Root Cause Analysis Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Root Cause Analysis
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Root Cause Analysis skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 70 80
Rank change year-on-year +12 +10 +32
Contract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 9 6 9
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 1.45% 0.79% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.53% 0.92% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 6
10th Percentile - £419 -
25th Percentile - £428 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile - £466 £438
90th Percentile - £471 £444
Scotland median daily rate £475 £456 £438
% change year-on-year +4.11% +4.29% -9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Root Cause Analysis falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 589 650 908
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.00% 85.64% 91.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 292 339 558
10th Percentile £300 £223 £207
25th Percentile £413 £353 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -1.04%
75th Percentile £550 £521 £543
90th Percentile £611 £600 £610
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £480
% change year-on-year +3.33% -6.20% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 22 6
10th Percentile £17.08 £13.25 £12.47
25th Percentile - £18.05 £20.27
Median hourly rate £17.87 £22.84 £48.10
Median % change year-on-year -21.76% -52.52% +156.53%
75th Percentile £55.00 £24.18 £59.55
90th Percentile £67.25 - £62.00
Scotland median hourly rate £19.99 £21.80 £19.18
% change year-on-year -8.30% +13.63% +2.29%

Root Cause Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Root Cause Analysis relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Root Cause Analysis job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Root Cause Analysis
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Root Cause Analysis.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Root Cause Analysis

Root Cause Analysis
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) GCP
1 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 1 (11.11%) Liquibase
General
1 7 (77.78%) Social Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Financial Institution
3 1 (11.11%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Analyst
1 3 (33.33%) Consultant
1 3 (33.33%) Network Consultant
2 2 (22.22%) Business Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Network Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Financial Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Operations Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Operations Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Financial Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (11.11%) REST
1 1 (11.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Mainframe
1 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
1 1 (11.11%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Mentoring
1 5 (55.56%) Project Delivery
2 2 (22.22%) Agile
3 1 (11.11%) AI
3 1 (11.11%) Change Management
3 1 (11.11%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (11.11%) Cryptography
3 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (11.11%) Data Security
3 1 (11.11%) High Availability
3 1 (11.11%) ITIL
3 1 (11.11%) Microservices
3 1 (11.11%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Process Improvement
3 1 (11.11%) Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (11.11%) Six Sigma
3 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (11.11%) Systems Analysis
3 1 (11.11%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) COBOL
1 1 (11.11%) Go
1 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) ACCA
1 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
1 1 (11.11%) AWS Certified Developer
1 1 (11.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (11.11%) CIMA
1 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Six Sigma Green Belt
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Ansible
1 1 (11.11%) Grafana
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Cisco
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) SAP
2 1 (11.11%) Splunk