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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 281 260 347
Rank change year-on-year -21 +87 -2
Permanent jobs citing Runbook 39 21 13
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.24% 0.24% 0.087%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.28% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 28 4 10
10th Percentile £46,875 £70,375 £44,875
25th Percentile £48,750 £70,938 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £73,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.42% +47.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,625 £75,000 £65,313
90th Percentile £84,450 - £70,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £50,570
% change year-on-year -7.14% +38.42% -22.20%

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 11,540 7,594 12,210
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.78% 88.31% 81.30%
Number of salaries quoted 8,219 4,049 8,232
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,747 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,000 £38,087
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% -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

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Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Runbook in the South East over the 6 months to 25 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 25 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 +13 22 £53,750 -28.33% 15
Berkshire +14 11 £52,500 - 5
Buckinghamshire -3 9 £62,500 -16.67% 6
Hampshire - 8 £60,000 - 11
Surrey - 8 £50,000 -
Oxfordshire - 2 £55,000 - 4
West Sussex -22 1 £65,000 -10.34% 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 (10.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.13%) Gentran
3 1 (2.56%) Apache
3 1 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.56%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.56%) Confluence
3 1 (2.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Chatbot
1 1 (2.56%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 15 (38.46%) AWS
1 15 (38.46%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (33.33%) Azure
3 11 (28.21%) Entra ID
4 4 (10.26%) Azure Logic Apps
4 4 (10.26%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (7.69%) GCP
6 2 (5.13%) SaaS
7 1 (2.56%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.56%) IaaS
7 1 (2.56%) iPaaS
7 1 (2.56%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.56%) PaaS
7 1 (2.56%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 9 (23.08%) DNS
2 6 (15.38%) Firewall
2 6 (15.38%) TCP/IP
3 4 (10.26%) Broadband
3 4 (10.26%) DHCP
4 3 (7.69%) VPN
5 2 (5.13%) HTTP
6 1 (2.56%) BGP
6 1 (2.56%) DKIM
6 1 (2.56%) DMARC
6 1 (2.56%) IPsec
6 1 (2.56%) Junos
6 1 (2.56%) LAN
6 1 (2.56%) Network Security
6 1 (2.56%) SD-WAN
6 1 (2.56%) SNMP
6 1 (2.56%) SSL
6 1 (2.56%) VLAN
6 1 (2.56%) WAN
6 1 (2.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.26%) MongoDB
1 4 (10.26%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.13%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.56%) Apache Hive
3 1 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.56%) Impala
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.56%) Parquet
3 1 (2.56%) Spark SQL
3 1 (2.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (7.69%) JIRA
2 2 (5.13%) Gatling
2 2 (5.13%) JMeter
2 2 (5.13%) LoadRunner
3 1 (2.56%) Git
3 1 (2.56%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 5 (12.82%) Finance
1 5 (12.82%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.26%) Games
3 3 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.13%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Banking
5 1 (2.56%) Digital Health
5 1 (2.56%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (28.21%) Senior
2 9 (23.08%) Analyst
3 5 (12.82%) Lead
3 5 (12.82%) SOC Analyst
4 4 (10.26%) Administrator
4 4 (10.26%) SOC Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Architect
5 3 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 3 (7.69%) Network Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Security Analyst
5 3 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (7.69%) Senior Security Analyst
5 3 (7.69%) Senior Windows Administrator
5 3 (7.69%) Server Administrator
5 3 (7.69%) SOC Manager
5 3 (7.69%) Windows Administrator
5 3 (7.69%) Windows Server Administrator
6 2 (5.13%) Onboarding Specialist
6 2 (5.13%) Platform Architect
6 2 (5.13%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.69%) EDI
1 3 (7.69%) REST
2 2 (5.13%) OpenID
3 1 (2.56%) 802.1X
3 1 (2.56%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.56%) IDoc
3 1 (2.56%) JSON
3 1 (2.56%) OAuth
3 1 (2.56%) OAuth2
3 1 (2.56%) Pandas
3 1 (2.56%) PySpark
3 1 (2.56%) RESTful
3 1 (2.56%) SAML
3 1 (2.56%) XML
3 1 (2.56%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.51%) Security Operations Centre
2 5 (12.82%) Onboarding
3 4 (10.26%) CSOC
3 4 (10.26%) Low-Code
3 4 (10.26%) Video\Live Streaming
4 3 (7.69%) Algorithms
4 3 (7.69%) Data Centre
4 3 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (7.69%) Product Ownership
4 3 (7.69%) Replication
5 2 (5.13%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.56%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.56%) IVR
6 1 (2.56%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.56%) PKI
6 1 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.56%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 11 (28.21%) Windows
2 7 (17.95%) Linux
3 3 (7.69%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.56%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (41.03%) SIEM
2 12 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
2 12 (30.77%) Incident Response
3 11 (28.21%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 9 (23.08%) AI
5 8 (20.51%) CI/CD
5 8 (20.51%) Roadmaps
5 8 (20.51%) Security Operations
5 8 (20.51%) Validation
6 7 (17.95%) Agile
6 7 (17.95%) Generative AI
6 7 (17.95%) SOAR
6 7 (17.95%) Test Automation
7 6 (15.38%) API Design
7 6 (15.38%) Machine Learning
7 6 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (15.38%) Root Cause Analysis
7 6 (15.38%) Service Management
7 6 (15.38%) Software Engineering
8 5 (12.82%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 13 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 12 (30.77%) Python
3 11 (28.21%) Kusto Query Language
4 5 (12.82%) Bash
5 4 (10.26%) Go
6 3 (7.69%) Ruby
7 2 (5.13%) C#
7 2 (5.13%) JavaScript
7 2 (5.13%) SQL
7 2 (5.13%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.56%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 12 (30.77%) CompTIA Security+
2 11 (28.21%) Security Cleared
3 7 (17.95%) GIAC
3 7 (17.95%) SC Cleared
4 5 (12.82%) CompTIA CySA+
5 4 (10.26%) CCNA CyberOps
5 4 (10.26%) CEH
5 4 (10.26%) CISSP
5 4 (10.26%) DV Cleared
5 4 (10.26%) GCIA
6 3 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (7.69%) CREST Certified
6 3 (7.69%) Degree
7 2 (5.13%) CCNP
7 2 (5.13%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (2.56%) CCNA
8 1 (2.56%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (2.56%) PMI Certification
8 1 (2.56%) PMP
8 1 (2.56%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.95%) SLA
2 4 (10.26%) NIST
2 4 (10.26%) QA
3 2 (5.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (5.13%) NCSC
4 1 (2.56%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.56%) GDPR
4 1 (2.56%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (2.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (15.38%) Active Directory
2 5 (12.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (7.69%) Hyper-V
4 2 (5.13%) UAG
4 2 (5.13%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (7.69%) SCCM
1 3 (7.69%) ZABBIX
2 2 (5.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (5.13%) Grafana
2 2 (5.13%) Kibana
2 2 (5.13%) vCenter Server
3 1 (2.56%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (2.56%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.56%) QRadar
3 1 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (2.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (53.85%) Microsoft
2 7 (17.95%) Cisco
3 5 (12.82%) VMware
4 4 (10.26%) Fortinet
4 4 (10.26%) IBM
5 3 (7.69%) Citrix
5 3 (7.69%) Thycotic
6 2 (5.13%) AppDynamics
6 2 (5.13%) Becrypt
6 2 (5.13%) Dynatrace
6 2 (5.13%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.56%) Callidus
7 1 (2.56%) Informatica
7 1 (2.56%) Juniper
7 1 (2.56%) LogRhythm
7 1 (2.56%) MuleSoft
7 1 (2.56%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.56%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.56%) Salesforce
7 1 (2.56%) webMethods