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 26 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 59 64
Rank change year-on-year +15 +5 -2
Contract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 33 9 6
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 4.21% 1.40% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.86% 1.56% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 9 2
10th Percentile £468 - £424
25th Percentile £514 £165 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £650 £569
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +14.29% +127.50%
75th Percentile £571 £700 £670
90th Percentile £892 - £718
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £700 £625
% change year-on-year -25.00% +12.00% +26.77%

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 679 577 614
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 86.72% 89.60% 84.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 420 390 380
10th Percentile £263 £200 £263
25th Percentile £402 £398 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -4.04%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £577
90th Percentile £650 £725 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £525 £489
% change year-on-year -4.76% +7.42% -2.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 15 41
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.70 £14.14
25th Percentile £16.08 £21.25 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £30.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.10% +5.26% +105.41%
75th Percentile £23.56 £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £30.00 £56.45 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.98 £21.59 £24.63
% change year-on-year -2.83% -12.32% +39.05%

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 26 January 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 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 20 (60.61%) AWS
2 18 (54.55%) GCP
3 14 (42.42%) Serverless
4 5 (15.15%) AWS KMS
5 4 (12.12%) Azure
6 3 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (9.09%) Amazon ELB
6 3 (9.09%) Amazon S3
6 3 (9.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (6.06%) Azure AKS
7 2 (6.06%) Azure API Management
7 2 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (6.06%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (6.06%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (6.06%) GitHub
7 2 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (3.03%) Entra ID
8 1 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.09%) DNS
1 3 (9.09%) Firewall
1 3 (9.09%) Network Security
1 3 (9.09%) SSL
1 3 (9.09%) TCP/IP
1 3 (9.09%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (42.42%) NoSQL
2 10 (30.30%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.03%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 22 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 17 (51.52%) GitLab
3 10 (30.30%) Liquibase
4 6 (18.18%) Git
5 2 (6.06%) CircleCI
General
1 22 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 16 (48.48%) Finance
3 13 (39.39%) Banking
4 10 (30.30%) Financial Institution
5 5 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.03%) Military
6 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (39.39%) Cloud Engineer
2 12 (36.36%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (36.36%) GCP Engineer
2 12 (36.36%) Senior
3 9 (27.27%) Senior DevOps
3 9 (27.27%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 9 (27.27%) Software Engineer
4 7 (21.21%) AWS Engineer
4 7 (21.21%) Senior Software Engineer
5 6 (18.18%) Cloud Software Engineer
6 5 (15.15%) AWS Software Engineer
7 4 (12.12%) GCP DevOps
7 4 (12.12%) GCP DevOps Engineer
7 4 (12.12%) GCP Software Engineer
7 4 (12.12%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 3 (9.09%) Python Engineer
9 2 (6.06%) AWS DevOps
9 2 (6.06%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 2 (6.06%) Kubernetes Engineer
9 2 (6.06%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (48.48%) REST
2 14 (42.42%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (42.42%) RESTful
3 3 (9.09%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (3.03%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 14 (42.42%) Distributed Systems
1 14 (42.42%) Public Cloud
2 11 (33.33%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.06%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (3.03%) PKI
4 1 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (42.42%) Linux
2 1 (3.03%) Windows
2 1 (3.03%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (75.76%) CI/CD
2 24 (72.73%) DevOps
3 22 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (63.64%) Containerisation
5 15 (45.45%) Computer Science
5 15 (45.45%) High Availability
6 14 (42.42%) Agile
6 14 (42.42%) Cryptography
7 12 (36.36%) Microservices
8 11 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
8 11 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
9 10 (30.30%) Non-Functional Testing
9 10 (30.30%) Software Engineering
10 9 (27.27%) Change Management
10 9 (27.27%) Continuous Integration
10 9 (27.27%) Data Encryption
10 9 (27.27%) Data Security
10 9 (27.27%) Infrastructure Automation
11 8 (24.24%) Continuous Delivery
11 8 (24.24%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 28 (84.85%) Python
2 16 (48.48%) Go
3 5 (15.15%) Perl
3 5 (15.15%) Shell Script
4 4 (12.12%) Bash
4 4 (12.12%) SQL
5 1 (3.03%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 15 (45.45%) Computer Science Degree
1 15 (45.45%) Degree
2 13 (39.39%) Master's Degree
3 4 (12.12%) AWS Certification
3 4 (12.12%) Security Cleared
4 2 (6.06%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (6.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Azure Certification
4 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.03%) CISM
5 1 (3.03%) CISSP
5 1 (3.03%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.03%) GDPR
System Software
1 21 (63.64%) Docker
2 1 (3.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (69.70%) Terraform
2 20 (60.61%) Kubernetes
3 18 (54.55%) Grafana
3 18 (54.55%) Prometheus
4 17 (51.52%) Ansible
5 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 19 (57.58%) Splunk
2 8 (24.24%) Microsoft
3 7 (21.21%) Google
4 5 (15.15%) ServiceNow
5 3 (9.09%) CheckPoint
5 3 (9.09%) F5
5 3 (9.09%) Palo Alto