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 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 7 19
Rank change year-on-year +2 +12 0
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 136 176 95
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 19.48% 21.49% 10.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.57% 23.07% 11.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 120 66
10th Percentile £297 £324 £269
25th Percentile £359 £399 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £440
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +2.27% -12.00%
75th Percentile £534 £538 £495
90th Percentile £659 £625 £600
Scotland median daily rate £438 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -2.78% -5.26% -1.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 6
10th Percentile £16.14 £20.30 £16.09
25th Percentile £16.17 £21.12 £16.50
Median hourly rate £16.25 £23.17 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.85% +28.69% -44.62%
75th Percentile £22.74 £25.79 £19.50
90th Percentile £37.49 £26.97 -
Scotland median hourly rate £13.00 £23.53 £17.50
% change year-on-year -44.75% +34.44% +9.38%

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 577 763 839
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 82.66% 93.16% 91.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 365 482 535
10th Percentile £306 £311 £324
25th Percentile £381 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% +1.05%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £650 £618 £700
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 11 35
10th Percentile £14.58 £16.75 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.17 £18.17 £16.00
Median hourly rate £22.17 £19.83 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.80% +10.17% +49.19%
75th Percentile £49.15 £53.75 £40.94
90th Percentile £58.91 £75.24 £68.00
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £22.88 £19.50
% change year-on-year -12.57% +17.31% +10.05%

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 10 March 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 10 March 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 7 (5.15%) Apache Spark
2 6 (4.41%) Confluence
3 3 (2.21%) Apache
4 2 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.47%) CMS
5 1 (0.74%) Camunda
5 1 (0.74%) CICS
5 1 (0.74%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.74%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (4.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.68%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.74%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.74%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.74%) InDesign
4 1 (0.74%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.74%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (1.47%) IntelliMatch
1 2 (1.47%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 40 (29.41%) Azure
2 27 (19.85%) AWS
3 11 (8.09%) Serverless
3 11 (8.09%) Snowflake
4 8 (5.88%) Power Platform
5 6 (4.41%) OpenShift
6 5 (3.68%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (3.68%) Entra ID
7 4 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (2.94%) Collibra
7 4 (2.94%) GCP
8 3 (2.21%) Amazon SageMaker
9 2 (1.47%) Alation
9 2 (1.47%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.47%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.47%) SaaS
9 2 (1.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (0.74%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.09%) WAN
2 6 (4.41%) NAS
2 6 (4.41%) SAN
3 5 (3.68%) SD-WAN
4 4 (2.94%) LAN
5 3 (2.21%) DNS
5 3 (2.21%) VPN
6 2 (1.47%) MPLS
6 2 (1.47%) Network Security
6 2 (1.47%) SDH
6 2 (1.47%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.74%) DHCP
7 1 (0.74%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (9.56%) Relational Database
3 12 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (5.88%) Big Data
4 8 (5.88%) Power BI
5 7 (5.15%) Hadoop
6 6 (4.41%) Metadata
6 6 (4.41%) Tableau
7 5 (3.68%) Data Lake
7 5 (3.68%) DB2
7 5 (3.68%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.21%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.47%) MySQL
10 1 (0.74%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.74%) Flink
10 1 (0.74%) HBase
10 1 (0.74%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.74%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (12.50%) Git
2 10 (7.35%) JIRA
3 9 (6.62%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.94%) JUnit
5 1 (0.74%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 68 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 54 (39.71%) Analytical Skills
3 52 (38.24%) Finance
4 24 (17.65%) Banking
5 17 (12.50%) Public Sector
6 13 (9.56%) Investment Banking
7 11 (8.09%) Legal
8 8 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (5.15%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (4.41%) Financial Institution
11 5 (3.68%) Front Office
12 4 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (2.21%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.74%) Billing
14 1 (0.74%) French Language
14 1 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.74%) Law
14 1 (0.74%) Prime Brokerage
14 1 (0.74%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 26 (19.12%) Analyst
2 20 (14.71%) Developer
3 14 (10.29%) Architect
3 14 (10.29%) Business Analyst
4 13 (9.56%) Java Developer
4 13 (9.56%) Senior
5 12 (8.82%) Data Engineer
6 11 (8.09%) Automation Engineer
7 8 (5.88%) Windows Engineer
8 7 (5.15%) Field Engineer
8 7 (5.15%) Lead
8 7 (5.15%) Security Engineer
9 6 (4.41%) Data Architect
9 6 (4.41%) Project Manager
9 6 (4.41%) Site Engineer
9 6 (4.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 5 (3.68%) Computer Engineer
10 5 (3.68%) Field Hardware Engineer
10 5 (3.68%) Platform Engineer
10 5 (3.68%) Printer Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.56%) Spring
2 12 (8.82%) Kafka
3 11 (8.09%) REST
4 8 (5.88%) Spring Boot
5 6 (4.41%) Loki
6 5 (3.68%) React
7 4 (2.94%) CSS
7 4 (2.94%) HTML
7 4 (2.94%) JMS
8 3 (2.21%) Model Context Protocol
8 3 (2.21%) PySpark
8 3 (2.21%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (2.21%) Streamlit
9 2 (1.47%) AngularJS
9 2 (1.47%) CSS3
9 2 (1.47%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (1.47%) Ext JS
9 2 (1.47%) HTML5
9 2 (1.47%) Node.js
9 2 (1.47%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.24%) Cloud Native
2 16 (11.76%) Virtual Team
3 10 (7.35%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (5.88%) CMDB
4 8 (5.88%) Data Centre
4 8 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (5.15%) Driving Licence
5 7 (5.15%) Product Ownership
5 7 (5.15%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (3.68%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.94%) Equities
7 4 (2.94%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.94%) PMI
7 4 (2.94%) Reference Data
8 3 (2.21%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.47%) Digital Media
9 2 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.47%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 28 (20.59%) Windows
2 14 (10.29%) Linux
3 11 (8.09%) Unix
4 8 (5.88%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.21%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.74%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.74%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (33.82%) Agile
2 34 (25.00%) DevOps
3 31 (22.79%) CI/CD
4 25 (18.38%) Stakeholder Management
5 24 (17.65%) Decision-Making
5 24 (17.65%) Migration
6 18 (13.24%) Data Modelling
7 16 (11.76%) AI
7 16 (11.76%) Machine Learning
8 15 (11.03%) Continuous Improvement
9 14 (10.29%) Analytics
9 14 (10.29%) ITIL
10 13 (9.56%) Data Science
10 13 (9.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 12 (8.82%) Data Engineering
11 12 (8.82%) Data Governance
11 12 (8.82%) Data Protection
11 12 (8.82%) Infrastructure as Code
11 12 (8.82%) Performance Tuning
11 12 (8.82%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 47 (34.56%) Python
2 23 (16.91%) SQL
3 22 (16.18%) Java
4 17 (12.50%) PowerShell
5 7 (5.15%) Perl
6 6 (4.41%) Shell Script
7 5 (3.68%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.47%) Bicep
8 2 (1.47%) Go
8 2 (1.47%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.74%) Bash
9 1 (0.74%) COBOL
9 1 (0.74%) JCL
9 1 (0.74%) PHP
9 1 (0.74%) Ruby
9 1 (0.74%) VB
Qualifications
1 19 (13.97%) Degree
2 15 (11.03%) Security Cleared
3 8 (5.88%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.94%) ITIL Certification
4 4 (2.94%) PMI Certification
5 3 (2.21%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.21%) CompTIA CySA+
5 3 (2.21%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (1.47%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.74%) CCIE
7 1 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.74%) CISSP
7 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.74%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.82%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.41%) QA
2 6 (4.41%) SLA
3 4 (2.94%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.94%) GDPR
4 2 (1.47%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.47%) ISO 8583
4 2 (1.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.74%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.74%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (5.88%) Docker
2 4 (2.94%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.74%) HDFS
4 1 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.74%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (14.71%) Kubernetes
2 15 (11.03%) Ansible
3 14 (10.29%) Terraform
4 8 (5.88%) Grafana
4 8 (5.88%) NetBackup
4 8 (5.88%) Prometheus
5 5 (3.68%) FortiGate
6 4 (2.94%) SCCM
7 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 18 (13.24%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.82%) Oracle
3 9 (6.62%) Databricks
3 9 (6.62%) Greenplum
3 9 (6.62%) ServiceNow
4 8 (5.88%) Cisco
5 6 (4.41%) Dell
5 6 (4.41%) Veritas
6 5 (3.68%) Canon
6 5 (3.68%) HP
6 5 (3.68%) Palo Alto
6 5 (3.68%) Splunk
7 4 (2.94%) Sybase
8 2 (1.47%) Ab Initio
8 2 (1.47%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.47%) Aruba
8 2 (1.47%) Fiserv
8 2 (1.47%) IBM
8 2 (1.47%) IFS
8 2 (1.47%) SmartStream