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 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 291 387 499
Rank change year-on-year +96 +112 -94
Contract jobs citing Runbook 48 64 125
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.33% 0.27% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.30% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 48 80
10th Percentile £406 £509 £385
25th Percentile £463 £550 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £600 £479
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +25.37% -4.28%
75th Percentile £636 £675 £625
90th Percentile £663 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £505 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -8.18% +10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £51.00 -
UK median hourly rate £23.07 £51.00 -
% change year-on-year -54.77% - -

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 12,810 21,394 40,150
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.31% 89.63% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,622 15,186 29,240
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 497 521
10th Percentile £14.90 £18.50 £14.50
25th Percentile £23.75 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +31.25% +68.42%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £59.00
90th Percentile £74.40 £78.30 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%

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

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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 9 June 2024.

Runbook daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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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

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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 (12.50%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 3 (6.25%) Apache
2 3 (6.25%) JBoss
2 3 (6.25%) nginx
2 3 (6.25%) Tomcat
3 2 (4.17%) Confluence
3 2 (4.17%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 1 (2.08%) IIS
4 1 (2.08%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (2.08%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (6.25%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 14 (29.17%) Azure
2 12 (25.00%) AWS
3 11 (22.92%) GitHub
4 10 (20.83%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (10.42%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (4.17%) Entra ID
7 2 (4.17%) OpenShift
7 2 (4.17%) SaaS
8 1 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.08%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (2.08%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.08%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (2.08%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (2.08%) GCP
8 1 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (2.08%) OCI
8 1 (2.08%) OneDrive
8 1 (2.08%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (25.00%) Firewall
2 4 (8.33%) DNS
3 2 (4.17%) LAN
3 2 (4.17%) SD-WAN
3 2 (4.17%) SSH
3 2 (4.17%) WAN
4 1 (2.08%) BGP
4 1 (2.08%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (2.08%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (2.08%) CTI
4 1 (2.08%) DHCP
4 1 (2.08%) H.323
4 1 (2.08%) HTTP
4 1 (2.08%) MPLS
4 1 (2.08%) Network Security
4 1 (2.08%) OSPF
4 1 (2.08%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (2.08%) VLAN
4 1 (2.08%) VPN
4 1 (2.08%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.58%) SQL Server
2 3 (6.25%) MySQL
2 3 (6.25%) RDBMS
2 3 (6.25%) Relational Database
3 2 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.08%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.08%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.08%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 10 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.58%) Finance
3 5 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.25%) Back Office
5 2 (4.17%) Aviation
5 2 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.17%) Manufacturing
5 2 (4.17%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.08%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Police
Job Titles
1 7 (14.58%) Architect
1 7 (14.58%) Senior
2 6 (12.50%) Analyst
3 5 (10.42%) Business Analyst
4 4 (8.33%) Applications Support
4 4 (8.33%) Asset Management Analyst
4 4 (8.33%) Asset Management Business Analyst
4 4 (8.33%) Consultant
4 4 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (8.33%) Linux Engineer
4 4 (8.33%) Senior DevOps
4 4 (8.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Linux Support
5 3 (6.25%) Regulatory Business Analyst
5 3 (6.25%) Technical Architect
6 2 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Senior Linux Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Service Manager
6 2 (4.17%) Service Transition Manager
6 2 (4.17%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.33%) Middleware
2 3 (6.25%) IBM Integration Bus
3 2 (4.17%) OpenID
3 2 (4.17%) SailPoint
3 2 (4.17%) SAML
3 2 (4.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.25%) DTCC
1 3 (6.25%) Equities
1 3 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (4.17%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.17%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.17%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.17%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.08%) Clustering
3 1 (2.08%) Cyberattack
3 1 (2.08%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.08%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 12 (25.00%) Linux
2 8 (16.67%) Windows
3 5 (10.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (10.42%) Windows Server
4 4 (8.33%) Unix
5 3 (6.25%) Ubuntu
6 2 (4.17%) Solaris
7 1 (2.08%) Android
7 1 (2.08%) Apple iOS
7 1 (2.08%) Mac OS
7 1 (2.08%) Mac OS X
7 1 (2.08%) Windows Mobile
7 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
2 8 (16.67%) Product Roadmap
2 8 (16.67%) Roadmaps
3 7 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (12.50%) Migration
5 5 (10.42%) Agile
5 5 (10.42%) DevOps
5 5 (10.42%) High Availability
5 5 (10.42%) Mentoring
5 5 (10.42%) Privileged Access Management
6 4 (8.33%) Asset Management
6 4 (8.33%) Incident Management
6 4 (8.33%) Investment Management
6 4 (8.33%) Observability
6 4 (8.33%) Project Delivery
6 4 (8.33%) Remediation Plan
6 4 (8.33%) Service Catalogue
6 4 (8.33%) Wealth Management
7 3 (6.25%) Cash Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (20.83%) Python
2 7 (14.58%) PowerShell
3 4 (8.33%) TypeScript
4 3 (6.25%) Shell Script
5 2 (4.17%) Bash
6 1 (2.08%) Java
6 1 (2.08%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (2.08%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (29.17%) Security Cleared
2 13 (27.08%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (6.25%) Degree
4 1 (2.08%) CCNP
4 1 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.08%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.08%) GDPR
1 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.08%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (10.42%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (6.25%) vSphere
3 2 (4.17%) Ceph
3 2 (4.17%) Docker
3 2 (4.17%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 2 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (4.17%) VMware NSX
4 1 (2.08%) Firmware
4 1 (2.08%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 12 (25.00%) Terraform
2 4 (8.33%) Ansible
3 3 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (4.17%) Kubernetes
4 2 (4.17%) Pacemaker
4 2 (4.17%) Podman
4 2 (4.17%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (4.17%) SCOM
4 2 (4.17%) SCOrch
5 1 (2.08%) Data Guard
5 1 (2.08%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.08%) Nessus
5 1 (2.08%) SCCM
5 1 (2.08%) SCVMM
5 1 (2.08%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 7 (14.58%) Oracle
3 5 (10.42%) CyberArk
3 5 (10.42%) VMware
4 4 (8.33%) Cisco
5 3 (6.25%) IBM
5 3 (6.25%) Okta
5 3 (6.25%) Temenos
6 2 (4.17%) BeyondTrust
6 2 (4.17%) CheckPoint
6 2 (4.17%) Microsoft
6 2 (4.17%) ServiceNow
6 2 (4.17%) SolarWinds
6 2 (4.17%) Sun
7 1 (2.08%) Atlassian
7 1 (2.08%) FireEye
7 1 (2.08%) Google
7 1 (2.08%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.08%) Varonis
7 1 (2.08%) Zscaler