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 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 9 16
Rank change year-on-year +2 +7 +1
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 136 117 96
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 18.01% 15.50% 10.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.73% 17.28% 11.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 82 73
10th Percentile £337 £301 £345
25th Percentile £402 £357 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -10.53% -
75th Percentile £525 £500 £538
90th Percentile £582 £599 £600
Scotland median daily rate £450 £438 £466
% change year-on-year +2.86% -6.12% +3.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile £23.91 £19.18 -
25th Percentile £25.08 £20.19 £16.50
Median hourly rate £28.09 £22.75 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.47% +26.39% -24.21%
75th Percentile £39.58 £25.69 £19.50
90th Percentile £45.83 £26.93 -
Scotland median hourly rate £13.00 £24.18 £22.87
% change year-on-year -46.24% +5.73% +51.56%

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 656 677 804
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 86.89% 89.67% 90.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 420 441 538
10th Percentile £299 £306 £348
25th Percentile £381 £363 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £625
90th Percentile £625 £675 £700
Scotland median daily rate £464 £450 £493
% change year-on-year +3.06% -8.63% +3.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 14 17
10th Percentile £15.16 £16.75 £12.08
25th Percentile £17.18 £17.32 £12.13
Median hourly rate £26.21 £19.59 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +33.79% +10.55% -40.38%
75th Percentile £47.45 £26.86 £19.50
90th Percentile £60.00 £40.10 £36.70
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £22.94 £19.18
% change year-on-year -12.81% +19.59% +3.68%

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 13 December 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem-Solving in Glasgow over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

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 6 (4.41%) CMS
2 3 (2.21%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.74%) Alfresco
3 1 (0.74%) Apache
3 1 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.74%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.74%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.74%) Camunda
3 1 (0.74%) Confluence
3 1 (0.74%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.74%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.74%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.74%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.74%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.74%) InDesign
3 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.74%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.74%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 32 (23.53%) Azure
2 23 (16.91%) AWS
3 11 (8.09%) Serverless
3 11 (8.09%) Snowflake
4 8 (5.88%) Power Platform
5 4 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (2.94%) Entra ID
6 3 (2.21%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 3 (2.21%) GCP
6 3 (2.21%) SaaS
7 2 (1.47%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.47%) GitHub
7 2 (1.47%) IaaS
7 2 (1.47%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (0.74%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.74%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.74%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (0.74%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.41%) WAN
2 4 (2.94%) VPN
3 3 (2.21%) LAN
3 3 (2.21%) Network Security
4 2 (1.47%) Firewall
4 2 (1.47%) MPLS
4 2 (1.47%) SDH
5 1 (0.74%) DHCP
5 1 (0.74%) DNS
5 1 (0.74%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (21.32%) Relational Database
2 17 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (11.76%) DB2
4 15 (11.03%) MongoDB
5 12 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (5.88%) Power BI
7 7 (5.15%) Tableau
8 5 (3.68%) GIS
9 4 (2.94%) Big Data
9 4 (2.94%) MySQL
10 3 (2.21%) Data Lake
10 3 (2.21%) NoSQL
10 3 (2.21%) RDBMS
11 2 (1.47%) Hadoop
11 2 (1.47%) Power Query
11 2 (1.47%) QlikView
11 2 (1.47%) SQL Server
12 1 (0.74%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.74%) HBase
12 1 (0.74%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 16 (11.76%) JUnit
2 9 (6.62%) Jenkins
3 7 (5.15%) Git
4 5 (3.68%) JIRA
5 1 (0.74%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.74%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.74%) Mockito
5 1 (0.74%) Selenium
5 1 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.74%) Xcode
General
1 61 (44.85%) Social Skills
2 51 (37.50%) Finance
3 44 (32.35%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (23.53%) Banking
5 25 (18.38%) Investment Banking
6 18 (13.24%) Public Sector
7 14 (10.29%) Front Office
8 9 (6.62%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (2.21%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.47%) Retail
12 1 (0.74%) Billing
12 1 (0.74%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.74%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.74%) French Language
12 1 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.74%) Legal
12 1 (0.74%) Marketing
12 1 (0.74%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 42 (30.88%) Developer
2 28 (20.59%) Java Developer
3 21 (15.44%) Analyst
4 14 (10.29%) Python Engineer
4 14 (10.29%) SQL Developer
5 13 (9.56%) Investment Banking Java Developer
5 13 (9.56%) Sybase Developer
6 12 (8.82%) Data Analyst
7 9 (6.62%) Architect
8 8 (5.88%) Data Engineer
8 8 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
8 8 (5.88%) Senior
8 8 (5.88%) Software Engineer
9 7 (5.15%) Python Software Engineer
10 6 (4.41%) Azure Engineer
10 6 (4.41%) Business Analyst
10 6 (4.41%) Data Architect
10 6 (4.41%) Lead
11 5 (3.68%) Snowflake Architect
12 4 (2.94%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (20.59%) Kafka
2 24 (17.65%) Spring
3 14 (10.29%) JMS
4 10 (7.35%) Spring Boot
5 8 (5.88%) FastAPI
5 8 (5.88%) React
6 7 (5.15%) Ext JS
6 7 (5.15%) Hibernate
7 6 (4.41%) REST
8 5 (3.68%) Middleware
9 4 (2.94%) OpenTelemetry
10 3 (2.21%) AngularJS
10 3 (2.21%) Boost C++ Libraries
10 3 (2.21%) CSS
10 3 (2.21%) Flask
10 3 (2.21%) HTML
10 3 (2.21%) Node.js
10 3 (2.21%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (1.47%) SOAP
12 1 (0.74%) J2SE
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.97%) Data Structures
2 16 (11.76%) Equities
3 12 (8.82%) Cloud Native
4 11 (8.09%) CMDB
5 10 (7.35%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (7.35%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (7.35%) Virtual Team
6 8 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (5.88%) Management Information System
7 6 (4.41%) Data Centre
8 4 (2.94%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (2.94%) Public Cloud
9 3 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (2.21%) Fixed Income
9 3 (2.21%) Market Risk
9 3 (2.21%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.47%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 27 (19.85%) Linux
2 8 (5.88%) Unix
3 7 (5.15%) Windows
4 3 (2.21%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.47%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.74%) Android
6 1 (0.74%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (30.15%) Agile
2 28 (20.59%) CI/CD
3 25 (18.38%) Performance Tuning
4 22 (16.18%) AI
5 20 (14.71%) Multithreading
6 19 (13.97%) DevOps
6 19 (13.97%) SDLC
7 17 (12.50%) Open Source
7 17 (12.50%) Software Engineering
8 16 (11.76%) Computer Science
9 15 (11.03%) Analytics
9 15 (11.03%) ITIL
9 15 (11.03%) Migration
9 15 (11.03%) Visualisation
10 14 (10.29%) Data Modelling
10 14 (10.29%) Database Tuning
10 14 (10.29%) Machine Learning
11 13 (9.56%) Data Architecture
11 13 (9.56%) Data Visualisation
12 12 (8.82%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 53 (38.97%) Python
2 45 (33.09%) SQL
3 37 (27.21%) Java
4 16 (11.76%) Shell Script
5 8 (5.88%) JavaScript
6 7 (5.15%) PowerShell
7 6 (4.41%) Go
8 5 (3.68%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.21%) Bicep
9 3 (2.21%) C++
10 2 (1.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.47%) Perl
10 2 (1.47%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.74%) Bash
11 1 (0.74%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.74%) PHP
11 1 (0.74%) Ruby
11 1 (0.74%) Swift
Qualifications
1 18 (13.24%) Degree
2 8 (5.88%) ITIL Certification
2 8 (5.88%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.68%) Azure Certification
4 4 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.21%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.21%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.21%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.47%) CISSP
6 2 (1.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.74%) BC Cleared
7 1 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.74%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (0.74%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.74%) CRISC
7 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.74%) OSCP
7 1 (0.74%) PCI QSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.88%) QA
2 4 (2.94%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.94%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.21%) SLA
4 2 (1.47%) GDPR
5 1 (0.74%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.74%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (8.82%) Docker
2 5 (3.68%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.21%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.74%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 10 (7.35%) Kubernetes
1 10 (7.35%) Terraform
2 9 (6.62%) Ansible
3 4 (2.94%) Grafana
4 3 (2.21%) SCCM
5 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.47%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.74%) Kibana
6 1 (0.74%) logstash
Vendors
1 14 (10.29%) ServiceNow
1 14 (10.29%) Sybase
2 11 (8.09%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.09%) Oracle
3 9 (6.62%) Greenplum
4 7 (5.15%) Splunk
5 5 (3.68%) SAP
6 3 (2.21%) Cisco
7 2 (1.47%) Ab Initio
7 2 (1.47%) Databricks
7 2 (1.47%) IBM
7 2 (1.47%) IFS
7 2 (1.47%) MobileIron
8 1 (0.74%) Adobe
8 1 (0.74%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.74%) DocuSign
8 1 (0.74%) GoCardless
8 1 (0.74%) Google
8 1 (0.74%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.74%) Workday