Root Cause Analysis Contracts in the North West

Root Cause Analysis
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 112 128
Rank change year-on-year +22 +16 +24
Contract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 30 25 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.52% 0.91% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.69% 1.05% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 20 22
10th Percentile £313 £363 £325
25th Percentile £350 £417 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £414 £493 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.02% -17.83% +15.38%
75th Percentile £473 £495 £700
90th Percentile £565 £501 -
England median daily rate £465 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -7.00% - -4.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £30.05 - -
25th Percentile £46.25 - -
Median hourly rate £50.00 £12.84 -
Median % change year-on-year +289.41% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £50.00 £53.03 £57.00
% change year-on-year -5.71% -6.96% +55.19%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Root Cause Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Root Cause Analysis in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Root Cause Analysis in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Root Cause Analysis in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Root Cause Analysis in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Root Cause Analysis in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Root Cause Analysis in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Root Cause Analysis in the North West

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Root Cause Analysis in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Root Cause Analysis in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Cheshire +14 15 £350 -30.00% 8
Manchester +25 14 £422 +5.50% 24
Lancashire - 1 £500 - 10
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England

Root Cause Analysis
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (13.33%) SharePoint
2 3 (10.00%) IIS
3 1 (3.33%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.33%) CICS
3 1 (3.33%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (23.33%) Kondor
2 1 (3.33%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 5 (16.67%) Azure
2 4 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (10.00%) Entra ID
3 3 (10.00%) SaaS
4 2 (6.67%) OneDrive
5 1 (3.33%) AWS
5 1 (3.33%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 9 (30.00%) DNS
2 8 (26.67%) DHCP
3 1 (3.33%) Firewall
3 1 (3.33%) Intranet
3 1 (3.33%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (3.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) Big Data
1 1 (3.33%) Data Mining
1 1 (3.33%) Data Vault
1 1 (3.33%) DB2
1 1 (3.33%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (23.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (16.67%) Manufacturing
2 5 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 3 (10.00%) Finance
4 1 (3.33%) Aerospace
4 1 (3.33%) Banking
4 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Financial Institution
4 1 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 8 (26.67%) Analyst
2 7 (23.33%) Applications Engineer
2 7 (23.33%) Applications Support
2 7 (23.33%) Applications Support Engineer
2 7 (23.33%) Support Engineer
3 6 (20.00%) Administrator
3 6 (20.00%) VMWare Administrator
3 6 (20.00%) Wintel Administrator
4 5 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
4 5 (16.67%) Systems Support
4 5 (16.67%) Systems Support Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Business Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) Lead
6 2 (6.67%) SAP Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) Support Analyst
7 1 (3.33%) Azure Architect
7 1 (3.33%) Data Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Microsoft 365 Architect
7 1 (3.33%) Wintel Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.33%) Kafka
1 1 (3.33%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (23.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 3 (10.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.33%) Blog
3 1 (3.33%) CMDB
3 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.33%) Mainframe
3 1 (3.33%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (26.67%) Windows
2 7 (23.33%) Unix
2 7 (23.33%) Windows Server
2 7 (23.33%) Windows Server 2016
2 7 (23.33%) Windows Server 2019
3 6 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (3.33%) Android
4 1 (3.33%) Apple iOS
4 1 (3.33%) Mac OS
4 1 (3.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (36.67%) Service Delivery
2 10 (33.33%) ITIL
3 9 (30.00%) Change Management
3 9 (30.00%) Incident Management
4 8 (26.67%) Agile
4 8 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (23.33%) Cash Management
6 6 (20.00%) Active Listening
6 6 (20.00%) Migration
6 6 (20.00%) Patch Management
7 5 (16.67%) Customer Requirements
7 5 (16.67%) Manufacturing Engineering
7 5 (16.67%) Problem Management
7 5 (16.67%) Product Management
8 4 (13.33%) Business Change Management
8 4 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (13.33%) Task Automation
9 3 (10.00%) Data Loss Prevention
9 3 (10.00%) Decision-Making
9 3 (10.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 8 (26.67%) SQL
2 4 (13.33%) PowerShell
3 2 (6.67%) Python
4 1 (3.33%) VB
4 1 (3.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 10 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 9 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.67%) Degree
3 2 (6.67%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (6.67%) PMI Certification
3 2 (6.67%) PMP
4 1 (3.33%) CCNA
4 1 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.33%) MCP
4 1 (3.33%) MCSA
4 1 (3.33%) MCSE
4 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.33%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) SLA
2 1 (3.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 10 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 7 (23.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (20.00%) Hyper-V
3 6 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (13.33%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (3.33%) BitLocker
5 1 (3.33%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (3.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (20.00%) vCenter Server
2 4 (13.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 4 (13.33%) WSUS
3 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Clustering
3 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (10.00%) NetApp OnCommand
3 3 (10.00%) vMotion
4 2 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (3.33%) Nagios
5 1 (3.33%) SCCM
5 1 (3.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 9 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (23.33%) Bloomberg
2 7 (23.33%) Refinitiv
2 7 (23.33%) Sybase
2 7 (23.33%) VMware
3 5 (16.67%) SAP
4 2 (6.67%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.33%) CheckPoint
5 1 (3.33%) McAfee
5 1 (3.33%) Palo Alto
5 1 (3.33%) SolarWinds
5 1 (3.33%) Symantec