runbooks jobs in 2026 — demand, top roles hiring, and related skills
As of 2026-06-11, runbooks appears in 703 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the past 90 days — most often required for Site Reliability Engineer roles, with demand down 20% vs the prior 4 weeks.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-06-11
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Frequently asked questions about runbooks
+Is runbooks in demand in 2026?
Yes. runbooks appears in 703 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-06-11, with demand down 20% vs the prior 4 weeks. It is most often required for Site Reliability Engineer roles (13% of Site Reliability Engineer postings list it).
+What jobs require runbooks?
According to the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-06-11, the job titles most likely to require runbooks are Site Reliability Engineer (13% of postings list runbooks), Software Engineer (9% of postings list runbooks), DevOps Engineer (5% of postings list runbooks).
+What skills are commonly paired with runbooks?
Across job postings indexed by Skillenai (90 days ending 2026-06-11), runbooks most often appears alongside observability, incident response, Terraform, Python, automation.
+Where is runbooks most in demand?
As of 2026-06-11, the metro areas posting the most jobs requiring runbooks are New York City, San Francisco, Bengaluru, London, Toronto, according to the Skillenai jobs index.
+How can I keep up with new runbooks content and jobs?
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Weekly job postings requiring runbooks — last 90 days
Job titles most likely to require runbooks
| Role | Postings mentioning | % requiring |
|---|---|---|
| Site Reliability Engineer | 91 | 12.9% |
| Software Engineer | 66 | 9.4% |
| DevOps Engineer | 34 | 4.8% |
| Staff Software Engineer | 23 | 3.3% |
| Security Engineer | 22 | 3.1% |
| Engineering Manager | 19 | 2.7% |
| Platform Engineer | 18 | 2.6% |
| Backend Engineer | 16 | 2.3% |
| Staff Backend Engineer | 13 | 1.8% |
| Infrastructure Engineer | 12 | 1.7% |
Top metros hiring for runbooks
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| New York City | 53 | 7.5% |
| San Francisco | 35 | 5.0% |
| Bengaluru | 19 | 2.7% |
| London | 18 | 2.6% |
| Toronto | 15 | 2.1% |
| Los Angeles | 10 | 1.4% |
| Austin | 9 | 1.3% |
| Pune | 9 | 1.3% |
| Singapore | 9 | 1.3% |
Skills commonly paired with runbooks
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How this was computed
Counts derive from the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-06-11. Skills are resolved against the Skillenai canonical taxonomy, so the same entity is counted whether a posting writes 'Python', 'Python 3', or 'python'. Pages refresh weekly (or daily for the top-50 most-requested skills).
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- Skillenai jobs index, deduplicated daily
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- 2026-06-11
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- 90
The demand, skills, and geo numbers on this page come from the same Skillenai labor market index that powers our API. Use it for compensation benchmarking, hiring-competition analysis, and skill-adoption tracking.
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