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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 42 58
Rank change year-on-year -37 +16 -6
Contract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 7 9 8
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.67% 1.75% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 2.03% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 4
10th Percentile £390 £218 £282
25th Percentile £400 £344 £297
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £438 £323
Median % change year-on-year -4.57% +35.66% -7.86%
75th Percentile £485 £501 £386
90th Percentile £552 £649 £447
England median daily rate £475 £473 £507
% change year-on-year +0.53% -6.71% +1.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £39.50
Median hourly rate - £50.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year - +21.95% +105.00%
75th Percentile - - £42.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £58.50 £50.00 £53.03
% change year-on-year +17.00% -5.71% -14.47%

All Process & 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 849 443 600
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 80.93% 86.35% 78.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 463 292 409
10th Percentile £199 £200 £188
25th Percentile £375 £320 £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £439 £419
Median % change year-on-year +2.45% +4.83% -6.89%
75th Percentile £538 £525 £550
90th Percentile £610 £588 £628
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 23 61
10th Percentile £13.54 £13.81 £11.75
25th Percentile £16.35 £14.86 £12.75
Median hourly rate £21.97 £21.59 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% +23.37% -5.70%
75th Percentile £25.15 £25.15 £26.15
90th Percentile £30.93 £33.35 £50.71
England median hourly rate £42.00 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.74% -9.60% -9.09%

Root Cause Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Root Cause Analysis relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Root Cause Analysis job vacancy trend 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 22 April 2026.

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 22 April 2026. 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
Nottinghamshire -19 3 £498 +9.81% 7
Leicestershire - 3 £418 - 1
Northamptonshire -24 1 £380 +10.47% 3
Root Cause Analysis
England

Root Cause Analysis
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) SAP MDM
1 1 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
1 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (42.86%) IaaS
1 3 (42.86%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Git
General
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Retail
3 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Mainframe Systems Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Migration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) ISPF
2 1 (14.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
1 2 (28.57%) zOS
2 1 (14.29%) MVS
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) Collaborative Working
2 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (42.86%) Cost Optimisation
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Automation
2 3 (42.86%) Observability
3 2 (28.57%) API Integration
3 2 (28.57%) ITIL
4 1 (14.29%) Agile
4 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
4 1 (14.29%) Data Integration
4 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
4 1 (14.29%) ETL
4 1 (14.29%) Migration
4 1 (14.29%) Security Hardening
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (14.29%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) JCL
1 2 (28.57%) REXX
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Job Entry Subsystem
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Control-M
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (14.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) Dynatrace
3 2 (28.57%) Splunk
4 1 (14.29%) BMC
4 1 (14.29%) CyberArk
4 1 (14.29%) SAP
4 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow
4 1 (14.29%) Sophos