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

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 7 18
Rank change year-on-year +2 +11 -2
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 143 140 96
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 20.46% 18.21% 10.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 24.16% 19.83% 11.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 95 68
10th Percentile £348 £263 £288
25th Percentile £396 £387 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £438 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.74% -2.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £498
90th Percentile £653 £605 £580
Scotland median daily rate £450 £441 £475
% change year-on-year +2.16% -7.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.17 £25.25 £16.50
Median hourly rate £20.00 £26.50 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.53% +47.22% -44.62%
75th Percentile £27.96 £27.75 £19.50
90th Percentile £39.58 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £13.00 £23.53 £18.00
% change year-on-year -44.75% +30.71% +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 592 706 852
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 84.69% 91.81% 92.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 374 423 560
10th Percentile £302 £313 £349
25th Percentile £383 £363 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +3.84%
75th Percentile £566 £550 £600
90th Percentile £640 £625 £700
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £480
% change year-on-year - -6.25% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 10 26
10th Percentile £14.13 £16.60 £11.50
25th Percentile £16.17 £17.46 £15.42
Median hourly rate £25.92 £24.17 £16.35
Median % change year-on-year +7.26% +47.80% +53.81%
75th Percentile £51.25 £38.81 £30.19
90th Percentile £61.54 £66.82 £75.00
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.59 £19.50
% change year-on-year -15.22% +20.97% +12.54%

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 February 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 February 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 (4.90%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.80%) CMS
2 4 (2.80%) Confluence
3 2 (1.40%) Apache
3 2 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.70%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.70%) Camunda
4 1 (0.70%) CICS
4 1 (0.70%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.70%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (2.80%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (2.80%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.70%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.70%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.70%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.70%) InDesign
3 1 (0.70%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.70%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 44 (30.77%) Azure
2 30 (20.98%) AWS
3 12 (8.39%) Snowflake
4 11 (7.69%) Serverless
5 6 (4.20%) Power Platform
6 5 (3.50%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (3.50%) Entra ID
6 5 (3.50%) OpenShift
7 4 (2.80%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (2.80%) Amazon SageMaker
7 4 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.80%) GCP
8 3 (2.10%) Collibra
9 2 (1.40%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.40%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.40%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.40%) SaaS
9 2 (1.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (0.70%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (0.70%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.39%) WAN
2 5 (3.50%) NAS
2 5 (3.50%) SAN
2 5 (3.50%) SD-WAN
3 4 (2.80%) LAN
3 4 (2.80%) VPN
4 3 (2.10%) DNS
5 2 (1.40%) MPLS
5 2 (1.40%) Network Security
5 2 (1.40%) SDH
5 2 (1.40%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.70%) DHCP
6 1 (0.70%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (14.69%) Relational Database
2 17 (11.89%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (8.39%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (5.59%) Big Data
4 8 (5.59%) DB2
5 7 (4.90%) MongoDB
6 6 (4.20%) Data Lake
6 6 (4.20%) Hadoop
6 6 (4.20%) Power BI
7 4 (2.80%) Metadata
7 4 (2.80%) Tableau
8 3 (2.10%) MySQL
8 3 (2.10%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.40%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.40%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.70%) GIS
10 1 (0.70%) HBase
10 1 (0.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (11.19%) Git
2 10 (6.99%) Jenkins
3 7 (4.90%) JIRA
3 7 (4.90%) JUnit
4 1 (0.70%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.70%) Mockito
4 1 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 68 (47.55%) Social Skills
2 53 (37.06%) Finance
3 51 (35.66%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (17.48%) Banking
5 17 (11.89%) Public Sector
6 16 (11.19%) Investment Banking
7 8 (5.59%) Legal
7 8 (5.59%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (4.20%) Financial Institution
8 6 (4.20%) Front Office
8 6 (4.20%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.10%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.40%) Retail
11 1 (0.70%) Billing
11 1 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.70%) Law
11 1 (0.70%) Marketing
11 1 (0.70%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 26 (18.18%) Analyst
1 26 (18.18%) Developer
2 16 (11.19%) Java Developer
3 14 (9.79%) Architect
4 13 (9.09%) Data Engineer
4 13 (9.09%) Senior
5 11 (7.69%) Business Analyst
6 10 (6.99%) Automation Engineer
6 10 (6.99%) Data Analyst
7 8 (5.59%) Windows Engineer
8 7 (4.90%) Lead
8 7 (4.90%) Platform Engineer
8 7 (4.90%) Security Engineer
9 6 (4.20%) Cloud Engineer
9 6 (4.20%) Data Architect
9 6 (4.20%) Investment Banking Java Developer
9 6 (4.20%) Project Manager
9 6 (4.20%) SQL Developer
9 6 (4.20%) Sybase Developer
10 5 (3.50%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (11.89%) Spring
2 14 (9.79%) Kafka
3 11 (7.69%) REST
3 11 (7.69%) Spring Boot
4 8 (5.59%) React
5 6 (4.20%) JMS
6 5 (3.50%) Loki
7 4 (2.80%) AngularJS
7 4 (2.80%) CSS
7 4 (2.80%) Ext JS
7 4 (2.80%) Hibernate
7 4 (2.80%) HTML
7 4 (2.80%) PySpark
8 3 (2.10%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (2.10%) Model Context Protocol
8 3 (2.10%) Node.js
8 3 (2.10%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (2.10%) Streamlit
9 2 (1.40%) CSS3
9 2 (1.40%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.59%) Cloud Native
2 16 (11.19%) Virtual Team
3 12 (8.39%) CMDB
4 11 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (6.99%) Data Centre
5 10 (6.99%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (6.29%) Data Structures
7 8 (5.59%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (4.90%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (4.20%) Equities
9 6 (4.20%) Product Ownership
10 5 (3.50%) Driving Licence
10 5 (3.50%) Onboarding
11 3 (2.10%) Algorithms
11 3 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (2.10%) PMI
11 3 (2.10%) Reference Data
12 2 (1.40%) Cyber Threat
12 2 (1.40%) Cyberattack
12 2 (1.40%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 25 (17.48%) Windows
2 17 (11.89%) Linux
3 11 (7.69%) Unix
4 7 (4.90%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.80%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (33.57%) Agile
2 35 (24.48%) DevOps
3 34 (23.78%) CI/CD
4 20 (13.99%) Data Modelling
4 20 (13.99%) Decision-Making
4 20 (13.99%) Migration
5 19 (13.29%) AI
5 19 (13.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 18 (12.59%) Analytics
7 17 (11.89%) ITIL
7 17 (11.89%) Machine Learning
7 17 (11.89%) Performance Tuning
8 15 (10.49%) Data Architecture
9 14 (9.79%) SDLC
10 13 (9.09%) Data Engineering
10 13 (9.09%) Data Science
10 13 (9.09%) Design Patterns
11 12 (8.39%) Data Lineage
11 12 (8.39%) Infrastructure as Code
11 12 (8.39%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 52 (36.36%) Python
2 30 (20.98%) SQL
3 26 (18.18%) Java
4 17 (11.89%) PowerShell
5 8 (5.59%) Shell Script
6 6 (4.20%) JavaScript
6 6 (4.20%) Perl
7 3 (2.10%) Bicep
7 3 (2.10%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.40%) Go
9 1 (0.70%) Bash
9 1 (0.70%) COBOL
9 1 (0.70%) JCL
9 1 (0.70%) PHP
9 1 (0.70%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.70%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 21 (14.69%) Degree
2 12 (8.39%) Security Cleared
3 6 (4.20%) ITIL Certification
3 6 (4.20%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.80%) Azure Certification
4 4 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.10%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.10%) CompTIA CySA+
5 3 (2.10%) CompTIA Security+
5 3 (2.10%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.40%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.70%) CCIE
7 1 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.70%) CISSP
7 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.70%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.29%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.90%) QA
3 4 (2.80%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.10%) GDPR
4 3 (2.10%) SLA
5 2 (1.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.70%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 10 (6.99%) Docker
2 5 (3.50%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.10%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.70%) HDFS
4 1 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (13.99%) Kubernetes
2 14 (9.79%) Ansible
2 14 (9.79%) Terraform
3 7 (4.90%) Grafana
3 7 (4.90%) NetBackup
3 7 (4.90%) Prometheus
4 5 (3.50%) FortiGate
5 4 (2.80%) SCCM
6 3 (2.10%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.70%) Kibana
7 1 (0.70%) logstash
Vendors
1 19 (13.29%) Microsoft
2 14 (9.79%) ServiceNow
3 11 (7.69%) Oracle
4 10 (6.99%) Databricks
5 9 (6.29%) Greenplum
6 8 (5.59%) Cisco
7 6 (4.20%) Splunk
7 6 (4.20%) Sybase
8 5 (3.50%) Palo Alto
8 5 (3.50%) Veritas
9 4 (2.80%) Dell
10 3 (2.10%) Canon
10 3 (2.10%) HP
11 2 (1.40%) Ab Initio
11 2 (1.40%) Aruba
11 2 (1.40%) IBM
11 2 (1.40%) IFS
11 2 (1.40%) MobileIron
12 1 (0.70%) Cloudera
12 1 (0.70%) Zerto