Hybrid/Remote Root Cause Analysis Job Trends

Root Cause Analysis
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Root Cause Analysis skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 254 294
Rank change year-on-year +99 +40 +40
Permanent jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 262 203 206
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.74% 1.24% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% 1.32% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 146 90 175
10th Percentile £27,125 £36,250 £34,195
25th Percentile £29,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £57,713 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.03% -7.66% +25.00%
75th Percentile £64,688 £83,063 £72,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £88,200 £83,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £58,501
% change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +17.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,144 15,339 20,307
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 87.43% 93.72% 93.52%
Number of salaries quoted 8,355 9,020 16,451
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,500 £47,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,100 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Root Cause Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Root Cause Analysis and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Root Cause Analysis job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Root Cause Analysis
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Root Cause Analysis.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Root Cause Analysis

Root Cause Analysis
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Root Cause Analysis over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Root Cause Analysis salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Root Cause Analysis
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 11 (4.20%) Microsoft Exchange
1 11 (4.20%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.67%) Confluence
3 4 (1.53%) IIS
4 3 (1.15%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 34 (12.98%) Oracle ERP
2 14 (5.34%) Oracle Assets
2 14 (5.34%) Oracle Financials
2 14 (5.34%) Oracle General Ledger
2 14 (5.34%) Oracle Payables
2 14 (5.34%) Oracle Receivables
3 4 (1.53%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.38%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.38%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.38%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.38%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.38%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.38%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.38%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 110 (41.98%) Azure
2 55 (20.99%) GitHub
3 49 (18.70%) Azure DevOps
4 47 (17.94%) AWS
5 43 (16.41%) Entra ID
5 43 (16.41%) SaaS
6 29 (11.07%) OCI
7 28 (10.69%) GitHub Actions
8 22 (8.40%) Azure Monitor
9 20 (7.63%) Azure Data Factory
9 20 (7.63%) Microsoft 365
10 17 (6.49%) AWS CloudFormation
11 14 (5.34%) Azure Event Grid
11 14 (5.34%) Azure Logic Apps
11 14 (5.34%) Azure Service Bus
12 13 (4.96%) GCP
13 11 (4.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 10 (3.82%) OneDrive
15 9 (3.44%) Datadog
16 8 (3.05%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 37 (14.12%) Remote Desktop
2 28 (10.69%) VPN
3 26 (9.92%) Firewall
4 19 (7.25%) DNS
5 18 (6.87%) TCP/IP
5 18 (6.87%) WAN
6 12 (4.58%) SD-WAN
7 11 (4.20%) DHCP
8 9 (3.44%) LAN
9 8 (3.05%) Network Security
9 8 (3.05%) Wireless
10 6 (2.29%) Fibre Channel
11 5 (1.91%) BGP
11 5 (1.91%) Cisco ASA
11 5 (1.91%) MPLS
12 3 (1.15%) Internet
12 3 (1.15%) Kerberos
12 3 (1.15%) VLAN
12 3 (1.15%) Wi-Fi
12 3 (1.15%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.87%) SQL Server
2 14 (5.34%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 11 (4.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 8 (3.05%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (3.05%) Data Lake
5 7 (2.67%) NoSQL
5 7 (2.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 6 (2.29%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (2.29%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (1.91%) MySQL
7 5 (1.91%) Power BI
8 4 (1.53%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.15%) Apache Hive
9 3 (1.15%) Big Data
9 3 (1.15%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (1.15%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.15%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (1.15%) Power Query
9 3 (1.15%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 34 (12.98%) Oracle Forms
2 32 (12.21%) Jenkins
3 11 (4.20%) Git
4 9 (3.44%) Cypress.io
4 9 (3.44%) Selenium
5 8 (3.05%) JIRA
5 8 (3.05%) WebDriver
6 6 (2.29%) GitLab
7 1 (0.38%) Postman
7 1 (0.38%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.38%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 120 (45.80%) Social Skills
2 90 (34.35%) Analytical Skills
3 79 (30.15%) Finance
4 48 (18.32%) Retail
5 14 (5.34%) Law
6 13 (4.96%) Public Sector
7 11 (4.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.91%) Front Office
8 5 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (1.91%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.15%) Billing
9 3 (1.15%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.76%) Aviation
10 2 (0.76%) Dutch Language
10 2 (0.76%) French Language
10 2 (0.76%) Legal
11 1 (0.38%) Games
11 1 (0.38%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 68 (25.95%) Analyst
2 61 (23.28%) Senior
3 38 (14.50%) 2nd Line Support
4 31 (11.83%) Support Analyst
4 31 (11.83%) Support Engineer
5 27 (10.31%) 1st/2nd Line Support
6 25 (9.54%) Applications Engineer
6 25 (9.54%) Technical Support
7 23 (8.78%) Applications Support
7 23 (8.78%) Cloud Engineer
7 23 (8.78%) ERP Analyst
7 23 (8.78%) Technical Engineer
7 23 (8.78%) Technical Support Engineer
8 21 (8.02%) Senior Analyst
8 21 (8.02%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 15 (5.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 14 (5.34%) DevOps Engineer
10 14 (5.34%) Oracle Analyst
10 14 (5.34%) Platform Engineer
10 14 (5.34%) Senior Oracle Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (14.50%) JSON
1 38 (14.50%) RESTful
2 24 (9.16%) XML
3 22 (8.40%) SOAP
4 17 (6.49%) OAuth
4 17 (6.49%) OAuth2
5 9 (3.44%) Playwright
6 6 (2.29%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (1.91%) .NET
7 5 (1.91%) ARM Templates
7 5 (1.91%) Web Services
8 4 (1.53%) .NET Core
9 3 (1.15%) LDAP
9 3 (1.15%) React
9 3 (1.15%) SAP Basis
9 3 (1.15%) SAP Fiori
9 3 (1.15%) SAPUI5
10 2 (0.76%) ASP.NET Core
10 2 (0.76%) AWS CDK
10 2 (0.76%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 45 (17.18%) Onboarding
2 37 (14.12%) Self-Motivation
3 34 (12.98%) Cloud Native
4 29 (11.07%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (5.34%) Security Posture
6 11 (4.20%) Management Information System
7 8 (3.05%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 7 (2.67%) Cyber Threat
9 6 (2.29%) Mobile App
10 5 (1.91%) Cyber Defence
10 5 (1.91%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.91%) Operational Technology
11 4 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (1.53%) iPad
11 4 (1.53%) iPhone
11 4 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.53%) Replication
11 4 (1.53%) Security Operations Centre
11 4 (1.53%) Video Conferencing
12 3 (1.15%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 39 (14.89%) Windows
2 24 (9.16%) Windows Server
3 23 (8.78%) Linux
4 13 (4.96%) Apple iOS
5 10 (3.82%) Unix
5 10 (3.82%) Windows 10
6 6 (2.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (1.91%) VMS
8 4 (1.53%) Android
9 3 (1.15%) SUSE
9 3 (1.15%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 2 (0.76%) Solaris
10 2 (0.76%) Windows 7
10 2 (0.76%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (45.42%) Mentoring
2 106 (40.46%) Problem-Solving
3 85 (32.44%) Continuous Improvement
4 81 (30.92%) Coaching
5 77 (29.39%) DevOps
6 73 (27.86%) ERP
7 72 (27.48%) Customer Service
8 62 (23.66%) CI/CD
9 55 (20.99%) Asset Management
10 51 (19.47%) Agile
11 50 (19.08%) Incident Response
12 46 (17.56%) Test Automation
13 45 (17.18%) Infrastructure as Code
14 44 (16.79%) Analytical Thinking
14 44 (16.79%) Analytics
14 44 (16.79%) Migration
15 43 (16.41%) Observability
16 40 (15.27%) CRM
17 38 (14.50%) E-Commerce
17 38 (14.50%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 109 (41.60%) SQL
2 56 (21.37%) Python
3 49 (18.70%) C#
4 36 (13.74%) PowerShell
5 33 (12.60%) Java
6 24 (9.16%) Bicep
7 22 (8.40%) Shell Script
8 20 (7.63%) PL/SQL
9 19 (7.25%) Bash
10 5 (1.91%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.76%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.38%) Groovy
12 1 (0.38%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.38%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.38%) Swift
Qualifications
1 28 (10.69%) Degree
2 21 (8.02%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (6.11%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.11%) Security Cleared
4 11 (4.20%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (2.29%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (2.29%) CISSP
6 5 (1.91%) CEH
7 4 (1.53%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.53%) CompTIA CySA+
7 4 (1.53%) GCIA
7 4 (1.53%) GCIH
8 3 (1.15%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (1.15%) GIAC
8 3 (1.15%) SANS
9 2 (0.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.76%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.76%) CISMP
9 2 (0.76%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (19.08%) QA
2 16 (6.11%) GDPR
3 11 (4.20%) Accessibility
4 8 (3.05%) NIST
5 7 (2.67%) SLA
6 6 (2.29%) Data Quality
7 5 (1.91%) PCI DSS
8 4 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 48 (18.32%) Active Directory
2 20 (7.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (5.73%) Docker
4 10 (3.82%) Hyper-V
5 7 (2.67%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (2.29%) NFS
6 6 (2.29%) vSphere
7 2 (0.76%) Firmware
8 1 (0.38%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.38%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 72 (27.48%) Terraform
2 24 (9.16%) Single Sign-On
3 23 (8.78%) Kubernetes
4 20 (7.63%) Ansible
5 16 (6.11%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (2.67%) Grafana
6 7 (2.67%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.15%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.76%) SCOM
9 1 (0.38%) Argo
9 1 (0.38%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.38%) Nessus
9 1 (0.38%) WSUS
Vendors
1 58 (22.14%) Microsoft
2 36 (13.74%) Oracle
3 21 (8.02%) Cisco
4 20 (7.63%) Okta
4 20 (7.63%) VMware
5 18 (6.87%) Ab Initio
6 7 (2.67%) Fortinet
6 7 (2.67%) Splunk
7 6 (2.29%) Commvault
7 6 (2.29%) Pure Storage
7 6 (2.29%) Red Hat
7 6 (2.29%) SAP
8 5 (1.91%) Palo Alto
8 5 (1.91%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.53%) IBM
10 3 (1.15%) Apple
10 3 (1.15%) Aruba
10 3 (1.15%) Dell
10 3 (1.15%) Juniper
10 3 (1.15%) SolarWinds