Runbook
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Runbook skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Runbook over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 792 843 895
Rank change year-on-year +51 +52 -119
Permanent jobs citing Runbook 110 129 343
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.13% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.13% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 72 92 172
10th Percentile £32,050 £39,275 £37,535
25th Percentile £45,000 £56,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,300 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.77% +0.46% +8.33%
75th Percentile £68,750 £88,088 £91,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £120,225
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +21.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,809 96,894 150,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,843 56,945 82,179
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,550
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Runbook
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Runbook as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Runbook in the UK

Runbook
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Runbook.

Salary trend for Runbook in the UK

Runbook
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Runbook over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Runbook in the UK

Runbook
Top 15 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 9 May 2024. 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 +68 90 £55,000 -16.16% 37
UK excluding London +2 52 £55,000 -4.35% 19
Work from Home +74 46 £55,000 -8.33% 15
London +95 44 £60,000 -20.00% 20
North of England +56 15 £47,500 -3.06% 5
South West -9 14 £62,500 - 2
North West +24 13 £48,750 -30.36% 4
South East -14 10 £63,750 +10.87% 7
Midlands -12 5 £30,000 -48.94% 2
West Midlands - 5 £30,000 - 1
Isle of Man - 3 - -
East of England +18 2 £42,000 -
Wales +3 2 £65,000 +30.00% 2
North East - 2 £47,500 -
Scotland - 1 - - 1

Runbook
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (5.45%) Confluence
2 5 (4.55%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (6.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.73%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.91%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.91%) Endur
1 1 (0.91%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 57 (51.82%) Azure
2 33 (30.00%) AWS
3 26 (23.64%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (18.18%) Power Platform
5 18 (16.36%) Azure Monitor
6 15 (13.64%) Azure Logic Apps
6 15 (13.64%) Power Automate
7 14 (12.73%) PowerApps
8 13 (11.82%) Dynamics 365
9 10 (9.09%) IaaS
9 10 (9.09%) PaaS
10 9 (8.18%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (7.27%) Entra ID
12 7 (6.36%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (6.36%) SaaS
13 6 (5.45%) Azure Data Factory
14 5 (4.55%) Azure Sentinel
15 4 (3.64%) GitHub
15 4 (3.64%) OneDrive
15 4 (3.64%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 28 (25.45%) Firewall
2 13 (11.82%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (3.64%) Wireless
4 2 (1.82%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (1.82%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (1.82%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.82%) VoIP
4 2 (1.82%) VPN
4 2 (1.82%) WPA
5 1 (0.91%) AMQP
5 1 (0.91%) MPLS
5 1 (0.91%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.91%) SSL
5 1 (0.91%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.45%) Data Lake
1 6 (5.45%) Power BI
2 4 (3.64%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.73%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.91%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.91%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.91%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (8.18%) Jenkins
2 7 (6.36%) JIRA
3 6 (5.45%) CircleCI
3 6 (5.45%) RStudio
4 4 (3.64%) GitLab
5 3 (2.73%) Bitbucket
5 3 (2.73%) Git
5 3 (2.73%) JUnit
5 3 (2.73%) Selenium
5 3 (2.73%) Subversion
5 3 (2.73%) TestNG
5 3 (2.73%) Travis CI
6 1 (0.91%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.91%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 31 (28.18%) Finance
2 25 (22.73%) Social Skills
3 9 (8.18%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (8.18%) Banking
4 7 (6.36%) Legal
5 6 (5.45%) Law
6 4 (3.64%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.73%) Police
7 3 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.82%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.82%) Back Office
8 2 (1.82%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 35 (31.82%) Analyst
2 28 (25.45%) Senior
3 17 (15.45%) Security Analyst
4 16 (14.55%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 13 (11.82%) Developer
5 13 (11.82%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 13 (11.82%) Senior Developer
5 13 (11.82%) Senior Dynamics 365 Developer
6 10 (9.09%) Lead
7 9 (8.18%) Platform Engineer
8 8 (7.27%) SOC Analyst
9 7 (6.36%) Security Engineer
10 6 (5.45%) Architect
10 6 (5.45%) Consultant
10 6 (5.45%) Data Engineer
10 6 (5.45%) Lead Data Engineer
10 6 (5.45%) SIEM Analyst
11 5 (4.55%) Senior Analyst
11 5 (4.55%) Support Analyst
11 5 (4.55%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (13.64%) .NET
2 3 (2.73%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (2.73%) SPFx
3 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (1.82%) Middleware
4 1 (0.91%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.91%) JMS
4 1 (0.91%) jQuery
4 1 (0.91%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (0.91%) Node.js
4 1 (0.91%) pytest
4 1 (0.91%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.91%) React
4 1 (0.91%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.55%) Data Centre
2 15 (13.64%) Management Information System
3 13 (11.82%) Enterprise Cloud
3 13 (11.82%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (10.91%) Cyber Threat
4 12 (10.91%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 9 (8.18%) Cyberattack
6 8 (7.27%) Security Operations Centre
7 6 (5.45%) Product Ownership
8 4 (3.64%) Cyber Defence
8 4 (3.64%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 4 (3.64%) Market Risk
9 3 (2.73%) Algorithms
9 3 (2.73%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.82%) BYOD
10 2 (1.82%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.82%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.82%) Security Posture
11 1 (0.91%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.91%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.91%) Linux
1 12 (10.91%) Windows
2 6 (5.45%) Unix
3 2 (1.82%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.91%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.91%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (30.91%) Cybersecurity
1 34 (30.91%) Security Operations
1 34 (30.91%) SIEM
2 33 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 32 (29.09%) DevOps
4 31 (28.18%) Continuous Improvement
4 31 (28.18%) Use Case
5 27 (24.55%) Agile
6 23 (20.91%) Technical Leadership
7 22 (20.00%) Problem Management
8 21 (19.09%) Penetration Testing
9 20 (18.18%) Collaborative Working
10 19 (17.27%) Change Management
11 18 (16.36%) Project Management
12 17 (15.45%) Analytics
12 17 (15.45%) Scrum
13 16 (14.55%) Incident Response
13 16 (14.55%) Security Monitoring
14 15 (13.64%) Application Security
14 15 (13.64%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 14 (12.73%) C#
2 9 (8.18%) SQL
3 8 (7.27%) PowerShell
4 6 (5.45%) Java
4 6 (5.45%) Python
4 6 (5.45%) R
5 2 (1.82%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.91%) Bash
6 1 (0.91%) C
6 1 (0.91%) Go
6 1 (0.91%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.91%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.91%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.91%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (20.91%) Degree
2 17 (15.45%) Cisco Certification
3 16 (14.55%) CISSP
4 15 (13.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 15 (13.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 15 (13.64%) CCSP
4 15 (13.64%) CompTIA CySA+
5 12 (10.91%) CompTIA Security+
5 12 (10.91%) Network+ Certification
6 9 (8.18%) Azure Certification
7 7 (6.36%) SC Cleared
7 7 (6.36%) Security Cleared
8 6 (5.45%) AWS Certification
9 5 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (2.73%) Master's Degree
10 3 (2.73%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (2.73%) Numerate Degree
11 2 (1.82%) CCNA
12 1 (0.91%) CCIE
12 1 (0.91%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (15.45%) NIST
2 12 (10.91%) SOC 2
3 6 (5.45%) Data Quality
3 6 (5.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.64%) PCI DSS
5 3 (2.73%) GDPR
5 3 (2.73%) QA
6 2 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.82%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.91%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.91%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (14.55%) Active Directory
2 10 (9.09%) Docker
2 10 (9.09%) Hyper-V
3 5 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.73%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (2.73%) VirtualBox
5 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (0.91%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.91%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 10 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 10 (9.09%) Terraform
2 6 (5.45%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (4.55%) QRadar
4 4 (3.64%) Ansible
4 4 (3.64%) Grafana
5 3 (2.73%) Kibana
5 3 (2.73%) logstash
5 3 (2.73%) Nagios
5 3 (2.73%) Progress Chef
5 3 (2.73%) Puppet
5 3 (2.73%) ZABBIX
6 2 (1.82%) CSIRT
6 2 (1.82%) SCCM
7 1 (0.91%) CASB
7 1 (0.91%) Nessus
7 1 (0.91%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.91%) WSUS
Vendors
1 46 (41.82%) Microsoft
2 13 (11.82%) Splunk
3 11 (10.00%) VMware
4 6 (5.45%) Alteryx
4 6 (5.45%) Cisco
4 6 (5.45%) Databricks
5 5 (4.55%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.64%) LogRhythm
7 3 (2.73%) IBM
7 3 (2.73%) Meraki
7 3 (2.73%) New Relic
8 2 (1.82%) Apple
8 2 (1.82%) Barracuda Networks
8 2 (1.82%) Qualys
9 1 (0.91%) Citrix
9 1 (0.91%) Dell
9 1 (0.91%) Google
9 1 (0.91%) HP
9 1 (0.91%) Ivanti
9 1 (0.91%) OpenLink