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 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 7 19
Rank change year-on-year +1 +12 -2
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 123 179 90
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 17.65% 21.59% 9.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.54% 23.13% 10.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 126 61
10th Percentile £280 £334 £250
25th Percentile £358 £404 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £453 £440
Median % change year-on-year -6.08% +2.84% -12.00%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £500
90th Percentile £675 £625 £601
Scotland median daily rate £438 £457 £475
% change year-on-year -4.16% -3.89% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 6
10th Percentile £16.15 £20.30 £16.09
25th Percentile £16.17 £21.12 £16.50
Median hourly rate £16.25 £23.17 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.85% +28.69% -44.62%
75th Percentile £19.54 £25.79 £19.50
90th Percentile £35.41 £26.97 -
Scotland median hourly rate £13.00 £23.53 £17.50
% change year-on-year -44.75% +34.44% +9.38%

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 571 774 850
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 81.92% 93.37% 91.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 360 495 534
10th Percentile £306 £312 £313
25th Percentile £375 £369 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £498
Median % change year-on-year - -9.55% +4.74%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £650 £609 £700
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 8 38
10th Percentile £16.11 £16.75 £13.25
25th Percentile £16.17 £18.88 £16.00
Median hourly rate £16.25 £23.17 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.85% +28.69% +44.00%
75th Percentile £46.61 £67.56 £40.94
90th Percentile £54.00 £77.63 £66.25
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £22.88 £19.50
% change year-on-year -12.57% +17.31% +18.18%

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 25 March 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 25 March 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 7 (5.69%) Apache Spark
2 6 (4.88%) Confluence
3 3 (2.44%) Apache
4 2 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.81%) Camunda
5 1 (0.81%) CICS
5 1 (0.81%) CMS
5 1 (0.81%) Moodle
5 1 (0.81%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.81%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (4.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.25%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.81%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.81%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.81%) InDesign
4 1 (0.81%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.81%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (1.63%) IntelliMatch
1 2 (1.63%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 34 (27.64%) Azure
2 22 (17.89%) AWS
3 10 (8.13%) Snowflake
4 8 (6.50%) Serverless
5 7 (5.69%) Power Platform
6 6 (4.88%) GCP
6 6 (4.88%) OpenShift
7 5 (4.07%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (3.25%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (3.25%) Collibra
9 3 (2.44%) Amazon SageMaker
9 3 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (2.44%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.63%) Alation
10 2 (1.63%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (1.63%) SaaS
11 1 (0.81%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (0.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 1 (0.81%) Power Automate
11 1 (0.81%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.32%) WAN
2 7 (5.69%) SAN
3 6 (4.88%) NAS
4 5 (4.07%) SD-WAN
5 4 (3.25%) LAN
6 3 (2.44%) DNS
7 2 (1.63%) MPLS
7 2 (1.63%) Network Security
7 2 (1.63%) SDH
7 2 (1.63%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.81%) DHCP
8 1 (0.81%) Firewall
8 1 (0.81%) Internet
8 1 (0.81%) Intranet
8 1 (0.81%) VoIP
8 1 (0.81%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.94%) Relational Database
2 10 (8.13%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (6.50%) Big Data
5 7 (5.69%) Hadoop
5 7 (5.69%) Metadata
5 7 (5.69%) Power BI
6 4 (3.25%) Data Lake
6 4 (3.25%) DB2
6 4 (3.25%) Tableau
7 3 (2.44%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.44%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.63%) MySQL
9 1 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.81%) Apache Ignite
9 1 (0.81%) Flink
9 1 (0.81%) HBase
Development Applications
1 15 (12.20%) Git
2 10 (8.13%) JIRA
3 7 (5.69%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.63%) JUnit
5 1 (0.81%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 58 (47.15%) Social Skills
2 51 (41.46%) Analytical Skills
3 45 (36.59%) Finance
4 20 (16.26%) Banking
5 15 (12.20%) Public Sector
6 12 (9.76%) Legal
7 10 (8.13%) Investment Banking
8 9 (7.32%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (4.88%) Financial Institution
9 6 (4.88%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (3.25%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (3.25%) Front Office
11 3 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (2.44%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.81%) Billing
12 1 (0.81%) French Language
12 1 (0.81%) Law
12 1 (0.81%) Prime Brokerage
12 1 (0.81%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 24 (19.51%) Analyst
2 17 (13.82%) Developer
3 15 (12.20%) Business Analyst
4 14 (11.38%) Senior
5 11 (8.94%) Architect
6 10 (8.13%) Automation Engineer
6 10 (8.13%) Data Engineer
6 10 (8.13%) Java Developer
7 9 (7.32%) Field Engineer
8 7 (5.69%) Project Manager
8 7 (5.69%) Windows Engineer
9 6 (4.88%) Computer Engineer
9 6 (4.88%) Field Hardware Engineer
9 6 (4.88%) Hardware Engineer
9 6 (4.88%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (4.88%) Printer Engineer
9 6 (4.88%) Security Engineer
9 6 (4.88%) Senior Developer
9 6 (4.88%) Site Engineer
9 6 (4.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (9.76%) REST
2 9 (7.32%) Spring
3 8 (6.50%) Kafka
4 6 (4.88%) Loki
4 6 (4.88%) Spring Boot
5 5 (4.07%) CSS
6 4 (3.25%) HTML
6 4 (3.25%) React
7 3 (2.44%) Model Context Protocol
7 3 (2.44%) PySpark
7 3 (2.44%) Streamlit
8 2 (1.63%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.63%) CSS3
8 2 (1.63%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (1.63%) HTML5
8 2 (1.63%) JMS
8 2 (1.63%) Node.js
8 2 (1.63%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (1.63%) SOAP
9 1 (0.81%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 16 (13.01%) Virtual Team
2 15 (12.20%) Cloud Native
3 9 (7.32%) Data Centre
4 8 (6.50%) Driving Licence
4 8 (6.50%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (5.69%) CMDB
5 7 (5.69%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (4.88%) Product Ownership
6 6 (4.88%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (4.07%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (3.25%) Onboarding
8 4 (3.25%) PMI
8 4 (3.25%) Reference Data
9 3 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (2.44%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.63%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.63%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (1.63%) Cyberattack
10 2 (1.63%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 28 (22.76%) Windows
2 12 (9.76%) Linux
3 10 (8.13%) Unix
4 7 (5.69%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.44%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.81%) Android
6 1 (0.81%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.81%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (34.96%) Agile
2 28 (22.76%) DevOps
3 27 (21.95%) CI/CD
4 25 (20.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 24 (19.51%) Decision-Making
6 19 (15.45%) Migration
7 16 (13.01%) Data Modelling
8 15 (12.20%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (10.57%) Analytics
9 13 (10.57%) Data Governance
9 13 (10.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 12 (9.76%) AI
10 12 (9.76%) Data Engineering
10 12 (9.76%) ITIL
10 12 (9.76%) Machine Learning
10 12 (9.76%) Scrum
11 11 (8.94%) Data Analysis
11 11 (8.94%) Data Lineage
11 11 (8.94%) Data Protection
11 11 (8.94%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 39 (31.71%) Python
2 20 (16.26%) SQL
3 16 (13.01%) Java
4 15 (12.20%) PowerShell
5 7 (5.69%) Perl
6 4 (3.25%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.25%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.63%) Go
7 2 (1.63%) PHP
8 1 (0.81%) C++
8 1 (0.81%) COBOL
8 1 (0.81%) JCL
8 1 (0.81%) Ruby
8 1 (0.81%) VB
Qualifications
1 16 (13.01%) Security Cleared
2 15 (12.20%) Degree
3 9 (7.32%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.25%) ITIL Certification
4 4 (3.25%) PMI Certification
5 3 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.44%) CompTIA CySA+
5 3 (2.44%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.81%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.81%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.81%) CCIE
7 1 (0.81%) CCNA
7 1 (0.81%) CISSP
7 1 (0.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.81%) MCSE
7 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.81%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.81%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.57%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.07%) SLA
3 4 (3.25%) GDPR
3 4 (3.25%) QA
4 2 (1.63%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.63%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.63%) ISO 8583
4 2 (1.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.81%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.81%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (4.88%) Docker
2 4 (3.25%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.81%) HDFS
3 1 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.81%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (15.45%) Kubernetes
2 13 (10.57%) Ansible
3 12 (9.76%) Terraform
4 8 (6.50%) Grafana
4 8 (6.50%) Prometheus
5 6 (4.88%) NetBackup
6 5 (4.07%) FortiGate
7 3 (2.44%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (2.44%) SCCM
Vendors
1 17 (13.82%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.94%) Oracle
3 9 (7.32%) Databricks
3 9 (7.32%) ServiceNow
4 8 (6.50%) Cisco
4 8 (6.50%) Dell
5 7 (5.69%) Greenplum
6 6 (4.88%) Canon
6 6 (4.88%) HP
6 6 (4.88%) Veritas
7 5 (4.07%) Palo Alto
8 4 (3.25%) Splunk
9 3 (2.44%) Google
9 3 (2.44%) IBM
9 3 (2.44%) Sybase
10 2 (1.63%) Ab Initio
10 2 (1.63%) Alteryx
10 2 (1.63%) Aruba
10 2 (1.63%) Fiserv
10 2 (1.63%) SmartStream