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 27 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 99 136
Rank change year-on-year +33 +37 +12
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 56 19 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 3.44% 1.02% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.78% 1.18% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 8
10th Percentile £379 - -
25th Percentile £419 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £552 £438 £450
Median % change year-on-year +26.06% -2.78% -
75th Percentile £586 £475 £452
90th Percentile £600 £508 £494
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -2.44%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,481 1,614 2,349
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 91.03% 86.82% 92.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 792 991 1,560
10th Percentile £263 £206 £247
25th Percentile £368 £355 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £598 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 49 56
10th Percentile £16.84 £12.30 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.87 £13.50 £13.03
Median hourly rate £20.00 £18.38 £19.06
Median % change year-on-year +8.84% -3.57% -4.01%
75th Percentile £25.15 £27.50 £58.75
90th Percentile £29.60 £57.50 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.90% -4.71% +54.55%

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

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Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Root Cause Analysis.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Root Cause Analysis

Root Cause Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Root Cause Analysis in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Root Cause Analysis in Scotland

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Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Root Cause Analysis.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Root Cause Analysis

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DemandTrendContract 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 27 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
West Lothian - 18 - -
Glasgow -5 10 £553 +16.42% 3
Edinburgh -1 6 £400 -5.88% 7
Stirling - 4 - -
Midlothian - 3 - - 6
Fife - 2 - -
Lanarkshire +1 1 - - 2
Banffshire - 1 £190 -
East Lothian - 1 - -
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.79%) Pegasus Opera
Cloud Services
1 3 (5.36%) Azure
1 3 (5.36%) Power Platform
2 2 (3.57%) AWS
2 2 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (3.57%) IaaS
2 2 (3.57%) PaaS
2 2 (3.57%) PowerApps
2 2 (3.57%) SaaS
3 1 (1.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (1.79%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (1.79%) Amazon S3
3 1 (1.79%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (1.79%) Datadog
3 1 (1.79%) GitHub
3 1 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (1.79%) Serverless
3 1 (1.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 40 (71.43%) Broadband
2 2 (3.57%) Firewall
2 2 (3.57%) VPN
3 1 (1.79%) BGP
3 1 (1.79%) DHCP
3 1 (1.79%) DNS
3 1 (1.79%) IMAP
3 1 (1.79%) IPv4
3 1 (1.79%) MPLS
3 1 (1.79%) OSPF
3 1 (1.79%) Spanning Tree
3 1 (1.79%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.79%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (1.79%) DB2
1 1 (1.79%) DynamoDB
1 1 (1.79%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (1.79%) Power BI
1 1 (1.79%) SQL Server
1 1 (1.79%) Sybase ASE
1 1 (1.79%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.57%) Cucumber
2 2 (3.57%) Cypress.io
2 2 (3.57%) Git
2 2 (3.57%) JIRA
2 2 (3.57%) Postman
2 2 (3.57%) Selenium
2 2 (3.57%) Subversion
2 2 (3.57%) TeamCity
2 2 (3.57%) WebDriver
3 1 (1.79%) GitLab
General
1 51 (91.07%) Social Skills
2 45 (80.36%) Finance
3 40 (71.43%) General Ledger
4 6 (10.71%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.36%) Banking
6 1 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 42 (75.00%) Analyst
1 42 (75.00%) Senior
2 40 (71.43%) Financial Analyst
2 40 (71.43%) Senior Analyst
2 40 (71.43%) Senior Financial Analyst
3 4 (7.14%) Administrator
4 3 (5.36%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (3.57%) Incident Manager
5 2 (3.57%) QA Engineer
6 1 (1.79%) Business Manager
6 1 (1.79%) Data Analyst
6 1 (1.79%) Oracle Analyst
6 1 (1.79%) Quality Engineer
6 1 (1.79%) Senior Incident Manager
6 1 (1.79%) Senior Network Engineer
6 1 (1.79%) Sybase DBA
6 1 (1.79%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (1.79%) Technical Business Analyst
6 1 (1.79%) Technical Engineer
6 1 (1.79%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.36%) LDAP
1 3 (5.36%) X-Windows
2 2 (3.57%) .NET
3 1 (1.79%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (1.79%) Apache Camel
3 1 (1.79%) J2EE
3 1 (1.79%) JSON
3 1 (1.79%) Kafka
3 1 (1.79%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.79%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (1.79%) RESTful
3 1 (1.79%) Spring
3 1 (1.79%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 40 (71.43%) Social Media
2 2 (3.57%) Client/Server
2 2 (3.57%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.79%) Clustering
3 1 (1.79%) Driving Licence
3 1 (1.79%) IVR
3 1 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.79%) Mainframe
3 1 (1.79%) Operational Technology
3 1 (1.79%) Replication
3 1 (1.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.14%) Windows
1 4 (7.14%) Windows Server
2 3 (5.36%) Linux
2 3 (5.36%) Mac OS
2 3 (5.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 40 (71.43%) Accounts Payable
2 40 (71.43%) Procure-to-Pay
3 5 (8.93%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (7.14%) Agile
4 4 (7.14%) DevOps
4 4 (7.14%) Line Management
4 4 (7.14%) Task Automation
5 3 (5.36%) Business Continuity
5 3 (5.36%) Capacity Planning
5 3 (5.36%) CI/CD
5 3 (5.36%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (5.36%) Information Security
5 3 (5.36%) ITIL
5 3 (5.36%) Kanban
5 3 (5.36%) Migration
5 3 (5.36%) Storage Management
5 3 (5.36%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (5.36%) Validation
5 3 (5.36%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (8.93%) Shell Script
2 4 (7.14%) PowerShell
3 3 (5.36%) Java
3 3 (5.36%) SQL
4 2 (3.57%) C#
4 2 (3.57%) C++
4 2 (3.57%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.57%) Python
4 2 (3.57%) VBA
4 2 (3.57%) VBScript
5 1 (1.79%) COBOL
5 1 (1.79%) Perl
Qualifications
1 40 (71.43%) ACCA
1 40 (71.43%) CIMA
2 3 (5.36%) Degree
3 2 (3.57%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.57%) ISEB
3 2 (3.57%) ISTQB
3 2 (3.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (1.79%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.36%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (5.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (3.57%) QA
3 1 (1.79%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.79%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (7.14%) Active Directory
1 4 (7.14%) Docker
1 4 (7.14%) Hyper-V
2 3 (5.36%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.79%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.79%) Prometheus
1 1 (1.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 41 (73.21%) SAP
2 6 (10.71%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.57%) Oracle
4 1 (1.79%) CheckPoint
4 1 (1.79%) Cisco
4 1 (1.79%) Palo Alto
4 1 (1.79%) Pega
4 1 (1.79%) Pegasus
4 1 (1.79%) Sage
4 1 (1.79%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.79%) Sun
4 1 (1.79%) Sybase
4 1 (1.79%) VMware
4 1 (1.79%) Workday
4 1 (1.79%) Xero