Root Cause Analysis Contracts with Work from Home Options

Root Cause Analysis
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 221 284 301
Rank change year-on-year +63 +17 +22
Contract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 127 202 368
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.84% 0.79% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 0.88% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 160 196
10th Percentile £360 £312 £311
25th Percentile £410 £400 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £600 £731 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.48% +7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.84 - £38.75
Median hourly rate £15.85 £20.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.75% -52.94% -7.61%
75th Percentile - £23.47 £46.25
90th Percentile - £25.54 -
UK median hourly rate £53.02 £38.50 £36.73
% change year-on-year +37.70% +4.82% +42.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,319 22,924 40,623
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.76% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,917 16,193 29,494
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 527 541
10th Percentile £15.17 £18.67 £13.75
25th Percentile £24.63 £30.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.25
90th Percentile £75.15 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%

Root Cause Analysis
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Root Cause Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Root Cause Analysis trend for jobs with a WFH option

Root Cause Analysis
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Root Cause Analysis.

Root Cause Analysis daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Root Cause Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Root Cause Analysis over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Root Cause Analysis daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Root Cause Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Root Cause Analysis.

Root Cause Analysis hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Root Cause Analysis
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 13 (10.24%) Confluence
2 7 (5.51%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.36%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.57%) IIS
5 1 (0.79%) CMS
5 1 (0.79%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (0.79%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (0.79%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.79%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (7.87%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (2.36%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.79%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (6.30%) OpenText VIM for SAP
1 8 (6.30%) SAP FI-AP
2 2 (1.57%) SAP CO
2 2 (1.57%) SAP FI
2 2 (1.57%) SAP FI/CO
2 2 (1.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.57%) SAP SD
2 2 (1.57%) Siebel CRM
3 1 (0.79%) SAP APO
3 1 (0.79%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.79%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.79%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 22 (17.32%) AWS
2 19 (14.96%) Azure
3 9 (7.09%) GCP
3 9 (7.09%) IaaS
3 9 (7.09%) Power Platform
3 9 (7.09%) SaaS
4 8 (6.30%) PaaS
5 7 (5.51%) Cloud Computing
5 7 (5.51%) Nutanix
5 7 (5.51%) Rubrik
6 5 (3.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (3.15%) Amazon S3
7 4 (3.15%) AWS CloudTrail
7 4 (3.15%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (3.15%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (3.15%) SuccessFactors
7 4 (3.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.57%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 17 (13.39%) Firewall
2 14 (11.02%) TCP/IP
3 10 (7.87%) DNS
4 9 (7.09%) DHCP
5 8 (6.30%) WAN
6 7 (5.51%) Kerberos
6 7 (5.51%) NAS
6 7 (5.51%) SAN
6 7 (5.51%) VLAN
6 7 (5.51%) VPN
7 6 (4.72%) Cisco ASA
7 6 (4.72%) LAN
8 5 (3.94%) BGP
8 5 (3.94%) Wireless
9 4 (3.15%) Intrusion Detection
9 4 (3.15%) tcpdump
9 4 (3.15%) Wireshark
9 4 (3.15%) WLAN
10 3 (2.36%) IPsec
10 3 (2.36%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.09%) Power BI
2 8 (6.30%) Ingres
3 6 (4.72%) Tableau
4 4 (3.15%) Apache Hive
4 4 (3.15%) Hadoop
4 4 (3.15%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.57%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.57%) Siebel EIM
7 1 (0.79%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.79%) MySQL
7 1 (0.79%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (0.79%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.79%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 17 (13.39%) JIRA
2 13 (10.24%) Jenkins
3 12 (9.45%) Git
4 8 (6.30%) TeamCity
5 4 (3.15%) IDA Disassembler
5 4 (3.15%) Selenium
6 3 (2.36%) GitLab
6 3 (2.36%) JMeter
7 2 (1.57%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.79%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.79%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.79%) Gerrit
8 1 (0.79%) JUnit
8 1 (0.79%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.79%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (0.79%) Subversion
8 1 (0.79%) TestNG
General
1 43 (33.86%) Social Skills
2 33 (25.98%) Finance
3 20 (15.75%) Public Sector
4 19 (14.96%) Manufacturing
5 18 (14.17%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (7.09%) Banking
7 7 (5.51%) Marketing
8 6 (4.72%) Electronics
8 6 (4.72%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.36%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.57%) Front Office
10 2 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.57%) Legal
11 1 (0.79%) Advertising
11 1 (0.79%) Back Office
11 1 (0.79%) Billing
11 1 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 24 (18.90%) Analyst
2 13 (10.24%) Business Analyst
3 10 (7.87%) Incident Manager
4 8 (6.30%) DBA
4 8 (6.30%) Ingres DBA
4 8 (6.30%) Senior
5 7 (5.51%) Developer
5 7 (5.51%) Lead
6 6 (4.72%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (4.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (4.72%) Problem Manager
6 6 (4.72%) Service Analyst
7 5 (3.94%) Data Analyst
7 5 (3.94%) Finance Business Analyst
7 5 (3.94%) Financial Analyst
7 5 (3.94%) Financial Business Analyst
7 5 (3.94%) Financial Services Business Analyst
8 4 (3.15%) Administrator
8 4 (3.15%) Security Engineer
8 4 (3.15%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.30%) EDI
1 8 (6.30%) IDoc
1 8 (6.30%) SAP Business Workflow
2 7 (5.51%) LDAP
3 4 (3.15%) OLE
4 3 (2.36%) .NET
5 2 (1.57%) Node.js
5 2 (1.57%) React
6 1 (0.79%) AWS SAM
6 1 (0.79%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.79%) Itk
6 1 (0.79%) Kafka
6 1 (0.79%) Middleware
6 1 (0.79%) Mustache
6 1 (0.79%) REST
6 1 (0.79%) RESTful
6 1 (0.79%) Spring
6 1 (0.79%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.79%) Web Services
6 1 (0.79%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.09%) Clustering
2 8 (6.30%) Replication
3 7 (5.51%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 5 (3.94%) Virtual Team
5 4 (3.15%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.15%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (3.15%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.15%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.15%) Public Cloud
5 4 (3.15%) Security Posture
5 4 (3.15%) YARA
6 3 (2.36%) Cyber Defence
6 3 (2.36%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.36%) PKI
7 2 (1.57%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.57%) Digital Media
7 2 (1.57%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.79%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 21 (16.54%) Windows
2 19 (14.96%) Linux
3 14 (11.02%) Windows Server
4 7 (5.51%) Oracle Linux
4 7 (5.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (5.51%) Solaris
5 3 (2.36%) Ubuntu
5 3 (2.36%) Unix
6 1 (0.79%) Android
6 1 (0.79%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.79%) CentOS
6 1 (0.79%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (18.90%) ITIL
1 24 (18.90%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (18.11%) Agile
3 22 (17.32%) Continuous Improvement
4 18 (14.17%) Incident Management
5 17 (13.39%) DevOps
6 15 (11.81%) Analytics
6 15 (11.81%) Cybersecurity
6 15 (11.81%) Migration
7 13 (10.24%) Incident Response
7 13 (10.24%) Vulnerability Management
8 12 (9.45%) Change Management
8 12 (9.45%) Problem Management
8 12 (9.45%) SIEM
8 12 (9.45%) Validation
9 11 (8.66%) Business Intelligence
9 11 (8.66%) Data Management
9 11 (8.66%) Requirements Gathering
10 10 (7.87%) Project Delivery
10 10 (7.87%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 16 (12.60%) Python
2 13 (10.24%) PowerShell
2 13 (10.24%) SQL
3 10 (7.87%) Bash
4 8 (6.30%) ABAP
4 8 (6.30%) Java
5 5 (3.94%) C++
6 4 (3.15%) Shell Script
7 3 (2.36%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.57%) R
8 2 (1.57%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.79%) C
9 1 (0.79%) C#
9 1 (0.79%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.79%) Ruby
9 1 (0.79%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.79%) VBA
9 1 (0.79%) VBScript
9 1 (0.79%) XPath
Qualifications
1 27 (21.26%) Security Cleared
2 22 (17.32%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.09%) Degree
4 5 (3.94%) DV Cleared
4 5 (3.94%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (2.36%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.57%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.57%) CCNP
6 2 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (1.57%) JNCIP
7 1 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.79%) ISEB
7 1 (0.79%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.79%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.79%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.79%) MBA
7 1 (0.79%) MCSE
7 1 (0.79%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.02%) Data Quality
2 12 (9.45%) GDPR
2 12 (9.45%) QA
3 11 (8.66%) NIST
4 9 (7.09%) SLA
5 7 (5.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (3.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (3.15%) NCSC
7 3 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 3 (2.36%) NIST 800
8 2 (1.57%) ISO 9001
8 2 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 2 (1.57%) ISO17020
9 1 (0.79%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.79%) COPPA
9 1 (0.79%) Dodd-Frank
9 1 (0.79%) EMIR
9 1 (0.79%) MiFID
System Software
1 16 (12.60%) Active Directory
2 12 (9.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (8.66%) Docker
4 4 (3.15%) Hyper-V
4 4 (3.15%) Snort
5 2 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.57%) VMware NSX
5 2 (1.57%) vSphere
6 1 (0.79%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.79%) XenApp
6 1 (0.79%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 12 (9.45%) Ansible
2 11 (8.66%) Kubernetes
3 10 (7.87%) Terraform
4 7 (5.51%) EMC NetWorker
4 7 (5.51%) Netcool
4 7 (5.51%) Tivoli
4 7 (5.51%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 6 (4.72%) Kibana
6 5 (3.94%) Prometheus
7 4 (3.15%) FortiGate
7 4 (3.15%) Trend Micro Deep Security
7 4 (3.15%) WSUS
8 3 (2.36%) Grafana
9 2 (1.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (1.57%) Nagios
9 2 (1.57%) Puppet
10 1 (0.79%) AirWatch
10 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
10 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.79%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 34 (26.77%) Microsoft
2 19 (14.96%) SAP
3 17 (13.39%) Splunk
3 17 (13.39%) VMware
4 14 (11.02%) Cisco
4 14 (11.02%) ServiceNow
5 10 (7.87%) Oracle
6 8 (6.30%) CyberArk
6 8 (6.30%) OpenText
6 8 (6.30%) Qualys
7 7 (5.51%) Dell
7 7 (5.51%) EMC
7 7 (5.51%) Google
7 7 (5.51%) HP
7 7 (5.51%) IBM
7 7 (5.51%) Isilon
7 7 (5.51%) Serena
8 5 (3.94%) Juniper
9 4 (3.15%) Palo Alto
10 3 (2.36%) Citrix