Root Cause Analysis Contract Job Trends

Root Cause Analysis
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Root Cause Analysis skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 208 232
Rank change year-on-year +40 +24 +34
Contract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 801 392 440
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.59% 1.32% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.88% 1.45% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 483 220 285
10th Percentile £300 £309 £304
25th Percentile £405 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £554 £588
90th Percentile £625 £658 £665
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £438 £498
% change year-on-year +5.71% -12.06% +10.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 23 16
10th Percentile £12.77 £28.25 £14.35
25th Percentile £25.94 £31.25 £15.85
Median hourly rate £57.00 £32.50 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year +75.38% -36.89% +106.00%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £60.03
90th Percentile £76.90 £68.75 £61.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +22.11% -5.00% +100.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 42,679 27,009 37,072
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.81% 91.00% 85.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,607 17,137 23,609
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,567 1,242 2,598
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.87 £16.03
Median hourly rate £43.96 £26.27 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year +67.37% -29.66% +6.69%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.25 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +76.94% -34.02% +17.29%

Root Cause Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Root Cause Analysis relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Root Cause Analysis job vacancy trend in the UK

Root Cause Analysis
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Root Cause Analysis.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Root Cause Analysis

Root Cause Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Root Cause Analysis over the 6 months to 17 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Root Cause Analysis in the UK

Root Cause Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Root Cause Analysis.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Root Cause Analysis

Root Cause Analysis
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Root Cause Analysis over the 6 months to 17 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Root Cause Analysis in the UK

Root Cause Analysis
Top 17 Contract Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 17 June 2026. 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
England +26 685 £475 - 450
UK excluding London +10 384 £463 +5.71% 439
London +64 324 £491 -1.80% 105
Work from Home +30 226 £485 +7.78% 285
North of England 0 116 £475 +8.57% 79
South East -31 87 £434 +0.52% 117
Midlands -13 72 £463 +34.06% 83
North West -2 67 £497 +18.90% 37
West Midlands -6 65 £463 +54.17% 51
South West -13 58 £525 - 43
Yorkshire -22 45 £465 -2.11% 26
Scotland +8 34 £448 -10.40% 30
East of England -19 21 £510 +23.64% 53
East Midlands -26 5 £500 +42.86% 32
North East - 4 £453 - 16
Northern Ireland -1 3 £450 -14.29% 23
Wales -12 1 £325 +15.04% 21

Root Cause Analysis
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 37 (4.62%) SharePoint
2 34 (4.24%) Confluence
3 29 (3.62%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (1.87%) Apache
5 10 (1.25%) IIS
5 10 (1.25%) SAS
6 8 (1.00%) Apache Spark
6 8 (1.00%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.62%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.50%) CMS
8 4 (0.50%) Oracle Self-Service HR
9 3 (0.37%) IBM HTTP Server
9 3 (0.37%) NetWeaver
9 3 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.37%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.25%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.25%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.25%) Oracle Spatial
10 2 (0.25%) WebLogic
Applications
1 21 (2.62%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.00%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.37%) CATIA
4 3 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (1.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.00%) Remedy ITSM
3 7 (0.87%) Veritas eDiscovery
4 6 (0.75%) Oracle Payables
5 5 (0.62%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 4 (0.50%) Oracle Assets
6 4 (0.50%) Oracle Cash Management
6 4 (0.50%) Oracle General Ledger
6 4 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.50%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 3 (0.37%) iTrent
7 3 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.37%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.37%) SAP SD
8 2 (0.25%) Actimize
8 2 (0.25%) Dynamics GP
8 2 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.25%) Oracle Financials
8 2 (0.25%) Primavera
8 2 (0.25%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 241 (30.09%) Azure
2 194 (24.22%) AWS
3 70 (8.74%) GCP
4 64 (7.99%) Entra ID
5 60 (7.49%) Azure DevOps
6 57 (7.12%) GitHub
7 55 (6.87%) Microsoft 365
8 40 (4.99%) Power Platform
9 39 (4.87%) GitHub Actions
10 36 (4.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 27 (3.37%) AWS CloudFormation
12 26 (3.25%) Amazon S3
12 26 (3.25%) Microsoft Copilot
12 26 (3.25%) OneDrive
12 26 (3.25%) Snowflake
13 25 (3.12%) SaaS
14 24 (3.00%) Azure Monitor
15 20 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
16 17 (2.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 16 (2.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 66 (8.24%) Firewall
2 55 (6.87%) DNS
3 33 (4.12%) DHCP
4 30 (3.75%) TCP/IP
5 28 (3.50%) VPN
6 26 (3.25%) Network Security
7 22 (2.75%) BGP
7 22 (2.75%) OSPF
7 22 (2.75%) WAN
8 19 (2.37%) Wireless
9 17 (2.12%) VLAN
10 15 (1.87%) LAN
10 15 (1.87%) MPLS
11 14 (1.75%) SAN
12 13 (1.62%) VSAN
13 12 (1.50%) Wi-Fi
14 11 (1.37%) SD-WAN
15 10 (1.25%) SSL
16 8 (1.00%) LTE
16 8 (1.00%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (5.37%) SQL Server
2 37 (4.62%) Power BI
3 33 (4.12%) Relational Database
4 29 (3.62%) PostgreSQL
5 27 (3.37%) Tableau
6 18 (2.25%) Metadata
6 18 (2.25%) MySQL
7 16 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (1.75%) NoSQL
8 14 (1.75%) Oracle Reports
9 13 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
10 12 (1.50%) Oracle Database
11 10 (1.25%) SAP HANA
12 9 (1.12%) Big Data
13 7 (0.87%) Amazon Aurora
13 7 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 6 (0.75%) Amazon Athena
14 6 (0.75%) Data Lake
15 5 (0.62%) DynamoDB
15 5 (0.62%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 86 (10.74%) JIRA
2 59 (7.37%) Jenkins
3 58 (7.24%) Git
4 28 (3.50%) GitLab
5 19 (2.37%) Selenium
6 15 (1.87%) Cypress.io
7 13 (1.62%) Postman
8 12 (1.50%) REST Assured
9 9 (1.12%) Maven
10 8 (1.00%) Cucumber
10 8 (1.00%) WebDriver
11 7 (0.87%) Eclipse
12 5 (0.62%) Gatling
12 5 (0.62%) JMeter
13 4 (0.50%) IntelliJ
13 4 (0.50%) Jaeger
13 4 (0.50%) Subversion
14 3 (0.37%) MSI
14 3 (0.37%) SpecFlow
14 3 (0.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 252 (31.46%) Social Skills
2 173 (21.60%) Finance
3 169 (21.10%) Analytical Skills
4 82 (10.24%) Banking
5 64 (7.99%) Public Sector
6 22 (2.75%) Retail
6 22 (2.75%) Telecoms
7 15 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
8 13 (1.62%) Military
9 12 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (1.50%) Investment Banking
9 12 (1.50%) Manufacturing
10 11 (1.37%) Financial Institution
11 10 (1.25%) Marketing
12 8 (1.00%) Back Office
12 8 (1.00%) Front Office
12 8 (1.00%) General Ledger
12 8 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.00%) Legal
13 6 (0.75%) Law
Job Titles
1 100 (12.48%) Analyst
2 86 (10.74%) Senior
3 67 (8.36%) Lead
4 58 (7.24%) Developer
5 44 (5.49%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 41 (5.12%) DevOps Engineer
7 36 (4.49%) Site Engineer
8 32 (4.00%) Support Engineer
9 29 (3.62%) Architect
10 28 (3.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 28 (3.50%) Network Engineer
11 27 (3.37%) Consultant
12 25 (3.12%) AWS Engineer
13 22 (2.75%) Business Analyst
14 21 (2.62%) Security Engineer
15 20 (2.50%) Administrator
15 20 (2.50%) Data Engineer
16 19 (2.37%) Data Analyst
17 18 (2.25%) Applications Support
17 18 (2.25%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (6.74%) REST
2 42 (5.24%) .NET
3 21 (2.62%) OpenTelemetry
4 20 (2.50%) Middleware
5 19 (2.37%) RESTful
6 18 (2.25%) Kafka
6 18 (2.25%) Microsoft Graph
7 17 (2.12%) OAuth
7 17 (2.12%) XML
8 16 (2.00%) Spring
9 15 (1.87%) Elastic Stack
9 15 (1.87%) SOAP
10 14 (1.75%) .NET Framework
10 14 (1.75%) 802.1X
11 13 (1.62%) OpenID
11 13 (1.62%) SAML
11 13 (1.62%) Web Services
12 12 (1.50%) JSON
12 12 (1.50%) Playwright
13 11 (1.37%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 60 (7.49%) Cloud Native
2 33 (4.12%) Onboarding
3 31 (3.87%) Data Centre
4 30 (3.75%) Distributed Systems
4 30 (3.75%) Hybrid Cloud
5 29 (3.62%) Product Ownership
6 23 (2.87%) Self-Motivation
7 19 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
7 19 (2.37%) Management Information System
8 18 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
8 18 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
8 18 (2.25%) Replication
9 17 (2.12%) Public Cloud
9 17 (2.12%) Virtual Team
10 16 (2.00%) BYOD
11 15 (1.87%) Analytical Mindset
12 13 (1.62%) Private Cloud
12 13 (1.62%) Security Posture
13 12 (1.50%) Clustering
14 10 (1.25%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 143 (17.85%) Linux
2 110 (13.73%) Windows
3 59 (7.37%) Unix
4 45 (5.62%) Windows Server
5 24 (3.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 16 (2.00%) Windows 10
7 11 (1.37%) AIX
8 9 (1.12%) Apple iOS
9 8 (1.00%) Oracle Linux
9 8 (1.00%) Solaris
10 7 (0.87%) Android
11 6 (0.75%) Windows Server 2019
12 5 (0.62%) HPUX
12 5 (0.62%) SUSE
12 5 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.50%) Amazon Linux
13 4 (0.50%) VMS
13 4 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.37%) CentOS
14 3 (0.37%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (26.97%) DevOps
2 206 (25.72%) CI/CD
3 192 (23.97%) Problem-Solving
4 174 (21.72%) Continuous Improvement
5 132 (16.48%) ITIL
6 130 (16.23%) Incident Management
7 129 (16.10%) Agile
8 127 (15.86%) Incident Response
8 127 (15.86%) Observability
9 109 (13.61%) Migration
10 103 (12.86%) Infrastructure as Code
11 100 (12.48%) Stakeholder Management
12 99 (12.36%) Change Management
13 98 (12.23%) Validation
14 94 (11.74%) High Availability
15 83 (10.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 81 (10.11%) Analytics
17 78 (9.74%) Test Automation
18 77 (9.61%) AI
19 73 (9.11%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 181 (22.60%) Python
2 156 (19.48%) SQL
3 115 (14.36%) PowerShell
4 90 (11.24%) Java
5 82 (10.24%) Bash
6 34 (4.24%) JavaScript
7 27 (3.37%) C#
8 24 (3.00%) PL/SQL
9 22 (2.75%) TypeScript
10 17 (2.12%) Go
10 17 (2.12%) Perl
11 15 (1.87%) Shell Script
12 12 (1.50%) Groovy
13 9 (1.12%) R
14 8 (1.00%) Bicep
15 6 (0.75%) Kotlin
16 5 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
16 5 (0.62%) Ruby
16 5 (0.62%) T-SQL
17 4 (0.50%) C
Qualifications
1 171 (21.35%) Security Cleared
2 137 (17.10%) SC Cleared
3 91 (11.36%) Degree
4 31 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (3.62%) Cisco Certification
6 25 (3.12%) DV Cleared
7 24 (3.00%) CISSP
8 20 (2.50%) Azure Certification
9 18 (2.25%) CCNP
10 16 (2.00%) AWS Certification
11 15 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
12 13 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
13 12 (1.50%) ITIL Certification
14 11 (1.37%) CompTIA Security+
15 10 (1.25%) CISM
16 9 (1.12%) Master's Degree
17 8 (1.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 8 (1.00%) CCNA
18 7 (0.87%) MCSA
18 7 (0.87%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (10.11%) QA
2 76 (9.49%) SLA
3 55 (6.87%) Data Quality
4 37 (4.62%) GDPR
5 21 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (2.37%) Actionable Recommendations
7 18 (2.25%) GRC
8 15 (1.87%) NIST
8 15 (1.87%) PCI DSS
9 9 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (0.75%) PMO
10 6 (0.75%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.62%) Accessibility
11 5 (0.62%) COBIT
12 4 (0.50%) ISO 20022
12 4 (0.50%) NCSC
13 3 (0.37%) GxP
13 3 (0.37%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.25%) Basel III
14 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 90 (11.24%) Active Directory
2 80 (9.99%) Docker
3 36 (4.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (2.75%) vSphere
5 20 (2.50%) VMware ESXi
6 19 (2.37%) Virtual Machines
7 12 (1.50%) Hyper-V
8 10 (1.25%) VMware NSX
9 9 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (0.75%) Firmware
10 6 (0.75%) NFS
10 6 (0.75%) Postfix
10 6 (0.75%) Varnish
11 4 (0.50%) Sendmail
11 4 (0.50%) SRDF
12 3 (0.37%) PowerHA
13 2 (0.25%) Corosync
13 2 (0.25%) IAG
13 2 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.12%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 104 (12.98%) Terraform
2 97 (12.11%) Kubernetes
3 71 (8.86%) Ansible
4 60 (7.49%) Grafana
5 51 (6.37%) Prometheus
6 31 (3.87%) Microsoft Intune
7 23 (2.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 11 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
9 10 (1.25%) Puppet
10 8 (1.00%) Istio
10 8 (1.00%) SCCM
11 7 (0.87%) Progress Chef
11 7 (0.87%) vCenter Server
12 6 (0.75%) CASB
12 6 (0.75%) HAProxy
12 6 (0.75%) Oracle RMAN
12 6 (0.75%) PowerCLI
13 5 (0.62%) Argo
13 5 (0.62%) CA Single Sign-On
13 5 (0.62%) Kibana
Vendors
1 146 (18.23%) Microsoft
2 94 (11.74%) Oracle
3 74 (9.24%) ServiceNow
4 47 (5.87%) SAP
4 47 (5.87%) Splunk
5 40 (4.99%) VMware
6 31 (3.87%) Dynatrace
7 25 (3.12%) Cisco
8 23 (2.87%) Google
9 21 (2.62%) Red Hat
10 20 (2.50%) IBM
10 20 (2.50%) Salesforce
11 18 (2.25%) Databricks
11 18 (2.25%) Palo Alto
12 16 (2.00%) Fortinet
13 14 (1.75%) AppDynamics
14 11 (1.37%) HP
15 10 (1.25%) Atlassian
15 10 (1.25%) Informatica
15 10 (1.25%) Remedy