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 1 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 263 301 267
Rank change year-on-year +38 -34 +156
Permanent jobs citing Runbook 20 9 5
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.22% 0.079% 0.064%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.097% 0.069%
Number of salaries quoted 6 8 5
10th Percentile £61,250 £42,125 £46,450
25th Percentile £70,313 £46,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £48,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +51.28% -7.14% +0.96%
75th Percentile £75,000 £50,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £50,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £69,692 £50,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +39.38% -23.08% -

All Process and 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 7,862 9,235 7,290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 87.48% 81.41% 93.32%
Number of salaries quoted 4,435 4,838 5,075
10th Percentile £27,000 £32,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,750 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 1 November 2025.

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 1 November 2025. 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 +27 19 £75,000 +50.00% 7
Berkshire +14 13 - - 7
Buckinghamshire - 5 £75,000 -
Oxfordshire - 1 £55,000 -
West Sussex - 1 £72,500 - 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 19 (95.00%) AWS
1 19 (95.00%) Azure
2 14 (70.00%) Azure Monitor
3 13 (65.00%) GCP
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Firewall
1 1 (5.00%) Network Security
1 1 (5.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (20.00%) GitLab
2 4 (20.00%) SonarQube
3 3 (15.00%) Git
4 1 (5.00%) Testinfra
General
1 19 (95.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (65.00%) Finance
2 13 (65.00%) Law
2 13 (65.00%) Legal
3 1 (5.00%) Aerospace
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 14 (70.00%) Senior
2 13 (65.00%) Senior Manager
3 4 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Linux Systems Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Security Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Site Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (65.00%) Hugging Face
1 13 (65.00%) LangChain
1 13 (65.00%) PyTorch
1 13 (65.00%) TensorFlow
2 1 (5.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Linux
2 4 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (70.00%) Incident Management
1 14 (70.00%) ITIL
1 14 (70.00%) Roadmaps
2 13 (65.00%) Cloud Security
2 13 (65.00%) Computer Science
2 13 (65.00%) Cost Transparency
2 13 (65.00%) Data Science
2 13 (65.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 13 (65.00%) Generative AI
2 13 (65.00%) High Availability
2 13 (65.00%) LLM
2 13 (65.00%) MLOps
2 13 (65.00%) ModelOps
2 13 (65.00%) Observability
2 13 (65.00%) Performance Tuning
2 13 (65.00%) Platform Engineering
2 13 (65.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 13 (65.00%) Problem Management
2 13 (65.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 13 (65.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (5.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 13 (65.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 13 (65.00%) Degree
1 13 (65.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.00%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Docker
1 4 (20.00%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 13 (65.00%) Grafana
1 13 (65.00%) Prometheus
2 5 (25.00%) Ansible
3 4 (20.00%) Docker Swarm
3 4 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (20.00%) Rundeck
4 1 (5.00%) Packer
Vendors
1 13 (65.00%) OpenAI
2 4 (20.00%) VMware
3 1 (5.00%) Qualys
3 1 (5.00%) Splunk
3 1 (5.00%) Tenable