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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 68 95
Rank change year-on-year +6 +27 +24
Contract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 7 6 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.10% 0.73% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% 0.86% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - £419 -
25th Percentile - £428 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile - £466 £441
90th Percentile - £471 £446
Scotland median daily rate £552 £456 £450
% change year-on-year +20.88% +1.39% -1.37%

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 601 701 969
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 94.20% 85.49% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 300 368 616
10th Percentile £307 £220 £225
25th Percentile £413 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -5.26% -1.04%
75th Percentile £547 £538 £538
90th Percentile £600 £629 £600
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 23 6
10th Percentile - £13.27 £12.41
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.50 £20.18
Median hourly rate £17.87 £22.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.77% -53.68% +152.32%
75th Percentile £42.90 £24.18 £53.74
90th Percentile £61.00 £48.84 £58.13
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £20.94 £19.59
% change year-on-year -4.48% +6.88% -10.95%

Root Cause Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Root Cause Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Root Cause Analysis 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 and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (28.57%) IaaS
1 2 (28.57%) PaaS
1 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
1 2 (28.57%) PowerApps
1 2 (28.57%) SaaS
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 2 (28.57%) Cucumber
2 2 (28.57%) Cypress.io
2 2 (28.57%) Git
2 2 (28.57%) JIRA
2 2 (28.57%) Postman
2 2 (28.57%) Selenium
2 2 (28.57%) Subversion
2 2 (28.57%) TeamCity
2 2 (28.57%) WebDriver
3 1 (14.29%) GitLab
3 1 (14.29%) Liquibase
General
1 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Finance
3 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
4 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Banking
4 1 (14.29%) Financial Institution
4 1 (14.29%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Analyst
1 2 (28.57%) Consultant
1 2 (28.57%) Network Consultant
1 2 (28.57%) QA Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Financial Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Quality Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Financial Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (14.29%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Client/Server
1 2 (28.57%) Mobile App
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Mainframe
2 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (42.86%) Waterfall
3 2 (28.57%) ATDD
3 2 (28.57%) BDD
3 2 (28.57%) Feature Driven Development
3 2 (28.57%) Kanban
3 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
3 2 (28.57%) Migration
3 2 (28.57%) Project Delivery
3 2 (28.57%) SOA
3 2 (28.57%) Software Delivery
3 2 (28.57%) TDD
3 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Validation
3 2 (28.57%) V-Model
4 1 (14.29%) Change Management
4 1 (14.29%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) C#
1 2 (28.57%) C++
1 2 (28.57%) Java
1 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
1 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
1 2 (28.57%) VBA
1 2 (28.57%) VBScript
2 1 (14.29%) COBOL
2 1 (14.29%) Go
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) ISEB
1 2 (28.57%) ISTQB
1 2 (28.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (14.29%) ACCA
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) CIMA
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
1 1 (14.29%) Grafana
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) SAP
2 1 (14.29%) Splunk