Root Cause Analysis Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Root Cause Analysis
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Root Cause Analysis skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 282 287
Rank change year-on-year +90 +5 -29
Permanent jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 418 319 317
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.00% 0.88% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% 0.99% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 230 143 205
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,550 £30,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,375 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,979 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.11% - -
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £67,750
90th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £72,433
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £58,501
% change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +17.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33,001 32,118 30,629
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 78.62% 88.87% 88.62%
Number of salaries quoted 18,958 14,487 22,822
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,250 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK 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 UK excluding London

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

Root Cause Analysis job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Root Cause Analysis
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Root Cause Analysis.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Root Cause Analysis

Root Cause Analysis
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Root Cause Analysis in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Root Cause Analysis in the UK excluding London

Root Cause Analysis
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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
Midlands +54 108 £47,500 +18.75% 59
North of England +26 88 £60,000 +55.84% 64
South East +36 82 £57,500 -11.54% 110
Scotland +50 72 £38,000 -20.00% 16
East Midlands +23 68 £30,000 -29.41% 37
North West +43 53 £60,000 +55.84% 24
South West +28 42 £50,000 +49.25% 44
West Midlands +38 40 £52,000 +46.48% 21
Yorkshire -14 30 £67,500 +150.00% 33
East of England -2 20 £47,500 -13.64% 47
Wales -2 5 £41,750 -11.75% 13
North East -7 5 £36,625 -43.65% 7
Northern Ireland - 1 £43,500 - 9
Root Cause Analysis
UK

Root Cause Analysis
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 18 (4.31%) SharePoint
2 12 (2.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (1.91%) Skype for Business
4 6 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.72%) IIS
6 2 (0.48%) Confluence
6 2 (0.48%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.48%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2003
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 7 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.20%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.24%) Abaqus
4 1 (0.24%) CATIA
4 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.24%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 34 (8.13%) Oracle ERP
2 14 (3.35%) Oracle Assets
2 14 (3.35%) Oracle Financials
2 14 (3.35%) Oracle General Ledger
2 14 (3.35%) Oracle Payables
2 14 (3.35%) Oracle Receivables
3 4 (0.96%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.48%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.24%) Pegasus Opera
5 1 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.24%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.24%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.24%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 159 (38.04%) Azure
2 82 (19.62%) AWS
3 62 (14.83%) Azure DevOps
4 56 (13.40%) GitHub
5 52 (12.44%) SaaS
6 35 (8.37%) GitHub Actions
7 33 (7.89%) Entra ID
8 31 (7.42%) Microsoft 365
9 26 (6.22%) OCI
10 24 (5.74%) AWS CloudFormation
11 23 (5.50%) Serverless
12 20 (4.78%) Amazon S3
12 20 (4.78%) Azure Data Factory
13 19 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 19 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
14 18 (4.31%) Azure Monitor
15 17 (4.07%) Azure Logic Apps
16 16 (3.83%) AWS Step Functions
17 15 (3.59%) Amazon SQS
18 14 (3.35%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 37 (8.85%) Remote Desktop
2 27 (6.46%) LAN
3 23 (5.50%) VoIP
4 21 (5.02%) Firewall
5 20 (4.78%) VPN
6 19 (4.55%) WAN
7 17 (4.07%) DNS
8 14 (3.35%) Telepresence
8 14 (3.35%) Unified Communications
8 14 (3.35%) WebEx
9 13 (3.11%) Network Security
10 12 (2.87%) Cisco Nexus
11 11 (2.63%) DHCP
11 11 (2.63%) TCP/IP
12 9 (2.15%) BGP
12 9 (2.15%) VLAN
13 8 (1.91%) Cisco ASA
13 8 (1.91%) Skype
13 8 (1.91%) Wireless
14 6 (1.44%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (7.89%) SQL Server
2 18 (4.31%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (3.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 14 (3.35%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 14 (3.35%) Relational Database
5 12 (2.87%) DynamoDB
5 12 (2.87%) Power BI
6 11 (2.63%) NoSQL
7 9 (2.15%) Metadata
7 9 (2.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 8 (1.91%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (1.91%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (1.91%) Data Lake
8 8 (1.91%) DTS
9 6 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (1.20%) Tableau
11 3 (0.72%) BusinessObjects
11 3 (0.72%) SAP HANA
12 2 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 37 (8.85%) Oracle Forms
2 32 (7.66%) Jenkins
3 29 (6.94%) Git
4 12 (2.87%) JIRA
5 11 (2.63%) Selenium
6 9 (2.15%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.96%) WebDriver
8 3 (0.72%) GitLab
9 2 (0.48%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.48%) TestRail
10 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.24%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.24%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.24%) mountebank
10 1 (0.24%) Postman
10 1 (0.24%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.24%) Subversion
10 1 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.24%) TeamCity
General
1 188 (44.98%) Social Skills
2 116 (27.75%) Analytical Skills
3 110 (26.32%) Finance
4 68 (16.27%) Retail
5 27 (6.46%) Law
5 27 (6.46%) Manufacturing
6 17 (4.07%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (3.83%) Organisational Skills
8 14 (3.35%) Telecoms
9 12 (2.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (2.15%) Electronics
11 8 (1.91%) Legal
12 7 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.20%) Automotive
13 5 (1.20%) Public Sector
14 3 (0.72%) Advertising
14 3 (0.72%) Banking
14 3 (0.72%) Billing
15 2 (0.48%) Dutch Language
15 2 (0.48%) French Language
Job Titles
1 82 (19.62%) Senior
2 77 (18.42%) Support Engineer
3 69 (16.51%) Analyst
4 40 (9.57%) 2nd Line Support
4 40 (9.57%) Applications Engineer
4 40 (9.57%) Applications Support
5 33 (7.89%) Lead
5 33 (7.89%) Technical Support
6 28 (6.70%) Developer
6 28 (6.70%) Technical Engineer
6 28 (6.70%) Technical Support Engineer
7 27 (6.46%) 1st/2nd Line Support
7 27 (6.46%) Cloud Engineer
8 25 (5.98%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 23 (5.50%) ERP Analyst
9 23 (5.50%) Senior Analyst
10 21 (5.02%) Support Analyst
11 20 (4.78%) Applications Support Engineer
12 17 (4.07%) Senior Applications Support
12 17 (4.07%) Senior Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (11.48%) JSON
2 46 (11.00%) RESTful
3 41 (9.81%) SOAP
4 32 (7.66%) REST
5 24 (5.74%) XML
6 22 (5.26%) React
7 16 (3.83%) .NET
8 14 (3.35%) OAuth
8 14 (3.35%) OAuth2
9 12 (2.87%) ASP.NET
9 12 (2.87%) Blazor
10 11 (2.63%) .NET Core
10 11 (2.63%) AngularJS
10 11 (2.63%) ASP.NET Core
10 11 (2.63%) AWS CDK
10 11 (2.63%) Razor View Engine
11 9 (2.15%) ARM Templates
11 9 (2.15%) Playwright
12 5 (1.20%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (1.20%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 61 (14.59%) Onboarding
2 43 (10.29%) Cloud Native
3 42 (10.05%) Enterprise Software
4 34 (8.13%) Self-Motivation
5 20 (4.78%) Driving Licence
6 15 (3.59%) Operational Technology
7 11 (2.63%) Data Centre
8 8 (1.91%) CMDB
8 8 (1.91%) Video Conferencing
9 7 (1.67%) Management Information System
9 7 (1.67%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.44%) Cyber Threat
10 6 (1.44%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.44%) Social Media
11 5 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (1.20%) CCTV
11 5 (1.20%) Home Automation
11 5 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.20%) Security Operations Centre
12 4 (0.96%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 58 (13.88%) Windows
2 41 (9.81%) Windows Server
3 16 (3.83%) Linux
4 8 (1.91%) Windows Server 2008
5 5 (1.20%) Unix
6 4 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.72%) Android
7 3 (0.72%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.72%) CentOS
7 3 (0.72%) SUSE
7 3 (0.72%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 3 (0.72%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.72%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.48%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.48%) Windows XP
9 1 (0.24%) CoreOS
9 1 (0.24%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.24%) Solaris
9 1 (0.24%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (46.17%) Problem-Solving
2 127 (30.38%) Mentoring
3 118 (28.23%) Continuous Improvement
4 99 (23.68%) Customer Service
5 86 (20.57%) DevOps
6 85 (20.33%) CI/CD
7 80 (19.14%) Coaching
8 76 (18.18%) ERP
9 67 (16.03%) Agile
9 67 (16.03%) ITIL
10 63 (15.07%) Asset Management
11 54 (12.92%) Observability
12 52 (12.44%) Test Automation
13 50 (11.96%) Incident Response
14 49 (11.72%) Analytical Thinking
14 49 (11.72%) Migration
15 48 (11.48%) Analytics
16 43 (10.29%) CRM
17 41 (9.81%) Infrastructure as Code
17 41 (9.81%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 143 (34.21%) SQL
2 69 (16.51%) C#
2 69 (16.51%) PowerShell
3 48 (11.48%) Python
4 28 (6.70%) Java
5 25 (5.98%) Shell Script
6 24 (5.74%) Bicep
7 20 (4.78%) PL/SQL
8 17 (4.07%) Bash
9 9 (2.15%) T-SQL
10 4 (0.96%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.24%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.24%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.24%) Swift
Qualifications
1 53 (12.68%) Degree
2 44 (10.53%) Security Cleared
3 24 (5.74%) Cisco Certification
4 18 (4.31%) CCNP
5 17 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (4.07%) SC Cleared
6 13 (3.11%) AWS Certification
7 11 (2.63%) AWS Certified Developer
8 9 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (2.15%) NVQ Level 4
9 8 (1.91%) Master's Degree
10 6 (1.44%) CCNA
10 6 (1.44%) CEH
10 6 (1.44%) DBS Check
11 5 (1.20%) CCIE
11 5 (1.20%) CISSP
11 5 (1.20%) HND
11 5 (1.20%) ISTQB
11 5 (1.20%) PMI Certification
11 5 (1.20%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (15.31%) QA
2 17 (4.07%) GDPR
3 15 (3.59%) Data Quality
3 15 (3.59%) SLA
4 11 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.91%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.67%) NIST
7 5 (1.20%) GMP
7 5 (1.20%) ISO 13485
7 5 (1.20%) ISO 9001
7 5 (1.20%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.72%) PMO
10 2 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 58 (13.88%) Active Directory
2 22 (5.26%) Docker
2 22 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (3.35%) Hyper-V
4 9 (2.15%) Virtual Desktop
5 8 (1.91%) vSphere
6 3 (0.72%) ProxySG
7 2 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.24%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 71 (16.99%) Terraform
2 23 (5.50%) Single Sign-On
3 14 (3.35%) Cisco CUCM
3 14 (3.35%) Kubernetes
4 10 (2.39%) Nagios
5 8 (1.91%) Grafana
5 8 (1.91%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (1.91%) Prometheus
5 8 (1.91%) ZABBIX
6 6 (1.44%) Ansible
6 6 (1.44%) Jamf Pro
7 5 (1.20%) SmoothWall
8 4 (0.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.96%) Control-M
8 4 (0.96%) Nessus
9 3 (0.72%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.72%) McAfee ePO
9 3 (0.72%) SCVMM
10 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.24%) WSUS
Vendors
1 93 (22.25%) Microsoft
2 58 (13.88%) Oracle
3 51 (12.20%) Cisco
4 24 (5.74%) VMware
5 20 (4.78%) Fortinet
5 20 (4.78%) Okta
6 18 (4.31%) Ab Initio
7 17 (4.07%) SolarWinds
8 14 (3.35%) Google
8 14 (3.35%) ServiceNow
9 12 (2.87%) Red Hat
10 10 (2.39%) Darktrace
11 9 (2.15%) BMC
11 9 (2.15%) Citrix
11 9 (2.15%) Palo Alto
12 8 (1.91%) Proofpoint
12 8 (1.91%) Tanium
12 8 (1.91%) Trend Micro
13 7 (1.67%) Meraki
14 6 (1.44%) F5