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 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 59 64
Rank change year-on-year -6 +5 +42
Contract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 4 3 11
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.61% 0.50% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 0.52% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 8
10th Percentile - £408 £413
25th Percentile - £420 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £440 £623
Median % change year-on-year - -29.40% +46.47%
75th Percentile - £459 £634
90th Percentile - £471 -
Scotland median daily rate £440 £472 £623
% change year-on-year -6.73% -24.22% +19.71%

All Process & 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 578 576 738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 88.65% 95.05% 88.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 329 437
10th Percentile £227 £200 £219
25th Percentile £403 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £480
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -3.65% +1.05%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £575
90th Percentile £666 £638 £663
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £479
% change year-on-year - -6.05% +0.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 20 30
10th Percentile £17.23 £20.93 £14.91
25th Percentile £21.50 £21.92 £16.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £24.09 £24.44
Median % change year-on-year +107.56% -1.41% +14.93%
75th Percentile £70.50 £24.30 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £28.97 -
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year -13.04% +17.95% +18.18%

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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) Unix Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Operations Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Operations Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Change Management
1 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (50.00%) High Availability
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
1 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (25.00%) AI
2 1 (25.00%) Kanban
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) Korn
1 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco