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 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 60 57
Rank change year-on-year +15 -3 +11
Contract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 28 8 13
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 4.26% 1.14% 1.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.67% 1.35% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 7 7
10th Percentile £468 - £321
25th Percentile £515 £165 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £200 £700
Median % change year-on-year +168.50% -71.43% +58.37%
75th Percentile £569 £350 £750
90th Percentile £892 £580 -
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £406 £516
% change year-on-year +29.23% -21.31% +8.46%

All Process and 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 599 594 641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 91.17% 84.38% 82.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 394 388 421
10th Percentile £250 £196 £270
25th Percentile £375 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £606
90th Percentile £650 £750 £725
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 11 21
10th Percentile £12.62 £14.70 £14.54
25th Percentile £13.25 £20.88 £25.00
Median hourly rate £18.87 £26.13 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.77% -41.94% +143.24%
75th Percentile £25.00 £53.88 £67.50
90th Percentile £29.30 £57.25 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £24.34 £24.18 £27.25
% change year-on-year +0.66% -11.27% +53.78%

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 4 November 2025.

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:

Cloud Services
1 19 (67.86%) AWS
2 15 (53.57%) GCP
3 14 (50.00%) Serverless
4 5 (17.86%) AWS KMS
5 3 (10.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (10.71%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (10.71%) Amazon ELB
5 3 (10.71%) Amazon S3
5 3 (10.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (7.14%) Azure
6 2 (7.14%) Azure AKS
6 2 (7.14%) Azure API Management
6 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (7.14%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (7.14%) GitHub
6 2 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.29%) Network Security
2 3 (10.71%) DNS
2 3 (10.71%) Firewall
2 3 (10.71%) SSL
2 3 (10.71%) TCP/IP
2 3 (10.71%) VPN
3 1 (3.57%) BGP
3 1 (3.57%) EIGRP
3 1 (3.57%) LAN
3 1 (3.57%) OSPF
3 1 (3.57%) SD-WAN
3 1 (3.57%) VLAN
3 1 (3.57%) WAN
3 1 (3.57%) Wireless
3 1 (3.57%) Wireless Security
3 1 (3.57%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 10 (35.71%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (67.86%) Jenkins
2 17 (60.71%) GitLab
3 10 (35.71%) Liquibase
4 3 (10.71%) Git
5 2 (7.14%) CircleCI
General
1 20 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 14 (50.00%) Finance
3 11 (39.29%) Banking
4 10 (35.71%) Financial Institution
5 5 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.57%) Military
6 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (42.86%) Cloud Engineer
1 12 (42.86%) Senior
2 10 (35.71%) GCP Engineer
3 9 (32.14%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (32.14%) Senior DevOps
3 9 (32.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 9 (32.14%) Software Engineer
4 7 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
4 7 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
5 6 (21.43%) Cloud Software Engineer
6 5 (17.86%) AWS Software Engineer
7 4 (14.29%) GCP Software Engineer
7 4 (14.29%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 2 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
8 2 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 2 (7.14%) GCP DevOps
8 2 (7.14%) GCP DevOps Engineer
8 2 (7.14%) Operations Engineer
8 2 (7.14%) Python Engineer
8 2 (7.14%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (57.14%) REST
2 14 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (50.00%) RESTful
3 1 (3.57%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 14 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 14 (50.00%) Public Cloud
2 11 (39.29%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.14%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 14 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 21 (75.00%) DevOps
2 19 (67.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 18 (64.29%) Containerisation
4 15 (53.57%) Computer Science
5 14 (50.00%) Agile
5 14 (50.00%) Cryptography
5 14 (50.00%) High Availability
6 12 (42.86%) Microservices
7 11 (39.29%) Cost Optimisation
7 11 (39.29%) Cybersecurity
8 10 (35.71%) Non-Functional Testing
8 10 (35.71%) Software Engineering
9 9 (32.14%) Continuous Integration
9 9 (32.14%) Data Encryption
9 9 (32.14%) Data Security
9 9 (32.14%) Infrastructure Automation
10 8 (28.57%) Change Management
10 8 (28.57%) Continuous Delivery
11 7 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 25 (89.29%) Python
2 16 (57.14%) Go
3 5 (17.86%) Perl
3 5 (17.86%) Shell Script
4 4 (14.29%) SQL
5 3 (10.71%) Bash
Qualifications
1 15 (53.57%) Computer Science Degree
1 15 (53.57%) Degree
2 13 (46.43%) Master's Degree
3 4 (14.29%) AWS Certification
3 4 (14.29%) Security Cleared
4 2 (7.14%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (7.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Azure Certification
4 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.57%) CCNP
5 1 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) Data Quality
System Software
1 18 (64.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (67.86%) Terraform
2 17 (60.71%) Ansible
3 16 (57.14%) Kubernetes
4 14 (50.00%) Grafana
4 14 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (67.86%) Splunk
2 7 (25.00%) Google
2 7 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (17.86%) ServiceNow
4 3 (10.71%) CheckPoint
4 3 (10.71%) F5
4 3 (10.71%) Palo Alto
5 1 (3.57%) Cisco
5 1 (3.57%) Juniper
5 1 (3.57%) SolarWinds