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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 224 272 304
Rank change year-on-year +48 +32 +14
Contract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 125 201 367
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.83% 0.80% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 0.89% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 160 198
10th Percentile £362 £312 £313
25th Percentile £412 £400 £395
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 £679
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.48% +6.84%
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 13,242 22,482 39,977
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.03% 89.72% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,878 15,879 28,991
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
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 571 516 542
10th Percentile £15.00 £18.66 £13.78
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.29
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%

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 10 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 (10.40%) Confluence
2 7 (5.60%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.40%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.60%) IIS
4 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.80%) CMS
5 1 (0.80%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (0.80%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (0.80%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.80%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (8.00%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (2.40%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.80%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (6.40%) OpenText VIM for SAP
1 8 (6.40%) SAP FI-AP
2 2 (1.60%) SAP CO
2 2 (1.60%) SAP FI
2 2 (1.60%) SAP FI/CO
2 2 (1.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.60%) SAP SD
2 2 (1.60%) Siebel CRM
3 1 (0.80%) SAP APO
3 1 (0.80%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.80%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.80%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 23 (18.40%) AWS
2 20 (16.00%) Azure
3 9 (7.20%) GCP
3 9 (7.20%) IaaS
3 9 (7.20%) Power Platform
3 9 (7.20%) SaaS
4 8 (6.40%) PaaS
5 7 (5.60%) Cloud Computing
5 7 (5.60%) Nutanix
5 7 (5.60%) Rubrik
6 5 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (3.20%) Amazon S3
7 4 (3.20%) AWS CloudTrail
7 4 (3.20%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (3.20%) SuccessFactors
7 4 (3.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.60%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.60%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 16 (12.80%) Firewall
2 14 (11.20%) TCP/IP
3 10 (8.00%) DNS
4 9 (7.20%) DHCP
5 7 (5.60%) Kerberos
5 7 (5.60%) NAS
5 7 (5.60%) SAN
5 7 (5.60%) VLAN
6 6 (4.80%) WAN
7 5 (4.00%) Cisco ASA
7 5 (4.00%) VPN
8 4 (3.20%) BGP
8 4 (3.20%) Intrusion Detection
8 4 (3.20%) LAN
8 4 (3.20%) tcpdump
8 4 (3.20%) Wireless
8 4 (3.20%) Wireshark
9 3 (2.40%) WLAN
10 2 (1.60%) IPsec
10 2 (1.60%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.20%) Power BI
2 8 (6.40%) Ingres
3 6 (4.80%) Tableau
4 4 (3.20%) Apache Hive
4 4 (3.20%) Hadoop
4 4 (3.20%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.60%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.60%) Siebel EIM
7 1 (0.80%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.80%) MySQL
7 1 (0.80%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (0.80%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.80%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 17 (13.60%) JIRA
2 13 (10.40%) Jenkins
3 12 (9.60%) Git
4 8 (6.40%) TeamCity
5 4 (3.20%) IDA Disassembler
5 4 (3.20%) JMeter
5 4 (3.20%) Selenium
6 3 (2.40%) GitLab
7 2 (1.60%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.80%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.80%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.80%) Gerrit
8 1 (0.80%) JUnit
8 1 (0.80%) NeoLoad
8 1 (0.80%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.80%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (0.80%) Subversion
8 1 (0.80%) TestNG
General
1 43 (34.40%) Social Skills
2 33 (26.40%) Finance
3 19 (15.20%) Manufacturing
3 19 (15.20%) Public Sector
4 17 (13.60%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (7.20%) Banking
6 7 (5.60%) Marketing
7 6 (4.80%) Electronics
7 6 (4.80%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.60%) Front Office
9 2 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.60%) Legal
10 1 (0.80%) Advertising
10 1 (0.80%) Back Office
10 1 (0.80%) Billing
10 1 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 23 (18.40%) Analyst
2 13 (10.40%) Business Analyst
3 10 (8.00%) Incident Manager
4 8 (6.40%) DBA
4 8 (6.40%) Ingres DBA
4 8 (6.40%) Lead
4 8 (6.40%) Senior
5 7 (5.60%) Developer
6 6 (4.80%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (4.80%) Problem Manager
6 6 (4.80%) Service Analyst
7 5 (4.00%) Data Analyst
7 5 (4.00%) Finance Business Analyst
7 5 (4.00%) Financial Analyst
7 5 (4.00%) Financial Business Analyst
7 5 (4.00%) Financial Services Business Analyst
7 5 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (3.20%) Administrator
8 4 (3.20%) Security Engineer
8 4 (3.20%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.40%) EDI
1 8 (6.40%) IDoc
1 8 (6.40%) SAP Business Workflow
2 7 (5.60%) LDAP
3 4 (3.20%) .NET
3 4 (3.20%) OLE
4 2 (1.60%) Node.js
4 2 (1.60%) React
5 1 (0.80%) AWS SAM
5 1 (0.80%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.80%) Itk
5 1 (0.80%) Kafka
5 1 (0.80%) Middleware
5 1 (0.80%) Mustache
5 1 (0.80%) REST
5 1 (0.80%) RESTful
5 1 (0.80%) Spring
5 1 (0.80%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.80%) Web Services
5 1 (0.80%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.20%) Clustering
2 8 (6.40%) Replication
3 7 (5.60%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 5 (4.00%) Virtual Team
5 4 (3.20%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.20%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.20%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.20%) Public Cloud
5 4 (3.20%) Security Posture
5 4 (3.20%) YARA
6 3 (2.40%) Cyber Defence
6 3 (2.40%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (2.40%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.60%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.60%) Digital Media
7 2 (1.60%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.60%) PKI
8 1 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 20 (16.00%) Windows
2 19 (15.20%) Linux
3 13 (10.40%) Windows Server
4 7 (5.60%) Oracle Linux
4 7 (5.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (5.60%) Solaris
5 3 (2.40%) Ubuntu
5 3 (2.40%) Unix
6 1 (0.80%) Android
6 1 (0.80%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.80%) CentOS
6 1 (0.80%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (19.20%) Agile
1 24 (19.20%) ITIL
1 24 (19.20%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (17.60%) Continuous Improvement
3 18 (14.40%) Incident Management
4 17 (13.60%) DevOps
5 15 (12.00%) Analytics
5 15 (12.00%) Migration
6 14 (11.20%) Cybersecurity
7 13 (10.40%) Vulnerability Management
8 12 (9.60%) Incident Response
8 12 (9.60%) Problem Management
8 12 (9.60%) SIEM
8 12 (9.60%) Validation
9 11 (8.80%) Business Intelligence
9 11 (8.80%) Change Management
9 11 (8.80%) Data Management
9 11 (8.80%) Requirements Gathering
10 10 (8.00%) Disaster Recovery
10 10 (8.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (13.60%) Python
2 13 (10.40%) SQL
3 12 (9.60%) PowerShell
4 10 (8.00%) Bash
5 9 (7.20%) Java
6 8 (6.40%) ABAP
7 5 (4.00%) C++
8 4 (3.20%) JavaScript
8 4 (3.20%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.60%) C#
9 2 (1.60%) R
9 2 (1.60%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.80%) C
10 1 (0.80%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.80%) Ruby
10 1 (0.80%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.80%) VBA
10 1 (0.80%) VBScript
10 1 (0.80%) XPath
Qualifications
1 27 (21.60%) Security Cleared
2 22 (17.60%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.20%) Degree
4 5 (4.00%) DV Cleared
4 5 (4.00%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.60%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.60%) CCNP
6 2 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (1.60%) JNCIP
7 1 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.80%) ISEB
7 1 (0.80%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.80%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.80%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.80%) MBA
7 1 (0.80%) MCSE
7 1 (0.80%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.20%) Data Quality
2 12 (9.60%) GDPR
2 12 (9.60%) QA
3 11 (8.80%) NIST
4 8 (6.40%) SLA
5 7 (5.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (3.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (3.20%) NCSC
7 3 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 3 (2.40%) NIST 800
8 2 (1.60%) ISO 9001
8 2 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 2 (1.60%) ISO17020
9 1 (0.80%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.80%) COPPA
9 1 (0.80%) Dodd-Frank
9 1 (0.80%) EMIR
9 1 (0.80%) MiFID
System Software
1 15 (12.00%) Active Directory
2 11 (8.80%) Docker
2 11 (8.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.20%) Snort
4 3 (2.40%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.60%) VMware NSX
5 2 (1.60%) vSphere
6 1 (0.80%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.80%) XenApp
6 1 (0.80%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 12 (9.60%) Ansible
2 11 (8.80%) Kubernetes
3 10 (8.00%) Terraform
4 7 (5.60%) EMC NetWorker
4 7 (5.60%) Netcool
4 7 (5.60%) Tivoli
4 7 (5.60%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 6 (4.80%) Kibana
6 5 (4.00%) Prometheus
7 4 (3.20%) Trend Micro Deep Security
7 4 (3.20%) WSUS
8 3 (2.40%) FortiGate
8 3 (2.40%) Grafana
9 2 (1.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (1.60%) Nagios
9 2 (1.60%) Puppet
10 1 (0.80%) AirWatch
10 1 (0.80%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
10 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.80%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 33 (26.40%) Microsoft
2 19 (15.20%) SAP
3 17 (13.60%) Splunk
4 16 (12.80%) VMware
5 14 (11.20%) ServiceNow
6 13 (10.40%) Cisco
7 10 (8.00%) Oracle
8 8 (6.40%) CyberArk
8 8 (6.40%) OpenText
8 8 (6.40%) Qualys
9 7 (5.60%) Dell
9 7 (5.60%) EMC
9 7 (5.60%) Google
9 7 (5.60%) HP
9 7 (5.60%) IBM
9 7 (5.60%) Isilon
9 7 (5.60%) Serena
10 4 (3.20%) Juniper
11 3 (2.40%) Palo Alto
12 2 (1.60%) Actian