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 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 86 89
Rank change year-on-year -6 +3 +63
Contract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 18 23 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.12% 1.15% 1.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% 1.42% 2.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 14 36
10th Percentile £205 £381 £397
25th Percentile £275 £464 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £485 £625
Median % change year-on-year -22.68% -22.40% +19.05%
75th Percentile £450 £534 £731
90th Percentile £490 £546 £743
England median daily rate £488 £488 £500
% change year-on-year - -2.50% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £30.00 - -
England median hourly rate £38.75 £53.03 £39.25
% change year-on-year -26.93% +35.11% +42.73%

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 1,429 1,618 1,948
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.70% 80.74% 86.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 902 1,081 1,342
10th Percentile £209 £270 £263
25th Percentile £363 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £688 £725 £725
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 96 43
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.06 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.76 £14.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £22.05 £19.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.05% -24.00% +42.86%
75th Percentile £32.29 £37.81 £30.00
90th Percentile £50.00 £58.75 £45.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £41.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% -8.14% +59.62%

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

Root Cause Analysis
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 17 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Root Cause Analysis in the West Midlands

Root Cause Analysis
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 17 July 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 +16 9 £292 -43.02% 6
Warwickshire -8 5 £438 -32.69% 6
Solihull - 2 £298 - 1
Staffordshire +4 1 - - 8
Shropshire -4 1 - - 2
Coventry - 1 £220 - 4
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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 3 (16.67%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (5.56%) AWS
2 1 (5.56%) Azure
2 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) Ethernet
1 3 (16.67%) MPLS
1 3 (16.67%) SDH
2 2 (11.11%) BGP
2 2 (11.11%) EIGRP
2 2 (11.11%) LAN
2 2 (11.11%) Network Security
2 2 (11.11%) OSPF
2 2 (11.11%) SD-WAN
2 2 (11.11%) VLAN
2 2 (11.11%) WAN
2 2 (11.11%) Wireless
2 2 (11.11%) Wireless Security
2 2 (11.11%) Wireshark
3 1 (5.56%) DHCP
3 1 (5.56%) DNS
3 1 (5.56%) Internet
3 1 (5.56%) Modbus
3 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 2 (11.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) GitLab
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 4 (22.22%) Legal
2 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.56%) Automotive
4 1 (5.56%) Environmental Health
4 1 (5.56%) Finance
4 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Network Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Lead
3 2 (11.11%) Site Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Support Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Administrator
4 1 (5.56%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Network Administrator
4 1 (5.56%) OAT Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Operations Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Python Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Service Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Service Operations Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Software Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Software Support Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) .NET
1 3 (16.67%) HTML
1 3 (16.67%) Middleware
2 2 (11.11%) 802.1X
2 2 (11.11%) Web Services
3 1 (5.56%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) SCADA
2 2 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (11.11%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.56%) Operational Technology
3 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Windows
2 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (44.44%) ITIL
3 6 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (27.78%) Incident Management
5 4 (22.22%) Computer Science
5 4 (22.22%) Incident Response
6 3 (16.67%) Agile
6 3 (16.67%) Change Management
6 3 (16.67%) Containerisation
6 3 (16.67%) High Availability
6 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (16.67%) Network Monitoring
6 3 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (16.67%) Problem Management
6 3 (16.67%) Service Management
6 3 (16.67%) SIEM
6 3 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (16.67%) Task Automation
7 2 (11.11%) ITSM
7 2 (11.11%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) Python
2 4 (22.22%) PowerShell
3 3 (16.67%) Bash
3 3 (16.67%) C#
3 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 3 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (50.00%) Degree
2 8 (44.44%) Security Cleared
3 5 (27.78%) CCNP
3 5 (27.78%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (27.78%) SC Cleared
4 4 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (16.67%) CCNA
6 2 (11.11%) DV Cleared
6 2 (11.11%) Tableau Certification
7 1 (5.56%) AWS 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%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) COSHH
1 1 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (5.56%) ISO 14001
1 1 (5.56%) NEBOSH
1 1 (5.56%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 3 (16.67%) Docker
3 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) Ansible
1 5 (27.78%) Kubernetes
2 3 (16.67%) Terraform
3 2 (11.11%) Grafana
4 1 (5.56%) HP ALM
4 1 (5.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) Cisco
2 2 (11.11%) HP
2 2 (11.11%) Juniper
2 2 (11.11%) SolarWinds
3 1 (5.56%) BT
3 1 (5.56%) Dell
3 1 (5.56%) Dynatrace
3 1 (5.56%) Infoblox
3 1 (5.56%) KANA
3 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.56%) Splunk
3 1 (5.56%) Veeam
3 1 (5.56%) VMware
3 1 (5.56%) Zscaler