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

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 7 19
Rank change year-on-year +3 +12 -2
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 154 156 93
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 21.21% 19.48% 10.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 25.12% 21.11% 11.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 105 65
10th Percentile £314 £356 £298
25th Percentile £369 £404 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% - -10.00%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £500
90th Percentile £650 £625 £594
Scotland median daily rate £447 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -0.61% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 6
10th Percentile £16.14 - £16.09
25th Percentile £16.17 £25.25 £16.50
Median hourly rate £16.25 £26.50 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.68% +47.22% -44.62%
75th Percentile £26.77 £27.75 £19.50
90th Percentile £37.49 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £13.00 £24.18 £18.00
% change year-on-year -46.24% +34.33% +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 613 739 835
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 84.44% 92.26% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 391 450 541
10th Percentile £306 £313 £341
25th Percentile £390 £366 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +4.38%
75th Percentile £569 £550 £600
90th Percentile £639 £625 £700
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £480
% change year-on-year - -6.25% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 11 32
10th Percentile £14.17 £16.75 £11.50
25th Percentile £16.17 £18.17 £15.42
Median hourly rate £23.75 £24.15 £17.35
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% +39.19% +63.22%
75th Percentile £50.00 £35.13 £40.94
90th Percentile £61.35 £65.00 £73.25
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.30 £19.50
% change year-on-year -14.14% +19.46% +10.05%

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 February 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 February 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 8 (5.19%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.25%) Confluence
3 3 (1.95%) Apache
3 3 (1.95%) CMS
4 2 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.65%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.65%) Camunda
5 1 (0.65%) CICS
5 1 (0.65%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.65%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (3.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.25%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.65%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.65%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.65%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.65%) InDesign
4 1 (0.65%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.65%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (1.30%) IntelliMatch
1 2 (1.30%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 45 (29.22%) Azure
2 30 (19.48%) AWS
3 12 (7.79%) Snowflake
4 11 (7.14%) Serverless
5 8 (5.19%) Power Platform
6 6 (3.90%) Entra ID
6 6 (3.90%) OpenShift
7 5 (3.25%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (3.25%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (2.60%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (2.60%) Amazon SageMaker
8 4 (2.60%) Collibra
8 4 (2.60%) GCP
9 3 (1.95%) SaaS
10 2 (1.30%) Alation
10 2 (1.30%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.30%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (1.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 1 (0.65%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 12 (7.79%) WAN
2 6 (3.90%) NAS
2 6 (3.90%) SAN
3 5 (3.25%) SD-WAN
4 4 (2.60%) LAN
4 4 (2.60%) VPN
5 3 (1.95%) DNS
6 2 (1.30%) MPLS
6 2 (1.30%) Network Security
6 2 (1.30%) SDH
6 2 (1.30%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.65%) DHCP
7 1 (0.65%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (12.99%) Relational Database
2 17 (11.04%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (7.79%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (5.84%) Big Data
5 8 (5.19%) Power BI
6 7 (4.55%) DB2
6 7 (4.55%) Hadoop
7 6 (3.90%) Data Lake
7 6 (3.90%) Metadata
7 6 (3.90%) MongoDB
7 6 (3.90%) Tableau
8 3 (1.95%) MySQL
8 3 (1.95%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.30%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.30%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.65%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.65%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.65%) Apache Ignite
10 1 (0.65%) GIS
10 1 (0.65%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (11.69%) Git
2 10 (6.49%) Jenkins
3 9 (5.84%) JIRA
4 6 (3.90%) JUnit
5 1 (0.65%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.65%) Mockito
5 1 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 75 (48.70%) Social Skills
2 59 (38.31%) Finance
3 56 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (18.83%) Banking
5 21 (13.64%) Public Sector
6 17 (11.04%) Investment Banking
7 10 (6.49%) Legal
8 8 (5.19%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (3.90%) Financial Institution
10 6 (3.90%) Front Office
11 4 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.95%) Telecoms
13 2 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (1.30%) Retail
14 1 (0.65%) Billing
14 1 (0.65%) French Language
14 1 (0.65%) Marketing
14 1 (0.65%) Prime Brokerage
14 1 (0.65%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 32 (20.78%) Analyst
2 26 (16.88%) Developer
3 16 (10.39%) Java Developer
4 15 (9.74%) Business Analyst
5 14 (9.09%) Architect
5 14 (9.09%) Senior
6 13 (8.44%) Data Engineer
7 11 (7.14%) Automation Engineer
7 11 (7.14%) Data Analyst
8 9 (5.84%) Windows Engineer
9 7 (4.55%) Lead
9 7 (4.55%) Project Manager
9 7 (4.55%) Security Engineer
10 6 (3.90%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (3.90%) Data Architect
10 6 (3.90%) Field Engineer
10 6 (3.90%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (3.90%) Site Engineer
10 6 (3.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 5 (3.25%) Investment Banking Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (10.39%) Spring
2 14 (9.09%) Kafka
3 12 (7.79%) REST
4 10 (6.49%) Spring Boot
5 7 (4.55%) React
6 6 (3.90%) Loki
7 5 (3.25%) JMS
8 4 (2.60%) AngularJS
8 4 (2.60%) CSS
8 4 (2.60%) HTML
8 4 (2.60%) PySpark
9 3 (1.95%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (1.95%) Ext JS
9 3 (1.95%) Hibernate
9 3 (1.95%) Model Context Protocol
9 3 (1.95%) Node.js
9 3 (1.95%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (1.95%) Streamlit
10 2 (1.30%) HTML5
10 2 (1.30%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 19 (12.34%) Cloud Native
2 18 (11.69%) Virtual Team
3 12 (7.79%) CMDB
4 11 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (6.49%) Data Centre
5 10 (6.49%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (5.84%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (5.19%) Data Structures
7 8 (5.19%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (4.55%) Product Ownership
9 6 (3.90%) Driving Licence
9 6 (3.90%) Onboarding
10 5 (3.25%) Equities
11 4 (2.60%) PMI
11 4 (2.60%) Reference Data
12 3 (1.95%) Algorithms
12 3 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (1.30%) Digital Media
13 2 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
13 2 (1.30%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 28 (18.18%) Windows
2 16 (10.39%) Linux
3 12 (7.79%) Unix
4 8 (5.19%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.60%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.65%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (33.77%) Agile
2 36 (23.38%) DevOps
3 35 (22.73%) CI/CD
4 26 (16.88%) Stakeholder Management
5 25 (16.23%) Migration
6 24 (15.58%) Decision-Making
7 21 (13.64%) Data Modelling
8 19 (12.34%) Analytics
9 18 (11.69%) AI
10 17 (11.04%) ITIL
10 17 (11.04%) Machine Learning
11 16 (10.39%) Data Architecture
11 16 (10.39%) Performance Tuning
12 15 (9.74%) Data Analysis
13 14 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (9.09%) Data Science
14 13 (8.44%) Data Governance
14 13 (8.44%) Data Lineage
14 13 (8.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 13 (8.44%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 53 (34.42%) Python
2 31 (20.13%) SQL
3 26 (16.88%) Java
4 18 (11.69%) PowerShell
5 7 (4.55%) Perl
5 7 (4.55%) Shell Script
6 6 (3.90%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.95%) Bicep
7 3 (1.95%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.30%) Go
9 1 (0.65%) Bash
9 1 (0.65%) COBOL
9 1 (0.65%) JCL
9 1 (0.65%) PHP
9 1 (0.65%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.65%) Ruby
9 1 (0.65%) VB
Qualifications
1 22 (14.29%) Degree
2 15 (9.74%) Security Cleared
3 7 (4.55%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.90%) ITIL Certification
5 5 (3.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.60%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.60%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.95%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.95%) CompTIA CySA+
7 3 (1.95%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (1.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.65%) CCIE
9 1 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.65%) CISSP
9 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.65%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.79%) Data Quality
2 8 (5.19%) QA
3 5 (3.25%) SLA
4 4 (2.60%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.60%) GDPR
5 2 (1.30%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.30%) ISO 8583
5 2 (1.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.65%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.65%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (6.49%) Docker
2 6 (3.90%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.95%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.65%) HDFS
4 1 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.65%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (13.64%) Kubernetes
2 15 (9.74%) Ansible
3 14 (9.09%) Terraform
4 8 (5.19%) Grafana
4 8 (5.19%) NetBackup
4 8 (5.19%) Prometheus
5 5 (3.25%) FortiGate
5 5 (3.25%) SCCM
6 4 (2.60%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.65%) Kibana
7 1 (0.65%) logstash
Vendors
1 20 (12.99%) Microsoft
2 14 (9.09%) ServiceNow
3 13 (8.44%) Oracle
4 10 (6.49%) Databricks
5 9 (5.84%) Greenplum
6 8 (5.19%) Cisco
7 6 (3.90%) Splunk
7 6 (3.90%) Veritas
8 5 (3.25%) Dell
8 5 (3.25%) Palo Alto
8 5 (3.25%) Sybase
9 4 (2.60%) Canon
9 4 (2.60%) HP
10 2 (1.30%) Ab Initio
10 2 (1.30%) Alteryx
10 2 (1.30%) Aruba
10 2 (1.30%) Fiserv
10 2 (1.30%) IBM
10 2 (1.30%) MobileIron
10 2 (1.30%) SmartStream