Root Cause Analysis Contract Job Trends in Preston

Root Cause Analysis
Lancashire > Preston

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Preston requiring Root Cause Analysis skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 9 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Preston 5.06% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.21% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £226 - -
25th Percentile £279 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £310 - -
75th Percentile £374 - -
90th Percentile £453 - -
Lancashire median daily rate £310 - £275
% change year-on-year - - -45.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Preston

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 Preston.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 145 72 34
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Preston 81.46% 91.14% 79.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 46 21
10th Percentile £310 £356 £200
25th Percentile £449 £407 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £465 £575
Median % change year-on-year +18.28% -19.13% +31.43%
75th Percentile £638 £630 £633
90th Percentile £700 £675 £975
Lancashire median daily rate £550 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +10.00% +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 10 6
10th Percentile £37.25 £23.32 £19.86
25th Percentile £60.00 £26.88 £24.06
Median hourly rate £69.50 £40.83 £26.65
Median % change year-on-year +70.24% +53.19% -41.91%
75th Percentile £74.50 £47.12 £45.91
90th Percentile £80.00 £60.39 £59.69
Lancashire median hourly rate £61.54 £44.09 £40.33
% change year-on-year +39.57% +9.34% -12.68%

Root Cause Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

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

Root Cause Analysis job vacancy trend in Preston

Root Cause Analysis
Daily Rate Trend in Preston

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

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

Root Cause Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in Preston

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Root Cause Analysis in Preston over the 6 months to 28 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Root Cause Analysis in Preston

Root Cause Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend in Preston

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

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

Root Cause Analysis
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Preston 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 (22.22%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
2 1 (11.11%) IaaS
2 1 (11.11%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) NetScaler
2 1 (11.11%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
General
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (11.11%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (11.11%) Desktop Engineer
1 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (11.11%) Lead
1 1 (11.11%) Senior
1 1 (11.11%) Senior Desktop Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) ARM Templates
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (77.78%) Windows
1 7 (77.78%) Windows Server
2 3 (33.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) ITIL
2 6 (66.67%) Customer Service
2 6 (66.67%) User Experience
3 5 (55.56%) Defect Management
4 4 (44.44%) Service Management
5 3 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (33.33%) Proactive Management
6 2 (22.22%) Analytics
6 2 (22.22%) Customer Engagement
6 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (11.11%) Application Packaging
7 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
7 1 (11.11%) DevOps
7 1 (11.11%) Incident Management
7 1 (11.11%) Migration
7 1 (11.11%) Performance Management
7 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery
7 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 1 (11.11%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Bicep
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (77.78%) SC Cleared
1 7 (77.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) GRC
1 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (11.11%) NCSC
1 1 (11.11%) NIST
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 6 (66.67%) Citrix Hypervisor
1 6 (66.67%) Hyper-V
1 6 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (33.33%) XenApp
2 3 (33.33%) XenDesktop
3 2 (22.22%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) SysTrack
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Citrix
1 6 (66.67%) VMware
2 5 (55.56%) Nexthink
3 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (11.11%) Zscaler