The first table below looks at the demand for Root Cause Analysis skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Root Cause Analysis over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Root Cause Analysis
Rank 292 288 289
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +1
Contract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 265 347 348
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.571% 0.595% 0.570%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.804% 0.877% 0.843%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 151 192
Average daily rate £400 £469 £385
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.66% +21.75%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £273 £261
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £500 £358
% change year-on-year
-25.00% +39.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 22 15
Average hourly rate £22.50 £32.50 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-30.76% +30.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.30 £21.00 £9.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £28.20 £56.50 £35.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £32.50 £18.25
% change year-on-year
-30.76% +78.08%
All Processes & Methodologies
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
32941 39581 41270
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 71.01% 67.87% 67.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 19678 22705 23413
Average daily rate £413 £403 £438
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.48% -8.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £580 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 976 1282 1475
Average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -13.79%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £12.50 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%

Root Cause Analysis
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Root Cause Analysis within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Root Cause Analysis Jobs Demand Trend

Root Cause Analysis
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis within the UK.

Root Cause Analysis Daily Rate Trend

Root Cause Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Root Cause Analysis within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Root Cause Analysis Daily Rate Histogram

Root Cause Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Root Cause Analysis within the UK.

Root Cause Analysis Hourly Rate Trend

Root Cause Analysis
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Root Cause Analysis within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Root Cause Analysis Hourly Rate Histogram

Root Cause Analysis
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Root Cause Analysis within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England -6 239 £400 -15.78%
London +37 121 £428 +6.87%
South East +10 55 £325 +30.00%
City of London +17 33 £363 -9.37%
South West 0 18 £425 -15.00%
Berkshire -4 17 £363 +45.00%
North West +20 15 £325 -4.41%
Gloucestershire +5 14 £450 -10.00%
East Sussex +18 11 £350 +94.44%
Manchester +16 10 £325 -4.41%
Reading -1 9 - -
East of England -18 9 £450 +210.34%
Yorkshire +5 8 £363 +39.42%
Buckinghamshire - 7 £325 -
Brighton +10 6 £350 +94.44%
Oxfordshire +10 6 £325 -31.57%
Hertfordshire +6 6 £450 +350.00%
Scotland -11 6 £400 +29.03%
Isleworth - 6 - -
Surrey +13 5 £240 -31.42%
Edinburgh +10 5 £425 +41.66%
West Midlands +1 5 £400 +3.22%
Hampshire -9 5 £375 -
Cheltenham +7 4 £310 -38.00%
West Yorkshire +5 4 £350 +34.61%
Dorset +1 4 £375 +15.38%
Poole 0 4 £375 +15.38%
Milton Keynes - 4 £325 -
West Sussex +19 3 £425 -
Crawley +12 3 £425 -

Root Cause Analysis
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Root Cause Analysis also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Root Cause Analysis.

1 125 (25.00%) Windows
2 105 (21.00%) Finance
3 103 (20.60%) SQL
4 100 (20.00%) ITIL
5 89 (17.80%) Problem Management
6 84 (16.80%) Microsoft
7 71 (14.20%) UNIX
8 67 (13.40%) SQL Server
9 64 (12.80%) Telecoms
10 62 (12.40%) Incident Management
11 57 (11.40%) Oracle
12 54 (10.80%) Banking
13 53 (10.60%) MS Excel
13 53 (10.60%) User Acceptance Testing
14 51 (10.20%) SAP
15 48 (9.600%) MS Office
15 48 (9.600%) Security Cleared
16 46 (9.200%) Linux
16 46 (9.200%) Migration
17 44 (8.800%) SharePoint
18 42 (8.400%) Windows XP
19 40 (8.000%) Service Management
20 39 (7.800%) .NET
20 39 (7.800%) Java
21 37 (7.400%) SLA
22 36 (7.200%) Active Directory
22 36 (7.200%) Windows Server 2003
23 34 (6.800%) Release Management
24 32 (6.400%) Windows 7
25 30 (6.000%) Windows Server 2008

Root Cause Analysis
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Root Cause Analysis also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Root Cause Analysis. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 39 (7.800%) .NET
2 28 (5.600%) Middleware
3 17 (3.400%) WebSphere
4 15 (3.000%) XML
5 14 (2.800%) Web Services
6 10 (2.000%) J2EE
7 9 (1.800%) Software Packaging
8 6 (1.200%) Application Packaging
8 6 (1.200%) Struts2
8 6 (1.200%) Hibernate
8 6 (1.200%) Spring
8 6 (1.200%) JSF
8 6 (1.200%) XML Schema
8 6 (1.200%) Struts
8 6 (1.200%) CSS
8 6 (1.200%) JSP
8 6 (1.200%) DHTML
9 5 (1.000%) FIX Protocol
10 4 (0.800%) .NET Framework
10 4 (0.800%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 44 (8.800%) SharePoint
2 19 (3.800%) MS Exchange
2 19 (3.800%) Apache
2 19 (3.800%) WebSphere MQ
3 17 (3.400%) WebSphere Message Broker
4 16 (3.200%) SharePoint 2010
4 16 (3.200%) BizTalk Server
5 14 (2.800%) WebSphere Transformation Extender
6 12 (2.400%) IIS
7 11 (2.200%) WebLogic
8 8 (1.600%) Exchange Server 2003
9 7 (1.400%) Exchange Server 2010
10 6 (1.200%) ActiveMQ
10 6 (1.200%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 5 (1.000%) SAS
11 5 (1.000%) Lync
12 4 (0.800%) Liferay
12 4 (0.800%) Oracle Workflow
13 3 (0.600%) CICS
13 3 (0.600%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 53 (10.60%) MS Excel
2 48 (9.600%) MS Office
3 16 (3.200%) MS Visio
4 14 (2.800%) Acrobat
5 12 (2.400%) MS Project
6 8 (1.600%) MS PowerPoint
7 3 (0.600%) Office 365
8 1 (0.200%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (1.600%) SAP PSCD
1 8 (1.600%) ION MarketView
2 7 (1.400%) SAP FI
2 7 (1.400%) SAP FI-CA
3 5 (1.000%) Oracle Applications
3 5 (1.000%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.600%) RMDS
4 3 (0.600%) SAP CRM
4 3 (0.600%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.600%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.400%) Hyperion Planning
5 2 (0.400%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.400%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.400%) BPCS
5 2 (0.400%) Agresso
6 1 (0.200%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.200%) SAP APO
6 1 (0.200%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.200%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.200%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 23 (4.600%) GGSN
1 23 (4.600%) SGSN
2 20 (4.000%) TCP/IP
2 20 (4.000%) DNS
3 17 (3.400%) SAN
4 16 (3.200%) Firewall
5 14 (2.800%) DHCP
5 14 (2.800%) 3G
6 13 (2.600%) LDAP
7 12 (2.400%) Broadband
8 9 (1.800%) GSM
8 9 (1.800%) UMTS
9 8 (1.600%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (1.600%) Wireless
9 8 (1.600%) LAN
9 8 (1.600%) ADSL
9 8 (1.600%) HTTP
10 7 (1.400%) SS7
10 7 (1.400%) OSPF
10 7 (1.400%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (13.40%) SQL Server
2 17 (3.400%) BusinessObjects
3 14 (2.800%) SQL Server 2008
4 12 (2.400%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 12 (2.400%) MS Access
4 12 (2.400%) Oracle Reports
5 11 (2.200%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (2.200%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 10 (2.000%) Oracle 10g
7 9 (1.800%) SQLPlus
8 8 (1.600%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 8 (1.600%) TOAD
8 8 (1.600%) SAP BW
9 5 (1.000%) MySQL
9 5 (1.000%) Oracle Discoverer
9 5 (1.000%) JasperReports
9 5 (1.000%) GIS
10 4 (0.800%) DB2
11 3 (0.600%) SAP BI
11 3 (0.600%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 7 (1.400%) MSI
2 6 (1.200%) Maven
2 6 (1.200%) Oracle Forms
3 5 (1.000%) Subversion
3 5 (1.000%) Introscope
3 5 (1.000%) Git (software)
4 4 (0.800%) Selenium
4 4 (0.800%) SpecFlow
4 4 (0.800%) JBehave
5 3 (0.600%) Cucumber
5 3 (0.600%) Hudson
5 3 (0.600%) JIRA
6 2 (0.400%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.400%) Eclipse
6 2 (0.400%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.400%) ProC
7 1 (0.200%) QuickTest Pro
7 1 (0.200%) JDeveloper
7 1 (0.200%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
General
1 105 (21.00%) Finance
2 64 (12.80%) Telecoms
3 54 (10.80%) Banking
4 28 (5.600%) Front Office
5 24 (4.800%) Investment Banking
5 24 (4.800%) Retail
6 16 (3.200%) Legal
7 12 (2.400%) Billing
8 11 (2.200%) Marketing
9 10 (2.000%) Back Office
10 9 (1.800%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.200%) General Ledger
12 4 (0.800%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.800%) Publishing
12 4 (0.800%) Corporate Banking
13 3 (0.600%) Online Betting
14 2 (0.400%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.400%) Advertising
15 1 (0.200%) Music
15 1 (0.200%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 168 (33.60%) Analyst
2 67 (13.40%) Support Analyst
3 44 (8.800%) Business Analyst
4 42 (8.400%) Administrator
5 41 (8.200%) Support Engineer
6 32 (6.400%) Developer
7 31 (6.200%) Consultant
8 29 (5.800%) Applications Support
9 27 (5.400%) Applications Support Analyst
10 25 (5.000%) Desktop Support
11 22 (4.400%) Network Engineer
11 22 (4.400%) Java Developer
12 17 (3.400%) Desktop Engineer
13 16 (3.200%) Systems Administrator
14 15 (3.000%) Network Support
15 14 (2.800%) Security Support Engineer
15 14 (2.800%) Windows Support Engineer
15 14 (2.800%) Security Engineer
15 14 (2.800%) Desktop Support Engineer
15 14 (2.800%) DBA
Miscellaneous
1 24 (4.800%) Fixed Income
2 15 (3.000%) Clustering
2 15 (3.000%) Credit Risk
3 14 (2.800%) Smartcard
4 13 (2.600%) Management Information System
5 12 (2.400%) Derivative
6 11 (2.200%) Mainframe
7 9 (1.800%) Blackberry
7 9 (1.800%) Replication
8 7 (1.400%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 7 (1.400%) SWIFT
9 6 (1.200%) Reference Data
9 6 (1.200%) Open Source
10 5 (1.000%) SaaS
10 5 (1.000%) Mathematics
11 4 (0.800%) Statistics
12 3 (0.600%) EPoS
12 3 (0.600%) IPTV
12 3 (0.600%) AS400
12 3 (0.600%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 125 (25.00%) Windows
2 71 (14.20%) UNIX
3 46 (9.200%) Linux
4 42 (8.400%) Windows XP
5 36 (7.200%) Windows Server 2003
6 32 (6.400%) Windows 7
7 30 (6.000%) Windows Server 2008
8 17 (3.400%) Solaris
9 16 (3.200%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 8 (1.600%) AIX
11 6 (1.200%) Windows NT
11 6 (1.200%) Windows 2000
12 4 (0.800%) Windows 2000 Server
13 3 (0.600%) Windows Vista
14 2 (0.400%) Android
14 2 (0.400%) HPUX
14 2 (0.400%) zOS
15 1 (0.200%) VMS
15 1 (0.200%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (20.00%) ITIL
2 89 (17.80%) Problem Management
3 62 (12.40%) Incident Management
4 53 (10.60%) User Acceptance Testing
5 46 (9.200%) Migration
6 40 (8.000%) Service Management
7 34 (6.800%) Release Management
8 29 (5.800%) Continuous Improvement
9 28 (5.600%) Project Management
10 27 (5.400%) Change Management
11 26 (5.200%) Business Analysis
12 22 (4.400%) CRM
12 22 (4.400%) Stakeholder Management
13 20 (4.000%) ERP
14 19 (3.800%) Business Intelligence
15 17 (3.400%) Unit Testing
16 16 (3.200%) Service Delivery
17 15 (3.000%) Risk Management
17 15 (3.000%) Workflow
17 15 (3.000%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 103 (20.60%) SQL
2 39 (7.800%) Java
3 25 (5.000%) VB
4 22 (4.400%) Perl
4 22 (4.400%) C
5 21 (4.200%) C#
6 18 (3.600%) Shell Script
7 17 (3.400%) VBA
8 14 (2.800%) VB6
8 14 (2.800%) Korn
8 14 (2.800%) VB.NET
9 11 (2.200%) JavaScript
9 11 (2.200%) PowerShell
10 9 (1.800%) PL/SQL
11 8 (1.600%) T-SQL
12 5 (1.000%) COBOL
12 5 (1.000%) PHP
12 5 (1.000%) VBScript
13 4 (0.800%) Python
14 3 (0.600%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 48 (9.600%) Security Cleared
2 26 (5.200%) Degree
3 25 (5.000%) DV Cleared
4 20 (4.000%) SC Cleared
5 18 (3.600%) ISEB
6 13 (2.600%) ITIL Certification
7 10 (2.000%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (2.000%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (1.200%) CCIP
9 5 (1.000%) MCSE
9 5 (1.000%) CCNP
10 4 (0.800%) CTC Cleared
10 4 (0.800%) ISEB Practitioner
10 4 (0.800%) JNCIA
10 4 (0.800%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.800%) CCDP
10 4 (0.800%) CCIE
11 3 (0.600%) CCA
11 3 (0.600%) MCSA
11 3 (0.600%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (7.400%) SLA
2 21 (4.200%) QA
3 11 (2.200%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.600%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.400%) Basel III
5 2 (0.400%) Basel II
6 1 (0.200%) COBIT
System Software
1 36 (7.200%) Active Directory
2 12 (2.400%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.800%) Oracle RMAN
3 9 (1.800%) Oracle RAC
4 7 (1.400%) Microsoft App-V
4 7 (1.400%) UAG
5 6 (1.200%) XenApp
6 5 (1.000%) VMware ESX
6 5 (1.000%) vSphere
7 3 (0.600%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 2 (0.400%) Forefront TMG
8 2 (0.400%) Varnish
8 2 (0.400%) NFS
9 1 (0.200%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.200%) Samba
9 1 (0.200%) SRDF
9 1 (0.200%) Sendmail
9 1 (0.200%) XenServer
9 1 (0.200%) XenDesktop
9 1 (0.200%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 14 (2.800%) Tivoli
2 13 (2.600%) SCCM
3 10 (2.000%) NetBackup
4 9 (1.800%) EMC NetWorker
5 8 (1.600%) SCOM
5 8 (1.600%) Data Guard
6 7 (1.400%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 7 (1.400%) OpenView
7 6 (1.200%) WSUS
8 5 (1.000%) Legato
8 5 (1.000%) CA Wily
8 5 (1.000%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
9 4 (0.800%) HP Quality Center
9 4 (0.800%) Unicenter
10 3 (0.600%) HP NNM
10 3 (0.600%) Zenoss
10 3 (0.600%) McAfee ePO
10 3 (0.600%) HP SIM
10 3 (0.600%) Puppet
10 3 (0.600%) Splunk
Vendors
1 84 (16.80%) Microsoft
2 57 (11.40%) Oracle
3 51 (10.20%) SAP
4 29 (5.800%) VMware
5 24 (4.800%) HP
6 23 (4.600%) Cisco
7 22 (4.400%) Citrix
8 19 (3.800%) Nokia Siemens Networks
9 17 (3.400%) EMC
9 17 (3.400%) Business Objects
9 17 (3.400%) IBM
10 16 (3.200%) CA
11 15 (3.000%) Red Hat
12 11 (2.200%) Symantec
13 9 (1.800%) ION Trading
14 8 (1.600%) BT
15 6 (1.200%) Sybase
15 6 (1.200%) Juniper
16 5 (1.000%) NetApp
16 5 (1.000%) Nokia
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Rate: £400 - £495 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
Liverpool, North West
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Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £300.00 per day
Posted: 25 May 2013
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Posted: 24 May 2013
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Posted: 1 May 2013
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Posted: 13 May 2013
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Rate: £400 - £500 per day
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Rate: £400 - £500 per day
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Rate: Market related
Posted: 11 May 2013
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Posted: 21 May 2013
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Posted: 17 May 2013
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