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

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 229 284 323
Rank change year-on-year +55 +39 +8
Contract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 427 531 741
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.00% 0.93% 0.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% 1.04% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 369 436
10th Percentile £305 £313 £300
25th Percentile £418 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £625
90th Percentile £650 £731 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £460 £458
% change year-on-year +8.70% +0.55% +17.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 8 7
10th Percentile £13.74 £20.00 £25.95
25th Percentile £15.85 £20.59 £28.25
Median hourly rate £53.02 £38.50 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +37.70% +22.22% +22.33%
75th Percentile £61.08 £62.75 £45.00
90th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £48.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £53.03 £23.86 £36.73
% change year-on-year +122.25% -35.04% +66.95%

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 36,687 51,295 79,236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.22% 89.83% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,611 35,552 55,630
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £476
% change year-on-year - +5.04% +8.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,428 1,693 1,906
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.77 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.52
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 15 May 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 +33 363 £500 - 358
UK excluding London +30 219 £500 +8.70% 293
London +48 165 £550 +7.32% 75
Work from Home +62 122 £493 -1.40% 129
North of England +31 60 £484 -3.20% 77
South West +40 51 £525 - 28
South East +12 44 £488 -1.52% 64
Midlands +3 43 £513 +6.22% 55
Yorkshire +30 35 £450 +20.00% 22
West Midlands +9 35 £525 -12.50% 41
North West +18 25 £493 -6.10% 47
Wales +37 21 £91 -80.22% 7
East of England +1 15 £375 -13.99% 41
Scotland +42 11 £623 +38.33% 24
East Midlands -11 8 £323 -7.86% 14

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 25 (5.85%) Confluence
2 24 (5.62%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.64%) nginx
4 6 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.94%) IIS
5 4 (0.94%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.70%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.47%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.23%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.23%) CMS
8 1 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2007
8 1 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.23%) JBoss
8 1 (0.23%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.23%) WebLogic
Applications
1 27 (6.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (5.15%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (2.11%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.23%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 10 (2.34%) OpenText VIM for SAP
1 10 (2.34%) SAP FI-AP
2 6 (1.41%) Siebel CRM
2 6 (1.41%) Teamcenter
3 4 (0.94%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.47%) SAP CO
4 2 (0.47%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.47%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.47%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.23%) SAP APO
5 1 (0.23%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.23%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.23%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 51 (11.94%) AWS
2 49 (11.48%) Azure
3 23 (5.39%) Power Platform
4 20 (4.68%) GCP
5 10 (2.34%) PaaS
5 10 (2.34%) SaaS
6 9 (2.11%) Azure Sentinel
6 9 (2.11%) Cloud Computing
6 9 (2.11%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (1.87%) IaaS
7 8 (1.87%) Nutanix
7 8 (1.87%) SuccessFactors
8 7 (1.64%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (1.64%) GitHub
9 6 (1.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (1.41%) Rubrik
10 5 (1.17%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (1.17%) OpenShift
11 4 (0.94%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 34 (7.96%) Firewall
2 20 (4.68%) WAN
3 19 (4.45%) TCP/IP
4 18 (4.22%) DNS
5 17 (3.98%) LAN
6 15 (3.51%) DHCP
7 14 (3.28%) VPN
8 12 (2.81%) Wireless
9 9 (2.11%) BGP
10 7 (1.64%) OSPF
10 7 (1.64%) VLAN
11 6 (1.41%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (1.41%) IPsec
11 6 (1.41%) Kerberos
11 6 (1.41%) NAS
11 6 (1.41%) SAN
11 6 (1.41%) WLAN
12 4 (0.94%) DMZ
12 4 (0.94%) Internet
12 4 (0.94%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (5.39%) Power BI
2 16 (3.75%) Relational Database
3 14 (3.28%) Ingres
3 14 (3.28%) Tableau
4 10 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (1.64%) Sybase ASE
7 6 (1.41%) RDBMS
7 6 (1.41%) SQL Server
8 5 (1.17%) DB2
8 5 (1.17%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.94%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (0.94%) Apache Hive
9 4 (0.94%) Hadoop
9 4 (0.94%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.94%) SAP BW
9 4 (0.94%) Siebel EIM
10 3 (0.70%) ClickHouse
10 3 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 40 (9.37%) JIRA
2 35 (8.20%) Jenkins
3 27 (6.32%) Git
4 12 (2.81%) GitLab
5 10 (2.34%) JMeter
6 9 (2.11%) Selenium
7 8 (1.87%) Maven
7 8 (1.87%) TeamCity
8 6 (1.41%) Cucumber
8 6 (1.41%) Gradle
9 5 (1.17%) WebDriver
10 4 (0.94%) Artifactory
10 4 (0.94%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.94%) IDA Disassembler
11 3 (0.70%) Burp Suite
11 3 (0.70%) Hudson
12 2 (0.47%) Gerrit
12 2 (0.47%) JUnit
12 2 (0.47%) Subversion
12 2 (0.47%) TestNG
General
1 177 (41.45%) Social Skills
2 72 (16.86%) Finance
3 67 (15.69%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (11.48%) Public Sector
5 36 (8.43%) Telecoms
6 31 (7.26%) Banking
7 23 (5.39%) Manufacturing
8 17 (3.98%) Mandarin Language
9 14 (3.28%) Investment Banking
10 12 (2.81%) Front Office
11 11 (2.58%) Marketing
12 8 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (1.64%) Electronics
13 7 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.17%) Back Office
14 5 (1.17%) Retail
15 4 (0.94%) Billing
15 4 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.94%) Legal
15 4 (0.94%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 90 (21.08%) Analyst
2 29 (6.79%) Business Analyst
3 27 (6.32%) Senior
4 26 (6.09%) Lead
4 26 (6.09%) Problem Manager
5 21 (4.92%) Incident Manager
6 20 (4.68%) DBA
7 18 (4.22%) Architect
8 17 (3.98%) Support Engineer
9 16 (3.75%) Administrator
10 15 (3.51%) Developer
11 13 (3.04%) Cyber Defence Analyst
12 12 (2.81%) Consultant
12 12 (2.81%) Coordinator
12 12 (2.81%) Ingres DBA
13 11 (2.58%) Data Business Analyst
13 11 (2.58%) Data Migration Analyst
13 11 (2.58%) Data Migration Business Analyst
13 11 (2.58%) Migration Analyst
14 10 (2.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (2.58%) Elastic Stack
1 11 (2.58%) LDAP
2 10 (2.34%) EDI
2 10 (2.34%) IDoc
3 8 (1.87%) .NET
3 8 (1.87%) Node.js
3 8 (1.87%) SAP Business Workflow
4 7 (1.64%) Kafka
4 7 (1.64%) Spring
4 7 (1.64%) Spring Boot
5 6 (1.41%) Itk
5 6 (1.41%) React
5 6 (1.41%) REST
6 5 (1.17%) Keycloak
6 5 (1.17%) Web Services
7 4 (0.94%) Middleware
7 4 (0.94%) OLE
8 3 (0.70%) ADO
8 3 (0.70%) CSS
8 3 (0.70%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 56 (13.11%) Management Information System
2 51 (11.94%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 48 (11.24%) Cyber Defence
3 48 (11.24%) Cyber Threat
4 26 (6.09%) Data Centre
5 16 (3.75%) Virtual Team
6 14 (3.28%) Onboarding
6 14 (3.28%) Replication
7 10 (2.34%) Cloud Native
8 9 (2.11%) iPhone
8 9 (2.11%) PKI
8 9 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (1.87%) Clustering
9 8 (1.87%) Linux Command Line
9 8 (1.87%) Security Operations Centre
10 7 (1.64%) Driving Licence
10 7 (1.64%) Product Ownership
11 6 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 6 (1.41%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 61 (14.29%) Windows
2 54 (12.65%) Linux
3 28 (6.56%) Unix
4 20 (4.68%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.87%) Windows 10
6 6 (1.41%) Oracle Linux
6 6 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.41%) Solaris
6 6 (1.41%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (1.41%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.94%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.70%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.47%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.23%) AIX
10 1 (0.23%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 94 (22.01%) Incident Management
3 72 (16.86%) Cybersecurity
4 71 (16.63%) ITIL
5 69 (16.16%) Agile
6 64 (14.99%) Incident Response
7 61 (14.29%) Information Security
8 60 (14.05%) Mentoring
9 57 (13.35%) SIEM
10 51 (11.94%) DevOps
11 50 (11.71%) Use Case
12 49 (11.48%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
12 49 (11.48%) Threat Intelligence
13 47 (11.01%) Case Management
13 47 (11.01%) CRM
14 46 (10.77%) Continuous Improvement
14 46 (10.77%) Protective Monitoring
15 43 (10.07%) SOAR
16 42 (9.84%) Problem Management
17 41 (9.60%) MITRE ATT&CK
Programming Languages
1 61 (14.29%) Python
2 49 (11.48%) SQL
3 33 (7.73%) PowerShell
4 30 (7.03%) Java
5 17 (3.98%) Bash
6 15 (3.51%) JavaScript
6 15 (3.51%) Shell Script
7 10 (2.34%) ABAP
8 9 (2.11%) C++
8 9 (2.11%) Ruby
9 8 (1.87%) C#
9 8 (1.87%) Groovy
9 8 (1.87%) Perl
10 7 (1.64%) T-SQL
11 5 (1.17%) TypeScript
12 4 (0.94%) C
13 3 (0.70%) Go
13 3 (0.70%) Scala
13 3 (0.70%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.47%) R
Qualifications
1 141 (33.02%) Security Cleared
2 91 (21.31%) SC Cleared
3 67 (15.69%) DV Cleared
4 44 (10.30%) Degree
5 20 (4.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (2.81%) CISSP
7 10 (2.34%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (2.11%) CEH
8 9 (2.11%) ITIL Certification
9 8 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (1.41%) CCNA
11 5 (1.17%) CCNP
11 5 (1.17%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.94%) MCSE
13 3 (0.70%) CISM
13 3 (0.70%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 2 (0.47%) AWS Certification
14 2 (0.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 2 (0.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (11.24%) QA
2 46 (10.77%) NIST
3 45 (10.54%) SLA
4 38 (8.90%) NIST 800
5 36 (8.43%) Data Quality
6 11 (2.58%) GDPR
7 8 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (1.41%) ISO 9001
8 6 (1.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (1.17%) Accessibility
10 4 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 17025
10 4 (0.94%) NCSC
11 3 (0.70%) EMIR
11 3 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 3 (0.70%) ISO17020
12 2 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
12 2 (0.47%) PMO
13 1 (0.23%) COPPA
13 1 (0.23%) Dodd-Frank
13 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 26 (6.09%) Active Directory
1 26 (6.09%) Docker
2 17 (3.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.17%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 4 (0.94%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.94%) Snort
6 3 (0.70%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 3 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.70%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (0.70%) vSphere
7 2 (0.47%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.23%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.23%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.23%) XenApp
8 1 (0.23%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 30 (7.03%) Ansible
1 30 (7.03%) Terraform
2 22 (5.15%) Kubernetes
3 18 (4.22%) Kibana
4 16 (3.75%) Grafana
5 9 (2.11%) logstash
6 8 (1.87%) SCCM
7 7 (1.64%) Prometheus
8 6 (1.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 6 (1.41%) EMC NetWorker
8 6 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (1.41%) Netcool
8 6 (1.41%) Tivoli
8 6 (1.41%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 5 (1.17%) FortiGate
9 5 (1.17%) ITRS Geneos
9 5 (1.17%) WSUS
10 4 (0.94%) Puppet
10 4 (0.94%) Trend Micro Deep Security
11 3 (0.70%) SCOM
Vendors
1 120 (28.10%) Microsoft
2 33 (7.73%) SAP
3 28 (6.56%) ServiceNow
4 26 (6.09%) Cisco
5 22 (5.15%) VMware
6 19 (4.45%) Splunk
7 18 (4.22%) Oracle
8 17 (3.98%) Google
9 16 (3.75%) IBM
10 12 (2.81%) Juniper
11 10 (2.34%) CyberArk
11 10 (2.34%) OpenText
12 9 (2.11%) Palo Alto
13 7 (1.64%) Qualys
13 7 (1.64%) Sybase
14 6 (1.41%) Dell
14 6 (1.41%) HP
14 6 (1.41%) Isilon
14 6 (1.41%) Siebel
14 6 (1.41%) SolarWinds