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 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 60 70
Rank change year-on-year 0 +10 +24
Contract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 10 7 6
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 1.41% 1.11% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.67% 1.17% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 2
10th Percentile £428 - £419
25th Percentile £450 - £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +17.25% -11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £507 - £466
90th Percentile £554 - £471
Scotland median daily rate £450 £538 £456
% change year-on-year -16.28% +17.81% +1.39%

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 598 599 705
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 84.46% 94.78% 85.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 297 372
10th Percentile £250 £307 £221
25th Percentile £400 £413 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +8.33% -5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £538
90th Percentile £638 £600 £619
Scotland median daily rate £475 £467 £450
% change year-on-year +1.71% +3.78% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 25 23
10th Percentile £15.81 - £13.27
25th Percentile £15.96 £17.30 £16.50
Median hourly rate £19.33 £17.87 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.17% -18.77% -53.68%
75th Percentile £33.69 £45.80 £24.18
90th Percentile £77.00 £63.50 £48.84
Scotland median hourly rate £16.86 £20.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year -15.70% +0.31% +1.77%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Root Cause Analysis in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 22 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Root Cause Analysis in Edinburgh

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:

Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
1 2 (20.00%) GCP
1 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (10.00%) Apigee
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Run
2 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Power BI
2 1 (10.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (10.00%) Data Vault
2 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (100.00%) Finance
2 4 (40.00%) Banking
2 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Linux Server Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Server Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Server Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Support Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Applications Support
3 1 (10.00%) Applications Support Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Business Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Power BI Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Production Support Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Windows Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) .NET
1 1 (10.00%) JSON
1 1 (10.00%) Kafka
1 1 (10.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (10.00%) REST
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) AIX
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Solaris
1 2 (20.00%) Unix
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
1 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Incident Management
2 3 (30.00%) Analytics
2 3 (30.00%) Change Management
2 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (30.00%) Observability
2 3 (30.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (20.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Incident Response
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
3 2 (20.00%) Microservices
3 2 (20.00%) Migration
3 2 (20.00%) Patch Management
3 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (20.00%) Runbook
3 2 (20.00%) Security Hardening
3 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Python
2 4 (40.00%) SQL
3 3 (30.00%) Bash
4 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (10.00%) C#
5 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (10.00%) Go
5 1 (10.00%) Java
5 1 (10.00%) PL/SQL
5 1 (10.00%) Scala
5 1 (10.00%) Search Processing Language
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (10.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Ansible
1 1 (10.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (30.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle
2 2 (20.00%) Qualys
2 2 (20.00%) Rapid7
2 2 (20.00%) Splunk
2 2 (20.00%) Tenable
2 2 (20.00%) VMware
3 1 (10.00%) CheckPoint
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco
3 1 (10.00%) CyberArk
3 1 (10.00%) Google
3 1 (10.00%) Palo Alto