Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Skill Sets
Period
to 17 August 2018

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow with a requirement for Problem-Solving skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Problem-Solving over the 6 months to 17 August 2018 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Problem-Solving
Scotland > Glasgow
6 months to
17 Aug 2018		 Same period 2017 Same period 2016
Rank 25 16 18
Rank change year-on-year -9 +2 0
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 126 120 108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 7.02% 9.04% 8.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.95% 10.41% 9.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 59 57
Glasgow median daily rate £400 £370 £400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +8.11% -7.50% +6.67%
10th Percentile £156 £191 £266
90th Percentile £488 £500 £475
Scotland median daily rate £400 £400 £375
% change year-on-year - +6.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 4
Glasgow median hourly rate £10.41 £15.45 £9.75
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year -32.63% +58.41% -82.27%
10th Percentile £10.04 £10.00 £9.25
90th Percentile £22.92 £29.50 £15.08
Scotland median hourly rate £22.25 £23.25 £36.75
% change year-on-year -4.30% -36.73% +177.36%

Problem-Solving is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow
Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,585 1,153 1,092
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 88.30% 86.89% 85.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 926 619 617
Glasgow median daily rate £400 £375 £350
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +6.67% +7.14% -4.76%
10th Percentile £263 £263 £214
90th Percentile £538 £500 £475
Scotland median daily rate £400 £388 £375
% change year-on-year +3.23% +3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 20 11
Glasgow median hourly rate £16.68 £20.70 £14.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year -19.40% +47.82% -56.92%
10th Percentile £10.75 £12.70 £9.25
90th Percentile £35.00 £35.15 £38.00
Scotland median hourly rate £17.63 £27.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -35.91% -23.61% +40.57%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing Problem-Solving as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Glasgow

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Problem-Solving in Glasgow.

Contractor daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Glasgow

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Problem-Solving in Glasgow over the 6 months to 17 August 2018.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Glasgow

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving in Glasgow.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Glasgow

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram in Glasgow

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Problem-Solving in Glasgow over the 6 months to 17 August 2018.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Glasgow

For the 6 months to 17 August 2018, IT contractor jobs citing Problem-Solving also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Glasgow region with a requirement for Problem-Solving.

1 63 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 46 (36.51%) Java
3 43 (34.13%) Agile Software Development
4 40 (31.75%) Finance
5 36 (28.57%) SQL
6 32 (25.40%) Relational Database
7 31 (24.60%) Python
8 28 (22.22%) OO
9 27 (21.43%) Oracle
9 27 (21.43%) Degree
10 26 (20.63%) Spring
11 21 (16.67%) Hibernate
12 20 (15.87%) Data Analysis
13 18 (14.29%) Computer Science
13 18 (14.29%) Microsoft
14 17 (13.49%) SDLC
15 15 (11.90%) Microsoft Excel
15 15 (11.90%) Project Management
15 15 (11.90%) Scrum
16 14 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
16 14 (11.11%) Oracle Database
17 13 (10.32%) AngularJS
17 13 (10.32%) Unit Testing
17 13 (10.32%) RESTful
17 13 (10.32%) OOP
17 13 (10.32%) RDBMS
17 13 (10.32%) C++
18 12 (9.52%) QA
18 12 (9.52%) Games
18 12 (9.52%) Analytics

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring IT Skills in Glasgow by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (3.17%) WebSphere
2 2 (1.59%) IBM Connections
2 2 (1.59%) IBM Domino
2 2 (1.59%) Jetty
2 2 (1.59%) Tomcat
2 2 (1.59%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (0.79%) IBM Notes
3 1 (0.79%) JBoss
3 1 (0.79%) WebLogic
Applications
1 15 (11.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (7.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (6.35%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (4.76%) MS Visio
5 2 (1.59%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.79%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.79%) InVision
6 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (5.56%) AquaLogic BPM
1 7 (5.56%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (2.38%) Microsoft Azure
2 2 (1.59%) Amazon AWS
2 2 (1.59%) GitHub
3 1 (0.79%) IBM Cloud
3 1 (0.79%) Office 365
3 1 (0.79%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.38%) Firewall
2 2 (1.59%) LAN
2 2 (1.59%) WAN
3 1 (0.79%) ADSL
3 1 (0.79%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (0.79%) DHCP
3 1 (0.79%) DNS
3 1 (0.79%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 1 (0.79%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (0.79%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.79%) Internet
3 1 (0.79%) MPLS
3 1 (0.79%) Network Security
3 1 (0.79%) SAN
3 1 (0.79%) SSL
3 1 (0.79%) VPN
3 1 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (25.40%) Relational Database
2 14 (11.11%) Oracle Database
3 13 (10.32%) RDBMS
4 8 (6.35%) DB2
5 6 (4.76%) QlikView
6 5 (3.97%) BusinessObjects
6 5 (3.97%) Oracle Database 10g
6 5 (3.97%) Oracle Database 11g
7 4 (3.17%) Oracle Database 12c
7 4 (3.17%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (2.38%) Big Data
8 3 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (1.59%) MySQL
9 2 (1.59%) SQL Server
9 2 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.79%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.79%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.79%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (5.56%) Jenkins
2 6 (4.76%) Hudson
3 5 (3.97%) Eclipse
3 5 (3.97%) MagicDraw
3 5 (3.97%) Subversion
4 4 (3.17%) Oracle Forms
4 4 (3.17%) webpack
5 2 (1.59%) ClearCase
5 2 (1.59%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.59%) Git (software)
5 2 (1.59%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.79%) Ant
6 1 (0.79%) Balsamiq Mockups
6 1 (0.79%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.79%) GitLab
6 1 (0.79%) Gradle
6 1 (0.79%) JUnit
6 1 (0.79%) Maven
6 1 (0.79%) NUnit
6 1 (0.79%) Selenium
General
1 40 (31.75%) Finance
2 12 (9.52%) Games
3 7 (5.56%) Banking
3 7 (5.56%) Front Office
4 5 (3.97%) Investment Banking
4 5 (3.97%) Legal
5 2 (1.59%) Marketing
5 2 (1.59%) Retail
6 1 (0.79%) Electronics
6 1 (0.79%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 64 (50.79%) Developer
2 24 (19.05%) Java Developer
3 19 (15.08%) Python Developer
4 12 (9.52%) Analyst
5 11 (8.73%) Oracle Developer
6 9 (7.14%) Project Manager
7 8 (6.35%) Angular Developer
8 6 (4.76%) Designer
8 6 (4.76%) Solutions Designer
9 5 (3.97%) Business Analyst
9 5 (3.97%) Hardware Technician
9 5 (3.97%) J2EE Developer
9 5 (3.97%) Java/J2EE Developer
10 4 (3.17%) Data Analyst
10 4 (3.17%) UI Developer
11 3 (2.38%) Consultant
11 3 (2.38%) Full Stack Developer
11 3 (2.38%) Infrastructure Designer
11 3 (2.38%) Scrum Master
11 3 (2.38%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (20.63%) Spring
2 21 (16.67%) Hibernate
3 13 (10.32%) AngularJS
3 13 (10.32%) RESTful
4 11 (8.73%) SOAP
4 11 (8.73%) XML
5 10 (7.94%) JSON
6 8 (6.35%) HTML
6 8 (6.35%) JMS
6 8 (6.35%) JPA
7 7 (5.56%) Apache Camel
7 7 (5.56%) Apache MINA
8 6 (4.76%) .NET
8 6 (4.76%) CSS
8 6 (4.76%) Django
8 6 (4.76%) J2EE
8 6 (4.76%) REST
9 5 (3.97%) HTML5
9 5 (3.97%) Middleware
10 4 (3.17%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 63 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 18 (14.29%) Computer Science
3 14 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (8.73%) Derivative
5 8 (6.35%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (5.56%) Reference Data
6 7 (5.56%) User Experience
7 6 (4.76%) Equity Derivative
8 4 (3.17%) Credit Risk
9 3 (2.38%) Data Centre
10 2 (1.59%) Animation
10 2 (1.59%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.59%) NHS
11 1 (0.79%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.79%) Augmented Reality
11 1 (0.79%) Clustering
11 1 (0.79%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.79%) DataPower
11 1 (0.79%) DTCC
11 1 (0.79%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.14%) Windows
2 8 (6.35%) Linux
3 6 (4.76%) Windows 7
4 4 (3.17%) Unix
5 3 (2.38%) AIX
6 1 (0.79%) Android
6 1 (0.79%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.79%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.79%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (34.13%) Agile Software Development
2 28 (22.22%) OO
3 20 (15.87%) Data Analysis
4 17 (13.49%) SDLC
5 15 (11.90%) Project Management
5 15 (11.90%) Scrum
6 13 (10.32%) OOP
6 13 (10.32%) Unit Testing
7 12 (9.52%) Analytics
8 10 (7.94%) Collaborative Working
8 10 (7.94%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (7.14%) Business Intelligence
9 9 (7.14%) Mentoring
9 9 (7.14%) PRINCE2
9 9 (7.14%) Software Engineering
9 9 (7.14%) TDD
10 8 (6.35%) Business Analysis
10 8 (6.35%) Multithreading
11 7 (5.56%) BPMN
11 7 (5.56%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 46 (36.51%) Java
2 36 (28.57%) SQL
3 31 (24.60%) Python
4 13 (10.32%) C++
5 11 (8.73%) JavaScript
6 10 (7.94%) Scala
7 9 (7.14%) Java 8
8 7 (5.56%) XPath
9 6 (4.76%) C#
10 4 (3.17%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.59%) Bash Shell
11 2 (1.59%) Perl
11 2 (1.59%) Ruby
11 2 (1.59%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.79%) Apple Swift
12 1 (0.79%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.79%) PHP
12 1 (0.79%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.79%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.79%) VBA
Qualifications
1 27 (21.43%) Degree
2 9 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (4.76%) PMP
4 5 (3.97%) Security Cleared
5 3 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.38%) PMI Certification
5 3 (2.38%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 2 (1.59%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.52%) PMO
1 12 (9.52%) QA
2 4 (3.17%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.79%) GDPR
3 1 (0.79%) JSP 440
3 1 (0.79%) PMBOK
3 1 (0.79%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (1.59%) Docker
2 1 (0.79%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.79%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (0.79%) Ansible
1 1 (0.79%) Icinga
1 1 (0.79%) Kibana
1 1 (0.79%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.79%) logstash
1 1 (0.79%) MOM
1 1 (0.79%) Nagios
1 1 (0.79%) Opscode Chef
1 1 (0.79%) Puppet
1 1 (0.79%) Terraform
1 1 (0.79%) Tivoli
1 1 (0.79%) Tivoli Identity Manager
1 1 (0.79%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 27 (21.43%) Oracle
2 18 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.97%) IBM
3 5 (3.97%) Tableau
4 2 (1.59%) Adobe
4 2 (1.59%) Apple
4 2 (1.59%) Cisco
4 2 (1.59%) SAP
5 1 (0.79%) Automation Anywhere
5 1 (0.79%) CA
5 1 (0.79%) CheckPoint
5 1 (0.79%) F5
5 1 (0.79%) HP
5 1 (0.79%) Juniper
5 1 (0.79%) McAfee
5 1 (0.79%) Perforce
5 1 (0.79%) Remedy
5 1 (0.79%) Salesforce.com
5 1 (0.79%) Sybase
5 1 (0.79%) TIBCO