Runbook Contracts with Work from Home Options

Runbook
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 298 385 490
Rank change year-on-year +87 +105 -105
Contract jobs citing Runbook 47 69 122
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.32% 0.28% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.31% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 52 72
10th Percentile £423 £501 £385
25th Percentile £465 £529 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £600 £488
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +23.08% -2.50%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £625
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £503 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -8.64% +10.00% +5.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £51.00 -
UK median hourly rate £18.13 £51.00 -
% change year-on-year -64.45% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,973 22,093 40,138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.88% 89.67% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,721 15,633 29,139
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.58% +3.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 507 534
10th Percentile £14.94 £18.63 £14.08
25th Percentile £24.44 £26.25 £20.56
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +32.91% +64.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

Runbook
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Runbook as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Runbook trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Runbook.

Runbook daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Runbook
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Runbook over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Runbook daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Runbook
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Runbook.

Runbook hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Runbook
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (12.77%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 3 (6.38%) Apache
2 3 (6.38%) JBoss
2 3 (6.38%) nginx
2 3 (6.38%) Tomcat
3 2 (4.26%) Confluence
3 2 (4.26%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 1 (2.13%) IIS
4 1 (2.13%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (2.13%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 3 (6.38%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 16 (34.04%) Azure
2 10 (21.28%) AWS
3 9 (19.15%) GitHub
4 8 (17.02%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (12.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (6.38%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (4.26%) Entra ID
7 2 (4.26%) OpenShift
7 2 (4.26%) SaaS
8 1 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.13%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (2.13%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.13%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (2.13%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (2.13%) GCP
8 1 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (2.13%) OCI
8 1 (2.13%) OneDrive
8 1 (2.13%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (25.53%) Firewall
2 4 (8.51%) DNS
3 2 (4.26%) LAN
3 2 (4.26%) SD-WAN
3 2 (4.26%) SSH
3 2 (4.26%) WAN
4 1 (2.13%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (2.13%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (2.13%) CTI
4 1 (2.13%) DHCP
4 1 (2.13%) HTTP
4 1 (2.13%) IPsec
4 1 (2.13%) MPLS
4 1 (2.13%) Network Security
4 1 (2.13%) OSPF
4 1 (2.13%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (2.13%) VLAN
4 1 (2.13%) VPN
4 1 (2.13%) VXLAN
4 1 (2.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.89%) SQL Server
2 3 (6.38%) MySQL
2 3 (6.38%) RDBMS
2 3 (6.38%) Relational Database
3 2 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.13%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.13%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.13%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (2.13%) JIRA
General
1 9 (19.15%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.89%) Finance
3 5 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.51%) Back Office
5 2 (4.26%) Aviation
5 2 (4.26%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.26%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.13%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.13%) Police
Job Titles
1 8 (17.02%) Analyst
2 7 (14.89%) Architect
2 7 (14.89%) Business Analyst
3 5 (10.64%) Asset Management Analyst
3 5 (10.64%) Asset Management Business Analyst
3 5 (10.64%) Senior
4 4 (8.51%) Applications Support
4 4 (8.51%) Consultant
4 4 (8.51%) Linux Engineer
4 4 (8.51%) Regulatory Business Analyst
5 3 (6.38%) Linux Support
5 3 (6.38%) Technical Architect
6 2 (4.26%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Management Consultant
6 2 (4.26%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (4.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Senior Linux Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Service Transition Manager
6 2 (4.26%) Technical Analyst
6 2 (4.26%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.51%) Middleware
2 3 (6.38%) IBM Integration Bus
3 2 (4.26%) OpenID
3 2 (4.26%) SailPoint
3 2 (4.26%) SAML
3 2 (4.26%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.51%) DTCC
1 4 (8.51%) Equities
2 3 (6.38%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (4.26%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.26%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.26%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.26%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.13%) Clustering
4 1 (2.13%) Cyberattack
4 1 (2.13%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.13%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 12 (25.53%) Linux
2 8 (17.02%) Windows
3 5 (10.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (10.64%) Windows Server
4 4 (8.51%) Unix
5 3 (6.38%) Ubuntu
6 2 (4.26%) Solaris
7 1 (2.13%) Android
7 1 (2.13%) Apple iOS
7 1 (2.13%) Mac OS
7 1 (2.13%) Mac OS X
7 1 (2.13%) Windows Mobile
7 1 (2.13%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (2.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (17.02%) Product Roadmap
1 8 (17.02%) Roadmaps
2 7 (14.89%) Continuous Improvement
2 7 (14.89%) Disaster Recovery
2 7 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (12.77%) Agile
3 6 (12.77%) Migration
4 5 (10.64%) Asset Management
4 5 (10.64%) High Availability
4 5 (10.64%) Investment Management
4 5 (10.64%) Privileged Access Management
4 5 (10.64%) Wealth Management
5 4 (8.51%) Cash Management
5 4 (8.51%) Collateral Management
5 4 (8.51%) Incident Management
5 4 (8.51%) Project Delivery
5 4 (8.51%) Remediation Plan
5 4 (8.51%) User Stories
6 3 (6.38%) Computer Science
6 3 (6.38%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 10 (21.28%) Python
2 7 (14.89%) PowerShell
3 3 (6.38%) Shell Script
4 2 (4.26%) Bash
4 2 (4.26%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.13%) Java
5 1 (2.13%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (2.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (25.53%) Security Cleared
2 11 (23.40%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (6.38%) Degree
4 1 (2.13%) CCNP
4 1 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.13%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 1 (2.13%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (10.64%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (6.38%) vSphere
3 2 (4.26%) Ceph
3 2 (4.26%) Docker
3 2 (4.26%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 2 (4.26%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (4.26%) VMware NSX
4 1 (2.13%) Firmware
4 1 (2.13%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 10 (21.28%) Terraform
2 4 (8.51%) Ansible
3 3 (6.38%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (4.26%) Kubernetes
4 2 (4.26%) Pacemaker
4 2 (4.26%) Podman
4 2 (4.26%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (4.26%) SCOM
4 2 (4.26%) SCOrch
5 1 (2.13%) Data Guard
5 1 (2.13%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.13%) SCCM
5 1 (2.13%) SCVMM
5 1 (2.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (17.02%) Red Hat
2 7 (14.89%) Oracle
3 5 (10.64%) CyberArk
3 5 (10.64%) VMware
4 4 (8.51%) Cisco
5 3 (6.38%) IBM
5 3 (6.38%) Temenos
6 2 (4.26%) BeyondTrust
6 2 (4.26%) CheckPoint
6 2 (4.26%) Okta
6 2 (4.26%) ServiceNow
6 2 (4.26%) SolarWinds
6 2 (4.26%) Sun
7 1 (2.13%) Atlassian
7 1 (2.13%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (2.13%) F5
7 1 (2.13%) Infoblox
7 1 (2.13%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.13%) Varonis
7 1 (2.13%) Zscaler