Problem-Solving Contracts in Glasgow

Problem Solving
Scotland > Glasgow

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow with a requirement for Problem-Solving skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Problem-Solving over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 12 11
Rank change year-on-year -5 -1 +8
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 77 118 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 9.13% 13.47% 10.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.90% 14.27% 11.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 86 54
10th Percentile £156 £359 £161
25th Percentile £250 £425 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £488 £575 £488
90th Percentile £610 £638 £538
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £445
% change year-on-year - +6.74% +4.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 3
10th Percentile £15.92 - £40.70
25th Percentile £16.29 - £41.38
Median hourly rate £18.00 £47.73 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.29% +11.00% +129.33%
75th Percentile £19.50 - £51.13
90th Percentile - - £55.70
Scotland median hourly rate £16.67 £21.47 £47.50
% change year-on-year -22.34% -54.81% +128.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

Problem-Solving is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 778 827 870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 92.29% 94.41% 92.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 505 586 661
10th Percentile £275 £350 £256
25th Percentile £385 £410 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +8.76%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £538
90th Percentile £626 £700 £613
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £470
% change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 33 17
10th Percentile £12.03 - £21.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £10.63 £23.97
Median hourly rate £31.50 £14.25 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +121.05% -64.38% +77.78%
75th Percentile £53.75 £23.75 £48.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £58.75 £57.10
Scotland median hourly rate £19.50 £15.99 £37.43
% change year-on-year +21.95% -57.28% -6.43%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing Problem-Solving as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Glasgow

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in Glasgow.

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Glasgow

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Glasgow over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Glasgow

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in Glasgow.

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Glasgow

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.90%) IBM HTTP Server
1 3 (3.90%) WebSphere
1 3 (3.90%) WebSphere Application Server
1 3 (3.90%) WebSphere Portal
2 1 (1.30%) Confluence
2 1 (1.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (15.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.90%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (3.90%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (1.30%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (1.30%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (1.30%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 10 (12.99%) Azure
2 9 (11.69%) AWS
2 9 (11.69%) Power Platform
3 6 (7.79%) Snowflake
4 3 (3.90%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.60%) IaaS
6 1 (1.30%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.30%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (1.30%) Amazon Macie
6 1 (1.30%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.30%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (1.30%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.30%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (1.30%) AWS KMS
6 1 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.30%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.30%) SaaS
6 1 (1.30%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.90%) HTTP
2 2 (2.60%) Firewall
3 1 (1.30%) LAN
3 1 (1.30%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (1.30%) VPN
3 1 (1.30%) WAN
3 1 (1.30%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.69%) Power BI
2 6 (7.79%) Tableau
3 3 (3.90%) Oracle Database
3 3 (3.90%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.60%) DB2
4 2 (2.60%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (2.60%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.30%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 5 (6.49%) JIRA
2 4 (5.19%) Git
3 3 (3.90%) IBM UrbanCode
3 3 (3.90%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.60%) CircleCI
4 2 (2.60%) GitLab
5 1 (1.30%) JUnit
General
1 48 (62.34%) Analytical Skills
2 47 (61.04%) Social Skills
3 22 (28.57%) Finance
4 11 (14.29%) Legal
4 11 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 10 (12.99%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (9.09%) Banking
7 6 (7.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (3.90%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.60%) Law
9 2 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (37.66%) Analyst
2 12 (15.58%) Lead
3 10 (12.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (10.39%) Data Analyst
5 7 (9.09%) Developer
5 7 (9.09%) Senior
5 7 (9.09%) Support Analyst
6 6 (7.79%) Lead Data Analyst
6 6 (7.79%) Security Engineer
6 6 (7.79%) Windows Engineer
7 5 (6.49%) 1st Line Support
7 5 (6.49%) 1st Line Support Analyst
7 5 (6.49%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 5 (6.49%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
7 5 (6.49%) Report Analyst
7 5 (6.49%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (5.19%) Field Engineer
8 4 (5.19%) IT Engineer
8 4 (5.19%) Operations Analyst
9 3 (3.90%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.79%) Spring
2 5 (6.49%) React
3 4 (5.19%) Spring Boot
4 3 (3.90%) CSS
4 3 (3.90%) J2EE
4 3 (3.90%) Kafka
4 3 (3.90%) Middleware
4 3 (3.90%) REST
5 2 (2.60%) RESTful
6 1 (1.30%) .NET
6 1 (1.30%) .NET Core
6 1 (1.30%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.30%) JSON
6 1 (1.30%) Spring Batch
6 1 (1.30%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.09%) Management Information System
2 6 (7.79%) Credit Risk
3 5 (6.49%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (6.49%) DTCC
3 5 (6.49%) Market Risk
4 4 (5.19%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.30%) Clustering
5 1 (1.30%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.30%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.30%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.30%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.30%) PKI
5 1 (1.30%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (23.38%) Windows
2 9 (11.69%) Unix
3 6 (7.79%) Mac OS
4 4 (5.19%) Linux
5 2 (2.60%) Windows 10
5 2 (2.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (27.27%) Agile
2 11 (14.29%) Decision-Making
3 10 (12.99%) Cybersecurity
4 9 (11.69%) Analytics
4 9 (11.69%) Business Intelligence
4 9 (11.69%) Customer Service
4 9 (11.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 9 (11.69%) Project Management
5 8 (10.39%) Refactoring
6 7 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (9.09%) DevOps
6 7 (9.09%) Scrum
7 6 (7.79%) Actionable Insight
7 6 (7.79%) Dashboard Development
7 6 (7.79%) Disk Encryption
7 6 (7.79%) ERP
7 6 (7.79%) Microservices
7 6 (7.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 5 (6.49%) Computer Science
8 5 (6.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 10 (12.99%) Python
2 9 (11.69%) SQL
3 8 (10.39%) Java
3 8 (10.39%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.60%) Perl
4 2 (2.60%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.30%) C#
5 1 (1.30%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (12.99%) Degree
2 4 (5.19%) CISSP
2 4 (5.19%) Master's Degree
3 3 (3.90%) CISM
3 3 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.90%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.90%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.30%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.30%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.30%) HNC
4 1 (1.30%) MCSE
4 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.30%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.49%) PMO
2 3 (3.90%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (2.60%) GDPR
3 2 (2.60%) HIPAA
3 2 (2.60%) P3O
4 1 (1.30%) ISO 31000
4 1 (1.30%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.60%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.30%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (7.79%) SCCM
2 3 (3.90%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.30%) Ansible
3 1 (1.30%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (25.97%) Microsoft
2 7 (9.09%) Oracle
3 6 (7.79%) Alteryx
3 6 (7.79%) Splunk
4 3 (3.90%) IBM
4 3 (3.90%) Qualys
4 3 (3.90%) SAP
4 3 (3.90%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.90%) Workday
5 2 (2.60%) Greenplum
6 1 (1.30%) Adobe
6 1 (1.30%) Apple
6 1 (1.30%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.30%) Avaloq
6 1 (1.30%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.30%) Cisco
6 1 (1.30%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.30%) Google
6 1 (1.30%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.30%) Xamarin