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

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 108 100
Rank change year-on-year +7 -8 +79
Contract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 22 20 41
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.22% 0.93% 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% 1.02% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 12 32
10th Percentile £337 £345 £375
25th Percentile £408 £450 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £506 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -7.95% +4.51%
75th Percentile £534 £664 -
90th Percentile £660 £851 £684
Central London median daily rate £463 £506 £550
% change year-on-year -8.64% -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 1,655 1,969 2,356
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 91.74% 91.67% 89.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,162 1,215 1,668
10th Percentile £332 £363 £363
25th Percentile £419 £473 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £578 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.43% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £694
90th Percentile £756 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 11
10th Percentile £20.06 £16.25 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.88 £22.00 £17.97
Median hourly rate £34.00 £40.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.05% +62.00% -51.46%
75th Percentile £52.19 £97.38 £42.38
90th Percentile £63.75 £124.75 £73.75
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £35.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -11.43% +37.25% -49.50%

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 6 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 (13.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (9.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Exchequer
1 1 (4.55%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 8 (36.36%) Azure
2 6 (27.27%) AWS
3 4 (18.18%) Entra ID
3 4 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (13.64%) GCP
4 3 (13.64%) SaaS
5 2 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (9.09%) GitHub
5 2 (9.09%) PaaS
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (4.55%) Apigee
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (4.55%) Cloudflare
6 1 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (4.55%) OneDrive
6 1 (4.55%) Power Automate
6 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
6 1 (4.55%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 4 (18.18%) Firewall
2 3 (13.64%) DHCP
2 3 (13.64%) DNS
2 3 (13.64%) VPN
3 2 (9.09%) LAN
3 2 (9.09%) WAN
3 2 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (4.55%) Cisco Wireless
4 1 (4.55%) HTTPS
4 1 (4.55%) Internet
4 1 (4.55%) NetScaler
4 1 (4.55%) SSL
4 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
4 1 (4.55%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (4.55%) GitLab
2 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 8 (36.36%) Finance
1 8 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Financial Institution
3 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.55%) Banking
4 1 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Senior
2 3 (13.64%) Analyst
2 3 (13.64%) Developer
3 2 (9.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Data Analyst
3 2 (9.09%) Environment Manager
3 2 (9.09%) Lead
3 2 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (9.09%) Senior Data Analyst
3 2 (9.09%) Service Desk Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Site Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Subject Matter Expert
3 2 (9.09%) Support Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Firewall Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Senior Architect
4 1 (4.55%) Senior COBOL Programmer
4 1 (4.55%) Senior Network Architect
4 1 (4.55%) Senior Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) .NET
1 3 (13.64%) CSS
1 3 (13.64%) HTML
1 3 (13.64%) HTML5
1 3 (13.64%) jQuery
1 3 (13.64%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (4.55%) JSON
2 1 (4.55%) Kafka
2 1 (4.55%) OAuth
2 1 (4.55%) OAuth2
2 1 (4.55%) OpenAPI
2 1 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (4.55%) RESTful
2 1 (4.55%) Swagger
2 1 (4.55%) XML
2 1 (4.55%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Low-Code
2 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (4.55%) Fat Client
2 1 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.55%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (4.55%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.55%) Thin Client
2 1 (4.55%) VAX
2 1 (4.55%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Windows
2 1 (4.55%) Linux
2 1 (4.55%) Windows 10
2 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (31.82%) Agile
3 5 (22.73%) DevOps
3 5 (22.73%) Mentoring
3 5 (22.73%) Observability
4 4 (18.18%) Change Control
4 4 (18.18%) ITSM
4 4 (18.18%) Problem Management
4 4 (18.18%) Process Improvement
4 4 (18.18%) Roadmaps
4 4 (18.18%) User Experience
5 3 (13.64%) CI/CD
5 3 (13.64%) ERP
5 3 (13.64%) ITIL
5 3 (13.64%) Microservices
5 3 (13.64%) Service Delivery
5 3 (13.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (13.64%) Task Automation
5 3 (13.64%) UX Design
6 2 (9.09%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (27.27%) Python
2 5 (22.73%) SQL
3 4 (18.18%) C#
4 3 (13.64%) JavaScript
4 3 (13.64%) PowerShell
5 2 (9.09%) Bash
5 2 (9.09%) Go
5 2 (9.09%) PromQL
6 1 (4.55%) COBOL
6 1 (4.55%) Java
6 1 (4.55%) Perl
6 1 (4.55%) VBA
Qualifications
1 6 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 2 (9.09%) Degree
3 2 (9.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.55%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (9.09%) GDPR
1 2 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 4 (18.18%) Active Directory
2 2 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (4.55%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (13.64%) Terraform
2 2 (9.09%) Grafana
2 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 2 (9.09%) Prometheus
3 1 (4.55%) Ansible
3 1 (4.55%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Microsoft
1 4 (18.18%) Oracle
2 3 (13.64%) OutSystems
2 3 (13.64%) Splunk
3 2 (9.09%) Cisco
3 2 (9.09%) Citrix
3 2 (9.09%) F5
3 2 (9.09%) Infoblox
3 2 (9.09%) Palo Alto
3 2 (9.09%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.55%) CheckPoint
4 1 (4.55%) Dynatrace
4 1 (4.55%) Fortinet
4 1 (4.55%) MuleSoft
4 1 (4.55%) Remedy
4 1 (4.55%) VMware