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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 6 16
Rank change year-on-year 0 +10 +3
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 131 182 92
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 18.40% 21.82% 9.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 22.24% 23.45% 10.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 124 63
10th Percentile £277 £327 £257
25th Percentile £358 £403 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £440
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +2.27% -12.00%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £499
90th Percentile £666 £625 £598
Scotland median daily rate £425 £455 £475
% change year-on-year -6.59% -4.21% -1.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 6
10th Percentile £16.15 £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 £19.54 £25.79 £19.50
90th Percentile £35.41 £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 589 776 859
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 82.72% 93.05% 91.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 369 490 543
10th Percentile £306 £312 £313
25th Percentile £375 £368 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £490
Median % change year-on-year - -8.16% +3.16%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £650 £610 £700
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 8 38
10th Percentile £16.11 £16.75 £13.25
25th Percentile £16.17 £18.88 £16.00
Median hourly rate £22.17 £23.17 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.30% +28.69% +55.64%
75th Percentile £49.15 £67.56 £40.94
90th Percentile £58.91 £77.63 £66.25
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £22.88 £19.50
% change year-on-year -12.57% +17.31% +20.00%

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 21 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 21 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 (5.34%) Apache Spark
2 6 (4.58%) Confluence
3 3 (2.29%) Apache
4 2 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.76%) Camunda
5 1 (0.76%) CICS
5 1 (0.76%) CMS
5 1 (0.76%) Moodle
5 1 (0.76%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.76%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (4.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.05%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.76%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.76%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.76%) InDesign
4 1 (0.76%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.76%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (1.53%) IntelliMatch
1 2 (1.53%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 37 (28.24%) Azure
2 26 (19.85%) AWS
3 10 (7.63%) Serverless
3 10 (7.63%) Snowflake
4 6 (4.58%) OpenShift
4 6 (4.58%) Power Platform
5 5 (3.82%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (3.82%) GCP
6 4 (3.05%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (3.05%) Collibra
7 3 (2.29%) Amazon SageMaker
7 3 (2.29%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (2.29%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.53%) Alation
8 2 (1.53%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.53%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.53%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.53%) SaaS
9 1 (0.76%) Amazon MSK
9 1 (0.76%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.87%) WAN
2 7 (5.34%) SAN
3 6 (4.58%) NAS
4 5 (3.82%) SD-WAN
5 4 (3.05%) LAN
6 3 (2.29%) DNS
7 2 (1.53%) MPLS
7 2 (1.53%) Network Security
7 2 (1.53%) SDH
7 2 (1.53%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.76%) DHCP
8 1 (0.76%) Firewall
8 1 (0.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.92%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (9.16%) Relational Database
3 11 (8.40%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (6.11%) Big Data
5 7 (5.34%) Hadoop
5 7 (5.34%) Metadata
6 6 (4.58%) Power BI
7 5 (3.82%) Data Lake
7 5 (3.82%) DB2
8 4 (3.05%) MongoDB
8 4 (3.05%) Tableau
9 3 (2.29%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.53%) MySQL
11 1 (0.76%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.76%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.76%) Apache Ignite
11 1 (0.76%) Flink
11 1 (0.76%) HBase
Development Applications
1 16 (12.21%) Git
2 10 (7.63%) JIRA
3 8 (6.11%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.29%) JUnit
5 1 (0.76%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 63 (48.09%) Social Skills
2 54 (41.22%) Analytical Skills
3 47 (35.88%) Finance
4 22 (16.79%) Banking
5 14 (10.69%) Public Sector
6 12 (9.16%) Legal
7 11 (8.40%) Investment Banking
8 8 (6.11%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (5.34%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (4.58%) Financial Institution
11 5 (3.82%) Front Office
12 4 (3.05%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (2.29%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.76%) Billing
14 1 (0.76%) French Language
14 1 (0.76%) Law
14 1 (0.76%) Prime Brokerage
14 1 (0.76%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 23 (17.56%) Analyst
2 19 (14.50%) Developer
3 14 (10.69%) Architect
3 14 (10.69%) Business Analyst
3 14 (10.69%) Senior
4 11 (8.40%) Automation Engineer
4 11 (8.40%) Data Engineer
4 11 (8.40%) Java Developer
5 9 (6.87%) Field Engineer
6 8 (6.11%) Windows Engineer
7 7 (5.34%) Security Engineer
8 6 (4.58%) Computer Engineer
8 6 (4.58%) Data Architect
8 6 (4.58%) Field Hardware Engineer
8 6 (4.58%) Hardware Engineer
8 6 (4.58%) Printer Engineer
8 6 (4.58%) Project Manager
8 6 (4.58%) Senior Developer
8 6 (4.58%) Site Engineer
8 6 (4.58%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (9.16%) REST
2 10 (7.63%) Spring
3 9 (6.87%) Kafka
4 6 (4.58%) Loki
4 6 (4.58%) Spring Boot
5 5 (3.82%) CSS
6 4 (3.05%) HTML
6 4 (3.05%) React
7 3 (2.29%) JMS
7 3 (2.29%) Model Context Protocol
7 3 (2.29%) Node.js
7 3 (2.29%) PySpark
7 3 (2.29%) Streamlit
8 2 (1.53%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.53%) CSS3
8 2 (1.53%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (1.53%) HTML5
8 2 (1.53%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (1.53%) SOAP
9 1 (0.76%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.21%) Cloud Native
1 16 (12.21%) Virtual Team
2 9 (6.87%) Data Centre
2 9 (6.87%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (6.11%) Driving Licence
3 8 (6.11%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (5.34%) CMDB
5 6 (4.58%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (4.58%) Product Ownership
5 6 (4.58%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (3.05%) Data Structures
6 4 (3.05%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.05%) PMI
6 4 (3.05%) Reference Data
7 3 (2.29%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.29%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.29%) Equities
8 2 (1.53%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.53%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 28 (21.37%) Windows
2 14 (10.69%) Linux
3 11 (8.40%) Unix
4 7 (5.34%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.29%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.76%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.76%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (33.59%) Agile
2 32 (24.43%) DevOps
3 31 (23.66%) CI/CD
4 25 (19.08%) Decision-Making
5 23 (17.56%) Stakeholder Management
6 21 (16.03%) Migration
7 17 (12.98%) Data Modelling
8 16 (12.21%) AI
8 16 (12.21%) Machine Learning
9 15 (11.45%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (9.92%) Analytics
10 13 (9.92%) Data Governance
10 13 (9.92%) Data Science
10 13 (9.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 12 (9.16%) Data Engineering
11 12 (9.16%) Data Protection
11 12 (9.16%) ITIL
11 12 (9.16%) Scrum
12 11 (8.40%) Infrastructure as Code
12 11 (8.40%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 48 (36.64%) Python
2 21 (16.03%) SQL
3 20 (15.27%) Java
4 17 (12.98%) PowerShell
5 7 (5.34%) Perl
6 6 (4.58%) JavaScript
7 5 (3.82%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.53%) Go
8 2 (1.53%) PHP
8 2 (1.53%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.76%) Bash
9 1 (0.76%) C++
9 1 (0.76%) COBOL
9 1 (0.76%) JCL
9 1 (0.76%) Ruby
9 1 (0.76%) VB
Qualifications
1 16 (12.21%) Degree
1 16 (12.21%) Security Cleared
2 9 (6.87%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.05%) PMI Certification
4 3 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.29%) CompTIA CySA+
4 3 (2.29%) CompTIA Security+
4 3 (2.29%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (1.53%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.76%) A+ Certification
6 1 (0.76%) CCIE
6 1 (0.76%) CCNA
6 1 (0.76%) CISSP
6 1 (0.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.76%) MCSE
6 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.76%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (0.76%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.92%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.82%) QA
2 5 (3.82%) SLA
3 4 (3.05%) GDPR
4 3 (2.29%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.53%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.53%) ISO 8583
5 2 (1.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.76%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.76%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (5.34%) Docker
2 4 (3.05%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.76%) HDFS
3 1 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (15.27%) Kubernetes
2 14 (10.69%) Ansible
2 14 (10.69%) Terraform
3 8 (6.11%) Grafana
3 8 (6.11%) NetBackup
3 8 (6.11%) Prometheus
4 5 (3.82%) FortiGate
5 4 (3.05%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (3.05%) SCCM
Vendors
1 17 (12.98%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.40%) Oracle
3 9 (6.87%) Databricks
4 8 (6.11%) Cisco
4 8 (6.11%) Dell
4 8 (6.11%) Greenplum
4 8 (6.11%) ServiceNow
5 6 (4.58%) Canon
5 6 (4.58%) HP
5 6 (4.58%) Veritas
6 5 (3.82%) Palo Alto
6 5 (3.82%) Splunk
7 4 (3.05%) Sybase
8 3 (2.29%) IBM
9 2 (1.53%) Ab Initio
9 2 (1.53%) Alteryx
9 2 (1.53%) Aruba
9 2 (1.53%) Fiserv
9 2 (1.53%) Google
9 2 (1.53%) SmartStream