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

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 7 19
Rank change year-on-year +1 +12 -12
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 85 110 164
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 12.16% 14.73% 16.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.71% 15.99% 16.77%
Number of salaries quoted 57 46 81
10th Percentile £24,077 £27,375 £31,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £44,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.74% -15.24% +5.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £57,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £67,500
Scotland median annual salary £33,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -33.00% - -16.00%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Glasgow.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 541 688 978
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 77.40% 92.10% 97.41%
Number of salaries quoted 337 322 454
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £28,590
25th Percentile £31,000 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £74,938 £64,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £92,500 £75,875
Scotland median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -27.27% +4.76% -4.55%

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 22 December 2025.

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 2 (2.35%) Exchange Server 2013
1 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (2.35%) WebSphere
1 2 (2.35%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (1.18%) FileNet
2 1 (1.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.18%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (2.35%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (2.35%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 9 (10.59%) Azure
2 8 (9.41%) AWS
3 5 (5.88%) Power Platform
4 3 (3.53%) GitHub
4 3 (3.53%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (3.53%) SaaS
5 2 (2.35%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (2.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (2.35%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.18%) Amazon Bedrock
6 1 (1.18%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.18%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.18%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.18%) GCP
6 1 (1.18%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.18%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.18%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.53%) DHCP
1 3 (3.53%) DNS
1 3 (3.53%) Firewall
1 3 (3.53%) LAN
1 3 (3.53%) VPN
1 3 (3.53%) WAN
2 2 (2.35%) ATM
2 2 (2.35%) Network Security
2 2 (2.35%) SAN
2 2 (2.35%) Softphone
2 2 (2.35%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.35%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.18%) Internet
3 1 (1.18%) VLAN
3 1 (1.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.06%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.88%) Power BI
3 3 (3.53%) Metadata
3 3 (3.53%) Tableau
4 2 (2.35%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.35%) Oracle BI EE
4 2 (2.35%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 2 (2.35%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (2.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.18%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (5.88%) JIRA
2 2 (2.35%) Git
General
1 38 (44.71%) Social Skills
2 27 (31.76%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (21.18%) Finance
4 10 (11.76%) Public Sector
5 6 (7.06%) Fire and Rescue
5 6 (7.06%) Law
6 5 (5.88%) General Ledger
7 4 (4.71%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (4.71%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (3.53%) Banking
8 3 (3.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (3.53%) Private Banking
9 2 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.35%) Legal
9 2 (2.35%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.18%) Billing
10 1 (1.18%) Electronics
10 1 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 14 (16.47%) Architect
2 12 (14.12%) Firmware Architect
3 11 (12.94%) Analyst
4 10 (11.76%) Senior
5 8 (9.41%) Applications Support
6 6 (7.06%) Senior Manager
6 6 (7.06%) Trainee
7 5 (5.88%) IT Engineer
7 5 (5.88%) IT Support
7 5 (5.88%) Lead
7 5 (5.88%) Support Analyst
8 4 (4.71%) Developer
8 4 (4.71%) Field Engineer
8 4 (4.71%) Field Service Engineer
8 4 (4.71%) IT Manager
9 3 (3.53%) Applications Support Analyst
9 3 (3.53%) IT Support Engineer
9 3 (3.53%) Problem Manager
9 3 (3.53%) Technical Leader
9 3 (3.53%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.53%) Hibernate
1 3 (3.53%) React
1 3 (3.53%) RESTful
1 3 (3.53%) Spring
2 2 (2.35%) .NET
2 2 (2.35%) SOAP
3 1 (1.18%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.18%) AWS CDK
3 1 (1.18%) HTML
3 1 (1.18%) Hugging Face
3 1 (1.18%) LangChain
3 1 (1.18%) Next.js
3 1 (1.18%) Node.js
3 1 (1.18%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.76%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (10.59%) Driving Licence
3 4 (4.71%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (4.71%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.53%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.35%) CCTV
5 2 (2.35%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.35%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.35%) Smartphone
5 2 (2.35%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.18%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.18%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.18%) Life Science
6 1 (1.18%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.24%) Windows
2 3 (3.53%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.35%) Android
3 2 (2.35%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (2.35%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (25.88%) Continuous Improvement
2 14 (16.47%) Mentoring
3 10 (11.76%) Analytics
3 10 (11.76%) Project Management
4 8 (9.41%) AI
5 7 (8.24%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (8.24%) Decision-Making
5 7 (8.24%) ITIL
5 7 (8.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 6 (7.06%) Agile
6 6 (7.06%) ERP
6 6 (7.06%) ITSM
7 5 (5.88%) Change Management
7 5 (5.88%) Collaborative Culture
7 5 (5.88%) Computer Science
7 5 (5.88%) Data Management
7 5 (5.88%) Root Cause Analysis
7 5 (5.88%) Service Delivery
7 5 (5.88%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (5.88%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 14 (16.47%) C++
2 13 (15.29%) SQL
3 5 (5.88%) Java
4 3 (3.53%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (2.35%) Python
5 2 (2.35%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.18%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (24.71%) Degree
2 5 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.71%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (4.71%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.35%) A+ Certification
4 2 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.35%) CCIE
4 2 (2.35%) CCNA
4 2 (2.35%) HND
4 2 (2.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 2 (2.35%) MCSE
4 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.35%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (1.18%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.18%) CIPD
5 1 (1.18%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.18%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.76%) QA
2 4 (4.71%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.35%) SLA
4 1 (1.18%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 14 (16.47%) Firmware
2 7 (8.24%) Active Directory
2 7 (8.24%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (1.18%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.18%) Proxmox
2 1 (1.18%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (8.24%) Cisco
2 5 (5.88%) Infor
2 5 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.71%) Dell
3 4 (4.71%) Oracle
4 3 (3.53%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.35%) Alteryx
5 2 (2.35%) HP
6 1 (1.18%) Dataiku
6 1 (1.18%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.18%) SAP
6 1 (1.18%) VMware