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 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 64 78
Rank change year-on-year +10 +14 +29
Contract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 10 5 6
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 1.70% 0.80% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.86% 0.88% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 3
10th Percentile - £403 £415
25th Percentile - £406 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.56%
75th Percentile - £456 £444
90th Percentile - £468 £448
Scotland median daily rate £425 £438 £425
% change year-on-year -2.86% +2.94% -15.00%

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 539 571 827
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 91.51% 91.80% 92.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 281 305 495
10th Percentile £222 £229 £206
25th Percentile £406 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £550 £538 £550
90th Percentile £625 £638 £626
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +3.33% -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 26 10
10th Percentile £17.36 £17.32 £13.12
25th Percentile - £21.01 £16.00
Median hourly rate £17.87 £23.59 £17.61
Median % change year-on-year -24.25% +33.96% -14.33%
75th Percentile £35.75 £24.18 £31.97
90th Percentile £64.00 £26.28 £54.48
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year -13.04% +27.78% +1.58%

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 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) GitLab
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (10.00%) Liquibase
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (50.00%) Finance
3 3 (30.00%) Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Consultant
1 3 (30.00%) Network Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Administrator
2 2 (20.00%) Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Unix Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) Operations Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Operations Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (10.00%) REST
1 1 (10.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Clustering
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
2 2 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 5 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 3 (30.00%) Change Management
2 3 (30.00%) High Availability
2 3 (30.00%) ITIL
3 2 (20.00%) Agile
3 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) Task Automation
4 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (10.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (10.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (10.00%) Data Encryption
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (10.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Bash
1 2 (20.00%) Korn
1 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (10.00%) COBOL
2 1 (10.00%) Go
2 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Developer
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Six Sigma Green Belt
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Ansible
1 1 (10.00%) Grafana
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Cisco
2 2 (20.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Splunk