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 13 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 44 67
Rank change year-on-year -17 +23 -4
Contract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 15 10 1
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 1.66% 1.92% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.97% 2.21% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 1
10th Percentile £378 £226 -
25th Percentile £456 £466 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £700 £513
Median % change year-on-year -32.54% +36.59% -25.45%
75th Percentile £558 - £519
90th Percentile £603 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £425 £675 £525
% change year-on-year -37.04% +28.57% -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 760 452 619
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 84.16% 86.92% 82.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 468 326 409
10th Percentile £306 £178 £248
25th Percentile £405 £375 £373
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 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 19 44
10th Percentile £12.86 - £13.20
25th Percentile £15.72 £12.62 £17.75
Median hourly rate £19.67 £14.70 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year +33.81% -46.06% +74.20%
75th Percentile £25.00 £29.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £30.00 £35.04 £56.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.15 £18.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +39.72% -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 13 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 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) GCP
2 3 (20.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 2 (13.33%) AWS
3 2 (13.33%) Azure
3 2 (13.33%) Power Platform
4 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
4 1 (6.67%) Matillion
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (6.67%) OpenShift
4 1 (6.67%) Serverless
4 1 (6.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) SAP HANA
2 2 (13.33%) Power BI
3 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
3 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (6.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Jenkins
2 3 (20.00%) Git
3 1 (6.67%) GitLab
3 1 (6.67%) JIRA
3 1 (6.67%) Liquibase
General
1 4 (26.67%) Finance
1 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Consultant
2 3 (20.00%) SAP Basis Consultant
2 3 (20.00%) SAP Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) Administrator
3 2 (13.33%) AIX Administrator
3 2 (13.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Data Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Data Quality Manager
3 2 (13.33%) GCP DevOps
3 2 (13.33%) GCP DevOps Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) GCP Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Quality Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Senior
3 2 (13.33%) Server Administrator
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 3 (20.00%) SAP Basis
2 1 (6.67%) .NET
2 1 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (6.67%) REST
2 1 (6.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Replication
2 2 (13.33%) Clustering
2 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (6.67%) PKI
3 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Linux
2 2 (13.33%) AIX
2 2 (13.33%) Unix
3 1 (6.67%) Windows
3 1 (6.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) ITIL
2 5 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 4 (26.67%) Containerisation
3 4 (26.67%) DevOps
3 4 (26.67%) Incident Response
3 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (26.67%) Problem Management
4 3 (20.00%) Auto-Scaling
4 3 (20.00%) Business Continuity
4 3 (20.00%) Change Management
4 3 (20.00%) Dependency Management
4 3 (20.00%) DevSecOps
4 3 (20.00%) High Availability
4 3 (20.00%) Migration
4 3 (20.00%) Observability
4 3 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 3 (20.00%) SBOM
4 3 (20.00%) Secrets Management
4 3 (20.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) Python
2 2 (13.33%) Perl
2 2 (13.33%) SQL
3 1 (6.67%) Bash
3 1 (6.67%) Go
3 1 (6.67%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
1 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified Developer
1 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (6.67%) CISM
1 1 (6.67%) CISSP
1 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
1 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.67%) GDPR
2 1 (6.67%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Docker
2 2 (13.33%) Firmware
2 2 (13.33%) PowerHA
3 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) Grafana
1 5 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 5 (33.33%) Prometheus
1 5 (33.33%) Terraform
2 2 (13.33%) Ansible
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) SAP
2 2 (13.33%) IBM
3 1 (6.67%) Informatica
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle
3 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow
3 1 (6.67%) Splunk