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 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 63 60
Rank change year-on-year 0 -3 +30
Contract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 7 6 10
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.93% 0.92% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 0.98% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 5
10th Percentile £419 £408 -
25th Percentile £439 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £440 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.39% -7.47% +11.76%
75th Percentile £488 £459 £634
90th Percentile £555 £471 -
Scotland median daily rate £433 £525 £456
% change year-on-year -17.62% +15.07% +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 634 615 688
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 84.65% 94.04% 85.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 343 308 378
10th Percentile £313 £307 £206
25th Percentile £406 £413 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £538
90th Percentile £600 £599 £640
Scotland median daily rate £453 £465 £450
% change year-on-year -2.58% +3.33% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 19 20
10th Percentile £15.81 £17.15 £13.09
25th Percentile £16.84 £17.30 £15.78
Median hourly rate £50.00 £17.87 £18.19
Median % change year-on-year +179.80% -1.75% -65.36%
75th Percentile £65.38 £37.09 £24.18
90th Percentile £85.80 £62.00 £55.25
Scotland median hourly rate £17.12 £20.00 £19.59
% change year-on-year -14.40% +2.09% +2.81%

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 17 August 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 (14.29%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) GCP
1 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
2 1 (14.29%) Apigee
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Run
2 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
2 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Power BI
2 1 (14.29%) BigQuery
2 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
2 1 (14.29%) Data Vault
2 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (100.00%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Banking
2 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Analyst
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Support Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Applications Support
2 1 (14.29%) Applications Support Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Business Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Power BI Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Production Support Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Site Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) JSON
1 1 (14.29%) Kafka
1 1 (14.29%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (14.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Onboarding
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Incident Management
2 3 (42.86%) Analytics
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) Observability
2 3 (42.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
3 2 (28.57%) Microservices
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (14.29%) AI
4 1 (14.29%) Change Management
4 1 (14.29%) Data Management
4 1 (14.29%) ETL
4 1 (14.29%) ITIL
4 1 (14.29%) Migration
4 1 (14.29%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) SQL
2 3 (42.86%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (14.29%) Go
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) PL/SQL
3 1 (14.29%) Scala
3 1 (14.29%) Search Processing Language
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (14.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
1 1 (14.29%) Grafana
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle
1 2 (28.57%) Splunk
1 2 (28.57%) VMware
2 1 (14.29%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat