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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 316 329 343
Rank change year-on-year +13 +14 +60
Permanent jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 908 1,077 1,735
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.92% 1.07% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 1.12% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 485 583 838
10th Percentile £31,100 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,101 £38,600 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% -6.86%
75th Percentile £66,294 £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 84,917 96,578 150,488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.59% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,883 56,844 82,330
10th Percentile £29,008 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,190 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.12% +1.98% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £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 10 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 10 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 +41 824 £50,000 -9.09% 339
UK excluding London -56 550 £45,000 -10.00% 269
Work from Home +44 410 £52,500 -8.70% 144
London +127 327 £65,000 -2.46% 87
North of England +39 159 £45,000 -11.74% 67
Midlands -62 121 £47,500 -9.52% 52
North West -8 97 £44,500 -1.11% 39
South East -73 84 £47,500 +11.76% 58
East Midlands +3 66 £50,000 -2.44% 16
East of England +36 65 £45,000 -14.29% 37
South West +1 61 £60,918 +48.94% 27
West Midlands -76 55 £37,500 -31.82% 36
Yorkshire +72 39 £45,000 -14.29% 21
North East +10 23 £45,000 -33.33% 9
Scotland -83 21 £42,202 -17.23% 22
Wales +13 20 £41,067 +32.47% 5
Northern Ireland +23 17 - - 5
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 (3.30%) SAS
2 27 (2.97%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (2.97%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.99%) Confluence
4 8 (0.88%) Apache
4 8 (0.88%) JBoss
5 4 (0.44%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.33%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2010
6 3 (0.33%) GlassFish
6 3 (0.33%) IIS
7 2 (0.22%) SharePoint Server
7 2 (0.22%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.11%) CMS
8 1 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 81 (8.92%) Microsoft Office
2 71 (7.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (2.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.22%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.11%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 15 (1.65%) iTrent
2 13 (1.43%) Infor SunSystems
3 10 (1.10%) SAP QM
4 9 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.55%) Temenos T24
6 3 (0.33%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.33%) Oracle Applications
6 3 (0.33%) Oracle Manufacturing
6 3 (0.33%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.22%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.22%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.22%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.11%) Endur
8 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.11%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 218 (24.01%) AWS
2 149 (16.41%) Azure
3 119 (13.11%) Microsoft 365
4 33 (3.63%) Entra ID
4 33 (3.63%) Power Platform
5 32 (3.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 31 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
7 30 (3.30%) Serverless
8 19 (2.09%) GCP
9 17 (1.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 16 (1.76%) Amazon S3
11 15 (1.65%) Azure Functions
12 13 (1.43%) Mimecast
12 13 (1.43%) SaaS
13 12 (1.32%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (1.32%) AWS CloudFormation
13 12 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (1.32%) OneDrive
14 11 (1.21%) Azure Data Factory
15 10 (1.10%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 70 (7.71%) LAN
2 64 (7.05%) WAN
3 45 (4.96%) Firewall
4 32 (3.52%) SAN
5 28 (3.08%) DNS
6 27 (2.97%) Network Security
7 25 (2.75%) Wireless
8 24 (2.64%) VLAN
9 22 (2.42%) DHCP
10 17 (1.87%) Internet
10 17 (1.87%) VPN
11 16 (1.76%) VoIP
12 12 (1.32%) TCP/IP
12 12 (1.32%) WLAN
13 10 (1.10%) Unified Communications
14 9 (0.99%) MPLS
15 8 (0.88%) OSPF
16 7 (0.77%) BGP
16 7 (0.77%) Cisco ISE
17 6 (0.66%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (18.06%) Tableau
2 46 (5.07%) SQL Server
3 29 (3.19%) Power BI
4 23 (2.53%) Relational Database
5 19 (2.09%) MySQL
6 18 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
7 15 (1.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 13 (1.43%) BusinessObjects
9 12 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
10 11 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
11 10 (1.10%) Big Data
12 9 (0.99%) Metadata
13 8 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
13 8 (0.88%) NoSQL
14 7 (0.77%) Data Lake
14 7 (0.77%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 5 (0.55%) Oracle Database
16 4 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
16 4 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
16 4 (0.44%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 162 (17.84%) Git
2 32 (3.52%) JIRA
3 18 (1.98%) Jenkins
4 16 (1.76%) Selenium
5 13 (1.43%) Visual Studio
6 11 (1.21%) NUnit
6 11 (1.21%) WebDriver
7 5 (0.55%) Appium
7 5 (0.55%) DTrace
7 5 (0.55%) GDB
7 5 (0.55%) Postman
8 4 (0.44%) Protractor
8 4 (0.44%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.33%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.33%) Burp Suite
9 3 (0.33%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.33%) Deequ
9 3 (0.33%) Metasploit
9 3 (0.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (0.33%) sqlmap
General
1 463 (50.99%) Social Skills
2 262 (28.85%) Analytical Skills
3 157 (17.29%) Retail
4 154 (16.96%) Finance
5 136 (14.98%) Presentation Skills
6 101 (11.12%) Legal
7 79 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 58 (6.39%) Banking
9 49 (5.40%) Manufacturing
10 31 (3.41%) Law
11 26 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
12 24 (2.64%) Military
13 23 (2.53%) Investment Banking
14 18 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
14 18 (1.98%) Pharmaceutical
14 18 (1.98%) Telecoms
15 17 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
15 17 (1.87%) Marketing
16 16 (1.76%) Automotive
17 15 (1.65%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 254 (27.97%) Analyst
2 215 (23.68%) Senior
3 117 (12.89%) Data Analyst
4 95 (10.46%) Senior Analyst
5 80 (8.81%) Senior Data Analyst
6 77 (8.48%) Lead
7 51 (5.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 47 (5.18%) Support Engineer
9 40 (4.41%) Data Scientist
9 40 (4.41%) Senior Data Scientist
10 37 (4.07%) Developer
11 35 (3.85%) Support Analyst
12 33 (3.63%) Architect
13 32 (3.52%) Lead Data Analyst
14 31 (3.41%) Applications Support
15 30 (3.30%) Audit Manager
15 30 (3.30%) Incident Manager
16 24 (2.64%) Service Analyst
16 24 (2.64%) Service Desk Analyst
17 23 (2.53%) Vulnerability Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (5.51%) .NET
2 40 (4.41%) Pandas
2 40 (4.41%) PySpark
2 40 (4.41%) scikit-learn
2 40 (4.41%) TensorFlow
3 29 (3.19%) Web Services
4 24 (2.64%) HTML
5 23 (2.53%) AngularJS
5 23 (2.53%) CSS
6 22 (2.42%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 15 (1.65%) JSON
7 15 (1.65%) XML
8 11 (1.21%) .NET Core
9 10 (1.10%) LDAP
9 10 (1.10%) REST
10 9 (0.99%) Middleware
11 7 (0.77%) ADSI
11 7 (0.77%) Kafka
11 7 (0.77%) Spring Boot
12 6 (0.66%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 74 (8.15%) Management Information System
2 49 (5.40%) Algorithms
3 34 (3.74%) Data Centre
4 29 (3.19%) CMDB
5 28 (3.08%) Onboarding
6 23 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
7 17 (1.87%) Public Cloud
8 13 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
9 12 (1.32%) Robotics
9 12 (1.32%) Security Posture
10 11 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
10 11 (1.21%) Client/Server
11 10 (1.10%) Biopharmaceutical
11 10 (1.10%) Housing Association
11 10 (1.10%) Market Risk
11 10 (1.10%) Replication
12 9 (0.99%) Cloud Native
12 9 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
12 9 (0.99%) IoT
12 9 (0.99%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 143 (15.75%) Windows
2 62 (6.83%) Linux
3 54 (5.95%) Windows Server
4 31 (3.41%) Android
5 24 (2.64%) Unix
6 15 (1.65%) Windows 10
6 15 (1.65%) Windows Server 2016
7 12 (1.32%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (0.99%) AIX
8 9 (0.99%) Apple iOS
9 7 (0.77%) Mac OS X
9 7 (0.77%) Windows Server 2012
10 6 (0.66%) CentOS
10 6 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 6 (0.66%) Windows 7
11 5 (0.55%) Solaris
12 4 (0.44%) Mac OS
12 4 (0.44%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (0.33%) Ubuntu
14 2 (0.22%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 356 (39.21%) Problem-Solving
2 180 (19.82%) Statistics
3 177 (19.49%) Actionable Insight
4 168 (18.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 166 (18.28%) Mathematics
6 161 (17.73%) Visualisation
7 156 (17.18%) ITIL
8 155 (17.07%) Data Analysis
9 152 (16.74%) Storytelling
10 145 (15.97%) Analytics
11 130 (14.32%) Incident Management
12 117 (12.89%) Data Pipeline
13 116 (12.78%) Business Strategy
13 116 (12.78%) Problem Management
14 115 (12.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 112 (12.33%) Customer Intelligence
16 96 (10.57%) Decision-Making
17 91 (10.02%) Customer Service
18 79 (8.70%) Change Management
19 78 (8.59%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 271 (29.85%) SQL
2 233 (25.66%) Python
3 55 (6.06%) PowerShell
4 43 (4.74%) Java
5 33 (3.63%) C#
6 21 (2.31%) T-SQL
7 18 (1.98%) JavaScript
8 16 (1.76%) C
8 16 (1.76%) R
9 14 (1.54%) Bash
10 8 (0.88%) C++
10 8 (0.88%) PL/SQL
11 7 (0.77%) Shell Script
12 6 (0.66%) PHP
12 6 (0.66%) Scala
12 6 (0.66%) TypeScript
13 5 (0.55%) OCaml
13 5 (0.55%) Perl
13 5 (0.55%) SystemTap
13 5 (0.55%) VBA
Qualifications
1 367 (40.42%) Degree
2 159 (17.51%) DBS Check
3 51 (5.62%) Computer Science Degree
4 49 (5.40%) CISSP
5 45 (4.96%) Master's Degree
6 39 (4.30%) Security Cleared
7 36 (3.96%) CISM
8 33 (3.63%) Cisco Certification
9 25 (2.75%) AWS Certification
9 25 (2.75%) SC Cleared
10 21 (2.31%) Azure Certification
11 19 (2.09%) CCNA
12 17 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
13 13 (1.43%) CCNP
14 11 (1.21%) DV Cleared
14 11 (1.21%) HND
15 10 (1.10%) CISA
16 9 (0.99%) ACCA
16 9 (0.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 9 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (10.24%) QA
2 63 (6.94%) SLA
3 34 (3.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 34 (3.74%) NIST
4 19 (2.09%) IFRS
5 17 (1.87%) GDPR
6 16 (1.76%) PCI DSS
7 15 (1.65%) Data Quality
8 9 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
8 9 (0.99%) NEBOSH
9 8 (0.88%) Accessibility
10 7 (0.77%) COSHH
11 6 (0.66%) GRC
11 6 (0.66%) IEC 62304
11 6 (0.66%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
12 3 (0.33%) MiFID
12 3 (0.33%) UCITS
13 2 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.22%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 89 (9.80%) Active Directory
2 49 (5.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 36 (3.96%) Docker
4 20 (2.20%) Hyper-V
5 14 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (1.54%) vSphere
6 3 (0.33%) NFS
6 3 (0.33%) Terminal Services
7 2 (0.22%) Firmware
7 2 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.11%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 43 (4.74%) Kubernetes
1 43 (4.74%) Terraform
2 26 (2.86%) Ansible
3 21 (2.31%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (1.10%) Grafana
4 10 (1.10%) SCCM
5 7 (0.77%) Foglight
6 5 (0.55%) Cisco Prime
6 5 (0.55%) Opsview
6 5 (0.55%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.55%) vCenter Server
7 4 (0.44%) Cacti
8 3 (0.33%) Dell DRAC
8 3 (0.33%) Oracle Statspack
8 3 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.22%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 2 (0.22%) Kibana
9 2 (0.22%) QRadar
9 2 (0.22%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 2 (0.22%) vRealize
Vendors
1 259 (28.52%) Microsoft
2 162 (17.84%) Databricks
3 66 (7.27%) VMware
4 43 (4.74%) SAP
5 41 (4.52%) ServiceNow
6 39 (4.30%) Google
7 35 (3.85%) Cisco
8 31 (3.41%) Oracle
9 26 (2.86%) HP
9 26 (2.86%) NCR
10 25 (2.75%) Citrix
11 22 (2.42%) Veeam
12 15 (1.65%) Dell
13 14 (1.54%) SolarWinds
14 13 (1.43%) Infor
15 12 (1.32%) Juniper
15 12 (1.32%) Sophos
16 10 (1.10%) Splunk
17 9 (0.99%) AppDynamics
17 9 (0.99%) Apple