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 21 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 7 18
Rank change year-on-year +2 +11 -1
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 131 126 91
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 19.70% 17.43% 10.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 22.90% 19.09% 11.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 85 65
10th Percentile £356 £314 £313
25th Percentile £401 £383 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £438 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -2.78% -5.26%
75th Percentile £541 £490 £500
90th Percentile £641 £603 £568
Scotland median daily rate £463 £441 £475
% change year-on-year +4.99% -7.26% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 5
10th Percentile - £19.18 -
25th Percentile £16.17 £20.19 £16.50
Median hourly rate £23.75 £22.75 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.40% +26.39% -44.62%
75th Percentile £29.16 £25.69 £19.50
90th Percentile £41.66 £26.93 -
Scotland median hourly rate £13.00 £24.18 £18.00
% change year-on-year -46.24% +34.33% +12.50%

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 572 660 800
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 86.02% 91.29% 91.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 397 524
10th Percentile £302 £312 £350
25th Percentile £400 £363 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +3.84%
75th Percentile £568 £538 £615
90th Percentile £638 £643 £700
Scotland median daily rate £470 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +4.44% -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 14 21
10th Percentile £14.09 £16.75 £11.50
25th Percentile £16.09 £18.77 £15.42
Median hourly rate £23.75 £24.17 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.72% +51.03% +50.52%
75th Percentile £52.50 £40.50 £19.50
90th Percentile £61.74 £58.71 £75.00
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.59 £19.50
% change year-on-year -15.22% +20.97% +15.15%

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 21 January 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem-Solving in Glasgow over the 6 months to 21 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Glasgow

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 5 (3.82%) CMS
2 4 (3.05%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.53%) Apache
3 2 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.76%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.76%) Camunda
4 1 (0.76%) CICS
4 1 (0.76%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.76%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (4.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.76%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.76%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.76%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.76%) InDesign
3 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.76%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.76%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 39 (29.77%) Azure
2 25 (19.08%) AWS
3 12 (9.16%) Snowflake
4 11 (8.40%) Serverless
5 8 (6.11%) Power Platform
6 4 (3.05%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (3.05%) Entra ID
6 4 (3.05%) GCP
6 4 (3.05%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.53%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.53%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.53%) SaaS
7 2 (1.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (0.76%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.76%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.76%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (0.76%) GitHub
8 1 (0.76%) IaaS
8 1 (0.76%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.76%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.40%) WAN
2 5 (3.82%) SD-WAN
3 4 (3.05%) NAS
3 4 (3.05%) SAN
3 4 (3.05%) VPN
4 3 (2.29%) LAN
5 2 (1.53%) DNS
5 2 (1.53%) MPLS
5 2 (1.53%) Network Security
5 2 (1.53%) SDH
5 2 (1.53%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.76%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (16.79%) Relational Database
2 19 (14.50%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (8.40%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (7.63%) DB2
4 10 (7.63%) MongoDB
5 8 (6.11%) Power BI
6 6 (4.58%) Tableau
7 5 (3.82%) Big Data
8 3 (2.29%) Data Lake
8 3 (2.29%) Hadoop
8 3 (2.29%) MySQL
8 3 (2.29%) NoSQL
8 3 (2.29%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.53%) GIS
9 2 (1.53%) Power Query
9 2 (1.53%) QlikView
9 2 (1.53%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.76%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.76%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.76%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 12 (9.16%) Git
2 11 (8.40%) Jenkins
3 10 (7.63%) JUnit
4 4 (3.05%) JIRA
5 1 (0.76%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.76%) Mockito
5 1 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 64 (48.85%) Social Skills
2 51 (38.93%) Finance
3 48 (36.64%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (18.32%) Banking
5 18 (13.74%) Investment Banking
6 16 (12.21%) Public Sector
7 8 (6.11%) Front Office
8 7 (5.34%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (5.34%) Legal
8 7 (5.34%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.29%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.29%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.53%) Retail
11 1 (0.76%) Billing
11 1 (0.76%) French Language
11 1 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.76%) Law
11 1 (0.76%) Marketing
11 1 (0.76%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 30 (22.90%) Developer
2 23 (17.56%) Analyst
3 18 (13.74%) Java Developer
4 13 (9.92%) Architect
5 11 (8.40%) Senior
6 10 (7.63%) Data Analyst
7 9 (6.87%) Data Engineer
7 9 (6.87%) Python Engineer
8 8 (6.11%) Automation Engineer
8 8 (6.11%) Business Analyst
8 8 (6.11%) Investment Banking Java Developer
8 8 (6.11%) SQL Developer
8 8 (6.11%) Sybase Developer
9 7 (5.34%) Lead
9 7 (5.34%) Windows Engineer
10 6 (4.58%) Data Architect
10 6 (4.58%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (4.58%) Security Engineer
10 6 (4.58%) Software Engineer
11 5 (3.82%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (14.50%) Kafka
2 17 (12.98%) Spring
3 9 (6.87%) REST
3 9 (6.87%) Spring Boot
4 8 (6.11%) JMS
4 8 (6.11%) React
5 6 (4.58%) Hibernate
6 5 (3.82%) Ext JS
6 5 (3.82%) FastAPI
7 4 (3.05%) AngularJS
7 4 (3.05%) Loki
8 3 (2.29%) CSS
8 3 (2.29%) HTML
8 3 (2.29%) Node.js
8 3 (2.29%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (1.53%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (1.53%) Flask
9 2 (1.53%) Middleware
9 2 (1.53%) OpenTelemetry
10 1 (0.76%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.69%) Cloud Native
2 11 (8.40%) CMDB
2 11 (8.40%) Data Structures
2 11 (8.40%) Virtual Team
3 10 (7.63%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (7.63%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (6.87%) Data Centre
4 9 (6.87%) Equities
5 8 (6.11%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (4.58%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (3.05%) Driving Licence
7 4 (3.05%) Public Cloud
8 3 (2.29%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.29%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.29%) PMI
9 2 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.53%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.53%) Cyberattack
9 2 (1.53%) Digital Media
9 2 (1.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 22 (16.79%) Windows
2 20 (15.27%) Linux
3 11 (8.40%) Unix
4 5 (3.82%) Windows Server
5 4 (3.05%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (29.01%) Agile
2 29 (22.14%) CI/CD
3 24 (18.32%) DevOps
4 19 (14.50%) AI
4 19 (14.50%) Performance Tuning
5 16 (12.21%) ITIL
6 14 (10.69%) Analytics
6 14 (10.69%) Machine Learning
6 14 (10.69%) Migration
6 14 (10.69%) Multithreading
6 14 (10.69%) Visualisation
7 13 (9.92%) Data Modelling
7 13 (9.92%) Stakeholder Management
8 12 (9.16%) Computer Science
8 12 (9.16%) Data Visualisation
8 12 (9.16%) SDLC
8 12 (9.16%) Software Engineering
9 11 (8.40%) Data Architecture
9 11 (8.40%) Infrastructure as Code
9 11 (8.40%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 51 (38.93%) Python
2 32 (24.43%) SQL
3 25 (19.08%) Java
4 15 (11.45%) PowerShell
5 10 (7.63%) Shell Script
6 6 (4.58%) JavaScript
7 5 (3.82%) Perl
8 4 (3.05%) Go
8 4 (3.05%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.29%) Bicep
10 2 (1.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.76%) Bash
11 1 (0.76%) C++
11 1 (0.76%) COBOL
11 1 (0.76%) JCL
11 1 (0.76%) PHP
11 1 (0.76%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.76%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 17 (12.98%) Degree
2 11 (8.40%) Security Cleared
3 6 (4.58%) ITIL Certification
4 5 (3.82%) Azure Certification
4 5 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (3.82%) SC Cleared
5 4 (3.05%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.29%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.29%) CompTIA CySA+
6 3 (2.29%) CompTIA Security+
6 3 (2.29%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.76%) BC Cleared
8 1 (0.76%) CCIE
8 1 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.76%) CISSP
8 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.76%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.58%) QA
2 4 (3.05%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.29%) SLA
4 2 (1.53%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.76%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 11 (8.40%) Docker
2 4 (3.05%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.29%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.76%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 13 (9.92%) Ansible
1 13 (9.92%) Kubernetes
2 10 (7.63%) Terraform
3 7 (5.34%) Grafana
4 6 (4.58%) NetBackup
5 5 (3.82%) FortiGate
5 5 (3.82%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.05%) SCCM
7 3 (2.29%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.76%) Kibana
8 1 (0.76%) logstash
Vendors
1 14 (10.69%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.92%) ServiceNow
3 9 (6.87%) Greenplum
4 8 (6.11%) Cisco
4 8 (6.11%) Oracle
4 8 (6.11%) Splunk
4 8 (6.11%) Sybase
5 5 (3.82%) Palo Alto
6 4 (3.05%) Databricks
6 4 (3.05%) Veritas
7 2 (1.53%) Ab Initio
7 2 (1.53%) Aruba
7 2 (1.53%) Canon
7 2 (1.53%) Dell
7 2 (1.53%) HP
7 2 (1.53%) IBM
7 2 (1.53%) IFS
7 2 (1.53%) MobileIron
8 1 (0.76%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.76%) GoCardless