Problem-Solving Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Problem Solving
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Problem-Solving skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 4 15
Rank change year-on-year -3 +11 -4
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 144 201 69
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 13.75% 25.38% 9.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.22% 27.72% 11.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 119 54
10th Percentile £193 £296 £163
25th Percentile £325 £407 £259
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £470 £425
Median % change year-on-year -14.47% +10.59% -15.00%
75th Percentile £534 £570 £501
90th Percentile £644 £603 £613
Scotland median daily rate £438 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -2.78% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 3 2
10th Percentile £13.45 £14.14 £15.95
25th Percentile £13.50 £14.50 £16.38
Median hourly rate £14.07 £15.09 £17.67
Median % change year-on-year -6.74% -14.60% -62.98%
75th Percentile £16.27 £17.50 £18.88
90th Percentile £16.41 £18.95 £19.25
Scotland median hourly rate £13.45 £17.75 £16.16
% change year-on-year -24.23% +9.87% -66.15%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Glasgow

Problem-Solving 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 888 725 627
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 84.81% 91.54% 89.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 508 467 445
10th Percentile £285 £300 £260
25th Percentile £356 £369 £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 £650
Scotland median daily rate £450 £465 £450
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 19 23
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.82 £15.13
25th Percentile £14.63 £16.84 £19.05
Median hourly rate £35.00 £19.59 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +78.66% -52.15% +182.34%
75th Percentile £43.96 £25.68 £42.49
90th Percentile £77.50 £32.47 £61.50
Scotland median hourly rate £17.12 £20.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year -14.40% +0.31% +8.80%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Problem-Solving relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Problem-Solving job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Problem-Solving.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Problem-Solving

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Glasgow over the 6 months to 1 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Glasgow

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Problem-Solving.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Problem-Solving

Problem-Solving
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 10 (6.94%) Confluence
2 4 (2.78%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.08%) Apache
3 3 (2.08%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.69%) Moodle
4 1 (0.69%) MS Project Server
4 1 (0.69%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (9.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (5.56%) MS Visio
3 6 (4.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (3.47%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.39%) IntelliMatch
1 2 (1.39%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.69%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 19 (13.19%) Azure
2 11 (7.64%) GitHub
3 9 (6.25%) AWS
3 9 (6.25%) Power Platform
4 8 (5.56%) Anthropic Claude
4 8 (5.56%) ChatGPT
4 8 (5.56%) GCP
5 7 (4.86%) GitHub Copilot
6 6 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (4.17%) OpenShift
7 5 (3.47%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (3.47%) Google Play
8 3 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.39%) Alation
9 2 (1.39%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.39%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (1.39%) OCI
9 2 (1.39%) Rubrik
9 2 (1.39%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.56%) SAN
2 4 (2.78%) MPLS
2 4 (2.78%) NAS
2 4 (2.78%) Network Security
3 3 (2.08%) HTTP
3 3 (2.08%) HTTPS
3 3 (2.08%) LAN
3 3 (2.08%) Remote Desktop
3 3 (2.08%) SDH
3 3 (2.08%) TCP/IP
3 3 (2.08%) WAN
4 2 (1.39%) DHCP
4 2 (1.39%) DNS
4 2 (1.39%) Firewall
5 1 (0.69%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.69%) Internet
5 1 (0.69%) Intranet
5 1 (0.69%) VoIP
5 1 (0.69%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.42%) Relational Database
2 14 (9.72%) MongoDB
3 10 (6.94%) Metadata
4 9 (6.25%) Power BI
5 8 (5.56%) Db2
6 6 (4.17%) Tableau
7 4 (2.78%) DynamoDB
7 4 (2.78%) Oracle Database
8 3 (2.08%) Big Data
8 3 (2.08%) Flink
8 3 (2.08%) MySQL
9 2 (1.39%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.39%) Oracle Database 10g
9 2 (1.39%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.69%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.69%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 1 (0.69%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 22 (15.28%) Git
2 12 (8.33%) JIRA
3 7 (4.86%) Gradle
3 7 (4.86%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.47%) Android Studio
5 3 (2.08%) Cypress.io
5 3 (2.08%) Postman
5 3 (2.08%) REST Assured
5 3 (2.08%) Selenium
6 2 (1.39%) Appium
6 2 (1.39%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.39%) JUnit
6 2 (1.39%) Maven
6 2 (1.39%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.69%) GoCD
7 1 (0.69%) Mocha
7 1 (0.69%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.69%) PVCS
7 1 (0.69%) Subversion
7 1 (0.69%) TestNG
General
1 82 (56.94%) Social Skills
2 59 (40.97%) Analytical Skills
3 48 (33.33%) Finance
4 23 (15.97%) Banking
5 13 (9.03%) Investment Banking
6 12 (8.33%) Public Sector
7 11 (7.64%) Front Office
8 9 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (5.56%) Legal
10 6 (4.17%) Billing
11 5 (3.47%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (2.78%) Telecoms
13 3 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.69%) Local Government
14 1 (0.69%) Prime Brokerage
14 1 (0.69%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.69%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 33 (22.92%) Developer
2 30 (20.83%) Analyst
3 14 (9.72%) Java Developer
4 12 (8.33%) Business Analyst
4 12 (8.33%) Senior
5 9 (6.25%) Data Engineer
5 9 (6.25%) Field Engineer
6 8 (5.56%) Administrator
6 8 (5.56%) Network Engineer
7 7 (4.86%) Data Analyst
7 7 (4.86%) Python Developer
7 7 (4.86%) Senior Developer
8 5 (3.47%) Android Developer
8 5 (3.47%) Business Systems Analyst
8 5 (3.47%) Lead
8 5 (3.47%) Systems Analyst
9 4 (2.78%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (2.78%) IT Engineer
9 4 (2.78%) Project Manager
9 4 (2.78%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (9.72%) REST
2 10 (6.94%) RESTful
3 9 (6.25%) Kafka
4 7 (4.86%) PySpark
4 7 (4.86%) Spring
4 7 (4.86%) Streamlit
5 6 (4.17%) Spring Boot
6 5 (3.47%) Android Jetpack
6 5 (3.47%) Jetpack Compose
6 5 (3.47%) JSON
6 5 (3.47%) Retrofit
6 5 (3.47%) Web Services
7 4 (2.78%) Celery
7 4 (2.78%) Core Data
7 4 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (2.78%) RxSwift
7 4 (2.78%) SwiftUI
7 4 (2.78%) UIKit
8 3 (2.08%) HTML5
8 3 (2.08%) React
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.25%) Derivative
1 9 (6.25%) Product Ownership
2 8 (5.56%) Equity Derivative
3 7 (4.86%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (4.17%) Cloud Native
4 6 (4.17%) Driving Licence
5 5 (3.47%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.47%) Data Structures
5 5 (3.47%) Mobile App
6 4 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (2.78%) CCTV
6 4 (2.78%) Virtual Team
7 3 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.08%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.08%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.08%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.39%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.69%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 20 (13.89%) Windows
2 12 (8.33%) Android
2 12 (8.33%) Linux
3 8 (5.56%) Unix
4 5 (3.47%) Apple iOS
4 5 (3.47%) Windows 10
5 3 (2.08%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.39%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (31.94%) Agile
2 29 (20.14%) Scrum
3 28 (19.44%) Stakeholder Management
4 27 (18.75%) CI/CD
4 27 (18.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 24 (16.67%) DevOps
6 23 (15.97%) Continuous Improvement
7 20 (13.89%) Customer Service
7 20 (13.89%) Data Governance
8 18 (12.50%) Data Analysis
9 17 (11.81%) Data Pipeline
9 17 (11.81%) Risk Management
10 16 (11.11%) Test Automation
11 15 (10.42%) Decision-Making
11 15 (10.42%) Migration
12 14 (9.72%) Data Modelling
12 14 (9.72%) Data Protection
12 14 (9.72%) Machine Learning
12 14 (9.72%) TDD
13 12 (8.33%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 36 (25.00%) Python
2 35 (24.31%) SQL
3 31 (21.53%) Java
4 12 (8.33%) C++
5 7 (4.86%) JavaScript
6 6 (4.17%) Perl
7 5 (3.47%) Kotlin
7 5 (3.47%) PL/SQL
7 5 (3.47%) PowerShell
8 4 (2.78%) Swift
9 3 (2.08%) C#
10 2 (1.39%) Bash
10 2 (1.39%) PHP
10 2 (1.39%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.69%) Scala
11 1 (0.69%) VB
Qualifications
1 18 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 13 (9.03%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.25%) Degree
4 5 (3.47%) CCNA
4 5 (3.47%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (2.78%) A+ Certification
5 4 (2.78%) HND
5 4 (2.78%) MCSE
5 4 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.78%) Network+ Certification
6 3 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.39%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.39%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.69%) CCNP
8 1 (0.69%) IIBA
8 1 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.69%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.69%) PMP
8 1 (0.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (13.19%) Data Quality
2 12 (8.33%) SLA
3 4 (2.78%) Disclosure Scotland
3 4 (2.78%) ISO 20022
3 4 (2.78%) QA
4 3 (2.08%) GRC
5 2 (1.39%) COBIT
5 2 (1.39%) GDPR
5 2 (1.39%) ISO 31000
5 2 (1.39%) ISO 8583
5 2 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 1 (0.69%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.69%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.69%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (5.56%) Active Directory
2 7 (4.86%) Docker
3 4 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.08%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.39%) vSphere
6 1 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.69%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.17%) NetBackup
3 4 (2.78%) SCCM
3 4 (2.78%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 4 (2.78%) Terraform
4 3 (2.08%) Ansible
4 3 (2.08%) Grafana
4 3 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (2.08%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.39%) SCOM
6 1 (0.69%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (0.69%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 42 (29.17%) Microsoft
2 16 (11.11%) Oracle
3 10 (6.94%) Google
4 8 (5.56%) Sybase
5 7 (4.86%) Databricks
5 7 (4.86%) Dell
5 7 (4.86%) IBM
6 6 (4.17%) Computacenter
7 5 (3.47%) MuleSoft
8 4 (2.78%) Cisco
8 4 (2.78%) Veritas
8 4 (2.78%) VMware
9 3 (2.08%) Canon
9 3 (2.08%) Citrix
9 3 (2.08%) HP
9 3 (2.08%) Nokia
9 3 (2.08%) ServiceNow
9 3 (2.08%) Splunk
10 2 (1.39%) Alteryx
10 2 (1.39%) CyberArk