Root Cause Analysis Contracts in Birmingham

Root Cause Analysis
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Root Cause Analysis skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Root Cause Analysis over the 6 months leading up to 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 57 53
Rank change year-on-year +10 -4 +24
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 10 6 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.73% 0.86% 2.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.98% 1.06% 3.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 18
10th Percentile £196 - £407
25th Percentile £275 £165 £644
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £200 £688
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -70.91% +44.43%
75th Percentile £538 - £743
90th Percentile £556 £380 £750
West Midlands median daily rate £375 £485 £681
% change year-on-year -22.68% -28.81% +29.76%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 506 565 715
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 87.39% 81.41% 83.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 332 390 481
10th Percentile £166 £212 £270
25th Percentile £358 £391 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £538 £638 £625
90th Percentile £638 £750 £731
West Midlands median daily rate £494 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.30% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 16 24
10th Percentile - £14.75 £12.86
25th Percentile £12.62 £21.06 £17.56
Median hourly rate £18.87 £40.25 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -53.12% +46.36% +57.14%
75th Percentile £22.08 £53.13 £39.75
90th Percentile £26.89 £56.25 £88.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £24.34 £21.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year +11.91% -20.91% +62.60%

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

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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 23 August 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

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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 (20.00%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) BGP
1 2 (20.00%) EIGRP
1 2 (20.00%) LAN
1 2 (20.00%) Network Security
1 2 (20.00%) OSPF
1 2 (20.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (20.00%) VLAN
1 2 (20.00%) WAN
1 2 (20.00%) Wireless
1 2 (20.00%) Wireless Security
1 2 (20.00%) Wireshark
2 1 (10.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (20.00%) Tableau
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (10.00%) Finance
4 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Analyst
1 2 (20.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Site Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Support Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Lead
2 1 (10.00%) Operations Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Python Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Service Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Service Operations Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Software Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Software Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) .NET
1 2 (20.00%) 802.1X
1 2 (20.00%) HTML
1 2 (20.00%) Middleware
1 2 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (50.00%) Service Management
3 4 (40.00%) Computer Science
3 4 (40.00%) Incident Management
3 4 (40.00%) ITIL
4 3 (30.00%) Change Management
4 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (30.00%) Incident Response
4 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (30.00%) ITSM
4 3 (30.00%) SIEM
4 3 (30.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (30.00%) Task Automation
5 2 (20.00%) Business Impact Analysis
5 2 (20.00%) Impact Analysis
5 2 (20.00%) Network Management
5 2 (20.00%) Network Optimisation
5 2 (20.00%) Observability
5 2 (20.00%) Performance Analysis
5 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) Bash
3 2 (20.00%) C#
3 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (20.00%) Perl
3 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) Degree
2 4 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (20.00%) CCNP
3 2 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) Tableau Certification
4 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
2 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Ansible
1 5 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (30.00%) Terraform
3 2 (20.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco
2 2 (20.00%) Juniper
2 2 (20.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (20.00%) SolarWinds
2 2 (20.00%) Splunk
3 1 (10.00%) BT
3 1 (10.00%) Infoblox
3 1 (10.00%) Zscaler