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 25 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 93 99
Rank change year-on-year +11 +6 +65
Contract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 26 43 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.35% 1.57% 2.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.53% 1.91% 2.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 29 64
10th Percentile £184 £294 £313
25th Percentile £332 £463 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £513 £493
Median % change year-on-year -11.46% +3.96% +3.79%
75th Percentile £688 £645 £675
90th Percentile £700 £700 £731
England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.31%
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 £53.03 £62.00
% change year-on-year -5.71% -14.47% +68.80%

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 1,694 2,247 3,061
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.82% 82.13% 88.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,112 1,501 2,132
10th Percentile £200 £235 £250
25th Percentile £360 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 175 120
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £11.80
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.96 £15.00
Median hourly rate £18.00 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.18 £35.00 £26.64
90th Percentile £32.16 £55.00 £55.25
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £38.35
% change year-on-year -14.29% -8.74% +59.79%

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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 25 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 25 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 -8 17 £650 +23.81% 32
East Midlands +18 9 £438 +35.66% 32
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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 (19.23%) IIS
2 1 (3.85%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Final Cut Pro
1 1 (3.85%) Fusion 360
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.85%) QuarkXPress
1 1 (3.85%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2 (7.69%) Azure
1 2 (7.69%) Entra ID
2 1 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) LAN
1 2 (7.69%) NetScaler
1 2 (7.69%) SSL
1 2 (7.69%) WAN
2 1 (3.85%) BGP
2 1 (3.85%) DHCP
2 1 (3.85%) DNS
2 1 (3.85%) EIGRP
2 1 (3.85%) Internet
2 1 (3.85%) Network Security
2 1 (3.85%) OSPF
2 1 (3.85%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (3.85%) SD-WAN
2 1 (3.85%) VLAN
2 1 (3.85%) VPN
2 1 (3.85%) Wireless
2 1 (3.85%) Wireless Security
2 1 (3.85%) Wireshark
2 1 (3.85%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (19.23%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.85%) Big Data
2 1 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.85%) Hadoop
2 1 (3.85%) Impala
2 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Postman
2 1 (3.85%) Cypress.io
2 1 (3.85%) Eclipse
2 1 (3.85%) NetBeans
General
1 8 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 6 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (23.08%) Legal
3 4 (15.38%) Finance
4 1 (3.85%) Aerospace
4 1 (3.85%) Automotive
4 1 (3.85%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.85%) Retail
4 1 (3.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (15.38%) Analyst
1 4 (15.38%) Applications Engineer
1 4 (15.38%) Support Engineer
2 3 (11.54%) Applications Support
2 3 (11.54%) Applications Support Engineer
2 3 (11.54%) QA Engineer
2 3 (11.54%) QA Test Engineer
2 3 (11.54%) Senior
2 3 (11.54%) Test Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) Administrator
3 2 (7.69%) Lead
3 2 (7.69%) Network Analyst
3 2 (7.69%) Senior QA Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) Senior Test Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) Site Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Data Governance Manager
4 1 (3.85%) Mac Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Service Operations Manager
4 1 (3.85%) Wintel Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (26.92%) Middleware
2 5 (19.23%) HTML
3 4 (15.38%) .NET
4 1 (3.85%) 802.1X
4 1 (3.85%) ASP.NET
4 1 (3.85%) POSIX
4 1 (3.85%) Web Services
4 1 (3.85%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Product Ownership
2 2 (7.69%) Data Centre
2 2 (7.69%) SCADA
3 1 (3.85%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.85%) Derivative
3 1 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.85%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 4 (15.38%) Windows
2 3 (11.54%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.85%) Linux
3 1 (3.85%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (26.92%) Incident Management
3 5 (19.23%) Agile
3 5 (19.23%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (19.23%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (15.38%) Computer Science
4 4 (15.38%) Incident Response
4 4 (15.38%) Test Automation
5 3 (11.54%) API Testing
5 3 (11.54%) Change Management
5 3 (11.54%) Containerisation
5 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (11.54%) ITIL
5 3 (11.54%) SIEM
5 3 (11.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (11.54%) Task Automation
5 3 (11.54%) Time Management
5 3 (11.54%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (7.69%) Data Protection
6 2 (7.69%) Exploratory Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (26.92%) PowerShell
2 6 (23.08%) Python
2 6 (23.08%) SQL
3 5 (19.23%) JavaScript
4 3 (11.54%) Bash
5 2 (7.69%) C#
5 2 (7.69%) Java
5 2 (7.69%) Perl
6 1 (3.85%) C
6 1 (3.85%) C++
6 1 (3.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (30.77%) Degree
2 7 (26.92%) Security Cleared
3 5 (19.23%) DV Cleared
4 4 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (11.54%) CCNP
5 3 (11.54%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (7.69%) Citrix Certification
6 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
7 1 (3.85%) CISA
7 1 (3.85%) CISM
7 1 (3.85%) CISSP
7 1 (3.85%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (3.85%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (15.38%) QA
2 2 (7.69%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (3.85%) GDPR
3 1 (3.85%) MISRA
3 1 (3.85%) MISRA C
3 1 (3.85%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 7 (26.92%) Active Directory
2 3 (11.54%) Docker
3 1 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (15.38%) Ansible
1 4 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 3 (11.54%) Terraform
3 1 (3.85%) Grafana
3 1 (3.85%) SCCM
3 1 (3.85%) SCOM
Vendors
1 7 (26.92%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.69%) Dell
2 2 (7.69%) HP
2 2 (7.69%) IBM
2 2 (7.69%) VMware
3 1 (3.85%) Adobe
3 1 (3.85%) Apple
3 1 (3.85%) Autodesk
3 1 (3.85%) BT
3 1 (3.85%) Cisco
3 1 (3.85%) Infoblox
3 1 (3.85%) Juniper
3 1 (3.85%) QNX
3 1 (3.85%) Quark
3 1 (3.85%) SAP
3 1 (3.85%) Siemens
3 1 (3.85%) SolarWinds
3 1 (3.85%) Splunk
3 1 (3.85%) Veeam
3 1 (3.85%) Zscaler