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

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 76 83
Rank change year-on-year +13 +7 -1
Contract jobs citing Analytical Thinking 11 6 1
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 1.53% 0.74% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.86% 0.79% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 1
10th Percentile - £395 -
25th Percentile £413 £435 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £467 £490
Median % change year-on-year -8.99% -4.69% +0.51%
75th Percentile £449 £494 £495
90th Percentile £478 £500 -
Scotland median daily rate £425 £500 £331
% change year-on-year -15.00% +51.05% -33.80%

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 591 760 852
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 82.20% 93.48% 92.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 375 482 547
10th Percentile £310 £300 £308
25th Percentile £375 £369 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £550 £588
90th Percentile £675 £602 £688
Scotland median daily rate £450 £456 £480
% change year-on-year -1.32% -5.00% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 9 40
10th Percentile £16.11 £16.18 £13.75
25th Percentile £16.17 £16.75 £16.00
Median hourly rate £16.25 £19.83 £21.13
Median % change year-on-year -18.05% -6.14% +56.50%
75th Percentile £46.61 £65.00 £44.14
90th Percentile £54.00 £76.83 £63.75
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £22.44 £19.50
% change year-on-year -10.86% +15.06% +10.05%

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
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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) OpenShift
2 3 (27.27%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (54.55%) NAS
1 6 (54.55%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) BigQuery
1 3 (27.27%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Git
1 6 (54.55%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (90.91%) Social Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Finance
4 1 (9.09%) Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Automation Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Analyst
2 4 (36.36%) Site Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Data Analyst
4 2 (18.18%) Data Modeller
5 1 (9.09%) Business Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) Configuration Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) Configuration Manager
5 1 (9.09%) Project Manager
5 1 (9.09%) Systems Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) Systems Manager
5 1 (9.09%) Teradata Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) Loki
1 6 (54.55%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 6 (54.55%) Unix
1 6 (54.55%) Windows
1 6 (54.55%) Windows Server
2 1 (9.09%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) CI/CD
1 6 (54.55%) Data Deduplication
1 6 (54.55%) Data Protection
1 6 (54.55%) Observability
1 6 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (36.36%) Critical Thinking
2 4 (36.36%) Data Transformation
2 4 (36.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 3 (27.27%) Data Design
3 3 (27.27%) Data Governance
3 3 (27.27%) Data Lineage
3 3 (27.27%) Data Mapping
3 3 (27.27%) Data Modelling
3 3 (27.27%) Metadata Management
4 1 (9.09%) AI
4 1 (9.09%) Business Analysis
4 1 (9.09%) Migration
4 1 (9.09%) Systems Thinking
4 1 (9.09%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Perl
1 6 (54.55%) PowerShell
1 6 (54.55%) Python
2 4 (36.36%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) Ansible
1 6 (54.55%) Grafana
1 6 (54.55%) Kubernetes
1 6 (54.55%) NetBackup
1 6 (54.55%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Veritas
2 3 (27.27%) Oracle
2 3 (27.27%) Teradata
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow