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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 4 16
Rank change year-on-year -3 +12 -6
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 154 210 71
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 14.74% 26.12% 9.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.50% 28.49% 10.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 129 54
10th Percentile £200 £296 £163
25th Percentile £325 £404 £259
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £470 £425
Median % change year-on-year -14.89% +10.59% -15.00%
75th Percentile £519 £575 £501
90th Percentile £634 £623 £613
Scotland median daily rate £427 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -5.11% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 3 1
10th Percentile £13.45 £14.14 -
25th Percentile £13.50 £14.50 £15.67
Median hourly rate £14.65 £15.09 £16.34
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% -7.65% -65.77%
75th Percentile £16.33 £17.50 £17.01
90th Percentile £16.40 £18.95 -
Scotland median hourly rate £13.48 £18.79 £15.97
% change year-on-year -28.29% +17.66% -26.30%

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 880 737 668
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 84.21% 91.67% 90.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 511 480 469
10th Percentile £284 £300 £270
25th Percentile £358 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -7.93%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile £675 £610 £632
Scotland median daily rate £450 £463 £450
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.78% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 18 24
10th Percentile £13.50 £16.31 £14.30
25th Percentile £14.26 £16.84 £16.87
Median hourly rate £35.00 £19.71 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +77.57% -51.86% +182.34%
75th Percentile £43.96 £25.95 £44.14
90th Percentile £77.50 £35.60 £62.50
Scotland median hourly rate £17.36 £20.00 £20.29
% change year-on-year -13.20% -1.40% +6.45%

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 24 July 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
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 14 (9.09%) Confluence
2 7 (4.55%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.95%) Apache
3 3 (1.95%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.65%) Moodle
4 1 (0.65%) MS Project Server
4 1 (0.65%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (8.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (5.19%) MS Visio
3 6 (3.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (3.25%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (2.60%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.30%) IntelliMatch
1 2 (1.30%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 22 (14.29%) Azure
2 11 (7.14%) GitHub
3 10 (6.49%) AWS
4 9 (5.84%) Power Platform
5 8 (5.19%) Anthropic Claude
5 8 (5.19%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (5.19%) ChatGPT
6 7 (4.55%) GCP
6 7 (4.55%) GitHub Copilot
7 6 (3.90%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (3.90%) OpenShift
8 5 (3.25%) Google Play
9 4 (2.60%) Collibra
10 3 (1.95%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (1.95%) Amazon SageMaker
10 3 (1.95%) Entra ID
10 3 (1.95%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (1.30%) Alation
11 2 (1.30%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.19%) SAN
2 4 (2.60%) LAN
2 4 (2.60%) MPLS
2 4 (2.60%) NAS
2 4 (2.60%) WAN
3 3 (1.95%) Network Security
3 3 (1.95%) Remote Desktop
3 3 (1.95%) SDH
4 2 (1.30%) DHCP
4 2 (1.30%) DNS
4 2 (1.30%) Firewall
4 2 (1.30%) HTTP
4 2 (1.30%) HTTPS
4 2 (1.30%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.65%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.65%) Internet
5 1 (0.65%) Intranet
5 1 (0.65%) VoIP
5 1 (0.65%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (11.04%) Relational Database
2 14 (9.09%) Metadata
2 14 (9.09%) MongoDB
3 9 (5.84%) Power BI
4 8 (5.19%) Db2
5 6 (3.90%) Big Data
5 6 (3.90%) Oracle Database
5 6 (3.90%) Tableau
6 4 (2.60%) DynamoDB
6 4 (2.60%) Hadoop
7 3 (1.95%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.95%) Flink
7 3 (1.95%) MySQL
8 2 (1.30%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.30%) Oracle Database 10g
8 2 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.65%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.65%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.65%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 25 (16.23%) Git
2 15 (9.74%) JIRA
3 7 (4.55%) Gradle
3 7 (4.55%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.25%) Android Studio
5 3 (1.95%) Cypress.io
5 3 (1.95%) Postman
5 3 (1.95%) REST Assured
5 3 (1.95%) Selenium
6 2 (1.30%) Appium
6 2 (1.30%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.30%) JUnit
6 2 (1.30%) Maven
6 2 (1.30%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.65%) GoCD
7 1 (0.65%) Mocha
7 1 (0.65%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.65%) PVCS
7 1 (0.65%) Subversion
7 1 (0.65%) TestNG
General
1 82 (53.25%) Social Skills
2 61 (39.61%) Analytical Skills
3 51 (33.12%) Finance
4 26 (16.88%) Banking
5 13 (8.44%) Public Sector
6 12 (7.79%) Investment Banking
7 10 (6.49%) Front Office
8 9 (5.84%) Legal
9 8 (5.19%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (5.19%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (3.90%) Billing
11 5 (3.25%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (2.60%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.95%) Financial Institution
13 3 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.65%) Local Government
14 1 (0.65%) Prime Brokerage
14 1 (0.65%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.65%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 31 (20.13%) Developer
2 30 (19.48%) Analyst
3 13 (8.44%) Java Developer
3 13 (8.44%) Senior
4 12 (7.79%) Business Analyst
5 10 (6.49%) Data Engineer
5 10 (6.49%) Field Engineer
6 8 (5.19%) Administrator
7 7 (4.55%) Data Analyst
7 7 (4.55%) Network Engineer
7 7 (4.55%) Python Developer
7 7 (4.55%) Senior Developer
8 6 (3.90%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (3.25%) Android Developer
9 5 (3.25%) Business Systems Analyst
9 5 (3.25%) Lead
9 5 (3.25%) Platform Engineer
9 5 (3.25%) Scrum Master
9 5 (3.25%) Systems Analyst
10 4 (2.60%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (9.74%) REST
2 11 (7.14%) RESTful
3 9 (5.84%) Spring
4 8 (5.19%) Kafka
4 8 (5.19%) Spring Boot
5 7 (4.55%) PySpark
5 7 (4.55%) Streamlit
6 5 (3.25%) Android Jetpack
6 5 (3.25%) Jetpack Compose
6 5 (3.25%) JSON
6 5 (3.25%) Retrofit
6 5 (3.25%) Web Services
7 4 (2.60%) Celery
7 4 (2.60%) Core Data
7 4 (2.60%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (2.60%) RxSwift
7 4 (2.60%) SwiftUI
7 4 (2.60%) UIKit
8 3 (1.95%) Model Context Protocol
8 3 (1.95%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.44%) Product Ownership
2 10 (6.49%) Cloud Native
3 9 (5.84%) Virtual Team
4 8 (5.19%) Derivative
4 8 (5.19%) Equity Derivative
5 7 (4.55%) Data Centre
5 7 (4.55%) Driving Licence
6 6 (3.90%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.90%) Onboarding
7 5 (3.25%) Data Structures
7 5 (3.25%) Mobile App
8 4 (2.60%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (2.60%) CCTV
8 4 (2.60%) Reference Data
9 3 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.95%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.95%) Operational Technology
10 2 (1.30%) CMDB
10 2 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 21 (13.64%) Windows
2 12 (7.79%) Android
3 9 (5.84%) Linux
4 7 (4.55%) Unix
5 5 (3.25%) Apple iOS
5 5 (3.25%) Windows 10
6 4 (2.60%) Windows Server
7 2 (1.30%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (32.47%) Agile
2 33 (21.43%) Scrum
3 31 (20.13%) Stakeholder Management
4 30 (19.48%) CI/CD
5 29 (18.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 28 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
6 28 (18.18%) DevOps
7 25 (16.23%) Decision-Making
8 23 (14.94%) Data Governance
9 21 (13.64%) Customer Service
10 20 (12.99%) Data Analysis
11 19 (12.34%) Migration
11 19 (12.34%) Test Automation
12 17 (11.04%) Data Modelling
12 17 (11.04%) Data Pipeline
12 17 (11.04%) Machine Learning
12 17 (11.04%) TDD
13 16 (10.39%) Risk Management
14 15 (9.74%) AI
14 15 (9.74%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 38 (24.68%) Python
2 35 (22.73%) Java
2 35 (22.73%) SQL
3 11 (7.14%) C++
4 7 (4.55%) JavaScript
5 6 (3.90%) Perl
6 5 (3.25%) Kotlin
6 5 (3.25%) PL/SQL
7 4 (2.60%) PowerShell
7 4 (2.60%) Swift
8 3 (1.95%) C#
9 2 (1.30%) PHP
9 2 (1.30%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.65%) Bash
10 1 (0.65%) Scala
10 1 (0.65%) VB
Qualifications
1 18 (11.69%) Security Cleared
2 13 (8.44%) Degree
3 12 (7.79%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.25%) CCNA
4 5 (3.25%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (2.60%) A+ Certification
5 4 (2.60%) HND
5 4 (2.60%) MCSE
5 4 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.60%) Network+ Certification
6 3 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.30%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.30%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.65%) APMG
8 1 (0.65%) CCNP
8 1 (0.65%) IIBA
8 1 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.65%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 12 (7.79%) SLA
3 5 (3.25%) GDPR
3 5 (3.25%) QA
4 4 (2.60%) Disclosure Scotland
4 4 (2.60%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.95%) GRC
6 2 (1.30%) COBIT
6 2 (1.30%) ISO 31000
6 2 (1.30%) ISO 8583
6 2 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 1 (0.65%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.65%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.65%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (5.19%) Active Directory
2 7 (4.55%) Docker
3 4 (2.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.95%) vSphere
5 2 (1.30%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.65%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 21 (13.64%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.19%) Terraform
3 5 (3.25%) NetBackup
4 4 (2.60%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 3 (1.95%) Ansible
5 3 (1.95%) Grafana
5 3 (1.95%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.95%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.95%) SCCM
6 1 (0.65%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (0.65%) SCOM
6 1 (0.65%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 43 (27.92%) Microsoft
2 19 (12.34%) Oracle
3 10 (6.49%) Databricks
3 10 (6.49%) Google
4 9 (5.84%) Dell
5 8 (5.19%) Sybase
6 7 (4.55%) IBM
7 6 (3.90%) Computacenter
8 5 (3.25%) MuleSoft
9 4 (2.60%) Canon
9 4 (2.60%) Cisco
9 4 (2.60%) HP
9 4 (2.60%) ServiceNow
9 4 (2.60%) Veritas
9 4 (2.60%) VMware
10 3 (1.95%) Nokia
10 3 (1.95%) Salesforce
11 2 (1.30%) Alteryx
11 2 (1.30%) Citrix
11 2 (1.30%) SmartStream