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 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 70 77
Rank change year-on-year +4 +7 -2
Contract jobs citing Analytical Thinking 7 8 1
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 1.00% 1.06% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 1.17% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 1
10th Percentile £373 £400 -
25th Percentile £413 £426 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +11.76% -12.82%
75th Percentile £449 £500 £438
90th Percentile £510 £520 -
Scotland median daily rate £425 £463 £425
% change year-on-year -8.11% +8.82% -12.82%

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 610 686 793
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 87.14% 90.86% 91.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 392 427 531
10th Percentile £290 £311 £350
25th Percentile £397 £363 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £562 £550 £625
90th Percentile £637 £657 £700
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +3.33% -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 14 15
10th Percentile £14.66 £16.75 £12.05
25th Percentile £16.17 £17.32 £15.42
Median hourly rate £28.09 £21.87 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.44% +36.69% -46.16%
75th Percentile £55.00 £32.81 £19.50
90th Percentile £62.12 £43.58 £45.30
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.59 £19.18
% change year-on-year -15.22% +22.99% +2.98%

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 31 December 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 (14.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Snowflake
2 2 (28.57%) OpenShift
3 1 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (14.29%) Viva Engage
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) NAS
1 2 (28.57%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) BigQuery
1 3 (42.86%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Finance
4 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Analyst
2 3 (42.86%) Data Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Data Modeller
4 1 (14.29%) Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Change Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Security Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Teradata Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Loki
1 2 (28.57%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (14.29%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Unix
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
1 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Critical Thinking
2 3 (42.86%) Data Design
2 3 (42.86%) Data Governance
2 3 (42.86%) Data Lineage
2 3 (42.86%) Data Mapping
2 3 (42.86%) Data Modelling
2 3 (42.86%) Data Protection
2 3 (42.86%) Data Transformation
2 3 (42.86%) Metadata Management
2 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Data Deduplication
3 2 (28.57%) Observability
4 1 (14.29%) Architecture Governance
4 1 (14.29%) Bill of Materials
4 1 (14.29%) Business Strategy
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
4 1 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
4 1 (14.29%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) Perl
2 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 2 (28.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
1 1 (14.29%) CISSP
1 1 (14.29%) CompTIA CySA+
1 1 (14.29%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
1 2 (28.57%) Grafana
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
1 2 (28.57%) NetBackup
1 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle
1 3 (42.86%) Teradata
2 2 (28.57%) Veritas
3 1 (14.29%) Poppulo