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 21 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 269 293 299
Rank change year-on-year +24 +6 +77
Permanent jobs citing Runbook 5 4 5
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.047% 0.045% 0.049%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.059% 0.051% 0.057%
Number of salaries quoted 4 4 5
10th Percentile £57,750 - £42,750
25th Percentile £65,625 £46,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £58,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.15% -9.62% +15.56%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,000 - £77,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £53,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year +30.23% -10.42% -8.54%

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 8,445 7,889 8,841
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 79.84% 88.40% 87.35%
Number of salaries quoted 5,084 3,707 6,382
10th Percentile £27,750 £32,750 £28,865
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £58,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% +11.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £65,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%

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 21 January 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 21 January 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 3 £72,500 +3.57% 15
West Sussex - 2 £70,000 - 4
Buckinghamshire - 2 £90,000 - 4
Oxfordshire +10 1 £55,000 -21.43% 2
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) AWS
3 2 (40.00%) IaaS
3 2 (40.00%) PaaS
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (20.00%) Testinfra
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) CloudOps Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Operations Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior CloudOps Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Operations Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Linux Systems Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Security Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (40.00%) BCP
3 2 (40.00%) Cloud Operations
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 2 (40.00%) FinOps
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) RBAC
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Logistics
4 1 (20.00%) Refactoring
4 1 (20.00%) Scrum
4 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Bicep
2 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (40.00%) Ansible
2 2 (40.00%) Terraform
3 1 (20.00%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (20.00%) Packer
3 1 (20.00%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Qualys
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk
2 1 (20.00%) Tenable
2 1 (20.00%) VMware