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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 106 85
Rank change year-on-year +12 -21 +72
Contract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 25 14 44
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.34% 0.75% 1.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.51% 0.82% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 8 33
10th Percentile £350 £388 £377
25th Percentile £415 £450 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £506 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.25% -7.95% +9.73%
75th Percentile £597 £628 -
90th Percentile £690 £703 £650
Central London median daily rate £475 £506 £550
% change year-on-year -6.17% -7.95% +1.85%

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 1,657 1,713 2,195
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.99% 91.90% 89.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,163 1,043 1,572
10th Percentile £350 £364 £355
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £574
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +0.22% -3.57%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £565
% change year-on-year -6.09% +1.77% -3.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 9 13
10th Percentile £19.98 £13.45 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.66 £22.00 £18.93
Median hourly rate £31.00 £32.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +18.18% -18.52%
75th Percentile £42.65 £43.75 £46.75
90th Percentile £49.83 £112.00 £69.05
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -14.43%

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 26 January 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 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (8.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Exchequer
1 1 (4.00%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (4.00%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 11 (44.00%) Azure
2 6 (24.00%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (20.00%) AWS
3 5 (20.00%) SaaS
4 3 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (12.00%) Entra ID
4 3 (12.00%) GCP
5 2 (8.00%) Google Workspace
5 2 (8.00%) PaaS
5 2 (8.00%) Rubrik
5 2 (8.00%) Slack
6 1 (4.00%) Akamai
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (4.00%) Apigee
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (4.00%) Cloudflare
6 1 (4.00%) OneDrive
6 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
6 1 (4.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (4.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) DHCP
1 3 (12.00%) DNS
1 3 (12.00%) Firewall
1 3 (12.00%) VPN
2 1 (4.00%) Cisco Wireless
2 1 (4.00%) HTTPS
2 1 (4.00%) Internet
2 1 (4.00%) LAN
2 1 (4.00%) NetScaler
2 1 (4.00%) SSL
2 1 (4.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.00%) WAN
2 1 (4.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (4.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (20.00%) JIRA
2 2 (8.00%) GitLab
3 1 (4.00%) Git
3 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.00%) Postman
3 1 (4.00%) REST Assured
3 1 (4.00%) Selenium
General
1 12 (48.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (32.00%) Finance
3 5 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (12.00%) Banking
4 3 (12.00%) Financial Institution
4 3 (12.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.00%) Front Office
5 1 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.00%) Military
5 1 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (24.00%) Senior
2 4 (16.00%) Analyst
2 4 (16.00%) Lead
3 3 (12.00%) Developer
4 2 (8.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Backup Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Data Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Environment Manager
4 2 (8.00%) IT Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Operations Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Senior Data Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Service Desk Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Support Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Firewall Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Governance Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Senior Firewall Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) .NET
1 3 (12.00%) CSS
1 3 (12.00%) HTML
1 3 (12.00%) HTML5
1 3 (12.00%) jQuery
1 3 (12.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (4.00%) JSON
2 1 (4.00%) Kafka
2 1 (4.00%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (4.00%) OAuth
2 1 (4.00%) OAuth2
2 1 (4.00%) OpenAPI
2 1 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (4.00%) REST
2 1 (4.00%) RESTful
2 1 (4.00%) Swagger
2 1 (4.00%) XML
2 1 (4.00%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (12.00%) Low-Code
2 1 (4.00%) Derivative
2 1 (4.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (4.00%) DTCC
2 1 (4.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (4.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Windows
2 1 (4.00%) Linux
2 1 (4.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (48.00%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (32.00%) Agile
3 5 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (20.00%) DevOps
3 5 (20.00%) ITIL
3 5 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 5 (20.00%) Service Delivery
4 4 (16.00%) Change Control
4 4 (16.00%) ITSM
4 4 (16.00%) Process Improvement
4 4 (16.00%) Roadmaps
4 4 (16.00%) User Experience
4 4 (16.00%) Validation
5 3 (12.00%) Data Analysis
5 3 (12.00%) Data Protection
5 3 (12.00%) ERP
5 3 (12.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (12.00%) Test Automation
5 3 (12.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.00%) Python
2 3 (12.00%) C#
2 3 (12.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (12.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (12.00%) SQL
3 1 (4.00%) Java
3 1 (4.00%) Perl
3 1 (4.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (32.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (24.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (16.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 2 (8.00%) Degree
5 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (4.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (8.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (8.00%) GDPR
1 2 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (8.00%) QA
2 1 (4.00%) EMIR
2 1 (4.00%) MiFID
System Software
1 3 (12.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (4.00%) Ansible
2 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.00%) SCCM
2 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.00%) Oracle
3 3 (12.00%) OutSystems
3 3 (12.00%) Salesforce
4 2 (8.00%) F5
4 2 (8.00%) Google
4 2 (8.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (4.00%) Bloomberg
5 1 (4.00%) CheckPoint
5 1 (4.00%) Cisco
5 1 (4.00%) Citrix
5 1 (4.00%) Dynatrace
5 1 (4.00%) Fortinet
5 1 (4.00%) Infoblox
5 1 (4.00%) MuleSoft
5 1 (4.00%) Murex
5 1 (4.00%) Palo Alto
5 1 (4.00%) Remedy
5 1 (4.00%) Splunk