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 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 10 15
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 +3
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 155 97 98
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 20.45% 13.74% 11.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.13% 15.42% 12.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 69 73
10th Percentile £358 £190 £343
25th Percentile £404 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £415 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.43% -12.63% -
75th Percentile £538 £501 £550
90th Percentile £588 £601 £638
Scotland median daily rate £450 £430 £460
% change year-on-year +4.65% -6.52% +2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £15.89 - -
25th Percentile £17.10 £18.50 -
Median hourly rate £19.42 £19.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.21% - -
75th Percentile £22.05 £19.50 -
90th Percentile £23.45 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £13.00 £18.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -27.78% -67.27% +191.01%

All Process and 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 670 629 779
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 88.39% 89.09% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 415 525
10th Percentile £300 £280 £350
25th Percentile £381 £356 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £440 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -12.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £600
90th Percentile £625 £675 £700
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £480
% change year-on-year +3.33% -6.25% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 11 17
10th Percentile £15.09 £16.92 £11.40
25th Percentile £16.84 £19.05 £12.13
Median hourly rate £18.00 £19.59 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.12% +35.10% -61.26%
75th Percentile £26.21 £29.34 £17.72
90th Percentile £57.50 £42.50 £36.36
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £22.88 £19.75
% change year-on-year -12.57% +15.82% +5.33%

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 4 November 2025.

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 6 (3.87%) CMS
2 2 (1.29%) Confluence
3 1 (0.65%) Alfresco
3 1 (0.65%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.65%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.65%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.65%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (5.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.65%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.65%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 32 (20.65%) Azure
2 26 (16.77%) AWS
3 10 (6.45%) Serverless
4 8 (5.16%) Power Platform
5 7 (4.52%) Snowflake
6 6 (3.87%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (3.87%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (2.58%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (2.58%) Entra ID
7 4 (2.58%) GCP
8 3 (1.94%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 3 (1.94%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.29%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.29%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.29%) GitHub
9 2 (1.29%) SaaS
9 2 (1.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (0.65%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (0.65%) AWS CloudTrail
10 1 (0.65%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.23%) WAN
2 4 (2.58%) VPN
3 3 (1.94%) Network Security
4 2 (1.29%) Firewall
4 2 (1.29%) LAN
5 1 (0.65%) DHCP
5 1 (0.65%) DNS
5 1 (0.65%) MPLS
5 1 (0.65%) SDH
5 1 (0.65%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (23.87%) Relational Database
2 21 (13.55%) DB2
2 21 (13.55%) MongoDB
3 15 (9.68%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (5.16%) Power BI
6 7 (4.52%) Tableau
7 5 (3.23%) GIS
8 4 (2.58%) MySQL
8 4 (2.58%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.94%) Big Data
9 3 (1.94%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.94%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.29%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.29%) Power Query
10 2 (1.29%) QlikView
10 2 (1.29%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 22 (14.19%) JUnit
2 11 (7.10%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.87%) Git
3 6 (3.87%) JIRA
4 3 (1.94%) Xcode
5 2 (1.29%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.29%) Mockito
6 1 (0.65%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.65%) GitLab
6 1 (0.65%) Gradle
6 1 (0.65%) Maven
6 1 (0.65%) Selenium
6 1 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 78 (50.32%) Social Skills
2 59 (38.06%) Analytical Skills
3 58 (37.42%) Finance
4 39 (25.16%) Banking
5 31 (20.00%) Investment Banking
6 19 (12.26%) Front Office
7 16 (10.32%) Public Sector
8 9 (5.81%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (4.52%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.94%) Legal
11 2 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.29%) Retail
11 2 (1.29%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.65%) Billing
12 1 (0.65%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.65%) French Language
12 1 (0.65%) Marketing
12 1 (0.65%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 49 (31.61%) Developer
2 36 (23.23%) Java Developer
3 24 (15.48%) Analyst
4 18 (11.61%) SQL Developer
5 17 (10.97%) Investment Banking Java Developer
5 17 (10.97%) Sybase Developer
6 16 (10.32%) Python Engineer
7 12 (7.74%) Data Analyst
8 10 (6.45%) Architect
9 8 (5.16%) Software Engineer
10 7 (4.52%) Core Java Developer
10 7 (4.52%) Data Architect
10 7 (4.52%) Data Engineer
10 7 (4.52%) Python Software Engineer
10 7 (4.52%) Senior
11 6 (3.87%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 6 (3.87%) Azure Engineer
11 6 (3.87%) Lead
11 6 (3.87%) Platform Engineer
12 5 (3.23%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (21.29%) Kafka
2 31 (20.00%) Spring
3 19 (12.26%) JMS
4 11 (7.10%) Spring Boot
5 9 (5.81%) Hibernate
5 9 (5.81%) React
6 8 (5.16%) FastAPI
7 7 (4.52%) Ext JS
8 5 (3.23%) AngularJS
8 5 (3.23%) Middleware
8 5 (3.23%) OpenTelemetry
9 4 (2.58%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (1.94%) .NET
10 3 (1.94%) Boost C++ Libraries
10 3 (1.94%) Flask
10 3 (1.94%) Node.js
10 3 (1.94%) REST
10 3 (1.94%) RESTful
10 3 (1.94%) SwiftUI
10 3 (1.94%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 27 (17.42%) Data Structures
2 21 (13.55%) Equities
3 14 (9.03%) Management Information System
4 13 (8.39%) Virtual Team
5 10 (6.45%) CMDB
5 10 (6.45%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (5.81%) Cloud Native
6 9 (5.81%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (4.52%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (3.87%) Data Centre
9 5 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (2.58%) Algorithms
10 4 (2.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (2.58%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.94%) Credit Risk
11 3 (1.94%) Fixed Income
11 3 (1.94%) iPad
11 3 (1.94%) iPhone
11 3 (1.94%) Market Risk
11 3 (1.94%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 35 (22.58%) Linux
2 12 (7.74%) Windows
3 9 (5.81%) Unix
4 4 (2.58%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.94%) Android
5 3 (1.94%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.29%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.65%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (36.13%) Agile
2 28 (18.06%) CI/CD
2 28 (18.06%) DevOps
3 26 (16.77%) Multithreading
4 24 (15.48%) Performance Tuning
4 24 (15.48%) SDLC
5 22 (14.19%) AI
5 22 (14.19%) Open Source
6 20 (12.90%) Computer Science
6 20 (12.90%) Software Engineering
7 19 (12.26%) Database Tuning
8 18 (11.61%) ITIL
9 17 (10.97%) Risk Management
10 15 (9.68%) Analytics
11 14 (9.03%) Critical Thinking
11 14 (9.03%) Visualisation
12 13 (8.39%) Data Architecture
12 13 (8.39%) Data Modelling
12 13 (8.39%) Decision-Making
12 13 (8.39%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 56 (36.13%) Python
1 56 (36.13%) SQL
2 48 (30.97%) Java
3 20 (12.90%) Shell Script
4 10 (6.45%) JavaScript
5 7 (4.52%) TypeScript
6 5 (3.23%) PowerShell
7 4 (2.58%) Go
8 3 (1.94%) Bicep
8 3 (1.94%) C++
8 3 (1.94%) Objective-C
8 3 (1.94%) Swift
9 2 (1.29%) C#
9 2 (1.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.29%) Perl
9 2 (1.29%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.65%) Bash
10 1 (0.65%) PromQL
10 1 (0.65%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 18 (11.61%) Degree
2 8 (5.16%) ITIL Certification
3 7 (4.52%) Security Cleared
4 5 (3.23%) AWS Certification
4 5 (3.23%) Azure Certification
4 5 (3.23%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.58%) CISSP
5 4 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.94%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.65%) CCIE
8 1 (0.65%) CISA
8 1 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.65%) HNC
8 1 (0.65%) HND
8 1 (0.65%) ISEB
8 1 (0.65%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.65%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.74%) QA
2 4 (2.58%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.58%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.58%) SLA
3 3 (1.94%) GDPR
4 1 (0.65%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.65%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (7.74%) Docker
2 7 (4.52%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (6.45%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.52%) Terraform
3 6 (3.87%) Ansible
4 5 (3.23%) Grafana
5 4 (2.58%) SCCM
6 2 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.29%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.65%) Kibana
7 1 (0.65%) logstash
7 1 (0.65%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 20 (12.90%) Sybase
2 16 (10.32%) Microsoft
3 12 (7.74%) ServiceNow
4 11 (7.10%) Oracle
5 8 (5.16%) Splunk
6 6 (3.87%) Greenplum
7 5 (3.23%) SAP
8 2 (1.29%) Ab Initio
8 2 (1.29%) Cisco
8 2 (1.29%) IBM
8 2 (1.29%) MobileIron
9 1 (0.65%) Apple
9 1 (0.65%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.65%) Databricks
9 1 (0.65%) DocuSign
9 1 (0.65%) Nokia
9 1 (0.65%) PagerDuty
9 1 (0.65%) Thunderhead
9 1 (0.65%) Workday
9 1 (0.65%) Xceptor