Root Cause Analysis Jobs

Root Cause Analysis
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Root Cause Analysis skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Root Cause Analysis over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 309 310 338
Rank change year-on-year +1 +28 +13
Permanent jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 510 940 948
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.91% 0.91% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 1.08% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 332 491 541
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,101 £38,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £73,963
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £89,392
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -10.00% +17.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 52,256 87,133 91,481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.58% 84.04% 95.51%
Number of salaries quoted 25,854 60,896 54,581
10th Percentile £28,822 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% -9.09% +4.76%

Root Cause Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Root Cause Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Root Cause Analysis in the UK

Root Cause Analysis
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Root Cause Analysis.

Salary trend for Root Cause Analysis in the UK

Root Cause Analysis
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Root Cause Analysis over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Root Cause Analysis in the UK

Root Cause Analysis
Top 18 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 31 May 2025. 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
England -19 475 £52,500 +5.00% 602
UK excluding London -1 281 £45,000 - 349
London +8 214 £65,000 - 288
Work from Home -77 149 £55,000 +10.00% 251
North of England -34 82 £42,000 -6.67% 83
Midlands 0 65 £42,500 -10.53% 67
South East +51 62 £52,500 +10.53% 84
North West -57 39 £39,750 -9.66% 54
West Midlands +28 33 £46,250 +23.33% 42
East Midlands +6 32 £30,000 -40.00% 24
Yorkshire +43 24 £42,000 -6.67% 26
East of England +10 24 £51,500 +14.44% 34
South West +76 22 £53,750 -11.77% 44
North East +44 19 £48,750 +8.33% 4
Scotland +119 17 £56,250 +33.29% 25
Northern Ireland +33 8 £30,000 - 5
Wales +22 1 £60,000 +46.10% 11
Isle of Man +13 1 £52,500 +45.83% 2

Root Cause Analysis
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 35 (6.86%) Confluence
2 27 (5.29%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.18%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.98%) Apache
6 4 (0.78%) SharePoint Server
7 3 (0.59%) IIS
7 3 (0.59%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.39%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.20%) Alfresco
9 1 (0.20%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.20%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.20%) Documentum
9 1 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2013
9 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.20%) SharePoint 2013
9 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
Applications
1 14 (2.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.16%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.39%) Trello
5 1 (0.20%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.20%) Notion
5 1 (0.20%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (0.20%) Weka
Business Applications
1 8 (1.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.37%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.59%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.39%) Infor M3
5 1 (0.20%) Maximo
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.20%) Q-Pulse
5 1 (0.20%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.20%) SAP HR
5 1 (0.20%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 180 (35.29%) Azure
2 118 (23.14%) AWS
3 55 (10.78%) GCP
4 46 (9.02%) Microsoft 365
5 29 (5.69%) Serverless
6 25 (4.90%) Entra ID
7 18 (3.53%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (3.14%) Azure Monitor
9 15 (2.94%) Power Platform
10 14 (2.75%) GitHub
10 14 (2.75%) SaaS
11 12 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (2.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 11 (2.16%) Amazon ECS
12 11 (2.16%) Google Workspace
13 8 (1.57%) Datadog
14 7 (1.37%) Amazon EKS
14 7 (1.37%) Amazon S3
14 7 (1.37%) IaaS
14 7 (1.37%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 63 (12.35%) Firewall
2 46 (9.02%) WAN
3 45 (8.82%) LAN
4 43 (8.43%) VPN
5 38 (7.45%) Network Security
6 33 (6.47%) TCP/IP
7 26 (5.10%) DNS
8 19 (3.73%) DHCP
9 17 (3.33%) BGP
9 17 (3.33%) OSPF
10 16 (3.14%) MPLS
11 14 (2.75%) Wireless
12 12 (2.35%) WLAN
13 11 (2.16%) Intrusion Detection
14 7 (1.37%) SD-WAN
15 6 (1.18%) VoIP
16 5 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
17 4 (0.78%) HTTP
17 4 (0.78%) Internet
18 3 (0.59%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (6.67%) Tableau
2 23 (4.51%) SQL Server
3 17 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 14 (2.75%) Power BI
4 14 (2.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 12 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (2.16%) Data Lake
7 10 (1.96%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (1.18%) Data Vault
9 6 (1.18%) Oracle Reports
9 6 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (1.18%) Semantic Layer
10 5 (0.98%) Big Data
10 5 (0.98%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.78%) Amazon QuickSight
11 4 (0.78%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.59%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (0.59%) Dremio
12 3 (0.59%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 45 (8.82%) JIRA
2 41 (8.04%) Git
3 17 (3.33%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.57%) GitLab
5 4 (0.78%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.59%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.59%) CircleCI
6 3 (0.59%) Selenium
7 2 (0.39%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.39%) Postman
7 2 (0.39%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.20%) FitNesse
8 1 (0.20%) Gatling
8 1 (0.20%) JMeter
8 1 (0.20%) Katalon Studio
8 1 (0.20%) Locust
8 1 (0.20%) Log4j
8 1 (0.20%) Newman
8 1 (0.20%) REST Assured
General
1 235 (46.08%) Social Skills
2 168 (32.94%) Finance
3 126 (24.71%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (13.73%) Law
5 64 (12.55%) Retail
6 45 (8.82%) Manufacturing
7 41 (8.04%) Banking
8 33 (6.47%) Legal
9 27 (5.29%) Electronics
9 27 (5.29%) Public Sector
10 24 (4.71%) Marketing
10 24 (4.71%) Telecoms
11 20 (3.92%) Presentation Skills
12 19 (3.73%) Documentation Skills
13 17 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 12 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
14 12 (2.35%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (1.37%) Automotive
17 4 (0.78%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 111 (21.76%) Analyst
2 103 (20.20%) Senior
3 65 (12.75%) IT Support
4 51 (10.00%) Support Analyst
5 38 (7.45%) Lead
6 34 (6.67%) IT Analyst
7 33 (6.47%) Senior Manager
8 32 (6.27%) Support Engineer
8 32 (6.27%) Support Manager
9 31 (6.08%) IT Support Analyst
10 30 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
11 28 (5.49%) Applications Support
12 26 (5.10%) Quality Manager
13 25 (4.90%) SQL Analyst
13 25 (4.90%) SQL Support Analyst
14 24 (4.71%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 24 (4.71%) Data Analyst
14 24 (4.71%) Network Engineer
15 23 (4.51%) Administrator
16 21 (4.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (4.31%) TensorFlow
2 19 (3.73%) .NET
3 13 (2.55%) Hugging Face
3 13 (2.55%) LangChain
3 13 (2.55%) PyTorch
4 9 (1.76%) Pandas
4 9 (1.76%) PySpark
4 9 (1.76%) scikit-learn
4 9 (1.76%) Spring
5 7 (1.37%) ARM Templates
5 7 (1.37%) EDI
5 7 (1.37%) HTML
6 6 (1.18%) Spring Boot
7 5 (0.98%) OpenTelemetry
7 5 (0.98%) Oracle Fusion
7 5 (0.98%) React
7 5 (0.98%) REST
8 4 (0.78%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (0.78%) JSON
8 4 (0.78%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 39 (7.65%) Management Information System
2 25 (4.90%) Security Posture
3 14 (2.75%) Cloud Native
4 13 (2.55%) Data Centre
4 13 (2.55%) Data Structures
5 10 (1.96%) Product Ownership
5 10 (1.96%) Smartphone
6 9 (1.76%) Algorithms
6 9 (1.76%) Credit Risk
6 9 (1.76%) Cyber Threat
7 8 (1.57%) Robotics
7 8 (1.57%) SCADA
7 8 (1.57%) Social Media
8 7 (1.37%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.18%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.18%) Security Operations Centre
10 4 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (0.59%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 91 (17.84%) Windows
2 52 (10.20%) Windows Server
3 36 (7.06%) Linux
4 17 (3.33%) Windows Server 2019
5 16 (3.14%) Windows 10
6 15 (2.94%) Windows Server 2016
7 14 (2.75%) Mac OS
8 12 (2.35%) Apple iOS
8 12 (2.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 11 (2.16%) Windows Server 2012
10 9 (1.76%) Unix
11 7 (1.37%) Solaris
12 6 (1.18%) CentOS
13 5 (0.98%) Android
14 2 (0.39%) Mac OS X
14 2 (0.39%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (34.31%) Problem-Solving
2 153 (30.00%) Incident Management
3 127 (24.90%) ITIL
4 102 (20.00%) Agile
5 100 (19.61%) Continuous Improvement
6 86 (16.86%) Incident Response
7 74 (14.51%) Cybersecurity
8 73 (14.31%) Service Delivery
9 67 (13.14%) DevOps
10 66 (12.94%) Artificial Intelligence
11 64 (12.55%) High Availability
12 62 (12.16%) Analytics
12 62 (12.16%) ITSM
12 62 (12.16%) Problem Management
13 56 (10.98%) Service Management
14 51 (10.00%) Mentoring
15 44 (8.63%) Change Management
15 44 (8.63%) Customer Service
16 43 (8.43%) Computer Science
17 39 (7.65%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 127 (24.90%) SQL
2 105 (20.59%) Python
3 38 (7.45%) Java
4 30 (5.88%) Bash
5 29 (5.69%) PowerShell
6 17 (3.33%) JavaScript
7 16 (3.14%) T-SQL
8 7 (1.37%) C#
9 6 (1.18%) C
10 5 (0.98%) Go
10 5 (0.98%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (0.98%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.78%) Bicep
11 4 (0.78%) R
12 3 (0.59%) Ruby
13 2 (0.39%) C++
13 2 (0.39%) Perl
13 2 (0.39%) Search Processing Language
13 2 (0.39%) X++
14 1 (0.20%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 80 (15.69%) Degree
2 43 (8.43%) DBS Check
3 33 (6.47%) Cisco Certification
4 29 (5.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (5.49%) CCNA
5 28 (5.49%) Security Cleared
6 25 (4.90%) Azure Certification
6 25 (4.90%) CISSP
7 24 (4.71%) SC Cleared
8 23 (4.51%) Master's Degree
8 23 (4.51%) Microsoft Certification
9 18 (3.53%) CCNP
10 16 (3.14%) CISA
11 15 (2.94%) PMI Certification
11 15 (2.94%) PMP
12 14 (2.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 13 (2.55%) MCSE
14 9 (1.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 6 (1.18%) DV Cleared
15 6 (1.18%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (13.73%) SLA
2 51 (10.00%) GDPR
3 39 (7.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 38 (7.45%) QA
5 29 (5.69%) NIST
5 29 (5.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 26 (5.10%) PCI DSS
7 23 (4.51%) Data Quality
8 19 (3.73%) Cyber Essentials
9 16 (3.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 10 (1.96%) Accessibility
10 10 (1.96%) GMP
11 5 (0.98%) Automotive SPICE
11 5 (0.98%) ISO 26262
12 4 (0.78%) GRC
12 4 (0.78%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.78%) ISO 9001
12 4 (0.78%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.59%) GLP
13 3 (0.59%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 61 (11.96%) Active Directory
2 23 (4.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (4.12%) Docker
4 15 (2.94%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.78%) Firmware
6 3 (0.59%) NFS
7 2 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.39%) VMware Workstation
7 2 (0.39%) vSphere
8 1 (0.20%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.20%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.20%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 42 (8.24%) Terraform
2 40 (7.84%) Kubernetes
3 37 (7.25%) Prometheus
4 36 (7.06%) Microsoft Intune
5 35 (6.86%) Grafana
6 24 (4.71%) Ansible
7 14 (2.75%) Nagios
7 14 (2.75%) SCCM
8 13 (2.55%) SCOM
9 11 (2.16%) NetBackup
10 8 (1.57%) Jamf Pro
11 6 (1.18%) Progress Chef
11 6 (1.18%) Puppet
12 5 (0.98%) Functional Safety
12 5 (0.98%) SmoothWall
13 4 (0.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.78%) Consul
14 3 (0.59%) Argo
14 3 (0.59%) Istio
14 3 (0.59%) Kibana
Vendors
1 133 (26.08%) Microsoft
2 38 (7.45%) VMware
3 36 (7.06%) SAP
3 36 (7.06%) ServiceNow
4 34 (6.67%) Databricks
5 32 (6.27%) Cisco
6 26 (5.10%) SolarWinds
7 18 (3.53%) Red Hat
8 16 (3.14%) Apple
8 16 (3.14%) Google
9 14 (2.75%) Splunk
10 13 (2.55%) Meraki
10 13 (2.55%) OpenAI
11 11 (2.16%) Oracle
11 11 (2.16%) Veeam
12 8 (1.57%) Citrix
12 8 (1.57%) Commvault
12 8 (1.57%) Dell
13 7 (1.37%) Fortinet
14 6 (1.18%) Pure Storage