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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 103 91
Rank change year-on-year +1 -12 +74
Contract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 23 18 43
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.25% 0.88% 1.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% 0.96% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 12 34
10th Percentile £346 £345 £375
25th Percentile £413 £450 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £506 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.17% -7.95% +9.73%
75th Percentile £569 £664 -
90th Percentile £695 £851 £654
Central London median daily rate £475 £506 £550
% change year-on-year -6.17% -7.95% +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 1,669 1,883 2,238
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.36% 92.17% 89.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,173 1,150 1,597
10th Percentile £340 £363 £363
25th Percentile £420 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -0.86%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £756 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 15 10
10th Percentile £20.18 £15.80 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.52 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £31.00 £42.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -27.06% +61.90% -38.95%
75th Percentile £42.12 £102.25 £44.56
90th Percentile £50.63 £127.30 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.50 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -24.29% +27.27% -34.13%

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 December 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 & 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 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (8.70%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Exchequer
1 1 (4.35%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (4.35%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 9 (39.13%) Azure
2 6 (26.09%) AWS
3 4 (17.39%) Entra ID
3 4 (17.39%) GCP
3 4 (17.39%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (17.39%) SaaS
4 2 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (8.70%) PaaS
5 1 (4.35%) Akamai
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (4.35%) Apigee
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (4.35%) Cloudflare
5 1 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (4.35%) Google Workspace
5 1 (4.35%) OneDrive
5 1 (4.35%) Power Automate
5 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.35%) Slack
5 1 (4.35%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 4 (17.39%) Firewall
2 3 (13.04%) DHCP
2 3 (13.04%) DNS
2 3 (13.04%) VPN
3 2 (8.70%) LAN
3 2 (8.70%) WAN
3 2 (8.70%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (4.35%) Cisco Wireless
4 1 (4.35%) HTTPS
4 1 (4.35%) Internet
4 1 (4.35%) NetScaler
4 1 (4.35%) SSL
4 1 (4.35%) TCP/IP
4 1 (4.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) JIRA
2 1 (4.35%) GitLab
General
1 9 (39.13%) Finance
1 9 (39.13%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Banking
2 3 (13.04%) Financial Institution
2 3 (13.04%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.35%) Front Office
3 1 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Investment Banking
3 1 (4.35%) Military
3 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Senior
2 4 (17.39%) Analyst
2 4 (17.39%) Lead
3 3 (13.04%) Developer
4 2 (8.70%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Data Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Environment Manager
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Data Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Service Desk Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Subject Matter Expert
4 2 (8.70%) Support Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) 2nd Line Support
5 1 (4.35%) Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Business Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Network Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Network Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) .NET
1 3 (13.04%) CSS
1 3 (13.04%) HTML
1 3 (13.04%) HTML5
1 3 (13.04%) jQuery
1 3 (13.04%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (4.35%) JSON
2 1 (4.35%) Kafka
2 1 (4.35%) OAuth
2 1 (4.35%) OAuth2
2 1 (4.35%) OpenAPI
2 1 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (4.35%) RESTful
2 1 (4.35%) Swagger
2 1 (4.35%) XML
2 1 (4.35%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Low-Code
2 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.35%) Derivative
2 1 (4.35%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (4.35%) DTCC
2 1 (4.35%) Fat Client
2 1 (4.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.35%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.35%) Thin Client
2 1 (4.35%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.04%) Windows
2 2 (8.70%) Linux
3 1 (4.35%) Windows 10
3 1 (4.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (30.43%) Agile
3 6 (26.09%) Mentoring
4 4 (17.39%) Change Control
4 4 (17.39%) DevOps
4 4 (17.39%) ITIL
4 4 (17.39%) ITSM
4 4 (17.39%) Process Improvement
4 4 (17.39%) Roadmaps
4 4 (17.39%) Service Delivery
4 4 (17.39%) User Experience
5 3 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (13.04%) Data Analysis
5 3 (13.04%) ERP
5 3 (13.04%) Microservices
5 3 (13.04%) Observability
5 3 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (13.04%) UX Design
5 3 (13.04%) Validation
6 2 (8.70%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 4 (17.39%) C#
1 4 (17.39%) Python
2 3 (13.04%) JavaScript
2 3 (13.04%) PowerShell
2 3 (13.04%) SQL
3 1 (4.35%) Java
3 1 (4.35%) Perl
3 1 (4.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (30.43%) Security Cleared
2 5 (21.74%) SC Cleared
3 3 (13.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 2 (8.70%) Degree
5 1 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (4.35%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (8.70%) GDPR
1 2 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (8.70%) QA
2 1 (4.35%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (4.35%) EMIR
2 1 (4.35%) MiFID
System Software
1 4 (17.39%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.70%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (4.35%) Docker
3 1 (4.35%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (4.35%) Ansible
2 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.35%) SCCM
2 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
1 4 (17.39%) Oracle
2 3 (13.04%) OutSystems
3 2 (8.70%) Cisco
3 2 (8.70%) Citrix
3 2 (8.70%) F5
3 2 (8.70%) Infoblox
3 2 (8.70%) Palo Alto
3 2 (8.70%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.35%) Bloomberg
4 1 (4.35%) CheckPoint
4 1 (4.35%) Dynatrace
4 1 (4.35%) Fortinet
4 1 (4.35%) Google
4 1 (4.35%) MuleSoft
4 1 (4.35%) Murex
4 1 (4.35%) Remedy
4 1 (4.35%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.35%) Splunk
4 1 (4.35%) VMware