Root Cause Analysis Contracts in the Thames Valley

Root Cause Analysis
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 27 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 112 121
Rank change year-on-year +33 +9 +41
Contract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 30 18 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.79% 0.74% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.94% 0.87% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 8 21
10th Percentile £250 £321 £313
25th Percentile £320 £329 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £453 £465
Median % change year-on-year -11.60% -2.69% -11.43%
75th Percentile £475 £550 £613
90th Percentile £530 £591 £700
South East median daily rate £475 £480 £490
% change year-on-year -1.04% -2.09% -4.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
10th Percentile - £53.01 -
25th Percentile - £55.25 £57.50
Median hourly rate - £59.80 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - -0.33% +263.64%
75th Percentile - £61.60 £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - £59.80 £60.00
% change year-on-year - -0.33% -25.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,543 2,066 2,648
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.23% 84.57% 90.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,157 1,808
10th Percentile £300 £263 £313
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £514
Median % change year-on-year -0.20% -2.48% +2.75%
75th Percentile £591 £613 £619
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £520 £515
% change year-on-year -3.85% +0.97% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 129 82
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.29 £14.23
25th Percentile £15.03 £20.50 £21.35
Median hourly rate £25.15 £53.03 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.57% +6.06% +194.12%
75th Percentile £54.06 £66.00 £66.21
90th Percentile £80.90 £85.65 £74.98
South East median hourly rate £21.99 £55.04 £50.00
% change year-on-year -60.05% +10.08% +100.00%

Root Cause Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Root Cause Analysis in the Thames Valley

Root Cause Analysis
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Root Cause Analysis in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Root Cause Analysis in the Thames Valley

Root Cause Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Root Cause Analysis in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 27 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Root Cause Analysis in the Thames Valley

Root Cause Analysis
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Root Cause Analysis in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Root Cause Analysis in the Thames Valley

Root Cause Analysis
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 27 July 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
Berkshire +23 25 £420 -12.50% 12
Buckinghamshire +10 3 £420 - 9
Oxfordshire -9 2 £250 -28.57% 5
Root Cause Analysis
South East

Root Cause Analysis
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (6.67%) Confluence
2 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 12 (40.00%) Azure
2 5 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (10.00%) Azure AKS
3 3 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (6.67%) AWS
4 2 (6.67%) GitHub
4 2 (6.67%) OCI
5 1 (3.33%) Azure App Service
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Pipelines
5 1 (3.33%) Datadog
5 1 (3.33%) GCP
5 1 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.33%) IaaS
5 1 (3.33%) PaaS
5 1 (3.33%) Power Automate
5 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.33%) PowerApps
5 1 (3.33%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) DHCP
1 2 (6.67%) DNS
2 1 (3.33%) Ethernet
2 1 (3.33%) MPLS
2 1 (3.33%) PuTTY
2 1 (3.33%) SDH
2 1 (3.33%) VPN
2 1 (3.33%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (6.67%) MongoDB
2 2 (6.67%) MySQL
2 2 (6.67%) Relational Database
2 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.33%) Parquet
3 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.33%) Power BI
3 1 (3.33%) RDBMS
3 1 (3.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (23.33%) Git
2 4 (13.33%) JIRA
2 4 (13.33%) Selenium
3 1 (3.33%) Cypress.io
3 1 (3.33%) GitLab
3 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.33%) Maven
3 1 (3.33%) Mocha
3 1 (3.33%) Toad
General
1 6 (20.00%) Social Skills
1 6 (20.00%) Telecoms
2 5 (16.67%) Finance
3 4 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 3 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (10.00%) Electronics
4 3 (10.00%) Manufacturing
4 3 (10.00%) Marketing
5 1 (3.33%) Legal
5 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Police
Job Titles
1 5 (16.67%) Analyst
2 3 (10.00%) Consultant
2 3 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) Coordinator
3 2 (6.67%) Developer
3 2 (6.67%) Hardware Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) Operations Analyst
3 2 (6.67%) Oracle Analyst
3 2 (6.67%) Product Owner
3 2 (6.67%) Project Coordinator
3 2 (6.67%) Technical Coordinator
3 2 (6.67%) Technical Project Coordinator
3 2 (6.67%) Test Analyst
4 1 (3.33%) .NET Developer
4 1 (3.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (3.33%) Deskside Support
4 1 (3.33%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (3.33%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) QA Analyst
4 1 (3.33%) QA Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) OAuth
1 2 (6.67%) OpenID
1 2 (6.67%) RESTful
2 1 (3.33%) .NET
2 1 (3.33%) .NET Core
2 1 (3.33%) .NET Framework
2 1 (3.33%) ARM Templates
2 1 (3.33%) Entity Framework
2 1 (3.33%) Fastify
2 1 (3.33%) GraphQL
2 1 (3.33%) Jest
2 1 (3.33%) JSON
2 1 (3.33%) Node.js
2 1 (3.33%) OAuth2
2 1 (3.33%) OpenAPI
2 1 (3.33%) React
2 1 (3.33%) REST
2 1 (3.33%) SAML
2 1 (3.33%) Swagger
2 1 (3.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (6.67%) Driving Licence
2 2 (6.67%) Onboarding
2 2 (6.67%) PKI
2 2 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.33%) Cyber Security Posture
3 1 (3.33%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (3.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.33%) SCADA
3 1 (3.33%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (3.33%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 11 (36.67%) Windows
2 4 (13.33%) Linux
3 3 (10.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (6.67%) Unix
4 2 (6.67%) Windows 10
5 1 (3.33%) Android
5 1 (3.33%) Apple iOS
5 1 (3.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (36.67%) CI/CD
1 11 (36.67%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (33.33%) DevOps
3 6 (20.00%) Agile
4 5 (16.67%) Incident Management
4 5 (16.67%) Incident Response
4 5 (16.67%) ITIL
5 4 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (13.33%) Containerisation
5 4 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 3 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (10.00%) Digital Marketing
6 3 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (10.00%) Programme Management
6 3 (10.00%) Test Automation
7 2 (6.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (36.67%) PowerShell
1 11 (36.67%) Python
2 5 (16.67%) Bash
2 5 (16.67%) SQL
3 3 (10.00%) Bicep
4 2 (6.67%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.33%) C#
5 1 (3.33%) Java
5 1 (3.33%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (3.33%) Perl
5 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) SC Cleared
1 4 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.67%) Degree
3 1 (3.33%) CCNA
3 1 (3.33%) CCNP
3 1 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.33%) CISSP
3 1 (3.33%) GCFA
3 1 (3.33%) GCIH
3 1 (3.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) GDPR
2 1 (3.33%) HIPAA
2 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.33%) NIST
2 1 (3.33%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 5 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 4 (13.33%) Docker
3 3 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (6.67%) Hyper-V
4 2 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (16.67%) Ansible
1 5 (16.67%) SCCM
2 4 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 4 (13.33%) Terraform
3 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (6.67%) SCOM
3 2 (6.67%) yum
4 1 (3.33%) Grafana
4 1 (3.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.33%) VMware
3 3 (10.00%) Oracle
3 3 (10.00%) SAP
3 3 (10.00%) ServiceNow
3 3 (10.00%) Splunk
4 2 (6.67%) Intel
4 2 (6.67%) Red Hat
4 2 (6.67%) SolarWinds
5 1 (3.33%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (3.33%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (3.33%) CyberArk
5 1 (3.33%) Dynatrace
5 1 (3.33%) Google
5 1 (3.33%) HP
5 1 (3.33%) Remedy
5 1 (3.33%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.33%) Tanium