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

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 105 108
Rank change year-on-year +6 +3 +70
Contract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 20 18 37
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.18% 0.86% 1.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 0.93% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 12 25
10th Percentile £329 £345 £375
25th Percentile £404 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.48% -2.50% +4.76%
75th Percentile £500 £664 -
90th Percentile £614 £773 £675
Central London median daily rate £450 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -16.08% -2.50% +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 1,601 1,928 2,530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.29% 91.63% 89.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,112 1,184 1,769
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £420 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -1.71% +1.74%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £695
90th Percentile £763 £786 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 17 18
10th Percentile £16.90 £16.70 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.07 £23.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.75 £42.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.71% +36.00% -33.33%
75th Percentile £44.63 £112.00 £51.06
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £70.25
Central London median hourly rate £27.75 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -20.71% +27.27% -36.22%

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 31 October 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 2 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Exchequer
1 1 (5.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) AWS
2 5 (25.00%) Azure
3 3 (15.00%) GCP
3 3 (15.00%) SaaS
4 2 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (10.00%) GitHub
4 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (10.00%) PaaS
5 1 (5.00%) Akamai
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (5.00%) Apigee
5 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (5.00%) Cloudflare
5 1 (5.00%) Collibra
5 1 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.00%) OneDrive
5 1 (5.00%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) Firewall
1 2 (10.00%) LAN
1 2 (10.00%) WAN
1 2 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (5.00%) Cisco Wireless
2 1 (5.00%) DHCP
2 1 (5.00%) DNS
2 1 (5.00%) HTTPS
2 1 (5.00%) Internet
2 1 (5.00%) NetScaler
2 1 (5.00%) SSL
2 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.00%) VPN
2 1 (5.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle Database
1 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (5.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (5.00%) GitLab
General
1 8 (40.00%) Finance
1 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Banking
3 3 (15.00%) Financial Institution
4 2 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Developer
2 3 (15.00%) Senior
3 2 (10.00%) Applications Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Automation Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Environment Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Lead
3 2 (10.00%) Site Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Subject Matter Expert
3 2 (10.00%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (5.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Firewall Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Lead Programmer
4 1 (5.00%) Programmer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Senior COBOL Programmer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Firewall Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Network Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) .NET
2 3 (15.00%) CSS
2 3 (15.00%) HTML
2 3 (15.00%) HTML5
2 3 (15.00%) jQuery
3 2 (10.00%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (5.00%) JSON
4 1 (5.00%) Kafka
4 1 (5.00%) OAuth
4 1 (5.00%) OAuth2
4 1 (5.00%) OpenAPI
4 1 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (5.00%) RESTful
4 1 (5.00%) Swagger
4 1 (5.00%) XML
4 1 (5.00%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Low-Code
2 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (5.00%) Fat Client
2 1 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (5.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.00%) Thin Client
2 1 (5.00%) VAX
2 1 (5.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Windows
2 1 (5.00%) Linux
2 1 (5.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (40.00%) Agile
3 6 (30.00%) DevOps
4 5 (25.00%) Observability
4 5 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 5 (25.00%) Task Automation
5 4 (20.00%) Problem Management
5 4 (20.00%) User Experience
6 3 (15.00%) Business Case
6 3 (15.00%) Microservices
6 3 (15.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (15.00%) Test Automation
6 3 (15.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (15.00%) UX Design
7 2 (10.00%) CI/CD
7 2 (10.00%) Containerisation
7 2 (10.00%) Knowledge Transfer
7 2 (10.00%) Robotic Process Automation
7 2 (10.00%) Thought Leadership
7 2 (10.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) SQL
2 6 (30.00%) C#
2 6 (30.00%) Python
3 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (10.00%) Bash
4 2 (10.00%) Go
4 2 (10.00%) PromQL
5 1 (5.00%) COBOL
5 1 (5.00%) Java
5 1 (5.00%) Perl
5 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) Degree
4 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Terraform
2 2 (10.00%) Grafana
2 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (5.00%) Ansible
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (5.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Oracle
2 3 (15.00%) OutSystems
2 3 (15.00%) Splunk
3 2 (10.00%) Cisco
3 2 (10.00%) Citrix
3 2 (10.00%) F5
3 2 (10.00%) Infoblox
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.00%) Palo Alto
3 2 (10.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (10.00%) UiPath
4 1 (5.00%) CheckPoint
4 1 (5.00%) Dynatrace
4 1 (5.00%) Fortinet
4 1 (5.00%) MuleSoft
4 1 (5.00%) Remedy
4 1 (5.00%) VMware