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 6 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 51 59
Rank change year-on-year -8 +8 +27
Contract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 17 3 4
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.90% 0.53% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.23% 0.61% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 2
10th Percentile £366 £326 -
25th Percentile £400 £335 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £350 £350
Median % change year-on-year +19.29% - -26.32%
75th Percentile £505 £415 -
90th Percentile £638 £454 -
England median daily rate £475 £450 £514
% change year-on-year +5.56% -12.37% +5.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £23.50 - -
Median hourly rate £25.00 - -
75th Percentile £26.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £26.11 £24.25 £57.99
% change year-on-year +7.67% -58.18% +161.86%

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 761 495 590
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 85.03% 86.84% 82.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 471 300 418
10th Percentile £189 £248 £210
25th Percentile £351 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% -5.56% -2.90%
75th Percentile £525 £545 £568
90th Percentile £625 £626 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 23 42
10th Percentile £15.60 £15.48 £12.20
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £21.01
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +7.08% +24.85%
75th Percentile £24.74 £27.65 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £38.49 £54.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +27.14%

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 6 January 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
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 6 January 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
Leicestershire - 11 £418 - 5
Northamptonshire -16 4 £346 +8.20% 5
Nottinghamshire -7 2 £473 +0.69% 7
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 (5.88%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle Cash Management
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle General Ledger
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) Azure
1 3 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (17.65%) IaaS
1 3 (17.65%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Git
2 2 (11.76%) JIRA
3 1 (5.88%) Cucumber
3 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.88%) JMeter
3 1 (5.88%) Postman
3 1 (5.88%) Selenium
General
1 8 (47.06%) Finance
2 6 (35.29%) Manufacturing
3 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
4 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Banking
5 1 (5.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) IT Support
2 6 (35.29%) Analyst
3 5 (29.41%) IT Analyst
3 5 (29.41%) IT Support Analyst
3 5 (29.41%) Support Analyst
4 3 (17.65%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Consultant
5 2 (11.76%) Functional Consultant
5 2 (11.76%) IT Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) IT Support Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Oracle Consultant
5 2 (11.76%) Oracle Functional Consultant
5 2 (11.76%) Support Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Automation Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Mainframe Systems Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Migration Specialist
6 1 (5.88%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) Middleware
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (5.88%) ISPF
2 1 (5.88%) Playwright
2 1 (5.88%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Management Information System
2 5 (29.41%) Driving Licence
3 2 (11.76%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (11.76%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (5.88%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 6 (35.29%) Windows
2 1 (5.88%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (35.29%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (35.29%) Information Security
2 6 (35.29%) ITIL
3 5 (29.41%) Change Management
3 5 (29.41%) Data Protection
3 5 (29.41%) ITSM
3 5 (29.41%) Problem Management
3 5 (29.41%) Project Management
3 5 (29.41%) Service Management
4 4 (23.53%) CI/CD
5 3 (17.65%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (17.65%) Cost Optimisation
5 3 (17.65%) DevOps
5 3 (17.65%) ERP
5 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (17.65%) Migration
5 3 (17.65%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.88%) Java
1 1 (5.88%) JCL
1 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
1 1 (5.88%) REXX
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) Degree
2 5 (29.41%) A+ Certification
3 1 (5.88%) CISA
3 1 (5.88%) CISM
3 1 (5.88%) CISSP
3 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.88%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (5.88%) COBIT
2 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (5.88%) NIST
2 1 (5.88%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.88%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Terraform
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.88%) RSA Archer
2 1 (5.88%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (58.82%) Microsoft
2 3 (17.65%) Dynatrace
3 2 (11.76%) Oracle
4 1 (5.88%) Rapid7
4 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.88%) Sophos
4 1 (5.88%) Splunk