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

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 100 93
Rank change year-on-year +5 -7 +42
Contract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 40 19 34
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.64% 1.08% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.91% 1.15% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 11 27
10th Percentile £511 £219 £199
25th Percentile £520 £419 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% +12.24%
75th Percentile £636 £606 £638
90th Percentile £733 £763 £680
Central London median daily rate £600 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +17.07% -6.82% +12.24%

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 2,089 1,648 1,952
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.72% 93.80% 91.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,411 1,053 1,355
10th Percentile £365 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 19 15
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.96 £20.04
25th Percentile £18.18 £24.21 £20.36
Median hourly rate £19.50 £31.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.10% +14.81% -22.86%
75th Percentile £42.83 £52.75 £40.92
90th Percentile £59.72 £68.75 £67.35
Central London median hourly rate £26.39 £32.50 £27.81
% change year-on-year -18.82% +16.86% -20.54%

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 June 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 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.00%) Confluence
2 2 (5.00%) IIS
3 1 (2.50%) Apache
3 1 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.50%) IBM HTTP Server
3 1 (2.50%) nginx
3 1 (2.50%) Palantir Foundry
3 1 (2.50%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.50%) WebSphere
3 1 (2.50%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (5.00%) SAP GRC
1 2 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.50%) Actimize
2 1 (2.50%) iTrent
2 1 (2.50%) SAP ERP
2 1 (2.50%) SAP MM
2 1 (2.50%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 8 (20.00%) Azure
2 7 (17.50%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (15.00%) SaaS
4 4 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 4 (10.00%) OneDrive
5 3 (7.50%) AWS
6 2 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (5.00%) GitHub
6 2 (5.00%) Rubrik
6 2 (5.00%) Serverless
7 1 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.50%) Azure API Management
7 1 (2.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (2.50%) dbt
7 1 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (2.50%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.50%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (2.50%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (2.50%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.00%) DNS
1 4 (10.00%) Firewall
1 4 (10.00%) LAN
1 4 (10.00%) WAN
2 3 (7.50%) DHCP
2 3 (7.50%) TCP/IP
2 3 (7.50%) Unified Communications
3 2 (5.00%) Internet
3 2 (5.00%) Intranet
3 2 (5.00%) Wireshark
4 1 (2.50%) NAS
4 1 (2.50%) SAN
4 1 (2.50%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.00%) Oracle Database
2 2 (5.00%) RDBMS
2 2 (5.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (5.00%) SAP BW
2 2 (5.00%) SQLPlus
3 1 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.50%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.50%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.50%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.50%) Power BI
3 1 (2.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (12.50%) JIRA
2 4 (10.00%) Git
3 3 (7.50%) Artifactory
3 3 (7.50%) Bitbucket
3 3 (7.50%) Jenkins
4 2 (5.00%) Fiddler
4 2 (5.00%) MSI
4 2 (5.00%) TeamCity
4 2 (5.00%) Visual Studio
5 1 (2.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (2.50%) GitLab
5 1 (2.50%) Introscope
5 1 (2.50%) Postman
5 1 (2.50%) REST Assured
5 1 (2.50%) Selenium
5 1 (2.50%) Zephyr
General
1 20 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 17 (42.50%) Finance
3 10 (25.00%) Banking
4 7 (17.50%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.00%) Back Office
5 2 (5.00%) Retail
6 1 (2.50%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.50%) Front Office
6 1 (2.50%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (20.00%) Senior
2 6 (15.00%) Security Engineer
2 6 (15.00%) Senior Security Engineer
3 5 (12.50%) Developer
4 4 (10.00%) Analyst
4 4 (10.00%) Applications Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Senior Applications Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Consultant
5 3 (7.50%) Data Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Lead
6 2 (5.00%) C# Developer
6 2 (5.00%) Database Developer
6 2 (5.00%) DataOps Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Oracle Database Developer
6 2 (5.00%) Oracle Developer
6 2 (5.00%) SAP Consultant
6 2 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
6 2 (5.00%) SAP Security Consultant
6 2 (5.00%) Security Consultant
6 2 (5.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (20.00%) .NET
2 5 (12.50%) REST
3 4 (10.00%) .NET Framework
3 4 (10.00%) SOAP
4 3 (7.50%) ASP.NET
5 2 (5.00%) ADO.NET
5 2 (5.00%) Ajax
5 2 (5.00%) AngularJS
5 2 (5.00%) ASP.NET Web Forms
5 2 (5.00%) CSS
5 2 (5.00%) HTML
5 2 (5.00%) jQuery
5 2 (5.00%) SAP Fiori
5 2 (5.00%) Web Services
5 2 (5.00%) XML
5 2 (5.00%) XSL
5 2 (5.00%) XSLT
6 1 (2.50%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (2.50%) Middleware
6 1 (2.50%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (5.00%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.50%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.50%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.50%) PMI
3 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.00%) Linux
2 5 (12.50%) Unix
3 4 (10.00%) Windows
4 1 (2.50%) AIX
4 1 (2.50%) CentOS
4 1 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (30.00%) SDLC
2 11 (27.50%) Risk Management
3 10 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 10 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (20.00%) Incident Response
5 7 (17.50%) Agile
5 7 (17.50%) DevOps
6 6 (15.00%) Backlog Management
6 6 (15.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
6 6 (15.00%) Product Backlog
6 6 (15.00%) Product Management
6 6 (15.00%) Programme Management
6 6 (15.00%) Regulatory Compliance
6 6 (15.00%) Security Architecture
6 6 (15.00%) Static Application Security Testing
6 6 (15.00%) Threat Modelling
6 6 (15.00%) Vulnerability Management
7 5 (12.50%) Migration
7 5 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (12.50%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 10 (25.00%) Python
2 8 (20.00%) SQL
3 5 (12.50%) C#
3 5 (12.50%) PL/SQL
4 4 (10.00%) PowerShell
5 3 (7.50%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.00%) C
6 2 (5.00%) C++
6 2 (5.00%) ProC
7 1 (2.50%) Bash
7 1 (2.50%) Java
7 1 (2.50%) Jython
7 1 (2.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (15.00%) Degree
2 3 (7.50%) SC Cleared
2 3 (7.50%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.50%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.50%) CCNP
3 1 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (2.50%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.50%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (20.00%) QA
2 6 (15.00%) SLA
3 2 (5.00%) Data Quality
3 2 (5.00%) GRC
4 1 (2.50%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (5.00%) IAG
2 1 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (12.50%) Terraform
2 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (5.00%) Ansible
3 2 (5.00%) Puppet
4 1 (2.50%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 15 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 7 (17.50%) Oracle
3 4 (10.00%) SAP
3 4 (10.00%) Sitecore
4 3 (7.50%) F5
5 2 (5.00%) Dynatrace
5 2 (5.00%) Salesforce
5 2 (5.00%) ServiceNow
5 2 (5.00%) Workday
6 1 (2.50%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.50%) Cisco
6 1 (2.50%) Databricks
6 1 (2.50%) Foundry
6 1 (2.50%) Google
6 1 (2.50%) Nexthink
6 1 (2.50%) Palantir
6 1 (2.50%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.50%) UiPath
6 1 (2.50%) VMware