Root Cause Analysis Contracts in the Midlands

Root Cause Analysis
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Root Cause Analysis skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Root Cause Analysis over the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 99 112
Rank change year-on-year +10 +13 +47
Contract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 25 39 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.33% 1.41% 2.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.51% 1.72% 2.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 25 63
10th Percentile £198 £307 £313
25th Percentile £338 £463 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £520 £490
Median % change year-on-year -9.62% +6.12% +3.16%
75th Percentile £700 £645 £631
90th Percentile - £700 £731
England median daily rate £458 £520 £493
% change year-on-year -11.88% +5.48% -6.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Median hourly rate £50.00 £41.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% +105.00% -
England median hourly rate £50.00 £55.52 £62.00
% change year-on-year -9.93% -10.46% +45.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,657 2,274 3,234
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 88.42% 82.30% 87.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,121 1,518 2,244
10th Percentile £200 £231 £239
25th Percentile £356 £361 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £489
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% +3.00%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 179 128
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.11 £11.80
25th Percentile £13.81 £14.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £18.07 £19.00 £17.71
Median % change year-on-year -4.92% +7.28% +2.49%
75th Percentile £25.54 £35.00 £23.81
90th Percentile £35.00 £55.00 £52.55
England median hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year - -13.33% +56.54%

Root Cause Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Root Cause Analysis in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Root Cause Analysis in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Root Cause Analysis in the Midlands over the 6 months to 2 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Root Cause Analysis in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Root Cause Analysis in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 April 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
West Midlands +1 17 £650 +23.81% 32
East Midlands +17 8 £419 +3.46% 15
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England

Root Cause Analysis
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 5 (20.00%) IIS
2 1 (4.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Final Cut Pro
1 1 (4.00%) Fusion 360
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (4.00%) QuarkXPress
1 1 (4.00%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 3 (12.00%) Azure
2 2 (8.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) LAN
1 2 (8.00%) NetScaler
1 2 (8.00%) SSL
1 2 (8.00%) WAN
2 1 (4.00%) BGP
2 1 (4.00%) DHCP
2 1 (4.00%) DNS
2 1 (4.00%) EIGRP
2 1 (4.00%) Internet
2 1 (4.00%) Network Security
2 1 (4.00%) OSPF
2 1 (4.00%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (4.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (4.00%) VLAN
2 1 (4.00%) VPN
2 1 (4.00%) Wireless
2 1 (4.00%) Wireless Security
2 1 (4.00%) Wireshark
2 1 (4.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.00%) Big Data
2 1 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (4.00%) Impala
2 1 (4.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Postman
2 1 (4.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (4.00%) Eclipse
2 1 (4.00%) NetBeans
General
1 8 (32.00%) Analytical Skills
1 8 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (28.00%) Legal
3 3 (12.00%) Finance
4 1 (4.00%) Aerospace
4 1 (4.00%) Automotive
4 1 (4.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.00%) Retail
4 1 (4.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (20.00%) Applications Engineer
1 5 (20.00%) Support Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Applications Support
2 4 (16.00%) Applications Support Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Administrator
4 2 (8.00%) Lead
4 2 (8.00%) Network Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) QA Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) QA Test Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Senior
4 2 (8.00%) Test Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Data Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Data Governance Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Data Governance Manager
5 1 (4.00%) IT Support
5 1 (4.00%) Mac Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Site Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (28.00%) Middleware
2 5 (20.00%) HTML
3 2 (8.00%) .NET
4 1 (4.00%) 802.1X
4 1 (4.00%) ASP.NET
4 1 (4.00%) POSIX
4 1 (4.00%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (8.00%) Product Ownership
1 2 (8.00%) SCADA
2 1 (4.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (4.00%) Derivative
2 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.00%) Windows
2 3 (12.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.00%) Linux
3 1 (4.00%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (48.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (28.00%) Incident Management
3 5 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (16.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (16.00%) Time Management
5 3 (12.00%) Agile
5 3 (12.00%) Computer Science
5 3 (12.00%) Incident Response
5 3 (12.00%) Test Automation
5 3 (12.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (8.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 2 (8.00%) Containerisation
6 2 (8.00%) Customer Service
6 2 (8.00%) Decision-Making
6 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (8.00%) Mentoring
6 2 (8.00%) Project Delivery
6 2 (8.00%) SIEM
6 2 (8.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (8.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (28.00%) PowerShell
1 7 (28.00%) SQL
2 6 (24.00%) Python
3 5 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (8.00%) Bash
4 2 (8.00%) Perl
5 1 (4.00%) C
5 1 (4.00%) C#
5 1 (4.00%) C++
5 1 (4.00%) Java
5 1 (4.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (28.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (24.00%) Degree
3 5 (20.00%) DV Cleared
4 3 (12.00%) CCNP
4 3 (12.00%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (12.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (8.00%) Citrix Certification
5 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
6 1 (4.00%) CISA
6 1 (4.00%) CISM
6 1 (4.00%) CISSP
6 1 (4.00%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) Data Quality
1 3 (12.00%) QA
2 1 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (4.00%) GDPR
2 1 (4.00%) MISRA
2 1 (4.00%) MISRA C
2 1 (4.00%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 7 (28.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.00%) Docker
3 1 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Ansible
2 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.00%) Terraform
3 1 (4.00%) SCCM
3 1 (4.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 7 (28.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.00%) Dell
2 2 (8.00%) HP
2 2 (8.00%) IBM
2 2 (8.00%) VMware
3 1 (4.00%) Adobe
3 1 (4.00%) Apple
3 1 (4.00%) Autodesk
3 1 (4.00%) Cisco
3 1 (4.00%) Infoblox
3 1 (4.00%) Juniper
3 1 (4.00%) QNX
3 1 (4.00%) Quark
3 1 (4.00%) SAP
3 1 (4.00%) Siemens
3 1 (4.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (4.00%) Splunk
3 1 (4.00%) Veeam
3 1 (4.00%) Zscaler