Root Cause Analysis Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Root Cause Analysis
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 191 220 276
Rank change year-on-year +29 +56 +22
Contract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 110 126 204
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.11% 0.83% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.22% 0.94% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 81 162
10th Percentile £353 £363 £313
25th Percentile £400 £410 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +1.37%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £600
90th Percentile £600 £600 £731
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £12.84 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £15.85 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +341.64% -20.75% -52.94%
75th Percentile - - £23.47
90th Percentile - - £25.54
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £53.02 £38.50
% change year-on-year -5.69% +37.70% +4.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,020 13,413 23,039
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.13% 87.92% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,197 8,959 16,290
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 580 529
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.75 £25.38 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.00 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.50 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.58 £36.00
% change year-on-year -18.48% -1.18% +44.00%

Root Cause Analysis
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Root Cause Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Root Cause Analysis trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Root Cause Analysis
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Root Cause Analysis.

Root Cause Analysis daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Root Cause Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Root Cause Analysis over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Root Cause Analysis daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Root Cause Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Root Cause Analysis.

Root Cause Analysis hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Root Cause Analysis
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 17 (15.45%) Confluence
2 2 (1.82%) Apache
2 2 (1.82%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.82%) JBoss
2 2 (1.82%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.82%) WebSphere
2 2 (1.82%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (0.91%) IIS
3 1 (0.91%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 15 (13.64%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (2.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.91%) Fusion 360
4 1 (0.91%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 3 (2.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.82%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.91%) Kondor
3 1 (0.91%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.91%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 26 (23.64%) Azure
2 25 (22.73%) AWS
3 9 (8.18%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (6.36%) GCP
5 6 (5.45%) PaaS
6 5 (4.55%) IaaS
6 5 (4.55%) SaaS
7 4 (3.64%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (2.73%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (2.73%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.82%) GitHub
9 2 (1.82%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.82%) OpenShift
9 2 (1.82%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.82%) Serverless
10 1 (0.91%) Google Compute Engine
10 1 (0.91%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 11 (10.00%) DNS
1 11 (10.00%) TACACS
2 10 (9.09%) TCP/IP
2 10 (9.09%) VLAN
3 9 (8.18%) BGP
3 9 (8.18%) DHCP
3 9 (8.18%) OSPF
3 9 (8.18%) VPN
4 8 (7.27%) Network Security
5 7 (6.36%) SSL
6 6 (5.45%) Firewall
7 5 (4.55%) IPsec
7 5 (4.55%) Wireless
8 4 (3.64%) LAN
9 3 (2.73%) HTTPS
9 3 (2.73%) SMTP
9 3 (2.73%) SNMP
10 2 (1.82%) SDH
10 2 (1.82%) WAN
10 2 (1.82%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.45%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.73%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (1.82%) Big Data
3 2 (1.82%) DB2
3 2 (1.82%) IDMS
3 2 (1.82%) IMS/DB
3 2 (1.82%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.82%) Tableau
4 1 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.91%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.91%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.91%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.91%) MySQL
4 1 (0.91%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.91%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.91%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.91%) SAP HANA
4 1 (0.91%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 20 (18.18%) JIRA
2 14 (12.73%) Visual Studio
3 7 (6.36%) Jenkins
4 6 (5.45%) Git
5 4 (3.64%) JMeter
5 4 (3.64%) LoadRunner
5 4 (3.64%) Serenity BDD
6 3 (2.73%) Selenium
6 3 (2.73%) Subversion
6 3 (2.73%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.82%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.82%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.82%) GitLab
7 2 (1.82%) Postman
7 2 (1.82%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.91%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.91%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.91%) Vagrant
General
1 52 (47.27%) Social Skills
2 27 (24.55%) Finance
3 12 (10.91%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (9.09%) Banking
4 10 (9.09%) Manufacturing
5 8 (7.27%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.55%) Military
7 4 (3.64%) Marketing
7 4 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.82%) German Language
8 2 (1.82%) Legal
9 1 (0.91%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.91%) Back Office
9 1 (0.91%) Fire and Rescue
9 1 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.91%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.91%) Police
9 1 (0.91%) Retail
9 1 (0.91%) Spanish Language
9 1 (0.91%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (20.91%) Developer
2 14 (12.73%) Delphi Developer
3 11 (10.00%) Administrator
4 10 (9.09%) Consultant
5 9 (8.18%) Senior
6 8 (7.27%) Lead
7 7 (6.36%) Analyst
7 7 (6.36%) Support Specialist
8 6 (5.45%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (3.64%) Architect
9 4 (3.64%) Performance Consultant
9 4 (3.64%) Performance Test Consultant
9 4 (3.64%) Senior Consultant
9 4 (3.64%) Senior Performance Consultant
9 4 (3.64%) Senior Test Consultant
9 4 (3.64%) Test Consultant
9 4 (3.64%) VMWare Administrator
9 4 (3.64%) Wintel Administrator
10 3 (2.73%) Automation Developer
10 3 (2.73%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.27%) LDAP
2 7 (6.36%) .NET
3 4 (3.64%) Kafka
4 3 (2.73%) 802.1X
4 3 (2.73%) RESTful
4 3 (2.73%) SAP Basis
4 3 (2.73%) Web Services
4 3 (2.73%) X-Windows
5 2 (1.82%) EJB
5 2 (1.82%) J2EE
5 2 (1.82%) JDBC
5 2 (1.82%) Middleware
5 2 (1.82%) SAML
5 2 (1.82%) SOAP
5 2 (1.82%) SPFx
5 2 (1.82%) WebSphere MQ
5 2 (1.82%) XML
5 2 (1.82%) XSLT
6 1 (0.91%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.91%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (2.73%) Data Centre
2 3 (2.73%) Management Information System
2 3 (2.73%) SCADA
3 2 (1.82%) Client/Server
3 2 (1.82%) Cloud Native
3 2 (1.82%) Life Science
3 2 (1.82%) Mobile App
3 2 (1.82%) Onboarding
3 2 (1.82%) Security Posture
4 1 (0.91%) Blog
4 1 (0.91%) Cyber Security Posture
4 1 (0.91%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (0.91%) IoT
4 1 (0.91%) Operational Technology
4 1 (0.91%) Private Cloud
4 1 (0.91%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.91%) Smart Home
4 1 (0.91%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (0.91%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 30 (27.27%) Windows
2 13 (11.82%) Windows Server
3 12 (10.91%) Linux
4 8 (7.27%) Unix
5 6 (5.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (4.55%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (4.55%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (4.55%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (3.64%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.91%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.91%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (43.64%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (20.91%) Agile
3 22 (20.00%) DevOps
4 19 (17.27%) Incident Management
5 16 (14.55%) Functional Testing
5 16 (14.55%) Migration
5 16 (14.55%) Stakeholder Management
6 13 (11.82%) Cybersecurity
7 12 (10.91%) Collaborative Working
7 12 (10.91%) Microservices
8 11 (10.00%) Incident Response
9 10 (9.09%) CI/CD
10 9 (8.18%) Disaster Recovery
10 9 (8.18%) High Availability
10 9 (8.18%) SIEM
10 9 (8.18%) Test Automation
11 8 (7.27%) Data Protection
11 8 (7.27%) Performance Tuning
11 8 (7.27%) Problem Management
11 8 (7.27%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 32 (29.09%) SQL
2 24 (21.82%) C#
2 24 (21.82%) Python
3 16 (14.55%) PL/SQL
4 14 (12.73%) Delphi
5 11 (10.00%) Java
6 9 (8.18%) PowerShell
7 8 (7.27%) Bash
8 6 (5.45%) JavaScript
8 6 (5.45%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.82%) ABAP
9 2 (1.82%) ActionScript
9 2 (1.82%) ActionScript 2.0
9 2 (1.82%) C++
9 2 (1.82%) REXX
9 2 (1.82%) Ruby
9 2 (1.82%) Search Processing Language
9 2 (1.82%) VBA
9 2 (1.82%) VBScript
10 1 (0.91%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 23 (20.91%) Security Cleared
2 20 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 12 (10.91%) Degree
4 6 (5.45%) CCNA
4 6 (5.45%) CCNP
4 6 (5.45%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (3.64%) CISSP
6 3 (2.73%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.82%) CCIE
7 2 (1.82%) CCIE Security
7 2 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.82%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.82%) ISEB
7 2 (1.82%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.82%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.91%) CISM
8 1 (0.91%) GCIH
8 1 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.91%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (4.55%) NIST
2 3 (2.73%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (2.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 3 (2.73%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.73%) GDPR
2 3 (2.73%) HIPAA
2 3 (2.73%) QA
3 2 (1.82%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.91%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.91%) NCSC
4 1 (0.91%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (12.73%) Active Directory
2 10 (9.09%) Docker
2 10 (9.09%) Hyper-V
2 10 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (6.36%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (2.73%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (1.82%) NFS
5 2 (1.82%) Samba
6 1 (0.91%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (12.73%) Ansible
2 9 (8.18%) Kubernetes
3 8 (7.27%) Terraform
4 5 (4.55%) vCenter Server
5 4 (3.64%) Perfmon
6 3 (2.73%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.73%) yum
7 2 (1.82%) Grafana
7 2 (1.82%) Puppet
8 1 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.91%) Consul
8 1 (0.91%) CSIRT
8 1 (0.91%) Kibana
8 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.91%) Nagios
8 1 (0.91%) Netcool
8 1 (0.91%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.91%) Packer
8 1 (0.91%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.91%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 26 (23.64%) Microsoft
1 26 (23.64%) Oracle
2 14 (12.73%) VMware
3 10 (9.09%) Cisco
3 10 (9.09%) Palo Alto
4 6 (5.45%) F5
4 6 (5.45%) Splunk
5 5 (4.55%) CheckPoint
5 5 (4.55%) Dynatrace
5 5 (4.55%) IBM
5 5 (4.55%) Red Hat
6 4 (3.64%) New Relic
6 4 (3.64%) SAP
7 3 (2.73%) MuleSoft
7 3 (2.73%) UiPath
8 2 (1.82%) Ab Initio
8 2 (1.82%) HP
8 2 (1.82%) IBM Sterling
8 2 (1.82%) Juniper
8 2 (1.82%) ServiceNow