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

6 months to
2 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 151 209 69
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 15.71% 26.69% 9.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.71% 28.95% 9.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 132 48
10th Percentile £196 £300 £156
25th Percentile £325 £404 £174
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £475 £421
Median % change year-on-year -15.37% +12.76% -15.75%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £489
90th Percentile £644 £625 £613
Scotland median daily rate £434 £463 £475
% change year-on-year -6.22% -2.63% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 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 £16.39 £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 807 722 693
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 83.98% 92.21% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 462 462 466
10th Percentile £284 £300 £263
25th Percentile £358 £376 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £557
90th Percentile £675 £600 £625
Scotland median daily rate £458 £463 £453
% change year-on-year -1.19% +2.21% -4.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 19 33
10th Percentile £13.46 £16.49 £11.68
25th Percentile £13.65 £16.84 £16.00
Median hourly rate £16.63 £19.83 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year -16.16% -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 £19.59
% change year-on-year -5.43% +2.09% +28.50%

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 2 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 (8.61%) Confluence
2 7 (4.64%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.99%) Apache
3 3 (1.99%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.66%) CICS
4 1 (0.66%) Moodle
4 1 (0.66%) MS Project Server
4 1 (0.66%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (7.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.64%) MS Visio
3 6 (3.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (3.31%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (2.65%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.32%) IntelliMatch
1 2 (1.32%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 28 (18.54%) Azure
2 14 (9.27%) AWS
3 10 (6.62%) GitHub
4 8 (5.30%) Anthropic Claude
4 8 (5.30%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (5.30%) ChatGPT
4 8 (5.30%) GCP
4 8 (5.30%) OpenShift
5 7 (4.64%) GitHub Copilot
5 7 (4.64%) Power Platform
6 6 (3.97%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (2.65%) Collibra
8 3 (1.99%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (1.99%) Amazon SageMaker
8 3 (1.99%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (1.99%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.99%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.32%) Alation
9 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (1.32%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.62%) SAN
2 6 (3.97%) NAS
3 4 (2.65%) WAN
4 3 (1.99%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (1.32%) DHCP
5 2 (1.32%) DNS
5 2 (1.32%) LAN
5 2 (1.32%) MPLS
5 2 (1.32%) Network Security
5 2 (1.32%) SDH
5 2 (1.32%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.66%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.66%) Firewall
6 1 (0.66%) Internet
6 1 (0.66%) Intranet
6 1 (0.66%) VoIP
6 1 (0.66%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (11.92%) Relational Database
2 14 (9.27%) Metadata
2 14 (9.27%) MongoDB
3 9 (5.96%) Db2
4 7 (4.64%) Power BI
5 6 (3.97%) Big Data
5 6 (3.97%) Oracle Database
6 4 (2.65%) DynamoDB
6 4 (2.65%) Hadoop
6 4 (2.65%) Tableau
7 3 (1.99%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.99%) Flink
7 3 (1.99%) MySQL
7 3 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.32%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.32%) Oracle Database 10g
9 1 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.66%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.66%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (11.26%) Git
2 15 (9.93%) JIRA
3 8 (5.30%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.99%) Cypress.io
4 3 (1.99%) Postman
4 3 (1.99%) REST Assured
4 3 (1.99%) Selenium
5 2 (1.32%) Appium
5 2 (1.32%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.32%) Gradle
5 2 (1.32%) JUnit
5 2 (1.32%) Maven
5 2 (1.32%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.66%) GoCD
6 1 (0.66%) Mocha
6 1 (0.66%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.66%) PVCS
6 1 (0.66%) Subversion
6 1 (0.66%) TestNG
General
1 86 (56.95%) Social Skills
2 70 (46.36%) Analytical Skills
3 53 (35.10%) Finance
4 26 (17.22%) Banking
5 14 (9.27%) Public Sector
6 12 (7.95%) Investment Banking
6 12 (7.95%) Legal
7 10 (6.62%) Front Office
8 9 (5.96%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (5.30%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (3.97%) Billing
10 6 (3.97%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (3.31%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (1.32%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.66%) Local Government
14 1 (0.66%) Prime Brokerage
14 1 (0.66%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.66%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 33 (21.85%) Analyst
2 23 (15.23%) Developer
3 17 (11.26%) Business Analyst
4 15 (9.93%) Senior
5 14 (9.27%) Java Developer
6 10 (6.62%) Data Engineer
6 10 (6.62%) Field Engineer
7 8 (5.30%) Administrator
7 8 (5.30%) Automation Engineer
8 7 (4.64%) Data Analyst
8 7 (4.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (4.64%) Python Developer
8 7 (4.64%) Senior Developer
9 6 (3.97%) Cloud Engineer
9 6 (3.97%) Project Manager
10 5 (3.31%) Field Hardware Engineer
10 5 (3.31%) Printer Engineer
10 5 (3.31%) Site Engineer
10 5 (3.31%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 5 (3.31%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.61%) REST
2 10 (6.62%) Spring
3 9 (5.96%) Spring Boot
4 8 (5.30%) Kafka
5 7 (4.64%) PySpark
5 7 (4.64%) Streamlit
6 6 (3.97%) RESTful
7 5 (3.31%) JSON
8 4 (2.65%) Celery
8 4 (2.65%) Loki
8 4 (2.65%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (2.65%) React
8 4 (2.65%) Web Services
9 3 (1.99%) CSS
9 3 (1.99%) HTML
9 3 (1.99%) HTML5
9 3 (1.99%) Model Context Protocol
9 3 (1.99%) Playwright
10 2 (1.32%) JPA
10 2 (1.32%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.27%) Product Ownership
2 12 (7.95%) Cloud Native
2 12 (7.95%) Virtual Team
3 10 (6.62%) Data Centre
4 8 (5.30%) Derivative
4 8 (5.30%) Equity Derivative
5 6 (3.97%) Data Structures
5 6 (3.97%) Driving Licence
5 6 (3.97%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.65%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (2.65%) CCTV
7 4 (2.65%) CMDB
7 4 (2.65%) Reference Data
8 3 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.99%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.99%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.99%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 29 (19.21%) Windows
2 9 (5.96%) Unix
3 7 (4.64%) Android
4 6 (3.97%) Linux
4 6 (3.97%) Windows Server
5 5 (3.31%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.32%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.66%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (29.80%) Agile
2 31 (20.53%) CI/CD
3 29 (19.21%) Decision-Making
3 29 (19.21%) DevOps
3 29 (19.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 27 (17.88%) Stakeholder Management
5 23 (15.23%) Data Governance
5 23 (15.23%) Scrum
6 22 (14.57%) Customer Service
7 21 (13.91%) Continuous Improvement
7 21 (13.91%) Data Analysis
7 21 (13.91%) Migration
8 18 (11.92%) Data Modelling
8 18 (11.92%) Test Automation
9 17 (11.26%) Data Pipeline
9 17 (11.26%) Machine Learning
9 17 (11.26%) TDD
10 16 (10.60%) Analytics
10 16 (10.60%) Data Lineage
10 16 (10.60%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 42 (27.81%) Python
2 36 (23.84%) SQL
3 31 (20.53%) Java
4 9 (5.96%) C++
4 9 (5.96%) PowerShell
5 7 (4.64%) JavaScript
5 7 (4.64%) Perl
6 5 (3.31%) PL/SQL
7 3 (1.99%) C#
8 2 (1.32%) PHP
8 2 (1.32%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.66%) Bash
9 1 (0.66%) COBOL
9 1 (0.66%) JCL
9 1 (0.66%) Scala
9 1 (0.66%) VB
Qualifications
1 20 (13.25%) Security Cleared
2 15 (9.93%) Degree
3 13 (8.61%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.31%) CCNA
4 5 (3.31%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (2.65%) A+ Certification
5 4 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.65%) HND
5 4 (2.65%) MCSE
5 4 (2.65%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.65%) Network+ Certification
6 3 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.32%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.32%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.66%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.66%) CCNP
8 1 (0.66%) IIBA
8 1 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.66%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (15.23%) Data Quality
2 11 (7.28%) SLA
3 7 (4.64%) QA
4 5 (3.31%) GDPR
5 4 (2.65%) Disclosure Scotland
5 4 (2.65%) ISO 20022
6 3 (1.99%) GRC
7 2 (1.32%) COBIT
7 2 (1.32%) ISO 31000
7 2 (1.32%) ISO 8583
7 2 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (0.66%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.66%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.66%) PMO
8 1 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (5.30%) Active Directory
1 8 (5.30%) Docker
2 3 (1.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.32%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.32%) vSphere
4 1 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.66%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 24 (15.89%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.30%) Terraform
3 7 (4.64%) NetBackup
4 6 (3.97%) Grafana
4 6 (3.97%) Prometheus
5 5 (3.31%) Ansible
6 4 (2.65%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 3 (1.99%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.99%) SCCM
8 2 (1.32%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.66%) Cisco Prime
9 1 (0.66%) SCOM
9 1 (0.66%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 44 (29.14%) Microsoft
2 19 (12.58%) Oracle
3 11 (7.28%) Databricks
4 10 (6.62%) Dell
5 8 (5.30%) Sybase
6 7 (4.64%) IBM
7 6 (3.97%) Computacenter
7 6 (3.97%) ServiceNow
7 6 (3.97%) Veritas
8 5 (3.31%) Canon
8 5 (3.31%) Google
8 5 (3.31%) HP
8 5 (3.31%) MuleSoft
9 4 (2.65%) Cisco
10 3 (1.99%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.99%) VMware
11 2 (1.32%) Citrix
11 2 (1.32%) FIS
11 2 (1.32%) Palo Alto
11 2 (1.32%) SmartStream