Runbook Contracts in the North of England

Runbook
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Runbook skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Runbook over the 6 months to 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 170 197 226
Rank change year-on-year +27 +29 -39
Contract jobs citing Runbook 14 17 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.30% 0.30% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.33% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 14
10th Percentile £318 £200 £474
25th Percentile £335 £569 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £688 £650
Median % change year-on-year -39.64% +5.77% +122.22%
75th Percentile £475 £700 £697
90th Percentile £543 - £700
England median daily rate £505 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -8.18% +4.76% +16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,945 5,094 6,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.39% 90.48% 88.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,422 3,502 4,614
10th Percentile £300 £300 £240
25th Percentile £401 £413 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 365 204 264
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.54 £13.47
Median hourly rate £17.72 £27.84 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.35% +46.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £45.00 £43.94 £37.07
90th Percentile £59.00 £65.00 £63.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year -1.75% +48.60% +8.70%

Runbook
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Runbook as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Runbook in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Runbook in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Runbook in the North of England

Runbook
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Runbook in the North of England over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Runbook in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Runbook within the North of England region over the 6 months to 19 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West +8 7 £450 -34.55% 2
Yorkshire +20 6 £340 -38.18% 1
North East +14 1 - -
Runbook
England

Runbook
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (7.14%) Apache
1 1 (7.14%) Confluence
1 1 (7.14%) JBoss
1 1 (7.14%) nginx
1 1 (7.14%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (14.29%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (42.86%) DNS
2 5 (35.71%) DHCP
3 3 (21.43%) Remote Desktop
3 3 (21.43%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (7.14%) Firewall
4 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) MySQL
1 1 (7.14%) RDBMS
1 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
1 1 (7.14%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Cypress.io
1 1 (7.14%) Git
1 1 (7.14%) GoCD
1 1 (7.14%) JUnit
General
1 6 (42.86%) Finance
1 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Banking
3 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) Data Centre Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) IT Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) SOC Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Data Centre Technician
3 2 (14.29%) Data Technician
3 2 (14.29%) IT Technician
3 2 (14.29%) Java Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Software Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Test Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Android Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Business Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Service Design Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) Service Transition Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) Android Jetpack
1 1 (7.14%) Dagger
1 1 (7.14%) IBM Integration Bus
1 1 (7.14%) Jest
1 1 (7.14%) Jetpack Compose
1 1 (7.14%) Middleware
1 1 (7.14%) Node.js
1 1 (7.14%) React
1 1 (7.14%) Retrofit
1 1 (7.14%) RxJava
1 1 (7.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Data Centre
1 3 (21.43%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (42.86%) Windows
2 3 (21.43%) Windows 10
2 3 (21.43%) Windows 7
3 1 (7.14%) Android
3 1 (7.14%) Linux
3 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (7.14%) Unix
3 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Migration
2 4 (28.57%) Business Continuity
3 3 (21.43%) Computer Science
3 3 (21.43%) Continuous Delivery
3 3 (21.43%) Data Security
3 3 (21.43%) Design Patterns
3 3 (21.43%) Incident Management
3 3 (21.43%) Incident Response
3 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (21.43%) Network Monitoring
3 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (21.43%) Software Engineering
3 3 (21.43%) Test Strategy
3 3 (21.43%) Validation
4 2 (14.29%) Critical Thinking
4 2 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (14.29%) Prototyping
5 1 (7.14%) Security Operations
5 1 (7.14%) Service Design
5 1 (7.14%) Threat Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) Java
1 2 (14.29%) Kusto Query Language
1 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.14%) Bash
2 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.14%) Kotlin
2 1 (7.14%) PHP
2 1 (7.14%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
2 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) A+ Certification
1 3 (21.43%) CCNA
1 3 (21.43%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (21.43%) CISM
1 3 (21.43%) CISSP
1 3 (21.43%) CompTIA Security+
1 3 (21.43%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
1 3 (21.43%) Network+ Certification
1 3 (21.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (21.43%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.14%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (21.43%) Active Directory
2 3 (21.43%) Hyper-V
2 3 (21.43%) KVM
2 3 (21.43%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (21.43%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (21.43%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 5 (35.71%) VMware
3 1 (7.14%) IBM
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle
3 1 (7.14%) Red Hat
3 1 (7.14%) Temenos