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 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 45 59
Rank change year-on-year -20 +14 -3
Contract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 17 9 1
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 1.82% 1.73% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.17% 1.98% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 1
10th Percentile £394 £182 -
25th Percentile £419 £242 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £292 £513
Median % change year-on-year +58.39% -43.02% -25.45%
75th Percentile £532 £406 £519
90th Percentile £571 £553 -
West Midlands median daily rate £468 £300 £516
% change year-on-year +56.00% -41.89% -20.58%

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 783 455 614
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 83.74% 87.33% 79.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 476 305 410
10th Percentile £313 £163 £231
25th Percentile £400 £375 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £581 £575 £588
90th Percentile £680 £689 £689
West Midlands median daily rate £481 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.29% -5.00% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 36 40
10th Percentile £16.79 - £13.93
25th Percentile £20.97 £12.62 £18.50
Median hourly rate £33.05 £17.44 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year +89.56% -36.02% +21.19%
75th Percentile £75.00 £26.51 £48.75
90th Percentile - £28.40 £57.91
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.99 £24.34 £22.50
% change year-on-year +39.65% +8.18% -10.00%

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 26 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Root Cause Analysis in Birmingham

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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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.76%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) Azure
2 3 (17.65%) AWS
2 3 (17.65%) GCP
2 3 (17.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.88%) IaaS
4 1 (5.88%) Matillion
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.88%) PaaS
4 1 (5.88%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) SAP HANA
2 2 (11.76%) Base SAS
2 2 (11.76%) Power BI
2 2 (11.76%) SAS Enterprise Guide
3 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (5.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Git
1 3 (17.65%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.88%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 3 (17.65%) Banking
2 2 (11.76%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Consultant
2 3 (17.65%) SAP Basis Consultant
2 3 (17.65%) SAP Consultant
3 2 (11.76%) Administrator
3 2 (11.76%) AIX Administrator
3 2 (11.76%) Developer
3 2 (11.76%) GCP DevOps
3 2 (11.76%) GCP DevOps Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) GCP Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) SAS Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior
3 2 (11.76%) Server Administrator
4 1 (5.88%) Python Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Site Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) OpenTelemetry
1 3 (17.65%) SAP Basis
2 1 (5.88%) .NET
2 1 (5.88%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Replication
2 2 (11.76%) Clustering
2 2 (11.76%) Data Centre
2 2 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (11.76%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Linux
2 2 (11.76%) AIX
2 2 (11.76%) Unix
3 1 (5.88%) Windows
3 1 (5.88%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) ITIL
2 6 (35.29%) DevOps
2 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (35.29%) Migration
3 5 (29.41%) Capacity Planning
4 4 (23.53%) CI/CD
4 4 (23.53%) Observability
4 4 (23.53%) Problem Management
5 3 (17.65%) Auto-Scaling
5 3 (17.65%) Business Continuity
5 3 (17.65%) Change Management
5 3 (17.65%) Containerisation
5 3 (17.65%) Dependency Management
5 3 (17.65%) DevSecOps
5 3 (17.65%) Incident Response
5 3 (17.65%) Project Delivery
5 3 (17.65%) RBAC
5 3 (17.65%) SBOM
5 3 (17.65%) Secrets Management
5 3 (17.65%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) Python
2 2 (11.76%) Perl
3 1 (5.88%) Bicep
3 1 (5.88%) Groovy
3 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) Data Quality
2 2 (11.76%) Basel III
3 1 (5.88%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Docker
2 2 (11.76%) Firmware
2 2 (11.76%) PowerHA
3 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) Terraform
2 3 (17.65%) Grafana
2 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
2 3 (17.65%) Prometheus
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) SAP
2 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.76%) IBM
4 1 (5.88%) Informatica
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle
4 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow