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 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 4 17
Rank change year-on-year -2 +13 -4
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 149 207 70
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 15.59% 26.47% 9.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.56% 28.71% 10.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 132 49
10th Percentile £194 £300 £156
25th Percentile £325 £404 £174
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £475 £418
Median % change year-on-year -15.37% +13.77% -16.50%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £488
90th Percentile £644 £625 £613
Scotland median daily rate £438 £463 £475
% change year-on-year -5.41% -2.63% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 3 2
10th Percentile £13.45 £14.14 £15.75
25th Percentile £13.50 £14.50 £15.88
Median hourly rate £14.65 £15.09 £17.17
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% -12.11% -64.03%
75th Percentile £16.33 £17.50 £18.88
90th Percentile £16.40 £18.95 £19.25
Scotland median hourly rate £13.45 £22.00 £15.97
% change year-on-year -38.86% +37.76% -24.88%

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 803 721 691
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 84.00% 92.20% 90.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 460 463 465
10th Percentile £284 £300 £263
25th Percentile £356 £376 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £553
90th Percentile £675 £600 £621
Scotland median daily rate £459 £463 £453
% change year-on-year -0.81% +2.10% -4.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 19 33
10th Percentile £13.45 £16.49 £11.68
25th Percentile £13.70 £16.84 £16.00
Median hourly rate £17.00 £19.83 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year -14.27% -51.56% +187.30%
75th Percentile £43.96 £26.21 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £59.00 £72.50
Scotland median hourly rate £18.92 £20.00 £19.55
% change year-on-year -5.43% +2.33% +28.21%

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 1 July 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 13 (8.72%) Confluence
2 7 (4.70%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.01%) Apache
3 3 (2.01%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.67%) CICS
4 1 (0.67%) Moodle
4 1 (0.67%) MS Project Server
4 1 (0.67%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (7.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.70%) MS Visio
3 6 (4.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (2.68%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (2.68%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.34%) IntelliMatch
1 2 (1.34%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 27 (18.12%) Azure
2 14 (9.40%) AWS
3 10 (6.71%) GitHub
4 8 (5.37%) Anthropic Claude
4 8 (5.37%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (5.37%) ChatGPT
4 8 (5.37%) OpenShift
5 7 (4.70%) GCP
5 7 (4.70%) GitHub Copilot
5 7 (4.70%) Power Platform
6 6 (4.03%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (2.68%) Collibra
8 3 (2.01%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (2.01%) Amazon SageMaker
8 3 (2.01%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (2.01%) Entra ID
8 3 (2.01%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.34%) Alation
9 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (1.34%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.71%) SAN
2 6 (4.03%) NAS
3 4 (2.68%) WAN
4 3 (2.01%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (1.34%) DHCP
5 2 (1.34%) DNS
5 2 (1.34%) LAN
5 2 (1.34%) MPLS
5 2 (1.34%) Network Security
5 2 (1.34%) SDH
5 2 (1.34%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.67%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.67%) Firewall
6 1 (0.67%) Internet
6 1 (0.67%) Intranet
6 1 (0.67%) VoIP
6 1 (0.67%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (12.08%) Relational Database
2 14 (9.40%) Metadata
2 14 (9.40%) MongoDB
3 9 (6.04%) Db2
4 7 (4.70%) Power BI
5 6 (4.03%) Big Data
5 6 (4.03%) Oracle Database
6 4 (2.68%) DynamoDB
6 4 (2.68%) Hadoop
6 4 (2.68%) Tableau
7 3 (2.01%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.01%) Flink
7 3 (2.01%) MySQL
7 3 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.34%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.34%) Oracle Database 10g
9 1 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.67%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.67%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 17 (11.41%) Git
2 15 (10.07%) JIRA
3 8 (5.37%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.01%) Cypress.io
4 3 (2.01%) Postman
4 3 (2.01%) REST Assured
4 3 (2.01%) Selenium
5 2 (1.34%) Appium
5 2 (1.34%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.34%) Gradle
5 2 (1.34%) JUnit
5 2 (1.34%) Maven
5 2 (1.34%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.67%) GoCD
6 1 (0.67%) Mocha
6 1 (0.67%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.67%) PVCS
6 1 (0.67%) Subversion
6 1 (0.67%) TestNG
General
1 86 (57.72%) Social Skills
2 70 (46.98%) Analytical Skills
3 52 (34.90%) Finance
4 26 (17.45%) Banking
5 14 (9.40%) Public Sector
6 12 (8.05%) Investment Banking
7 11 (7.38%) Legal
8 10 (6.71%) Front Office
9 9 (6.04%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (5.37%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (4.03%) Billing
12 5 (3.36%) Financial Institution
12 5 (3.36%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (1.34%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.67%) Local Government
15 1 (0.67%) Prime Brokerage
15 1 (0.67%) Retail Banking
15 1 (0.67%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 33 (22.15%) Analyst
2 23 (15.44%) Developer
3 17 (11.41%) Business Analyst
4 15 (10.07%) Senior
5 14 (9.40%) Java Developer
6 10 (6.71%) Data Engineer
6 10 (6.71%) Field Engineer
7 8 (5.37%) Automation Engineer
8 7 (4.70%) Administrator
8 7 (4.70%) Data Analyst
8 7 (4.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (4.70%) Python Developer
8 7 (4.70%) Senior Developer
9 6 (4.03%) Project Manager
10 5 (3.36%) Business Systems Analyst
10 5 (3.36%) Computer Engineer
10 5 (3.36%) Field Hardware Engineer
10 5 (3.36%) Hardware Engineer
10 5 (3.36%) Systems Analyst
10 5 (3.36%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.72%) REST
2 10 (6.71%) Spring
3 9 (6.04%) Spring Boot
4 8 (5.37%) Kafka
5 7 (4.70%) PySpark
5 7 (4.70%) Streamlit
6 6 (4.03%) RESTful
7 5 (3.36%) JSON
8 4 (2.68%) Celery
8 4 (2.68%) Loki
8 4 (2.68%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (2.68%) React
8 4 (2.68%) Web Services
9 3 (2.01%) CSS
9 3 (2.01%) HTML
9 3 (2.01%) HTML5
9 3 (2.01%) Model Context Protocol
9 3 (2.01%) Playwright
10 2 (1.34%) JPA
10 2 (1.34%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.40%) Product Ownership
2 12 (8.05%) Virtual Team
3 11 (7.38%) Cloud Native
4 10 (6.71%) Data Centre
5 8 (5.37%) Derivative
5 8 (5.37%) Equity Derivative
6 6 (4.03%) Data Structures
6 6 (4.03%) Driving Licence
6 6 (4.03%) Onboarding
7 5 (3.36%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (2.68%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (2.68%) CMDB
8 4 (2.68%) Reference Data
9 3 (2.01%) CCTV
9 3 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (2.01%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (2.01%) Management Information System
9 3 (2.01%) Operational Technology
9 3 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 28 (18.79%) Windows
2 9 (6.04%) Unix
3 7 (4.70%) Android
4 6 (4.03%) Windows Server
5 5 (3.36%) Linux
5 5 (3.36%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.34%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.67%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (30.20%) Agile
2 30 (20.13%) CI/CD
3 29 (19.46%) Decision-Making
3 29 (19.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 28 (18.79%) DevOps
5 27 (18.12%) Stakeholder Management
6 23 (15.44%) Data Governance
6 23 (15.44%) Scrum
7 22 (14.77%) Customer Service
8 21 (14.09%) Continuous Improvement
8 21 (14.09%) Data Analysis
8 21 (14.09%) Migration
9 18 (12.08%) Data Modelling
9 18 (12.08%) Test Automation
10 17 (11.41%) Data Pipeline
10 17 (11.41%) Machine Learning
10 17 (11.41%) TDD
11 16 (10.74%) Analytics
11 16 (10.74%) Data Lineage
11 16 (10.74%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 41 (27.52%) Python
2 36 (24.16%) SQL
3 31 (20.81%) Java
4 9 (6.04%) C++
4 9 (6.04%) PowerShell
5 7 (4.70%) JavaScript
5 7 (4.70%) Perl
6 5 (3.36%) PL/SQL
7 3 (2.01%) C#
8 2 (1.34%) PHP
8 2 (1.34%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.67%) Bash
9 1 (0.67%) COBOL
9 1 (0.67%) JCL
9 1 (0.67%) Scala
9 1 (0.67%) VB
Qualifications
1 20 (13.42%) Security Cleared
2 15 (10.07%) Degree
3 13 (8.72%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.36%) CCNA
4 5 (3.36%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (2.68%) A+ Certification
5 4 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.68%) HND
5 4 (2.68%) MCSE
5 4 (2.68%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.68%) Network+ Certification
6 3 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.34%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.34%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.67%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.67%) CCNP
8 1 (0.67%) IIBA
8 1 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.67%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (15.44%) Data Quality
2 11 (7.38%) SLA
3 7 (4.70%) QA
4 5 (3.36%) GDPR
5 4 (2.68%) Disclosure Scotland
5 4 (2.68%) ISO 20022
6 3 (2.01%) GRC
7 2 (1.34%) COBIT
7 2 (1.34%) ISO 31000
7 2 (1.34%) ISO 8583
7 2 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (0.67%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.67%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.67%) PMO
8 1 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (5.37%) Active Directory
1 8 (5.37%) Docker
2 3 (2.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.34%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.34%) vSphere
4 1 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 23 (15.44%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.70%) NetBackup
2 7 (4.70%) Terraform
3 6 (4.03%) Grafana
3 6 (4.03%) Prometheus
4 5 (3.36%) Ansible
5 3 (2.01%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (2.01%) SCCM
5 3 (2.01%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 2 (1.34%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.67%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (0.67%) SCOM
7 1 (0.67%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 42 (28.19%) Microsoft
2 19 (12.75%) Oracle
3 11 (7.38%) Databricks
4 10 (6.71%) Dell
5 8 (5.37%) Sybase
6 7 (4.70%) IBM
7 6 (4.03%) Computacenter
7 6 (4.03%) ServiceNow
7 6 (4.03%) Veritas
8 5 (3.36%) Canon
8 5 (3.36%) HP
8 5 (3.36%) MuleSoft
9 4 (2.68%) Cisco
9 4 (2.68%) Google
10 3 (2.01%) Salesforce
10 3 (2.01%) VMware
11 2 (1.34%) Citrix
11 2 (1.34%) FIS
11 2 (1.34%) Palo Alto
11 2 (1.34%) SmartStream