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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 80 63
Rank change year-on-year -10 -17 +8
Contract jobs citing Analytical Thinking 9 2 5
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.75% 0.27% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 0.30% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 4
10th Percentile £432 £341 £436
25th Percentile - £384 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £463 £488
Median % change year-on-year +10.05% -5.13% -2.99%
75th Percentile - £534 £513
90th Percentile £609 £574 £535
Scotland median daily rate £509 £375 £475
% change year-on-year +35.73% -21.05% -27.48%

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 1,011 666 627
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 84.32% 89.64% 89.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 540 411 428
10th Percentile £280 £300 £278
25th Percentile £363 £383 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £454 £440
Median % change year-on-year -0.88% +3.18% -12.00%
75th Percentile £553 £538 £550
90th Percentile £675 £613 £656
Scotland median daily rate £467 £468 £450
% change year-on-year -0.11% +3.89% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 21 12
10th Percentile £13.39 £15.09 £15.39
25th Percentile £13.70 £16.84 £18.11
Median hourly rate £35.00 £18.00 £19.59
Median % change year-on-year +94.44% -8.12% +35.10%
75th Percentile £43.96 £26.21 £26.76
90th Percentile £77.50 £57.50 £41.70
Scotland median hourly rate £16.86 £20.00 £19.59
% change year-on-year -15.70% +2.09% +6.90%

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 11 October 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 (22.22%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 2 (22.22%) OpenShift
3 1 (11.11%) Anthropic Claude
3 1 (11.11%) ChatGPT
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) MPLS
1 2 (22.22%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Metadata
2 3 (33.33%) Data Lake
2 3 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (33.33%) Power BI
2 3 (33.33%) Semantic Layer
3 1 (11.11%) Db2
3 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
3 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
General
1 9 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Telecoms
4 1 (11.11%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Data Modeller
2 2 (22.22%) Design Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Network Design Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Network Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Python Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Celery
1 2 (22.22%) Kafka
1 2 (22.22%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (22.22%) REST
1 2 (22.22%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Data Structures
2 2 (22.22%) Management Information System
3 1 (11.11%) Derivative
3 1 (11.11%) Driving Licence
3 1 (11.11%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Unix
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) macOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (44.44%) Metadata Management
3 3 (33.33%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) Analytics
3 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 3 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 3 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (33.33%) Data Transformation
3 3 (33.33%) Dimensional Modelling
3 3 (33.33%) Logical Data Model
3 3 (33.33%) Physical Data Model
3 3 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
3 3 (33.33%) Use Case
3 3 (33.33%) User Stories
3 3 (33.33%) Validation
4 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
4 2 (22.22%) Migration
4 2 (22.22%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Python
1 4 (44.44%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) C++
2 1 (11.11%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) Perl
2 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) CCNA
1 2 (22.22%) CCNP
1 2 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Cisco Prime
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
1 2 (22.22%) SolarWinds Orion
2 1 (11.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Cisco
2 2 (22.22%) Nokia
3 1 (11.11%) Splunk
3 1 (11.11%) Sybase