Root Cause Analysis Job Trends in Scotland

Root Cause Analysis
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Root Cause Analysis skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 118 220
Rank change year-on-year +40 +102 -51
Permanent jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 66 16 23
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 2.16% 0.76% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.78% 0.81% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 10 3 18
10th Percentile £35,550 £47,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £36,438 £49,375 £40,833
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £55,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -30.91% -22.07% +41.15%
75th Percentile £39,000 £59,375 £72,433
90th Percentile £43,600 £60,500 -
UK median annual salary £55,000 £53,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% +6.50% -3.85%

All Process & 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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,371 1,966 4,647
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 77.59% 93.66% 93.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,243 940 2,282
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,175 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £38,750 £38,021
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -10.43%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,688 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,778 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.86%

Root Cause Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Root Cause Analysis relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Root Cause Analysis job vacancy trend in Scotland

Root Cause Analysis
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Root Cause Analysis.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Root Cause Analysis

Root Cause Analysis
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Root Cause Analysis in Scotland over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Root Cause Analysis in Scotland

Root Cause Analysis
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Root Cause Analysis within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 14 March 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +46 53 £38,000 -20.00% 2
Glasgow -1 11 £85,000 +51.11% 2
Argyll and Bute - 2 £37,500 -
Root Cause Analysis
UK

Root Cause Analysis
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (6.06%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (6.06%) WebSphere
1 4 (6.06%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 4 (6.06%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 24 (36.36%) Oracle ERP
2 10 (15.15%) Oracle Assets
2 10 (15.15%) Oracle Financials
2 10 (15.15%) Oracle General Ledger
2 10 (15.15%) Oracle Payables
2 10 (15.15%) Oracle Receivables
3 4 (6.06%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 41 (62.12%) Azure
2 27 (40.91%) Azure DevOps
2 27 (40.91%) GitHub
3 22 (33.33%) AWS
4 17 (25.76%) Azure Data Factory
5 14 (21.21%) Entra ID
5 14 (21.21%) OCI
6 13 (19.70%) Azure Event Grid
6 13 (19.70%) Azure Logic Apps
6 13 (19.70%) Azure Monitor
6 13 (19.70%) Azure Service Bus
6 13 (19.70%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (6.06%) Amazon S3
8 4 (6.06%) AWS CodePipeline
8 4 (6.06%) AWS Step Functions
8 4 (6.06%) dbt
8 4 (6.06%) SaaS
8 4 (6.06%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (15.15%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 9 (13.64%) SQL Server
3 5 (7.58%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (6.06%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (6.06%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (6.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.52%) MySQL
5 1 (1.52%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.52%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (36.36%) Oracle Forms
2 14 (21.21%) Jenkins
3 9 (13.64%) Git
4 4 (6.06%) JIRA
5 1 (1.52%) Subversion
General
1 49 (74.24%) Finance
2 16 (24.24%) Social Skills
3 15 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (12.12%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.55%) Law
6 2 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (42.42%) Senior
2 18 (27.27%) Applications Engineer
3 15 (22.73%) Analyst
4 14 (21.21%) Cloud Engineer
4 14 (21.21%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 10 (15.15%) ERP Analyst
5 10 (15.15%) Integration Engineer
5 10 (15.15%) Oracle Analyst
5 10 (15.15%) Senior Analyst
5 10 (15.15%) Senior Oracle Analyst
6 8 (12.12%) Applications Support
7 6 (9.09%) 3rd Line Support
8 5 (7.58%) Support Engineer
9 4 (6.06%) Applications Support Analyst
9 4 (6.06%) Applications Support Engineer
9 4 (6.06%) Head of QA
9 4 (6.06%) Informatica Engineer
9 4 (6.06%) Support Analyst
10 3 (4.55%) IT Manager
10 3 (4.55%) Senior IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (40.91%) JSON
1 27 (40.91%) RESTful
2 18 (27.27%) SOAP
3 14 (21.21%) XML
4 13 (19.70%) OAuth
4 13 (19.70%) OAuth2
5 4 (6.06%) .NET
5 4 (6.06%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 18 (27.27%) Cloud Native
2 14 (21.21%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (12.12%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (4.55%) Driving Licence
5 2 (3.03%) Housing Association
6 1 (1.52%) Replication
6 1 (1.52%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 11 (16.67%) Windows
2 6 (9.09%) Windows Server
3 4 (6.06%) Linux
3 4 (6.06%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (62.12%) Asset Management
1 41 (62.12%) Coaching
2 35 (53.03%) CI/CD
3 31 (46.97%) DevOps
3 31 (46.97%) Mentoring
4 27 (40.91%) Analytics
4 27 (40.91%) Observability
4 27 (40.91%) Test Automation
5 24 (36.36%) ERP
5 24 (36.36%) Migration
5 24 (36.36%) Translating Business Requirements
6 21 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (27.27%) Agile
7 18 (27.27%) API Integration
7 18 (27.27%) Data Governance
7 18 (27.27%) Data Integration
8 17 (25.76%) Data Pipeline
8 17 (25.76%) ETL
8 17 (25.76%) Event-Driven
8 17 (25.76%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 36 (54.55%) SQL
2 19 (28.79%) Java
3 18 (27.27%) Shell Script
4 14 (21.21%) PL/SQL
4 14 (21.21%) Python
5 13 (19.70%) Bicep
6 10 (15.15%) PowerShell
7 4 (6.06%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.52%) C
8 1 (1.52%) C++
8 1 (1.52%) Perl
Qualifications
1 5 (7.58%) Degree
2 4 (6.06%) IRCA
3 1 (1.52%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (25.76%) GDPR
2 8 (12.12%) QA
3 4 (6.06%) Data Quality
3 4 (6.06%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 19 (28.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (40.91%) Terraform
2 14 (21.21%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (6.06%) Control-M
Vendors
1 29 (43.94%) Oracle
2 17 (25.76%) Ab Initio
3 14 (21.21%) Okta
4 11 (16.67%) Microsoft
5 6 (9.09%) Cisco
6 4 (6.06%) IBM
6 4 (6.06%) Informatica
7 3 (4.55%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.52%) Siemens