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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 60 54
Rank change year-on-year +6 -6 +14
Contract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 15 7 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 2.52% 0.98% 2.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.83% 1.19% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 6 11
10th Percentile £282 - £388
25th Percentile £514 £165 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £559 £185 £700
Median % change year-on-year +202.16% -73.57% +55.56%
75th Percentile £653 £200 £747
90th Percentile £892 £350 £750
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £468 £550
% change year-on-year -3.74% -15.00% +18.92%

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 530 589 705
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 88.93% 82.49% 83.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 392 457
10th Percentile £200 £200 £267
25th Percentile £363 £388 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £559 £638 £613
90th Percentile £639 £750 £731
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 10 25
10th Percentile - £21.18 £12.98
25th Percentile £12.62 £29.30 £15.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £50.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -62.26% +81.82% +52.78%
75th Percentile £22.08 £55.19 £67.50
90th Percentile £26.51 £57.53 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £24.34 £24.31 £27.50
% change year-on-year +0.11% -11.59% +55.19%

Root Cause Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Root Cause Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Root Cause Analysis 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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Root Cause Analysis in Birmingham over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

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 and Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (13.33%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) AWS
2 4 (26.67%) GCP
2 4 (26.67%) Serverless
3 2 (13.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (13.33%) Amazon ELB
3 2 (13.33%) Amazon S3
3 2 (13.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) Network Security
2 2 (13.33%) DNS
2 2 (13.33%) Firewall
2 2 (13.33%) SSL
2 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
2 2 (13.33%) VPN
3 1 (6.67%) BGP
3 1 (6.67%) EIGRP
3 1 (6.67%) LAN
3 1 (6.67%) OSPF
3 1 (6.67%) SD-WAN
3 1 (6.67%) VLAN
3 1 (6.67%) WAN
3 1 (6.67%) Wireless
3 1 (6.67%) Wireless Security
3 1 (6.67%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (13.33%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (13.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) GitLab
1 4 (26.67%) Jenkins
1 4 (26.67%) Liquibase
2 2 (13.33%) Git
General
1 10 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Banking
3 2 (13.33%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Financial Institution
3 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Senior
2 4 (26.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Senior DevOps
2 4 (26.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Senior Software Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Software Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Cloud Software Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Support Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Software Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Network Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Python Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Site Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Software Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Software Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (26.67%) REST
1 4 (26.67%) RESTful
2 2 (13.33%) .NET
2 2 (13.33%) HTML
2 2 (13.33%) Middleware
2 2 (13.33%) Web Services
3 1 (6.67%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Cloud Native
1 4 (26.67%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (53.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (40.00%) Agile
3 6 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (40.00%) Computer Science
3 6 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 6 (40.00%) DevOps
3 6 (40.00%) ITIL
3 6 (40.00%) Service Management
4 5 (33.33%) High Availability
5 4 (26.67%) Artificial Intelligence
5 4 (26.67%) Change Management
5 4 (26.67%) Cryptography
5 4 (26.67%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (26.67%) Incident Response
5 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure Automation
5 4 (26.67%) ITSM
5 4 (26.67%) Microservices
5 4 (26.67%) Observability
5 4 (26.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (86.67%) Python
2 4 (26.67%) Bash
2 4 (26.67%) Go
2 4 (26.67%) Perl
2 4 (26.67%) Shell Script
2 4 (26.67%) SQL
3 2 (13.33%) C#
3 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (53.33%) Degree
2 6 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
4 2 (13.33%) Master's Degree
4 2 (13.33%) Tableau Certification
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) CCNP
5 1 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
5 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 8 (53.33%) Docker
2 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (60.00%) Ansible
2 8 (53.33%) Kubernetes
2 8 (53.33%) Terraform
3 6 (40.00%) Grafana
4 4 (26.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Splunk
2 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 4 (26.67%) ServiceNow
4 2 (13.33%) CheckPoint
4 2 (13.33%) F5
4 2 (13.33%) Palo Alto
5 1 (6.67%) BT
5 1 (6.67%) Cisco
5 1 (6.67%) Google
5 1 (6.67%) Juniper
5 1 (6.67%) SolarWinds