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 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 56 60
Rank change year-on-year -17 +4 -15
Contract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 7 12 8
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.61% 1.63% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 1.89% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 8
10th Percentile £403 £258 £295
25th Percentile £406 £340 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £359 £475
Median % change year-on-year +39.28% -24.42% +35.71%
75th Percentile £638 £473 £506
90th Percentile £660 £617 £507
England median daily rate £480 £483 £488
% change year-on-year -0.52% -1.03% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £17.50 £25.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% - -
England median hourly rate £28.50 £45.00 £55.52
% change year-on-year -36.67% -18.94% +41.44%

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 877 636 643
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 76.33% 86.18% 78.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 471 432 434
10th Percentile £213 £223 £228
25th Percentile £400 £330 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £413 £445
Median % change year-on-year +15.15% -7.30% -6.32%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £564
90th Percentile £650 £600 £622
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 55 51
10th Percentile £13.51 £14.14 £12.13
25th Percentile £16.72 £17.11 £12.75
Median hourly rate £18.31 £20.50 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.68% +20.59% -62.01%
75th Percentile £27.73 £25.15 £26.15
90th Percentile £47.50 £25.96 £50.00
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +88.87% -37.13% -6.43%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 -17 3 £463 +5.71% 4
Leicestershire -5 2 - - 1
Northamptonshire +3 1 - - 2
Lincolnshire -12 1 £650 - 2
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 Excel
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) SAP MDM
1 1 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Big Data
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
1 1 (14.29%) MSI
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (14.29%) Administrator
1 1 (14.29%) Architect
1 1 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Consultant
1 1 (14.29%) Data Architect
1 1 (14.29%) IT Administrator
1 1 (14.29%) Mainframe Systems Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Senior
1 1 (14.29%) Site Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) ISPF
1 1 (14.29%) REST
1 1 (14.29%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (14.29%) Mainframe
1 1 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) CentOS
2 1 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) MVS
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
2 1 (14.29%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) Data Governance
2 2 (28.57%) Data Integration
2 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
2 2 (28.57%) ETL
2 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (14.29%) Anti-Money Laundering
3 1 (14.29%) API Integration
3 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Data Strategy
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (14.29%) KYC
3 1 (14.29%) Observability
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (14.29%) Predictive Modelling
3 1 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) JCL
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) REXX
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
2 1 (14.29%) GDPR
2 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
1 1 (14.29%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
1 1 (14.29%) Control-M
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) BMC
2 1 (14.29%) CheckPoint
2 1 (14.29%) CyberArk
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
2 1 (14.29%) SAP
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow
2 1 (14.29%) Splunk