Root Cause Analysis Contracts

Root Cause Analysis
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Root Cause Analysis skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Root Cause Analysis over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 239 284 326
Rank change year-on-year +45 +42 +13
Contract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 439 525 742
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.01% 0.94% 0.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 1.05% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 366 445
10th Percentile £302 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £376 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £606 £606
90th Percentile £665 £731 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +21.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 8 8
10th Percentile £14.04 £20.00 £21.90
25th Percentile £15.85 £20.59 £26.06
Median hourly rate £53.00 £25.75 £31.23
Median % change year-on-year +105.83% -17.55% +20.12%
75th Percentile £60.55 £55.25 £44.38
90th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £56.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.02 £25.18 £30.96
% change year-on-year +86.72% -18.67% +23.84%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Root Cause Analysis is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,914 49,809 79,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.21% 89.64% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,592 34,469 55,846
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £649
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,564 1,687 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.70 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
% change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%

Root Cause Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Root Cause Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Root Cause Analysis in the UK

Root Cause Analysis
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Root Cause Analysis.

Daily rate trend for Root Cause Analysis in the UK

Root Cause Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Root Cause Analysis over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Root Cause Analysis in the UK

Root Cause Analysis
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Root Cause Analysis.

Hourly rate trend for Root Cause Analysis in the UK

Root Cause Analysis
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Root Cause Analysis over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Root Cause Analysis in the UK

Root Cause Analysis
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Root Cause Analysis within the UK over the 6 months to 9 June 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +35 380 £500 - 345
UK excluding London +40 233 £500 +11.11% 282
London +12 165 £525 - 57
Work from Home +54 124 £493 -1.40% 111
South West +40 61 £550 +3.29% 35
North of England +36 59 £475 -5.00% 59
South East +15 54 £500 +18.34% 67
Midlands -5 41 £488 +2.63% 75
Yorkshire +22 33 £450 -10.00% 20
West Midlands 0 29 £520 -20.00% 48
North West +10 26 £475 -5.00% 31
Wales +37 21 £91 -84.83% 4
East of England -5 16 £348 -22.78% 30
East Midlands -9 12 £450 +28.57% 27
Scotland +32 9 £623 +38.33% 13

Root Cause Analysis
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 22 (5.01%) Confluence
2 18 (4.10%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.59%) nginx
4 6 (1.37%) IIS
5 4 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.91%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.91%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.68%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.68%) SAS
7 1 (0.23%) Alfresco
7 1 (0.23%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.23%) Camunda
7 1 (0.23%) CMS
7 1 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2007
7 1 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.23%) JBoss
7 1 (0.23%) LiveLink
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.23%) WebLogic
Applications
1 26 (5.92%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (5.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (2.05%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.23%) CATIA
5 1 (0.23%) PTC Creo
5 1 (0.23%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 10 (2.28%) OpenText VIM for SAP
1 10 (2.28%) SAP FI-AP
2 6 (1.37%) Teamcenter
3 4 (0.91%) Siebel CRM
4 2 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.46%) SAP APO
4 2 (0.46%) SAP CO
4 2 (0.46%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.46%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.46%) SAP IBP
4 2 (0.46%) SAP MM
4 2 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.46%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.23%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.23%) SAP SCM
5 1 (0.23%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 55 (12.53%) Azure
2 49 (11.16%) AWS
3 25 (5.69%) Power Platform
4 19 (4.33%) GCP
5 14 (3.19%) SaaS
6 11 (2.51%) PaaS
7 9 (2.05%) Azure Sentinel
8 8 (1.82%) SuccessFactors
9 7 (1.59%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
9 7 (1.59%) GitHub
9 7 (1.59%) IaaS
9 7 (1.59%) Nutanix
10 6 (1.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (1.37%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (1.37%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (1.14%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (1.14%) OpenShift
11 5 (1.14%) Rubrik
11 5 (1.14%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 31 (7.06%) Firewall
2 18 (4.10%) TCP/IP
3 17 (3.87%) DNS
4 14 (3.19%) DHCP
5 13 (2.96%) WAN
6 12 (2.73%) VPN
7 10 (2.28%) Wireless
8 9 (2.05%) LAN
9 8 (1.82%) VLAN
10 7 (1.59%) BGP
11 5 (1.14%) Intrusion Detection
11 5 (1.14%) Kerberos
11 5 (1.14%) NAS
11 5 (1.14%) OSPF
11 5 (1.14%) SAN
12 4 (0.91%) Cisco ASA
12 4 (0.91%) DMZ
12 4 (0.91%) Internet
12 4 (0.91%) tcpdump
12 4 (0.91%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (5.69%) Power BI
2 16 (3.64%) Relational Database
2 16 (3.64%) Tableau
3 14 (3.19%) Ingres
4 10 (2.28%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (2.05%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (1.59%) SQL Server
6 7 (1.59%) Sybase ASE
7 6 (1.37%) RDBMS
8 5 (1.14%) DB2
8 5 (1.14%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.91%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (0.91%) Apache Hive
9 4 (0.91%) Hadoop
9 4 (0.91%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.91%) SAP BW
10 3 (0.68%) Big Data
10 3 (0.68%) ClickHouse
10 3 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 37 (8.43%) JIRA
2 32 (7.29%) Jenkins
3 24 (5.47%) Git
4 14 (3.19%) JMeter
4 14 (3.19%) Selenium
5 13 (2.96%) Maven
6 11 (2.51%) Cucumber
7 10 (2.28%) GitLab
8 7 (1.59%) TeamCity
9 6 (1.37%) Gradle
10 5 (1.14%) WebDriver
11 4 (0.91%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.91%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.91%) IDA Disassembler
12 3 (0.68%) Burp Suite
12 3 (0.68%) ChangeMan
12 3 (0.68%) Hudson
13 2 (0.46%) JUnit
13 2 (0.46%) Subversion
13 2 (0.46%) TestNG
General
1 182 (41.46%) Social Skills
2 67 (15.26%) Finance
3 63 (14.35%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (10.93%) Public Sector
5 37 (8.43%) Telecoms
6 28 (6.38%) Banking
7 25 (5.69%) Manufacturing
8 17 (3.87%) Mandarin Language
9 11 (2.51%) Investment Banking
9 11 (2.51%) Marketing
10 9 (2.05%) Front Office
11 7 (1.59%) Electronics
12 5 (1.14%) Back Office
12 5 (1.14%) Retail
13 4 (0.91%) Billing
13 4 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.91%) Legal
13 4 (0.91%) Wholesale Banking
14 3 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 2 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 94 (21.41%) Analyst
2 30 (6.83%) Senior
3 27 (6.15%) Business Analyst
4 26 (5.92%) Problem Manager
5 25 (5.69%) Lead
6 20 (4.56%) DBA
6 20 (4.56%) Incident Manager
7 19 (4.33%) Architect
8 16 (3.64%) Administrator
8 16 (3.64%) Support Engineer
9 14 (3.19%) Consultant
10 13 (2.96%) Developer
11 12 (2.73%) Coordinator
11 12 (2.73%) Cyber Defence Analyst
11 12 (2.73%) Ingres DBA
11 12 (2.73%) Test Analyst
12 10 (2.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 10 (2.28%) Security Engineer
13 9 (2.05%) Data Analyst
13 9 (2.05%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (4.78%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (2.28%) EDI
2 10 (2.28%) IDoc
2 10 (2.28%) LDAP
3 8 (1.82%) .NET
3 8 (1.82%) SAP Business Workflow
4 7 (1.59%) Kafka
4 7 (1.59%) REST
4 7 (1.59%) Web Services
5 6 (1.37%) ISPF
5 6 (1.37%) Itk
5 6 (1.37%) Node.js
5 6 (1.37%) React
6 5 (1.14%) Gherkin
6 5 (1.14%) SailPoint
6 5 (1.14%) Spring
6 5 (1.14%) Spring Boot
7 4 (0.91%) Middleware
7 4 (0.91%) OLE
8 3 (0.68%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 69 (15.72%) Management Information System
2 61 (13.90%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 58 (13.21%) Cyber Defence
3 58 (13.21%) Cyber Threat
4 24 (5.47%) Data Centre
5 18 (4.10%) Virtual Team
6 14 (3.19%) Onboarding
6 14 (3.19%) Replication
7 11 (2.51%) Self-Motivation
8 10 (2.28%) Cloud Native
9 9 (2.05%) iPhone
9 9 (2.05%) Security Operations Centre
10 8 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
10 8 (1.82%) Mainframe
10 8 (1.82%) Product Ownership
11 7 (1.59%) Clustering
11 7 (1.59%) Driving Licence
12 6 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 6 (1.37%) iPad
13 5 (1.14%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 62 (14.12%) Windows
2 51 (11.62%) Linux
3 28 (6.38%) Unix
4 20 (4.56%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.37%) Windows 10
5 6 (1.37%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (1.37%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (1.37%) zOS
6 5 (1.14%) Oracle Linux
6 5 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.14%) Solaris
7 4 (0.91%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.68%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.46%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.23%) AIX
10 1 (0.23%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (26.65%) Problem-Solving
2 103 (23.46%) Incident Management
3 79 (18.00%) Cybersecurity
4 77 (17.54%) Agile
5 76 (17.31%) Incident Response
6 72 (16.40%) Information Security
7 71 (16.17%) ITIL
8 68 (15.49%) Mentoring
8 68 (15.49%) SIEM
9 60 (13.67%) Use Case
10 59 (13.44%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 59 (13.44%) Threat Intelligence
11 57 (12.98%) Case Management
12 56 (12.76%) CRM
13 55 (12.53%) Protective Monitoring
14 53 (12.07%) SOAR
15 51 (11.62%) DevOps
15 51 (11.62%) MITRE ATT&CK
16 47 (10.71%) Problem Management
17 41 (9.34%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 64 (14.58%) Python
2 52 (11.85%) SQL
3 33 (7.52%) Java
4 31 (7.06%) PowerShell
5 18 (4.10%) JavaScript
6 16 (3.64%) Bash
7 15 (3.42%) Shell Script
8 10 (2.28%) ABAP
9 9 (2.05%) C++
9 9 (2.05%) Ruby
10 8 (1.82%) C#
10 8 (1.82%) Groovy
10 8 (1.82%) Perl
11 7 (1.59%) T-SQL
12 6 (1.37%) JCL
13 5 (1.14%) TypeScript
14 4 (0.91%) C
15 3 (0.68%) Go
15 3 (0.68%) REXX
15 3 (0.68%) Scala
Qualifications
1 142 (32.35%) Security Cleared
2 80 (18.22%) SC Cleared
3 76 (17.31%) DV Cleared
4 48 (10.93%) Degree
5 20 (4.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (2.96%) CISSP
7 12 (2.73%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (2.28%) CEH
9 8 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.82%) CCNA
10 7 (1.59%) ITIL Certification
11 6 (1.37%) CCNP
12 5 (1.14%) ISTQB
12 5 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.68%) AWS Certification
13 3 (0.68%) CISM
13 3 (0.68%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 2 (0.46%) Azure Certification
14 2 (0.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 2 (0.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (12.76%) NIST
2 48 (10.93%) NIST 800
3 42 (9.57%) QA
4 40 (9.11%) SLA
5 32 (7.29%) Data Quality
6 10 (2.28%) GDPR
7 8 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (1.37%) ISO 9001
9 5 (1.14%) Accessibility
9 5 (1.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.91%) NCSC
11 3 (0.68%) EMIR
11 3 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 2 (0.46%) PMO
13 1 (0.23%) COPPA
13 1 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
13 1 (0.23%) Dodd-Frank
13 1 (0.23%) GRC
13 1 (0.23%) MiFID
13 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 27 (6.15%) Active Directory
2 23 (5.24%) Docker
3 14 (3.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.37%) Job Entry Subsystem
6 5 (1.14%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 4 (0.91%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.91%) Snort
8 3 (0.68%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 3 (0.68%) vSphere
9 2 (0.46%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.23%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.23%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.23%) XenApp
10 1 (0.23%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 29 (6.61%) Ansible
1 29 (6.61%) Terraform
2 24 (5.47%) Kibana
3 19 (4.33%) Kubernetes
3 19 (4.33%) logstash
4 14 (3.19%) Grafana
5 6 (1.37%) Control-M
6 5 (1.14%) EMC NetWorker
6 5 (1.14%) ITRS Geneos
6 5 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (1.14%) Netcool
6 5 (1.14%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.14%) SCCM
6 5 (1.14%) Tivoli
6 5 (1.14%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 5 (1.14%) WSUS
7 4 (0.91%) Puppet
7 4 (0.91%) Trend Micro Deep Security
8 3 (0.68%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.46%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 122 (27.79%) Microsoft
2 36 (8.20%) ServiceNow
3 34 (7.74%) SAP
4 23 (5.24%) Cisco
5 22 (5.01%) Splunk
6 18 (4.10%) Oracle
6 18 (4.10%) VMware
7 17 (3.87%) Google
8 15 (3.42%) CyberArk
8 15 (3.42%) IBM
9 10 (2.28%) OpenText
9 10 (2.28%) Tanium
10 9 (2.05%) Juniper
11 7 (1.59%) Palo Alto
11 7 (1.59%) Sybase
12 6 (1.37%) CA
12 6 (1.37%) Dell
12 6 (1.37%) Qualys
13 5 (1.14%) Sun
13 5 (1.14%) Veritas