Runbook Contracts in the South East

Runbook
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 174 193 218
Rank change year-on-year +19 +25 -5
Contract jobs citing Runbook 30 26 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.53% 0.46% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.52% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 24 36
10th Percentile £463 £159 -
25th Percentile £472 £161 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £450 £385
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% +16.88% -17.20%
75th Percentile £603 £691 £458
90th Percentile £651 £715 £588
England median daily rate £505 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -8.18% +4.76% +14.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £30.38 - -
25th Percentile £34.69 - -
Median hourly rate £42.75 - -
75th Percentile £51.19 - -
90th Percentile £55.73 - -
England median hourly rate £23.07 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,709 5,035 6,914
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 82.69% 89.04% 89.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,713 3,459 4,700
10th Percentile £255 £250 £244
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £501 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.80% +0.20% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £548
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 465 221 275
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £12.27
25th Percentile £18.32 £24.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.97
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +138.96% -12.12%
75th Percentile £63.75 £66.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.94 £75.00 £63.55
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year +4.17% +41.18% +13.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Runbook as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Runbook in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Runbook in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Runbook in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Runbook in the South East over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Runbook in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Runbook in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Runbook in the South East

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Runbook in the South East over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Runbook in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Runbook within the South East region over the 6 months to 9 June 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
Thames Valley +8 13 £600 -14.29%
Berkshire +7 12 £625 -7.41%
West Sussex - 9 £475 - 2
Hampshire -1 6 - - 1
Buckinghamshire +23 1 £400 -44.06%
Surrey +5 1 £500 +189.86% 1
Home Counties - 1 £600 -
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (6.67%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 13 (43.33%) Azure
2 6 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 6 (20.00%) IaaS
3 3 (10.00%) AWS
4 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (6.67%) OpenShift
5 1 (3.33%) GitHub
5 1 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.33%) Mimecast
5 1 (3.33%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.33%) Firewall
2 3 (10.00%) DNS
3 2 (6.67%) DHCP
3 2 (6.67%) Network Security
4 1 (3.33%) SAN
4 1 (3.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 5 (16.67%) MySQL
1 5 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (16.67%) RDBMS
1 5 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (23.33%) Git
2 6 (20.00%) GitLab
3 1 (3.33%) Subversion
General
1 3 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (10.00%) Social Skills
1 3 (10.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (6.67%) Banking
2 2 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (6.67%) Legal
3 1 (3.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
3 4 (13.33%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Senior
4 2 (6.67%) Active Directory Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Specialist
4 2 (6.67%) Cyber Threat Specialist
4 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Security Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Analyst
5 1 (3.33%) Automation Specialist
5 1 (3.33%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Data Technician
5 1 (3.33%) Lead
5 1 (3.33%) Platform Specialist
5 1 (3.33%) Security Analyst
5 1 (3.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Technical Writer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) YAML
2 1 (3.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (23.33%) Linux Command Line
2 6 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (10.00%) Smart Meter
4 1 (3.33%) Clustering
4 1 (3.33%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (46.67%) Linux
2 9 (30.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (23.33%) Unix
4 6 (20.00%) VMS
5 4 (13.33%) Windows
6 3 (10.00%) Solaris
7 2 (6.67%) Ubuntu
7 2 (6.67%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 11 (36.67%) Project Delivery
3 8 (26.67%) Agile
3 8 (26.67%) CI/CD
3 8 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (23.33%) High Availability
4 7 (23.33%) Product Roadmap
4 7 (23.33%) Remediation Plan
4 7 (23.33%) Roadmaps
5 6 (20.00%) Build Automation
5 6 (20.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 6 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (20.00%) Information Security
5 6 (20.00%) Risk Management
5 6 (20.00%) Scrum
5 6 (20.00%) Security Operations
5 6 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence
6 5 (16.67%) ITIL
6 5 (16.67%) Mentoring
6 5 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (33.33%) Python
2 8 (26.67%) Bash
3 5 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 2 (6.67%) Bicep
4 2 (6.67%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (6.67%) Shell Script
4 2 (6.67%) VBScript
5 1 (3.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 5 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) GDPR
1 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 8 (26.67%) Active Directory
1 8 (26.67%) vSphere
2 3 (10.00%) Docker
2 3 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (10.00%) VMware NSX
3 2 (6.67%) Ceph
3 2 (6.67%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 2 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (6.67%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 11 (36.67%) Ansible
2 8 (26.67%) Kubernetes
3 6 (20.00%) Packer
3 6 (20.00%) vRealize
4 5 (16.67%) Terraform
5 3 (10.00%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (6.67%) Pacemaker
6 2 (6.67%) Podman
6 2 (6.67%) SCCM
7 1 (3.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (3.33%) SELinux
7 1 (3.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 10 (33.33%) VMware
2 8 (26.67%) SolarWinds
3 6 (20.00%) Red Hat
3 6 (20.00%) Veritas
4 5 (16.67%) Arqiva
4 5 (16.67%) CyberArk
4 5 (16.67%) Okta
4 5 (16.67%) Oracle
5 2 (6.67%) Citrix
5 2 (6.67%) Ivanti
5 2 (6.67%) Sun
5 2 (6.67%) Symantec
6 1 (3.33%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (3.33%) Dell
6 1 (3.33%) Microsoft
6 1 (3.33%) Netskope
6 1 (3.33%) Zscaler