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 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 97 90
Rank change year-on-year -3 -7 +46
Contract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 35 20 40
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.52% 1.14% 1.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.80% 1.22% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 12 33
10th Percentile £450 £230 £277
25th Percentile £513 £393 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year +20.51% -11.36% +12.24%
75th Percentile £660 £631 £625
90th Percentile £789 £819 £650
Central London median daily rate £525 £488 £550
% change year-on-year +7.69% -11.36% +10.83%

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 1,947 1,642 1,973
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 84.73% 93.45% 90.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,320 1,039 1,394
10th Percentile £363 £350 £352
25th Percentile £450 £460 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £566
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.55% -5.63%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 12 11
10th Percentile £17.99 £22.00 £19.92
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £29.78 £29.58 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.70% +18.30% -28.57%
75th Percentile £49.78 £45.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £62.25 £41.84
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -8.65% +4.53% -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 11 May 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
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
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Actimize
1 1 (2.86%) iTrent
1 1 (2.86%) SAP ERP
1 1 (2.86%) SAP MM
1 1 (2.86%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 1 (2.86%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 11 (31.43%) Azure
2 4 (11.43%) AWS
2 4 (11.43%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (8.57%) SaaS
4 2 (5.71%) Entra ID
4 2 (5.71%) Google Workspace
4 2 (5.71%) Rubrik
4 2 (5.71%) Slack
5 1 (2.86%) Azure API Management
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
5 1 (2.86%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.57%) DNS
2 2 (5.71%) DHCP
2 2 (5.71%) Firewall
2 2 (5.71%) VPN
3 1 (2.86%) NAS
3 1 (2.86%) SAN
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%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (20.00%) JIRA
2 4 (11.43%) Git
3 1 (2.86%) Artifactory
3 1 (2.86%) GitLab
3 1 (2.86%) Introscope
3 1 (2.86%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.86%) Postman
3 1 (2.86%) REST Assured
3 1 (2.86%) Selenium
3 1 (2.86%) Zephyr
General
1 16 (45.71%) Social Skills
2 15 (42.86%) Finance
3 6 (17.14%) Banking
4 5 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (8.57%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.71%) Back Office
6 2 (5.71%) Front Office
6 2 (5.71%) Investment Banking
6 2 (5.71%) Retail
7 1 (2.86%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.86%) Military
Job Titles
1 13 (37.14%) Senior
2 7 (20.00%) Analyst
3 6 (17.14%) Security Engineer
3 6 (17.14%) Senior Security Engineer
4 5 (14.29%) Lead
5 4 (11.43%) Applications Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Senior Applications Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Data Analyst
7 2 (5.71%) Backup Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) IT Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Linux Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Operations Analyst
7 2 (5.71%) Operations Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Product Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (5.71%) Senior Data Analyst
7 2 (5.71%) Senior Operations Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Service Desk Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
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
3 1 (2.86%) ASP.NET
3 1 (2.86%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (2.86%) Middleware
3 1 (2.86%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (2.86%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) 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
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
2 1 (2.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (31.43%) CI/CD
1 11 (31.43%) Stakeholder Management
2 8 (22.86%) Incident Response
2 8 (22.86%) SDLC
3 7 (20.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 7 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 7 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 7 (20.00%) Static Application Security Testing
3 7 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
3 7 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 6 (17.14%) Agile
4 6 (17.14%) Backlog Management
4 6 (17.14%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (17.14%) Data Analysis
4 6 (17.14%) DevOps
4 6 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (17.14%) Product Backlog
4 6 (17.14%) Product Management
4 6 (17.14%) Programme Management
4 6 (17.14%) Security Architecture
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%) Java
4 1 (2.86%) Jython
4 1 (2.86%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.86%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 5 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (2.86%) Degree
3 1 (2.86%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.86%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.86%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.14%) SLA
2 5 (14.29%) QA
3 3 (8.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (5.71%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (5.71%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (5.71%) GDPR
5 1 (2.86%) Data Quality
5 1 (2.86%) EMIR
5 1 (2.86%) MiFID
5 1 (2.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (8.57%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (5.71%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.86%) Docker
3 1 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (8.57%) 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 6 (17.14%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.43%) Oracle
3 3 (8.57%) Salesforce
4 2 (5.71%) Dynatrace
4 2 (5.71%) Google
4 2 (5.71%) SAP
4 2 (5.71%) ServiceNow
4 2 (5.71%) Workday
5 1 (2.86%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.86%) Bloomberg
5 1 (2.86%) Databricks
5 1 (2.86%) Foundry
5 1 (2.86%) Murex
5 1 (2.86%) Palantir
5 1 (2.86%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.86%) VMware