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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 98 97
Rank change year-on-year +4 -1 +34
Contract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 43 21 28
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.81% 1.11% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.08% 1.18% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 13 24
10th Percentile £510 £256 £161
25th Percentile £520 £414 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £656 £588 £638
90th Percentile £734 £735 £743
Central London median daily rate £600 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% -

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 2,069 1,774 1,897
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 86.86% 94.06% 91.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,399 1,148 1,290
10th Percentile £367 £338 £363
25th Percentile £456 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £678 £688
90th Percentile £775 £773 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 22 17
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.57 £19.53
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.50
Median hourly rate £19.50 £29.75 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.45% +10.19% -22.86%
75th Percentile £41.25 £54.75 £78.75
90th Percentile £60.78 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £31.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -25.29% +3.33% -14.29%

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 27 July 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 4 (9.30%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (9.30%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.65%) Confluence
2 2 (4.65%) IIS
3 1 (2.33%) Apache
3 1 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.33%) IBM HTTP Server
3 1 (2.33%) nginx
3 1 (2.33%) Palantir Foundry
3 1 (2.33%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.33%) WebSphere
3 1 (2.33%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 4 (9.30%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (9.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (4.65%) SAP GRC
1 2 (4.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.33%) Actimize
2 1 (2.33%) iTrent
2 1 (2.33%) SAP ERP
2 1 (2.33%) SAP MM
2 1 (2.33%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (2.33%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 7 (16.28%) Azure
2 6 (13.95%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (11.63%) SaaS
4 4 (9.30%) Entra ID
4 4 (9.30%) GitHub
4 4 (9.30%) OneDrive
5 2 (4.65%) AWS
5 2 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.65%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (4.65%) Serverless
6 1 (2.33%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.33%) Azure API Management
6 1 (2.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (2.33%) dbt
6 1 (2.33%) GCP
6 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (2.33%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.95%) DNS
2 4 (9.30%) DHCP
2 4 (9.30%) Firewall
2 4 (9.30%) LAN
2 4 (9.30%) TCP/IP
2 4 (9.30%) WAN
3 3 (6.98%) Unified Communications
4 2 (4.65%) Internet
4 2 (4.65%) Intranet
4 2 (4.65%) Wireshark
5 1 (2.33%) NAS
5 1 (2.33%) SAN
5 1 (2.33%) Structured Cabling
5 1 (2.33%) VLAN
5 1 (2.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.63%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.65%) Oracle Database
2 2 (4.65%) RDBMS
2 2 (4.65%) Relational Database
2 2 (4.65%) SAP BW
2 2 (4.65%) SQLPlus
3 1 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.33%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.33%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.33%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (9.30%) Artifactory
1 4 (9.30%) Bitbucket
1 4 (9.30%) Git
1 4 (9.30%) JIRA
2 3 (6.98%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.65%) Fiddler
3 2 (4.65%) MSI
3 2 (4.65%) TeamCity
3 2 (4.65%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (2.33%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.33%) Introscope
4 1 (2.33%) Zephyr
General
1 21 (48.84%) Finance
2 19 (44.19%) Social Skills
3 11 (25.58%) Banking
4 6 (13.95%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.65%) Back Office
5 2 (4.65%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.65%) Retail
6 1 (2.33%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.33%) Front Office
6 1 (2.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (18.60%) Senior
2 6 (13.95%) Security Engineer
2 6 (13.95%) Senior Security Engineer
3 5 (11.63%) Applications Engineer
3 5 (11.63%) Developer
4 4 (9.30%) Senior Applications Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Analyst
5 3 (6.98%) Consultant
5 3 (6.98%) Data Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Junior
5 3 (6.98%) Lead
6 2 (4.65%) Applications Support
6 2 (4.65%) Architect
6 2 (4.65%) C# Developer
6 2 (4.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Oracle Database Developer
6 2 (4.65%) Oracle Developer
6 2 (4.65%) SAP Security Consultant
6 2 (4.65%) Security Consultant
6 2 (4.65%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (20.93%) .NET
2 4 (9.30%) .NET Framework
2 4 (9.30%) REST
2 4 (9.30%) SOAP
3 3 (6.98%) ASP.NET
4 2 (4.65%) ADO.NET
4 2 (4.65%) Ajax
4 2 (4.65%) AngularJS
4 2 (4.65%) ASP.NET Web Forms
4 2 (4.65%) CSS
4 2 (4.65%) HTML
4 2 (4.65%) jQuery
4 2 (4.65%) SAP Fiori
4 2 (4.65%) Web Services
4 2 (4.65%) XML
4 2 (4.65%) XSL
4 2 (4.65%) XSLT
5 1 (2.33%) ARM Templates
5 1 (2.33%) Playwright
5 1 (2.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.30%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (4.65%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.33%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.33%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.33%) PMI
3 1 (2.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (16.28%) Linux
2 6 (13.95%) Windows
3 5 (11.63%) Unix
4 2 (4.65%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.33%) AIX
5 1 (2.33%) CentOS
5 1 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (25.58%) CI/CD
1 11 (25.58%) Risk Management
1 11 (25.58%) SDLC
2 10 (23.26%) DevOps
2 10 (23.26%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (18.60%) Incident Response
4 7 (16.28%) Agile
4 7 (16.28%) Vulnerability Management
5 6 (13.95%) Backlog Management
5 6 (13.95%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 6 (13.95%) Observability
5 6 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (13.95%) Product Backlog
5 6 (13.95%) Product Management
5 6 (13.95%) Programme Management
5 6 (13.95%) Regulatory Compliance
5 6 (13.95%) Security Architecture
5 6 (13.95%) Static Application Security Testing
5 6 (13.95%) Threat Modelling
5 6 (13.95%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 11 (25.58%) Python
2 9 (20.93%) SQL
3 6 (13.95%) PowerShell
4 5 (11.63%) C#
4 5 (11.63%) PL/SQL
5 4 (9.30%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.65%) Bash
6 2 (4.65%) C
6 2 (4.65%) C++
6 2 (4.65%) Java
6 2 (4.65%) ProC
7 1 (2.33%) Bicep
7 1 (2.33%) Jython
7 1 (2.33%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (13.95%) Degree
2 3 (6.98%) SC Cleared
2 3 (6.98%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.65%) Azure Certification
3 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.33%) CCNP
4 1 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.33%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.33%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.33%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (16.28%) QA
2 6 (13.95%) SLA
3 3 (6.98%) Data Quality
3 3 (6.98%) GRC
4 1 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (4.65%) IAG
1 2 (4.65%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.33%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (13.95%) Terraform
2 5 (11.63%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (4.65%) Ansible
3 2 (4.65%) Puppet
4 1 (2.33%) CA Wily
4 1 (2.33%) Data Guard
4 1 (2.33%) Grafana
4 1 (2.33%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (2.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 17 (39.53%) Microsoft
2 9 (20.93%) Oracle
3 4 (9.30%) SAP
3 4 (9.30%) Sitecore
4 3 (6.98%) F5
4 3 (6.98%) ServiceNow
4 3 (6.98%) VMware
4 3 (6.98%) Workday
5 2 (4.65%) Dynatrace
5 2 (4.65%) Nexthink
5 2 (4.65%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.33%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.33%) Cisco
6 1 (2.33%) Databricks
6 1 (2.33%) Foundry
6 1 (2.33%) ION Trading
6 1 (2.33%) Palantir
6 1 (2.33%) Splunk
6 1 (2.33%) UiPath