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 3 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 41 64
Rank change year-on-year -23 +23 -8
Contract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 13 11 1
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 1.40% 2.11% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.66% 2.43% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 1
10th Percentile £358 £222 -
25th Percentile £456 £279 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £650 £513
Median % change year-on-year -27.35% +26.83% -25.45%
75th Percentile £532 £700 £519
90th Percentile £571 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £463 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -9.76% -2.38% -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 785 453 633
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 84.41% 86.78% 82.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 473 317 418
10th Percentile £308 £163 £250
25th Percentile £413 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £469
Median % change year-on-year - +6.67% -8.54%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £650 £700 £679
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 21 43
10th Percentile £12.82 - £13.19
25th Percentile £15.62 £12.62 £17.00
Median hourly rate £19.34 £22.05 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.29% -15.19% +73.33%
75th Percentile £26.91 £29.00 £47.13
90th Percentile £51.25 £30.68 £56.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £31.75 £18.13 £22.50
% change year-on-year +75.12% -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

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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 3 May 2026.

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

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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 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) GCP
1 3 (23.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 2 (15.38%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) Power Platform
3 1 (7.69%) AWS
3 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
3 1 (7.69%) Matillion
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
3 1 (7.69%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) SAP HANA
2 2 (15.38%) Power BI
3 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (7.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Git
1 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 3 (23.08%) Finance
1 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Consultant
1 3 (23.08%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (23.08%) SAP Basis Consultant
1 3 (23.08%) SAP Consultant
2 2 (15.38%) Administrator
2 2 (15.38%) AIX Administrator
2 2 (15.38%) GCP DevOps
2 2 (15.38%) GCP DevOps Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) GCP Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Server Administrator
3 1 (7.69%) Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Data Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Data Quality Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Python Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Quality Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) Service Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) OpenTelemetry
1 3 (23.08%) SAP Basis
2 1 (7.69%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Replication
2 2 (15.38%) Clustering
2 2 (15.38%) Data Centre
3 1 (7.69%) PKI
3 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
2 2 (15.38%) AIX
2 2 (15.38%) Unix
3 1 (7.69%) Windows
3 1 (7.69%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) ITIL
2 5 (38.46%) Capacity Planning
3 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
3 4 (30.77%) Incident Response
3 4 (30.77%) Problem Management
4 3 (23.08%) Auto-Scaling
4 3 (23.08%) Business Continuity
4 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
4 3 (23.08%) Dependency Management
4 3 (23.08%) DevOps
4 3 (23.08%) DevSecOps
4 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (23.08%) Migration
4 3 (23.08%) Observability
4 3 (23.08%) Project Delivery
4 3 (23.08%) RBAC
4 3 (23.08%) SBOM
4 3 (23.08%) Secrets Management
4 3 (23.08%) Virtual Environments
5 2 (15.38%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Python
2 2 (15.38%) Perl
3 1 (7.69%) Bash
3 1 (7.69%) Groovy
3 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) CISM
1 1 (7.69%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.69%) GDPR
2 1 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Docker
2 2 (15.38%) Firmware
2 2 (15.38%) PowerHA
3 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Grafana
1 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
1 4 (30.77%) Prometheus
1 4 (30.77%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) SAP
2 2 (15.38%) IBM
3 1 (7.69%) Informatica
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle
3 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow