Root Cause Analysis
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Root Cause Analysis skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Root Cause Analysis over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 321 321 350
Rank change year-on-year 0 +29 +41
Permanent jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 881 1,104 1,703
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.89% 1.07% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 1.11% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 480 594 849
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,101 £38,079 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% -5.94%
75th Percentile £66,595 £75,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £89,852 £78,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Root Cause Analysis is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,620 99,018 149,592
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.90% 95.62% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 59,724 58,165 83,321
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 4 May 2024.

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 4 May 2024. 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 +21 795 £50,000 -9.09% 338
UK excluding London -40 544 £45,000 -10.00% 278
Work from Home +45 390 £52,500 -8.70% 123
London +108 306 £67,500 +2.27% 78
North of England +28 161 £45,000 -11.74% 73
Midlands -46 114 £47,500 -9.52% 55
North West -2 98 £44,000 -2.22% 41
South East -77 85 £47,500 +10.47% 57
East of England +36 64 £45,000 -14.29% 36
East Midlands +1 63 £50,000 - 22
South West -1 59 £60,918 +48.94% 29
West Midlands -67 51 £34,750 -35.35% 33
Yorkshire +77 40 £45,000 -18.18% 27
North East +13 23 £45,000 -33.33% 10
Scotland -91 21 £42,202 -17.23% 24
Wales +20 20 £41,067 +32.47% 5
Northern Ireland +29 18 - - 4
Isle of Man - 2 £36,000 -

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 30 (3.41%) SAS
2 29 (3.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (3.29%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.02%) Confluence
4 8 (0.91%) Apache
4 8 (0.91%) JBoss
5 4 (0.45%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.34%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2010
6 3 (0.34%) GlassFish
6 3 (0.34%) IIS
7 2 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
7 2 (0.23%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.11%) CMS
8 1 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 78 (8.85%) Microsoft Office
2 73 (8.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.23%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.11%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 15 (1.70%) iTrent
2 13 (1.48%) Infor SunSystems
3 11 (1.25%) SAP QM
4 9 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.57%) Temenos T24
6 3 (0.34%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.34%) Oracle Applications
6 3 (0.34%) Oracle Manufacturing
6 3 (0.34%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.23%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.23%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.23%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.11%) Endur
8 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.11%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 200 (22.70%) AWS
2 146 (16.57%) Azure
3 119 (13.51%) Microsoft 365
4 33 (3.75%) Entra ID
5 32 (3.63%) Power Platform
6 31 (3.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 30 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
8 29 (3.29%) Serverless
9 17 (1.93%) GCP
10 16 (1.82%) Amazon S3
10 16 (1.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 15 (1.70%) Azure Functions
12 14 (1.59%) SaaS
13 13 (1.48%) Mimecast
14 12 (1.36%) Amazon EC2
14 12 (1.36%) AWS CloudFormation
14 12 (1.36%) OneDrive
14 12 (1.36%) Power Automate
15 11 (1.25%) AWS Lambda
16 10 (1.14%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 71 (8.06%) LAN
2 65 (7.38%) WAN
3 49 (5.56%) Firewall
4 34 (3.86%) SAN
5 30 (3.41%) DNS
6 28 (3.18%) Network Security
7 25 (2.84%) VLAN
7 25 (2.84%) Wireless
8 23 (2.61%) DHCP
9 17 (1.93%) Internet
9 17 (1.93%) VoIP
9 17 (1.93%) VPN
10 14 (1.59%) TCP/IP
11 12 (1.36%) WLAN
12 10 (1.14%) Unified Communications
13 9 (1.02%) MPLS
14 8 (0.91%) OSPF
15 7 (0.79%) BGP
15 7 (0.79%) Cisco ISE
16 6 (0.68%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (16.12%) Tableau
2 45 (5.11%) SQL Server
3 28 (3.18%) Power BI
4 21 (2.38%) Relational Database
5 20 (2.27%) MySQL
6 18 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
7 13 (1.48%) BusinessObjects
7 13 (1.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 12 (1.36%) Azure SQL Database
9 11 (1.25%) Big Data
9 11 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
10 8 (0.91%) NoSQL
11 7 (0.79%) Metadata
12 6 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
13 5 (0.57%) Data Lake
13 5 (0.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 4 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (0.45%) Oracle Database
14 4 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
14 4 (0.45%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 140 (15.89%) Git
2 31 (3.52%) JIRA
3 18 (2.04%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.70%) Selenium
5 13 (1.48%) Visual Studio
6 11 (1.25%) NUnit
6 11 (1.25%) WebDriver
7 5 (0.57%) Appium
7 5 (0.57%) DTrace
7 5 (0.57%) GDB
7 5 (0.57%) Postman
8 4 (0.45%) Protractor
8 4 (0.45%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.34%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.34%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.34%) Deequ
9 3 (0.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (0.23%) Burp Suite
10 2 (0.23%) GitLab
10 2 (0.23%) REST Assured
General
1 435 (49.38%) Social Skills
2 245 (27.81%) Analytical Skills
3 153 (17.37%) Finance
4 139 (15.78%) Retail
5 120 (13.62%) Presentation Skills
6 101 (11.46%) Legal
7 79 (8.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 58 (6.58%) Banking
9 51 (5.79%) Manufacturing
10 30 (3.41%) Law
11 26 (2.95%) Organisational Skills
12 24 (2.72%) Investment Banking
12 24 (2.72%) Military
13 19 (2.16%) Pharmaceutical
14 18 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
14 18 (2.04%) Telecoms
15 17 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
16 16 (1.82%) Marketing
17 15 (1.70%) Automotive
18 14 (1.59%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 238 (27.01%) Analyst
2 194 (22.02%) Senior
3 100 (11.35%) Data Analyst
4 80 (9.08%) Senior Analyst
5 79 (8.97%) Lead
6 63 (7.15%) Senior Data Analyst
7 54 (6.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 45 (5.11%) Support Engineer
9 37 (4.20%) Developer
10 36 (4.09%) Support Analyst
11 35 (3.97%) Data Scientist
11 35 (3.97%) Senior Data Scientist
12 34 (3.86%) Architect
13 32 (3.63%) Lead Data Analyst
14 31 (3.52%) Applications Support
15 30 (3.41%) Audit Manager
15 30 (3.41%) Incident Manager
16 23 (2.61%) Service Analyst
16 23 (2.61%) Service Desk Analyst
16 23 (2.61%) Vulnerability Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (5.79%) .NET
2 35 (3.97%) Pandas
2 35 (3.97%) PySpark
2 35 (3.97%) scikit-learn
2 35 (3.97%) TensorFlow
3 29 (3.29%) Web Services
4 24 (2.72%) HTML
5 23 (2.61%) AngularJS
5 23 (2.61%) CSS
6 22 (2.50%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 15 (1.70%) JSON
7 15 (1.70%) XML
8 11 (1.25%) .NET Core
8 11 (1.25%) Middleware
9 10 (1.14%) LDAP
9 10 (1.14%) REST
10 8 (0.91%) Kafka
10 8 (0.91%) Spring Boot
11 7 (0.79%) ADSI
12 6 (0.68%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 74 (8.40%) Management Information System
2 44 (4.99%) Algorithms
3 34 (3.86%) Data Centre
4 29 (3.29%) CMDB
5 28 (3.18%) Onboarding
6 23 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
7 17 (1.93%) Public Cloud
8 13 (1.48%) Robotics
8 13 (1.48%) Security Posture
8 13 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
9 11 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
9 11 (1.25%) Biopharmaceutical
9 11 (1.25%) Client/Server
10 10 (1.14%) Housing Association
10 10 (1.14%) Market Risk
10 10 (1.14%) Replication
11 9 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (1.02%) IoT
11 9 (1.02%) Product Ownership
12 8 (0.91%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 145 (16.46%) Windows
2 63 (7.15%) Linux
3 58 (6.58%) Windows Server
4 32 (3.63%) Android
5 24 (2.72%) Unix
6 15 (1.70%) Windows 10
6 15 (1.70%) Windows Server 2016
7 11 (1.25%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (1.02%) AIX
8 9 (1.02%) Apple iOS
9 8 (0.91%) Windows Server 2012
10 7 (0.79%) CentOS
10 7 (0.79%) Mac OS X
11 6 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 6 (0.68%) Windows 7
12 5 (0.57%) Solaris
13 4 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.34%) Mac OS
14 3 (0.34%) Ubuntu
15 2 (0.23%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 336 (38.14%) Problem-Solving
2 169 (19.18%) Continuous Improvement
3 158 (17.93%) Statistics
4 156 (17.71%) Actionable Insight
5 154 (17.48%) ITIL
6 144 (16.35%) Mathematics
7 139 (15.78%) Visualisation
8 138 (15.66%) Data Analysis
9 130 (14.76%) Storytelling
10 128 (14.53%) Analytics
11 127 (14.42%) Incident Management
12 117 (13.28%) Problem Management
13 100 (11.35%) Data Pipeline
14 99 (11.24%) Business Strategy
15 98 (11.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 95 (10.78%) Customer Intelligence
17 92 (10.44%) Decision-Making
18 89 (10.10%) Customer Service
19 78 (8.85%) Change Management
20 77 (8.74%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 249 (28.26%) SQL
2 213 (24.18%) Python
3 56 (6.36%) PowerShell
4 44 (4.99%) Java
5 32 (3.63%) C#
6 19 (2.16%) T-SQL
7 18 (2.04%) JavaScript
8 16 (1.82%) C
8 16 (1.82%) R
9 15 (1.70%) Bash
10 8 (0.91%) PL/SQL
11 7 (0.79%) C++
11 7 (0.79%) Shell Script
12 6 (0.68%) PHP
12 6 (0.68%) Scala
12 6 (0.68%) TypeScript
12 6 (0.68%) VBA
13 5 (0.57%) OCaml
13 5 (0.57%) Perl
13 5 (0.57%) SystemTap
Qualifications
1 346 (39.27%) Degree
2 137 (15.55%) DBS Check
3 52 (5.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 48 (5.45%) CISSP
5 40 (4.54%) Master's Degree
6 38 (4.31%) Security Cleared
7 35 (3.97%) CISM
8 34 (3.86%) Cisco Certification
9 25 (2.84%) AWS Certification
9 25 (2.84%) SC Cleared
10 20 (2.27%) Azure Certification
10 20 (2.27%) CCNA
11 16 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
12 14 (1.59%) CCNP
13 11 (1.25%) HND
14 10 (1.14%) CISA
14 10 (1.14%) DV Cleared
15 9 (1.02%) ACCA
15 9 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 9 (1.02%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (10.44%) QA
2 63 (7.15%) SLA
3 32 (3.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 32 (3.63%) NIST
4 19 (2.16%) IFRS
5 16 (1.82%) GDPR
5 16 (1.82%) PCI DSS
6 13 (1.48%) Data Quality
7 9 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (1.02%) NEBOSH
8 8 (0.91%) Accessibility
9 7 (0.79%) COSHH
10 6 (0.68%) GRC
10 6 (0.68%) IEC 62304
11 5 (0.57%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
12 3 (0.34%) MiFID
13 2 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.23%) ISO 14001
13 2 (0.23%) UCITS
System Software
1 90 (10.22%) Active Directory
2 53 (6.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 37 (4.20%) Docker
4 22 (2.50%) Hyper-V
5 14 (1.59%) vSphere
6 13 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.45%) NFS
8 3 (0.34%) Terminal Services
9 2 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.11%) Ceph
10 1 (0.11%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 44 (4.99%) Kubernetes
2 43 (4.88%) Terraform
3 27 (3.06%) Ansible
4 23 (2.61%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (1.14%) Grafana
5 10 (1.14%) SCCM
6 7 (0.79%) Foglight
7 5 (0.57%) Cisco Prime
7 5 (0.57%) Opsview
7 5 (0.57%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.57%) vCenter Server
8 4 (0.45%) Cacti
9 3 (0.34%) Dell DRAC
9 3 (0.34%) Oracle Statspack
9 3 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.23%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 2 (0.23%) Kibana
10 2 (0.23%) QRadar
10 2 (0.23%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 2 (0.23%) vRealize
Vendors
1 256 (29.06%) Microsoft
2 138 (15.66%) Databricks
3 70 (7.95%) VMware
4 45 (5.11%) SAP
5 41 (4.65%) ServiceNow
6 38 (4.31%) Google
7 37 (4.20%) Cisco
8 30 (3.41%) Oracle
9 26 (2.95%) HP
9 26 (2.95%) NCR
10 24 (2.72%) Citrix
11 22 (2.50%) Veeam
12 15 (1.70%) Dell
13 14 (1.59%) SolarWinds
14 13 (1.48%) Infor
15 12 (1.36%) Juniper
15 12 (1.36%) Sophos
16 11 (1.25%) Splunk
17 9 (1.02%) AppDynamics
17 9 (1.02%) Apple