Runbook Job Trends in the South East

Runbook
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Runbook skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 279 269 384
Rank change year-on-year -10 +115 -28
Permanent jobs citing Runbook 23 16 15
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.16% 0.20% 0.082%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.23% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 13 0 12
10th Percentile £39,750 - £31,375
25th Percentile £52,500 - £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 - £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.70%
75th Percentile £81,000 - £70,000
90th Percentile £92,500 - -
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% +40.00% -23.08%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 in the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,481 7,057 14,945
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.45% 90.28% 81.41%
Number of salaries quoted 7,401 3,405 10,363
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £39,625 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% +4.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

Runbook
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Runbook relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Runbook job vacancy trend in the South East

Runbook
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Runbook.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Runbook

Runbook
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Runbook in the South East over the 6 months to 15 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Runbook in the South East

Runbook
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Runbook within the South East region over the 6 months to 15 June 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
Thames Valley +5 13 £60,000 - 21
Buckinghamshire - 6 £65,000 - 4
Surrey - 6 £81,000 - 5
Berkshire +2 5 £40,000 - 9
Hampshire - 3 £85,000 - 9
Oxfordshire - 2 £55,000 - 8
West Sussex - 1 £70,000 - 1
Runbook
England

Runbook
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (8.70%) Gentran
2 1 (4.35%) Apache
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.35%) Confluence
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (43.48%) AWS
2 7 (30.43%) Azure
3 6 (26.09%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (21.74%) Entra ID
5 3 (13.04%) GCP
6 2 (8.70%) SaaS
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (4.35%) IaaS
7 1 (4.35%) iPaaS
7 1 (4.35%) OpenShift
7 1 (4.35%) PaaS
7 1 (4.35%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 6 (26.09%) DNS
2 4 (17.39%) Broadband
2 4 (17.39%) DHCP
3 3 (13.04%) Firewall
3 3 (13.04%) TCP/IP
4 2 (8.70%) VPN
5 1 (4.35%) BGP
5 1 (4.35%) DKIM
5 1 (4.35%) DMARC
5 1 (4.35%) IPsec
5 1 (4.35%) Junos
5 1 (4.35%) LAN
5 1 (4.35%) Network Security
5 1 (4.35%) SD-WAN
5 1 (4.35%) SNMP
5 1 (4.35%) SSL
5 1 (4.35%) VLAN
5 1 (4.35%) WAN
5 1 (4.35%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) MongoDB
1 4 (17.39%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Hive
2 1 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.35%) Impala
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle Database
2 1 (4.35%) Parquet
2 1 (4.35%) Spark SQL
2 1 (4.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) JIRA
2 1 (4.35%) Git
2 1 (4.35%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Finance
2 4 (17.39%) Games
3 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Banking
5 1 (4.35%) Digital Health
5 1 (4.35%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (21.74%) Lead
2 3 (13.04%) Architect
2 3 (13.04%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 3 (13.04%) Network Engineer
2 3 (13.04%) Senior
2 3 (13.04%) SOC Manager
3 2 (8.70%) Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) Developer
3 2 (8.70%) EDI Specialist
3 2 (8.70%) Onboarding Specialist
3 2 (8.70%) Platform Architect
3 2 (8.70%) Principal Architect
3 2 (8.70%) Python Developer
3 2 (8.70%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) SOC Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) EDI
1 3 (13.04%) REST
2 2 (8.70%) OpenID
3 1 (4.35%) 802.1X
3 1 (4.35%) IDoc
3 1 (4.35%) JSON
3 1 (4.35%) OAuth
3 1 (4.35%) OAuth2
3 1 (4.35%) Pandas
3 1 (4.35%) PySpark
3 1 (4.35%) RESTful
3 1 (4.35%) SAML
3 1 (4.35%) XML
3 1 (4.35%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Low-Code
1 4 (17.39%) Onboarding
1 4 (17.39%) Security Operations Centre
1 4 (17.39%) Video\Live Streaming
2 3 (13.04%) Algorithms
2 3 (13.04%) Data Centre
2 3 (13.04%) Product Ownership
3 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.35%) CSOC
4 1 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (4.35%) PKI
4 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (21.74%) Windows
2 4 (17.39%) Linux
3 1 (4.35%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) Continuous Improvement
2 8 (34.78%) AI
2 8 (34.78%) Validation
3 7 (30.43%) Generative AI
3 7 (30.43%) Test Automation
4 6 (26.09%) API Design
4 6 (26.09%) CI/CD
4 6 (26.09%) Machine Learning
4 6 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (26.09%) SIEM
4 6 (26.09%) Software Engineering
5 5 (21.74%) Incident Response
5 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (21.74%) Performance Analysis
5 5 (21.74%) Platform Engineering
5 5 (21.74%) Roadmaps
5 5 (21.74%) Service Management
6 4 (17.39%) Full-Stack Development
6 4 (17.39%) Intelligent Automation
6 4 (17.39%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 9 (39.13%) Python
2 4 (17.39%) Go
2 4 (17.39%) PowerShell
3 2 (8.70%) Bash
3 2 (8.70%) C#
3 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
3 2 (8.70%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (8.70%) SQL
3 2 (8.70%) TypeScript
4 1 (4.35%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) GIAC
1 4 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.04%) CompTIA Security+
2 3 (13.04%) CREST Certified
2 3 (13.04%) DV Cleared
3 2 (8.70%) CCNP
3 2 (8.70%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (8.70%) CompTIA CySA+
3 2 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (8.70%) Degree
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.35%) CCNA
4 1 (4.35%) CCNA CyberOps
4 1 (4.35%) CEH
4 1 (4.35%) CISSP
4 1 (4.35%) GCIA
4 1 (4.35%) PMI Certification
4 1 (4.35%) PMP
4 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.35%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (26.09%) SLA
2 3 (13.04%) NIST
2 3 (13.04%) QA
3 2 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (8.70%) NCSC
4 1 (4.35%) Data Quality
4 1 (4.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (4.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.70%) UAG
2 2 (8.70%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 2 (8.70%) vCenter Server
2 1 (4.35%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (4.35%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (47.83%) Microsoft
2 4 (17.39%) Cisco
3 3 (13.04%) IBM
4 2 (8.70%) Becrypt
4 2 (8.70%) ServiceNow
4 2 (8.70%) VMware
5 1 (4.35%) Atlassian
5 1 (4.35%) Callidus
5 1 (4.35%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (4.35%) Fortinet
5 1 (4.35%) Informatica
5 1 (4.35%) Juniper
5 1 (4.35%) MuleSoft
5 1 (4.35%) Okta
5 1 (4.35%) Oracle
5 1 (4.35%) Red Hat
5 1 (4.35%) Salesforce
5 1 (4.35%) SAP
5 1 (4.35%) webMethods