 8 (26.67%) Cisco
3 6 (20.00%) Arista
4 4 (13.33%) Oracle
5 3 (10.00%) IBM
6 2 (6.67%) Dell
6 2 (6.67%) VMware
7 1 (3.33%) BMC
7 1 (3.33%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (3.33%) Commvault
7 1 (3.33%) Rapid7
7 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow
7 1 (3.33%) Splunk
7 1 (3.33%) Veeam