Problem-Solving Contracts in Glasgow

Problem Solving
Scotland > Glasgow

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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 14 12
Rank change year-on-year -6 -2 +8
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 80 111 108
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 9.12% 12.13% 10.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.93% 12.85% 11.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 82 55
10th Percentile £158 £363 £161
25th Percentile £288 £417 £323
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £500 £445
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +12.36% +13.38%
75th Percentile £499 £586 £488
90th Percentile £613 £742 £538
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £425
% change year-on-year - +11.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 1
10th Percentile £16.09 - -
25th Percentile £16.50 - £42.50
Median hourly rate £18.00 £47.73 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.29% +11.00% +50.88%
75th Percentile £19.50 - £43.50
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £17.00 £18.88 £47.50
% change year-on-year -9.96% -60.25% +26.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 806 864 934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 91.90% 94.43% 92.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 515 629 709
10th Percentile £280 £325 £256
25th Percentile £400 £410 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +9.76%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £538
90th Percentile £675 £701 £600
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £470
% change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 27 12
10th Percentile £13.75 - £17.85
25th Percentile £16.00 £10.63 £21.00
Median hourly rate £21.13 £13.50 £32.90
Median % change year-on-year +56.50% -58.97% +31.61%
75th Percentile £44.14 £35.00 £44.63
90th Percentile £63.75 £59.47 £49.39
Scotland median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £33.00
% change year-on-year +9.11% -46.30% -21.43%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Glasgow

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in Glasgow.

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Glasgow

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Glasgow over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Glasgow

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in Glasgow.

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Glasgow

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.75%) IBM HTTP Server
1 3 (3.75%) WebSphere
1 3 (3.75%) WebSphere Application Server
1 3 (3.75%) WebSphere Portal
2 1 (1.25%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (1.25%) Confluence
2 1 (1.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (13.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (3.75%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (1.25%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (1.25%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (1.25%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 8 (10.00%) AWS
1 8 (10.00%) Azure
1 8 (10.00%) Power Platform
2 7 (8.75%) Snowflake
3 2 (2.50%) IaaS
3 2 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.25%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.75%) HTTP
2 2 (2.50%) Firewall
3 1 (1.25%) LAN
3 1 (1.25%) VPN
3 1 (1.25%) WAN
3 1 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.00%) Power BI
2 6 (7.50%) Tableau
3 5 (6.25%) DB2
4 3 (3.75%) Oracle Database
4 3 (3.75%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.75%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.50%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.50%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.25%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.25%) Big Data
6 1 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.25%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.25%) HBase
Development Applications
1 4 (5.00%) Git
1 4 (5.00%) JIRA
2 3 (3.75%) IBM UrbanCode
2 3 (3.75%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.50%) CircleCI
3 2 (2.50%) GitLab
4 1 (1.25%) Bitbucket
General
1 53 (66.25%) Analytical Skills
2 50 (62.50%) Social Skills
3 22 (27.50%) Finance
4 11 (13.75%) Public Sector
5 10 (12.50%) Legal
5 10 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (7.50%) Banking
7 5 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.50%) Law
9 2 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 28 (35.00%) Analyst
2 12 (15.00%) Lead
3 10 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (10.00%) Data Analyst
4 8 (10.00%) Developer
4 8 (10.00%) Senior
5 6 (7.50%) Field Engineer
5 6 (7.50%) IT Engineer
5 6 (7.50%) Lead Data Analyst
5 6 (7.50%) Security Engineer
5 6 (7.50%) Support Analyst
5 6 (7.50%) Windows Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) Field Service Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) 1st Line Support
7 4 (5.00%) 1st Line Support Analyst
7 4 (5.00%) Report Analyst
8 3 (3.75%) Middleware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.75%) Spring
2 4 (5.00%) Kafka
2 4 (5.00%) React
3 3 (3.75%) CSS
3 3 (3.75%) J2EE
3 3 (3.75%) Middleware
3 3 (3.75%) REST
3 3 (3.75%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.25%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.25%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.25%) Management Information System
2 7 (8.75%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (7.50%) Credit Risk
4 4 (5.00%) DTCC
4 4 (5.00%) Market Risk
4 4 (5.00%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.25%) Clustering
5 1 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.25%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.25%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.25%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (21.25%) Windows
2 8 (10.00%) Unix
3 6 (7.50%) Mac OS
4 5 (6.25%) Linux
5 2 (2.50%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (30.00%) Agile
2 12 (15.00%) Project Management
3 11 (13.75%) Analytics
3 11 (13.75%) Customer Service
3 11 (13.75%) Decision-Making
4 10 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
5 9 (11.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 8 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
6 8 (10.00%) Refactoring
7 7 (8.75%) DevOps
7 7 (8.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 6 (7.50%) Actionable Insight
8 6 (7.50%) Collaborative Working
8 6 (7.50%) Computer Science
8 6 (7.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (7.50%) Dashboard Development
8 6 (7.50%) Disaster Recovery
8 6 (7.50%) Disk Encryption
8 6 (7.50%) Microservices
8 6 (7.50%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 10 (12.50%) Python
2 9 (11.25%) PowerShell
2 9 (11.25%) SQL
3 8 (10.00%) Java
4 3 (3.75%) Shell Script
5 2 (2.50%) Perl
5 2 (2.50%) Scala
6 1 (1.25%) Groovy
6 1 (1.25%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (15.00%) Degree
2 5 (6.25%) Master's Degree
3 4 (5.00%) CISSP
3 4 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.75%) CISM
4 3 (3.75%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.75%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.25%) HNC
5 1 (1.25%) MCSE
5 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.25%) PMO
2 2 (2.50%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (2.50%) GDPR
2 2 (2.50%) HIPAA
2 2 (2.50%) P3O
2 2 (2.50%) QA
3 1 (1.25%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.25%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 1 (1.25%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
1 1 (1.25%) Firmware
1 1 (1.25%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 6 (7.50%) SCCM
2 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.25%) Hadoop YARN
3 1 (1.25%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (1.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 19 (23.75%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.75%) Oracle
2 7 (8.75%) Splunk
3 6 (7.50%) Alteryx
4 3 (3.75%) IBM
4 3 (3.75%) Qualys
4 3 (3.75%) SAP
4 3 (3.75%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.75%) Workday
5 2 (2.50%) Greenplum
5 2 (2.50%) Sybase
6 1 (1.25%) Apple
6 1 (1.25%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.25%) Avaloq
6 1 (1.25%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.25%) Cisco
6 1 (1.25%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.25%) SolarWinds