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 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 285 274 329
Rank change year-on-year -11 +55 -30
Permanent jobs citing Runbook 57 22 12
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.30% 0.25% 0.093%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.28% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 40 5 9
10th Percentile - £70,500 £43,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £71,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £75,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +50.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 - -
90th Percentile £81,275 £84,000 £53,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £72,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.79% +45.00% -25.93%

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 13,452 7,853 10,495
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.86% 87.93% 81.05%
Number of salaries quoted 9,582 4,211 5,842
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,500 £41,024
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £69,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -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 20 September 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 20 September 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 -4 22 £52,500 -30.00% 32
Hampshire - 20 £60,000 - 12
Berkshire +8 12 £52,500 - 12
Surrey - 12 £50,000 - 12
Buckinghamshire 0 7 £55,000 -26.67% 10
Oxfordshire - 3 £57,500 - 10
West Sussex -17 2 £73,750 +1.72% 8
Kent - 1 - - 3
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 5 (8.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.51%) Gentran
3 1 (1.75%) Confluence
3 1 (1.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (12.28%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (5.26%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 27 (47.37%) AWS
2 24 (42.11%) Azure
3 17 (29.82%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (19.30%) Entra ID
5 7 (12.28%) Azure Logic Apps
6 6 (10.53%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (7.02%) SaaS
8 3 (5.26%) GCP
9 2 (3.51%) Power Automate
10 1 (1.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.75%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (1.75%) GitHub
10 1 (1.75%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.75%) IaaS
10 1 (1.75%) iPaaS
10 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (1.75%) PaaS
10 1 (1.75%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.75%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 10 (17.54%) DNS
2 8 (14.04%) HTTP
3 7 (12.28%) Firewall
3 7 (12.28%) TCP/IP
4 4 (7.02%) DHCP
5 3 (5.26%) VPN
6 1 (1.75%) BGP
6 1 (1.75%) Broadband
6 1 (1.75%) DKIM
6 1 (1.75%) DMARC
6 1 (1.75%) IPsec
6 1 (1.75%) LAN
6 1 (1.75%) Network Security
6 1 (1.75%) SD-WAN
6 1 (1.75%) SNMP
6 1 (1.75%) SSL
6 1 (1.75%) VLAN
6 1 (1.75%) WAN
6 1 (1.75%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.04%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.75%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.75%) GIS
2 1 (1.75%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (17.54%) JIRA
2 8 (14.04%) Gatling
2 8 (14.04%) JMeter
2 8 (14.04%) LoadRunner
General
1 16 (28.07%) Social Skills
2 11 (19.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 10 (17.54%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (15.79%) Public Sector
5 7 (12.28%) Aerospace
5 7 (12.28%) Aviation
5 7 (12.28%) Military
6 6 (10.53%) Finance
7 2 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.75%) Digital Health
8 1 (1.75%) Games
8 1 (1.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (31.58%) Lead
2 14 (24.56%) Senior
3 10 (17.54%) Analyst
4 8 (14.04%) Performance Tester
4 8 (14.04%) Tester
5 6 (10.53%) Senior Performance Tester
5 6 (10.53%) Senior Tester
5 6 (10.53%) SOC Analyst
6 5 (8.77%) Administrator
6 5 (8.77%) SOC Engineer
7 4 (7.02%) Security Analyst
7 4 (7.02%) Senior Windows Administrator
7 4 (7.02%) Server Administrator
7 4 (7.02%) Windows Administrator
7 4 (7.02%) Windows Server Administrator
8 3 (5.26%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (5.26%) Senior Security Analyst
8 3 (5.26%) Service Desk Manager
8 3 (5.26%) Service Manager
9 2 (3.51%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.26%) EDI
2 2 (3.51%) OpenID
2 2 (3.51%) Terraform
3 1 (1.75%) 802.1X
3 1 (1.75%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.75%) IDoc
3 1 (1.75%) JSON
3 1 (1.75%) OAuth
3 1 (1.75%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.75%) RESTful
3 1 (1.75%) SAML
3 1 (1.75%) XML
3 1 (1.75%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 16 (28.07%) Onboarding
2 11 (19.30%) Management Information System
3 10 (17.54%) Data Centre
4 9 (15.79%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (14.04%) Security Operations Centre
6 7 (12.28%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (12.28%) PMI
6 7 (12.28%) Private Cloud
7 5 (8.77%) CSOC
8 4 (7.02%) Replication
9 3 (5.26%) Cloud Native
9 3 (5.26%) IVR
9 3 (5.26%) Social Media
10 1 (1.75%) Cyber Defence
10 1 (1.75%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 1 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (1.75%) Low-Code
10 1 (1.75%) PKI
10 1 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (1.75%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 13 (22.81%) Windows
2 8 (14.04%) Linux
3 4 (7.02%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.75%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (33.33%) Service Management
2 18 (31.58%) Continuous Improvement
3 17 (29.82%) SIEM
4 16 (28.07%) ITIL
5 15 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (24.56%) Agile
6 14 (24.56%) CI/CD
6 14 (24.56%) ITSM
6 14 (24.56%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 14 (24.56%) Roadmaps
6 14 (24.56%) Stakeholder Management
7 13 (22.81%) Incident Response
7 13 (22.81%) Service Delivery
8 12 (21.05%) Validation
9 11 (19.30%) Knowledge Transfer
10 10 (17.54%) ERP
10 10 (17.54%) Infrastructure as Code
10 10 (17.54%) Resource Allocation
10 10 (17.54%) Technical Leadership
11 9 (15.79%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 16 (28.07%) PowerShell
2 14 (24.56%) Kusto Query Language
3 11 (19.30%) Python
4 7 (12.28%) Bash
5 3 (5.26%) Ruby
6 2 (3.51%) C#
6 2 (3.51%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.51%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.75%) Bicep
7 1 (1.75%) Go
7 1 (1.75%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.75%) SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (45.61%) Security Cleared
2 19 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 14 (24.56%) CompTIA Security+
3 14 (24.56%) DV Cleared
4 10 (17.54%) Degree
5 9 (15.79%) PMI Certification
6 8 (14.04%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (12.28%) TOGAF Certification
8 6 (10.53%) CISSP
8 6 (10.53%) CompTIA CySA+
8 6 (10.53%) GIAC
9 5 (8.77%) CCNA CyberOps
9 5 (8.77%) CEH
9 5 (8.77%) GCIA
10 3 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (5.26%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (3.51%) CCNP
11 2 (3.51%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (3.51%) PMP
12 1 (1.75%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (17.54%) QA
2 7 (12.28%) SLA
3 5 (8.77%) NIST
4 3 (5.26%) GDPR
4 3 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (3.51%) NCSC
6 1 (1.75%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.75%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (1.75%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (12.28%) Active Directory
2 6 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (7.02%) Hyper-V
4 2 (3.51%) UAG
4 2 (3.51%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (14.04%) Grafana
1 8 (14.04%) Kibana
2 4 (7.02%) SCCM
2 4 (7.02%) ZABBIX
3 2 (3.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (3.51%) vCenter Server
4 1 (1.75%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (1.75%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (1.75%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.75%) QRadar
4 1 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (42.11%) Microsoft
2 11 (19.30%) ServiceNow
3 9 (15.79%) Dynatrace
3 9 (15.79%) SAP
4 8 (14.04%) AppDynamics
4 8 (14.04%) Cisco
5 7 (12.28%) Oracle
6 6 (10.53%) VMware
7 5 (8.77%) Fortinet
8 4 (7.02%) Citrix
8 4 (7.02%) IBM
8 4 (7.02%) Thycotic
9 2 (3.51%) Becrypt
9 2 (3.51%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (3.51%) Salesforce
9 2 (3.51%) Splunk
10 1 (1.75%) Callidus
10 1 (1.75%) LogRhythm
10 1 (1.75%) New Relic
10 1 (1.75%) Palo Alto