Analytical Thinking Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Analytical Thinking
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Analytical Thinking skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 77 73
Rank change year-on-year +11 -4 +12
Contract jobs citing Analytical Thinking 13 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 1.75% 0.53% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.10% 0.56% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 1
10th Percentile £406 £437 -
25th Percentile £413 £451 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £467 £490
Median % change year-on-year -8.99% -4.69% +0.51%
75th Percentile £473 £482 £495
90th Percentile £555 £493 -
Scotland median daily rate £425 £500 £490
% change year-on-year -15.00% +2.04% -6.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Glasgow

Analytical Thinking 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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 618 711 783
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 83.06% 93.43% 92.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 361 445 499
10th Percentile £306 £303 £275
25th Percentile £363 £399 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £465 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.51% -2.21% -
75th Percentile £575 £550 £575
90th Percentile £675 £600 £640
Scotland median daily rate £455 £463 £475
% change year-on-year -1.62% -2.63% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 11 37
10th Percentile £16.14 £16.75 £12.03
25th Percentile £16.17 £16.79 £16.00
Median hourly rate £28.09 £19.83 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +41.65% -37.05% +121.05%
75th Percentile £60.59 £45.08 £53.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.24 £67.50
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £20.94 £19.50
% change year-on-year -4.49% +7.38% +18.18%

Analytical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Analytical Thinking relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Analytical Thinking job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Analytical Thinking
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Analytical Thinking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Analytical Thinking

Analytical Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Thinking in Glasgow over the 6 months to 14 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Thinking in Glasgow

Analytical Thinking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Applications
1 1 (7.69%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) OpenShift
2 1 (7.69%) Anthropic Claude
2 1 (7.69%) ChatGPT
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 6 (46.15%) NAS
1 6 (46.15%) SAN
2 1 (7.69%) MPLS
2 1 (7.69%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) DB2
1 1 (7.69%) Metadata
1 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
1 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Git
1 6 (46.15%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (69.23%) Social Skills
3 4 (30.77%) Finance
4 1 (7.69%) Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Front Office
4 1 (7.69%) Investment Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Automation Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Site Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Python Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Business Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Configuration Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Configuration Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Design Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Network Design Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Network Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Systems Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Windows Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (61.54%) REST
2 6 (46.15%) Loki
3 2 (15.38%) Celery
3 2 (15.38%) Kafka
3 2 (15.38%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (15.38%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Algorithms
2 1 (7.69%) Derivative
2 1 (7.69%) Equity Derivative
2 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 9 (69.23%) Unix
1 9 (69.23%) Windows
2 6 (46.15%) Windows Server
3 1 (7.69%) Mac OS
3 1 (7.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (53.85%) CI/CD
3 6 (46.15%) Data Deduplication
3 6 (46.15%) Data Protection
3 6 (46.15%) Observability
4 5 (38.46%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (23.08%) Migration
6 2 (15.38%) Asset Management
6 2 (15.38%) Decision-Making
6 2 (15.38%) Machine Learning
6 2 (15.38%) Strategic Planning
7 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
7 1 (7.69%) Data Architecture
7 1 (7.69%) Data Flow Diagram
7 1 (7.69%) Data Lineage
7 1 (7.69%) Data Transformation
7 1 (7.69%) DevOps
7 1 (7.69%) Generative AI
7 1 (7.69%) LLM
7 1 (7.69%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (76.92%) Python
2 7 (53.85%) Perl
2 7 (53.85%) PowerShell
3 2 (15.38%) SQL
4 1 (7.69%) C++
4 1 (7.69%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) CCNA
1 1 (7.69%) CCNP
1 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 8 (61.54%) Kubernetes
2 6 (46.15%) Ansible
2 6 (46.15%) Grafana
2 6 (46.15%) NetBackup
2 6 (46.15%) Prometheus
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco Prime
3 1 (7.69%) SCCM
3 1 (7.69%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Veritas
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco
3 1 (7.69%) Nokia
3 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow
3 1 (7.69%) Splunk
3 1 (7.69%) Sybase