Root Cause Analysis Contracts in the South East

Root Cause Analysis
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 98 161 159
Rank change year-on-year +63 -2 +44
Contract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 62 44 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.06% 0.79% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.25% 0.93% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 16 47
10th Percentile £346 £288 £260
25th Percentile £400 £425 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% +8.33% +5.88%
75th Percentile £500 £528 £573
90th Percentile £530 £538 £671
England median daily rate £465 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -7.00% - -4.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 1
Median hourly rate - £58.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -10.77% +36.13%
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
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Root Cause Analysis in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Root Cause Analysis in the South East

Root Cause Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Root Cause Analysis in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Root Cause Analysis in the South East

Root Cause Analysis
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley +56 31 £438 +28.68% 56
Berkshire +50 29 £440 +29.41% 27
Hampshire +35 23 £425 -19.05% 39
Surrey +20 8 £400 -20.00% 24
Oxfordshire - 2 £250 - 12
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England

Root Cause Analysis
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 18 (29.03%) Confluence
2 4 (6.45%) Apache
3 2 (3.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 16 (25.81%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 11 (17.74%) Azure
2 5 (8.06%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (6.45%) AWS
4 3 (4.84%) Azure AKS
4 3 (4.84%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (4.84%) Nutanix
5 2 (3.23%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (3.23%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.61%) Azure API Management
6 1 (1.61%) Azure App Service
6 1 (1.61%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.61%) Azure Storage
6 1 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.61%) IaaS
6 1 (1.61%) PaaS
6 1 (1.61%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.61%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.61%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.61%) Pulumi
6 1 (1.61%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.06%) DHCP
1 5 (8.06%) DNS
2 4 (6.45%) FTP
2 4 (6.45%) SMTP
2 4 (6.45%) tcpdump
2 4 (6.45%) Telnet
3 3 (4.84%) Firewall
4 2 (3.23%) Ethernet
4 2 (3.23%) LAN
4 2 (3.23%) MPLS
4 2 (3.23%) SDH
4 2 (3.23%) VPN
4 2 (3.23%) WAN
4 2 (3.23%) Wireless
5 1 (1.61%) BGP
5 1 (1.61%) Modbus
5 1 (1.61%) OSPF
5 1 (1.61%) TACACS
5 1 (1.61%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.61%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (3.23%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.61%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.61%) Parquet
2 1 (1.61%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 22 (35.48%) JIRA
2 16 (25.81%) Visual Studio
3 8 (12.90%) Git
4 6 (9.68%) Selenium
5 5 (8.06%) Jenkins
6 2 (3.23%) SoapUI
7 1 (1.61%) Maven
7 1 (1.61%) Toad
General
1 23 (37.10%) Social Skills
2 21 (33.87%) Finance
3 14 (22.58%) Manufacturing
4 6 (9.68%) Telecoms
5 5 (8.06%) Marketing
5 5 (8.06%) Public Sector
6 4 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (6.45%) Electronics
7 1 (1.61%) Automotive
7 1 (1.61%) Military
7 1 (1.61%) Police
Job Titles
1 19 (30.65%) Developer
2 16 (25.81%) Delphi Developer
3 5 (8.06%) Analyst
4 4 (6.45%) Administrator
4 4 (6.45%) Linux Administrator
4 4 (6.45%) Senior
4 4 (6.45%) Server Engineer
4 4 (6.45%) Windows Engineer
4 4 (6.45%) Windows Server Engineer
5 3 (4.84%) Consultant
5 3 (4.84%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (4.84%) Hardware Engineer
5 3 (4.84%) Nutanix Engineer
6 2 (3.23%) Network Analyst
6 2 (3.23%) Network Engineer
6 2 (3.23%) Operations Analyst
6 2 (3.23%) Product Owner
6 2 (3.23%) Senior Tester
6 2 (3.23%) Support Engineer
6 2 (3.23%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.45%) LDAP
2 3 (4.84%) RESTful
3 2 (3.23%) ARM Templates
3 2 (3.23%) SOAP
3 2 (3.23%) XML
4 1 (1.61%) .NET
4 1 (1.61%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.61%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.61%) Entity Framework
4 1 (1.61%) JSON
4 1 (1.61%) OAuth
4 1 (1.61%) OpenID
4 1 (1.61%) React
4 1 (1.61%) REST
4 1 (1.61%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.84%) SCADA
2 2 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (3.23%) Cloud Native
2 2 (3.23%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (3.23%) Driving Licence
2 2 (3.23%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.61%) Cyber Security Posture
3 1 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.61%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.61%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.61%) Operational Technology
3 1 (1.61%) PKI
3 1 (1.61%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.61%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (1.61%) Security Posture
3 1 (1.61%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 28 (45.16%) Windows
2 8 (12.90%) Linux
3 6 (9.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (8.06%) Windows Server
5 4 (6.45%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (4.84%) Unix
7 1 (1.61%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (27.42%) Functional Testing
3 13 (20.97%) Agile
4 10 (16.13%) Collaborative Working
4 10 (16.13%) DevOps
5 9 (14.52%) CI/CD
5 9 (14.52%) Incident Response
6 8 (12.90%) Server Migrations
7 7 (11.29%) Incident Management
7 7 (11.29%) Test Automation
8 6 (9.68%) Change Management
8 6 (9.68%) ITIL
8 6 (9.68%) Migration
8 6 (9.68%) Vulnerability Management
9 5 (8.06%) Business Intelligence
9 5 (8.06%) Continuous Integration
9 5 (8.06%) Cybersecurity
9 5 (8.06%) Mentoring
9 5 (8.06%) SIEM
9 5 (8.06%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (35.48%) SQL
2 18 (29.03%) C#
3 17 (27.42%) PL/SQL
4 16 (25.81%) Delphi
5 12 (19.35%) PowerShell
6 11 (17.74%) Python
7 6 (9.68%) Bash
8 3 (4.84%) Bicep
8 3 (4.84%) Shell Script
9 2 (3.23%) Java
10 1 (1.61%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 12 (19.35%) Security Cleared
2 9 (14.52%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.68%) Degree
4 4 (6.45%) CCNA
4 4 (6.45%) CCNP
4 4 (6.45%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (4.84%) CISSP
5 3 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.23%) Azure Certification
6 2 (3.23%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.61%) CISM
7 1 (1.61%) GCFA
7 1 (1.61%) GCIH
7 1 (1.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.23%) GDPR
1 2 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (3.23%) NIST
2 1 (1.61%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (1.61%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.61%) HIPAA
System Software
1 4 (6.45%) NFS
1 4 (6.45%) Samba
2 3 (4.84%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.84%) Docker
3 2 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.61%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.61%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (12.90%) Ansible
2 6 (9.68%) yum
3 4 (6.45%) Terraform
4 3 (4.84%) Kubernetes
4 3 (4.84%) SCCM
5 2 (3.23%) SCOM
6 1 (1.61%) CSIRT
6 1 (1.61%) Puppet
Vendors
1 25 (40.32%) Microsoft
2 17 (27.42%) Oracle
3 7 (11.29%) VMware
4 6 (9.68%) Red Hat
5 4 (6.45%) HP
5 4 (6.45%) SAP
6 2 (3.23%) Cisco
6 2 (3.23%) Juniper
6 2 (3.23%) ServiceNow
6 2 (3.23%) SolarWinds
6 2 (3.23%) Splunk
7 1 (1.61%) AlienVault
7 1 (1.61%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (1.61%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.61%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.61%) Informatica
7 1 (1.61%) Intel
7 1 (1.61%) PagerDuty
7 1 (1.61%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.61%) Remedy