Root Cause Analysis Jobs

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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 316 351 349
Rank change year-on-year +35 -2 +50
Permanent jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 946 898 1,910
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.87% 0.96% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 1.01% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 495 530 850
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,148 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% -9.52%
75th Percentile £63,750 £73,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £77,500
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 89,994 88,841 164,871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.98% 95.43% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 62,089 53,798 83,455
10th Percentile £29,500 £33,848 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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 9 June 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 9 June 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 +50 866 £50,000 -9.09% 349
UK excluding London -30 570 £45,000 -10.00% 284
Work from Home +62 430 £50,000 -13.04% 116
London +114 346 £65,000 -1.52% 59
North of England +26 159 £45,000 -14.29% 59
Midlands -35 139 £47,500 -9.52% 74
North West -12 99 £44,000 -9.22% 31
South East -62 91 £47,500 +11.76% 67
East Midlands -3 71 £50,000 +2.56% 27
West Midlands -42 68 £37,500 -31.82% 47
East of England +24 66 £45,000 -35.71% 31
South West 0 58 £56,709 +38.82% 36
Yorkshire +50 35 £45,000 -14.29% 20
North East +7 25 £45,000 -33.33% 13
Wales +20 20 £41,067 +32.47% 4
Scotland -89 20 £42,202 -17.23% 14
Northern Ireland +18 15 - - 6
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 (3.17%) SAS
2 28 (2.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 28 (2.96%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.95%) Apache
3 9 (0.95%) Confluence
4 8 (0.85%) JBoss
5 4 (0.42%) Exchange Server 2010
5 4 (0.42%) IIS
5 4 (0.42%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.32%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.32%) GlassFish
7 2 (0.21%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 78 (8.25%) Microsoft Office
2 70 (7.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 26 (2.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.21%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.11%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 15 (1.59%) iTrent
2 13 (1.37%) Infor SunSystems
3 8 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.53%) SAP QM
4 5 (0.53%) Temenos T24
5 3 (0.32%) NEC Housing
5 3 (0.32%) Oracle Applications
5 3 (0.32%) Oracle Manufacturing
5 3 (0.32%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.21%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.21%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.11%) Endur
7 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.11%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 224 (23.68%) AWS
2 146 (15.43%) Azure
3 115 (12.16%) Microsoft 365
4 40 (4.23%) Power Platform
5 32 (3.38%) Entra ID
6 30 (3.17%) Serverless
7 29 (3.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 28 (2.96%) Azure DevOps
9 17 (1.80%) GCP
10 15 (1.59%) Azure Functions
10 15 (1.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 13 (1.37%) Amazon S3
12 12 (1.27%) Amazon EC2
12 12 (1.27%) AWS CloudFormation
12 12 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (1.27%) Azure Data Factory
12 12 (1.27%) Power Automate
13 11 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
13 11 (1.16%) PowerApps
13 11 (1.16%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 65 (6.87%) LAN
2 59 (6.24%) WAN
3 47 (4.97%) Firewall
4 31 (3.28%) SAN
5 29 (3.07%) DNS
6 27 (2.85%) VLAN
7 25 (2.64%) DHCP
7 25 (2.64%) Wireless
8 24 (2.54%) Network Security
9 17 (1.80%) VPN
10 16 (1.69%) VoIP
11 15 (1.59%) Internet
12 12 (1.27%) TCP/IP
12 12 (1.27%) WLAN
13 10 (1.06%) MPLS
14 8 (0.85%) OSPF
14 8 (0.85%) Unified Communications
15 7 (0.74%) BGP
15 7 (0.74%) Cisco ASA
15 7 (0.74%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (19.34%) Tableau
2 47 (4.97%) SQL Server
3 36 (3.81%) Power BI
4 20 (2.11%) Relational Database
5 18 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
6 16 (1.69%) MySQL
7 15 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 13 (1.37%) BusinessObjects
9 11 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
9 11 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
10 8 (0.85%) Big Data
10 8 (0.85%) Data Lake
10 8 (0.85%) Metadata
10 8 (0.85%) NoSQL
10 8 (0.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 7 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (0.42%) Oracle Database
13 3 (0.32%) Ingres
13 3 (0.32%) Oracle Database 12c
13 3 (0.32%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 182 (19.24%) Git
2 30 (3.17%) JIRA
3 19 (2.01%) Selenium
4 15 (1.59%) Jenkins
5 13 (1.37%) Visual Studio
5 13 (1.37%) WebDriver
6 11 (1.16%) NUnit
7 5 (0.53%) Appium
7 5 (0.53%) Cypress.io
7 5 (0.53%) DTrace
7 5 (0.53%) GDB
8 4 (0.42%) Protractor
9 3 (0.32%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.32%) Burp Suite
9 3 (0.32%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.32%) Deequ
9 3 (0.32%) Metasploit
9 3 (0.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (0.32%) sqlmap
10 2 (0.21%) REST Assured
General
1 491 (51.90%) Social Skills
2 280 (29.60%) Analytical Skills
3 174 (18.39%) Retail
4 164 (17.34%) Finance
5 147 (15.54%) Presentation Skills
6 101 (10.68%) Legal
7 84 (8.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 61 (6.45%) Banking
9 48 (5.07%) Manufacturing
10 35 (3.70%) Law
11 24 (2.54%) Military
12 23 (2.43%) Investment Banking
12 23 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
13 21 (2.22%) Marketing
14 20 (2.11%) Automotive
15 18 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
15 18 (1.90%) Telecoms
16 17 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
16 17 (1.80%) Public Sector
17 15 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 266 (28.12%) Analyst
2 239 (25.26%) Senior
3 131 (13.85%) Data Analyst
4 106 (11.21%) Senior Analyst
5 96 (10.15%) Senior Data Analyst
6 74 (7.82%) Lead
7 54 (5.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 50 (5.29%) Support Engineer
9 45 (4.76%) Data Scientist
9 45 (4.76%) Senior Data Scientist
10 39 (4.12%) Developer
11 34 (3.59%) Support Analyst
12 33 (3.49%) Applications Support
13 32 (3.38%) Lead Data Analyst
14 30 (3.17%) Architect
14 30 (3.17%) Audit Manager
14 30 (3.17%) Incident Manager
15 25 (2.64%) Network Engineer
15 25 (2.64%) Quality Manager
15 25 (2.64%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (5.29%) .NET
2 45 (4.76%) Pandas
2 45 (4.76%) PySpark
2 45 (4.76%) scikit-learn
2 45 (4.76%) TensorFlow
3 29 (3.07%) Web Services
4 24 (2.54%) HTML
5 23 (2.43%) AngularJS
5 23 (2.43%) CSS
6 22 (2.33%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 15 (1.59%) JSON
8 14 (1.48%) XML
9 11 (1.16%) .NET Core
9 11 (1.16%) LDAP
10 10 (1.06%) REST
11 8 (0.85%) Middleware
12 7 (0.74%) ADSI
12 7 (0.74%) Flash
12 7 (0.74%) Ruby on Rails
13 6 (0.63%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 74 (7.82%) Management Information System
2 53 (5.60%) Algorithms
3 39 (4.12%) Data Centre
4 29 (3.07%) CMDB
4 29 (3.07%) Onboarding
5 23 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
6 15 (1.59%) Public Cloud
7 13 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
8 12 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
8 12 (1.27%) Client/Server
9 11 (1.16%) Replication
10 10 (1.06%) Cloud Native
10 10 (1.06%) Market Risk
10 10 (1.06%) Robotics
11 9 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (0.95%) Housing Association
11 9 (0.95%) IoT
11 9 (0.95%) Product Ownership
11 9 (0.95%) Security Posture
12 7 (0.74%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 141 (14.90%) Windows
2 63 (6.66%) Linux
3 57 (6.03%) Windows Server
4 29 (3.07%) Android
5 23 (2.43%) Unix
6 19 (2.01%) Windows Server 2016
7 13 (1.37%) Windows Server 2019
8 12 (1.27%) Windows 10
9 10 (1.06%) AIX
10 9 (0.95%) Windows Server 2012
11 7 (0.74%) Apple iOS
11 7 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 6 (0.63%) Mac OS X
13 5 (0.53%) Mac OS
13 5 (0.53%) Solaris
14 4 (0.42%) CentOS
15 3 (0.32%) Ubuntu
15 3 (0.32%) Windows 7
15 3 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
16 2 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 384 (40.59%) Problem-Solving
2 199 (21.04%) Statistics
3 195 (20.61%) Actionable Insight
4 188 (19.87%) Mathematics
5 181 (19.13%) Continuous Improvement
6 180 (19.03%) Visualisation
7 176 (18.60%) Data Analysis
8 173 (18.29%) Storytelling
9 161 (17.02%) Analytics
10 160 (16.91%) ITIL
11 137 (14.48%) Incident Management
12 134 (14.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 133 (14.06%) Business Strategy
14 132 (13.95%) Data Pipeline
15 128 (13.53%) Customer Intelligence
16 112 (11.84%) Problem Management
17 102 (10.78%) Decision-Making
18 86 (9.09%) Customer Service
19 83 (8.77%) Change Management
20 81 (8.56%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 287 (30.34%) SQL
2 249 (26.32%) Python
3 50 (5.29%) PowerShell
4 42 (4.44%) Java
5 35 (3.70%) C#
6 22 (2.33%) JavaScript
7 19 (2.01%) T-SQL
8 16 (1.69%) C
9 14 (1.48%) R
10 10 (1.06%) Bash
11 8 (0.85%) C++
11 8 (0.85%) TypeScript
12 7 (0.74%) PL/SQL
12 7 (0.74%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.63%) PHP
13 6 (0.63%) Scala
14 5 (0.53%) OCaml
14 5 (0.53%) Perl
14 5 (0.53%) SystemTap
15 4 (0.42%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 383 (40.49%) Degree
2 180 (19.03%) DBS Check
3 53 (5.60%) Master's Degree
4 48 (5.07%) CISSP
5 47 (4.97%) Security Cleared
6 46 (4.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 36 (3.81%) CISM
8 32 (3.38%) Cisco Certification
9 29 (3.07%) SC Cleared
10 24 (2.54%) AWS Certification
11 21 (2.22%) CCNA
12 20 (2.11%) Azure Certification
13 15 (1.59%) DV Cleared
14 14 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
15 12 (1.27%) CCNP
16 11 (1.16%) HND
17 10 (1.06%) CISA
18 9 (0.95%) ACCA
18 9 (0.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 9 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (10.25%) QA
2 57 (6.03%) SLA
3 34 (3.59%) NIST
4 32 (3.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 19 (2.01%) IFRS
6 16 (1.69%) Data Quality
6 16 (1.69%) GDPR
7 13 (1.37%) PCI DSS
8 10 (1.06%) Accessibility
9 9 (0.95%) NEBOSH
10 8 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.74%) COSHH
11 7 (0.74%) ISO 9001
12 6 (0.63%) IEC 62304
12 6 (0.63%) MiFID
12 6 (0.63%) UCITS
13 5 (0.53%) GMP
13 5 (0.53%) GRC
14 3 (0.32%) Disclosure Scotland
14 3 (0.32%) NIST 800
System Software
1 86 (9.09%) Active Directory
2 52 (5.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (3.38%) Docker
4 21 (2.22%) Hyper-V
5 15 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (1.59%) vSphere
6 4 (0.42%) Terminal Services
7 3 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.21%) Firmware
9 1 (0.11%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.11%) Ceph
9 1 (0.11%) NFS
Systems Management
1 43 (4.55%) Terraform
2 40 (4.23%) Kubernetes
3 23 (2.43%) Microsoft Intune
4 22 (2.33%) Ansible
5 13 (1.37%) SCCM
6 10 (1.06%) Grafana
7 7 (0.74%) Foglight
8 6 (0.63%) vCenter Server
9 5 (0.53%) Cisco Prime
9 5 (0.53%) Opsview
9 5 (0.53%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.42%) Cacti
11 3 (0.32%) Dell DRAC
11 3 (0.32%) Kibana
11 3 (0.32%) Oracle Statspack
11 3 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.21%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 2 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.21%) QRadar
12 2 (0.21%) vRealize
Vendors
1 260 (27.48%) Microsoft
2 184 (19.45%) Databricks
3 70 (7.40%) VMware
4 40 (4.23%) ServiceNow
5 36 (3.81%) Google
6 34 (3.59%) Cisco
7 31 (3.28%) SAP
8 29 (3.07%) Oracle
9 27 (2.85%) Citrix
9 27 (2.85%) HP
10 26 (2.75%) NCR
11 22 (2.33%) Veeam
12 15 (1.59%) Dell
13 13 (1.37%) Infor
13 13 (1.37%) Juniper
13 13 (1.37%) SolarWinds
14 11 (1.16%) Sophos
15 10 (1.06%) Fortinet
16 9 (0.95%) AppDynamics
17 8 (0.85%) Splunk