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 24 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 7 18
Rank change year-on-year +2 +11 0
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 133 128 92
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 20.00% 17.20% 10.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.21% 18.82% 11.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 86 66
10th Percentile £355 £270 £288
25th Percentile £401 £368 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £438 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -2.78% -6.05%
75th Percentile £544 £490 £499
90th Percentile £645 £602 £565
Scotland median daily rate £456 £441 £475
% change year-on-year +3.46% -7.16% +0.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 5
10th Percentile - £19.18 -
25th Percentile £16.17 £20.19 £16.50
Median hourly rate £23.75 £22.75 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.40% +26.39% -44.62%
75th Percentile £29.16 £25.69 £19.50
90th Percentile £41.66 £26.93 -
Scotland median hourly rate £13.00 £23.53 £18.00
% change year-on-year -44.75% +30.71% +12.50%

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 573 680 812
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 86.17% 91.40% 91.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 356 411 529
10th Percentile £303 £311 £343
25th Percentile £400 £363 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +2.83%
75th Percentile £570 £538 £614
90th Percentile £638 £631 £700
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £498
% change year-on-year +2.78% -9.55% +4.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 14 21
10th Percentile £14.09 £16.75 £11.50
25th Percentile £16.09 £18.77 £15.42
Median hourly rate £23.75 £24.17 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.72% +51.03% +50.52%
75th Percentile £52.50 £40.50 £19.50
90th Percentile £61.74 £58.71 £75.00
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.59 £19.50
% change year-on-year -15.22% +20.97% +15.15%

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 24 January 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem-Solving in Glasgow over the 6 months to 24 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Glasgow

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 5 (3.76%) CMS
2 4 (3.01%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.50%) Apache
3 2 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.75%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.75%) Camunda
4 1 (0.75%) CICS
4 1 (0.75%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.75%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (4.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.75%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.75%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.75%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.75%) InDesign
3 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.75%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.75%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 39 (29.32%) Azure
2 26 (19.55%) AWS
3 12 (9.02%) Snowflake
4 11 (8.27%) Serverless
5 8 (6.02%) Power Platform
6 4 (3.01%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (3.01%) Entra ID
6 4 (3.01%) GCP
6 4 (3.01%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.50%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.50%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.50%) SaaS
7 2 (1.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (0.75%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.75%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.75%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (0.75%) GitHub
8 1 (0.75%) IaaS
8 1 (0.75%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.75%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.27%) WAN
2 5 (3.76%) SD-WAN
3 4 (3.01%) NAS
3 4 (3.01%) SAN
3 4 (3.01%) VPN
4 3 (2.26%) LAN
5 2 (1.50%) DNS
5 2 (1.50%) MPLS
5 2 (1.50%) Network Security
5 2 (1.50%) SDH
5 2 (1.50%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.75%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (16.54%) Relational Database
2 19 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (8.27%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (7.52%) DB2
4 10 (7.52%) MongoDB
5 8 (6.02%) Power BI
6 6 (4.51%) Tableau
7 5 (3.76%) Big Data
8 3 (2.26%) Data Lake
8 3 (2.26%) Hadoop
8 3 (2.26%) MySQL
8 3 (2.26%) NoSQL
8 3 (2.26%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.50%) Power Query
9 2 (1.50%) QlikView
9 2 (1.50%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.75%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.75%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.75%) GIS
10 1 (0.75%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 12 (9.02%) Git
2 11 (8.27%) Jenkins
3 10 (7.52%) JUnit
4 3 (2.26%) JIRA
5 1 (0.75%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.75%) Mockito
5 1 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 68 (51.13%) Social Skills
2 52 (39.10%) Finance
3 50 (37.59%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (17.29%) Banking
5 18 (13.53%) Investment Banking
6 16 (12.03%) Public Sector
7 8 (6.02%) Front Office
7 8 (6.02%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (5.26%) Legal
9 6 (4.51%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (2.26%) Financial Institution
10 3 (2.26%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.50%) Retail
12 1 (0.75%) Billing
12 1 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.75%) French Language
12 1 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.75%) Law
12 1 (0.75%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 30 (22.56%) Developer
2 25 (18.80%) Analyst
3 18 (13.53%) Java Developer
4 13 (9.77%) Architect
5 12 (9.02%) Senior
6 10 (7.52%) Business Analyst
6 10 (7.52%) Data Analyst
7 9 (6.77%) Automation Engineer
7 9 (6.77%) Data Engineer
7 9 (6.77%) Python Engineer
8 8 (6.02%) Investment Banking Java Developer
8 8 (6.02%) SQL Developer
8 8 (6.02%) Sybase Developer
8 8 (6.02%) Windows Engineer
9 7 (5.26%) Lead
9 7 (5.26%) Security Engineer
10 6 (4.51%) Data Architect
10 6 (4.51%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (4.51%) Software Engineer
11 5 (3.76%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (14.29%) Kafka
2 17 (12.78%) Spring
3 9 (6.77%) REST
3 9 (6.77%) Spring Boot
4 8 (6.02%) JMS
4 8 (6.02%) React
5 6 (4.51%) Hibernate
6 5 (3.76%) Ext JS
6 5 (3.76%) FastAPI
7 4 (3.01%) AngularJS
7 4 (3.01%) Loki
8 3 (2.26%) CSS
8 3 (2.26%) HTML
8 3 (2.26%) Node.js
8 3 (2.26%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (1.50%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (1.50%) Flask
9 2 (1.50%) OpenTelemetry
10 1 (0.75%) Hugging Face
10 1 (0.75%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.53%) Cloud Native
2 12 (9.02%) Data Structures
3 11 (8.27%) CMDB
3 11 (8.27%) Virtual Team
4 10 (7.52%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (7.52%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (6.77%) Equities
6 8 (6.02%) Data Centre
6 8 (6.02%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (4.51%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (3.01%) Driving Licence
9 3 (2.26%) Algorithms
9 3 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (2.26%) Management Information System
9 3 (2.26%) PMI
9 3 (2.26%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.50%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (1.50%) Cyberattack
10 2 (1.50%) Digital Media
10 2 (1.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 23 (17.29%) Windows
2 20 (15.04%) Linux
3 11 (8.27%) Unix
4 5 (3.76%) Windows Server
5 4 (3.01%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (30.08%) Agile
2 29 (21.80%) CI/CD
3 25 (18.80%) DevOps
4 19 (14.29%) AI
4 19 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
5 16 (12.03%) ITIL
6 15 (11.28%) Migration
7 14 (10.53%) Analytics
7 14 (10.53%) Machine Learning
7 14 (10.53%) Multithreading
7 14 (10.53%) Visualisation
8 13 (9.77%) Data Modelling
8 13 (9.77%) Stakeholder Management
9 12 (9.02%) Computer Science
9 12 (9.02%) Data Visualisation
9 12 (9.02%) SDLC
9 12 (9.02%) Software Engineering
10 11 (8.27%) Data Architecture
10 11 (8.27%) Decision-Making
10 11 (8.27%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 52 (39.10%) Python
2 32 (24.06%) SQL
3 25 (18.80%) Java
4 16 (12.03%) PowerShell
5 10 (7.52%) Shell Script
6 6 (4.51%) JavaScript
7 5 (3.76%) Perl
8 4 (3.01%) Go
8 4 (3.01%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.26%) Bicep
10 2 (1.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.75%) Bash
11 1 (0.75%) C++
11 1 (0.75%) COBOL
11 1 (0.75%) JCL
11 1 (0.75%) PHP
11 1 (0.75%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.75%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 18 (13.53%) Degree
2 10 (7.52%) Security Cleared
3 6 (4.51%) ITIL Certification
4 5 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (3.76%) SC Cleared
5 4 (3.01%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.26%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.26%) CompTIA CySA+
6 3 (2.26%) CompTIA Security+
6 3 (2.26%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.75%) CCIE
8 1 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.75%) CISSP
8 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.75%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.51%) QA
2 4 (3.01%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.26%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.26%) SLA
4 2 (1.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.75%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 11 (8.27%) Docker
2 4 (3.01%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.26%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.75%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 13 (9.77%) Ansible
1 13 (9.77%) Kubernetes
2 10 (7.52%) Terraform
3 7 (5.26%) Grafana
4 6 (4.51%) NetBackup
5 5 (3.76%) FortiGate
5 5 (3.76%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.01%) SCCM
7 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.75%) Kibana
8 1 (0.75%) logstash
Vendors
1 14 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.77%) ServiceNow
3 9 (6.77%) Greenplum
4 8 (6.02%) Cisco
4 8 (6.02%) Oracle
4 8 (6.02%) Splunk
4 8 (6.02%) Sybase
5 5 (3.76%) Palo Alto
6 4 (3.01%) Databricks
6 4 (3.01%) Veritas
7 2 (1.50%) Ab Initio
7 2 (1.50%) Aruba
7 2 (1.50%) Canon
7 2 (1.50%) Dell
7 2 (1.50%) HP
7 2 (1.50%) IBM
7 2 (1.50%) IFS
7 2 (1.50%) MobileIron
8 1 (0.75%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.75%) GoCardless