Root Cause Analysis
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Root Cause Analysis skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Root Cause Analysis over the 6 months to 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 314 342 352
Rank change year-on-year +28 +10 +40
Permanent jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 941 965 1,834
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.91% 0.99% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 1.04% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 492 543 838
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,101 £38,600 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% -8.65%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,963 £64,688
90th Percentile £82,500 £89,760 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% -

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 86,886 92,843 159,778
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.13% 95.56% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 60,763 54,795 82,800
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Root Cause Analysis.

Salary trend for Root Cause Analysis in the UK

Root Cause Analysis
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Root Cause Analysis over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Root Cause Analysis in the UK

Root Cause Analysis
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Root Cause Analysis within the UK over the 6 months to 29 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +43 859 £50,000 -9.09% 385
UK excluding London -21 562 £45,000 -10.00% 321
Work from Home +65 428 £50,000 -13.04% 136
London +120 349 £65,000 -3.70% 69
North of England +29 160 £45,000 -14.29% 72
Midlands -40 132 £47,500 -11.63% 71
North West -5 98 £44,000 -9.22% 36
South East -66 89 £47,500 +11.76% 72
East Midlands +4 71 £50,000 +2.56% 23
East of England +30 64 £45,000 -23.40% 37
West Midlands -53 61 £37,500 -31.82% 48
South West +5 58 £60,918 +49.31% 42
Yorkshire +63 37 £45,000 -14.29% 20
North East +20 25 £45,000 -33.33% 19
Wales +12 20 £41,067 +32.47% 1
Scotland -84 20 £42,202 -17.23% 26
Northern Ireland +25 17 - - 6
Isle of Man - 2 £36,000 -

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 30 (3.19%) SAS
2 29 (3.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 26 (2.76%) SharePoint
4 9 (0.96%) Apache
4 9 (0.96%) Confluence
5 8 (0.85%) JBoss
6 4 (0.43%) Exchange Server 2010
6 4 (0.43%) IIS
6 4 (0.43%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.32%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.32%) GlassFish
8 2 (0.21%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.11%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 79 (8.40%) Microsoft Office
2 73 (7.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 26 (2.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.21%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.11%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 15 (1.59%) iTrent
2 13 (1.38%) Infor SunSystems
3 8 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.74%) SAP QM
5 5 (0.53%) Temenos T24
6 3 (0.32%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.32%) Oracle Applications
6 3 (0.32%) Oracle Manufacturing
6 3 (0.32%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.21%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.21%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.11%) Endur
8 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.11%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.11%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 229 (24.34%) AWS
2 148 (15.73%) Azure
3 117 (12.43%) Microsoft 365
4 39 (4.14%) Power Platform
5 33 (3.51%) Entra ID
6 30 (3.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 30 (3.19%) Serverless
7 29 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (1.81%) GCP
9 16 (1.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 15 (1.59%) Azure Functions
11 14 (1.49%) Amazon S3
12 12 (1.28%) Amazon EC2
12 12 (1.28%) AWS CloudFormation
12 12 (1.28%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (1.28%) Azure Data Factory
12 12 (1.28%) Mimecast
13 11 (1.17%) OneDrive
13 11 (1.17%) Power Automate
13 11 (1.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 68 (7.23%) LAN
2 62 (6.59%) WAN
3 47 (4.99%) Firewall
4 32 (3.40%) SAN
5 30 (3.19%) DNS
6 26 (2.76%) Network Security
6 26 (2.76%) VLAN
7 25 (2.66%) DHCP
7 25 (2.66%) Wireless
8 18 (1.91%) VPN
9 16 (1.70%) Internet
9 16 (1.70%) VoIP
10 13 (1.38%) TCP/IP
11 12 (1.28%) WLAN
12 10 (1.06%) MPLS
13 9 (0.96%) Unified Communications
14 8 (0.85%) OSPF
15 7 (0.74%) BGP
15 7 (0.74%) Cisco ASA
15 7 (0.74%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 184 (19.55%) Tableau
2 47 (4.99%) SQL Server
3 36 (3.83%) Power BI
4 21 (2.23%) Relational Database
5 18 (1.91%) Amazon RDS
6 16 (1.70%) MySQL
7 15 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 13 (1.38%) BusinessObjects
9 11 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
9 11 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
10 9 (0.96%) Metadata
11 8 (0.85%) Big Data
11 8 (0.85%) Data Lake
11 8 (0.85%) NoSQL
11 8 (0.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 7 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (0.43%) Oracle Database
14 3 (0.32%) Amazon Aurora
14 3 (0.32%) Amazon Redshift
14 3 (0.32%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 183 (19.45%) Git
2 30 (3.19%) JIRA
3 17 (1.81%) Selenium
4 16 (1.70%) Jenkins
5 13 (1.38%) Visual Studio
6 11 (1.17%) NUnit
6 11 (1.17%) WebDriver
7 5 (0.53%) Appium
7 5 (0.53%) DTrace
7 5 (0.53%) GDB
8 4 (0.43%) Protractor
9 3 (0.32%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.32%) Burp Suite
9 3 (0.32%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.32%) Deequ
9 3 (0.32%) Metasploit
9 3 (0.32%) Postman
9 3 (0.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (0.32%) sqlmap
9 3 (0.32%) TeamCity
General
1 488 (51.86%) Social Skills
2 276 (29.33%) Analytical Skills
3 173 (18.38%) Retail
4 159 (16.90%) Finance
5 148 (15.73%) Presentation Skills
6 102 (10.84%) Legal
7 83 (8.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 60 (6.38%) Banking
9 50 (5.31%) Manufacturing
10 34 (3.61%) Law
11 24 (2.55%) Military
11 24 (2.55%) Organisational Skills
12 23 (2.44%) Investment Banking
13 21 (2.23%) Automotive
13 21 (2.23%) Marketing
14 18 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
14 18 (1.91%) Telecoms
15 17 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
15 17 (1.81%) Pharmaceutical
16 15 (1.59%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 265 (28.16%) Analyst
2 239 (25.40%) Senior
3 132 (14.03%) Data Analyst
4 108 (11.48%) Senior Analyst
5 96 (10.20%) Senior Data Analyst
6 76 (8.08%) Lead
7 53 (5.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 51 (5.42%) Support Engineer
9 45 (4.78%) Data Scientist
9 45 (4.78%) Senior Data Scientist
10 38 (4.04%) Developer
11 33 (3.51%) Applications Support
11 33 (3.51%) Support Analyst
12 32 (3.40%) Lead Data Analyst
13 30 (3.19%) Audit Manager
13 30 (3.19%) Incident Manager
14 29 (3.08%) Architect
15 26 (2.76%) Service Analyst
16 25 (2.66%) Network Engineer
17 24 (2.55%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (5.42%) .NET
2 45 (4.78%) Pandas
2 45 (4.78%) PySpark
2 45 (4.78%) scikit-learn
2 45 (4.78%) TensorFlow
3 29 (3.08%) Web Services
4 24 (2.55%) HTML
5 23 (2.44%) AngularJS
5 23 (2.44%) CSS
6 22 (2.34%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 15 (1.59%) JSON
8 14 (1.49%) XML
9 11 (1.17%) .NET Core
9 11 (1.17%) LDAP
10 10 (1.06%) REST
11 9 (0.96%) Middleware
12 7 (0.74%) ADSI
13 6 (0.64%) ARM Templates
14 5 (0.53%) FIX Protocol
14 5 (0.53%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 74 (7.86%) Management Information System
2 54 (5.74%) Algorithms
3 40 (4.25%) Data Centre
4 29 (3.08%) CMDB
4 29 (3.08%) Onboarding
5 23 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
6 16 (1.70%) Public Cloud
7 12 (1.28%) Client/Server
7 12 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
8 11 (1.17%) Replication
9 10 (1.06%) Market Risk
9 10 (1.06%) Robotics
9 10 (1.06%) Security Posture
10 9 (0.96%) Cloud Native
10 9 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (0.96%) Housing Association
10 9 (0.96%) IoT
10 9 (0.96%) Product Ownership
11 7 (0.74%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 141 (14.98%) Windows
2 63 (6.70%) Linux
3 58 (6.16%) Windows Server
4 30 (3.19%) Android
5 23 (2.44%) Unix
6 18 (1.91%) Windows Server 2016
7 13 (1.38%) Windows Server 2019
8 12 (1.28%) Windows 10
9 9 (0.96%) AIX
9 9 (0.96%) Windows Server 2012
10 7 (0.74%) Apple iOS
10 7 (0.74%) Mac OS X
10 7 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 5 (0.53%) CentOS
11 5 (0.53%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.53%) Solaris
12 4 (0.43%) Windows 7
12 4 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (0.32%) Ubuntu
14 2 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 380 (40.38%) Problem-Solving
2 200 (21.25%) Statistics
3 197 (20.94%) Actionable Insight
4 187 (19.87%) Mathematics
5 182 (19.34%) Visualisation
6 176 (18.70%) Continuous Improvement
6 176 (18.70%) Data Analysis
7 173 (18.38%) Storytelling
8 162 (17.22%) Analytics
9 158 (16.79%) ITIL
10 134 (14.24%) Incident Management
11 132 (14.03%) Data Pipeline
11 132 (14.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 131 (13.92%) Business Strategy
13 128 (13.60%) Customer Intelligence
14 112 (11.90%) Problem Management
15 100 (10.63%) Decision-Making
16 89 (9.46%) Customer Service
17 81 (8.61%) Change Management
18 80 (8.50%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 290 (30.82%) SQL
2 253 (26.89%) Python
3 54 (5.74%) PowerShell
4 39 (4.14%) Java
5 34 (3.61%) C#
6 20 (2.13%) JavaScript
7 19 (2.02%) T-SQL
8 16 (1.70%) C
9 15 (1.59%) R
10 12 (1.28%) Bash
11 8 (0.85%) C++
12 7 (0.74%) PL/SQL
12 7 (0.74%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.64%) PHP
13 6 (0.64%) Scala
13 6 (0.64%) TypeScript
14 5 (0.53%) OCaml
14 5 (0.53%) Perl
14 5 (0.53%) SystemTap
15 4 (0.43%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 385 (40.91%) Degree
2 180 (19.13%) DBS Check
3 51 (5.42%) Master's Degree
4 49 (5.21%) CISSP
5 48 (5.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 42 (4.46%) Security Cleared
7 37 (3.93%) CISM
8 33 (3.51%) Cisco Certification
9 26 (2.76%) SC Cleared
10 24 (2.55%) AWS Certification
11 21 (2.23%) CCNA
12 20 (2.13%) Azure Certification
13 14 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
14 13 (1.38%) CCNP
14 13 (1.38%) DV Cleared
15 11 (1.17%) HND
16 10 (1.06%) CISA
17 9 (0.96%) ACCA
17 9 (0.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 9 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (10.31%) QA
2 59 (6.27%) SLA
3 34 (3.61%) NIST
4 33 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 19 (2.02%) IFRS
6 17 (1.81%) Data Quality
7 16 (1.70%) GDPR
8 14 (1.49%) PCI DSS
9 9 (0.96%) NEBOSH
10 8 (0.85%) Accessibility
10 8 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.74%) COSHH
11 7 (0.74%) ISO 9001
12 6 (0.64%) GRC
12 6 (0.64%) IEC 62304
12 6 (0.64%) MiFID
12 6 (0.64%) UCITS
13 3 (0.32%) Disclosure Scotland
13 3 (0.32%) GMP
13 3 (0.32%) NIST 800
System Software
1 88 (9.35%) Active Directory
2 52 (5.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (3.40%) Docker
4 21 (2.23%) Hyper-V
5 15 (1.59%) vSphere
6 14 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.43%) Terminal Services
8 3 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.21%) Firmware
9 2 (0.21%) NFS
10 1 (0.11%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.11%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 43 (4.57%) Terraform
2 40 (4.25%) Kubernetes
3 24 (2.55%) Ansible
4 22 (2.34%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (1.28%) SCCM
6 10 (1.06%) Grafana
7 7 (0.74%) Foglight
8 6 (0.64%) vCenter Server
9 5 (0.53%) Cisco Prime
9 5 (0.53%) Opsview
9 5 (0.53%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.43%) Cacti
11 3 (0.32%) Dell DRAC
11 3 (0.32%) Kibana
11 3 (0.32%) Oracle Statspack
11 3 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.21%) QRadar
12 2 (0.21%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 2 (0.21%) vRealize
12 2 (0.21%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 260 (27.63%) Microsoft
2 184 (19.55%) Databricks
3 70 (7.44%) VMware
4 40 (4.25%) ServiceNow
5 38 (4.04%) Google
6 36 (3.83%) SAP
7 35 (3.72%) Cisco
8 29 (3.08%) Oracle
9 27 (2.87%) Citrix
10 26 (2.76%) HP
10 26 (2.76%) NCR
11 22 (2.34%) Veeam
12 15 (1.59%) Dell
13 14 (1.49%) SolarWinds
14 13 (1.38%) Infor
14 13 (1.38%) Juniper
15 11 (1.17%) Sophos
16 10 (1.06%) Fortinet
17 9 (0.96%) AppDynamics
17 9 (0.96%) Splunk