Runbook
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Runbook skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 408 594 639
Rank change year-on-year +186 +45 +8
Permanent jobs citing Runbook 490 83 110
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.17% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.19% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 240 35 88
10th Percentile £42,450 £45,000 £44,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £49,822 £49,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,343 £65,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.16% +30.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £79,063 £88,750 £54,063
90th Percentile £92,500 £90,750 £73,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,365 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.06% +6.73% -20.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 86,578 43,908 59,440
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.25% 88.94% 82.23%
Number of salaries quoted 59,120 24,542 31,807
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,054 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £78,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +17.02% -10.48% -2.78%

Runbook
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Runbook job vacancy trend in the UK

Runbook
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Runbook.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Runbook

Runbook
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Runbook over the 6 months to 11 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Runbook in the UK

Runbook
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Runbook within the UK over the 6 months to 11 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +139 399 £63,568 -5.39% 643
UK excluding London +95 280 £55,000 +3.06% 299
London +82 187 £75,000 -14.29% 383
Work from Home +105 174 £57,500 -17.86% 279
South East -6 61 £52,500 -28.81% 88
South West -23 52 £67,500 +30.49% 36
Northern Ireland - 47 - - 13
North of England -32 45 £55,000 +10.00% 71
Midlands -10 44 £56,000 +8.74% 28
North West +3 29 £50,101 +19.77% 36
West Midlands -26 28 £56,000 +8.74% 15
East Midlands - 16 £51,000 - 13
Wales - 14 £72,500 - 14
Scotland +22 12 £43,500 -13.00% 33
Yorkshire -39 11 £60,343 +12.27% 29
East of England -38 5 £87,500 +16.67% 17
North East - 5 £55,000 - 6

Runbook
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 40 (8.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 28 (5.71%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.04%) Confluence
3 10 (2.04%) IIS
4 3 (0.61%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.20%) Apache
5 1 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.20%) CMS
5 1 (0.20%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.20%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.20%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (1.43%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (0.61%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 13 (2.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (2.24%) FLEXCUBE
3 3 (0.61%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.41%) Maximo
5 1 (0.20%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
5 1 (0.20%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.20%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.20%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.20%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.20%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 254 (51.84%) Azure
2 196 (40.00%) AWS
3 104 (21.22%) Entra ID
4 93 (18.98%) SaaS
5 87 (17.76%) Microsoft 365
6 50 (10.20%) GitHub
7 39 (7.96%) GCP
8 35 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
8 35 (7.14%) Serverless
9 33 (6.73%) GitHub Actions
10 28 (5.71%) Azure Monitor
11 24 (4.90%) AWS CloudFormation
11 24 (4.90%) Power Platform
12 23 (4.69%) Azure Logic Apps
13 22 (4.49%) Azure Sentinel
14 19 (3.88%) Amazon EKS
14 19 (3.88%) Azure Functions
14 19 (3.88%) Datadog
15 18 (3.67%) Amazon S3
15 18 (3.67%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 57 (11.63%) Firewall
2 54 (11.02%) VPN
3 52 (10.61%) DNS
4 38 (7.76%) DHCP
5 37 (7.55%) TCP/IP
6 30 (6.12%) VLAN
7 25 (5.10%) Broadband
8 19 (3.88%) HTTP
8 19 (3.88%) Network Security
9 17 (3.47%) BGP
10 15 (3.06%) WAN
11 11 (2.24%) Kerberos
12 9 (1.84%) SD-WAN
12 9 (1.84%) SNMP
12 9 (1.84%) SSL
13 8 (1.63%) Cisco Nexus
13 8 (1.63%) Wi-Fi
14 7 (1.43%) OSPF
15 6 (1.22%) IPFIX
15 6 (1.22%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (8.37%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (4.90%) MongoDB
3 22 (4.49%) SQL Server
4 18 (3.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 13 (2.65%) Power BI
6 12 (2.45%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (2.04%) Oracle Database
8 9 (1.84%) Data Lake
8 9 (1.84%) MySQL
9 8 (1.63%) Redis
10 7 (1.43%) Metadata
11 6 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
11 6 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (1.22%) Parquet
12 4 (0.82%) GIS
12 4 (0.82%) Relational Database
13 3 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.61%) InfluxDB
13 3 (0.61%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 31 (6.33%) Git
2 25 (5.10%) JIRA
3 11 (2.24%) Jenkins
3 11 (2.24%) JMeter
4 10 (2.04%) Gatling
4 10 (2.04%) LoadRunner
5 8 (1.63%) Claude Code
5 8 (1.63%) TeamCity
6 3 (0.61%) GitLab
6 3 (0.61%) Selenium
7 2 (0.41%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.41%) NUnit
8 1 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
General
1 158 (32.24%) Social Skills
2 132 (26.94%) Finance
3 90 (18.37%) Law
4 65 (13.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 57 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
6 53 (10.82%) Banking
7 51 (10.41%) Public Sector
8 41 (8.37%) Legal
9 25 (5.10%) Games
10 18 (3.67%) Retail
11 16 (3.27%) Documentation Skills
12 12 (2.45%) Billing
12 12 (2.45%) Financial Institution
13 10 (2.04%) Aerospace
13 10 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (2.04%) Manufacturing
13 10 (2.04%) Telecoms
14 8 (1.63%) Back Office
14 8 (1.63%) Marketing
14 8 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 109 (22.24%) Senior
2 53 (10.82%) IT Manager
3 52 (10.61%) Service Manager
4 51 (10.41%) Analyst
5 48 (9.80%) IT Services Manager
5 48 (9.80%) Resilience Manager
6 42 (8.57%) Lead
7 41 (8.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 39 (7.96%) Architect
9 31 (6.33%) Developer
10 22 (4.49%) Data Engineer
11 21 (4.29%) Platform Engineer
12 19 (3.88%) DevOps Engineer
13 18 (3.67%) Administrator
14 15 (3.06%) Senior Developer
14 15 (3.06%) Systems Engineer
15 14 (2.86%) Cloud Engineer
15 14 (2.86%) Consultant
15 14 (2.86%) DBA
15 14 (2.86%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (20.61%) Terraform
2 54 (11.02%) Middleware
3 38 (7.76%) RESTful
4 37 (7.55%) REST
5 28 (5.71%) OAuth
6 20 (4.08%) LDAP
6 20 (4.08%) Node.js
7 17 (3.47%) .NET
8 16 (3.27%) OpenID
8 16 (3.27%) SAML
9 15 (3.06%) OpenTelemetry
10 12 (2.45%) SailPoint
11 11 (2.24%) React
12 10 (2.04%) AWS CDK
12 10 (2.04%) Kafka
12 10 (2.04%) SOAP
13 9 (1.84%) JDBC
13 9 (1.84%) PySpark
13 9 (1.84%) SAP Fiori
13 9 (1.84%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 73 (14.90%) Cloud Native
2 65 (13.27%) Onboarding
3 54 (11.02%) Distributed Systems
4 52 (10.61%) Cyber Threat
5 30 (6.12%) Data Centre
6 29 (5.92%) Security Posture
7 25 (5.10%) Low-Code
8 24 (4.90%) Replication
8 24 (4.90%) Video\Live Streaming
9 23 (4.69%) Management Information System
10 19 (3.88%) AI Agents
10 19 (3.88%) Enterprise Software
11 18 (3.67%) Legacy Systems
12 17 (3.47%) Blog
13 13 (2.65%) Linux Command Line
14 12 (2.45%) Private Cloud
14 12 (2.45%) Public Cloud
15 11 (2.24%) Security Operations Centre
16 10 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
17 9 (1.84%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 88 (17.96%) Windows
2 65 (13.27%) Linux
3 41 (8.37%) Windows Server
4 24 (4.90%) Unix
5 13 (2.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (2.04%) AIX
6 10 (2.04%) Apple iOS
6 10 (2.04%) Oracle Linux
7 9 (1.84%) macOS
7 9 (1.84%) Windows 10
8 8 (1.63%) VMS
9 5 (1.02%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.82%) Android
11 3 (0.61%) CentOS
11 3 (0.61%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.20%) Debian
12 1 (0.20%) Rocky
12 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (30.61%) CI/CD
2 144 (29.39%) DevOps
3 131 (26.73%) Infrastructure as Code
4 129 (26.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 128 (26.12%) Continuous Improvement
6 118 (24.08%) ITIL
7 115 (23.47%) Agile
8 112 (22.86%) Observability
9 105 (21.43%) AI
10 102 (20.82%) Test Automation
11 92 (18.78%) Problem-Solving
12 88 (17.96%) Incident Response
13 85 (17.35%) Validation
14 80 (16.33%) Business Continuity
14 80 (16.33%) Information Security
15 74 (15.10%) Change Management
15 74 (15.10%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 73 (14.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 67 (13.67%) Root Cause Analysis
17 67 (13.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 152 (31.02%) Python
2 110 (22.45%) PowerShell
3 86 (17.55%) SQL
4 75 (15.31%) Bash
5 38 (7.76%) Go
5 38 (7.76%) Java
6 27 (5.51%) Kusto Query Language
7 23 (4.69%) Bicep
8 18 (3.67%) JavaScript
9 17 (3.47%) Shell Script
10 15 (3.06%) C#
11 11 (2.24%) TypeScript
12 10 (2.04%) Korn
12 10 (2.04%) PL/SQL
12 10 (2.04%) Ruby
13 9 (1.84%) ABAP
14 5 (1.02%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.82%) Objective-C
16 2 (0.41%) C++
16 2 (0.41%) PHP
Qualifications
1 82 (16.73%) CISSP
2 76 (15.51%) Security Cleared
3 65 (13.27%) SC Cleared
4 64 (13.06%) Degree
5 54 (11.02%) CISM
6 52 (10.61%) ITIL Certification
7 34 (6.94%) Microsoft Certification
8 28 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
9 19 (3.88%) CompTIA Security+
10 17 (3.47%) Azure Certification
10 17 (3.47%) DV Cleared
11 14 (2.86%) AWS Certification
12 13 (2.65%) Cisco Certification
13 12 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
14 10 (2.04%) CCNP
14 10 (2.04%) CompTIA CySA+
14 10 (2.04%) PMI Certification
15 8 (1.63%) CEH
16 7 (1.43%) GIAC
16 7 (1.43%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (12.86%) NIST
2 51 (10.41%) ISO 22301
3 39 (7.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 28 (5.71%) SLA
5 27 (5.51%) QA
6 21 (4.29%) Data Quality
7 19 (3.88%) GDPR
8 17 (3.47%) Accessibility
9 13 (2.65%) Cyber Essentials
10 12 (2.45%) SOC 2
11 10 (2.04%) NCSC
11 10 (2.04%) PCI DSS
12 8 (1.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 6 (1.22%) WCAG
14 5 (1.02%) GRC
14 5 (1.02%) ISO 20022
15 3 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 2 (0.41%) COBIT
16 2 (0.41%) PMO
16 2 (0.41%) PSD2
System Software
1 92 (18.78%) Active Directory
2 37 (7.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (5.31%) Docker
4 16 (3.27%) vSphere
5 14 (2.86%) Hyper-V
6 13 (2.65%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (2.04%) Oracle RAC
8 8 (1.63%) NDS
8 8 (1.63%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.41%) ProxySG
10 2 (0.41%) UAG
11 1 (0.20%) LXC
11 1 (0.20%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 43 (8.78%) Kubernetes
2 41 (8.37%) Microsoft Intune
3 40 (8.16%) Grafana
4 28 (5.71%) Prometheus
5 25 (5.10%) Ansible
6 20 (4.08%) Single Sign-On
7 18 (3.67%) Nagios
8 14 (2.86%) SCCM
9 12 (2.45%) Kibana
10 10 (2.04%) Data Guard
10 10 (2.04%) Oracle RMAN
11 9 (1.84%) ZABBIX
12 8 (1.63%) Puppet
13 7 (1.43%) Jamf Pro
13 7 (1.43%) Progress Chef
14 2 (0.41%) FortiGate
14 2 (0.41%) Nessus
14 2 (0.41%) SCOM
14 2 (0.41%) vCenter Server
14 2 (0.41%) WSUS
Vendors
1 167 (34.08%) Microsoft
2 39 (7.96%) VMware
3 31 (6.33%) ServiceNow
4 26 (5.31%) SAP
5 24 (4.90%) Oracle
6 20 (4.08%) Cisco
7 17 (3.47%) AppDynamics
7 17 (3.47%) Google
8 16 (3.27%) iManage
9 15 (3.06%) Okta
10 13 (2.65%) Dynatrace
11 12 (2.45%) IBM
11 12 (2.45%) Palo Alto
12 11 (2.24%) CyberArk
13 10 (2.04%) Citrix
13 10 (2.04%) Databricks
13 10 (2.04%) Red Hat
14 9 (1.84%) Fortinet
14 9 (1.84%) Meraki
14 9 (1.84%) SolarWinds