Root Cause Analysis Contract Job Trends in the North West

Root Cause Analysis
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Root Cause Analysis skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 107 126
Rank change year-on-year +3 +19 +9
Contract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 29 18 22
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.32% 0.74% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.49% 0.89% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 15 15
10th Percentile £313 £290 £398
25th Percentile £326 £380 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £463 £525
Median % change year-on-year -22.59% -11.90% +17.71%
75th Percentile £519 £490 £575
90th Percentile £635 £497 £622
England median daily rate £500 £450 £504
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.71% +0.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £63.00 - -
England median hourly rate £32.50 £37.50 £57.99
% change year-on-year -13.33% -35.33% +195.79%

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 1,948 2,029 2,509
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.71% 83.60% 88.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,288 1,113 1,714
10th Percentile £256 £294 £270
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £680 £650 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 111 172
10th Percentile £13.93 £16.85 £15.78
25th Percentile £17.30 £29.00 £17.94
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.64% +15.21% +49.64%
75th Percentile £45.37 £62.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £67.25 £71.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% -5.56% +38.38%

Root Cause Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Root Cause Analysis job vacancy trend in the North West

Root Cause Analysis
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Root Cause Analysis.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Root Cause Analysis

Root Cause Analysis
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 12 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Root Cause Analysis in the North West

Root Cause Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Root Cause Analysis.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Root Cause Analysis

Root Cause Analysis
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 12 October 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
Manchester +9 19 £513 +10.81% 16
Cheshire - 9 £340 - 11
Lancashire +2 1 - - 5
Root Cause Analysis
England

Root Cause Analysis
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (6.90%) CICS
2 1 (3.45%) Apache
2 1 (3.45%) IIS
2 1 (3.45%) JBoss
2 1 (3.45%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.24%) AWS
1 5 (17.24%) Azure
2 3 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (10.34%) SaaS
3 2 (6.90%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (6.90%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (6.90%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (6.90%) Datadog
3 2 (6.90%) GCP
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.45%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) DNS
1 2 (6.90%) Firewall
1 2 (6.90%) SSL
2 1 (3.45%) DHCP
2 1 (3.45%) Network Security
2 1 (3.45%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.90%) DB2
2 2 (6.90%) Oracle Database
2 2 (6.90%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (20.69%) Jenkins
1 6 (20.69%) Postman
2 3 (10.34%) Git
2 3 (10.34%) GitLab
3 2 (6.90%) CircleCI
3 2 (6.90%) Cucumber
3 2 (6.90%) Eclipse
3 2 (6.90%) IntelliJ
3 2 (6.90%) Maven
3 2 (6.90%) REST Assured
3 2 (6.90%) Selenium
4 1 (3.45%) Artifactory
4 1 (3.45%) Bitbucket
General
1 10 (34.48%) Telecoms
2 8 (27.59%) Social Skills
3 6 (20.69%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (10.34%) Finance
6 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.45%) Banking
7 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (3.45%) Investment Banking
7 1 (3.45%) Legal
7 1 (3.45%) Military
7 1 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (3.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (48.28%) Analyst
2 6 (20.69%) Help Desk Analyst
3 5 (17.24%) Technical Analyst
4 4 (13.79%) Support Analyst
4 4 (13.79%) Technical Support
4 4 (13.79%) Technical Support Analyst
4 4 (13.79%) Tester
5 3 (10.34%) Incident Manager
6 2 (6.90%) Automation Tester
6 2 (6.90%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Senior
6 2 (6.90%) SOC Analyst
7 1 (3.45%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Implementation Coordinator
7 1 (3.45%) Incident and Problem Analyst
7 1 (3.45%) IT Analyst
7 1 (3.45%) IT Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) ITIL Incident Manager
7 1 (3.45%) SOC Specialist
7 1 (3.45%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.90%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (6.90%) Kafka
2 1 (3.45%) Middleware
2 1 (3.45%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Analytical Mindset
1 3 (10.34%) Onboarding
2 2 (6.90%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.90%) Mainframe
2 2 (6.90%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (6.90%) Smart Energy
2 2 (6.90%) Smart Meter
2 2 (6.90%) VSAM
3 1 (3.45%) PKI
3 1 (3.45%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.90%) Windows
2 1 (3.45%) Linux
2 1 (3.45%) Windows Server
2 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (51.72%) Continuous Improvement
2 11 (37.93%) Incident Response
2 11 (37.93%) ITIL
3 8 (27.59%) Agile
4 7 (24.14%) DevOps
4 7 (24.14%) ITSM
4 7 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (20.69%) API Testing
5 6 (20.69%) CI/CD
5 6 (20.69%) Incident Management
5 6 (20.69%) Process Improvement
5 6 (20.69%) Service Delivery
5 6 (20.69%) Unit Testing
6 5 (17.24%) Customer Service
6 5 (17.24%) High Availability
6 5 (17.24%) Time Management
7 4 (13.79%) Customer Experience
7 4 (13.79%) Fault Management
7 4 (13.79%) Network Monitoring
7 4 (13.79%) Trend Analysis
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.69%) Python
2 4 (13.79%) PowerShell
3 3 (10.34%) Bash
4 2 (6.90%) COBOL
4 2 (6.90%) Java
4 2 (6.90%) JCL
4 2 (6.90%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (6.90%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (10.34%) Degree
1 3 (10.34%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (6.90%) GCIA
2 2 (6.90%) GCIH
2 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (37.93%) SLA
2 2 (6.90%) QA
System Software
1 2 (6.90%) Active Directory
1 2 (6.90%) Firmware
2 1 (3.45%) Docker
2 1 (3.45%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (3.45%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (17.24%) Ansible
2 4 (13.79%) Terraform
3 2 (6.90%) Grafana
3 2 (6.90%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.45%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (3.45%) NetApp OnCommand
4 1 (3.45%) Progress Chef
4 1 (3.45%) vCenter Server
4 1 (3.45%) vMotion
4 1 (3.45%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.34%) Oracle
3 2 (6.90%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.45%) CheckPoint
4 1 (3.45%) Cisco
4 1 (3.45%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.45%) F5
4 1 (3.45%) IBM
4 1 (3.45%) Meraki
4 1 (3.45%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.45%) Peregrine
4 1 (3.45%) Remedy
4 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.45%) Splunk
4 1 (3.45%) VMware