Root Cause Analysis Job Trends in Bristol

Root Cause Analysis
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Root Cause Analysis skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 102 106
Rank change year-on-year +16 +4 +29
Permanent jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 8 7 26
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 0.39% 0.49% 1.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.56% 1.60%
Number of salaries quoted 6 5 9
10th Percentile £36,625 £30,950 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,625 £31,250 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £35,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +71.43% -50.41% +83.87%
75th Percentile £73,438 £47,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £73,750 £48,250 £72,696
South West median annual salary £51,250 £34,250 £59,556
% change year-on-year +49.64% -42.49% +49.32%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bristol

Root Cause Analysis falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Bristol.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,322 1,254 1,622
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 64.33% 88.25% 93.16%
Number of salaries quoted 995 680 1,325
10th Percentile £28,750 £30,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £39,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,886 £72,500
90th Percentile £81,150 £85,475 £89,500
South West median annual salary £50,000 £54,720 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.62% +4.23% +2.94%

Root Cause Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Root Cause Analysis job vacancy trend in Bristol

Root Cause Analysis
Salary Trend in Bristol

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Root Cause Analysis.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Root Cause Analysis

Root Cause Analysis
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing Root Cause Analysis in Bristol over the 6 months to 8 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Root Cause Analysis in Bristol

Root Cause Analysis
Job Locations in Bristol

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Root Cause Analysis within the Bristol region over the 6 months to 8 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Avonmouth - 1 £29,500 -
Root Cause Analysis
South West

Root Cause Analysis
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
1 4 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
1 4 (50.00%) Serverless
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon S3
2 3 (37.50%) AWS CodePipeline
2 3 (37.50%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) GitHub
2 3 (37.50%) GitHub Actions
2 3 (37.50%) SaaS
2 3 (37.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (12.50%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) DHCP
2 1 (12.50%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) VPN
2 1 (12.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (37.50%) Billing
3 3 (37.50%) Finance
4 2 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (12.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Analyst
1 3 (37.50%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Project Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Project Office Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) IT Support
3 1 (12.50%) IT Support Technician
3 1 (12.50%) IT Technician
3 1 (12.50%) SOC Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Support Technician
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Security Posture
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Android
2 1 (12.50%) Apple iOS
2 1 (12.50%) Windows 10
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Incident Response
2 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (37.50%) Cloud Security
3 3 (37.50%) Cost Management
3 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
3 3 (37.50%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (37.50%) Process Improvement
3 3 (37.50%) Runbook
3 3 (37.50%) SDLC
3 3 (37.50%) Software Delivery
3 3 (37.50%) Time Management
4 2 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (25.00%) Performance Management
4 2 (25.00%) Programme Management
4 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
5 1 (12.50%) AI
5 1 (12.50%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) PowerShell
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) Bash
3 1 (12.50%) Bicep
3 1 (12.50%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft