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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 4 15
Rank change year-on-year -2 +11 -6
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 155 212 73
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 14.86% 25.85% 9.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.59% 28.15% 10.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 130 55
10th Percentile £200 £281 £156
25th Percentile £325 £404 £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £470 £418
Median % change year-on-year -14.89% +12.57% -16.50%
75th Percentile £513 £572 £501
90th Percentile £634 £623 £613
Scotland median daily rate £425 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 3 1
10th Percentile £13.45 £14.14 -
25th Percentile £13.50 £14.50 £15.67
Median hourly rate £14.65 £15.09 £16.34
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% -7.65% -65.77%
75th Percentile £16.33 £17.50 £17.01
90th Percentile £16.40 £18.95 -
Scotland median hourly rate £13.45 £18.79 £15.49
% change year-on-year -28.42% +21.34% -28.54%

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 881 753 686
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 84.47% 91.83% 90.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 509 487 480
10th Percentile £283 £300 £270
25th Percentile £358 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -8.16%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile £675 £613 £631
Scotland median daily rate £451 £463 £450
% change year-on-year -2.59% +2.78% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 18 26
10th Percentile £13.50 £16.31 £13.19
25th Percentile £14.07 £16.84 £16.76
Median hourly rate £35.00 £19.71 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +77.57% -51.86% +182.34%
75th Percentile £43.96 £25.95 £50.55
90th Percentile £77.50 £35.60 £62.50
Scotland median hourly rate £19.33 £20.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year -3.35% +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 20 July 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 14 (9.03%) Confluence
2 7 (4.52%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.94%) Apache
3 3 (1.94%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.65%) Moodle
4 1 (0.65%) MS Project Server
4 1 (0.65%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (7.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.52%) MS Visio
3 6 (3.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (2.58%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.29%) IntelliMatch
1 2 (1.29%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (14.84%) Azure
2 11 (7.10%) AWS
3 10 (6.45%) GitHub
4 8 (5.16%) Anthropic Claude
4 8 (5.16%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (5.16%) ChatGPT
4 8 (5.16%) Power Platform
5 7 (4.52%) GCP
5 7 (4.52%) GitHub Copilot
5 7 (4.52%) OpenShift
6 6 (3.87%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (3.23%) Google Play
8 4 (2.58%) Collibra
9 3 (1.94%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (1.94%) Amazon SageMaker
9 3 (1.94%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.94%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.29%) Alation
10 2 (1.29%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (1.29%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.81%) SAN
2 5 (3.23%) NAS
3 3 (1.94%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (1.29%) DHCP
4 2 (1.29%) DNS
4 2 (1.29%) LAN
4 2 (1.29%) MPLS
4 2 (1.29%) Network Security
4 2 (1.29%) SDH
4 2 (1.29%) WAN
5 1 (0.65%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.65%) Firewall
5 1 (0.65%) HTTP
5 1 (0.65%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.65%) Internet
5 1 (0.65%) Intranet
5 1 (0.65%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.65%) VoIP
5 1 (0.65%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (11.61%) Relational Database
2 14 (9.03%) Metadata
2 14 (9.03%) MongoDB
3 8 (5.16%) Db2
3 8 (5.16%) Power BI
4 6 (3.87%) Big Data
4 6 (3.87%) Oracle Database
5 5 (3.23%) Tableau
6 4 (2.58%) DynamoDB
6 4 (2.58%) Hadoop
7 3 (1.94%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.94%) Flink
7 3 (1.94%) MySQL
8 2 (1.29%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.29%) Oracle Database 10g
8 2 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.65%) Oracle Database 11g
9 1 (0.65%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.65%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 25 (16.13%) Git
2 15 (9.68%) JIRA
3 7 (4.52%) Gradle
3 7 (4.52%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.23%) Android Studio
5 3 (1.94%) Cypress.io
5 3 (1.94%) Postman
5 3 (1.94%) REST Assured
5 3 (1.94%) Selenium
6 2 (1.29%) Appium
6 2 (1.29%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.29%) JUnit
6 2 (1.29%) Maven
6 2 (1.29%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.65%) GoCD
7 1 (0.65%) Mocha
7 1 (0.65%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.65%) PVCS
7 1 (0.65%) Subversion
7 1 (0.65%) TestNG
General
1 85 (54.84%) Social Skills
2 65 (41.94%) Analytical Skills
3 51 (32.90%) Finance
4 25 (16.13%) Banking
5 13 (8.39%) Public Sector
6 12 (7.74%) Investment Banking
7 10 (6.45%) Front Office
8 9 (5.81%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (5.81%) Legal
9 8 (5.16%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (3.87%) Billing
10 6 (3.87%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (3.23%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (1.29%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.65%) Local Government
14 1 (0.65%) Prime Brokerage
14 1 (0.65%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.65%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 33 (21.29%) Analyst
2 30 (19.35%) Developer
3 16 (10.32%) Business Analyst
4 14 (9.03%) Senior
5 13 (8.39%) Java Developer
6 10 (6.45%) Data Engineer
7 9 (5.81%) Field Engineer
8 8 (5.16%) Administrator
8 8 (5.16%) Data Analyst
9 7 (4.52%) Python Developer
9 7 (4.52%) Senior Developer
10 6 (3.87%) Cloud Engineer
11 5 (3.23%) Android Developer
11 5 (3.23%) Automation Engineer
11 5 (3.23%) Business Systems Analyst
11 5 (3.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (3.23%) Lead
11 5 (3.23%) Project Manager
11 5 (3.23%) Scrum Master
11 5 (3.23%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (10.32%) REST
2 11 (7.10%) RESTful
3 9 (5.81%) Spring
4 8 (5.16%) Kafka
4 8 (5.16%) Spring Boot
5 7 (4.52%) PySpark
5 7 (4.52%) Streamlit
6 5 (3.23%) Android Jetpack
6 5 (3.23%) Jetpack Compose
6 5 (3.23%) JSON
6 5 (3.23%) Retrofit
7 4 (2.58%) Celery
7 4 (2.58%) Core Data
7 4 (2.58%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (2.58%) RxSwift
7 4 (2.58%) SwiftUI
7 4 (2.58%) UIKit
7 4 (2.58%) Web Services
8 3 (1.94%) Model Context Protocol
8 3 (1.94%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.39%) Product Ownership
2 11 (7.10%) Virtual Team
3 10 (6.45%) Cloud Native
4 8 (5.16%) Data Centre
4 8 (5.16%) Derivative
4 8 (5.16%) Equity Derivative
5 6 (3.87%) Data Structures
5 6 (3.87%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.23%) Driving Licence
6 5 (3.23%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.58%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (2.58%) CCTV
7 4 (2.58%) CMDB
7 4 (2.58%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.58%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.58%) Reference Data
8 3 (1.94%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.94%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (14.84%) Windows
2 12 (7.74%) Android
3 8 (5.16%) Unix
4 7 (4.52%) Linux
5 5 (3.23%) Apple iOS
5 5 (3.23%) Windows 10
5 5 (3.23%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.29%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (33.55%) Agile
2 33 (21.29%) Scrum
3 31 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 31 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 29 (18.71%) CI/CD
4 29 (18.71%) Decision-Making
5 27 (17.42%) Continuous Improvement
5 27 (17.42%) DevOps
6 23 (14.84%) Data Governance
7 22 (14.19%) Data Analysis
8 21 (13.55%) Customer Service
9 20 (12.90%) Migration
10 18 (11.61%) Test Automation
11 17 (10.97%) Data Modelling
11 17 (10.97%) Data Pipeline
11 17 (10.97%) Machine Learning
11 17 (10.97%) TDD
12 16 (10.32%) Data Lineage
12 16 (10.32%) Data Protection
13 15 (9.68%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 39 (25.16%) Python
2 36 (23.23%) SQL
3 35 (22.58%) Java
4 10 (6.45%) C++
5 7 (4.52%) JavaScript
6 6 (3.87%) Perl
6 6 (3.87%) PowerShell
7 5 (3.23%) Kotlin
7 5 (3.23%) PL/SQL
8 4 (2.58%) Swift
9 3 (1.94%) C#
10 2 (1.29%) PHP
10 2 (1.29%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.65%) Bash
11 1 (0.65%) Scala
11 1 (0.65%) VB
Qualifications
1 18 (11.61%) Security Cleared
2 14 (9.03%) Degree
3 12 (7.74%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.23%) CCNA
4 5 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (2.58%) A+ Certification
5 4 (2.58%) HND
5 4 (2.58%) MCSE
5 4 (2.58%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.58%) Network+ Certification
6 3 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.29%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.29%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.65%) APMG
8 1 (0.65%) CCNP
8 1 (0.65%) IIBA
8 1 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.65%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (14.84%) Data Quality
2 11 (7.10%) SLA
3 5 (3.23%) GDPR
3 5 (3.23%) QA
4 4 (2.58%) Disclosure Scotland
4 4 (2.58%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.94%) GRC
6 2 (1.29%) COBIT
6 2 (1.29%) ISO 31000
6 2 (1.29%) ISO 8583
6 2 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 1 (0.65%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.65%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.65%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (5.16%) Active Directory
2 7 (4.52%) Docker
3 3 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.29%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.29%) vSphere
5 1 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.65%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 22 (14.19%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.16%) Terraform
3 6 (3.87%) NetBackup
4 4 (2.58%) Ansible
4 4 (2.58%) Grafana
4 4 (2.58%) Prometheus
4 4 (2.58%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 3 (1.94%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.94%) SCCM
6 1 (0.65%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (0.65%) SCOM
6 1 (0.65%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 42 (27.10%) Microsoft
2 18 (11.61%) Oracle
3 10 (6.45%) Databricks
3 10 (6.45%) Google
4 9 (5.81%) Dell
5 8 (5.16%) Sybase
6 7 (4.52%) IBM
7 6 (3.87%) Computacenter
7 6 (3.87%) ServiceNow
8 5 (3.23%) MuleSoft
8 5 (3.23%) Veritas
9 4 (2.58%) Canon
9 4 (2.58%) HP
10 3 (1.94%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.94%) VMware
11 2 (1.29%) Alteryx
11 2 (1.29%) Cisco
11 2 (1.29%) Citrix
11 2 (1.29%) FIS
11 2 (1.29%) SmartStream