Root Cause Analysis Job Trends in the South East

Root Cause Analysis
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Root Cause Analysis skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 222 223
Rank change year-on-year +33 +1 +23
Permanent jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 86 80 46
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.83% 0.87% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 0.99% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 65 42 31
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £39,000 £45,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £45,100
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +44.12% -9.80%
75th Percentile £62,500 £80,000 £68,655
90th Percentile £65,000 £82,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £59,556
% change year-on-year +4.55% -7.65% +19.11%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,378 8,110 6,969
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 80.85% 87.72% 89.80%
Number of salaries quoted 4,956 3,982 4,915
10th Percentile £27,750 £32,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,000 £44,253 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +7.48% -2.73%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,000
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 South East

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

Root Cause Analysis job vacancy trend in the South East

Root Cause Analysis
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Root Cause Analysis.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Root Cause Analysis

Root Cause Analysis
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Root Cause Analysis in the South East over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Root Cause Analysis in the South East

Root Cause Analysis
Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 1 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
Hampshire +61 45 £60,000 -13.67% 8
Thames Valley +4 22 £40,000 -50.00% 27
Surrey -1 10 £57,500 +9.52% 3
Berkshire -11 10 £48,750 -39.06% 15
Buckinghamshire +6 6 £60,000 - 10
Oxfordshire - 6 £35,000 - 3
West Sussex 0 4 £70,000 +80.65% 4
Kent -15 3 £28,000 -47.91% 7
East Sussex - 1 £62,500 - 2
Root Cause Analysis
England

Root Cause Analysis
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (2.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.16%) Confluence
2 1 (1.16%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (1.16%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.16%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 36 (41.86%) Azure
2 8 (9.30%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (8.14%) AWS
4 5 (5.81%) Google Workspace
5 4 (4.65%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (3.49%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.49%) GCP
7 2 (2.33%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.33%) IaaS
7 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (2.33%) PaaS
8 1 (1.16%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.16%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.16%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (1.16%) Google Ads
8 1 (1.16%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.16%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.16%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 1 (1.16%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (1.16%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 14 (16.28%) LAN
2 9 (10.47%) Cisco Nexus
3 8 (9.30%) VoIP
4 6 (6.98%) Firewall
4 6 (6.98%) VPN
5 5 (5.81%) WAN
5 5 (5.81%) Wireshark
6 4 (4.65%) DHCP
6 4 (4.65%) DNS
6 4 (4.65%) VLAN
7 3 (3.49%) BGP
7 3 (3.49%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (3.49%) MPLS
7 3 (3.49%) Wireless
8 2 (2.33%) Internet
8 2 (2.33%) STUN
8 2 (2.33%) TCP/IP
8 2 (2.33%) VoLTE
9 1 (1.16%) X.400
9 1 (1.16%) X.500
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.98%) Metadata
1 6 (6.98%) Relational Database
1 6 (6.98%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (3.49%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.16%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.16%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.16%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.16%) Oracle Database 10g
4 1 (1.16%) Power BI
4 1 (1.16%) Power Query
4 1 (1.16%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (6.98%) Selenium
2 5 (5.81%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.65%) Cypress.io
3 4 (4.65%) Git
3 4 (4.65%) JIRA
3 4 (4.65%) WebDriver
4 2 (2.33%) GitLab
4 2 (2.33%) Robot Framework
4 2 (2.33%) TestRail
5 1 (1.16%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.16%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.16%) mountebank
5 1 (1.16%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.16%) Subversion
General
1 49 (56.98%) Social Skills
2 27 (31.40%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (9.30%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (8.14%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (6.98%) Manufacturing
6 5 (5.81%) Automotive
6 5 (5.81%) Electronics
6 5 (5.81%) Finance
6 5 (5.81%) Law
6 5 (5.81%) Retail
7 4 (4.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (4.65%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.33%) Advertising
8 2 (2.33%) Aerospace
8 2 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (2.33%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.16%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.16%) Legal
9 1 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (30.23%) Senior
2 25 (29.07%) Support Engineer
3 17 (19.77%) Applications Engineer
3 17 (19.77%) Applications Support
3 17 (19.77%) Applications Support Engineer
3 17 (19.77%) Senior Applications Engineer
3 17 (19.77%) Senior Applications Support
3 17 (19.77%) Senior Support Engineer
4 13 (15.12%) Lead
5 7 (8.14%) Analyst
5 7 (8.14%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (6.98%) IT Engineer
6 6 (6.98%) Network Engineer
6 6 (6.98%) Network Team Leader
6 6 (6.98%) Quality Manager
6 6 (6.98%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 6 (6.98%) Team Leader
7 5 (5.81%) Field Engineer
7 5 (5.81%) Product Manager
8 4 (4.65%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (23.26%) REST
2 18 (20.93%) SOAP
3 6 (6.98%) Web Services
4 5 (5.81%) JSON
4 5 (5.81%) XML
5 4 (4.65%) Playwright
6 3 (3.49%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (3.49%) Node.js
7 2 (2.33%) ARM Templates
7 2 (2.33%) FreeSWITCH
7 2 (2.33%) Kafka
8 1 (1.16%) Lightning Web Components
8 1 (1.16%) Mustache
8 1 (1.16%) Oracle Fusion
8 1 (1.16%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (1.16%) React
8 1 (1.16%) Spring
8 1 (1.16%) Spring Boot
8 1 (1.16%) Visualforce
8 1 (1.16%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.79%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (5.81%) Social Media
3 4 (4.65%) Data Centre
3 4 (4.65%) Security Operations Centre
3 4 (4.65%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 3 (3.49%) Life Science
4 3 (3.49%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.33%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.33%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.33%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.16%) FMCG
6 1 (1.16%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.16%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.16%) Replication
6 1 (1.16%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (11.63%) Windows
2 7 (8.14%) Windows Server
3 3 (3.49%) Linux
4 1 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.16%) Solaris
4 1 (1.16%) Unix
4 1 (1.16%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (58.14%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (27.91%) Continuous Improvement
3 22 (25.58%) Data Analysis
4 20 (23.26%) Cloud Operations
5 19 (22.09%) Task Automation
6 17 (19.77%) SOA
7 15 (17.44%) Agile
8 11 (12.79%) Observability
8 11 (12.79%) Problem Management
9 10 (11.63%) Customer Service
9 10 (11.63%) Data Protection
9 10 (11.63%) ITIL
9 10 (11.63%) Test Automation
10 9 (10.47%) Incident Response
10 9 (10.47%) Mentoring
11 8 (9.30%) Computer Science
11 8 (9.30%) Test Strategy
12 7 (8.14%) Analytics
12 7 (8.14%) Data Governance
12 7 (8.14%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (25.58%) SQL
2 21 (24.42%) C#
3 20 (23.26%) PowerShell
4 6 (6.98%) Java
4 6 (6.98%) Python
5 2 (2.33%) Bash
5 2 (2.33%) Bicep
5 2 (2.33%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.16%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 34 (39.53%) Security Cleared
2 21 (24.42%) Degree
3 15 (17.44%) SC Cleared
4 11 (12.79%) CCNP
4 11 (12.79%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (9.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (5.81%) DBS Check
6 5 (5.81%) Master's Degree
6 5 (5.81%) Six Sigma Black Belt
6 5 (5.81%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 5 (5.81%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
7 4 (4.65%) CEH
7 4 (4.65%) CompTIA CySA+
7 4 (4.65%) GCIA
7 4 (4.65%) GCIH
7 4 (4.65%) ISTQB
8 3 (3.49%) DV Cleared
8 3 (3.49%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (2.33%) Azure Certification
9 2 (2.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (17.44%) QA
2 5 (5.81%) ISO 13485
2 5 (5.81%) ISO 9001
3 4 (4.65%) Accessibility
3 4 (4.65%) Data Quality
4 3 (3.49%) SLA
5 2 (2.33%) NIST
5 2 (2.33%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.16%) GDPR
6 1 (1.16%) GMP
System Software
1 8 (9.30%) Active Directory
2 6 (6.98%) Docker
3 2 (2.33%) Firmware
4 1 (1.16%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (6.98%) Kubernetes
1 6 (6.98%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (5.81%) Jamf Pro
2 5 (5.81%) SmoothWall
2 5 (5.81%) Terraform
3 3 (3.49%) FortiGate
4 2 (2.33%) Grafana
4 2 (2.33%) Nessus
4 2 (2.33%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.16%) Ansible
5 1 (1.16%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (1.16%) SCCM
5 1 (1.16%) WSUS
Vendors
1 27 (31.40%) Microsoft
2 17 (19.77%) Cisco
3 12 (13.95%) Fortinet
4 6 (6.98%) Google
5 5 (5.81%) Meraki
6 3 (3.49%) Aruba
6 3 (3.49%) Juniper
7 2 (2.33%) Oracle
7 2 (2.33%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.33%) VMware
7 2 (2.33%) Workday
8 1 (1.16%) Apple
8 1 (1.16%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (1.16%) Citrix
8 1 (1.16%) Foundry
8 1 (1.16%) Palantir
8 1 (1.16%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.16%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.16%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.16%) Splunk