Runbook Job Trends

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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 523 644 639
Rank change year-on-year +121 -5 +197
Permanent jobs citing Runbook 131 55 82
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.10% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.11% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 94 35 69
10th Percentile £46,625 £44,956 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £45,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,156 £52,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +33.63% -16.00% -4.73%
75th Percentile £90,000 £79,375 £92,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £94,900 £96,539
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £50,000 £71,000
% change year-on-year +30.00% -29.58% +29.09%

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 48,596 48,532 50,084
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.00% 90.69% 89.94%
Number of salaries quoted 28,664 23,590 38,164
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%

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 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Runbook in the UK

Runbook
Top 14 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 14 January 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 +135 122 £70,000 +27.27% 210
London +115 84 £75,000 -3.23% 46
Work from Home +102 48 £87,500 +78.19% 59
UK excluding London +71 41 £65,000 +30.00% 197
South West +21 11 £58,750 +9.81% 28
Midlands +29 10 £65,000 +30.00% 25
West Midlands +28 10 £65,000 +30.00% 7
North of England +1 6 £60,000 +14.29% 40
South East +37 5 £70,000 +19.15% 56
North West +12 4 £55,000 +4.76% 19
Northern Ireland -9 4 - - 4
East of England - 4 £57,750 - 28
Yorkshire -11 2 £70,000 +40.00% 17
Wales +8 1 £55,000 +12.01% 8

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 5 (3.82%) Confluence
2 3 (2.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.53%) IIS
3 2 (1.53%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.76%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.76%) FileNet
4 1 (0.76%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.76%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (7.63%) Endur
2 2 (1.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.76%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.76%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.76%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 79 (60.31%) Azure
2 39 (29.77%) AWS
3 32 (24.43%) Entra ID
4 19 (14.50%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (13.74%) SaaS
5 18 (13.74%) Serverless
6 16 (12.21%) Microsoft 365
7 14 (10.69%) Nutanix
8 13 (9.92%) Azure Functions
9 12 (9.16%) Azure Monitor
9 12 (9.16%) Azure Storage
9 12 (9.16%) GitHub
9 12 (9.16%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (6.87%) Azure AKS
10 9 (6.87%) Datadog
10 9 (6.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 7 (5.34%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (4.58%) Azure Event Grid
12 6 (4.58%) Azure Sentinel
13 5 (3.82%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 24 (18.32%) Firewall
2 23 (17.56%) VPN
3 16 (12.21%) WAN
4 12 (9.16%) LAN
4 12 (9.16%) Wi-Fi
5 11 (8.40%) WLAN
6 9 (6.87%) Cisco ASA
6 9 (6.87%) Cisco IOS
6 9 (6.87%) NX-OS
6 9 (6.87%) WAAS
7 7 (5.34%) Network Security
7 7 (5.34%) SD-WAN
8 5 (3.82%) BGP
8 5 (3.82%) Cisco Firepower
8 5 (3.82%) DNS
8 5 (3.82%) IPsec
8 5 (3.82%) MPLS
8 5 (3.82%) NetScaler
8 5 (3.82%) OSPF
8 5 (3.82%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.92%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (5.34%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.05%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.76%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.76%) Power BI
5 1 (0.76%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.76%) SAP BW
5 1 (0.76%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (10.69%) JIRA
2 10 (7.63%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.82%) Git
4 4 (3.05%) GitLab
5 2 (1.53%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.76%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.76%) Testinfra
General
1 50 (38.17%) Social Skills
2 36 (27.48%) Finance
3 18 (13.74%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (10.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (9.16%) Legal
6 11 (8.40%) Law
7 9 (6.87%) Billing
8 8 (6.11%) Banking
9 6 (4.58%) Public Sector
10 5 (3.82%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (3.82%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (3.05%) Police
11 4 (3.05%) Retail
12 2 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.76%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.76%) Front Office
13 1 (0.76%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.76%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 21 (16.03%) Analyst
2 17 (12.98%) Applications Support
2 17 (12.98%) Support Analyst
3 14 (10.69%) Lead
4 13 (9.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 13 (9.92%) Operations Engineer
5 12 (9.16%) Architect
5 12 (9.16%) Senior
6 11 (8.40%) Applications Support Analyst
7 10 (7.63%) AWS Engineer
7 10 (7.63%) Endur Analyst
7 10 (7.63%) Endur Support
7 10 (7.63%) OpenLink Analyst
7 10 (7.63%) OpenLink Support
7 10 (7.63%) Support Engineer
8 9 (6.87%) IT Security Specialist
8 9 (6.87%) Network Engineer
8 9 (6.87%) Platform Engineer
8 9 (6.87%) Security Specialist
9 8 (6.11%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.58%) .NET
1 6 (4.58%) OAuth
1 6 (4.58%) SAML
1 6 (4.58%) WPF
2 5 (3.82%) ARM Templates
3 4 (3.05%) ADO
3 4 (3.05%) FIDO
3 4 (3.05%) SailPoint
3 4 (3.05%) YAML
4 3 (2.29%) LDAP
5 2 (1.53%) Kafka
5 2 (1.53%) Middleware
5 2 (1.53%) OAuth2
5 2 (1.53%) OpenID
5 2 (1.53%) Regular Expression
5 2 (1.53%) REST
5 2 (1.53%) RESTful
5 2 (1.53%) SAP Basis
6 1 (0.76%) RAML
6 1 (0.76%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.21%) Hybrid Cloud
1 16 (12.21%) Security Posture
2 13 (9.92%) Onboarding
3 12 (9.16%) Management Information System
4 11 (8.40%) CMDB
5 9 (6.87%) Data Centre
6 8 (6.11%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (6.11%) Mobile App
7 6 (4.58%) iPad
7 6 (4.58%) iPhone
8 5 (3.82%) Replication
8 5 (3.82%) Video Conferencing
9 4 (3.05%) Cloud Native
10 3 (2.29%) Clustering
10 3 (2.29%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (2.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 2 (1.53%) AS400
11 2 (1.53%) Cyber Security Posture
11 2 (1.53%) Driving Licence
11 2 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 31 (23.66%) Windows
2 12 (9.16%) Windows Server
3 10 (7.63%) Linux
4 9 (6.87%) Android
5 7 (5.34%) VMS
6 6 (4.58%) Apple iOS
7 4 (3.05%) Unix
8 1 (0.76%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.76%) SUSE
8 1 (0.76%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.76%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (37.40%) DevOps
2 39 (29.77%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (27.48%) CI/CD
4 31 (23.66%) ITIL
5 30 (22.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 28 (21.37%) Disaster Recovery
7 27 (20.61%) Cybersecurity
7 27 (20.61%) Incident Response
8 26 (19.85%) Migration
9 25 (19.08%) Root Cause Analysis
10 20 (15.27%) Service Management
11 19 (14.50%) Continuous Improvement
12 18 (13.74%) Change Management
12 18 (13.74%) Problem Management
12 18 (13.74%) Vulnerability Management
13 17 (12.98%) Incident Management
14 16 (12.21%) Infrastructure as Code
14 16 (12.21%) Service Delivery
15 15 (11.45%) Observability
15 15 (11.45%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 41 (31.30%) PowerShell
2 33 (25.19%) Python
3 24 (18.32%) SQL
4 8 (6.11%) Bash
5 6 (4.58%) Bicep
5 6 (4.58%) C#
6 5 (3.82%) Kusto Query Language
7 4 (3.05%) Java
8 3 (2.29%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.53%) Groovy
9 2 (1.53%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.76%) ABAP
10 1 (0.76%) Perl
10 1 (0.76%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.76%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (9.92%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (8.40%) CEH
2 11 (8.40%) Degree
3 8 (6.11%) Security Cleared
4 6 (4.58%) SC Cleared
5 4 (3.05%) CISSP
5 4 (3.05%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (2.29%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.53%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.53%) CompTIA CySA+
7 2 (1.53%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.53%) GSEC
7 2 (1.53%) OSCP
8 1 (0.76%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.76%) CESG Certified Professional
8 1 (0.76%) GAWN
8 1 (0.76%) GCIH
8 1 (0.76%) GIAC
8 1 (0.76%) GREM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (20.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (13.74%) NIST
3 11 (8.40%) ISO 22301
3 11 (8.40%) SLA
4 7 (5.34%) GRC
5 5 (3.82%) GDPR
5 5 (3.82%) QA
6 4 (3.05%) SOC 2
7 3 (2.29%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (2.29%) PCI DSS
8 2 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.76%) COBIT
9 1 (0.76%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 18 (13.74%) Active Directory
2 11 (8.40%) Docker
3 9 (6.87%) Firmware
4 6 (4.58%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.53%) vCloud
5 2 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.76%) Postfix
6 1 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (14.50%) Terraform
2 16 (12.21%) Microsoft Intune
3 12 (9.16%) Ansible
4 11 (8.40%) Single Sign-On
5 10 (7.63%) Grafana
5 10 (7.63%) Kubernetes
6 9 (6.87%) SCCM
7 6 (4.58%) Jamf Pro
7 6 (4.58%) Kibana
8 2 (1.53%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (1.53%) Rundeck
9 1 (0.76%) Packer
9 1 (0.76%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.76%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 39 (29.77%) Microsoft
2 21 (16.03%) Cisco
3 19 (14.50%) VMware
4 15 (11.45%) Commvault
5 13 (9.92%) Fortinet
6 11 (8.40%) Palo Alto
7 10 (7.63%) CheckPoint
7 10 (7.63%) Okta
8 9 (6.87%) SolarWinds
9 8 (6.11%) Meraki
10 7 (5.34%) CrowdStrike
10 7 (5.34%) ServiceNow
11 6 (4.58%) Apple
11 6 (4.58%) Dynatrace
12 5 (3.82%) Salesforce
13 4 (3.05%) Splunk
13 4 (3.05%) Zscaler
14 3 (2.29%) Dell
14 3 (2.29%) LogicMonitor
14 3 (2.29%) PagerDuty