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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 5 11
Rank change year-on-year -1 +6 -1
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 153 170 89
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 12.57% 22.82% 12.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.87% 25.56% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 93 63
10th Percentile £272 £359 £178
25th Percentile £325 £410 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £401 £475 £398
Median % change year-on-year -15.58% +19.50% -16.32%
75th Percentile £488 £550 £500
90th Percentile £634 £588 £598
Scotland median daily rate £429 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -4.67% +5.88% -7.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 1
10th Percentile £13.45 £15.89 -
25th Percentile £13.48 £17.10 £18.50
Median hourly rate £13.50 £19.42 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.48% +2.21% -
75th Percentile £15.59 £22.05 £19.50
90th Percentile £16.45 £23.45 -
Scotland median hourly rate £15.00 £13.00 £15.75
% change year-on-year +15.38% -17.46% -71.36%

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 1,029 665 623
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 84.55% 89.26% 89.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 553 411 419
10th Percentile £276 £300 £278
25th Percentile £363 £381 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £454 £440
Median % change year-on-year -0.88% +3.18% -12.00%
75th Percentile £552 £538 £550
90th Percentile £675 £613 £673
Scotland median daily rate £470 £465 £450
% change year-on-year +1.08% +3.33% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 21 12
10th Percentile £13.43 £15.09 £15.39
25th Percentile £13.84 £16.84 £18.11
Median hourly rate £35.00 £18.00 £19.59
Median % change year-on-year +94.44% -8.12% +35.10%
75th Percentile £43.96 £26.21 £26.76
90th Percentile £77.50 £57.50 £41.70
Scotland median hourly rate £16.75 £20.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year -16.25% +0.31% +5.32%

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 15 October 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 (9.15%) Confluence
2 5 (3.27%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.61%) Apache
4 2 (1.31%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.31%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.65%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 11 (7.19%) Microsoft Excel
1 11 (7.19%) MS Visio
2 8 (5.23%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (3.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.65%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.65%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 18 (11.76%) Azure
2 15 (9.80%) AWS
3 14 (9.15%) GCP
4 11 (7.19%) GitHub
5 8 (5.23%) Power Platform
6 6 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (3.92%) OpenShift
7 5 (3.27%) ChatGPT
7 5 (3.27%) Google Play
8 4 (2.61%) Anthropic Claude
8 4 (2.61%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (2.61%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (2.61%) GitHub Copilot
9 3 (1.96%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.96%) OCI
9 3 (1.96%) SaaS
9 3 (1.96%) Serverless
9 3 (1.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.92%) MPLS
1 6 (3.92%) SAN
2 5 (3.27%) SDH
3 4 (2.61%) HTTP
3 4 (2.61%) LAN
3 4 (2.61%) Network Security
3 4 (2.61%) WAN
4 3 (1.96%) HTTPS
4 3 (1.96%) NAS
4 3 (1.96%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.31%) DHCP
5 2 (1.31%) DNS
5 2 (1.31%) Firewall
5 2 (1.31%) VoIP
6 1 (0.65%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.65%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.65%) VSAN
6 1 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.15%) Relational Database
2 11 (7.19%) MongoDB
3 7 (4.58%) Power BI
4 6 (3.92%) Metadata
5 5 (3.27%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.61%) Db2
6 4 (2.61%) DynamoDB
6 4 (2.61%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.96%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.31%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.31%) Big Data
8 2 (1.31%) Delta Lake
8 2 (1.31%) Flink
8 2 (1.31%) MySQL
8 2 (1.31%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.31%) Oracle Database 10g
8 2 (1.31%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.31%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (1.31%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (15.03%) Git
2 21 (13.73%) JIRA
3 10 (6.54%) Jenkins
4 8 (5.23%) Gradle
5 5 (3.27%) Android Studio
6 4 (2.61%) Cypress.io
6 4 (2.61%) Postman
6 4 (2.61%) REST Assured
6 4 (2.61%) Selenium
7 3 (1.96%) Appium
7 3 (1.96%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.96%) GitLab
7 3 (1.96%) JUnit
7 3 (1.96%) Maven
7 3 (1.96%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.65%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.65%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.65%) GoCD
8 1 (0.65%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.65%) PVCS
General
1 94 (61.44%) Social Skills
2 63 (41.18%) Analytical Skills
3 53 (34.64%) Finance
4 24 (15.69%) Banking
5 12 (7.84%) Public Sector
6 10 (6.54%) Investment Banking
7 9 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (5.23%) Telecoms
9 7 (4.58%) Front Office
10 6 (3.92%) Billing
10 6 (3.92%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (3.92%) Legal
11 4 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (2.61%) Military
12 1 (0.65%) Electronics
12 1 (0.65%) Local Government
12 1 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.65%) Prime Brokerage
12 1 (0.65%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.65%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 32 (20.92%) Developer
2 23 (15.03%) Analyst
3 19 (12.42%) Senior
4 11 (7.19%) Java Developer
5 10 (6.54%) Data Engineer
5 10 (6.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (5.88%) Administrator
6 9 (5.88%) Network Engineer
6 9 (5.88%) Python Developer
7 7 (4.58%) Business Analyst
7 7 (4.58%) Data Analyst
8 6 (3.92%) Integration Engineer
8 6 (3.92%) Project Manager
8 6 (3.92%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (3.92%) Senior Integration Engineer
9 5 (3.27%) Android Developer
9 5 (3.27%) Business Systems Analyst
9 5 (3.27%) Lead
9 5 (3.27%) Systems Analyst
9 5 (3.27%) Technical Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (9.80%) REST
2 10 (6.54%) Kafka
2 10 (6.54%) RESTful
3 7 (4.58%) Spring
4 6 (3.92%) PySpark
4 6 (3.92%) Spring Boot
5 5 (3.27%) Android Jetpack
5 5 (3.27%) Jetpack Compose
5 5 (3.27%) JSON
5 5 (3.27%) Playwright
5 5 (3.27%) Retrofit
5 5 (3.27%) Terraform
5 5 (3.27%) Web Services
6 4 (2.61%) Celery
6 4 (2.61%) Core Data
6 4 (2.61%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (2.61%) RxSwift
6 4 (2.61%) Streamlit
6 4 (2.61%) SwiftUI
6 4 (2.61%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.80%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 8 (5.23%) Data Structures
4 7 (4.58%) Data Centre
4 7 (4.58%) Management Information System
4 7 (4.58%) Private Cloud
5 5 (3.27%) CCTV
5 5 (3.27%) Cloud Native
5 5 (3.27%) Derivative
5 5 (3.27%) Mobile App
6 4 (2.61%) AI Agents
6 4 (2.61%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.61%) Driving Licence
6 4 (2.61%) Equity Derivative
6 4 (2.61%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.31%) IoT
8 2 (1.31%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 2 (1.31%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (15.69%) Linux
2 13 (8.50%) Android
3 12 (7.84%) Windows
4 7 (4.58%) Unix
5 6 (3.92%) Apple iOS
6 4 (2.61%) macOS
7 2 (1.31%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.65%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (31.37%) Agile
2 32 (20.92%) CI/CD
3 30 (19.61%) Scrum
3 30 (19.61%) Stakeholder Management
4 29 (18.95%) Continuous Improvement
5 25 (16.34%) DevOps
6 24 (15.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 22 (14.38%) Test Automation
8 19 (12.42%) Project Delivery
9 18 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 17 (11.11%) AI
10 17 (11.11%) Customer Service
10 17 (11.11%) Risk Management
11 15 (9.80%) Asset Management
11 15 (9.80%) Validation
12 14 (9.15%) Analytics
12 14 (9.15%) Data Analysis
12 14 (9.15%) Data Modelling
12 14 (9.15%) Decision-Making
12 14 (9.15%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 37 (24.18%) Python
2 31 (20.26%) SQL
3 28 (18.30%) Java
4 11 (7.19%) C++
5 9 (5.88%) Perl
6 6 (3.92%) JavaScript
6 6 (3.92%) PowerShell
7 5 (3.27%) Kotlin
7 5 (3.27%) PL/SQL
7 5 (3.27%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.61%) C#
8 4 (2.61%) Swift
9 3 (1.96%) Bash
10 2 (1.31%) C
10 2 (1.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.31%) Embedded C
10 2 (1.31%) Embedded C++
11 1 (0.65%) Go
11 1 (0.65%) Scala
Qualifications
1 21 (13.73%) Security Cleared
2 16 (10.46%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.23%) Degree
4 6 (3.92%) CCNA
4 6 (3.92%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (3.27%) HND
6 4 (2.61%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.96%) A+ Certification
7 3 (1.96%) CCNP
7 3 (1.96%) MCSE
7 3 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.96%) Network+ Certification
8 2 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.31%) HNC
8 2 (1.31%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.31%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.31%) PMP
9 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.65%) IIBA
9 1 (0.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.80%) Data Quality
2 12 (7.84%) SLA
3 7 (4.58%) QA
4 4 (2.61%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (1.96%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.96%) GDPR
5 3 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.96%) PMO
6 2 (1.31%) GRC
6 2 (1.31%) ISO 20022
6 2 (1.31%) NCSC
6 2 (1.31%) NIST
7 1 (0.65%) COBIT
7 1 (0.65%) ISO 31000
7 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 1 (0.65%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (7.19%) Docker
2 9 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.61%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.96%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.31%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.31%) vSphere
6 1 (0.65%) GPFS
6 1 (0.65%) NFS
6 1 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.65%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 19 (12.42%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.88%) Ansible
3 5 (3.27%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 4 (2.61%) NetBackup
5 3 (1.96%) Cisco Prime
5 3 (1.96%) SCCM
5 3 (1.96%) SolarWinds Orion
6 2 (1.31%) SCOM
7 1 (0.65%) Grafana
7 1 (0.65%) logstash
7 1 (0.65%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.65%) Puppet
Vendors
1 39 (25.49%) Microsoft
2 15 (9.80%) Oracle
3 11 (7.19%) VMware
4 9 (5.88%) Google
5 7 (4.58%) Databricks
6 6 (3.92%) Cisco
6 6 (3.92%) Computacenter
6 6 (3.92%) SaltStack
7 5 (3.27%) IBM
7 5 (3.27%) MuleSoft
7 5 (3.27%) Nokia
7 5 (3.27%) Splunk
8 4 (2.61%) Sybase
9 3 (1.96%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.96%) Citrix
9 3 (1.96%) Dell
9 3 (1.96%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.31%) Avaya
10 2 (1.31%) CyberArk
10 2 (1.31%) SolarWinds