Problem-Solving Jobs in Scotland

Problem Solving
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Problem-Solving skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Problem-Solving over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 17 6
Rank change year-on-year -7 -11 +9
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 927 607 909
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 13.87% 13.03% 15.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.00% 13.82% 17.06%
Number of salaries quoted 388 282 403
10th Percentile £25,818 £31,263 £29,150
25th Percentile £34,000 £39,829 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,743 £50,300
Median % change year-on-year -11.32% +0.88% +11.78%
75th Percentile £62,342 £70,938 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £79,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £49,914 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.25% - +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,180 4,391 5,327
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.45% 94.27% 91.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2,400 2,203 2,812
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,500 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £54,875
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.78% +10.86%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,938 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Scotland

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in Scotland.

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in Scotland

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Scotland over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in Scotland

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 13 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -11 562 £42,500 -15.84% 75
Edinburgh +5 188 £60,000 +0.80% 66
Aberdeen +12 38 £45,000 -30.77% 34
Fife +12 26 £50,000 +29.87% 11
North Lanarkshire - 16 £13,000 - 1
Lanarkshire +4 15 £42,500 -12.82% 34
Renfrewshire +2 13 £52,500 - 3
Dundee 0 12 £45,000 +13.22% 12
Stirling +3 9 £26,637 -18.04% 12
West Lothian -4 8 £26,250 -50.00% 8
South Lanarkshire +6 5 £105,000 +162.50% 2
Aberdeenshire +3 5 £45,000 +87.50% 13
Banffshire - 4 £22,000 -
West Dunbartonshire +2 3 £27,500 -
Argyll and Bute - 3 - -
East Ayrshire - 3 £29,500 - 1
Falkirk +1 2 £55,000 - 7
Clackmannanshire - 2 £51,500 -
Highlands - 2 - - 2
Inverclyde -3 1 £50,000 - 2
South Ayrshire - 1 - - 3
Dumfries and Galloway - 1 £23,000 - 5
Problem-Solving
UK

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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
1 168 (18.12%) Apache Spark
2 74 (7.98%) Apache
3 21 (2.27%) Confluence
4 18 (1.94%) FileNet
4 18 (1.94%) IIS
5 17 (1.83%) Cloud Foundry
6 12 (1.29%) SharePoint
7 8 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.43%) OpenEdge
9 2 (0.22%) JBoss
9 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.11%) SAS
10 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 19 (2.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (1.19%) Sketch
5 3 (0.32%) InVision
5 3 (0.32%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.11%) EViews
6 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.11%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 11 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
1 11 (1.19%) Endur
2 4 (0.43%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.11%) Maximo
4 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.11%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 275 (29.67%) AWS
2 150 (16.18%) Azure
3 77 (8.31%) GCP
4 64 (6.90%) Cloud Computing
5 59 (6.36%) Microsoft 365
6 52 (5.61%) Amazon S3
7 42 (4.53%) SaaS
8 40 (4.31%) Power Platform
9 35 (3.78%) Miro
10 31 (3.34%) Dynamics 365
11 27 (2.91%) Google Docs
12 23 (2.48%) Amazon SQS
12 23 (2.48%) Lucidchart
12 23 (2.48%) Slack
13 16 (1.73%) Figma
14 15 (1.62%) BlazeMeter
15 11 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
16 10 (1.08%) Entra ID
17 9 (0.97%) Serverless
18 8 (0.86%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 25 (2.70%) Network Security
2 22 (2.37%) WAN
3 20 (2.16%) Firewall
4 17 (1.83%) Kerberos
5 16 (1.73%) VPN
6 14 (1.51%) Internet
7 10 (1.08%) IPsec
7 10 (1.08%) SNMP
8 8 (0.86%) SAN
8 8 (0.86%) TCP/IP
8 8 (0.86%) VoIP
9 7 (0.76%) HTTP
9 7 (0.76%) MQTT
9 7 (0.76%) NAS
10 6 (0.65%) LAN
10 6 (0.65%) Wireless
11 5 (0.54%) DHCP
11 5 (0.54%) DNS
12 4 (0.43%) Intrusion Detection
12 4 (0.43%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (18.55%) NoSQL
2 145 (15.64%) Big Data
3 73 (7.87%) Hadoop
4 53 (5.72%) Elasticsearch
5 39 (4.21%) SQL Server
6 33 (3.56%) Power BI
7 29 (3.13%) Relational Database
8 23 (2.48%) Redis
8 23 (2.48%) Scylla
9 20 (2.16%) MySQL
10 18 (1.94%) Apache Cassandra
10 18 (1.94%) BigQuery
11 17 (1.83%) Amazon Aurora
11 17 (1.83%) CockroachDB
11 17 (1.83%) Looker
12 15 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
12 15 (1.62%) MongoDB
12 15 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
13 11 (1.19%) Oracle Database
14 10 (1.08%) Flink
Development Applications
1 51 (5.50%) JIRA
2 28 (3.02%) Jenkins
2 28 (3.02%) Maven
3 27 (2.91%) JUnit
4 24 (2.59%) Git
5 16 (1.73%) GitLab
6 15 (1.62%) LabVIEW
7 11 (1.19%) CircleCI
8 10 (1.08%) Cucumber
8 10 (1.08%) Cypress.io
8 10 (1.08%) JMeter
9 9 (0.97%) Gradle
10 6 (0.65%) JDeveloper
11 3 (0.32%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.22%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.22%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
13 1 (0.11%) Artifactory
13 1 (0.11%) Mockito
13 1 (0.11%) Postman
General
1 450 (48.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 436 (47.03%) Finance
3 373 (40.24%) Law
4 280 (30.20%) Social Skills
5 225 (24.27%) Marketing
6 171 (18.45%) Analytical Skills
7 110 (11.87%) Legal
8 67 (7.23%) Banking
9 55 (5.93%) Influencing Skills
10 45 (4.85%) Investment Banking
11 27 (2.91%) Manufacturing
12 24 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
12 24 (2.59%) Public Sector
13 23 (2.48%) Electronics
14 20 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
15 19 (2.05%) Telecoms
16 18 (1.94%) Retail
17 17 (1.83%) Financial Institution
18 16 (1.73%) Publishing
19 14 (1.51%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 367 (39.59%) Software Engineer
2 221 (23.84%) Senior
3 199 (21.47%) Lead
4 164 (17.69%) Senior Software Engineer
5 155 (16.72%) Lead Software Engineer
6 113 (12.19%) Java Engineer
6 113 (12.19%) Java Software Engineer
7 110 (11.87%) Big Data Engineer
7 110 (11.87%) Big Data Software Engineer
8 101 (10.90%) Scala Engineer
8 101 (10.90%) Scala Software Engineer
9 91 (9.82%) AWS Engineer
9 91 (9.82%) Developer
10 89 (9.60%) AWS Software Engineer
11 82 (8.85%) Senior Java Engineer
11 82 (8.85%) Senior Java Software Engineer
12 78 (8.41%) Lead Java Engineer
13 75 (8.09%) Analyst
14 57 (6.15%) Java Scala Software Engineer
15 51 (5.50%) Senior Big Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (12.19%) React
2 98 (10.57%) Spring
3 68 (7.34%) GraphQL
4 67 (7.23%) AngularJS
5 63 (6.80%) Kafka
6 50 (5.39%) Spring Boot
7 46 (4.96%) CSS
8 45 (4.85%) Node.js
9 44 (4.75%) HTML
10 39 (4.21%) REST
11 38 (4.10%) .NET
12 34 (3.67%) PySpark
13 26 (2.80%) JSON
14 24 (2.59%) OAuth
15 22 (2.37%) Hibernate
16 21 (2.27%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 20 (2.16%) J2EE
18 18 (1.94%) JMS
18 18 (1.94%) jQuery
18 18 (1.94%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 88 (9.49%) Cloud Native
2 72 (7.77%) Algorithms
3 55 (5.93%) Onboarding
4 50 (5.39%) Product Ownership
5 49 (5.29%) Public Cloud
6 27 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
7 24 (2.59%) Data Structures
8 23 (2.48%) Management Information System
9 18 (1.94%) Driving Licence
9 18 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
10 16 (1.73%) Clustering
11 15 (1.62%) Distributed Applications
12 12 (1.29%) Data Centre
12 12 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
13 10 (1.08%) Virtual Team
14 9 (0.97%) Market Risk
15 8 (0.86%) IoT
16 7 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
16 7 (0.76%) Mobile App
16 7 (0.76%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 59 (6.36%) Windows
2 43 (4.64%) Linux
3 22 (2.37%) Unix
4 18 (1.94%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.08%) Apple iOS
5 10 (1.08%) Data ONTAP
6 8 (0.86%) Android
7 5 (0.54%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.43%) AIX
9 3 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.11%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.11%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 456 (49.19%) Agile
2 422 (45.52%) Software Engineering
3 316 (34.09%) SDLC
4 267 (28.80%) Operational Stability
5 215 (23.19%) Decision-Making
6 207 (22.33%) Artificial Intelligence
7 204 (22.01%) Machine Learning
8 185 (19.96%) CI/CD
9 155 (16.72%) Tech Ops
10 145 (15.64%) Continuous Improvement
11 124 (13.38%) Computer Science
11 124 (13.38%) Risk Management
12 90 (9.71%) ETL
13 85 (9.17%) Microservices
14 77 (8.31%) Scrum
15 72 (7.77%) DevOps
16 69 (7.44%) Analytics
17 67 (7.23%) Actionable Insight
18 65 (7.01%) IT Strategy
18 65 (7.01%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 339 (36.57%) Java
2 320 (34.52%) SQL
3 231 (24.92%) Python
4 125 (13.48%) Scala
5 80 (8.63%) JavaScript
6 79 (8.52%) C#
7 64 (6.90%) TypeScript
8 38 (4.10%) Bash
8 38 (4.10%) C
9 33 (3.56%) C++
10 30 (3.24%) Go
11 21 (2.27%) T-SQL
12 15 (1.62%) GLSL
12 15 (1.62%) Groovy
13 13 (1.40%) Shell Script
14 11 (1.19%) PowerShell
15 10 (1.08%) Kotlin
16 9 (0.97%) Ruby
17 7 (0.76%) Perl
18 6 (0.65%) PHP
Qualifications
1 156 (16.83%) Degree
2 70 (7.55%) Security Cleared
3 52 (5.61%) SC Cleared
4 33 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (1.83%) Master's Degree
6 13 (1.40%) DBS Check
7 9 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (0.76%) CISM
8 7 (0.76%) CISSP
8 7 (0.76%) PhD
9 6 (0.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 6 (0.65%) HND
10 5 (0.54%) PMI Certification
10 5 (0.54%) PMP
11 3 (0.32%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.32%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.32%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.22%) MCSA
12 2 (0.22%) MCSE
12 2 (0.22%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (7.34%) QA
2 43 (4.64%) Data Quality
3 16 (1.73%) GDPR
4 15 (1.62%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.19%) WCAG
6 9 (0.97%) NIST
7 6 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.54%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.43%) DICOM
9 4 (0.43%) HL7
9 4 (0.43%) ISO 13485
10 3 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.32%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.22%) NCSC
11 2 (0.22%) SLA
12 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.11%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.11%) PMO
System Software
1 31 (3.34%) VMware Infrastructure
2 27 (2.91%) Active Directory
3 21 (2.27%) Docker
4 16 (1.73%) VMware NSX
5 14 (1.51%) Firmware
6 7 (0.76%) Embedded Firmware
7 5 (0.54%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.43%) vSphere
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 94 (10.14%) Kubernetes
2 50 (5.39%) Terraform
3 18 (1.94%) Ansible
4 11 (1.19%) Prometheus
5 10 (1.08%) vCenter Server
6 7 (0.76%) Grafana
6 7 (0.76%) ZABBIX
7 4 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (0.43%) SCCM
8 2 (0.22%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.22%) Rancher
9 1 (0.11%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.11%) Nessus
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.11%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 103 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 64 (6.90%) Google
3 56 (6.04%) Databricks
4 44 (4.75%) Oracle
4 44 (4.75%) VMware
5 24 (2.59%) Dell
6 11 (1.19%) Cisco
6 11 (1.19%) NetApp
6 11 (1.19%) OpenLink
7 10 (1.08%) Palo Alto
7 10 (1.08%) Red Hat
7 10 (1.08%) SAP
7 10 (1.08%) SolidFire
8 9 (0.97%) TOWER Software
8 9 (0.97%) Twitter
9 7 (0.76%) Mitel
9 7 (0.76%) NVIDIA
9 7 (0.76%) Splunk
10 6 (0.65%) Dynatrace
11 5 (0.54%) Sophos