Problem-Solving Job Trends in Glasgow

Problem Solving
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Problem-Solving skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 11 11
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 -2
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 101 136 128
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 6.76% 17.24% 11.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.81% 19.05% 13.45%
Number of salaries quoted 60 62 53
10th Percentile £25,820 £25,175 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £44,500
Median % change year-on-year - +23.60% -11.88%
75th Percentile £61,563 £85,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,875 - £89,500
Scotland median annual salary £37,625 £33,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.31% -33.00% -

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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Glasgow.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,146 714 952
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 76.76% 90.49% 87.02%
Number of salaries quoted 678 297 480
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £32,851 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £90,000
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £38,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +44.74% -30.91% +4.76%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Problem-Solving relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Problem-Solving job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in Glasgow

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Problem-Solving.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Problem-Solving

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in Glasgow

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Glasgow over the 6 months to 13 October 2026.

Salary 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 (7.92%) SharePoint
2 5 (4.95%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.99%) Confluence
3 1 (0.99%) IIS
3 1 (0.99%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.99%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 6 (5.94%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (4.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.99%) Navisworks
3 1 (0.99%) Revit
Business Applications
1 2 (1.98%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.99%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.99%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.99%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 23 (22.77%) Azure
2 13 (12.87%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (8.91%) AWS
4 8 (7.92%) Entra ID
5 5 (4.95%) GCP
6 3 (2.97%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (2.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (2.97%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (2.97%) Power Platform
6 3 (2.97%) Snowflake
7 2 (1.98%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.98%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.98%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.98%) Azure Functions
7 2 (1.98%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (1.98%) SaaS
7 2 (1.98%) Serverless
8 1 (0.99%) Datadog
8 1 (0.99%) Oracle CX
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.91%) DNS
2 4 (3.96%) DHCP
2 4 (3.96%) SAN
3 1 (0.99%) 5G
3 1 (0.99%) BGP
3 1 (0.99%) Firewall
3 1 (0.99%) Internet
3 1 (0.99%) IPFIX
3 1 (0.99%) Modbus
3 1 (0.99%) Network Security
3 1 (0.99%) OSPF
3 1 (0.99%) SNMP
3 1 (0.99%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.99%) TETRA
3 1 (0.99%) VLAN
3 1 (0.99%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.94%) Data Lake
2 5 (4.95%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (4.95%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.95%) Tableau
3 3 (2.97%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (2.97%) Oracle Database
3 3 (2.97%) Power BI
4 2 (1.98%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (1.98%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (1.98%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.98%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (1.98%) Parquet
4 2 (1.98%) SAP BW
5 1 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.99%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.99%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.99%) Oracle Database 11g
5 1 (0.99%) Redis
5 1 (0.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (8.91%) Git
2 3 (2.97%) JIRA
3 2 (1.98%) Claude Code
3 2 (1.98%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.99%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (0.99%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.99%) Visual Studio
General
1 48 (47.52%) Social Skills
2 33 (32.67%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (29.70%) Finance
4 13 (12.87%) Law
5 11 (10.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (8.91%) Marketing
6 9 (8.91%) Public Sector
7 5 (4.95%) Banking
7 5 (4.95%) Electronics
7 5 (4.95%) Financial Institution
7 5 (4.95%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (4.95%) Legal
8 4 (3.96%) Manufacturing
8 4 (3.96%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.97%) Retail
10 2 (1.98%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.98%) Automotive
10 2 (1.98%) Front Office
10 2 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.98%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (13.86%) Developer
2 13 (12.87%) Senior
3 10 (9.90%) Administrator
3 10 (9.90%) Lead
4 8 (7.92%) IT Engineer
4 8 (7.92%) RPG Developer
5 7 (6.93%) Analyst
5 7 (6.93%) Field Engineer
6 6 (5.94%) Field Service Engineer
6 6 (5.94%) IT Administrator
6 6 (5.94%) Software Engineer
7 5 (4.95%) Design Engineer
7 5 (4.95%) Electronics Engineer
7 5 (4.95%) Engineering Manager
7 5 (4.95%) Hardware Design Engineer
7 5 (4.95%) Hardware Engineer
7 5 (4.95%) IT Support
7 5 (4.95%) Risk Manager
7 5 (4.95%) Technical Leader
7 5 (4.95%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.97%) PySpark
2 2 (1.98%) .NET
2 2 (1.98%) Apache Avro
2 2 (1.98%) JSON
2 2 (1.98%) SAP Basis
2 2 (1.98%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (0.99%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.99%) Android SDK
3 1 (0.99%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.99%) CSS
3 1 (0.99%) CSS3
3 1 (0.99%) HTML
3 1 (0.99%) HTML5
3 1 (0.99%) Node.js
3 1 (0.99%) React
3 1 (0.99%) REST
3 1 (0.99%) RESTful
3 1 (0.99%) Sass
3 1 (0.99%) XML
3 1 (0.99%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.91%) AS400
2 5 (4.95%) Analogue Electronics
2 5 (4.95%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.95%) Driving Licence
2 5 (4.95%) Embedded Systems
2 5 (4.95%) Onboarding
3 4 (3.96%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (3.96%) Data Centre
3 4 (3.96%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.96%) Smartphone
4 3 (2.97%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.98%) AI Agents
5 2 (1.98%) Credit Risk
5 2 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.98%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.98%) Reference Data
5 2 (1.98%) Robotics
5 2 (1.98%) Social Media
6 1 (0.99%) Replication
6 1 (0.99%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.93%) Windows
2 5 (4.95%) Windows Server
3 4 (3.96%) Debian
3 4 (3.96%) Linux
3 4 (3.96%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.99%) Android
4 1 (0.99%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (34.65%) Continuous Improvement
2 19 (18.81%) AI
2 19 (18.81%) Analytics
3 18 (17.82%) Mentoring
4 16 (15.84%) Customer Service
4 16 (15.84%) Decision-Making
5 14 (13.86%) Agile
5 14 (13.86%) Disaster Recovery
5 14 (13.86%) Validation
6 13 (12.87%) ITIL
6 13 (12.87%) Software Engineering
7 12 (11.88%) Service Delivery
8 10 (9.90%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (8.91%) Risk Management
10 8 (7.92%) Coaching
10 8 (7.92%) DevOps
10 8 (7.92%) Test Automation
11 6 (5.94%) Dashboard Development
11 6 (5.94%) Design Patterns
11 6 (5.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 11 (10.89%) Python
2 9 (8.91%) RPG
2 9 (8.91%) SQL
3 8 (7.92%) Java
4 6 (5.94%) PowerShell
5 5 (4.95%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.96%) PL/SQL
6 4 (3.96%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.98%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.99%) Bash
8 1 (0.99%) C#
8 1 (0.99%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.99%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.99%) XPath
Qualifications
1 27 (26.73%) Degree
2 4 (3.96%) A+ Certification
2 4 (3.96%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (3.96%) CCNA
2 4 (3.96%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (3.96%) MCSE
2 4 (3.96%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (3.96%) Network+ Certification
2 4 (3.96%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.98%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.99%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.99%) Chartered Engineer
4 1 (0.99%) CISSP
4 1 (0.99%) CompTIA CySA+
4 1 (0.99%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.99%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.99%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.93%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.94%) Accessibility
3 5 (4.95%) QA
4 4 (3.96%) SLA
5 1 (0.99%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (8.91%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.95%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (9.90%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.98%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.99%) Grafana
3 1 (0.99%) Nagios
3 1 (0.99%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.99%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 31 (30.69%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.91%) IBM
3 6 (5.94%) Alteryx
4 4 (3.96%) Dell
4 4 (3.96%) Oracle
5 3 (2.97%) Databricks
5 3 (2.97%) Google
6 2 (1.98%) SAP
7 1 (0.99%) Cisco
7 1 (0.99%) Citrix
7 1 (0.99%) DIgSILENT
7 1 (0.99%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.99%) Meraki
7 1 (0.99%) NEC
7 1 (0.99%) Siemens
7 1 (0.99%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.99%) VMware