The first table below looks at the demand for Root Cause Analysis skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Root Cause Analysis over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Edinburgh region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Root Cause Analysis
Rank 52 62 52
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -10
Contract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 5 1 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.600% 0.092% 1.236%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.876% 0.138% 1.867%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 7
Average daily rate £425 £300 £385
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+41.66% -22.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £385 £300 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £445 £300 £445
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £500 £358
% change year-on-year
-25.00% +39.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £32.50 £18.25
% change year-on-year
-30.76% +78.08%
All Processes & Methodologies
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
571 727 857
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 68.55% 66.88% 66.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 362 465
Average daily rate £413 £375 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £246 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £475 £535
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 16 8
Average hourly rate £20.00 £27.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-27.27% +57.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.88 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.45 £39.00 £43.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Root Cause Analysis
Scotland

Root Cause Analysis
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Root Cause Analysis across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Edinburgh Root Cause Analysis Jobs Demand Trend

Root Cause Analysis
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Root Cause Analysis Daily Rate Trend

Root Cause Analysis
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Root Cause Analysis also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Root Cause Analysis.

1 7 (70.00%) Change Management
2 5 (50.00%) Finance
2 5 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 5 (50.00%) EMC NetWorker
2 5 (50.00%) EMC
3 2 (20.00%) Migration
3 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (20.00%) Mainframe
3 2 (20.00%) UNIX
4 1 (10.00%) LDAP
4 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (10.00%) DNS
4 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
4 1 (10.00%) PL/SQL
4 1 (10.00%) SQL
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle
4 1 (10.00%) ITIL
4 1 (10.00%) Legato
4 1 (10.00%) SQLPlus
4 1 (10.00%) Service Management
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (10.00%) Business Analysis
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (10.00%) Data Guard
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (10.00%) Data Governance
4 1 (10.00%) Data Quality

Root Cause Analysis
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Root Cause Analysis also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Root Cause Analysis. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) LDAP
1 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (10.00%) SQLPlus
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Exadata
General
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Analyst
1 3 (30.00%) Administrator
1 3 (30.00%) Storage Administrator
2 2 (20.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Support Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Data Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) Incident Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle Support Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Data Storage Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) Backup Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Change Management
2 5 (50.00%) Problem Management
3 2 (20.00%) Migration
3 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (10.00%) ITIL
4 1 (10.00%) Service Management
4 1 (10.00%) Business Analysis
4 1 (10.00%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle RMAN
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (10.00%) Legato
2 1 (10.00%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) EMC
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle