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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 13 13
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 +11
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 78 120 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 9.62% 13.50% 10.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.43% 14.29% 10.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 85 55
10th Percentile £156 £363 £160
25th Percentile £190 £425 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -16.50% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £488 £575 £494
90th Percentile £610 £636 £550
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +5.88%
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% +377.78%
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% +265.38%

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 748 840 857
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 92.23% 94.49% 92.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 490 587 649
10th Percentile £275 £348 £270
25th Percentile £378 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £455
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +7.14% +8.33%
75th Percentile £573 £588 £538
90th Percentile £619 £700 £614
Scotland median daily rate £465 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.11% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 34 19
10th Percentile £12.03 - £20.05
25th Percentile £16.00 £10.63 £23.83
Median hourly rate £31.50 £13.88 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +127.03% -62.93% +87.15%
75th Percentile £53.75 £22.50 £45.75
90th Percentile £67.50 £58.75 £56.55
Scotland median hourly rate £19.34 £14.50 £37.43
% change year-on-year +33.34% -61.26% -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 29 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 (3.85%) IBM HTTP Server
1 3 (3.85%) WebSphere
1 3 (3.85%) WebSphere Application Server
1 3 (3.85%) WebSphere Portal
2 2 (2.56%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.28%) Confluence
3 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (11.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (6.41%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (3.85%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (1.28%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (1.28%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (1.28%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 11 (14.10%) Azure
2 9 (11.54%) AWS
3 6 (7.69%) Power Platform
3 6 (7.69%) Snowflake
4 4 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.56%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.28%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.28%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (1.28%) Amazon Macie
6 1 (1.28%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.28%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (1.28%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.28%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (1.28%) AWS KMS
6 1 (1.28%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.28%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.28%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.28%) IaaS
6 1 (1.28%) SaaS
6 1 (1.28%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.85%) Firewall
1 3 (3.85%) HTTP
2 1 (1.28%) LAN
2 1 (1.28%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (1.28%) VPN
2 1 (1.28%) WAN
2 1 (1.28%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.69%) Power BI
1 6 (7.69%) Tableau
2 3 (3.85%) Oracle Database
2 3 (3.85%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.56%) DB2
3 2 (2.56%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (2.56%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.28%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 5 (6.41%) JIRA
2 4 (5.13%) Git
3 3 (3.85%) IBM UrbanCode
3 3 (3.85%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.56%) CircleCI
4 2 (2.56%) GitLab
5 1 (1.28%) JUnit
General
1 47 (60.26%) Social Skills
2 46 (58.97%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (29.49%) Finance
4 12 (15.38%) Public Sector
5 11 (14.10%) Legal
6 10 (12.82%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (11.54%) Banking
8 6 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.56%) Law
9 2 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.28%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 29 (37.18%) Analyst
2 12 (15.38%) Lead
3 10 (12.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (10.26%) Data Analyst
4 8 (10.26%) Senior
4 8 (10.26%) Support Analyst
5 7 (8.97%) Developer
6 6 (7.69%) Lead Data Analyst
6 6 (7.69%) Security Engineer
6 6 (7.69%) Windows Engineer
7 5 (6.41%) 1st Line Support
7 5 (6.41%) 1st Line Support Analyst
7 5 (6.41%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 5 (6.41%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
7 5 (6.41%) Report Analyst
7 5 (6.41%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (5.13%) Field Engineer
8 4 (5.13%) IT Engineer
8 4 (5.13%) Operations Analyst
9 3 (3.85%) Senior Middleware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.69%) Spring
2 5 (6.41%) React
3 4 (5.13%) Spring Boot
4 3 (3.85%) CSS
4 3 (3.85%) J2EE
4 3 (3.85%) Kafka
4 3 (3.85%) Middleware
4 3 (3.85%) REST
5 2 (2.56%) RESTful
6 1 (1.28%) .NET
6 1 (1.28%) .NET Core
6 1 (1.28%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.28%) JSON
6 1 (1.28%) Pandas
6 1 (1.28%) Spring Batch
6 1 (1.28%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.97%) Management Information System
2 6 (7.69%) Credit Risk
3 5 (6.41%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (6.41%) DTCC
3 5 (6.41%) Market Risk
4 4 (5.13%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.28%) Clustering
5 1 (1.28%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.28%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.28%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.28%) PKI
5 1 (1.28%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.28%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (24.36%) Windows
2 9 (11.54%) Unix
3 7 (8.97%) Mac OS
4 4 (5.13%) Linux
5 2 (2.56%) Windows 10
5 2 (2.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (28.21%) Agile
2 12 (15.38%) Decision-Making
3 11 (14.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 11 (14.10%) Project Management
4 9 (11.54%) Analytics
4 9 (11.54%) Customer Service
4 9 (11.54%) Cybersecurity
5 8 (10.26%) Refactoring
6 7 (8.97%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (8.97%) DevOps
6 7 (8.97%) Scrum
7 6 (7.69%) Actionable Insight
7 6 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
7 6 (7.69%) Dashboard Development
7 6 (7.69%) Disk Encryption
7 6 (7.69%) ERP
7 6 (7.69%) Microservices
7 6 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 6 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 5 (6.41%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 10 (12.82%) Python
2 9 (11.54%) PowerShell
2 9 (11.54%) SQL
3 8 (10.26%) Java
4 2 (2.56%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.28%) C#
5 1 (1.28%) Perl
5 1 (1.28%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (14.10%) Degree
2 4 (5.13%) Master's Degree
3 3 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.85%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.85%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.28%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.28%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.28%) CISSP
4 1 (1.28%) HNC
4 1 (1.28%) MCSE
4 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.28%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.69%) PMO
2 3 (3.85%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (2.56%) GDPR
3 2 (2.56%) HIPAA
3 2 (2.56%) P3O
4 1 (1.28%) ISO 31000
4 1 (1.28%) QA
System Software
1 3 (3.85%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.28%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (8.97%) SCCM
2 4 (5.13%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.28%) Ansible
3 1 (1.28%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (28.21%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.97%) Oracle
2 7 (8.97%) Splunk
3 6 (7.69%) Alteryx
4 3 (3.85%) IBM
4 3 (3.85%) SAP
4 3 (3.85%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.85%) Workday
5 2 (2.56%) Greenplum
6 1 (1.28%) Adobe
6 1 (1.28%) Apple
6 1 (1.28%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.28%) Avaloq
6 1 (1.28%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.28%) Cisco
6 1 (1.28%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.28%) Google
6 1 (1.28%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.28%) Xamarin