Root Cause Analysis Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Root Cause Analysis
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring Root Cause Analysis skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 22 26
Rank change year-on-year -11 +4 -
Contract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 10 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 2.99% 1.44% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.29% 1.54% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 1
10th Percentile £400 - -
25th Percentile £408 £263 £180
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £275 £185
Median % change year-on-year +59.09% +48.65% -
75th Percentile £444 £288 £190
90th Percentile £447 - -
South West median daily rate £450 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -12.20% -2.38% +31.25%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 233 130 153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 69.76% 93.53% 75.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 80 85
10th Percentile £325 £263 £159
25th Percentile £400 £413 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.22% +15.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £675 £600
90th Percentile £630 £775 £613
South West median daily rate £511 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.73% -0.95% -4.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 14 29
10th Percentile £32.50 £14.42 £12.50
25th Percentile £50.00 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £18.51 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +210.64% -25.96% -50.00%
75th Percentile £58.75 - £40.00
90th Percentile - - £50.65
South West median hourly rate £60.00 £63.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -5.51% +27.00% -18.70%

Root Cause Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Root Cause Analysis job vacancy trend in Somerset

Root Cause Analysis
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

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

Root Cause Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend in Somerset

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

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

Root Cause Analysis
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

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 Somerset region over the 6 months to 2 May 2026. 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
Taunton - 10 £438 -
Root Cause Analysis
South West

Root Cause Analysis
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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 8 (80.00%) IIS
2 2 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) AWS
1 8 (80.00%) Azure
1 8 (80.00%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (20.00%) GitHub
2 2 (20.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (80.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) IntelliJ
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Site Engineer
1 8 (80.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 7 (70.00%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Migration Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) PowerShell Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Windows Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Administrator
4 2 (20.00%) JIRA Administrator
5 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Windows DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (80.00%) .NET
1 8 (80.00%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 7 (70.00%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (60.00%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) Windows
1 8 (80.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Incident Management
1 8 (80.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 7 (70.00%) DevOps
2 7 (70.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 7 (70.00%) High Availability
2 7 (70.00%) Service-Level Objective
3 6 (60.00%) Graceful Degradation
3 6 (60.00%) Incident Response
3 6 (60.00%) Runbook
4 3 (30.00%) Migration
5 2 (20.00%) Change Management
6 1 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (10.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (60.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Atlassian