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 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 114 166
Rank change year-on-year +43 +52 +3
Permanent jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 71 27 27
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 2.60% 1.02% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.24% 1.10% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 10 5 22
10th Percentile £35,550 £39,028 £43,086
25th Percentile £36,438 £41,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £47,500 £67,634
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -29.77% +28.83%
75th Percentile £39,000 £54,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £43,600 £59,200 -
UK median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £59,556
% change year-on-year +1.82% -7.65% +19.11%

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 2,188 2,449 2,896
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 80.21% 92.52% 94.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,065 1,031 1,796
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £41,250 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -24.55% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £69,800
90th Percentile £82,396 £88,750 £83,903
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 5 January 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 5 January 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 +41 62 £38,000 - 7
Glasgow +17 6 £85,000 +41.67% 7
Argyll and Bute - 2 £37,500 - 1
Banffshire - 1 - -
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 3 (4.23%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.82%) WebSphere
2 2 (2.82%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 34 (47.89%) Oracle ERP
2 14 (19.72%) Oracle Assets
2 14 (19.72%) Oracle Financials
2 14 (19.72%) Oracle General Ledger
2 14 (19.72%) Oracle Payables
2 14 (19.72%) Oracle Receivables
3 4 (5.63%) Markit EDM
4 1 (1.41%) Pegasus Opera
Cloud Services
1 47 (66.20%) Azure
2 34 (47.89%) Azure DevOps
2 34 (47.89%) GitHub
3 25 (35.21%) AWS
4 24 (33.80%) OCI
5 20 (28.17%) Entra ID
6 18 (25.35%) Azure Data Factory
7 14 (19.72%) Azure Event Grid
7 14 (19.72%) Azure Logic Apps
7 14 (19.72%) Azure Monitor
7 14 (19.72%) Azure Service Bus
7 14 (19.72%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (9.86%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (5.63%) dbt
9 4 (5.63%) Snowflake
10 3 (4.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (4.23%) AWS CodePipeline
10 3 (4.23%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (4.23%) AWS Step Functions
10 3 (4.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.41%) DHCP
1 1 (1.41%) DNS
1 1 (1.41%) Firewall
1 1 (1.41%) IMAP
1 1 (1.41%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.41%) VoIP
1 1 (1.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (19.72%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 6 (8.45%) SQL Server
3 4 (5.63%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (4.23%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (4.23%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (4.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 34 (47.89%) Oracle Forms
2 20 (28.17%) Jenkins
3 5 (7.04%) Git
4 2 (2.82%) JIRA
General
1 54 (76.06%) Finance
2 15 (21.13%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (21.13%) Social Skills
3 5 (7.04%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (5.63%) Law
4 4 (5.63%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (4.23%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.41%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 39 (54.93%) Senior
2 24 (33.80%) Applications Engineer
3 20 (28.17%) Cloud Engineer
3 20 (28.17%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 17 (23.94%) Analyst
5 14 (19.72%) Oracle Analyst
5 14 (19.72%) Senior Analyst
5 14 (19.72%) Senior Oracle Analyst
6 10 (14.08%) ERP Analyst
6 10 (14.08%) Integration Engineer
7 6 (8.45%) 3rd Line Support
7 6 (8.45%) Applications Support
8 5 (7.04%) Support Engineer
9 4 (5.63%) Applications Support Engineer
9 4 (5.63%) IT Manager
9 4 (5.63%) Senior IT Manager
9 4 (5.63%) Senior Manager
10 3 (4.23%) Informatica Engineer
10 3 (4.23%) Problem Manager
10 3 (4.23%) Senior Problem Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (47.89%) JSON
1 34 (47.89%) RESTful
2 23 (32.39%) SOAP
3 20 (28.17%) XML
4 14 (19.72%) OAuth
4 14 (19.72%) OAuth2
5 3 (4.23%) REST
6 2 (2.82%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 24 (33.80%) Cloud Native
2 20 (28.17%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (5.63%) Driving Licence
4 3 (4.23%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.82%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 12 (16.90%) Windows
2 7 (9.86%) Windows Server
3 3 (4.23%) Linux
3 3 (4.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (73.24%) Asset Management
1 52 (73.24%) Coaching
2 41 (57.75%) CI/CD
3 38 (53.52%) DevOps
4 37 (52.11%) Mentoring
5 34 (47.89%) ERP
5 34 (47.89%) Migration
5 34 (47.89%) Observability
5 34 (47.89%) Test Automation
5 34 (47.89%) Translating Business Requirements
6 28 (39.44%) Agile
6 28 (39.44%) Analytics
7 23 (32.39%) API Integration
7 23 (32.39%) Data Governance
7 23 (32.39%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (28.17%) Business Strategy
8 20 (28.17%) Identity Access Management
9 18 (25.35%) ETL
10 17 (23.94%) Data Integration
10 17 (23.94%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 43 (60.56%) SQL
2 23 (32.39%) Shell Script
3 22 (30.99%) Java
4 20 (28.17%) PL/SQL
4 20 (28.17%) Python
5 14 (19.72%) Bicep
6 10 (14.08%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.82%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (4.23%) Degree
2 1 (1.41%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (19.72%) GDPR
2 3 (4.23%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.82%) QA
System Software
1 25 (35.21%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.41%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 34 (47.89%) Terraform
2 20 (28.17%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (4.23%) Control-M
Vendors
1 37 (52.11%) Oracle
2 20 (28.17%) Okta
3 18 (25.35%) Ab Initio
4 12 (16.90%) Microsoft
5 6 (8.45%) Cisco
6 4 (5.63%) IBM
6 4 (5.63%) ServiceNow
7 3 (4.23%) Informatica
8 1 (1.41%) Pegasus
8 1 (1.41%) Sage
8 1 (1.41%) VMware
8 1 (1.41%) Xero