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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 110 119
Rank change year-on-year +12 +9 +59
Contract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 21 20 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.19% 0.95% 1.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% 1.04% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 14 27
10th Percentile £329 £276 £398
25th Percentile £404 £425 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.76% -2.50% +3.53%
75th Percentile £569 £700 £556
90th Percentile £618 £768 £693
Central London median daily rate £500 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -6.76% -2.50% +1.85%

All Process and 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 1,661 1,932 2,687
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.21% 92.09% 90.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,107 1,224 1,857
10th Percentile £325 £375 £363
25th Percentile £419 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £705
90th Percentile £763 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 17 16
10th Percentile £17.35 £15.20 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.98 £20.22 £16.02
Median hourly rate £28.33 £27.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.91% +8.00% -41.86%
75th Percentile £53.50 £78.75 £44.87
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £60.88
Central London median hourly rate £31.25 £35.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -10.71% +34.62% -38.82%

Root Cause Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Root Cause Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Root Cause Analysis 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 18 September 2025.

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 and Capabilities in the City of London 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 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Exchequer
1 1 (4.76%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 6 (28.57%) AWS
2 4 (19.05%) Azure
3 2 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (9.52%) Entra ID
3 2 (9.52%) GCP
3 2 (9.52%) GitHub
3 2 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (4.76%) Apigee
4 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (4.76%) Collibra
4 1 (4.76%) Datadog
4 1 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (4.76%) OneDrive
4 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) LAN
1 2 (9.52%) WAN
1 2 (9.52%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (4.76%) Cisco Wireless
2 1 (4.76%) Firewall
2 1 (4.76%) NetScaler
2 1 (4.76%) Network Security
2 1 (4.76%) VPN
2 1 (4.76%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Oracle Database
1 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
1 2 (9.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (4.76%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Git
2 1 (4.76%) JIRA
General
1 9 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 7 (33.33%) Finance
3 5 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (23.81%) Banking
4 2 (9.52%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Financial Institution
4 2 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.76%) International Banking
5 1 (4.76%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) Developer
2 4 (19.05%) Senior
3 3 (14.29%) Lead
4 2 (9.52%) Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Applications Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Automation Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Site Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Subject Matter Expert
5 1 (4.76%) 2nd Line Support
5 1 (4.76%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Business Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) COBOL Programmer
5 1 (4.76%) Incident Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Lead Programmer
5 1 (4.76%) Programmer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Programmer
5 1 (4.76%) Support Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (23.81%) .NET
2 3 (14.29%) CSS
2 3 (14.29%) HTML
2 3 (14.29%) HTML5
2 3 (14.29%) jQuery
3 2 (9.52%) Kafka
4 1 (4.76%) JSON
4 1 (4.76%) OAuth
4 1 (4.76%) OAuth2
4 1 (4.76%) OpenAPI
4 1 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (4.76%) RESTful
4 1 (4.76%) Swagger
4 1 (4.76%) XML
4 1 (4.76%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Low-Code
2 2 (9.52%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.76%) Fat Client
3 1 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.76%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.76%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (4.76%) Thin Client
3 1 (4.76%) VAX
3 1 (4.76%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Windows
2 1 (4.76%) Linux
2 1 (4.76%) Windows 10
2 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (38.10%) Agile
3 6 (28.57%) DevOps
4 5 (23.81%) Observability
5 4 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (19.05%) Microservices
5 4 (19.05%) Task Automation
5 4 (19.05%) User Experience
6 3 (14.29%) Business Case
6 3 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (14.29%) Incident Response
6 3 (14.29%) ITIL
6 3 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
6 3 (14.29%) Mentoring
6 3 (14.29%) Roadmaps
6 3 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (14.29%) Test Automation
6 3 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (14.29%) UX Design
7 2 (9.52%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (38.10%) SQL
2 6 (28.57%) C#
3 5 (23.81%) Python
4 3 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 2 (9.52%) Bash
5 2 (9.52%) Go
5 2 (9.52%) PromQL
6 1 (4.76%) COBOL
6 1 (4.76%) Java
6 1 (4.76%) Perl
6 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) COBIT
1 1 (4.76%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.76%) GRC
1 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.76%) Hyper-V
2 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 2 (9.52%) Grafana
2 2 (9.52%) Prometheus
2 2 (9.52%) Terraform
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (4.76%) QRadar
3 1 (4.76%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Splunk
2 3 (14.29%) OutSystems
2 3 (14.29%) ServiceNow
3 2 (9.52%) Cisco
3 2 (9.52%) Citrix
3 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.52%) Oracle
3 2 (9.52%) UiPath
4 1 (4.76%) Dynatrace
4 1 (4.76%) F5
4 1 (4.76%) Infoblox
4 1 (4.76%) MuleSoft
4 1 (4.76%) Palo Alto
4 1 (4.76%) Remedy
4 1 (4.76%) VMware