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 25 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 48 60
Rank change year-on-year -16 +12 -9
Contract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 13 9 7
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 1.45% 1.57% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.75% 1.79% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 6
10th Percentile £399 £196 -
25th Percentile £419 £275 £165
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £300 £185
Median % change year-on-year +52.08% +62.16% -73.09%
75th Percentile £503 £538 £200
90th Percentile £636 £556 £350
West Midlands median daily rate £453 £375 £468
% change year-on-year +20.80% -19.79% -32.00%

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 744 503 573
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 82.85% 87.63% 81.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 411 331 391
10th Percentile £313 £175 £208
25th Percentile £400 £362 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £460 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -8.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £538 £638
90th Percentile £675 £638 £750
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £505
% change year-on-year -5.00% -0.99% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 50 15
10th Percentile £13.45 - £14.60
25th Percentile £19.34 £12.62 £20.88
Median hourly rate £43.96 £18.87 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +132.96% -53.41% +47.27%
75th Percentile £55.00 £22.08 £53.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £26.89 £56.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.27 £24.34 £21.00
% change year-on-year +24.36% +15.90% -23.64%

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 25 August 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) AWS
3 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (7.69%) Datadog
4 1 (7.69%) GitHub
4 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (7.69%) IaaS
4 1 (7.69%) Matillion
4 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
4 1 (7.69%) PaaS
4 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
4 1 (7.69%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Base SAS
1 2 (15.38%) SAP HANA
1 2 (15.38%) SAS Enterprise Guide
2 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.69%) Power BI
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (7.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) GitLab
1 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
1 1 (7.69%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (15.38%) Banking
1 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Legal
2 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (15.38%) Administrator
1 2 (15.38%) AIX Administrator
1 2 (15.38%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (15.38%) Consultant
1 2 (15.38%) Developer
1 2 (15.38%) SAP Basis Consultant
1 2 (15.38%) SAP Consultant
1 2 (15.38%) SAS Developer
1 2 (15.38%) Senior
1 2 (15.38%) Server Administrator
1 2 (15.38%) Site Engineer
1 2 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (7.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) Terraform
2 2 (15.38%) SAP Basis
3 1 (7.69%) ADO
3 1 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Clustering
1 2 (15.38%) Data Centre
1 2 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (15.38%) Private Cloud
1 2 (15.38%) Public Cloud
1 2 (15.38%) Replication
2 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
2 2 (15.38%) AIX
2 2 (15.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Migration
2 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (38.46%) ITIL
3 4 (30.77%) Capacity Planning
3 4 (30.77%) Change Management
3 4 (30.77%) DevOps
4 3 (23.08%) Business Continuity
4 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
4 3 (23.08%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (23.08%) Incident Management
4 3 (23.08%) Runbook
5 2 (15.38%) Cloud Operations
5 2 (15.38%) Data Centre Operations
5 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (15.38%) Observability
5 2 (15.38%) Operational Stability
5 2 (15.38%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (15.38%) Project Delivery
5 2 (15.38%) SDLC
5 2 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) Python
2 2 (15.38%) Perl
3 1 (7.69%) Bash
3 1 (7.69%) Bicep
3 1 (7.69%) Go
3 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) Data Quality
2 2 (15.38%) Basel III
3 1 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Firmware
1 2 (15.38%) PowerHA
2 1 (7.69%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) Grafana
2 1 (7.69%) Progress Chef
2 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
2 1 (7.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) SAP
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
3 2 (15.38%) IBM
4 1 (7.69%) Informatica
4 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow
4 1 (7.69%) Splunk
4 1 (7.69%) VMware