Root Cause Analysis Job Trends in the North West

Root Cause Analysis
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Root Cause Analysis skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 170 149
Rank change year-on-year +36 -21 +43
Permanent jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 52 35 54
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.82% 0.69% 1.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 0.76% 1.38%
Number of salaries quoted 22 12 39
10th Percentile £31,900 £26,450 -
25th Percentile £48,979 £31,625 £23,850
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,623 £38,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +60.06% +10.00% -17.65%
75th Percentile £76,563 £45,563 £48,750
90th Percentile £83,125 £67,200 £72,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +16.16%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,173 4,612 3,922
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 81.20% 91.25% 87.58%
Number of salaries quoted 2,546 2,263 3,047
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,114 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,084 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -0.79% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,445 £68,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Root Cause Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Root Cause Analysis job vacancy trend in the North West

Root Cause Analysis
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Root Cause Analysis.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Root Cause Analysis

Root Cause Analysis
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Root Cause Analysis in the North West over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Root Cause Analysis in the North West

Root Cause Analysis
Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 14 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
Manchester +29 28 £55,000 +42.86% 15
Cheshire - 10 £60,000 - 7
Merseyside -1 8 - - 1
Cumbria - 5 £82,500 - 1
Lancashire +5 1 £63,247 +100.78% 4
Root Cause Analysis
England

Root Cause Analysis
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 (1.92%) IIS
1 1 (1.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 10 (19.23%) AWS
2 8 (15.38%) Azure
3 4 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
3 4 (7.69%) Entra ID
4 2 (3.85%) Azure AKS
4 2 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (3.85%) Azure Functions
4 2 (3.85%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (3.85%) Azure Storage
4 2 (3.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (3.85%) Datadog
4 2 (3.85%) GitHub
4 2 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (3.85%) Power Platform
4 2 (3.85%) Serverless
5 1 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.92%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 14 (26.92%) Telepresence
1 14 (26.92%) Unified Communications
1 14 (26.92%) VoIP
1 14 (26.92%) WebEx
2 1 (1.92%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.69%) Tableau
2 2 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (3.85%) Data Lake
2 2 (3.85%) Power BI
2 2 (3.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (3.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.92%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 3 (5.77%) Git
2 1 (1.92%) CircleCI
2 1 (1.92%) GitLab
2 1 (1.92%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.92%) TeamCity
General
1 21 (40.38%) Finance
2 20 (38.46%) Social Skills
3 14 (26.92%) Telecoms
4 9 (17.31%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (15.38%) Manufacturing
6 4 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (7.69%) Legal
6 4 (7.69%) Retail
7 3 (5.77%) Banking
8 2 (3.85%) Dutch Language
8 2 (3.85%) Electronics
8 2 (3.85%) French Language
9 1 (1.92%) Games
9 1 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (34.62%) Support Engineer
2 14 (26.92%) Voice Engineer
2 14 (26.92%) Voice Support Engineer
3 9 (17.31%) Analyst
4 7 (13.46%) Senior
4 7 (13.46%) Technical Support
5 5 (9.62%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) QC Analyst
6 4 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
6 4 (7.69%) Senior Technical Analyst
6 4 (7.69%) Technical Analyst
6 4 (7.69%) Technical Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) Technical Support Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Lead
8 2 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Data Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) QA Team Leader
8 2 (3.85%) Senior Data Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (3.85%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.92%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.46%) Driving Licence
2 4 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.92%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (1.92%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (1.92%) Smart Energy
3 1 (1.92%) Smart Meter
3 1 (1.92%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.77%) Windows
2 2 (3.85%) Windows 7
2 2 (3.85%) Windows XP
3 1 (1.92%) Android
3 1 (1.92%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.92%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (51.92%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (30.77%) AI
3 14 (26.92%) Network Management
4 13 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 11 (21.15%) Mentoring
6 9 (17.31%) CI/CD
7 8 (15.38%) DevOps
8 7 (13.46%) Containerisation
8 7 (13.46%) Observability
9 6 (11.54%) Coaching
9 6 (11.54%) Customer Service
10 5 (9.62%) Actionable Insight
10 5 (9.62%) Agile
10 5 (9.62%) Analytics
10 5 (9.62%) Change Control
10 5 (9.62%) High Availability
10 5 (9.62%) Incident Response
11 4 (7.69%) Data Interpretation
11 4 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
11 4 (7.69%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (5.77%) PowerShell
1 3 (5.77%) Python
2 2 (3.85%) Bicep
2 2 (3.85%) SQL
3 1 (1.92%) Bash
3 1 (1.92%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (15.38%) Degree
2 5 (9.62%) HND
3 4 (7.69%) HNC
3 4 (7.69%) NVQ Level 4
4 2 (3.85%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.85%) CCIE
4 2 (3.85%) CCNA
4 2 (3.85%) CCNP
4 2 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.92%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.92%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.92%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.92%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.46%) QA
2 4 (7.69%) GMP
System Software
1 6 (11.54%) Docker
2 3 (5.77%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (26.92%) Cisco CUCM
2 8 (15.38%) Terraform
3 7 (13.46%) Kubernetes
4 5 (9.62%) Grafana
4 5 (9.62%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.85%) Ansible
5 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.92%) Argo
6 1 (1.92%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (1.92%) Nagios
Vendors
1 15 (28.85%) Cisco
2 14 (26.92%) Oracle
3 7 (13.46%) Microsoft
4 4 (7.69%) EXASOL
5 1 (1.92%) Apple
5 1 (1.92%) Meraki
5 1 (1.92%) Samsung
5 1 (1.92%) Siemens