Root Cause Analysis Contracts

Root Cause Analysis
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Root Cause Analysis skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Root Cause Analysis over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 231 287 319
Rank change year-on-year +56 +32 +12
Contract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 455 561 746
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.04% 0.93% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 1.04% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 289 393 446
10th Percentile £311 £313 £311
25th Percentile £425 £400 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £503
Median % change year-on-year - -0.50% +6.07%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £600
90th Percentile £650 £731 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £460 £450
% change year-on-year +8.15% +2.22% +15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 8 6
10th Percentile £14.04 £20.00 £25.88
25th Percentile £15.85 £20.59 £27.43
Median hourly rate £53.03 £38.50 £36.73
Median % change year-on-year +37.74% +4.82% +46.92%
75th Percentile £61.60 £62.75 £45.63
90th Percentile £62.89 £65.00 £49.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £53.03 £23.86 £36.73
% change year-on-year +122.25% -35.04% +92.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Root Cause Analysis is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,653 53,977 80,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.28% 89.91% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,313 37,392 56,301
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,429 1,779 1,937
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.54 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.98 £35.90 £20.00
% change year-on-year +0.21% +79.50% -8.09%

Root Cause Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Root Cause Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Root Cause Analysis in the UK

Root Cause Analysis
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Root Cause Analysis in the UK

Root Cause Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Root Cause Analysis over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Root Cause Analysis in the UK

Root Cause Analysis
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Root Cause Analysis in the UK

Root Cause Analysis
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Root Cause Analysis over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Root Cause Analysis in the UK

Root Cause Analysis
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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
England +54 395 £500 - 346
UK excluding London +29 219 £498 +8.15% 271
London +78 195 £550 +4.76% 92
Work from Home +54 125 £495 -1.00% 126
North of England +42 61 £493 -11.96% 73
South West +31 51 £525 +31.25% 41
South East -8 44 £488 +8.33% 66
Midlands -3 43 £513 +3.96% 51
Yorkshire +39 36 £450 +20.00% 27
West Midlands +17 35 £525 -14.29% 32
North West +12 25 £493 -17.83% 43
Wales +32 21 £91 -80.22% 7
East of England +1 16 £375 -1.25% 26
Scotland +25 9 £623 +2.94% 9
East Midlands -7 8 £323 -7.86% 19

Root Cause Analysis
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 29 (6.37%) Confluence
2 27 (5.93%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.54%) nginx
4 4 (0.88%) IIS
4 4 (0.88%) OpenStack
4 4 (0.88%) Tomcat
5 3 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.66%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.22%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.22%) JBoss
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.22%) WebLogic
Applications
1 27 (5.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (4.84%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (1.98%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.22%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 10 (2.20%) OpenText VIM for SAP
1 10 (2.20%) SAP FI-AP
2 7 (1.54%) Siebel CRM
3 6 (1.32%) Teamcenter
4 4 (0.88%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.44%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.44%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.44%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.44%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.44%) Summit
6 1 (0.22%) ION MarketView
6 1 (0.22%) SAP APO
6 1 (0.22%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.22%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.22%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 58 (12.75%) Azure
2 56 (12.31%) AWS
3 22 (4.84%) GCP
4 20 (4.40%) Power Platform
5 12 (2.64%) Cloud Computing
6 11 (2.42%) IaaS
7 10 (2.20%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (2.20%) PaaS
7 10 (2.20%) SaaS
8 9 (1.98%) Azure Sentinel
8 9 (1.98%) Nutanix
9 8 (1.76%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (1.76%) SuccessFactors
10 7 (1.54%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (1.54%) Amazon S3
10 7 (1.54%) Rubrik
11 6 (1.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (1.32%) GitHub
11 6 (1.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 5 (1.10%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 41 (9.01%) Firewall
2 23 (5.05%) WAN
3 22 (4.84%) LAN
4 21 (4.62%) TCP/IP
5 20 (4.40%) VPN
6 19 (4.18%) DNS
6 19 (4.18%) Wireless
7 17 (3.74%) DHCP
8 11 (2.42%) BGP
8 11 (2.42%) WLAN
9 10 (2.20%) Cisco ASA
10 9 (1.98%) OSPF
11 8 (1.76%) IPsec
11 8 (1.76%) VLAN
12 7 (1.54%) Kerberos
12 7 (1.54%) NAS
12 7 (1.54%) SAN
13 4 (0.88%) DMZ
13 4 (0.88%) Internet
13 4 (0.88%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (4.40%) Power BI
2 15 (3.30%) Relational Database
3 14 (3.08%) Ingres
4 11 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (2.42%) Tableau
5 10 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (1.98%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (1.98%) SQL Server
7 6 (1.32%) Sybase ASE
8 5 (1.10%) MongoDB
8 5 (1.10%) RDBMS
8 5 (1.10%) Siebel EIM
9 4 (0.88%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (0.88%) Apache Hive
9 4 (0.88%) DB2
9 4 (0.88%) Hadoop
9 4 (0.88%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.88%) SAP BW
10 3 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 43 (9.45%) JIRA
2 37 (8.13%) Jenkins
3 29 (6.37%) Git
4 13 (2.86%) GitLab
5 9 (1.98%) JMeter
5 9 (1.98%) TeamCity
6 8 (1.76%) Maven
6 8 (1.76%) Selenium
7 6 (1.32%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.32%) Gradle
8 4 (0.88%) Artifactory
8 4 (0.88%) IDA Disassembler
8 4 (0.88%) WebDriver
9 3 (0.66%) Burp Suite
9 3 (0.66%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.66%) Hudson
10 2 (0.44%) Gerrit
10 2 (0.44%) JUnit
10 2 (0.44%) Subversion
10 2 (0.44%) TestNG
General
1 190 (41.76%) Social Skills
2 86 (18.90%) Analytical Skills
3 79 (17.36%) Finance
4 49 (10.77%) Public Sector
5 35 (7.69%) Telecoms
6 32 (7.03%) Banking
7 23 (5.05%) Manufacturing
8 20 (4.40%) Influencing Skills
9 17 (3.74%) Mandarin Language
10 14 (3.08%) Investment Banking
11 12 (2.64%) Front Office
12 11 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
13 10 (2.20%) Marketing
14 7 (1.54%) Electronics
15 5 (1.10%) Back Office
15 5 (1.10%) Billing
15 5 (1.10%) Retail
16 4 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 4 (0.88%) Wholesale Banking
17 3 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 91 (20.00%) Analyst
2 31 (6.81%) Business Analyst
3 28 (6.15%) Senior
4 26 (5.71%) Incident Manager
4 26 (5.71%) Problem Manager
5 25 (5.49%) Lead
6 19 (4.18%) DBA
7 18 (3.96%) Architect
7 18 (3.96%) Developer
8 17 (3.74%) Support Engineer
9 16 (3.52%) Administrator
9 16 (3.52%) ITIL Manager
10 14 (3.08%) Data Business Analyst
10 14 (3.08%) Data Migration Analyst
10 14 (3.08%) Data Migration Business Analyst
10 14 (3.08%) Migration Analyst
11 13 (2.86%) Consultant
11 13 (2.86%) Cyber Defence Analyst
12 12 (2.64%) Coordinator
12 12 (2.64%) Ingres DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (2.86%) Elastic Stack
2 12 (2.64%) LDAP
3 10 (2.20%) EDI
3 10 (2.20%) IDoc
4 9 (1.98%) Kafka
5 8 (1.76%) .NET
5 8 (1.76%) Node.js
5 8 (1.76%) SAP Business Workflow
6 7 (1.54%) Spring
6 7 (1.54%) Spring Boot
7 6 (1.32%) Itk
7 6 (1.32%) React
7 6 (1.32%) REST
8 5 (1.10%) Keycloak
8 5 (1.10%) Middleware
8 5 (1.10%) Web Services
9 4 (0.88%) OLE
10 3 (0.66%) FIX Protocol
10 3 (0.66%) SailPoint
10 3 (0.66%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 57 (12.53%) Management Information System
2 51 (11.21%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 49 (10.77%) Cyber Threat
4 48 (10.55%) Cyber Defence
5 27 (5.93%) Data Centre
6 16 (3.52%) Virtual Team
7 14 (3.08%) Onboarding
7 14 (3.08%) Replication
8 11 (2.42%) PKI
9 10 (2.20%) Cloud Native
10 9 (1.98%) Clustering
10 9 (1.98%) iPhone
11 8 (1.76%) Security Operations Centre
11 8 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (1.54%) iPad
12 7 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
13 6 (1.32%) Driving Licence
13 6 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 6 (1.32%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 67 (14.73%) Windows
2 60 (13.19%) Linux
3 28 (6.15%) Unix
4 26 (5.71%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.76%) Windows 10
6 7 (1.54%) Oracle Linux
6 7 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.54%) Solaris
7 6 (1.32%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (1.32%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (1.10%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.88%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.44%) CentOS
10 2 (0.44%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.22%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (30.33%) Problem-Solving
2 95 (20.88%) Incident Management
3 86 (18.90%) ITIL
4 75 (16.48%) Agile
5 74 (16.26%) Cybersecurity
6 66 (14.51%) Incident Response
7 64 (14.07%) Continuous Improvement
8 63 (13.85%) Mentoring
9 62 (13.63%) Information Security
10 59 (12.97%) SIEM
11 58 (12.75%) Problem Management
12 56 (12.31%) DevOps
13 50 (10.99%) Use Case
14 49 (10.77%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
14 49 (10.77%) Threat Intelligence
15 48 (10.55%) CRM
15 48 (10.55%) Protective Monitoring
16 47 (10.33%) Case Management
17 46 (10.11%) Service Management
18 43 (9.45%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 62 (13.63%) Python
2 53 (11.65%) SQL
3 37 (8.13%) PowerShell
4 28 (6.15%) Java
5 19 (4.18%) Bash
6 15 (3.30%) Shell Script
7 13 (2.86%) JavaScript
8 10 (2.20%) ABAP
9 9 (1.98%) C++
9 9 (1.98%) Ruby
10 8 (1.76%) Groovy
10 8 (1.76%) T-SQL
11 7 (1.54%) Perl
12 6 (1.32%) C#
13 4 (0.88%) C
13 4 (0.88%) TypeScript
14 3 (0.66%) Go
14 3 (0.66%) Scala
14 3 (0.66%) VB.NET
15 2 (0.44%) VBA
Qualifications
1 160 (35.16%) Security Cleared
2 111 (24.40%) SC Cleared
3 67 (14.73%) DV Cleared
4 42 (9.23%) Degree
5 18 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (2.64%) CISSP
7 10 (2.20%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.98%) CEH
8 9 (1.98%) ITIL Certification
9 8 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (1.54%) CCNA
11 5 (1.10%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.88%) CCNP
12 4 (0.88%) MCSE
13 3 (0.66%) Azure Certification
13 3 (0.66%) CISM
13 3 (0.66%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 2 (0.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 2 (0.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (10.99%) QA
2 46 (10.11%) NIST
2 46 (10.11%) SLA
3 38 (8.35%) NIST 800
4 37 (8.13%) Data Quality
5 12 (2.64%) GDPR
6 8 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (1.32%) ISO 9001
9 5 (1.10%) NCSC
10 4 (0.88%) Accessibility
10 4 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 17025
11 3 (0.66%) EMIR
11 3 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 3 (0.66%) ISO17020
12 2 (0.44%) Disclosure Scotland
12 2 (0.44%) PMO
13 1 (0.22%) Dodd-Frank
13 1 (0.22%) MiFID
13 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 32 (7.03%) Active Directory
2 30 (6.59%) Docker
3 18 (3.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.10%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.88%) Snort
6 4 (0.88%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 3 (0.66%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 3 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.66%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (0.66%) vSphere
8 2 (0.44%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.22%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.22%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.22%) XenApp
9 1 (0.22%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 33 (7.25%) Ansible
2 32 (7.03%) Terraform
3 26 (5.71%) Kubernetes
4 19 (4.18%) Kibana
5 18 (3.96%) Grafana
6 10 (2.20%) Prometheus
7 9 (1.98%) FortiGate
7 9 (1.98%) logstash
7 9 (1.98%) SCCM
8 7 (1.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 7 (1.54%) EMC NetWorker
8 7 (1.54%) Netcool
8 7 (1.54%) Tivoli
8 7 (1.54%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 6 (1.32%) ITRS Geneos
9 6 (1.32%) Puppet
10 5 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (1.10%) Nagios
10 5 (1.10%) WSUS
11 4 (0.88%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 124 (27.25%) Microsoft
2 32 (7.03%) SAP
3 30 (6.59%) Cisco
4 27 (5.93%) ServiceNow
5 25 (5.49%) VMware
6 21 (4.62%) Splunk
7 20 (4.40%) Oracle
8 18 (3.96%) Google
9 16 (3.52%) IBM
10 13 (2.86%) Juniper
11 12 (2.64%) Palo Alto
12 11 (2.42%) CyberArk
13 10 (2.20%) OpenText
14 8 (1.76%) Qualys
15 7 (1.54%) Dell
15 7 (1.54%) EMC
15 7 (1.54%) HP
15 7 (1.54%) Isilon
15 7 (1.54%) Serena
15 7 (1.54%) SolarWinds