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 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 266 254 378
Rank change year-on-year -12 +124 0
Permanent jobs citing Runbook 17 5 10
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.12% 0.070% 0.061%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.078% 0.073%
Number of salaries quoted 10 2 8
10th Percentile £37,500 - £31,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £67,500 £49,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +9.80% +10.87%
75th Percentile £87,500 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £92,750 - -
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +27.27% -15.38%

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 10,564 6,373 13,778
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 72.75% 89.65% 84.48%
Number of salaries quoted 6,801 3,382 9,882
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -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 2 May 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 2 May 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 +9 10 £62,500 -10.71% 7
Buckinghamshire - 5 £65,000 - 1
Berkshire +8 4 £40,000 - 2
Hampshire - 3 £85,000 - 2
Surrey - 2 - -
West Sussex - 2 £70,000 - 1
Oxfordshire -12 1 - - 4
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 (11.76%) Gentran
2 1 (5.88%) Apache
2 1 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (5.88%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.88%) Confluence
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) AWS
1 4 (23.53%) Entra ID
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (17.65%) Azure
3 2 (11.76%) IaaS
3 2 (11.76%) PaaS
3 2 (11.76%) SaaS
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.88%) iPaaS
4 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
4 1 (5.88%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) Broadband
1 3 (17.65%) DNS
2 2 (11.76%) DHCP
3 1 (5.88%) DKIM
3 1 (5.88%) DMARC
3 1 (5.88%) Junos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) MongoDB
1 3 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.88%) Apache Hive
2 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.88%) Impala
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle Database
2 1 (5.88%) Parquet
2 1 (5.88%) Spark SQL
2 1 (5.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 4 (23.53%) Finance
1 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Games
3 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Senior
2 3 (17.65%) Lead
2 3 (17.65%) SOC Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) CloudOps Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) EDI Specialist
3 2 (11.76%) Onboarding Specialist
3 2 (11.76%) Operations Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior CloudOps Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Operations Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) IT Systems Administrator
4 1 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Python Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) EDI
1 3 (17.65%) REST
2 2 (11.76%) OpenID
3 1 (5.88%) IDoc
3 1 (5.88%) JSON
3 1 (5.88%) OAuth
3 1 (5.88%) OAuth2
3 1 (5.88%) Pandas
3 1 (5.88%) PySpark
3 1 (5.88%) SAML
3 1 (5.88%) XML
3 1 (5.88%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Algorithms
1 3 (17.65%) Low-Code
1 3 (17.65%) Product Ownership
1 3 (17.65%) Security Operations Centre
1 3 (17.65%) Video\Live Streaming
2 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.76%) Data Centre
2 2 (11.76%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Linux
1 3 (17.65%) Windows
2 1 (5.88%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (29.41%) AI
2 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (29.41%) Service Management
3 4 (23.53%) CI/CD
3 4 (23.53%) Generative AI
3 4 (23.53%) ITIL
3 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (23.53%) Requirements Gathering
3 4 (23.53%) Test Automation
3 4 (23.53%) Validation
4 3 (17.65%) Change Control
4 3 (17.65%) Machine Learning
4 3 (17.65%) Performance Analysis
4 3 (17.65%) Performance Management
4 3 (17.65%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (17.65%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (17.65%) SIEM
4 3 (17.65%) Software Engineering
4 3 (17.65%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) Python
2 3 (17.65%) Go
2 3 (17.65%) PowerShell
3 2 (11.76%) Bicep
3 2 (11.76%) SQL
4 1 (5.88%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) CREST Certified
1 3 (17.65%) DV Cleared
1 3 (17.65%) GIAC
1 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) PMI Certification
2 1 (5.88%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (29.41%) SLA
2 3 (17.65%) QA
3 2 (11.76%) NCSC
3 2 (11.76%) NIST
4 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
4 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (5.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (5.88%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.76%) Docker
2 2 (11.76%) UAG
2 2 (11.76%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
1 2 (11.76%) Terraform
1 2 (11.76%) vCenter Server
2 1 (5.88%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (47.06%) Microsoft
2 3 (17.65%) IBM
3 2 (11.76%) Becrypt
3 2 (11.76%) Cisco
3 2 (11.76%) ServiceNow
3 2 (11.76%) VMware
4 1 (5.88%) Atlassian
4 1 (5.88%) Callidus
4 1 (5.88%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (5.88%) Informatica
4 1 (5.88%) Juniper
4 1 (5.88%) MuleSoft
4 1 (5.88%) Okta
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle
4 1 (5.88%) Red Hat
4 1 (5.88%) Salesforce
4 1 (5.88%) SAP
4 1 (5.88%) webMethods