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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 103 105
Rank change year-on-year +14 +2 +25
Contract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 47 21 21
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.04% 1.16% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.32% 1.23% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 14 16
10th Percentile £490 £249 £186
25th Percentile £520 £373 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £466 £530
Median % change year-on-year +28.69% -12.03% -3.64%
75th Percentile £668 £575 £650
90th Percentile £745 £660 £763
Central London median daily rate £600 £488 £530
% change year-on-year +23.08% -8.02% -3.64%

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 2,025 1,709 1,908
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.01% 94.26% 91.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,390 1,129 1,245
10th Percentile £385 £325 £375
25th Percentile £463 £421 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 22 16
10th Percentile - £17.35 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.98 £19.79
Median hourly rate £20.25 £28.33 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -28.51% +6.38% -3.18%
75th Percentile £31.52 £53.50 £82.19
90th Percentile £49.64 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.58 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +7.67% -22.86%

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 August 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 5 (10.64%) 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%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (2.13%) nginx
5 1 (2.13%) Tomcat
5 1 (2.13%) WebSphere
5 1 (2.13%) WebSphere Application Server
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%) SAP MM
2 1 (2.13%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (2.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 7 (14.89%) Azure
2 6 (12.77%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (10.64%) Entra ID
3 5 (10.64%) SaaS
4 4 (8.51%) AWS
4 4 (8.51%) GitHub
4 4 (8.51%) OneDrive
5 3 (6.38%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (6.38%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (6.38%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (6.38%) Serverless
6 2 (4.26%) Amazon S3
6 2 (4.26%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (4.26%) dbt
6 2 (4.26%) GCP
7 1 (2.13%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (2.13%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.13%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.13%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (14.89%) DNS
2 5 (10.64%) TCP/IP
3 4 (8.51%) DHCP
3 4 (8.51%) Firewall
3 4 (8.51%) LAN
3 4 (8.51%) WAN
4 3 (6.38%) Unified Communications
5 2 (4.26%) Internet
5 2 (4.26%) Intranet
5 2 (4.26%) VLAN
5 2 (4.26%) VPN
5 2 (4.26%) Wireshark
6 1 (2.13%) NAS
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%) Git
4 4 (8.51%) Jenkins
5 2 (4.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (4.26%) Fiddler
5 2 (4.26%) MSI
5 2 (4.26%) TeamCity
5 2 (4.26%) Visual Studio
6 1 (2.13%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.13%) Introscope
6 1 (2.13%) Zephyr
General
1 21 (44.68%) Finance
2 20 (42.55%) Social Skills
3 12 (25.53%) Banking
4 10 (21.28%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (10.64%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.26%) Back Office
6 2 (4.26%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.13%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.13%) Front Office
7 1 (2.13%) International Banking
7 1 (2.13%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (14.89%) Senior
2 6 (12.77%) Applications Engineer
2 6 (12.77%) Developer
3 4 (8.51%) Data Engineer
3 4 (8.51%) Junior
3 4 (8.51%) Security Engineer
3 4 (8.51%) Senior Applications Engineer
3 4 (8.51%) Senior Security Engineer
4 3 (6.38%) Analyst
4 3 (6.38%) Applications Support
4 3 (6.38%) Consultant
4 3 (6.38%) Lead
4 3 (6.38%) Support Engineer
5 2 (4.26%) Architect
5 2 (4.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (4.26%) Oracle Database Developer
5 2 (4.26%) Oracle Developer
5 2 (4.26%) SAP GRC Consultant
5 2 (4.26%) SAP Security Consultant
5 2 (4.26%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (23.40%) .NET
2 7 (14.89%) Terraform
3 4 (8.51%) .NET Framework
3 4 (8.51%) REST
4 3 (6.38%) ASP.NET
4 3 (6.38%) SOAP
5 2 (4.26%) ADO.NET
5 2 (4.26%) Ajax
5 2 (4.26%) ASP.NET Web Forms
5 2 (4.26%) SAP Fiori
5 2 (4.26%) Web Services
5 2 (4.26%) XML
5 2 (4.26%) XSL
5 2 (4.26%) XSLT
6 1 (2.13%) AngularJS
6 1 (2.13%) ARM Templates
6 1 (2.13%) CSS
6 1 (2.13%) jQuery
6 1 (2.13%) OpenAPI
6 1 (2.13%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.51%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (4.26%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.26%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.13%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.13%) Data Structures
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%) PMI
3 1 (2.13%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.13%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (17.02%) Linux
1 8 (17.02%) Windows
2 5 (10.64%) Unix
3 3 (6.38%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.13%) AIX
4 1 (2.13%) CentOS
4 1 (2.13%) MVS
4 1 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.13%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (27.66%) DevOps
2 12 (25.53%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (23.40%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (21.28%) CI/CD
5 9 (19.15%) Agile
5 9 (19.15%) SDLC
6 8 (17.02%) Risk Management
6 8 (17.02%) User Experience
7 7 (14.89%) Incident Management
7 7 (14.89%) Incident Response
7 7 (14.89%) Observability
7 7 (14.89%) Test Automation
8 6 (12.77%) Analytics
8 6 (12.77%) High Availability
8 6 (12.77%) ITIL
8 6 (12.77%) ITSM
9 5 (10.64%) Capacity Planning
9 5 (10.64%) Data Governance
9 5 (10.64%) Performance Tuning
9 5 (10.64%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (27.66%) Python
2 12 (25.53%) SQL
3 9 (19.15%) PowerShell
4 6 (12.77%) C#
5 5 (10.64%) PL/SQL
6 4 (8.51%) Java
6 4 (8.51%) JavaScript
7 3 (6.38%) Bash
8 2 (4.26%) C
8 2 (4.26%) C++
8 2 (4.26%) ProC
9 1 (2.13%) Bicep
9 1 (2.13%) JCL
9 1 (2.13%) Jython
9 1 (2.13%) REXX
9 1 (2.13%) Shell Script
9 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%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.13%) CCNP
6 1 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.13%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.13%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.77%) QA
1 6 (12.77%) SLA
2 5 (10.64%) Data Quality
3 3 (6.38%) GRC
4 1 (2.13%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 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 5 (10.64%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (4.26%) Ansible
2 2 (4.26%) Grafana
2 2 (4.26%) ITRS Geneos
2 2 (4.26%) Puppet
3 1 (2.13%) CA Wily
3 1 (2.13%) Data Guard
3 1 (2.13%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.13%) PowerCLI
3 1 (2.13%) SCCM
3 1 (2.13%) SCOM
3 1 (2.13%) SCOrch
3 1 (2.13%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 19 (40.43%) Microsoft
2 10 (21.28%) Oracle
3 4 (8.51%) Dynatrace
3 4 (8.51%) SAP
3 4 (8.51%) ServiceNow
3 4 (8.51%) Sitecore
3 4 (8.51%) VMware
4 3 (6.38%) F5
5 2 (4.26%) ION Trading
5 2 (4.26%) Nexthink
5 2 (4.26%) Red Hat
5 2 (4.26%) Splunk
5 2 (4.26%) Workday
6 1 (2.13%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.13%) Broadcom
6 1 (2.13%) Cisco
6 1 (2.13%) IBM
6 1 (2.13%) UiPath