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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 286 272 339
Rank change year-on-year -14 +67 +8
Permanent jobs citing Runbook 43 21 10
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.26% 0.24% 0.069%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.27% 0.085%
Number of salaries quoted 27 4 7
10th Percentile £46,250 £70,375 £40,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £70,938 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £73,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.42% +47.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £51,250
90th Percentile £85,600 - £53,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +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 11,816 7,661 11,764
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.75% 88.27% 80.95%
Number of salaries quoted 8,429 4,086 7,871
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £29,175
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,000 £38,742
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,047
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -0.09% -9.01%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,125
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,920 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.30% +1.67% -11.29%

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 31 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 31 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 -1 21 £52,500 -30.00% 13
Hampshire - 12 £60,000 - 8
Berkshire +13 11 £52,500 - 3
Buckinghamshire -7 8 £60,000 -20.00% 5
Surrey - 8 £50,000 - 1
Oxfordshire - 2 £55,000 - 5
West Sussex -18 1 £65,000 -10.34% 3
Kent - 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 4 (9.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.65%) Gentran
3 1 (2.33%) Apache
3 1 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.33%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.33%) Confluence
3 1 (2.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (4.65%) Chatbot
3 1 (2.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 18 (41.86%) AWS
2 16 (37.21%) Azure
3 14 (32.56%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (23.26%) Entra ID
5 4 (9.30%) Azure Logic Apps
5 4 (9.30%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (6.98%) GCP
6 3 (6.98%) SaaS
7 1 (2.33%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.33%) IaaS
7 1 (2.33%) iPaaS
7 1 (2.33%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.33%) PaaS
7 1 (2.33%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 9 (20.93%) DNS
2 6 (13.95%) Firewall
2 6 (13.95%) TCP/IP
3 4 (9.30%) Broadband
3 4 (9.30%) DHCP
4 3 (6.98%) VPN
5 2 (4.65%) HTTP
6 1 (2.33%) BGP
6 1 (2.33%) DKIM
6 1 (2.33%) DMARC
6 1 (2.33%) IPsec
6 1 (2.33%) Junos
6 1 (2.33%) LAN
6 1 (2.33%) Network Security
6 1 (2.33%) SD-WAN
6 1 (2.33%) SNMP
6 1 (2.33%) SSL
6 1 (2.33%) VLAN
6 1 (2.33%) WAN
6 1 (2.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.30%) MongoDB
1 4 (9.30%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.65%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.33%) Apache Hive
3 1 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.33%) Impala
3 1 (2.33%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.33%) Parquet
3 1 (2.33%) Spark SQL
3 1 (2.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (13.95%) JIRA
2 2 (4.65%) Gatling
2 2 (4.65%) JMeter
2 2 (4.65%) LoadRunner
3 1 (2.33%) Git
3 1 (2.33%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 8 (18.60%) Social Skills
2 7 (16.28%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (13.95%) Finance
4 4 (9.30%) Games
4 4 (9.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (6.98%) Aerospace
5 3 (6.98%) Aviation
5 3 (6.98%) Military
5 3 (6.98%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.65%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.33%) Banking
7 1 (2.33%) Digital Health
7 1 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (25.58%) Senior
2 9 (20.93%) Analyst
2 9 (20.93%) Lead
3 5 (11.63%) SOC Analyst
4 4 (9.30%) Administrator
4 4 (9.30%) SOC Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Architect
5 3 (6.98%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 3 (6.98%) Network Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Security Analyst
5 3 (6.98%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (6.98%) Senior Security Analyst
5 3 (6.98%) Senior Windows Administrator
5 3 (6.98%) Server Administrator
5 3 (6.98%) Windows Administrator
5 3 (6.98%) Windows Server Administrator
6 2 (4.65%) EDI Specialist
6 2 (4.65%) Platform Architect
6 2 (4.65%) Principal Architect
6 2 (4.65%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.98%) EDI
1 3 (6.98%) REST
2 2 (4.65%) OpenID
3 1 (2.33%) 802.1X
3 1 (2.33%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.33%) IDoc
3 1 (2.33%) JSON
3 1 (2.33%) OAuth
3 1 (2.33%) OAuth2
3 1 (2.33%) Pandas
3 1 (2.33%) PySpark
3 1 (2.33%) RESTful
3 1 (2.33%) SAML
3 1 (2.33%) XML
3 1 (2.33%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 10 (23.26%) Onboarding
2 7 (16.28%) Security Operations Centre
3 6 (13.95%) Data Centre
4 5 (11.63%) Management Information System
5 4 (9.30%) CSOC
5 4 (9.30%) Low-Code
5 4 (9.30%) Video\Live Streaming
6 3 (6.98%) Algorithms
6 3 (6.98%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (6.98%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (6.98%) PMI
6 3 (6.98%) Private Cloud
6 3 (6.98%) Product Ownership
6 3 (6.98%) Replication
7 2 (4.65%) Cloud Native
7 2 (4.65%) IVR
7 2 (4.65%) Social Media
8 1 (2.33%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (2.33%) PKI
8 1 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (25.58%) Windows
2 7 (16.28%) Linux
3 3 (6.98%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (34.88%) SIEM
2 14 (32.56%) Continuous Improvement
3 12 (27.91%) Incident Response
4 11 (25.58%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 11 (25.58%) Service Management
4 11 (25.58%) Validation
5 10 (23.26%) AI
5 10 (23.26%) Roadmaps
6 9 (20.93%) ITIL
6 9 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (18.60%) Change Management
7 8 (18.60%) CI/CD
7 8 (18.60%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (16.28%) Agile
8 7 (16.28%) Generative AI
8 7 (16.28%) Root Cause Analysis
8 7 (16.28%) Security Operations
8 7 (16.28%) Service Delivery
8 7 (16.28%) Test Automation
9 6 (13.95%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 13 (30.23%) PowerShell
2 12 (27.91%) Python
3 11 (25.58%) Kusto Query Language
4 5 (11.63%) Bash
5 4 (9.30%) Go
6 3 (6.98%) Ruby
7 2 (4.65%) C#
7 2 (4.65%) JavaScript
7 2 (4.65%) SQL
7 2 (4.65%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.33%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 15 (34.88%) Security Cleared
2 12 (27.91%) CompTIA Security+
3 10 (23.26%) SC Cleared
4 8 (18.60%) DV Cleared
5 6 (13.95%) Degree
5 6 (13.95%) GIAC
6 5 (11.63%) CompTIA CySA+
7 4 (9.30%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (9.30%) CCNA CyberOps
7 4 (9.30%) CEH
7 4 (9.30%) CISSP
7 4 (9.30%) GCIA
7 4 (9.30%) PMI Certification
8 3 (6.98%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (6.98%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (4.65%) CCNP
9 2 (4.65%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (4.65%) CREST Certified
9 2 (4.65%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (2.33%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (18.60%) QA
2 7 (16.28%) SLA
3 4 (9.30%) NIST
4 2 (4.65%) GDPR
4 2 (4.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (4.65%) NCSC
5 1 (2.33%) Accessibility
5 1 (2.33%) Data Quality
5 1 (2.33%) PCI DSS
5 1 (2.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (2.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (13.95%) Active Directory
2 5 (11.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (6.98%) Hyper-V
4 2 (4.65%) UAG
4 2 (4.65%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (6.98%) SCCM
1 3 (6.98%) ZABBIX
2 2 (4.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (4.65%) Grafana
2 2 (4.65%) Kibana
2 2 (4.65%) vCenter Server
3 1 (2.33%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (2.33%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (2.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.33%) QRadar
3 1 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (2.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (46.51%) Microsoft
2 7 (16.28%) Cisco
3 5 (11.63%) ServiceNow
3 5 (11.63%) VMware
4 4 (9.30%) Fortinet
4 4 (9.30%) IBM
4 4 (9.30%) Oracle
4 4 (9.30%) SAP
5 3 (6.98%) Citrix
5 3 (6.98%) Thycotic
6 2 (4.65%) AppDynamics
6 2 (4.65%) Becrypt
6 2 (4.65%) Dynatrace
6 2 (4.65%) Salesforce
7 1 (2.33%) Atlassian
7 1 (2.33%) Callidus
7 1 (2.33%) LogRhythm
7 1 (2.33%) MuleSoft
7 1 (2.33%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.33%) webMethods