Root Cause Analysis Contracts in the West Midlands

Root Cause Analysis
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 79 76 93
Rank change year-on-year -3 +17 +55
Contract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 18 35 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.34% 1.80% 1.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 2.14% 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 25 37
10th Percentile £235 £356 £412
25th Percentile £280 £468 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -12.50% +26.32%
75th Percentile £700 £645 £731
90th Percentile - £700 £743
England median daily rate £465 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -7.00% - -4.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,188 1,636 2,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.33% 84.03% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 1,083 1,452
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 115 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £23.99 £41.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £57.75 £51.25
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Root Cause Analysis in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Root Cause Analysis in the West Midlands

Root Cause Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Root Cause Analysis in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Root Cause Analysis in the West Midlands

Root Cause Analysis
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands 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
Birmingham +27 11 £650 +26.83% 11
Warwickshire -5 4 - - 7
Staffordshire -3 1 - - 11
Solihull - 1 £375 - 2
Root Cause Analysis
England

Root Cause Analysis
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 6 (33.33%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Final Cut Pro
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (5.56%) QuarkXPress
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.56%) Azure
1 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) NetScaler
1 2 (11.11%) SSL
2 1 (5.56%) BGP
2 1 (5.56%) EIGRP
2 1 (5.56%) Internet
2 1 (5.56%) LAN
2 1 (5.56%) Network Security
2 1 (5.56%) OSPF
2 1 (5.56%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (5.56%) SD-WAN
2 1 (5.56%) VLAN
2 1 (5.56%) VPN
2 1 (5.56%) WAN
2 1 (5.56%) Wireless
2 1 (5.56%) Wireless Security
2 1 (5.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 2 (11.11%) Tableau
General
1 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 6 (33.33%) Legal
3 5 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.56%) Finance
5 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Analyst
1 4 (22.22%) Applications Engineer
1 4 (22.22%) Support Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Applications Support
2 3 (16.67%) Applications Support Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Administrator
3 2 (11.11%) Lead
3 2 (11.11%) Network Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Site Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Support Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Mac Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Network Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Python Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Service Operations Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Software Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Wintel Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (44.44%) Middleware
2 6 (33.33%) HTML
3 3 (16.67%) .NET
4 2 (11.11%) Web Services
5 1 (5.56%) 802.1X
5 1 (5.56%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Data Centre
1 2 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (11.11%) SCADA
2 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.56%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Windows
2 3 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.56%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (44.44%) Incident Management
3 6 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (22.22%) Change Management
4 4 (22.22%) Computer Science
4 4 (22.22%) Incident Response
5 3 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (16.67%) ITIL
5 3 (16.67%) Problem Management
5 3 (16.67%) Service Management
5 3 (16.67%) SIEM
5 3 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (16.67%) Task Automation
5 3 (16.67%) Time Management
6 2 (11.11%) Agile
6 2 (11.11%) ITSM
6 2 (11.11%) Use Case
6 2 (11.11%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) PowerShell
2 6 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 6 (33.33%) Python
2 6 (33.33%) SQL
3 3 (16.67%) Bash
3 3 (16.67%) C#
4 2 (11.11%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 6 (33.33%) Degree
3 5 (27.78%) DV Cleared
4 4 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (16.67%) CCNP
5 3 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (11.11%) Citrix Certification
6 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
6 2 (11.11%) Tableau Certification
7 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
7 1 (5.56%) CISA
7 1 (5.56%) CISM
7 1 (5.56%) CISSP
7 1 (5.56%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 8 (44.44%) Active Directory
2 3 (16.67%) Docker
3 1 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) Kubernetes
2 4 (22.22%) Ansible
3 3 (16.67%) Terraform
4 2 (11.11%) Grafana
5 1 (5.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) Dell
2 2 (11.11%) HP
2 2 (11.11%) IBM
3 1 (5.56%) Adobe
3 1 (5.56%) Apple
3 1 (5.56%) BT
3 1 (5.56%) Cisco
3 1 (5.56%) Infoblox
3 1 (5.56%) Juniper
3 1 (5.56%) Quark
3 1 (5.56%) SolarWinds
3 1 (5.56%) Veeam
3 1 (5.56%) VMware
3 1 (5.56%) Zscaler