Root Cause Analysis Contracts in Scotland

Root Cause Analysis
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 119 152
Rank change year-on-year +14 +33 -12
Contract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 14 9 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.87% 0.41% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 0.46% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 6 6
10th Percentile £400 £512 £375
25th Percentile £406 £611 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £623 £512
Median % change year-on-year -23.05% +21.52% +20.53%
75th Percentile £567 £634 £632
90th Percentile £600 - £655
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.79
Median hourly rate - - £23.86
75th Percentile - - £26.93
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £53.03 £38.50
% change year-on-year -5.71% +37.74% +4.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,509 1,967 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.49% 88.60% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 918 1,198 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £521 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%

Root Cause Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Root Cause Analysis in Scotland

Root Cause Analysis
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Root Cause Analysis in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Root Cause Analysis in Scotland

Root Cause Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Root Cause Analysis in Scotland over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Root Cause Analysis in Scotland

Root Cause Analysis
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Root Cause Analysis in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Root Cause Analysis in Scotland

Root Cause Analysis
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow - 8 £527 - 13
Edinburgh +3 5 £400 -35.74% 3
Root Cause Analysis
UK

Root Cause Analysis
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Azure
1 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (21.43%) IaaS
1 3 (21.43%) PaaS
1 3 (21.43%) Power Platform
1 3 (21.43%) PowerApps
1 3 (21.43%) SaaS
2 1 (7.14%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Run
2 1 (7.14%) Fivetran
2 1 (7.14%) GCP
2 1 (7.14%) GitHub
2 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (7.14%) Google Compute Engine
2 1 (7.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (7.14%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) DB2
1 1 (7.14%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 3 (21.43%) Cucumber
2 3 (21.43%) Cypress.io
2 3 (21.43%) Git
2 3 (21.43%) JIRA
2 3 (21.43%) Postman
2 3 (21.43%) Selenium
2 3 (21.43%) Subversion
2 3 (21.43%) TeamCity
2 3 (21.43%) WebDriver
3 1 (7.14%) GitLab
General
1 11 (78.57%) Social Skills
2 6 (42.86%) Public Sector
3 4 (28.57%) Banking
4 3 (21.43%) Finance
5 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Administrator
2 3 (21.43%) QA Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Business Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Data Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) DBA
4 1 (7.14%) Incident Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Lead
4 1 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior QA Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Sybase DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) .NET
1 3 (21.43%) LDAP
1 3 (21.43%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Client/Server
1 3 (21.43%) Mobile App
2 2 (14.29%) Data Centre
3 1 (7.14%) Clustering
3 1 (7.14%) Replication
3 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (35.71%) Linux
2 3 (21.43%) Mac OS
2 3 (21.43%) Unix
2 3 (21.43%) Windows
2 3 (21.43%) Windows Server
3 2 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (28.57%) Agile
2 4 (28.57%) Capacity Planning
2 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 4 (28.57%) DevOps
2 4 (28.57%) Migration
2 4 (28.57%) Task Automation
3 3 (21.43%) BDD
3 3 (21.43%) Business Continuity
3 3 (21.43%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (21.43%) Feature Driven Development
3 3 (21.43%) Incident Management
3 3 (21.43%) Information Security
3 3 (21.43%) Kanban
3 3 (21.43%) SOA
3 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (21.43%) TDD
3 3 (21.43%) Validation
3 3 (21.43%) V-Model
3 3 (21.43%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 5 (35.71%) Python
3 4 (28.57%) SQL
4 3 (21.43%) C#
4 3 (21.43%) C++
4 3 (21.43%) Java
4 3 (21.43%) JavaScript
4 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
4 3 (21.43%) VBA
4 3 (21.43%) VBScript
5 2 (14.29%) Bash
6 1 (7.14%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) ISEB
1 3 (21.43%) ISTQB
1 3 (21.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (21.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 3 (21.43%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.14%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Docker
2 3 (21.43%) Active Directory
2 3 (21.43%) Hyper-V
2 3 (21.43%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Ansible
2 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Red Hat
2 2 (14.29%) VMware
3 1 (7.14%) Dynatrace
3 1 (7.14%) Google
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle
3 1 (7.14%) SAP
3 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow
3 1 (7.14%) Splunk
3 1 (7.14%) Sun
3 1 (7.14%) Sybase
3 1 (7.14%) Workday