Root Cause Analysis Contracts in Manchester

Root Cause Analysis
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 18 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 81 101
Rank change year-on-year +17 +20 +33
Contract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 21 5 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 2.08% 0.42% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.34% 0.48% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 9
10th Percentile £361 - £295
25th Percentile £414 £456 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% -7.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £613 £478 £538
90th Percentile £825 £484 £635
North West median daily rate £414 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -16.02% -1.40% +9.29%

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 896 1,041 1,562
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 88.80% 86.68% 89.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 571 658 1,144
10th Percentile £305 £336 £285
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £704 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 47 54
10th Percentile £17.14 £15.97 £15.72
25th Percentile £19.07 £24.43 £16.37
Median hourly rate £22.63 £35.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.34% +79.49% +11.43%
75th Percentile £58.87 £62.50 £38.75
90th Percentile £76.75 £87.00 £68.80
North West median hourly rate £27.19 £35.00 £30.76
% change year-on-year -22.32% +13.80% +41.21%

Root Cause Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Root Cause Analysis in Manchester

Root Cause Analysis
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Root Cause Analysis in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Root Cause Analysis in Manchester

Root Cause Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Root Cause Analysis in Manchester over the 6 months to 18 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Root Cause Analysis in Manchester

Root Cause Analysis
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Root Cause Analysis in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for Root Cause Analysis in Manchester

Root Cause Analysis
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 18 August 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
Salford - 3 £800 - 3
Bolton - 1 - -
Root Cause Analysis
North West

Root Cause Analysis
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (4.76%) Apache Spark
1 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 5 (23.81%) Kondor
Cloud Services
1 3 (14.29%) Azure
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (9.52%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (9.52%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (9.52%) SaaS
3 1 (4.76%) AWS
3 1 (4.76%) dbt
3 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Big Data
1 1 (4.76%) Data Mining
1 1 (4.76%) Data Vault
1 1 (4.76%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 6 (28.57%) Postman
2 2 (9.52%) JIRA
General
1 7 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (28.57%) Documentation Skills
2 6 (28.57%) Telecoms
3 2 (9.52%) Finance
4 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) Analyst
2 6 (28.57%) Help Desk Analyst
3 5 (23.81%) Applications Engineer
3 5 (23.81%) Applications Support
3 5 (23.81%) Applications Support Engineer
3 5 (23.81%) Support Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Systems Support
4 3 (14.29%) Systems Support Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Incident Manager
5 2 (9.52%) Lead
5 2 (9.52%) SOC Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Tester
6 1 (4.76%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Data Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) IT Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) ITIL Manager
6 1 (4.76%) Major Incident Manager
6 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Specialist
6 1 (4.76%) SOC Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 3 (14.29%) Onboarding
3 2 (9.52%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (9.52%) Cloud Native
3 2 (9.52%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (9.52%) Smart Energy
3 2 (9.52%) Smart Meter
4 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.76%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (23.81%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (61.90%) Service Delivery
2 11 (52.38%) ITIL
3 10 (47.62%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (42.86%) Agile
5 8 (38.10%) Incident Response
6 6 (28.57%) API Testing
6 6 (28.57%) Incident Management
6 6 (28.57%) ITSM
6 6 (28.57%) Process Improvement
6 6 (28.57%) Unit Testing
7 5 (23.81%) Cash Management
8 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (14.29%) Analytics
9 3 (14.29%) Change Management
9 3 (14.29%) Problem Management
9 3 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
10 2 (9.52%) Computer Science
10 2 (9.52%) Matrix Management
10 2 (9.52%) PLM
10 2 (9.52%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 5 (23.81%) SQL
2 3 (14.29%) Python
3 2 (9.52%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (9.52%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) Degree
2 2 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (9.52%) GCIA
2 2 (9.52%) GCIH
2 2 (9.52%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (9.52%) PMI Certification
2 2 (9.52%) PMP
3 1 (4.76%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (28.57%) SLA
2 1 (4.76%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.76%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Firmware
2 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) Bloomberg
1 5 (23.81%) Microsoft
1 5 (23.81%) Refinitiv
1 5 (23.81%) Sybase
2 2 (9.52%) Salesforce
2 2 (9.52%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.76%) Cisco
3 1 (4.76%) Meraki