Root Cause Analysis Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Root Cause Analysis
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Root Cause Analysis skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 61 53
Rank change year-on-year +4 -8 +30
Contract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 13 7 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.65% 0.88% 1.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.93% 1.06% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 13
10th Percentile £326 £292 £193
25th Percentile £340 £359 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £345 £475 £420
Median % change year-on-year -27.37% +13.10% -16.00%
75th Percentile £430 £506 £488
90th Percentile £647 £508 £498
England median daily rate £500 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +8.11% -7.50% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £21.10 - -
25th Percentile £21.50 - -
Median hourly rate £22.92 - £20.00
75th Percentile £25.08 - -
90th Percentile £25.93 - -
England median hourly rate £32.50 £37.50 £56.06
% change year-on-year -13.33% -33.11% +128.07%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 675 658 737
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 85.55% 82.87% 86.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 470 410 533
10th Percentile £223 £263 £213
25th Percentile £341 £360 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £450 £490
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% -8.16% +5.38%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £600
90th Percentile £626 £625 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 34 48
10th Percentile £15.25 £12.75 £12.70
25th Percentile £17.87 £15.03 £16.56
Median hourly rate £18.87 £17.66 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.85% -35.78% +48.65%
75th Percentile £25.15 £41.61 £53.75
90th Percentile - £50.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -41.51% -2.05% +51.38%

Root Cause Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Root Cause Analysis in the East Midlands

Root Cause Analysis
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Root Cause Analysis.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Root Cause Analysis

Root Cause Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Root Cause Analysis in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Root Cause Analysis in the East Midlands

Root Cause Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Root Cause Analysis.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Root Cause Analysis

Root Cause Analysis
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Root Cause Analysis within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leicestershire - 6 - - 7
Northamptonshire -10 4 £340 +16.84% 7
Nottinghamshire -6 2 £438 -10.26% 16
Derbyshire +2 1 £825 +73.68% 8
Root Cause Analysis
England

Root Cause Analysis
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 3 (23.08%) CICS
2 1 (7.69%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Fusion 360
1 1 (7.69%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) DB2
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle Database
2 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
2 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Cucumber
1 4 (30.77%) Jenkins
1 4 (30.77%) Selenium
2 3 (23.08%) Eclipse
2 3 (23.08%) Git
2 3 (23.08%) IntelliJ
2 3 (23.08%) Maven
3 2 (15.38%) Postman
3 2 (15.38%) REST Assured
4 1 (7.69%) JIRA
4 1 (7.69%) JMeter
General
1 6 (46.15%) Manufacturing
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Analyst
2 6 (46.15%) Support Analyst
3 5 (38.46%) IT Analyst
3 5 (38.46%) IT Support
3 5 (38.46%) IT Support Analyst
4 3 (23.08%) Automation Tester
4 3 (23.08%) Tester
5 2 (15.38%) Test Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) 2nd Line Service Desk Analyst
6 1 (7.69%) 2nd Line Support
6 1 (7.69%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
6 1 (7.69%) Architect
6 1 (7.69%) Java Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Mainframe Tester
6 1 (7.69%) QA Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Senior QA Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Senior Test Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Service Desk Analyst
6 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (7.69%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) .NET
1 1 (7.69%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Management Information System
2 5 (38.46%) Driving Licence
3 3 (23.08%) Mainframe
3 3 (23.08%) VSAM
4 1 (7.69%) Derivative
4 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Cybersecurity
1 6 (46.15%) Problem Management
1 6 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
1 6 (46.15%) Service Management
2 5 (38.46%) Change Management
2 5 (38.46%) Data Protection
2 5 (38.46%) Information Security
2 5 (38.46%) ITIL
2 5 (38.46%) ITSM
2 5 (38.46%) Project Management
2 5 (38.46%) Test Automation
3 4 (30.77%) Acceptance Criteria
3 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
3 4 (30.77%) Code Quality
3 4 (30.77%) Software Testing
3 4 (30.77%) Test Scripting
4 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (23.08%) DevOps
4 3 (23.08%) Test Strategy
5 2 (15.38%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) Java
2 3 (23.08%) COBOL
2 3 (23.08%) JCL
2 3 (23.08%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) Degree
2 5 (38.46%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) SLA
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle
3 1 (7.69%) Autodesk
3 1 (7.69%) Siemens