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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 6 19
Rank change year-on-year -1 +13 -5
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 120 191 91
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 16.60% 23.49% 9.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.17% 25.10% 10.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 132 64
10th Percentile £204 £300 £163
25th Percentile £343 £406 £307
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £450 £445
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% +1.12% -11.00%
75th Percentile £555 £538 £500
90th Percentile £675 £623 £613
Scotland median daily rate £425 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% -
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 £22.44 £17.25
% change year-on-year -40.06% +30.07% +4.55%

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 595 761 858
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 82.30% 93.60% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 373 486 551
10th Percentile £310 £304 £313
25th Percentile £375 £374 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £550 £588
90th Percentile £675 £604 £688
Scotland median daily rate £450 £460 £475
% change year-on-year -2.17% -3.16% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 9 40
10th Percentile £16.11 £16.18 £13.75
25th Percentile £16.17 £16.75 £16.00
Median hourly rate £16.25 £19.83 £21.13
Median % change year-on-year -18.05% -6.14% +56.50%
75th Percentile £46.61 £65.00 £44.14
90th Percentile £54.00 £76.83 £63.75
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £22.44 £19.50
% change year-on-year -10.86% +15.06% +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 16 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 16 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 7 (5.83%) Apache Spark
2 6 (5.00%) Confluence
3 3 (2.50%) Apache
4 2 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.67%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.67%) WordPress
5 1 (0.83%) Camunda
5 1 (0.83%) CICS
5 1 (0.83%) Moodle
Applications
1 4 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (3.33%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.83%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.83%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.83%) InDesign
3 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.83%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.83%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (1.67%) IntelliMatch
1 2 (1.67%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 29 (24.17%) Azure
2 17 (14.17%) AWS
3 7 (5.83%) Snowflake
4 6 (5.00%) OpenShift
4 6 (5.00%) Power Platform
5 5 (4.17%) Anthropic Claude
5 5 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (4.17%) ChatGPT
5 5 (4.17%) GCP
5 5 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (3.33%) Collibra
6 4 (3.33%) Entra ID
6 4 (3.33%) GitHub
6 4 (3.33%) GitHub Copilot
6 4 (3.33%) Serverless
7 3 (2.50%) Amazon SageMaker
7 3 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.67%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.50%) WAN
2 8 (6.67%) SAN
3 6 (5.00%) NAS
4 5 (4.17%) SD-WAN
5 4 (3.33%) LAN
6 3 (2.50%) DNS
6 3 (2.50%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (1.67%) MPLS
7 2 (1.67%) Network Security
7 2 (1.67%) SDH
7 2 (1.67%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.83%) DHCP
8 1 (0.83%) Firewall
8 1 (0.83%) Internet
8 1 (0.83%) Intranet
8 1 (0.83%) VoIP
8 1 (0.83%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.83%) Relational Database
2 11 (9.17%) Metadata
3 8 (6.67%) Big Data
4 7 (5.83%) Hadoop
5 6 (5.00%) DB2
5 6 (5.00%) Power BI
6 5 (4.17%) MongoDB
6 5 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (3.33%) Tableau
8 3 (2.50%) Data Lake
8 3 (2.50%) MySQL
8 3 (2.50%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.83%) Apache Ignite
9 1 (0.83%) Flink
9 1 (0.83%) HBase
Development Applications
1 15 (12.50%) Git
2 10 (8.33%) JIRA
3 7 (5.83%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.83%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 59 (49.17%) Social Skills
2 49 (40.83%) Analytical Skills
3 45 (37.50%) Finance
4 20 (16.67%) Banking
5 18 (15.00%) Public Sector
6 11 (9.17%) Legal
7 10 (8.33%) Investment Banking
8 8 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (5.00%) Financial Institution
9 6 (5.00%) Front Office
10 5 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (1.67%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.83%) Law
14 1 (0.83%) Prime Brokerage
14 1 (0.83%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 25 (20.83%) Analyst
2 17 (14.17%) Developer
3 14 (11.67%) Business Analyst
3 14 (11.67%) Senior
4 10 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
4 10 (8.33%) Field Engineer
5 9 (7.50%) Data Engineer
5 9 (7.50%) Java Developer
6 8 (6.67%) Project Manager
7 6 (5.00%) Architect
7 6 (5.00%) Computer Engineer
7 6 (5.00%) Field Hardware Engineer
7 6 (5.00%) Hardware Engineer
7 6 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
7 6 (5.00%) Printer Engineer
7 6 (5.00%) Senior Developer
7 6 (5.00%) Site Engineer
7 6 (5.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 6 (5.00%) Windows Engineer
8 5 (4.17%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (10.83%) REST
2 6 (5.00%) Loki
2 6 (5.00%) Spring
3 5 (4.17%) Spring Boot
4 4 (3.33%) CSS
4 4 (3.33%) Kafka
5 3 (2.50%) CSS3
5 3 (2.50%) HTML
5 3 (2.50%) HTML5
5 3 (2.50%) Model Context Protocol
5 3 (2.50%) PySpark
5 3 (2.50%) React
5 3 (2.50%) Streamlit
6 2 (1.67%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.67%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.67%) JSON
6 2 (1.67%) JWT
6 2 (1.67%) Node.js
6 2 (1.67%) OAuth
6 2 (1.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.50%) Virtual Team
2 11 (9.17%) Cloud Native
3 10 (8.33%) Data Centre
4 8 (6.67%) Driving Licence
4 8 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (5.83%) CMDB
6 6 (5.00%) Product Ownership
7 5 (4.17%) Derivative
7 5 (4.17%) Equity Derivative
7 5 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (3.33%) Onboarding
8 4 (3.33%) PMI
8 4 (3.33%) Reference Data
9 3 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.67%) Cyberattack
10 2 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.67%) FMCG
10 2 (1.67%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 31 (25.83%) Windows
2 10 (8.33%) Linux
3 8 (6.67%) Unix
3 8 (6.67%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.33%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.67%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.83%) Android
6 1 (0.83%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (31.67%) Agile
2 27 (22.50%) CI/CD
3 23 (19.17%) Decision-Making
4 22 (18.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 21 (17.50%) DevOps
6 17 (14.17%) Data Governance
7 16 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (12.50%) Migration
9 14 (11.67%) Customer Service
9 14 (11.67%) Data Lineage
9 14 (11.67%) Data Modelling
9 14 (11.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 13 (10.83%) ITIL
11 12 (10.00%) Data Engineering
11 12 (10.00%) Scrum
11 12 (10.00%) TDD
12 11 (9.17%) AI
12 11 (9.17%) Analytics
12 11 (9.17%) Data Analysis
12 11 (9.17%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 35 (29.17%) Python
2 20 (16.67%) SQL
3 18 (15.00%) Java
4 14 (11.67%) PowerShell
5 8 (6.67%) Perl
6 5 (4.17%) C++
6 5 (4.17%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.50%) PHP
8 2 (1.67%) Go
9 1 (0.83%) COBOL
9 1 (0.83%) JCL
9 1 (0.83%) Ruby
9 1 (0.83%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.83%) VB
Qualifications
1 16 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 14 (11.67%) Degree
3 9 (7.50%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.33%) PMI Certification
5 3 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.50%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.67%) A+ Certification
6 2 (1.67%) CCNA
6 2 (1.67%) CompTIA CySA+
6 2 (1.67%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (1.67%) MCSE
6 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.67%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.83%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.83%) CCIE
7 1 (0.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (13.33%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.17%) SLA
3 4 (3.33%) GDPR
3 4 (3.33%) QA
4 2 (1.67%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.67%) ISO 8583
4 2 (1.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.83%) COBIT
5 1 (0.83%) GRC
5 1 (0.83%) ISO 31000
5 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 1 (0.83%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 6 (5.00%) Docker
3 1 (0.83%) HDFS
3 1 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.83%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (15.83%) Kubernetes
2 9 (7.50%) Ansible
3 8 (6.67%) Grafana
3 8 (6.67%) Prometheus
3 8 (6.67%) Terraform
4 6 (5.00%) NetBackup
5 5 (4.17%) FortiGate
6 4 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 20 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.17%) Oracle
3 9 (7.50%) Databricks
3 9 (7.50%) Dell
3 9 (7.50%) ServiceNow
4 8 (6.67%) Cisco
5 6 (5.00%) Canon
5 6 (5.00%) HP
5 6 (5.00%) Veritas
6 5 (4.17%) IBM
6 5 (4.17%) Palo Alto
6 5 (4.17%) Sybase
7 4 (3.33%) Google
8 3 (2.50%) Greenplum
8 3 (2.50%) Splunk
9 2 (1.67%) Apple
9 2 (1.67%) Aruba
9 2 (1.67%) Fiserv
9 2 (1.67%) IFS
9 2 (1.67%) SmartStream