Root Cause Analysis Contracts in London

Root Cause Analysis
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 217 233 263
Rank change year-on-year +16 +30 +7
Contract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 134 170 228
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.10% 0.97% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 1.10% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 115 151
10th Percentile £370 £278 £325
25th Percentile £424 £402 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +7.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £631
90th Percentile £755 £725 £775
England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile - - £30.40
25th Percentile £28.25 £52.50 £38.50
Median hourly rate £29.50 £53.00 £52.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.34% +1.92% +65.08%
75th Percentile £30.75 £53.50 £58.50
90th Percentile - - £62.40
England median hourly rate £47.50 £53.00 £52.00
% change year-on-year -10.38% +1.92% +66.51%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,225 15,457 23,121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.24% 88.42% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,536 11,093 16,726
10th Percentile £350 £340 £375
25th Percentile £431 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 316 265
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.50 £18.20
25th Percentile £23.80 £20.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £31.35 £28.00 £39.42
Median % change year-on-year +11.95% -28.97% +12.39%
75th Percentile £49.75 £48.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £63.05 £66.88 £82.50
England median hourly rate £28.17 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -24.89% - +50.00%

Root Cause Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Root Cause Analysis in London

Root Cause Analysis
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Root Cause Analysis in London

Root Cause Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Root Cause Analysis in London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Root Cause Analysis in London

Root Cause Analysis
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Root Cause Analysis in London

Root Cause Analysis
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 30 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
Central London -13 18 £525 -4.55% 7
South London +4 6 £734 +50.51% 4
East London +19 2 £608 +17.39% 4
West London - 2 £320 - 22
Root Cause Analysis
England

Root Cause Analysis
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 7 (5.22%) Confluence
2 4 (2.99%) WebSphere
3 3 (2.24%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (1.49%) Apache
4 2 (1.49%) JBoss
4 2 (1.49%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.75%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (10.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (2.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.75%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.75%) Kondor
2 1 (0.75%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.75%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.75%) Shopify
2 1 (0.75%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 30 (22.39%) AWS
1 30 (22.39%) Azure
2 11 (8.21%) GCP
3 7 (5.22%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (3.73%) PaaS
4 5 (3.73%) Power Platform
5 4 (2.99%) IaaS
6 3 (2.24%) OCI
7 2 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.49%) Collibra
7 2 (1.49%) dbt
7 2 (1.49%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.49%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.49%) SaaS
7 2 (1.49%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.75%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.75%) Datadog
8 1 (0.75%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.75%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.22%) Firewall
2 5 (3.73%) DHCP
2 5 (3.73%) DNS
3 4 (2.99%) BGP
3 4 (2.99%) MPLS
4 3 (2.24%) Internet
4 3 (2.24%) OSPF
5 2 (1.49%) HTTPS
5 2 (1.49%) NAS
5 2 (1.49%) Network Security
5 2 (1.49%) SAN
5 2 (1.49%) SSH
5 2 (1.49%) SSL
5 2 (1.49%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.49%) VLAN
5 2 (1.49%) VPN
6 1 (0.75%) IGMP
6 1 (0.75%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.75%) IPsec
6 1 (0.75%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.19%) SQL Server
2 8 (5.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 4 (2.99%) DB2
3 4 (2.99%) Oracle Database
3 4 (2.99%) Power BI
3 4 (2.99%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.24%) MySQL
4 3 (2.24%) Tableau
5 2 (1.49%) IMS/DB
5 2 (1.49%) Metadata
5 2 (1.49%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.49%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.49%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (1.49%) SAP BW
5 2 (1.49%) Sybase ASE
6 1 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.75%) DbVisualizer
6 1 (0.75%) Looker
6 1 (0.75%) PouchDB
Development Applications
1 12 (8.96%) JIRA
2 7 (5.22%) Git
3 4 (2.99%) JMeter
3 4 (2.99%) LoadRunner
3 4 (2.99%) Serenity BDD
4 3 (2.24%) Bitbucket
4 3 (2.24%) Postman
5 2 (1.49%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.49%) GitLab
5 2 (1.49%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.49%) Maven
5 2 (1.49%) MSTest
5 2 (1.49%) NSubstitute
5 2 (1.49%) NUnit
5 2 (1.49%) REST Assured
5 2 (1.49%) Selenium
5 2 (1.49%) SoapUI
5 2 (1.49%) Visual Studio Coded UI
6 1 (0.75%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.75%) TeamCity
General
1 57 (42.54%) Social Skills
2 35 (26.12%) Finance
3 30 (22.39%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (15.67%) Banking
5 6 (4.48%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (4.48%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (3.73%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.99%) Legal
8 3 (2.24%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.24%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.49%) Retail
10 1 (0.75%) Billing
10 1 (0.75%) Fire and Rescue
10 1 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.75%) International Banking
10 1 (0.75%) Local Government
10 1 (0.75%) Police
10 1 (0.75%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.75%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 27 (20.15%) Analyst
2 22 (16.42%) Developer
3 12 (8.96%) Senior
4 11 (8.21%) Business Analyst
4 11 (8.21%) Consultant
5 10 (7.46%) Lead
6 9 (6.72%) Data Analyst
7 8 (5.97%) Automation Developer
8 7 (5.22%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
9 5 (3.73%) Applications Support
9 5 (3.73%) Architect
10 4 (2.99%) Applications Developer
10 4 (2.99%) Performance Consultant
10 4 (2.99%) Performance Test Consultant
10 4 (2.99%) Senior Consultant
10 4 (2.99%) Senior Test Consultant
10 4 (2.99%) Site Engineer
10 4 (2.99%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 4 (2.99%) Test Consultant
10 4 (2.99%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (11.94%) .NET
2 8 (5.97%) Web Services
3 7 (5.22%) Kafka
3 7 (5.22%) REST
4 6 (4.48%) CSS
4 6 (4.48%) jQuery
4 6 (4.48%) XML
5 5 (3.73%) JSON
6 4 (2.99%) AngularJS
6 4 (2.99%) HTML
6 4 (2.99%) J2EE
6 4 (2.99%) WebSphere MQ
7 3 (2.24%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (2.24%) React
7 3 (2.24%) RESTful
7 3 (2.24%) Sass
7 3 (2.24%) SOAP
8 2 (1.49%) Apache NiFi
8 2 (1.49%) GraphQL
8 2 (1.49%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.46%) Data Protection Act
2 8 (5.97%) Onboarding
3 5 (3.73%) Low-Code
3 5 (3.73%) Management Information System
3 5 (3.73%) Security Posture
4 4 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.24%) Clustering
5 3 (2.24%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.24%) Replication
6 2 (1.49%) CMDB
6 2 (1.49%) DTCC
6 2 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.49%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (1.49%) Social Media
6 2 (1.49%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (1.49%) Video\Live Streaming
6 2 (1.49%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.75%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.75%) iPad
7 1 (0.75%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (10.45%) Windows
2 7 (5.22%) Unix
3 5 (3.73%) Linux
4 2 (1.49%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.75%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.75%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.75%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.75%) Solaris
5 1 (0.75%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (42.54%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (26.87%) DevOps
3 30 (22.39%) Agile
4 22 (16.42%) Stakeholder Management
5 18 (13.43%) Incident Management
5 18 (13.43%) Microservices
6 16 (11.94%) CI/CD
6 16 (11.94%) Data Analysis
6 16 (11.94%) Process Improvement
7 15 (11.19%) Data Protection
7 15 (11.19%) ITIL
8 14 (10.45%) Problem Management
8 14 (10.45%) User Acceptance Testing
9 13 (9.70%) Migration
9 13 (9.70%) Test Automation
10 11 (8.21%) Analytics
10 11 (8.21%) Computer Science
10 11 (8.21%) Containerisation
10 11 (8.21%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (7.46%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (27.61%) SQL
2 30 (22.39%) Python
3 22 (16.42%) C#
4 11 (8.21%) Java
4 11 (8.21%) JavaScript
5 8 (5.97%) PowerShell
6 5 (3.73%) Bash
6 5 (3.73%) PL/SQL
7 3 (2.24%) Search Processing Language
7 3 (2.24%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.49%) ActionScript
8 2 (1.49%) ActionScript 2.0
8 2 (1.49%) REXX
9 1 (0.75%) ABAP
9 1 (0.75%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.75%) R
9 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (15.67%) Security Cleared
2 18 (13.43%) SC Cleared
3 14 (10.45%) Degree
4 10 (7.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.73%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.24%) CISSP
7 3 (2.24%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (2.24%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.49%) CCIE
8 2 (1.49%) CCNA
8 2 (1.49%) CCNP
8 2 (1.49%) CEH
8 2 (1.49%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.49%) SSCP
9 1 (0.75%) GIAC
9 1 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.75%) JNCIA
9 1 (0.75%) JNCIE
9 1 (0.75%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.97%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.22%) QA
3 5 (3.73%) GDPR
4 4 (2.99%) SLA
5 3 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (1.49%) EMIR
6 2 (1.49%) GRC
6 2 (1.49%) MiFID
6 2 (1.49%) NIST
7 1 (0.75%) COBIT
7 1 (0.75%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.75%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.75%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.75%) NCSC
7 1 (0.75%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (4.48%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.73%) Docker
3 3 (2.24%) Firmware
4 2 (1.49%) IAG
4 2 (1.49%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.75%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.75%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 12 (8.96%) Kubernetes
2 11 (8.21%) Terraform
3 8 (5.97%) Ansible
4 4 (2.99%) Perfmon
5 2 (1.49%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 2 (1.49%) Oracle RMAN
5 2 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.75%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.75%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.75%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.75%) Grafana
6 1 (0.75%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.75%) Nagios
6 1 (0.75%) Netcool
6 1 (0.75%) Puppet
6 1 (0.75%) QRadar
6 1 (0.75%) SCCM
6 1 (0.75%) Tivoli
6 1 (0.75%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 1 (0.75%) vMotion
Vendors
1 25 (18.66%) Oracle
2 16 (11.94%) Microsoft
3 12 (8.96%) ServiceNow
4 9 (6.72%) Splunk
5 8 (5.97%) SAP
6 7 (5.22%) IBM
6 7 (5.22%) UiPath
7 5 (3.73%) Dynatrace
7 5 (3.73%) OutSystems
7 5 (3.73%) Salesforce
8 4 (2.99%) New Relic
9 3 (2.24%) CheckPoint
9 3 (2.24%) Cisco
9 3 (2.24%) Sybase
9 3 (2.24%) VMware
9 3 (2.24%) Workday
10 2 (1.49%) EMC
10 2 (1.49%) F5
10 2 (1.49%) Juniper
10 2 (1.49%) Sun