Root Cause Analysis Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Root Cause Analysis
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Root Cause Analysis skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 104 88
Rank change year-on-year +8 -16 +49
Contract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 35 17 39
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.50% 1.00% 1.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.76% 1.07% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 12 32
10th Percentile £508 £238 £264
25th Percentile £518 £421 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +17.07% -6.82% +12.82%
75th Percentile £645 £659 £638
90th Percentile £808 £819 £650
Central London median daily rate £575 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% +12.82%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

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 City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,985 1,594 1,954
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.23% 93.60% 90.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,357 1,012 1,367
10th Percentile £356 £355 £350
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 14 12
10th Percentile £17.38 £18.15 £19.95
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.98 £20.22
Median hourly rate £25.77 £28.33 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -9.02% +6.38% -23.93%
75th Percentile £52.16 £41.48 £40.46
90th Percentile £62.89 £59.25 £49.41
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £28.33 £27.81
% change year-on-year -7.82% +1.85% -20.54%

Root Cause Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Root Cause Analysis relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Root Cause Analysis job vacancy trend in the City of London

Root Cause Analysis
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Root Cause Analysis.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Root Cause Analysis

Root Cause Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Root Cause Analysis in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Root Cause Analysis in the City of London

Root Cause Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Root Cause Analysis.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Root Cause Analysis

Root Cause Analysis
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.71%) Confluence
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (5.71%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.86%) Apache
2 1 (2.86%) IBM HTTP Server
2 1 (2.86%) nginx
2 1 (2.86%) Palantir Foundry
2 1 (2.86%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.86%) WebSphere
2 1 (2.86%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Actimize
1 1 (2.86%) iTrent
1 1 (2.86%) SAP ERP
1 1 (2.86%) SAP GRC
1 1 (2.86%) SAP MM
1 1 (2.86%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 1 (2.86%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (2.86%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 9 (25.71%) Azure
2 5 (14.29%) SaaS
3 4 (11.43%) AWS
3 4 (11.43%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (5.71%) Entra ID
4 2 (5.71%) Google Workspace
4 2 (5.71%) OneDrive
4 2 (5.71%) Rubrik
4 2 (5.71%) Slack
5 1 (2.86%) Azure API Management
5 1 (2.86%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (2.86%) GCP
5 1 (2.86%) GitHub
5 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (2.86%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.86%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (2.86%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (2.86%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.71%) DNS
1 2 (5.71%) Firewall
1 2 (5.71%) LAN
1 2 (5.71%) WAN
2 1 (2.86%) DHCP
2 1 (2.86%) NAS
2 1 (2.86%) SAN
2 1 (2.86%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (2.86%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.86%) Unified Communications
2 1 (2.86%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.71%) Tableau
2 1 (2.86%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (2.86%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (2.86%) Power BI
2 1 (2.86%) SAP BW
2 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (17.14%) JIRA
2 4 (11.43%) Git
3 1 (2.86%) Artifactory
3 1 (2.86%) Fiddler
3 1 (2.86%) GitLab
3 1 (2.86%) Introscope
3 1 (2.86%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.86%) MSI
3 1 (2.86%) Postman
3 1 (2.86%) REST Assured
3 1 (2.86%) Selenium
3 1 (2.86%) Visual Studio
3 1 (2.86%) Zephyr
General
1 15 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 13 (37.14%) Finance
3 8 (22.86%) Banking
4 4 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.71%) Back Office
5 2 (5.71%) Front Office
5 2 (5.71%) Investment Banking
5 2 (5.71%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.71%) Retail
6 1 (2.86%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.86%) Military
Job Titles
1 8 (22.86%) Senior
2 6 (17.14%) Security Engineer
2 6 (17.14%) Senior Security Engineer
3 5 (14.29%) Analyst
3 5 (14.29%) Lead
4 4 (11.43%) Applications Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Senior Applications Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Backup Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Consultant
5 2 (5.71%) Data Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) DataOps Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) IT Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Operations Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Operations Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Product Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Senior Operations Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.57%) .NET
1 3 (8.57%) REST
2 2 (5.71%) AngularJS
2 2 (5.71%) CSS
2 2 (5.71%) HTML
2 2 (5.71%) jQuery
2 2 (5.71%) SOAP
3 1 (2.86%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.86%) ASP.NET
3 1 (2.86%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (2.86%) Middleware
3 1 (2.86%) PySpark
3 1 (2.86%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (5.71%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.86%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.86%) Derivative
3 1 (2.86%) DTCC
3 1 (2.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.86%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.86%) PMI
3 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.86%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.57%) Linux
1 3 (8.57%) Windows
2 1 (2.86%) AIX
2 1 (2.86%) CentOS
2 1 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.86%) Ubuntu
2 1 (2.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 9 (25.71%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (22.86%) Incident Response
3 8 (22.86%) SDLC
4 7 (20.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 7 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
4 7 (20.00%) Risk Management
4 7 (20.00%) Static Application Security Testing
4 7 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
4 7 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
5 6 (17.14%) Backlog Management
5 6 (17.14%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (17.14%) Product Backlog
5 6 (17.14%) Product Management
5 6 (17.14%) Programme Management
5 6 (17.14%) Security Architecture
6 5 (14.29%) Agile
6 5 (14.29%) DevOps
6 5 (14.29%) Migration
7 4 (11.43%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (14.29%) Python
2 3 (8.57%) JavaScript
2 3 (8.57%) SQL
3 2 (5.71%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.86%) Bash
4 1 (2.86%) C#
4 1 (2.86%) C++
4 1 (2.86%) Java
4 1 (2.86%) Jython
4 1 (2.86%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.86%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (11.43%) SC Cleared
1 4 (11.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.86%) CCNP
3 1 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.86%) Degree
3 1 (2.86%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.86%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.14%) SLA
2 5 (14.29%) QA
3 2 (5.71%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (2.86%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.86%) EMIR
4 1 (2.86%) GRC
4 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.86%) MiFID
4 1 (2.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (2.86%) Docker
1 1 (2.86%) IAG
1 1 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (11.43%) Terraform
2 2 (5.71%) Ansible
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (5.71%) Puppet
3 1 (2.86%) CA Wily
3 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (22.86%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.57%) Oracle
2 3 (8.57%) Salesforce
2 3 (8.57%) SAP
3 2 (5.71%) Dynatrace
3 2 (5.71%) Google
3 2 (5.71%) ServiceNow
3 2 (5.71%) Workday
4 1 (2.86%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.86%) Bloomberg
4 1 (2.86%) Cisco
4 1 (2.86%) Databricks
4 1 (2.86%) F5
4 1 (2.86%) Foundry
4 1 (2.86%) Murex
4 1 (2.86%) Palantir
4 1 (2.86%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.86%) UiPath
4 1 (2.86%) VMware