Root Cause Analysis Contracts in Edinburgh

Root Cause Analysis
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Root Cause Analysis skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Root Cause Analysis over the 6 months leading up to 25 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 66 98
Rank change year-on-year +4 +32 +19
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 6 8 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.95% 0.99% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 1.16% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% - -5.56%
75th Percentile - £456 £438
90th Percentile - £468 -
Scotland median daily rate £552 £438 £450
% change year-on-year +26.06% -2.78% -

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 593 689 1,008
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 93.68% 84.96% 91.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 293 371 656
10th Percentile £313 £206 £213
25th Percentile £413 £340 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -0.84%
75th Percentile £530 £538 £538
90th Percentile £586 £646 £600
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 21 5
10th Percentile £17.08 £13.21 £24.40
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.00 £41.25
Median hourly rate £17.87 £18.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.72% -65.71% +196.28%
75th Percentile £39.40 £24.18 £53.75
90th Percentile £62.38 £55.00 £59.00
Scotland median hourly rate £19.99 £19.00 £19.18
% change year-on-year +5.18% -0.94% -1.01%

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
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Edinburgh

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Root Cause Analysis within the Edinburgh region over the 6 months to 25 August 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Balerno - 1 - -
Root Cause Analysis
Scotland

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 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (33.33%) IaaS
1 2 (33.33%) PaaS
1 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
1 2 (33.33%) PowerApps
1 2 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Broadband
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 2 (33.33%) Cypress.io
1 2 (33.33%) Git
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
1 2 (33.33%) Postman
1 2 (33.33%) Selenium
1 2 (33.33%) Subversion
1 2 (33.33%) TeamCity
1 2 (33.33%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (66.67%) Finance
3 3 (50.00%) General Ledger
4 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
5 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Analyst
2 3 (50.00%) Financial Analyst
2 3 (50.00%) Senior
2 3 (50.00%) Senior Analyst
2 3 (50.00%) Senior Financial Analyst
3 2 (33.33%) QA Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Social Media
2 2 (33.33%) Client/Server
2 2 (33.33%) Mobile App
3 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (16.67%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (50.00%) Accounts Payable
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Procure-to-Pay
2 3 (50.00%) Waterfall
3 2 (33.33%) ATDD
3 2 (33.33%) BDD
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Feature Driven Development
3 2 (33.33%) Kanban
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) SOA
3 2 (33.33%) Software Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) TDD
3 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Validation
3 2 (33.33%) V-Model
4 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (16.67%) Six Sigma
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) C#
1 2 (33.33%) C++
1 2 (33.33%) Java
1 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
1 2 (33.33%) VBA
1 2 (33.33%) VBScript
2 1 (16.67%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) ACCA
1 3 (50.00%) CIMA
2 2 (33.33%) ISEB
2 2 (33.33%) ISTQB
2 2 (33.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (16.67%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) SAP
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft