runbooks jobs in 2026 — demand, top roles hiring, and related skills
As of 2026-09-17, runbooks appears in 794 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the past 90 days — most often required for Site Reliability Engineer roles, with demand up 31% vs the prior 4 weeks.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-09-17
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Frequently asked questions about runbooks
+Is runbooks in demand in 2026?
Yes. runbooks appears in 794 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-09-17, with demand up 31% vs the prior 4 weeks. It is most often required for Site Reliability Engineer roles (14% of Site Reliability Engineer postings list it).
+What jobs require runbooks?
According to the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-09-17, the job titles most likely to require runbooks are Site Reliability Engineer (14% of postings list runbooks), Software Engineer (11% of postings list runbooks), Security Engineer (6% of postings list runbooks).
+What skills are commonly paired with runbooks?
Across job postings indexed by Skillenai (90 days ending 2026-09-17), runbooks most often appears alongside observability, Python, incident response, automation, CI/CD.
+Where is runbooks most in demand?
As of 2026-09-17, the metro areas posting the most jobs requiring runbooks are New York City, San Francisco, London, Bengaluru, Toronto, according to the Skillenai jobs index.
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Weekly job postings requiring runbooks — last 90 days
Salary distribution
Box = 25th–75th percentile · tick = median · whisker = 10th–90th · USD, annualized
Job titles most likely to require runbooks
| Role | Postings mentioning | % requiring |
|---|---|---|
| Site Reliability Engineer | 111 | 14.0% |
| Software Engineer | 88 | 11.1% |
| Security Engineer | 44 | 5.5% |
| Platform Engineer | 35 | 4.4% |
| DevOps Engineer | 23 | 2.9% |
| Infrastructure Engineer | 22 | 2.8% |
| Backend Engineer | 21 | 2.6% |
| Engineering Manager | 19 | 2.4% |
| Cloud Engineer | 13 | 1.6% |
| Product Manager | 13 | 1.6% |
Top metros hiring for runbooks
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| New York City | 42 | 5.3% |
| San Francisco | 39 | 4.9% |
| London | 17 | 2.1% |
| Bengaluru | 15 | 1.9% |
| Toronto | 15 | 1.9% |
| Berlin | 14 | 1.8% |
| Austin | 13 | 1.6% |
| Chicago | 11 | 1.4% |
| Nashville | 11 | 1.4% |
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 2026-09-17. 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
- entity_id
- 8c040bed622d2245
- data_as_of
- 2026-09-17
- window_days
- 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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