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 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 67 72
Rank change year-on-year -8 +5 +7
Contract jobs citing Analytical Thinking 5 5 2
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.67% 0.71% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 0.79% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 2
10th Percentile £353 £436 £429
25th Percentile £413 £453 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £488 £503
Median % change year-on-year -8.31% -2.99% +5.79%
75th Percentile £450 £513 £544
90th Percentile £540 £535 £566
Scotland median daily rate £425 £475 £600
% change year-on-year -10.53% -20.83% +18.99%

All Process and 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 664 634 756
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 88.65% 89.42% 91.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 413 412 511
10th Percentile £300 £280 £344
25th Percentile £381 £356 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £440 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -12.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £599
90th Percentile £625 £675 £700
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £479
% change year-on-year +3.33% -6.05% +0.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 12 19
10th Percentile £15.09 £15.39 £11.70
25th Percentile £16.84 £18.11 £12.13
Median hourly rate £18.00 £19.59 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.12% +35.10% -61.26%
75th Percentile £26.21 £26.76 £17.72
90th Percentile £57.50 £41.70 £27.64
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £21.59 £18.93
% change year-on-year -7.36% +14.05% +0.96%

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 24 October 2025.

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Snowflake
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) Viva Engage
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) BigQuery
1 3 (60.00%) Metadata
General
1 5 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Finance
4 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Analyst
2 3 (60.00%) Data Analyst
3 2 (40.00%) Data Modeller
4 1 (20.00%) Architect
4 1 (20.00%) Change Analyst
4 1 (20.00%) Security Architect
4 1 (20.00%) Teradata Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (20.00%) Freedom of Information
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Critical Thinking
2 3 (60.00%) Data Design
2 3 (60.00%) Data Governance
2 3 (60.00%) Data Lineage
2 3 (60.00%) Data Mapping
2 3 (60.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (60.00%) Data Transformation
2 3 (60.00%) Metadata Management
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) ISMS
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) SABSA
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
3 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (20.00%) CISSP
1 1 (20.00%) CompTIA CySA+
1 1 (20.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle
1 3 (60.00%) Teradata
2 1 (20.00%) Poppulo