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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 5 17
Rank change year-on-year -1 +12 -5
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 151 202 73
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 16.97% 26.72% 9.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.08% 28.69% 10.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 131 49
10th Percentile £189 £300 £156
25th Percentile £331 £404 £174
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £475 £418
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +13.77% -16.50%
75th Percentile £555 £575 £488
90th Percentile £675 £625 £613
Scotland median daily rate £438 £465 £475
% change year-on-year -5.91% -2.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 3
10th Percentile £13.46 £14.14 £15.84
25th Percentile £13.65 £14.50 £16.09
Median hourly rate £15.77 £15.09 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.51% -16.17% -62.29%
75th Percentile £16.33 £17.50 £19.50
90th Percentile - £18.95 -
Scotland median hourly rate £13.45 £22.00 £16.34
% change year-on-year -38.86% +34.64% -23.14%

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 752 704 718
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 84.49% 93.12% 91.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 431 442 476
10th Percentile £290 £300 £273
25th Percentile £361 £382 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £466 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.75% +3.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £578 £550 £569
90th Percentile £675 £605 £621
Scotland median daily rate £460 £463 £465
% change year-on-year -0.54% -0.54% -2.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 18 34
10th Percentile £13.48 £16.31 £11.76
25th Percentile £15.27 £16.84 £16.00
Median hourly rate £19.33 £19.90 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -51.39% +184.80%
75th Percentile £69.04 £26.21 £56.56
90th Percentile £77.50 £68.07 £71.25
Scotland median hourly rate £19.33 £20.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year -3.35% +2.56% +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 16 June 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 11 (7.28%) Confluence
2 8 (5.30%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.65%) Apache
4 2 (1.32%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.66%) CICS
5 1 (0.66%) Moodle
5 1 (0.66%) MS Project Server
5 1 (0.66%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (7.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (2.65%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (2.65%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.32%) IntelliMatch
1 2 (1.32%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 30 (19.87%) Azure
2 14 (9.27%) AWS
3 10 (6.62%) OpenShift
4 9 (5.96%) GitHub
5 8 (5.30%) Anthropic Claude
5 8 (5.30%) ChatGPT
5 8 (5.30%) Power Platform
6 7 (4.64%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (4.64%) GCP
6 7 (4.64%) GitHub Copilot
7 6 (3.97%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (2.65%) Collibra
9 3 (1.99%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (1.99%) Amazon SageMaker
9 3 (1.99%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (1.99%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.99%) Snowflake
10 2 (1.32%) Alation
10 2 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 12 (7.95%) SAN
2 8 (5.30%) NAS
3 7 (4.64%) WAN
4 5 (3.31%) SD-WAN
5 3 (1.99%) DNS
5 3 (1.99%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (1.32%) LAN
6 2 (1.32%) MPLS
6 2 (1.32%) SDH
6 2 (1.32%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.66%) DHCP
7 1 (0.66%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.66%) Firewall
7 1 (0.66%) Internet
7 1 (0.66%) Intranet
7 1 (0.66%) Network Security
7 1 (0.66%) VoIP
7 1 (0.66%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (11.26%) Relational Database
2 14 (9.27%) Metadata
2 14 (9.27%) MongoDB
3 9 (5.96%) Db2
4 8 (5.30%) Power BI
5 7 (4.64%) Big Data
6 5 (3.31%) Hadoop
7 4 (2.65%) DynamoDB
7 4 (2.65%) Oracle Database
7 4 (2.65%) Tableau
8 3 (1.99%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.99%) Flink
8 3 (1.99%) MySQL
8 3 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.32%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.66%) Apache Ignite
10 1 (0.66%) Oracle Database 10g
10 1 (0.66%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.66%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (11.26%) Git
2 13 (8.61%) JIRA
3 8 (5.30%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.32%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.32%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.32%) Postman
4 2 (1.32%) REST Assured
4 2 (1.32%) Selenium
4 2 (1.32%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.66%) Appium
5 1 (0.66%) Gradle
5 1 (0.66%) Maven
General
1 86 (56.95%) Social Skills
2 71 (47.02%) Analytical Skills
3 51 (33.77%) Finance
4 19 (12.58%) Banking
5 13 (8.61%) Public Sector
6 12 (7.95%) Legal
7 10 (6.62%) Investment Banking
8 9 (5.96%) Front Office
9 8 (5.30%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (4.64%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (3.31%) Billing
11 5 (3.31%) Financial Institution
12 4 (2.65%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (1.99%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (1.32%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.66%) Law
15 1 (0.66%) Local Government
15 1 (0.66%) Prime Brokerage
15 1 (0.66%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 34 (22.52%) Analyst
2 20 (13.25%) Developer
3 15 (9.93%) Business Analyst
4 13 (8.61%) Java Developer
5 12 (7.95%) Senior
6 11 (7.28%) Automation Engineer
6 11 (7.28%) Field Engineer
7 10 (6.62%) Data Engineer
8 8 (5.30%) Project Manager
9 7 (4.64%) Data Analyst
9 7 (4.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (4.64%) Windows Engineer
10 6 (3.97%) Architect
10 6 (3.97%) Computer Engineer
10 6 (3.97%) Field Hardware Engineer
10 6 (3.97%) Hardware Engineer
10 6 (3.97%) Printer Engineer
10 6 (3.97%) Python Developer
10 6 (3.97%) Security Engineer
11 5 (3.31%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (9.27%) REST
2 9 (5.96%) Spring
3 8 (5.30%) Kafka
3 8 (5.30%) Spring Boot
4 6 (3.97%) Loki
4 6 (3.97%) PySpark
4 6 (3.97%) RESTful
4 6 (3.97%) Streamlit
5 5 (3.31%) JSON
6 4 (2.65%) Celery
6 4 (2.65%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (2.65%) Web Services
7 3 (1.99%) CSS
7 3 (1.99%) Model Context Protocol
7 3 (1.99%) React
8 2 (1.32%) HTML
8 2 (1.32%) HTML5
8 2 (1.32%) Playwright
8 2 (1.32%) Spark Streaming
8 2 (1.32%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.61%) Virtual Team
2 12 (7.95%) Data Centre
3 10 (6.62%) Cloud Native
3 10 (6.62%) Product Ownership
4 8 (5.30%) Derivative
4 8 (5.30%) Equity Derivative
5 7 (4.64%) Driving Licence
5 7 (4.64%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (3.97%) Onboarding
7 5 (3.31%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.65%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (2.65%) CMDB
8 4 (2.65%) PMI
8 4 (2.65%) Reference Data
9 3 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.99%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.99%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 36 (23.84%) Windows
2 12 (7.95%) Unix
3 8 (5.30%) Windows Server
4 7 (4.64%) Linux
5 6 (3.97%) Android
6 5 (3.31%) Windows 10
7 3 (1.99%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.66%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (31.13%) Agile
2 29 (19.21%) CI/CD
2 29 (19.21%) Decision-Making
3 27 (17.88%) DevOps
3 27 (17.88%) Stakeholder Management
4 26 (17.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 22 (14.57%) Customer Service
5 22 (14.57%) Data Governance
6 21 (13.91%) Continuous Improvement
6 21 (13.91%) Scrum
7 20 (13.25%) Migration
8 17 (11.26%) Data Analysis
8 17 (11.26%) Data Modelling
8 17 (11.26%) Data Pipeline
8 17 (11.26%) Data Protection
9 16 (10.60%) Data Lineage
9 16 (10.60%) Machine Learning
9 16 (10.60%) TDD
9 16 (10.60%) Test Automation
10 15 (9.93%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (28.48%) Python
2 31 (20.53%) SQL
3 27 (17.88%) Java
4 12 (7.95%) PowerShell
5 9 (5.96%) Perl
6 8 (5.30%) C++
7 5 (3.31%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.65%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.32%) C#
9 2 (1.32%) PHP
9 2 (1.32%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.66%) COBOL
10 1 (0.66%) JCL
10 1 (0.66%) Scala
10 1 (0.66%) VB
Qualifications
1 19 (12.58%) Security Cleared
2 16 (10.60%) Degree
3 13 (8.61%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.31%) CCNA
4 5 (3.31%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.65%) A+ Certification
5 4 (2.65%) MCSE
5 4 (2.65%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.65%) Network+ Certification
5 4 (2.65%) PMI Certification
6 3 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.99%) HND
7 2 (1.32%) CompTIA CySA+
7 2 (1.32%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.32%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.32%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.66%) CCNP
8 1 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (14.57%) Data Quality
2 10 (6.62%) SLA
3 6 (3.97%) QA
4 4 (2.65%) GDPR
5 3 (1.99%) GRC
6 2 (1.32%) COBIT
6 2 (1.32%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (1.32%) ISO 20022
6 2 (1.32%) ISO 31000
6 2 (1.32%) ISO 8583
6 2 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 2 (1.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.66%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.66%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (4.64%) Active Directory
1 7 (4.64%) Docker
2 2 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.32%) vSphere
3 1 (0.66%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.66%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 24 (15.89%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.30%) Grafana
2 8 (5.30%) NetBackup
2 8 (5.30%) Prometheus
3 6 (3.97%) Ansible
3 6 (3.97%) Terraform
4 5 (3.31%) FortiGate
5 4 (2.65%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (1.99%) SCCM
7 1 (0.66%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (0.66%) SolarWinds Orion
7 1 (0.66%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 40 (26.49%) Microsoft
2 16 (10.60%) Oracle
3 11 (7.28%) Databricks
3 11 (7.28%) Dell
4 8 (5.30%) Sybase
4 8 (5.30%) Veritas
5 7 (4.64%) Cisco
5 7 (4.64%) IBM
6 6 (3.97%) Canon
6 6 (3.97%) HP
6 6 (3.97%) ServiceNow
7 5 (3.31%) Computacenter
7 5 (3.31%) Palo Alto
8 4 (2.65%) Google
8 4 (2.65%) Splunk
9 3 (1.99%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.99%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.32%) Alteryx
10 2 (1.32%) SmartStream
10 2 (1.32%) VMware