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

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 7 20
Rank change year-on-year +2 +13 -2
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 148 153 92
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 20.79% 18.96% 9.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 24.58% 20.70% 10.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 106 64
10th Percentile £329 £340 £295
25th Percentile £375 £397 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £445 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.56% -1.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £498
90th Percentile £669 £625 £570
Scotland median daily rate £449 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -0.22% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.17 £25.25 £16.50
Median hourly rate £20.00 £26.50 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.53% +47.22% -44.62%
75th Percentile £27.96 £27.75 £19.50
90th Percentile £39.58 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £13.00 £23.53 £18.00
% change year-on-year -44.75% +30.71% +12.50%

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 602 739 843
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 84.55% 91.57% 91.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 381 447 549
10th Percentile £306 £313 £350
25th Percentile £388 £364 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £560 £550 £600
90th Percentile £640 £625 £700
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £480
% change year-on-year - -6.25% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 11 26
10th Percentile £14.13 £16.75 £11.50
25th Percentile £16.17 £18.17 £15.42
Median hourly rate £25.92 £24.15 £16.35
Median % change year-on-year +7.33% +47.71% +53.81%
75th Percentile £51.25 £35.13 £30.19
90th Percentile £61.54 £65.00 £75.00
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year -13.04% +17.95% +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 February 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 February 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 8 (5.41%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.38%) Confluence
3 3 (2.03%) CMS
4 2 (1.35%) Apache
4 2 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.68%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.68%) Camunda
5 1 (0.68%) CICS
5 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.68%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (3.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (3.38%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.68%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.68%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.68%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.68%) InDesign
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.68%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.68%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (1.35%) IntelliMatch
1 2 (1.35%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 46 (31.08%) Azure
2 30 (20.27%) AWS
3 12 (8.11%) Snowflake
4 11 (7.43%) Serverless
5 8 (5.41%) Power Platform
6 6 (4.05%) Entra ID
7 5 (3.38%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (3.38%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (3.38%) OpenShift
8 4 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (2.70%) Amazon SageMaker
8 4 (2.70%) Collibra
8 4 (2.70%) GCP
9 2 (1.35%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.35%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.35%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.35%) SaaS
9 2 (1.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (0.68%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.68%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.11%) WAN
2 5 (3.38%) NAS
2 5 (3.38%) SAN
2 5 (3.38%) SD-WAN
3 4 (2.70%) LAN
3 4 (2.70%) VPN
4 3 (2.03%) DNS
5 2 (1.35%) MPLS
5 2 (1.35%) Network Security
5 2 (1.35%) SDH
5 2 (1.35%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.68%) DHCP
6 1 (0.68%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (14.19%) Relational Database
2 17 (11.49%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (8.11%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (6.08%) Big Data
5 8 (5.41%) DB2
5 8 (5.41%) Power BI
6 7 (4.73%) Hadoop
6 7 (4.73%) MongoDB
7 6 (4.05%) Data Lake
7 6 (4.05%) Tableau
8 5 (3.38%) Metadata
9 3 (2.03%) MySQL
9 3 (2.03%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.35%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.35%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.68%) HBase
11 1 (0.68%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 17 (11.49%) Git
2 10 (6.76%) Jenkins
3 9 (6.08%) JIRA
4 7 (4.73%) JUnit
5 1 (0.68%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.68%) Mockito
5 1 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 71 (47.97%) Social Skills
2 57 (38.51%) Finance
3 53 (35.81%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (19.59%) Banking
5 20 (13.51%) Public Sector
6 17 (11.49%) Investment Banking
7 8 (5.41%) Legal
8 7 (4.73%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (4.05%) Financial Institution
9 6 (4.05%) Front Office
9 6 (4.05%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (2.03%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.35%) Retail
13 1 (0.68%) Billing
13 1 (0.68%) French Language
13 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.68%) Marketing
13 1 (0.68%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 28 (18.92%) Analyst
2 26 (17.57%) Developer
3 16 (10.81%) Java Developer
4 14 (9.46%) Architect
4 14 (9.46%) Senior
5 13 (8.78%) Business Analyst
5 13 (8.78%) Data Engineer
6 10 (6.76%) Automation Engineer
6 10 (6.76%) Data Analyst
7 9 (6.08%) Windows Engineer
8 7 (4.73%) Lead
8 7 (4.73%) Platform Engineer
8 7 (4.73%) Project Manager
8 7 (4.73%) Security Engineer
9 6 (4.05%) Cloud Engineer
9 6 (4.05%) Data Architect
9 6 (4.05%) Investment Banking Java Developer
9 6 (4.05%) SQL Developer
9 6 (4.05%) Sybase Developer
10 5 (3.38%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (10.81%) Spring
2 14 (9.46%) Kafka
3 11 (7.43%) REST
4 10 (6.76%) Spring Boot
5 7 (4.73%) React
6 6 (4.05%) JMS
7 5 (3.38%) Loki
8 4 (2.70%) AngularJS
8 4 (2.70%) CSS
8 4 (2.70%) HTML
8 4 (2.70%) PySpark
9 3 (2.03%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (2.03%) Ext JS
9 3 (2.03%) Hibernate
9 3 (2.03%) Model Context Protocol
9 3 (2.03%) Node.js
9 3 (2.03%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (2.03%) Streamlit
10 2 (1.35%) CSS3
10 2 (1.35%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 19 (12.84%) Cloud Native
2 17 (11.49%) Virtual Team
3 12 (8.11%) CMDB
4 11 (7.43%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (6.76%) Data Centre
5 10 (6.76%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (6.08%) Data Structures
7 8 (5.41%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (4.73%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (4.73%) Product Ownership
9 6 (4.05%) Equities
9 6 (4.05%) Onboarding
10 5 (3.38%) Driving Licence
11 4 (2.70%) Reference Data
12 3 (2.03%) Algorithms
12 3 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (2.03%) PMI
13 2 (1.35%) Digital Media
13 2 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
13 2 (1.35%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (17.57%) Windows
2 17 (11.49%) Linux
3 11 (7.43%) Unix
4 7 (4.73%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.70%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.68%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (35.14%) Agile
2 36 (24.32%) DevOps
3 35 (23.65%) CI/CD
4 24 (16.22%) Migration
4 24 (16.22%) Stakeholder Management
5 21 (14.19%) Data Modelling
5 21 (14.19%) Decision-Making
6 19 (12.84%) AI
6 19 (12.84%) Analytics
7 17 (11.49%) ITIL
7 17 (11.49%) Machine Learning
7 17 (11.49%) Performance Tuning
8 16 (10.81%) Data Architecture
9 14 (9.46%) Data Engineering
9 14 (9.46%) Data Science
9 14 (9.46%) SDLC
10 13 (8.78%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (8.78%) Data Analysis
10 13 (8.78%) Data Lineage
10 13 (8.78%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 54 (36.49%) Python
2 32 (21.62%) SQL
3 26 (17.57%) Java
4 17 (11.49%) PowerShell
5 8 (5.41%) Shell Script
6 6 (4.05%) JavaScript
6 6 (4.05%) Perl
7 3 (2.03%) Bicep
7 3 (2.03%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.35%) Go
9 1 (0.68%) Bash
9 1 (0.68%) COBOL
9 1 (0.68%) JCL
9 1 (0.68%) PHP
9 1 (0.68%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.68%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 22 (14.86%) Degree
2 14 (9.46%) Security Cleared
3 6 (4.05%) ITIL Certification
3 6 (4.05%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.70%) Azure Certification
4 4 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.03%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.03%) CompTIA CySA+
5 3 (2.03%) CompTIA Security+
5 3 (2.03%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.68%) CCIE
7 1 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.68%) CISSP
7 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.68%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.76%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.73%) QA
3 5 (3.38%) SLA
4 4 (2.70%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.70%) GDPR
5 2 (1.35%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.35%) ISO 8583
5 2 (1.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.68%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 11 (7.43%) Docker
2 6 (4.05%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.03%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.68%) HDFS
4 1 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.68%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (14.19%) Kubernetes
2 14 (9.46%) Ansible
2 14 (9.46%) Terraform
3 7 (4.73%) Grafana
3 7 (4.73%) NetBackup
3 7 (4.73%) Prometheus
4 5 (3.38%) FortiGate
4 5 (3.38%) SCCM
5 4 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.68%) Kibana
6 1 (0.68%) logstash
Vendors
1 19 (12.84%) Microsoft
2 14 (9.46%) ServiceNow
3 12 (8.11%) Oracle
4 10 (6.76%) Databricks
5 9 (6.08%) Greenplum
6 8 (5.41%) Cisco
7 6 (4.05%) Splunk
7 6 (4.05%) Sybase
8 5 (3.38%) Palo Alto
8 5 (3.38%) Veritas
9 4 (2.70%) Dell
10 3 (2.03%) Canon
10 3 (2.03%) HP
11 2 (1.35%) Alteryx
11 2 (1.35%) Aruba
11 2 (1.35%) FIS
11 2 (1.35%) Fiserv
11 2 (1.35%) IFS
11 2 (1.35%) MobileIron
11 2 (1.35%) SmartStream