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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 5 20
Rank change year-on-year -1 +15 -6
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 125 199 80
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 16.78% 25.13% 9.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.29% 26.78% 9.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 137 54
10th Percentile £204 £308 £158
25th Percentile £335 £408 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £417 £463 £440
Median % change year-on-year -9.78% +5.11% -12.00%
75th Percentile £554 £550 £499
90th Percentile £666 £624 £613
Scotland median daily rate £425 £454 £475
% change year-on-year -6.28% -4.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 6
10th Percentile £16.15 £15.07 £16.09
25th Percentile £16.17 £16.82 £16.50
Median hourly rate £16.25 £19.83 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.05% +10.17% -62.29%
75th Percentile £19.54 £23.83 £19.50
90th Percentile £35.41 £26.18 -
Scotland median hourly rate £13.45 £22.00 £17.00
% change year-on-year -38.86% +29.41% -9.96%

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 616 743 809
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 82.68% 93.81% 91.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 372 479 518
10th Percentile £307 £308 £281
25th Percentile £367 £389 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -2.63% -
75th Percentile £575 £550 £588
90th Percentile £675 £603 £675
Scotland median daily rate £450 £463 £475
% change year-on-year -2.70% -2.63% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 9 40
10th Percentile £16.12 £16.18 £13.75
25th Percentile £16.17 £16.75 £16.00
Median hourly rate £28.09 £19.83 £21.13
Median % change year-on-year +41.65% -6.14% +56.50%
75th Percentile £52.50 £65.00 £44.14
90th Percentile £70.74 £76.83 £63.75
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £21.59 £19.34
% change year-on-year -7.36% +11.66% +9.11%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 9 (7.20%) Apache Spark
2 7 (5.60%) Confluence
3 4 (3.20%) Apache
4 2 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.60%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.60%) WordPress
5 1 (0.80%) Camunda
5 1 (0.80%) CICS
5 1 (0.80%) Moodle
5 1 (0.80%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 4 (3.20%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (3.20%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.80%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.80%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.80%) InDesign
3 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.80%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.80%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (1.60%) IntelliMatch
1 2 (1.60%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 27 (21.60%) Azure
2 15 (12.00%) AWS
3 7 (5.60%) OpenShift
3 7 (5.60%) Snowflake
4 6 (4.80%) Anthropic Claude
4 6 (4.80%) ChatGPT
4 6 (4.80%) Power Platform
5 5 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (4.00%) GCP
5 5 (4.00%) GitHub
5 5 (4.00%) GitHub Copilot
5 5 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (3.20%) Collibra
7 3 (2.40%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (2.40%) Amazon SageMaker
7 3 (2.40%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (2.40%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.40%) Serverless
8 2 (1.60%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.60%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.20%) SAN
2 7 (5.60%) WAN
3 6 (4.80%) NAS
4 5 (4.00%) SD-WAN
5 3 (2.40%) DNS
5 3 (2.40%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (1.60%) LAN
6 2 (1.60%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.80%) DHCP
7 1 (0.80%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.80%) Internet
7 1 (0.80%) Intranet
7 1 (0.80%) MPLS
7 1 (0.80%) SDH
7 1 (0.80%) VoIP
7 1 (0.80%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.40%) Relational Database
2 12 (9.60%) Metadata
3 8 (6.40%) MongoDB
4 7 (5.60%) Big Data
4 7 (5.60%) DB2
4 7 (5.60%) Hadoop
5 6 (4.80%) Power BI
6 5 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (3.20%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (3.20%) Tableau
8 3 (2.40%) Data Lake
8 3 (2.40%) Flink
8 3 (2.40%) MySQL
8 3 (2.40%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.60%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.80%) Apache Ignite
10 1 (0.80%) HBase
Development Applications
1 17 (13.60%) Git
2 10 (8.00%) JIRA
3 6 (4.80%) Jenkins
General
1 62 (49.60%) Social Skills
2 54 (43.20%) Analytical Skills
3 48 (38.40%) Finance
4 18 (14.40%) Banking
5 17 (13.60%) Public Sector
6 11 (8.80%) Legal
7 10 (8.00%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (7.20%) Investment Banking
9 7 (5.60%) Front Office
10 6 (4.80%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (4.80%) Financial Institution
11 4 (3.20%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (3.20%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.80%) Law
12 1 (0.80%) Prime Brokerage
12 1 (0.80%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
12 1 (0.80%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (20.00%) Analyst
2 20 (16.00%) Developer
3 14 (11.20%) Business Analyst
4 13 (10.40%) Senior
5 11 (8.80%) Automation Engineer
5 11 (8.80%) Java Developer
6 10 (8.00%) Field Engineer
7 8 (6.40%) Data Engineer
7 8 (6.40%) Project Manager
8 6 (4.80%) Architect
8 6 (4.80%) Computer Engineer
8 6 (4.80%) Field Hardware Engineer
8 6 (4.80%) Hardware Engineer
8 6 (4.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (4.80%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (4.80%) Printer Engineer
8 6 (4.80%) Site Engineer
8 6 (4.80%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 6 (4.80%) Windows Engineer
9 5 (4.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (11.20%) REST
2 8 (6.40%) Spring
3 7 (5.60%) Spring Boot
4 6 (4.80%) Kafka
4 6 (4.80%) Loki
5 4 (3.20%) CSS
5 4 (3.20%) RESTful
6 3 (2.40%) CSS3
6 3 (2.40%) HTML
6 3 (2.40%) HTML5
6 3 (2.40%) Model Context Protocol
6 3 (2.40%) PySpark
6 3 (2.40%) React
6 3 (2.40%) Streamlit
7 2 (1.60%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.60%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (1.60%) JSON
7 2 (1.60%) JWT
7 2 (1.60%) OAuth
7 2 (1.60%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.40%) Cloud Native
1 13 (10.40%) Virtual Team
2 11 (8.80%) Data Centre
3 7 (5.60%) Driving Licence
3 7 (5.60%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (5.60%) Product Ownership
4 6 (4.80%) Derivative
4 6 (4.80%) Equity Derivative
5 5 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (4.00%) CMDB
5 5 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (4.00%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.20%) PMI
6 4 (3.20%) Reference Data
7 3 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.40%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.40%) Operational Technology
7 3 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.60%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 31 (24.80%) Windows
2 8 (6.40%) Linux
2 8 (6.40%) Unix
2 8 (6.40%) Windows Server
3 4 (3.20%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.60%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.80%) Android
5 1 (0.80%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (30.40%) Agile
2 29 (23.20%) CI/CD
3 25 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 22 (17.60%) Stakeholder Management
5 20 (16.00%) Data Governance
5 20 (16.00%) DevOps
6 18 (14.40%) Continuous Improvement
7 17 (13.60%) Migration
8 15 (12.00%) Customer Service
9 14 (11.20%) AI
9 14 (11.20%) Data Lineage
9 14 (11.20%) Data Modelling
9 14 (11.20%) Scrum
9 14 (11.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 13 (10.40%) Data Engineering
10 13 (10.40%) Data Protection
10 13 (10.40%) Machine Learning
10 13 (10.40%) Risk Management
10 13 (10.40%) TDD
10 13 (10.40%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 38 (30.40%) Python
2 21 (16.80%) Java
3 19 (15.20%) SQL
4 13 (10.40%) PowerShell
5 7 (5.60%) Perl
6 6 (4.80%) C++
7 5 (4.00%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.40%) PHP
9 2 (1.60%) Go
10 1 (0.80%) COBOL
10 1 (0.80%) JCL
10 1 (0.80%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.80%) VB
Qualifications
1 15 (12.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (11.20%) Degree
3 8 (6.40%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.20%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.20%) PMI Certification
5 3 (2.40%) A+ Certification
5 3 (2.40%) CCNA
5 3 (2.40%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.40%) MCSE
5 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.40%) Network+ Certification
6 2 (1.60%) CompTIA CySA+
6 2 (1.60%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (14.40%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.20%) GDPR
2 4 (3.20%) QA
2 4 (3.20%) SLA
3 2 (1.60%) COBIT
3 2 (1.60%) GRC
3 2 (1.60%) ISO 20022
3 2 (1.60%) ISO 31000
3 2 (1.60%) ISO 8583
3 2 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27005
3 2 (1.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.80%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (5.60%) Active Directory
2 6 (4.80%) Docker
3 2 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.60%) vSphere
4 1 (0.80%) HDFS
4 1 (0.80%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.80%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 20 (16.00%) Kubernetes
2 9 (7.20%) Ansible
2 9 (7.20%) Terraform
3 8 (6.40%) Grafana
3 8 (6.40%) Prometheus
4 6 (4.80%) NetBackup
5 5 (4.00%) FortiGate
6 4 (3.20%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.60%) SCCM
Vendors
1 21 (16.80%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.00%) Dell
2 10 (8.00%) Oracle
3 9 (7.20%) Databricks
4 7 (5.60%) ServiceNow
5 6 (4.80%) Canon
5 6 (4.80%) Cisco
5 6 (4.80%) HP
5 6 (4.80%) Sybase
5 6 (4.80%) Veritas
6 5 (4.00%) Google
6 5 (4.00%) IBM
6 5 (4.00%) Palo Alto
7 3 (2.40%) Greenplum
7 3 (2.40%) Splunk
8 2 (1.60%) Apple
8 2 (1.60%) Aruba
8 2 (1.60%) Fiserv
8 2 (1.60%) SmartStream
8 2 (1.60%) VMware