Root Cause Analysis Contracts in England

Root Cause Analysis
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Root Cause Analysis skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Root Cause Analysis over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 196 230 286
Rank change year-on-year +34 +56 +33
Contract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 335 372 449
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.41% 1.02% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.54% 1.19% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 248 317
10th Percentile £279 £304 £307
25th Percentile £386 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -3.61%
75th Percentile £556 £588 £625
90th Percentile £688 £650 £740
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 14 5
10th Percentile £30.05 £13.74 £22.00
25th Percentile £31.64 £15.85 £25.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £53.02 £52.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.69% +1.95% +65.08%
75th Percentile £63.00 £61.08 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.25 £61.60 -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £53.02 £25.00
% change year-on-year -5.69% +112.06% -20.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21,762 31,336 43,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.29% 86.24% 90.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,222 20,550 30,257
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £412 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £768
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 920 2,253 1,528
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.88 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.95 £16.13
Median hourly rate £28.08 £36.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% -2.67% +50.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.05 £37.00
% change year-on-year -23.71% -2.58% +44.08%

Root Cause Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Root Cause Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Root Cause Analysis in England

Root Cause Analysis
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Root Cause Analysis in England.

Daily rate trend for Root Cause Analysis in England

Root Cause Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Root Cause Analysis in England over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Root Cause Analysis in England

Root Cause Analysis
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Root Cause Analysis in England.

Hourly rate trend for Root Cause Analysis in England

Root Cause Analysis
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Root Cause Analysis in England over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Root Cause Analysis in England

Root Cause Analysis
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Root Cause Analysis within the England region over the 6 months to 23 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +21 126 £500 -9.09% 344
South East +67 64 £425 -15.00% 374
North of England -2 44 £418 -12.00% 278
South West +30 42 £513 -2.38% 129
North West +15 34 £401 -17.25% 150
Midlands +6 30 £372 -26.62% 201
West Midlands 0 21 £375 -28.23% 111
East of England +29 15 £331 -4.68% 162
Yorkshire -10 10 £475 +5.56% 99
East Midlands +12 9 £368 +14.11% 79
Root Cause Analysis
UK

Root Cause Analysis
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 30 (8.96%) Confluence
2 22 (6.57%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.99%) IIS
4 8 (2.39%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.19%) Apache
5 4 (1.19%) WebSphere
6 3 (0.90%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.60%) CICS
7 2 (0.60%) JBoss
7 2 (0.60%) SharePoint Server
7 2 (0.60%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.30%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.30%) Exchange Server 2013
8 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.30%) SAS
8 1 (0.30%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 22 (6.57%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (5.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.60%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.30%) Final Cut Pro
5 1 (0.30%) Fusion 360
5 1 (0.30%) QuarkXPress
5 1 (0.30%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (2.39%) Kondor
2 3 (0.90%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.60%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.30%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.30%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.30%) Shopify
4 1 (0.30%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.30%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 72 (21.49%) Azure
2 51 (15.22%) AWS
3 19 (5.67%) PaaS
4 16 (4.78%) SaaS
5 15 (4.48%) GCP
6 13 (3.88%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (3.58%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (3.58%) Power Platform
8 10 (2.99%) Entra ID
9 8 (2.39%) IaaS
10 4 (1.19%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (1.19%) Nutanix
10 4 (1.19%) OCI
11 3 (0.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (0.90%) Azure AKS
11 3 (0.90%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (0.90%) dbt
11 3 (0.90%) OneDrive
11 3 (0.90%) OpenShift
11 3 (0.90%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 23 (6.87%) DNS
2 20 (5.97%) DHCP
2 20 (5.97%) VPN
3 13 (3.88%) Firewall
3 13 (3.88%) VoIP
4 10 (2.99%) PBX
5 8 (2.39%) WAN
6 7 (2.09%) LAN
6 7 (2.09%) MPLS
6 7 (2.09%) Wireless
7 6 (1.79%) BGP
7 6 (1.79%) TCP/IP
8 5 (1.49%) Internet
8 5 (1.49%) Network Security
8 5 (1.49%) OSPF
9 4 (1.19%) Ethernet
9 4 (1.19%) SMTP
9 4 (1.19%) SSL
9 4 (1.19%) VLAN
10 3 (0.90%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (6.57%) SQL Server
2 11 (3.28%) Power BI
3 8 (2.39%) Tableau
4 6 (1.79%) DB2
4 6 (1.79%) MySQL
5 5 (1.49%) NoSQL
5 5 (1.49%) Relational Database
5 5 (1.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.19%) SAP HANA
7 3 (0.90%) Big Data
7 3 (0.90%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.90%) Oracle Database
7 3 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.60%) Data Mining
8 2 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.60%) Metadata
8 2 (0.60%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.60%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 49 (14.63%) JIRA
2 19 (5.67%) Git
3 17 (5.07%) Visual Studio
4 12 (3.58%) Selenium
5 10 (2.99%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.79%) SoapUI
7 5 (1.49%) Postman
8 4 (1.19%) JMeter
8 4 (1.19%) LoadRunner
8 4 (1.19%) Maven
8 4 (1.19%) Serenity BDD
9 3 (0.90%) GitLab
9 3 (0.90%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.60%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.60%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.60%) MSTest
10 2 (0.60%) NSubstitute
10 2 (0.60%) NUnit
10 2 (0.60%) Visual Studio Coded UI
11 1 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 133 (39.70%) Social Skills
2 66 (19.70%) Finance
3 60 (17.91%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (8.06%) Public Sector
5 22 (6.57%) Manufacturing
6 19 (5.67%) Telecoms
7 18 (5.37%) Banking
8 10 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (2.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (2.39%) Legal
11 7 (2.09%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.49%) Aerospace
13 5 (1.49%) Electronics
13 5 (1.49%) Financial Institution
13 5 (1.49%) Marketing
14 3 (0.90%) Automotive
14 3 (0.90%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.90%) Publishing
14 3 (0.90%) Retail
Job Titles
1 55 (16.42%) Analyst
2 37 (11.04%) Developer
3 28 (8.36%) Support Engineer
4 22 (6.57%) Senior
5 17 (5.07%) Business Analyst
5 17 (5.07%) Lead
6 16 (4.78%) Administrator
6 16 (4.78%) Delphi Developer
7 15 (4.48%) Consultant
7 15 (4.48%) Service Manager
8 13 (3.88%) Applications Support
9 12 (3.58%) Data Analyst
9 12 (3.58%) Desktop Support
10 11 (3.28%) Applications Engineer
11 10 (2.99%) Applications Support Engineer
11 10 (2.99%) Desktop Engineer
12 9 (2.69%) Desktop Support Engineer
12 9 (2.69%) Wintel Administrator
13 8 (2.39%) DevOps Engineer
13 8 (2.39%) VMWare Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (5.97%) .NET
2 10 (2.99%) Middleware
2 10 (2.99%) Web Services
2 10 (2.99%) XML
3 9 (2.69%) HTML
4 8 (2.39%) REST
5 7 (2.09%) Kafka
5 7 (2.09%) SOAP
6 6 (1.79%) CSS
6 6 (1.79%) jQuery
6 6 (1.79%) JSON
6 6 (1.79%) RESTful
7 4 (1.19%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (1.19%) J2EE
7 4 (1.19%) LDAP
7 4 (1.19%) React
7 4 (1.19%) WebSphere MQ
8 3 (0.90%) AngularJS
8 3 (0.90%) Jest
8 3 (0.90%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 17 (5.07%) Self-Motivation
2 14 (4.18%) Data Protection Act
3 12 (3.58%) iPad
3 12 (3.58%) iPhone
3 12 (3.58%) Management Information System
4 11 (3.28%) Onboarding
5 10 (2.99%) Blackberry
5 10 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (2.99%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 9 (2.69%) Video Conferencing
7 8 (2.39%) Product Ownership
8 7 (2.09%) Data Centre
8 7 (2.09%) SCADA
9 6 (1.79%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.49%) Low-Code
11 4 (1.19%) Clustering
11 4 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (0.90%) CMDB
12 3 (0.90%) PKI
12 3 (0.90%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 76 (22.69%) Windows
2 23 (6.87%) Windows Server
3 17 (5.07%) Unix
3 17 (5.07%) Windows 10
4 16 (4.78%) Linux
4 16 (4.78%) Windows Server 2016
5 11 (3.28%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (2.39%) Windows Server 2012
7 6 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (1.19%) Apple iOS
8 4 (1.19%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.90%) Android
10 1 (0.30%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.30%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.30%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.30%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (44.78%) Problem-Solving
2 71 (21.19%) Agile
3 69 (20.60%) ITIL
4 55 (16.42%) DevOps
5 53 (15.82%) Incident Management
6 39 (11.64%) Problem Management
7 38 (11.34%) Migration
7 38 (11.34%) Stakeholder Management
8 35 (10.45%) Change Management
9 32 (9.55%) CI/CD
10 31 (9.25%) Test Automation
11 25 (7.46%) Continuous Improvement
11 25 (7.46%) Data Analysis
12 24 (7.16%) Collaborative Working
12 24 (7.16%) Microservices
12 24 (7.16%) Performance Tuning
13 23 (6.87%) Data Protection
13 23 (6.87%) Incident Response
13 23 (6.87%) Service Delivery
13 23 (6.87%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 76 (22.69%) SQL
2 54 (16.12%) Python
3 39 (11.64%) C#
4 36 (10.75%) PowerShell
5 22 (6.57%) PL/SQL
6 19 (5.67%) Java
7 16 (4.78%) Delphi
8 15 (4.48%) Bash
8 15 (4.48%) JavaScript
9 4 (1.19%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.90%) Bicep
10 3 (0.90%) Search Processing Language
10 3 (0.90%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.60%) ActionScript
11 2 (0.60%) ActionScript 2.0
11 2 (0.60%) Perl
11 2 (0.60%) R
11 2 (0.60%) REXX
11 2 (0.60%) VB
11 2 (0.60%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 95 (28.36%) Security Cleared
2 74 (22.09%) SC Cleared
3 35 (10.45%) Degree
4 26 (7.76%) Cisco Certification
5 23 (6.87%) ITIL Certification
6 22 (6.57%) CCNP
6 22 (6.57%) DV Cleared
7 17 (5.07%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (3.28%) CCNA
9 9 (2.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 8 (2.39%) CISSP
11 5 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (1.19%) Azure Certification
12 4 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.90%) AWS Certification
13 3 (0.90%) Master's Degree
14 2 (0.60%) Citrix Certification
14 2 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 2 (0.60%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.16%) SLA
2 16 (4.78%) Data Quality
3 13 (3.88%) QA
4 9 (2.69%) GDPR
5 8 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.79%) NIST
7 5 (1.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.90%) NCSC
9 2 (0.60%) EMIR
9 2 (0.60%) GRC
9 2 (0.60%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.60%) ITGC
9 2 (0.60%) MiFID
9 2 (0.60%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.30%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.30%) COBIT
10 1 (0.30%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.30%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.30%) SEPA
10 1 (0.30%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 44 (13.13%) Active Directory
2 29 (8.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (3.88%) VMware ESXi
4 11 (3.28%) Docker
5 10 (2.99%) Hyper-V
6 7 (2.09%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.60%) BitLocker
8 2 (0.60%) Firmware
8 2 (0.60%) IAG
8 2 (0.60%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (0.60%) NFS
8 2 (0.60%) Samba
8 2 (0.60%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.60%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.30%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 21 (6.27%) Kubernetes
2 20 (5.97%) Ansible
3 18 (5.37%) Microsoft Intune
3 18 (5.37%) Terraform
4 10 (2.99%) vCenter Server
5 9 (2.69%) SCCM
6 6 (1.79%) vMotion
7 5 (1.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (1.49%) Grafana
7 5 (1.49%) Microsoft Clustering
7 5 (1.49%) NetApp OnCommand
7 5 (1.49%) SCOM
7 5 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (1.49%) WSUS
8 4 (1.19%) Perfmon
8 4 (1.19%) yum
9 3 (0.90%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (0.60%) Nagios
10 2 (0.60%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.60%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 78 (23.28%) Microsoft
2 42 (12.54%) Oracle
3 35 (10.45%) VMware
4 23 (6.87%) Cisco
4 23 (6.87%) SAP
4 23 (6.87%) ServiceNow
5 18 (5.37%) Juniper
6 13 (3.88%) F5
6 13 (3.88%) McAfee
7 12 (3.58%) Palo Alto
8 11 (3.28%) Ericsson
8 11 (3.28%) Nokia
8 11 (3.28%) Splunk
9 10 (2.99%) Sybase
10 9 (2.69%) Avaya
10 9 (2.69%) IBM
10 9 (2.69%) Ribbon
11 8 (2.39%) Bloomberg
11 8 (2.39%) HP
11 8 (2.39%) Refinitiv