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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 74 -
Rank change year-on-year +10 - -
Contract jobs citing Analytical Thinking 11 8 0
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 1.52% 0.98% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.81% 1.06% -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 0
10th Percentile - £402 -
25th Percentile £413 £443 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £467 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.99% - -
75th Percentile £449 £494 -
90th Percentile £533 £500 -
Scotland median daily rate £425 £467 £441
% change year-on-year -8.99% +5.89% -10.68%

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 607 756 840
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 83.84% 92.20% 91.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 393 465 541
10th Percentile £306 £313 £350
25th Percentile £381 £370 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +4.82%
75th Percentile £570 £550 £600
90th Percentile £640 £625 £700
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £480
% change year-on-year - -6.25% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 11 35
10th Percentile £14.17 £16.75 £11.50
25th Percentile £16.17 £18.17 £15.84
Median hourly rate £18.00 £24.15 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.47% +34.17% +69.33%
75th Percentile £50.00 £35.13 £40.94
90th Percentile £61.35 £65.00 £68.00
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.00 £21.64
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.28% +24.89%

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 28 February 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) OpenShift
2 3 (27.27%) Snowflake
3 1 (9.09%) Azure
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
4 2 (18.18%) Finance
5 1 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
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%) Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Configuration Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) Configuration Manager
5 1 (9.09%) Security Architect
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
2 1 (9.09%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (9.09%) Freedom of Information
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 7 (63.64%) Data Protection
1 7 (63.64%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (54.55%) CI/CD
2 6 (54.55%) Data Deduplication
2 6 (54.55%) Observability
3 4 (36.36%) Critical Thinking
3 4 (36.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (27.27%) Data Design
4 3 (27.27%) Data Governance
4 3 (27.27%) Data Lineage
4 3 (27.27%) Data Mapping
4 3 (27.27%) Data Modelling
4 3 (27.27%) Data Transformation
4 3 (27.27%) Metadata Management
5 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Architecture
5 1 (9.09%) Migration
5 1 (9.09%) Risk Management
5 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (9.09%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Perl
1 6 (54.55%) PowerShell
1 6 (54.55%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
1 1 (9.09%) CISSP
1 1 (9.09%) CompTIA CySA+
1 1 (9.09%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
1 1 (9.09%) SSCP
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 2 (18.18%) Microsoft