Problem-Solving Jobs in Scotland

Problem Solving
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Problem-Solving skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Problem-Solving over the 6 months to 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 16 6
Rank change year-on-year -8 -10 +9
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 919 602 1,000
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 13.48% 13.47% 16.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.79% 14.26% 18.14%
Number of salaries quoted 393 270 436
10th Percentile £25,818 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,000 £38,236 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £62,200 £72,500 £65,313
90th Percentile £72,500 £79,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £48,900 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.09% - +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Problem-Solving is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,212 4,221 5,512
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 91.15% 94.45% 91.15%
Number of salaries quoted 2,458 2,081 2,845
10th Percentile £28,425 £32,000 £31,133
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +14.58%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,800
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Problem-Solving as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Scotland

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in Scotland.

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in Scotland

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Scotland over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in Scotland

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 29 May 2024. 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
Glasgow -13 555 £42,500 -15.00% 99
Edinburgh +1 180 £60,000 +6.19% 82
Aberdeen +10 41 £40,500 -37.69% 29
Fife +11 26 £50,000 +26.58% 14
Lanarkshire +3 16 £43,750 -10.26% 41
North Lanarkshire - 16 £13,000 - 3
Renfrewshire +2 13 £52,500 - 3
Dundee 0 12 £45,000 +13.22% 11
Stirling +3 11 £32,150 -1.08% 4
West Lothian 0 9 £26,250 -50.00% 4
Aberdeenshire 0 6 £37,500 +56.25% 9
South Lanarkshire +6 5 £105,000 +162.50% 2
Banffshire - 4 £22,000 -
West Dunbartonshire +2 3 £27,500 - 1
Falkirk +1 3 £50,000 - 5
Argyll and Bute - 3 - -
East Ayrshire - 3 £29,500 - 1
Clackmannanshire - 2 £51,500 - 1
Inverclyde -3 1 £50,000 - 1
South Ayrshire - 1 - - 3
Dumfries and Galloway - 1 £23,000 - 3
Highlands - 1 - - 3
Problem-Solving
UK

Problem-Solving
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
1 158 (17.19%) Apache Spark
2 73 (7.94%) Apache
3 18 (1.96%) Confluence
3 18 (1.96%) FileNet
4 17 (1.85%) Cloud Foundry
4 17 (1.85%) IIS
5 13 (1.41%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.44%) OpenEdge
8 2 (0.22%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.22%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (1.20%) Sketch
5 3 (0.33%) InVision
5 3 (0.33%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
1 11 (1.20%) Endur
2 4 (0.44%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.11%) Maximo
4 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.11%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 263 (28.62%) AWS
2 148 (16.10%) Azure
3 70 (7.62%) GCP
4 63 (6.86%) Cloud Computing
5 59 (6.42%) Microsoft 365
6 47 (5.11%) Power Platform
7 45 (4.90%) Amazon S3
8 34 (3.70%) SaaS
9 33 (3.59%) Dynamics 365
10 28 (3.05%) Miro
11 20 (2.18%) Google Docs
12 16 (1.74%) Amazon SQS
12 16 (1.74%) Figma
12 16 (1.74%) Lucidchart
12 16 (1.74%) Slack
13 14 (1.52%) BlazeMeter
14 11 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
15 10 (1.09%) Entra ID
16 8 (0.87%) Heroku
17 6 (0.65%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 26 (2.83%) Network Security
2 22 (2.39%) WAN
3 21 (2.29%) Firewall
4 18 (1.96%) VPN
5 17 (1.85%) Kerberos
6 14 (1.52%) Internet
7 11 (1.20%) IPsec
8 10 (1.09%) SNMP
8 10 (1.09%) TCP/IP
9 9 (0.98%) SAN
9 9 (0.98%) VoIP
10 8 (0.87%) LAN
10 8 (0.87%) Wireless
11 7 (0.76%) HTTP
11 7 (0.76%) MQTT
11 7 (0.76%) NAS
12 6 (0.65%) DNS
13 5 (0.54%) DHCP
14 4 (0.44%) IMAP
14 4 (0.44%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (18.28%) NoSQL
2 134 (14.58%) Big Data
3 65 (7.07%) Hadoop
4 46 (5.01%) Elasticsearch
5 40 (4.35%) Power BI
6 36 (3.92%) SQL Server
7 24 (2.61%) Relational Database
8 19 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
8 19 (2.07%) MySQL
9 18 (1.96%) Apache Cassandra
9 18 (1.96%) BigQuery
10 17 (1.85%) Amazon Aurora
10 17 (1.85%) CockroachDB
10 17 (1.85%) Looker
11 16 (1.74%) Redis
11 16 (1.74%) Scylla
12 14 (1.52%) MongoDB
13 13 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
14 10 (1.09%) Flink
15 9 (0.98%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 48 (5.22%) JIRA
2 30 (3.26%) Maven
3 26 (2.83%) Jenkins
3 26 (2.83%) JUnit
4 17 (1.85%) Git
5 15 (1.63%) GitLab
5 15 (1.63%) LabVIEW
6 11 (1.20%) CircleCI
7 10 (1.09%) Cucumber
7 10 (1.09%) Cypress.io
7 10 (1.09%) JMeter
8 9 (0.98%) Gradle
9 3 (0.33%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.22%) JDeveloper
10 2 (0.22%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.11%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.11%) Mockito
11 1 (0.11%) Postman
11 1 (0.11%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 443 (48.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 435 (47.33%) Finance
3 370 (40.26%) Law
4 281 (30.58%) Social Skills
5 221 (24.05%) Marketing
6 172 (18.72%) Analytical Skills
7 107 (11.64%) Legal
8 64 (6.96%) Banking
9 54 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
10 46 (5.01%) Investment Banking
11 30 (3.26%) Manufacturing
12 24 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
12 24 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
13 23 (2.50%) Electronics
14 22 (2.39%) Public Sector
15 20 (2.18%) Telecoms
16 17 (1.85%) Retail
17 16 (1.74%) Financial Institution
17 16 (1.74%) Publishing
18 14 (1.52%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 349 (37.98%) Software Engineer
2 210 (22.85%) Senior
3 196 (21.33%) Lead
4 158 (17.19%) Senior Software Engineer
5 151 (16.43%) Lead Software Engineer
6 111 (12.08%) Java Engineer
6 111 (12.08%) Java Software Engineer
7 107 (11.64%) Big Data Engineer
7 107 (11.64%) Big Data Software Engineer
8 99 (10.77%) Scala Engineer
8 99 (10.77%) Scala Software Engineer
9 94 (10.23%) Developer
10 88 (9.58%) AWS Engineer
11 87 (9.47%) AWS Software Engineer
12 79 (8.60%) Senior Java Engineer
12 79 (8.60%) Senior Java Software Engineer
13 77 (8.38%) Lead Java Engineer
14 72 (7.83%) Analyst
15 57 (6.20%) Java Scala Software Engineer
16 50 (5.44%) Senior Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (11.64%) React
2 94 (10.23%) Spring
3 64 (6.96%) AngularJS
4 61 (6.64%) GraphQL
5 56 (6.09%) Kafka
6 48 (5.22%) Spring Boot
7 45 (4.90%) CSS
8 43 (4.68%) HTML
8 43 (4.68%) Node.js
9 40 (4.35%) .NET
10 35 (3.81%) REST
11 33 (3.59%) PySpark
12 24 (2.61%) JSON
12 24 (2.61%) OAuth
13 21 (2.29%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 20 (2.18%) Hibernate
14 20 (2.18%) J2EE
15 18 (1.96%) JMS
15 18 (1.96%) jQuery
15 18 (1.96%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 86 (9.36%) Cloud Native
2 64 (6.96%) Algorithms
3 53 (5.77%) Onboarding
4 49 (5.33%) Product Ownership
5 47 (5.11%) Public Cloud
6 29 (3.16%) Self-Motivation
7 24 (2.61%) Management Information System
8 20 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
9 18 (1.96%) Driving Licence
10 17 (1.85%) Data Structures
11 15 (1.63%) Distributed Applications
12 14 (1.52%) Clustering
13 13 (1.41%) Data Centre
14 11 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
15 10 (1.09%) Virtual Team
16 9 (0.98%) Market Risk
17 8 (0.87%) IoT
18 7 (0.76%) Mobile App
18 7 (0.76%) Raspberry Pi
18 7 (0.76%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 60 (6.53%) Windows
2 46 (5.01%) Linux
3 21 (2.29%) Unix
4 18 (1.96%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.09%) Apple iOS
5 10 (1.09%) Data ONTAP
6 8 (0.87%) Android
7 5 (0.54%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.44%) AIX
9 3 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.11%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.11%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 448 (48.75%) Agile
2 403 (43.85%) Software Engineering
3 313 (34.06%) SDLC
4 261 (28.40%) Operational Stability
5 214 (23.29%) Decision-Making
6 203 (22.09%) Artificial Intelligence
7 200 (21.76%) Machine Learning
8 181 (19.70%) CI/CD
9 151 (16.43%) Tech Ops
10 150 (16.32%) Continuous Improvement
11 129 (14.04%) Computer Science
12 122 (13.28%) Risk Management
13 88 (9.58%) ETL
14 77 (8.38%) Microservices
15 76 (8.27%) Scrum
16 72 (7.83%) DevOps
17 71 (7.73%) Analytics
18 66 (7.18%) IT Strategy
19 65 (7.07%) Mentoring
20 62 (6.75%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 319 (34.71%) Java
2 315 (34.28%) SQL
3 218 (23.72%) Python
4 116 (12.62%) Scala
5 81 (8.81%) C#
6 74 (8.05%) JavaScript
7 65 (7.07%) TypeScript
8 38 (4.13%) C
9 34 (3.70%) C++
10 26 (2.83%) Bash
11 20 (2.18%) T-SQL
12 18 (1.96%) Go
13 15 (1.63%) GLSL
13 15 (1.63%) Groovy
14 13 (1.41%) Shell Script
15 12 (1.31%) PowerShell
16 10 (1.09%) Kotlin
17 7 (0.76%) PL/SQL
18 6 (0.65%) PHP
19 5 (0.54%) Swift
Qualifications
1 164 (17.85%) Degree
2 64 (6.96%) Security Cleared
3 48 (5.22%) SC Cleared
4 36 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.07%) Master's Degree
6 13 (1.41%) DBS Check
7 11 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (0.76%) CISM
8 7 (0.76%) CISSP
8 7 (0.76%) PhD
8 7 (0.76%) PMI Certification
9 6 (0.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 6 (0.65%) HND
10 5 (0.54%) PMP
11 3 (0.33%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.22%) ACCA
12 2 (0.22%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.22%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.22%) MCSA
12 2 (0.22%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (7.07%) QA
2 42 (4.57%) Data Quality
3 16 (1.74%) GDPR
4 15 (1.63%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.20%) WCAG
6 9 (0.98%) NIST
7 6 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.54%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.44%) DICOM
9 4 (0.44%) HL7
9 4 (0.44%) ISO 13485
10 3 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.22%) NCSC
11 2 (0.22%) SLA
12 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.11%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.11%) PMO
System Software
1 31 (3.37%) VMware Infrastructure
2 25 (2.72%) Active Directory
3 20 (2.18%) Docker
4 14 (1.52%) Firmware
4 14 (1.52%) VMware NSX
5 7 (0.76%) Embedded Firmware
6 5 (0.54%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.44%) vSphere
8 2 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 85 (9.25%) Kubernetes
2 49 (5.33%) Terraform
3 18 (1.96%) Ansible
4 10 (1.09%) Prometheus
4 10 (1.09%) vCenter Server
5 7 (0.76%) ZABBIX
6 5 (0.54%) Grafana
7 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.33%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (0.33%) SCCM
9 2 (0.22%) Rancher
10 1 (0.11%) Nessus
10 1 (0.11%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 101 (10.99%) Microsoft
2 58 (6.31%) Google
3 55 (5.98%) Databricks
4 43 (4.68%) VMware
5 42 (4.57%) Oracle
6 17 (1.85%) Dell
7 12 (1.31%) Cisco
8 11 (1.20%) NetApp
8 11 (1.20%) OpenLink
9 10 (1.09%) Palo Alto
9 10 (1.09%) Red Hat
9 10 (1.09%) SAP
9 10 (1.09%) SolidFire
10 9 (0.98%) TOWER Software
10 9 (0.98%) Twitter
11 7 (0.76%) Mitel
11 7 (0.76%) NVIDIA
12 6 (0.65%) Splunk
13 5 (0.54%) Dynatrace
13 5 (0.54%) Sophos