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 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 48 66
Rank change year-on-year +3 +18 -7
Contract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 30 8 1
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 3.48% 1.53% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.12% 1.72% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 6 1
10th Percentile £456 £396 -
25th Percentile £468 £663 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £700 £513
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +36.59% -25.45%
75th Percentile £540 - £519
90th Percentile £571 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £463 £700 £525
% change year-on-year -33.82% +33.33% -12.50%

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 728 465 639
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 84.36% 89.08% 83.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 453 334 422
10th Percentile £308 £190 £250
25th Percentile £405 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £650 £700 £663
West Midlands median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 14 44
10th Percentile £13.25 - £13.20
25th Percentile £16.02 £12.62 £17.75
Median hourly rate £20.25 £18.35 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year +10.35% -32.66% +67.33%
75th Percentile £25.00 £29.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £30.00 £30.68 £67.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £24.29 £18.13 £22.50
% change year-on-year +33.96% -19.42% +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 21 March 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 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 14 (46.67%) AWS
1 14 (46.67%) GCP
2 10 (33.33%) Serverless
3 5 (16.67%) AWS KMS
4 4 (13.33%) Azure
5 3 (10.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (6.67%) Azure AKS
6 2 (6.67%) Azure API Management
6 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (6.67%) GitHub
6 2 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (6.67%) Power Platform
7 1 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (3.33%) Amazon ELB
7 1 (3.33%) Amazon S3
7 1 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (3.33%) OpenShift
7 1 (3.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) SAN
2 1 (3.33%) DNS
2 1 (3.33%) Firewall
2 1 (3.33%) Network Security
2 1 (3.33%) SSL
2 1 (3.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 10 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (10.00%) SAP HANA
3 2 (6.67%) Power BI
4 1 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (3.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 13 (43.33%) GitLab
3 6 (20.00%) Liquibase
4 4 (13.33%) Git
5 2 (6.67%) CircleCI
6 1 (3.33%) JIRA
General
1 15 (50.00%) Finance
1 15 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (36.67%) Banking
3 8 (26.67%) Financial Institution
4 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (36.67%) Cloud Engineer
1 11 (36.67%) GCP Engineer
2 8 (26.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (23.33%) Senior
4 6 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (16.67%) Senior DevOps
5 5 (16.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 5 (16.67%) Software Engineer
6 4 (13.33%) AWS Software Engineer
6 4 (13.33%) Cloud Software Engineer
7 3 (10.00%) Consultant
7 3 (10.00%) GCP DevOps
7 3 (10.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
7 3 (10.00%) GCP Software Engineer
7 3 (10.00%) Python Engineer
7 3 (10.00%) SAP Basis Consultant
7 3 (10.00%) SAP Consultant
7 3 (10.00%) Senior Software Engineer
8 2 (6.67%) Data Manager
8 2 (6.67%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (40.00%) REST
2 10 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (33.33%) RESTful
3 3 (10.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (10.00%) SAP Basis
4 1 (3.33%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 12 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (33.33%) Public Cloud
3 7 (23.33%) Cloud Native
4 3 (10.00%) Replication
5 2 (6.67%) Clustering
5 2 (6.67%) Data Centre
5 2 (6.67%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (3.33%) PKI
6 1 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (43.33%) Linux
2 2 (6.67%) AIX
2 2 (6.67%) Unix
3 1 (3.33%) Windows
3 1 (3.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (63.33%) CI/CD
2 18 (60.00%) DevOps
3 17 (56.67%) Containerisation
4 16 (53.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (36.67%) Computer Science
5 11 (36.67%) High Availability
6 10 (33.33%) Agile
6 10 (33.33%) Cryptography
7 8 (26.67%) Change Management
7 8 (26.67%) Data Security
7 8 (26.67%) ITIL
7 8 (26.67%) Microservices
7 8 (26.67%) Non-Functional Testing
8 7 (23.33%) Continuous Integration
8 7 (23.33%) Cost Optimisation
8 7 (23.33%) Cybersecurity
8 7 (23.33%) Data Encryption
9 6 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
9 6 (20.00%) Software Engineering
10 5 (16.67%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 20 (66.67%) Python
2 12 (40.00%) Go
3 3 (10.00%) Perl
3 3 (10.00%) SQL
4 2 (6.67%) Bash
5 1 (3.33%) Groovy
5 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (36.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 11 (36.67%) Degree
1 11 (36.67%) Master's Degree
2 3 (10.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (6.67%) Azure Certification
3 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.33%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (3.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) CISM
4 1 (3.33%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.33%) GDPR
2 1 (3.33%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (50.00%) Docker
2 2 (6.67%) Firmware
2 2 (6.67%) PowerHA
3 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (56.67%) Terraform
2 16 (53.33%) Kubernetes
3 14 (46.67%) Grafana
3 14 (46.67%) Prometheus
4 11 (36.67%) Ansible
5 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 11 (36.67%) Splunk
2 6 (20.00%) Google
3 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 4 (13.33%) SAP
5 2 (6.67%) IBM
5 2 (6.67%) ServiceNow
6 1 (3.33%) CheckPoint
6 1 (3.33%) F5
6 1 (3.33%) Informatica
6 1 (3.33%) Oracle
6 1 (3.33%) Palo Alto