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 citing Root Cause Analysis skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 24 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	68	41	58
Rank change year-on-year	-27	+17	-2
Contract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis	11	28	8
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham	1.26%	4.31%	1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	1.53%	4.70%	1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted	7	22	7
10^th Percentile	£398	£468	-
25^th Percentile	£414	£515	£165
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£450	£534	£200
Median % change year-on-year	-15.65%	+166.75%	-71.43%
75^th Percentile	£556	£566	£350
90^th Percentile	£653	£877	£580
West Midlands median daily rate	£453	£525	£406
% change year-on-year	-13.71%	+29.23%	-21.31%

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 citing process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

	6 months to 24 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing process or methodology skills	718	596	590
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham	82.25%	91.69%	83.81%
Number of daily rates quoted	409	390	389
10^th Percentile	£304	£250	£200
25^th Percentile	£405	£375	£375
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£500	£475	£500
Median % change year-on-year	+5.26%	-5.00%	+4.44%
75^th Percentile	£623	£574	£638
90^th Percentile	£688	£649	£750
West Midlands median daily rate	£475	£500	£519
% change year-on-year	-5.00%	-3.66%	+3.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted	54	54	10
10^th Percentile	£13.45	£12.62	£19.65
25^th Percentile	£17.88	£13.25	£21.44
Median hourly rate	£43.96	£18.87	£38.06
Median % change year-on-year	+132.96%	-50.42%	+24.71%
75^th Percentile	£55.00	£24.64	£54.56
90^th Percentile	£75.00	£28.95	£57.53
West Midlands median hourly rate	£21.50	£24.34	£25.15
% change year-on-year	-11.67%	-3.23%	-8.54%

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 Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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 24 October 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.

Root Cause Analysis Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 24 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Root Cause Analysis also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Birmingham region citing Root Cause Analysis.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Azure	45.5%	5
1	Infrastructure as Code	45.5%	5
3	Change Management	36.4%	4
3	DevOps	36.4%	4
3	Microsoft	36.4%	4
3	Migration	36.4%	4
7	AWS	27.3%	3
7	CI/CD	27.3%	3
7	Incident Management	27.3%	3
7	Observability	27.3%	3
7	Stakeholder Management	27.3%	3
7	Terraform	27.3%	3
13	Azure DevOps	18.2%	2
13	Base SAS	18.2%	2
13	Basel III	18.2%	2
13	Capacity Planning	18.2%	2
13	Cloud Operations	18.2%	2
13	Data Protection	18.2%	2
13	Data Quality	18.2%	2
13	Infrastructure Automation	18.2%	2
13	Infrastructure Management	18.2%	2
13	Knowledge Transfer	18.2%	2
13	Kubernetes	18.2%	2
13	Logistics	18.2%	2
13	Mentoring	18.2%	2
13	Operational Stability	18.2%	2
13	Performance Optimisation	18.2%	2
13	Performance Tuning	18.2%	2
13	Python	18.2%	2
13	Quality Management	18.2%	2

Root Cause Analysis Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Processes & Methodologies

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Infrastructure as Code	45.5%	5
2	Change Management	36.4%	4
2	DevOps	36.4%	4
2	Migration	36.4%	4
5	CI/CD	27.3%	3
5	Incident Management	27.3%	3
5	Observability	27.3%	3
5	Stakeholder Management	27.3%	3
9	Capacity Planning	18.2%	2
9	Cloud Operations	18.2%	2
9	Data Protection	18.2%	2
9	Infrastructure Automation	18.2%	2
9	Infrastructure Management	18.2%	2
9	Knowledge Transfer	18.2%	2
9	Logistics	18.2%	2
9	Mentoring	18.2%	2
9	Operational Stability	18.2%	2
9	Performance Optimisation	18.2%	2
9	Performance Tuning	18.2%	2
9	Quality Management	18.2%	2