Root Cause Analysis Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Root Cause Analysis
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Root Cause Analysis skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 75 90
Rank change year-on-year +3 +15 +32
Contract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 19 8 10
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 1.64% 0.73% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.83% 0.81% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 6
10th Percentile £408 £234 £287
25th Percentile £419 £276 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £331 £550
Median % change year-on-year +54.83% -39.82% +0.73%
75th Percentile £638 £436 £613
90th Percentile £683 £472 £621
North West median daily rate £400 £331 £500
% change year-on-year +20.85% -33.80% +22.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,039 982 1,384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.88% 89.68% 88.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 698 588 990
10th Percentile £303 £294 £298
25th Percentile £371 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 39 48
10th Percentile £17.30 £15.98 £15.74
25th Percentile £19.52 £22.75 £17.37
Median hourly rate £22.82 £32.50 £24.75
Median % change year-on-year -29.80% +31.31% -33.65%
75th Percentile £53.94 £44.38 £57.19
90th Percentile £64.13 £65.00 £76.10
North West median hourly rate £34.50 £32.01 £35.50
% change year-on-year +7.78% -9.83% +37.54%

Root Cause Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Root Cause Analysis job vacancy trend in Manchester

Root Cause Analysis
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Root Cause Analysis.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Root Cause Analysis

Root Cause Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Root Cause Analysis in Manchester over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Root Cause Analysis in Manchester

Root Cause Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Root Cause Analysis.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Root Cause Analysis

Root Cause Analysis
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (10.53%) Azure
1 2 (10.53%) Azure Logic Apps
1 2 (10.53%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (10.53%) SaaS
2 1 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (5.26%) Amazon ELB
2 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
2 1 (5.26%) AWS
2 1 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Firewall
2 1 (5.26%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (5.26%) DNS
2 1 (5.26%) Network Security
2 1 (5.26%) SD-WAN
2 1 (5.26%) SSL
2 1 (5.26%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.26%) VPN
2 1 (5.26%) WAN
2 1 (5.26%) WebEx
2 1 (5.26%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (5.26%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 6 (31.58%) Postman
2 2 (10.53%) GitLab
3 1 (5.26%) Android Studio
3 1 (5.26%) fastlane
3 1 (5.26%) Git
3 1 (5.26%) Gradle
3 1 (5.26%) IntelliJ
3 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.26%) Xcode
3 1 (5.26%) XCTest
General
1 10 (52.63%) Telecoms
2 6 (31.58%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
4 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Banking
5 1 (5.26%) Finance
5 1 (5.26%) Military
Job Titles
1 14 (73.68%) Analyst
2 6 (31.58%) Help Desk Analyst
3 5 (26.32%) Support Analyst
4 4 (21.05%) Technical Analyst
4 4 (21.05%) Technical Support
4 4 (21.05%) Technical Support Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) SOC Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Android Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Applications Support Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Incident and Problem Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Incident Manager
6 1 (5.26%) iOS Android Developer
6 1 (5.26%) iOS Developer
6 1 (5.26%) IT Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) ITIL Incident Manager
6 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Specialist
6 1 (5.26%) Security Specialist
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Network Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) SOC Specialist
6 1 (5.26%) Technical Design Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) Android Jetpack
1 1 (5.26%) GraphQL
1 1 (5.26%) Jetpack Compose
1 1 (5.26%) JSON
1 1 (5.26%) JSON Schema
1 1 (5.26%) OkHttp
1 1 (5.26%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (5.26%) REST
1 1 (5.26%) Retrofit
1 1 (5.26%) Spring
1 1 (5.26%) Spring Boot
1 1 (5.26%) SwiftUI
1 1 (5.26%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (10.53%) Cloud Native
1 2 (10.53%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.26%) Smart Energy
2 1 (5.26%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Android
1 1 (5.26%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (68.42%) Continuous Improvement
2 9 (47.37%) Incident Response
2 9 (47.37%) ITIL
3 7 (36.84%) ITSM
3 7 (36.84%) Unit Testing
4 6 (31.58%) Agile
4 6 (31.58%) API Testing
4 6 (31.58%) Incident Management
4 6 (31.58%) Process Improvement
4 6 (31.58%) Service Delivery
5 5 (26.32%) Customer Experience
5 5 (26.32%) Time Management
6 4 (21.05%) Customer Service
6 4 (21.05%) Fault Management
6 4 (21.05%) Information Security
6 4 (21.05%) Network Monitoring
6 4 (21.05%) Trend Analysis
7 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (15.79%) Validation
8 2 (10.53%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.79%) Python
2 2 (10.53%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.26%) Bash
3 1 (5.26%) Java
3 1 (5.26%) Kotlin
3 1 (5.26%) Objective-C
3 1 (5.26%) SQL
3 1 (5.26%) Swift
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (10.53%) Degree
2 2 (10.53%) GCIA
2 2 (10.53%) GCIH
3 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (52.63%) SLA
2 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Docker
1 1 (5.26%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Ansible
1 1 (5.26%) Grafana
1 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.26%) Aruba
2 1 (5.26%) CheckPoint
2 1 (5.26%) Cisco
2 1 (5.26%) Ekahau
2 1 (5.26%) F5
2 1 (5.26%) Fortinet
2 1 (5.26%) Juniper
2 1 (5.26%) Palo Alto
2 1 (5.26%) Salesforce
2 1 (5.26%) Splunk