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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 80 64
Rank change year-on-year -2 -16 +13
Contract jobs citing Analytical Thinking 10 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.95% 0.26% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 0.28% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 3
10th Percentile £419 £463 £437
25th Percentile £462 £469 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £484 £490
Median % change year-on-year +4.34% -1.33% +15.29%
75th Percentile £521 £494 £523
90th Percentile £600 £498 £539
Scotland median daily rate £505 £500 £470
% change year-on-year +0.90% +6.38% -20.34%

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 894 708 617
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 85.31% 90.89% 89.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 510 457 432
10th Percentile £281 £300 £259
25th Percentile £351 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £538
90th Percentile £675 £600 £638
Scotland median daily rate £453 £467 £450
% change year-on-year -3.05% +3.83% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 18 23
10th Percentile £13.46 £15.73 £15.13
25th Percentile £13.89 £16.84 £19.05
Median hourly rate £35.00 £18.64 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +87.79% -54.48% +154.13%
75th Percentile £43.96 £25.95 -
90th Percentile £77.50 £35.60 £61.50
Scotland median hourly rate £17.06 £20.00 £19.59
% change year-on-year -14.70% +2.09% +2.14%

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 12 August 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 2 (20.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) OpenShift
2 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (10.00%) Anthropic Claude
3 1 (10.00%) ChatGPT
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) MPLS
1 2 (20.00%) SDH
2 1 (10.00%) NAS
2 1 (10.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Metadata
2 2 (20.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (20.00%) Power BI
2 2 (20.00%) Semantic Layer
3 1 (10.00%) Db2
3 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (40.00%) Finance
4 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
5 1 (10.00%) Banking
5 1 (10.00%) Front Office
5 1 (10.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Data Modeller
1 2 (20.00%) Design Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Developer
1 2 (20.00%) Network Design Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Site Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) REST
2 2 (20.00%) Celery
2 2 (20.00%) Kafka
2 2 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (20.00%) RESTful
3 1 (10.00%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) Derivative
2 1 (10.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (10.00%) Equity Derivative
2 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Unix
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Mac OS
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (30.00%) Data Transformation
2 3 (30.00%) Metadata Management
3 2 (20.00%) Agile
3 2 (20.00%) Analytics
3 2 (20.00%) Asset Management
3 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (20.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (20.00%) Dimensional Modelling
3 2 (20.00%) Logical Data Model
3 2 (20.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (20.00%) Network Design
3 2 (20.00%) Physical Data Model
3 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 2 (20.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Python
2 4 (40.00%) SQL
3 2 (20.00%) Perl
3 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (10.00%) C++
4 1 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) CCNA
1 2 (20.00%) CCNP
1 2 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco Prime
2 2 (20.00%) SolarWinds Orion
3 1 (10.00%) Ansible
3 1 (10.00%) Grafana
3 1 (10.00%) NetBackup
3 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (10.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco
2 2 (20.00%) Nokia
3 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (10.00%) Splunk
3 1 (10.00%) Sybase
3 1 (10.00%) Veritas