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 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 295 269 370
Rank change year-on-year -26 +101 -31
Permanent jobs citing Runbook 30 19 17
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.19% 0.22% 0.099%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.25% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 20 3 14
10th Percentile £42,000 £72,000 £31,625
25th Percentile £48,750 £73,125 £46,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £75,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +50.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £72,500 - £69,688
90th Percentile £92,500 - £70,000
England median annual salary £70,400 £70,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.57% +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 11,202 7,527 14,106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 72.03% 88.79% 81.74%
Number of salaries quoted 7,965 3,936 9,868
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,938 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £80,000
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 9 July 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 9 July 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 17 £55,000 -26.67% 21
Berkshire -2 8 £52,500 - 11
Buckinghamshire -4 7 £65,000 -13.33% 4
Surrey - 6 £81,000 - 1
Hampshire - 5 £72,500 - 5
West Sussex -20 2 £67,500 -6.90% 1
Oxfordshire - 2 £55,000 - 6
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 (6.67%) Gentran
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.33%) Apache
2 1 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.33%) Confluence
2 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (36.67%) AWS
2 10 (33.33%) Azure
2 10 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (26.67%) Entra ID
4 3 (10.00%) GCP
5 2 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (6.67%) IaaS
5 2 (6.67%) PaaS
5 2 (6.67%) SaaS
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.33%) iPaaS
6 1 (3.33%) OpenShift
6 1 (3.33%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 7 (23.33%) DNS
2 4 (13.33%) Broadband
2 4 (13.33%) DHCP
2 4 (13.33%) Firewall
2 4 (13.33%) TCP/IP
3 3 (10.00%) VPN
4 1 (3.33%) BGP
4 1 (3.33%) DKIM
4 1 (3.33%) DMARC
4 1 (3.33%) IPsec
4 1 (3.33%) Junos
4 1 (3.33%) LAN
4 1 (3.33%) Network Security
4 1 (3.33%) SD-WAN
4 1 (3.33%) SNMP
4 1 (3.33%) SSL
4 1 (3.33%) VLAN
4 1 (3.33%) WAN
4 1 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.33%) MongoDB
1 4 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.33%) Apache Hive
2 1 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.33%) Impala
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle Database
2 1 (3.33%) Parquet
2 1 (3.33%) Spark SQL
2 1 (3.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (3.33%) Git
2 1 (3.33%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 6 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.67%) Finance
3 4 (13.33%) Games
4 3 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Banking
6 1 (3.33%) Digital Health
6 1 (3.33%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (20.00%) Analyst
1 6 (20.00%) Senior
2 5 (16.67%) Lead
3 4 (13.33%) SOC Analyst
4 3 (10.00%) Architect
4 3 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 3 (10.00%) Network Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) SOC Manager
5 2 (6.67%) Administrator
5 2 (6.67%) CloudOps Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Developer
5 2 (6.67%) EDI Specialist
5 2 (6.67%) Onboarding Specialist
5 2 (6.67%) Operations Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Platform Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Principal Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Python Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Operations Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) SOC Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.00%) EDI
1 3 (10.00%) REST
2 2 (6.67%) OpenID
3 1 (3.33%) 802.1X
3 1 (3.33%) ARM Templates
3 1 (3.33%) IDoc
3 1 (3.33%) JSON
3 1 (3.33%) OAuth
3 1 (3.33%) OAuth2
3 1 (3.33%) Pandas
3 1 (3.33%) PySpark
3 1 (3.33%) RESTful
3 1 (3.33%) SAML
3 1 (3.33%) XML
3 1 (3.33%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 4 (13.33%) Low-Code
2 4 (13.33%) Onboarding
2 4 (13.33%) Video\Live Streaming
3 3 (10.00%) Algorithms
3 3 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 3 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 3 (10.00%) Product Ownership
4 2 (6.67%) CSOC
5 1 (3.33%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.33%) PKI
5 1 (3.33%) Replication
5 1 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (23.33%) Windows
2 5 (16.67%) Linux
3 1 (3.33%) Mac OS
3 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 11 (36.67%) SIEM
3 9 (30.00%) Incident Response
4 8 (26.67%) AI
4 8 (26.67%) Validation
5 7 (23.33%) CI/CD
5 7 (23.33%) Generative AI
5 7 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (23.33%) Test Automation
6 6 (20.00%) API Design
6 6 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (20.00%) Machine Learning
6 6 (20.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 6 (20.00%) Roadmaps
6 6 (20.00%) Security Operations
6 6 (20.00%) Software Engineering
7 5 (16.67%) Performance Analysis
7 5 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
7 5 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
7 5 (16.67%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (36.67%) Python
2 9 (30.00%) PowerShell
3 6 (20.00%) Kusto Query Language
4 4 (13.33%) Go
5 3 (10.00%) Bash
6 2 (6.67%) Bicep
6 2 (6.67%) C#
6 2 (6.67%) JavaScript
6 2 (6.67%) SQL
6 2 (6.67%) TypeScript
7 1 (3.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 7 (23.33%) CompTIA Security+
2 6 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 5 (16.67%) GIAC
4 3 (10.00%) CompTIA CySA+
4 3 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (10.00%) CREST Certified
4 3 (10.00%) Degree
4 3 (10.00%) DV Cleared
4 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared
5 2 (6.67%) CCNA CyberOps
5 2 (6.67%) CCNP
5 2 (6.67%) CEH
5 2 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (6.67%) CISSP
5 2 (6.67%) GCIA
6 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (3.33%) CCNA
6 1 (3.33%) PMI Certification
6 1 (3.33%) PMP
6 1 (3.33%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.00%) SLA
2 4 (13.33%) NIST
3 3 (10.00%) QA
4 2 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (6.67%) NCSC
5 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
5 1 (3.33%) PCI DSS
5 1 (3.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (3.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (13.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (6.67%) Docker
3 2 (6.67%) UAG
3 2 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (3.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 2 (6.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (6.67%) Terraform
1 2 (6.67%) vCenter Server
2 1 (3.33%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (3.33%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.33%) QRadar
2 1 (3.33%) SCCM
2 1 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (3.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 17 (56.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (16.67%) Cisco
3 4 (13.33%) IBM
4 3 (10.00%) VMware
5 2 (6.67%) Becrypt
5 2 (6.67%) Fortinet
5 2 (6.67%) ServiceNow
6 1 (3.33%) Atlassian
6 1 (3.33%) Callidus
6 1 (3.33%) Citrix
6 1 (3.33%) Google
6 1 (3.33%) Informatica
6 1 (3.33%) Juniper
6 1 (3.33%) LogRhythm
6 1 (3.33%) MuleSoft
6 1 (3.33%) Palo Alto
6 1 (3.33%) Red Hat
6 1 (3.33%) Salesforce
6 1 (3.33%) Thycotic
6 1 (3.33%) webMethods