Root Cause Analysis Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Root Cause Analysis
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Root Cause Analysis skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 55 60
Rank change year-on-year -18 +5 -12
Contract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 12 13 7
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.97% 1.71% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.31% 1.99% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 7
10th Percentile £404 £258 £292
25th Percentile £409 £340 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £359 £475
Median % change year-on-year +42.76% -24.42% +13.10%
75th Percentile £619 £473 £506
90th Percentile £653 £617 £508
England median daily rate £478 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +0.63% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £18.80 £21.10 -
25th Percentile £20.75 £21.50 -
Median hourly rate £28.01 £22.92 -
Median % change year-on-year +22.25% - -
75th Percentile £39.28 £25.08 -
90th Percentile £43.64 £25.93 -
England median hourly rate £27.96 £32.50 £53.03
% change year-on-year -13.97% -38.71% +100.11%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

Root Cause Analysis falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 919 652 607
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 74.59% 85.56% 80.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 456 447 408
10th Percentile £235 £242 £268
25th Percentile £400 £337 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £405 £450
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -10.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £575
90th Percentile £653 £625 £625
England median daily rate £525 £510 £530
% change year-on-year +2.94% -3.77% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 58 38
10th Percentile £13.08 £15.12 £12.75
25th Percentile £14.56 £17.87 £14.74
Median hourly rate £17.87 £18.94 £18.16
Median % change year-on-year -5.62% +4.27% -41.19%
75th Percentile £27.73 £25.15 £26.15
90th Percentile £36.99 - £50.00
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +4.83%

Root Cause Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Root Cause Analysis relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Root Cause Analysis job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Root Cause Analysis
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Root Cause Analysis.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Root Cause Analysis

Root Cause Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Root Cause Analysis in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 20 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Root Cause Analysis in the East Midlands

Root Cause Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Root Cause Analysis.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Root Cause Analysis

Root Cause Analysis
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Root Cause Analysis in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 20 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Root Cause Analysis in the East Midlands

Root Cause Analysis
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 August 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Lincolnshire - 4 £650 - 3
Nottinghamshire -19 3 £463 +5.71% 7
Derbyshire -7 2 £525 -36.36% 3
Leicestershire -10 2 - - 5
Northamptonshire +9 1 - - 6
Root Cause Analysis
England

Root Cause Analysis
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 1 (8.33%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) SAP MDM
1 1 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (25.00%) Nutanix
3 2 (16.67%) AWS
4 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub
4 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) DHCP
1 3 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (8.33%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) RIP
2 1 (8.33%) SD-WAN
2 1 (8.33%) WAN
2 1 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Big Data
1 1 (8.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) GitLab
1 1 (8.33%) MSI
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Finance
4 1 (8.33%) Avionics
4 1 (8.33%) Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
4 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Consultant
2 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Consultant
2 3 (25.00%) IT Consultant
3 2 (16.67%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Cisco Support
4 1 (8.33%) Data Architect
4 1 (8.33%) IT Administrator
4 1 (8.33%) Mainframe Systems Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Network Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Network Support
4 1 (8.33%) Network Support Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Cisco Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Cisco Support
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Network Support
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Network Support Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) ISPF
1 1 (8.33%) REST
1 1 (8.33%) Software Packaging
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (8.33%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Windows
2 4 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (8.33%) CentOS
3 1 (8.33%) Linux
3 1 (8.33%) MVS
3 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (8.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (33.33%) Migration
1 4 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (16.67%) Agile
3 2 (16.67%) Data Governance
3 2 (16.67%) Data Integration
3 2 (16.67%) Data Modelling
3 2 (16.67%) ETL
3 2 (16.67%) Incident Management
3 2 (16.67%) ITIL
3 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (8.33%) Logistics
4 1 (8.33%) Validation
4 1 (8.33%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (8.33%) JCL
2 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (8.33%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) REXX
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
1 1 (8.33%) NVQ Level 3
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (8.33%) GDPR
2 1 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (8.33%) Docker
3 1 (8.33%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Ansible
1 1 (8.33%) Control-M
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) Aruba
2 3 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (8.33%) BMC
3 1 (8.33%) CheckPoint
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco
3 1 (8.33%) CyberArk
3 1 (8.33%) Fortinet
3 1 (8.33%) Juniper
3 1 (8.33%) Meraki
3 1 (8.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (8.33%) SAP
3 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (8.33%) Splunk