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 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 276 270 321
Rank change year-on-year -6 +51 -43
Permanent jobs citing Runbook 62 20 10
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.33% 0.22% 0.082%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.25% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 44 6 9
10th Percentile - £61,250 £43,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £70,313 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £73,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.81% +47.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £63,125 £75,000 -
90th Percentile £77,700 £82,500 £53,000
England median annual salary £60,343 £67,192 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.19% +34.38% -21.57%

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 13,686 7,872 9,955
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 72.41% 88.19% 81.66%
Number of salaries quoted 9,725 4,263 5,216
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.32%

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 12 October 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 12 October 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 -13 23 £52,500 -30.00% 43
Hampshire - 22 £60,000 - 16
Surrey - 13 £50,000 - 15
Berkshire +4 11 £52,500 - 18
Buckinghamshire -2 8 £53,750 -28.33% 18
Oxfordshire -35 4 £57,500 +4.55% 7
West Sussex -25 3 £82,500 +13.79% 6
Kent - 1 - - 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 7 (11.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.61%) Confluence
2 1 (1.61%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (11.29%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (4.84%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 30 (48.39%) AWS
2 29 (46.77%) Azure
3 17 (27.42%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (19.35%) Entra ID
5 9 (14.52%) Azure Logic Apps
6 7 (11.29%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (6.45%) Power Automate
7 4 (6.45%) SaaS
8 3 (4.84%) GCP
9 2 (3.23%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (3.23%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.61%) GitHub
10 1 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.61%) IaaS
10 1 (1.61%) PaaS
10 1 (1.61%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 10 (16.13%) DNS
2 9 (14.52%) HTTP
3 8 (12.90%) Firewall
4 7 (11.29%) TCP/IP
5 4 (6.45%) DHCP
6 3 (4.84%) VPN
7 2 (3.23%) VLAN
8 1 (1.61%) BGP
8 1 (1.61%) Broadband
8 1 (1.61%) DKIM
8 1 (1.61%) DMARC
8 1 (1.61%) IPsec
8 1 (1.61%) LAN
8 1 (1.61%) Network Security
8 1 (1.61%) SD-WAN
8 1 (1.61%) SNMP
8 1 (1.61%) SSL
8 1 (1.61%) Structured Cabling
8 1 (1.61%) WAN
8 1 (1.61%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.52%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (3.23%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (3.23%) GIS
3 1 (1.61%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (14.52%) Gatling
1 9 (14.52%) JMeter
1 9 (14.52%) LoadRunner
2 8 (12.90%) JIRA
General
1 18 (29.03%) Social Skills
2 12 (19.35%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (19.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 10 (16.13%) Public Sector
4 7 (11.29%) Aerospace
4 7 (11.29%) Aviation
4 7 (11.29%) Military
5 4 (6.45%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (6.45%) Finance
6 2 (3.23%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.61%) Digital Health
7 1 (1.61%) Games
Job Titles
1 17 (27.42%) Lead
1 17 (27.42%) Senior
2 11 (17.74%) Analyst
3 9 (14.52%) Performance Tester
3 9 (14.52%) Tester
4 7 (11.29%) Administrator
4 7 (11.29%) Senior Performance Tester
4 7 (11.29%) Senior Tester
5 6 (9.68%) Senior Windows Administrator
5 6 (9.68%) Server Administrator
5 6 (9.68%) SOC Analyst
5 6 (9.68%) Windows Administrator
5 6 (9.68%) Windows Server Administrator
6 5 (8.06%) Security Analyst
6 5 (8.06%) SOC Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Applications Support Specialist
7 3 (4.84%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (4.84%) Senior Security Analyst
7 3 (4.84%) Service Desk Manager
7 3 (4.84%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.84%) Terraform
2 2 (3.23%) OpenID
2 2 (3.23%) SAML
3 1 (1.61%) 802.1X
3 1 (1.61%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.61%) LDAP
3 1 (1.61%) OAuth
3 1 (1.61%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.61%) RESTful
3 1 (1.61%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 15 (24.19%) Onboarding
2 12 (19.35%) Management Information System
3 11 (17.74%) Data Centre
4 10 (16.13%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (12.90%) Security Operations Centre
6 7 (11.29%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (11.29%) PMI
6 7 (11.29%) Private Cloud
7 6 (9.68%) Replication
8 5 (8.06%) CSOC
9 4 (6.45%) Cloud Native
10 3 (4.84%) IVR
10 3 (4.84%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (4.84%) Social Media
11 2 (3.23%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 1 (1.61%) Cyber Defence
12 1 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
12 1 (1.61%) Low-Code
12 1 (1.61%) PKI
12 1 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (24.19%) Windows
2 12 (19.35%) Linux
3 6 (9.68%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.61%) CentOS
4 1 (1.61%) macOS
4 1 (1.61%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (33.87%) Continuous Improvement
2 17 (27.42%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (27.42%) Service Management
3 16 (25.81%) Agile
3 16 (25.81%) SIEM
4 15 (24.19%) ITIL
4 15 (24.19%) ITSM
4 15 (24.19%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 15 (24.19%) Roadmaps
4 15 (24.19%) Stakeholder Management
5 14 (22.58%) CI/CD
5 14 (22.58%) Incident Response
5 14 (22.58%) Validation
6 13 (20.97%) Service Delivery
7 12 (19.35%) Knowledge Transfer
8 11 (17.74%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (17.74%) Technical Leadership
9 10 (16.13%) Change Control
9 10 (16.13%) Change Management
9 10 (16.13%) Resource Allocation
Programming Languages
1 17 (27.42%) PowerShell
2 15 (24.19%) Kusto Query Language
2 15 (24.19%) Python
3 7 (11.29%) Bash
4 3 (4.84%) Ruby
4 3 (4.84%) SQL
5 2 (3.23%) C#
5 2 (3.23%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.23%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.61%) Bicep
6 1 (1.61%) Go
6 1 (1.61%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 27 (43.55%) Security Cleared
2 20 (32.26%) SC Cleared
3 14 (22.58%) CompTIA Security+
3 14 (22.58%) DV Cleared
4 10 (16.13%) Degree
5 8 (12.90%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (12.90%) PMI Certification
6 7 (11.29%) CISSP
6 7 (11.29%) TOGAF Certification
7 6 (9.68%) CompTIA CySA+
8 5 (8.06%) CCNA CyberOps
8 5 (8.06%) CEH
8 5 (8.06%) GCIA
8 5 (8.06%) GIAC
9 3 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (4.84%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (3.23%) CCNP
10 2 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (3.23%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (16.13%) QA
2 7 (11.29%) NIST
3 6 (9.68%) SLA
4 5 (8.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (4.84%) GDPR
6 2 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (3.23%) NCSC
7 1 (1.61%) Accessibility
7 1 (1.61%) PCI DSS
7 1 (1.61%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (16.13%) Active Directory
2 8 (12.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (9.68%) Hyper-V
4 2 (3.23%) UAG
4 2 (3.23%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.61%) Docker
5 1 (1.61%) LXC
Systems Management
1 12 (19.35%) Grafana
2 9 (14.52%) Kibana
3 6 (9.68%) SCCM
3 6 (9.68%) ZABBIX
4 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (4.84%) Nagios
4 3 (4.84%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (3.23%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.61%) Ansible
6 1 (1.61%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (1.61%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (1.61%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.61%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.61%) Puppet
6 1 (1.61%) QRadar
6 1 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (41.94%) Microsoft
2 11 (17.74%) Dynatrace
3 10 (16.13%) ServiceNow
4 9 (14.52%) AppDynamics
4 9 (14.52%) SAP
5 8 (12.90%) Cisco
5 8 (12.90%) VMware
6 7 (11.29%) Oracle
7 6 (9.68%) Citrix
7 6 (9.68%) Thycotic
8 5 (8.06%) Fortinet
9 3 (4.84%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (4.84%) Splunk
10 2 (3.23%) Alteryx
10 2 (3.23%) Becrypt
10 2 (3.23%) Blue Prism
10 2 (3.23%) Darktrace
10 2 (3.23%) Foundry
10 2 (3.23%) Workday
11 1 (1.61%) Okta