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 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 53 57
Rank change year-on-year -5 +4 +37
Contract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 16 7 7
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.87% 0.96% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.17% 1.13% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 5
10th Percentile £329 £388 -
25th Percentile £340 £436 £160
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £475 £350
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% +35.71% -30.00%
75th Percentile £556 £506 -
90th Percentile £638 £508 £398
England median daily rate £475 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £21.10 - -
25th Percentile £21.50 - -
Median hourly rate £22.92 - -
75th Percentile £25.08 - -
90th Percentile £25.93 - -
England median hourly rate £29.50 £37.50 £59.00
% change year-on-year -21.33% -36.44% +199.32%

All Process and 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 739 617 670
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.43% 84.29% 84.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 511 376 486
10th Percentile £210 £267 £213
25th Percentile £350 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £445 £480
Median % change year-on-year -6.74% -7.29% +1.05%
75th Percentile £525 £541 £588
90th Percentile £638 £619 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 28 53
10th Percentile £16.17 £14.90 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £17.00 £16.66
Median hourly rate £18.87 £23.25 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.84% +3.33% +32.86%
75th Percentile £25.15 £50.00 £51.50
90th Percentile - £51.50 £69.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.04 £45.00
% change year-on-year -33.88% -15.48% +28.57%

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 5 November 2025.

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 5 November 2025. 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 - 8 £625 - 6
Northamptonshire - 6 £340 - 2
Nottinghamshire -5 2 £450 -7.69% 4
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 3 (18.75%) CICS
2 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle Cash Management
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle General Ledger
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) DB2
2 2 (12.50%) Oracle Database
2 2 (12.50%) Relational Database
2 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Cucumber
1 4 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (25.00%) Selenium
2 3 (18.75%) Eclipse
2 3 (18.75%) Git
2 3 (18.75%) IntelliJ
2 3 (18.75%) Maven
3 2 (12.50%) JIRA
3 2 (12.50%) REST Assured
4 1 (6.25%) JMeter
4 1 (6.25%) Postman
General
1 6 (37.50%) Manufacturing
2 4 (25.00%) Finance
3 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Banking
5 1 (6.25%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Analyst
1 7 (43.75%) IT Support
2 6 (37.50%) Support Analyst
3 5 (31.25%) IT Analyst
3 5 (31.25%) IT Support Analyst
4 3 (18.75%) Automation Tester
4 3 (18.75%) Tester
5 2 (12.50%) Consultant
5 2 (12.50%) Functional Consultant
5 2 (12.50%) IT Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) IT Support Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Oracle Consultant
5 2 (12.50%) Oracle Functional Consultant
5 2 (12.50%) Support Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) 2nd Line Service Desk Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) Java Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Senior
6 1 (6.25%) Service Desk Support
6 1 (6.25%) Service Desk Support Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) Middleware
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (6.25%) Playwright
2 1 (6.25%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Management Information System
2 5 (31.25%) Driving Licence
3 3 (18.75%) Mainframe
3 3 (18.75%) VSAM
4 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (31.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (43.75%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (37.50%) Information Security
3 6 (37.50%) Problem Management
3 6 (37.50%) Service Management
4 5 (31.25%) Change Management
4 5 (31.25%) Data Protection
4 5 (31.25%) ITIL
4 5 (31.25%) ITSM
4 5 (31.25%) Project Management
4 5 (31.25%) Scenario Testing
4 5 (31.25%) Test Automation
5 4 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
5 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 4 (25.00%) Code Quality
5 4 (25.00%) Software Testing
5 4 (25.00%) Test Scripting
6 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (18.75%) ERP
6 3 (18.75%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) Java
2 3 (18.75%) COBOL
2 3 (18.75%) JCL
2 3 (18.75%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (43.75%) Degree
2 5 (31.25%) A+ Certification
3 1 (6.25%) CISA
3 1 (6.25%) CISM
3 1 (6.25%) CISSP
3 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.25%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (6.25%) COBIT
2 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (6.25%) NIST
2 1 (6.25%) NIST 800
2 1 (6.25%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Microsoft
2 4 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (6.25%) Rapid7
3 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow