Root Cause Analysis Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Root Cause Analysis
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Root Cause Analysis skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 46 63
Rank change year-on-year -3 +17 -7
Contract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 25 10 1
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 2.79% 1.92% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.33% 2.19% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 7 1
10th Percentile £446 £226 -
25th Percentile £462 £466 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £700 £513
Median % change year-on-year -26.79% +36.59% -25.45%
75th Percentile £531 - £519
90th Percentile £571 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £463 £650 £525
% change year-on-year -28.85% +23.81% -14.29%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 751 456 623
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 83.91% 87.36% 83.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 469 327 410
10th Percentile £306 £178 £249
25th Percentile £406 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% -9.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £638 £700 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £485 £500 £490
% change year-on-year -3.00% +2.04% -3.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 19 43
10th Percentile £12.99 - £13.19
25th Percentile £15.62 £12.62 £17.00
Median hourly rate £20.00 £14.70 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.05% -43.46% +66.21%
75th Percentile £25.00 £29.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £30.00 £35.04 £56.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.00 £18.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +38.89% -20.00% +26.98%

Root Cause Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Root Cause Analysis relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Root Cause Analysis job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Root Cause Analysis
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Root Cause Analysis.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Root Cause Analysis

Root Cause Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Root Cause Analysis in Birmingham over the 6 months to 6 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Root Cause Analysis in Birmingham

Root Cause Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Root Cause Analysis.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Root Cause Analysis

Root Cause Analysis
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 12 (48.00%) GCP
2 10 (40.00%) AWS
3 9 (36.00%) Serverless
4 5 (20.00%) AWS KMS
5 3 (12.00%) Azure
5 3 (12.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (8.00%) Power Platform
7 1 (4.00%) Azure AKS
7 1 (4.00%) Azure API Management
7 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
7 1 (4.00%) GitHub
7 1 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (4.00%) Matillion
7 1 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (4.00%) OpenShift
7 1 (4.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (36.00%) NoSQL
1 9 (36.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (12.00%) SAP HANA
3 2 (8.00%) Power BI
4 1 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (4.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (56.00%) Jenkins
2 10 (40.00%) GitLab
3 5 (20.00%) Liquibase
4 3 (12.00%) Git
5 1 (4.00%) CircleCI
5 1 (4.00%) JIRA
General
1 13 (52.00%) Finance
2 12 (48.00%) Social Skills
3 9 (36.00%) Banking
4 7 (28.00%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (36.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 9 (36.00%) GCP Engineer
2 6 (24.00%) AWS Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) AWS Software Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Senior
4 4 (16.00%) Software Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Cloud Software Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Consultant
5 3 (12.00%) Python Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) SAP Basis Consultant
5 3 (12.00%) SAP Consultant
6 2 (8.00%) AIX Administrator
6 2 (8.00%) Data Manager
6 2 (8.00%) Data Quality Manager
6 2 (8.00%) Quality Manager
6 2 (8.00%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (8.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Server Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (40.00%) REST
2 9 (36.00%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (36.00%) RESTful
3 3 (12.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (12.00%) SAP Basis
4 1 (4.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 10 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (36.00%) Public Cloud
3 6 (24.00%) Cloud Native
4 3 (12.00%) Replication
5 2 (8.00%) Clustering
5 2 (8.00%) Data Centre
6 1 (4.00%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (4.00%) PKI
6 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (48.00%) Linux
2 2 (8.00%) AIX
2 2 (8.00%) Unix
3 1 (4.00%) Windows
3 1 (4.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 14 (56.00%) Containerisation
2 14 (56.00%) DevOps
3 13 (52.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (36.00%) Agile
4 9 (36.00%) Computer Science
4 9 (36.00%) Cryptography
4 9 (36.00%) High Availability
5 7 (28.00%) Change Management
5 7 (28.00%) ITIL
5 7 (28.00%) Microservices
5 7 (28.00%) Non-Functional Testing
6 6 (24.00%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (24.00%) Data Encryption
6 6 (24.00%) Data Security
7 5 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
7 5 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
7 5 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
7 5 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (20.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 16 (64.00%) Python
2 10 (40.00%) Go
3 2 (8.00%) Perl
3 2 (8.00%) SQL
4 1 (4.00%) Bash
4 1 (4.00%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 9 (36.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (36.00%) Degree
1 9 (36.00%) Master's Degree
2 2 (8.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.00%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (4.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.00%) CISM
3 1 (4.00%) CISSP
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.00%) GDPR
2 1 (4.00%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (48.00%) Docker
2 2 (8.00%) Firmware
2 2 (8.00%) PowerHA
3 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (56.00%) Kubernetes
1 14 (56.00%) Terraform
2 13 (52.00%) Grafana
2 13 (52.00%) Prometheus
3 9 (36.00%) Ansible
4 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (36.00%) Splunk
2 4 (16.00%) Google
2 4 (16.00%) SAP
3 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (8.00%) IBM
5 1 (4.00%) Informatica
5 1 (4.00%) Oracle
5 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow