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 29 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 94 105
Rank change year-on-year -1 +11 +11
Contract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 47 23 19
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.13% 1.34% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.38% 1.42% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 14 13
10th Percentile £417 £333 £268
25th Percentile £520 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £471 £535
Median % change year-on-year +27.32% -11.92% -2.73%
75th Percentile £668 £561 £625
90th Percentile £774 £614 £770
Central London median daily rate £600 £488 £535
% change year-on-year +23.08% -8.88% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £60.50 - -
Median hourly rate £61.00 - -
75th Percentile £61.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £61.00 - -

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 1,971 1,619 1,939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.47% 94.35% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,359 1,086 1,205
10th Percentile £365 £323 £371
25th Percentile £455 £420 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £690
90th Percentile £775 £769 £791
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 19 19
10th Percentile £16.98 £16.96 £15.60
25th Percentile £17.60 £22.88 £21.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £28.15 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% -26.88% +40.00%
75th Percentile £36.13 £50.25 £102.25
90th Percentile £59.70 £68.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.57 £28.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.30% -18.57% +30.84%

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 29 September 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 6 (12.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (8.51%) SharePoint
3 3 (6.38%) Confluence
4 2 (4.26%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (4.26%) IIS
5 1 (2.13%) Apache
5 1 (2.13%) nginx
5 1 (2.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (10.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (8.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (4.26%) SAP GRC
1 2 (4.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.13%) iTrent
2 1 (2.13%) SAP ERP
2 1 (2.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 8 (17.02%) Azure
2 6 (12.77%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (10.64%) AWS
3 5 (10.64%) Entra ID
3 5 (10.64%) GitHub
3 5 (10.64%) SaaS
4 4 (8.51%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (8.51%) OneDrive
5 3 (6.38%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (6.38%) GCP
5 3 (6.38%) Serverless
6 2 (4.26%) Amazon S3
6 2 (4.26%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.26%) dbt
7 1 (2.13%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.13%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.13%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (2.13%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.13%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (14.89%) DNS
2 5 (10.64%) Firewall
2 5 (10.64%) TCP/IP
3 4 (8.51%) DHCP
3 4 (8.51%) LAN
3 4 (8.51%) WAN
4 3 (6.38%) Unified Communications
4 3 (6.38%) VLAN
4 3 (6.38%) VPN
5 2 (4.26%) Internet
5 2 (4.26%) Intranet
5 2 (4.26%) Wireshark
6 1 (2.13%) Multicast
6 1 (2.13%) NAS
6 1 (2.13%) OSPF
6 1 (2.13%) SAN
6 1 (2.13%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.89%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.26%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (4.26%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (4.26%) BigQuery
2 2 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (4.26%) Oracle Database
2 2 (4.26%) RDBMS
2 2 (4.26%) Relational Database
2 2 (4.26%) SAP BW
2 2 (4.26%) SQLPlus
3 1 (2.13%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (2.13%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (14.89%) JIRA
2 6 (12.77%) Bitbucket
3 5 (10.64%) Artifactory
4 4 (8.51%) Jenkins
5 3 (6.38%) Git
6 2 (4.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (4.26%) Fiddler
6 2 (4.26%) MSI
6 2 (4.26%) TeamCity
6 2 (4.26%) Visual Studio
7 1 (2.13%) Cucumber
7 1 (2.13%) SonarQube
7 1 (2.13%) Zephyr
General
1 22 (46.81%) Finance
2 19 (40.43%) Social Skills
3 13 (27.66%) Banking
4 12 (25.53%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (10.64%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.26%) Back Office
6 2 (4.26%) Financial Institution
6 2 (4.26%) Front Office
6 2 (4.26%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.13%) International Banking
7 1 (2.13%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (12.77%) Developer
2 5 (10.64%) Senior
3 4 (8.51%) Analyst
3 4 (8.51%) Applications Support
3 4 (8.51%) Data Engineer
3 4 (8.51%) Junior
3 4 (8.51%) Lead
4 3 (6.38%) Applications Engineer
4 3 (6.38%) Consultant
4 3 (6.38%) Support Engineer
5 2 (4.26%) Architect
5 2 (4.26%) Database Developer
5 2 (4.26%) Network Engineer
5 2 (4.26%) Operations Engineer
5 2 (4.26%) Oracle Database Developer
5 2 (4.26%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (4.26%) SAP GRC Consultant
5 2 (4.26%) Security Consultant
5 2 (4.26%) Senior Operations Engineer
5 2 (4.26%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (23.40%) .NET
2 8 (17.02%) Terraform
3 4 (8.51%) .NET Framework
3 4 (8.51%) REST
4 3 (6.38%) ASP.NET
4 3 (6.38%) XML
5 2 (4.26%) ADO.NET
5 2 (4.26%) Ajax
5 2 (4.26%) ASP.NET Web Forms
5 2 (4.26%) Middleware
5 2 (4.26%) SAP Fiori
5 2 (4.26%) SOAP
5 2 (4.26%) Web Services
5 2 (4.26%) XSL
5 2 (4.26%) XSLT
6 1 (2.13%) ARM Templates
6 1 (2.13%) JSON
6 1 (2.13%) OpenAPI
6 1 (2.13%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (2.13%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.51%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (4.26%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.26%) Onboarding
2 2 (4.26%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.13%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.13%) IoT
3 1 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.13%) Mainframe
3 1 (2.13%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.13%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.13%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.13%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (25.53%) Windows
2 11 (23.40%) Linux
3 7 (14.89%) Unix
4 4 (8.51%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.13%) CentOS
5 1 (2.13%) MVS
5 1 (2.13%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (29.79%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (25.53%) DevOps
3 11 (23.40%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (21.28%) Observability
5 9 (19.15%) User Experience
6 8 (17.02%) CI/CD
7 7 (14.89%) Agile
7 7 (14.89%) High Availability
7 7 (14.89%) Incident Management
7 7 (14.89%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (14.89%) ITIL
7 7 (14.89%) ITSM
7 7 (14.89%) Test Automation
8 6 (12.77%) Release Management
8 6 (12.77%) SDLC
9 5 (10.64%) Analytics
9 5 (10.64%) Capacity Planning
9 5 (10.64%) Data Governance
9 5 (10.64%) Decision-Making
9 5 (10.64%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 14 (29.79%) Python
1 14 (29.79%) SQL
2 12 (25.53%) PowerShell
3 6 (12.77%) C#
4 5 (10.64%) Bash
4 5 (10.64%) PL/SQL
5 4 (8.51%) JavaScript
6 3 (6.38%) Java
7 2 (4.26%) C
7 2 (4.26%) C++
7 2 (4.26%) Korn
7 2 (4.26%) ProC
8 1 (2.13%) Bicep
8 1 (2.13%) JCL
8 1 (2.13%) REXX
8 1 (2.13%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (17.02%) Security Cleared
2 7 (14.89%) SC Cleared
3 6 (12.77%) Degree
4 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (4.26%) Azure Certification
5 2 (4.26%) CCNP
5 2 (4.26%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (4.26%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.13%) CCIE
6 1 (2.13%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.77%) Data Quality
1 6 (12.77%) QA
2 3 (6.38%) GRC
2 3 (6.38%) SLA
3 1 (2.13%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (6.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (4.26%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.26%) Hyper-V
2 2 (4.26%) IAG
3 1 (2.13%) Docker
3 1 (2.13%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (2.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (12.77%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (8.51%) Ansible
3 2 (4.26%) Grafana
3 2 (4.26%) ITRS Geneos
3 2 (4.26%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.26%) SCCM
3 2 (4.26%) Tivoli
4 1 (2.13%) Data Guard
4 1 (2.13%) Netcool
4 1 (2.13%) Netcool/OMNIbus
4 1 (2.13%) PowerCLI
4 1 (2.13%) Puppet
4 1 (2.13%) SCOM
4 1 (2.13%) SCOrch
4 1 (2.13%) Tivoli Monitoring
Vendors
1 19 (40.43%) Microsoft
2 9 (19.15%) Oracle
3 5 (10.64%) Dynatrace
4 4 (8.51%) ServiceNow
4 4 (8.51%) Sitecore
4 4 (8.51%) VMware
5 3 (6.38%) F5
5 3 (6.38%) SAP
6 2 (4.26%) Cisco
6 2 (4.26%) IBM
6 2 (4.26%) ION Trading
6 2 (4.26%) Nexthink
6 2 (4.26%) Red Hat
6 2 (4.26%) Splunk
7 1 (2.13%) Arista
7 1 (2.13%) Atlassian
7 1 (2.13%) Broadcom
7 1 (2.13%) UiPath
7 1 (2.13%) Workday