Problem-Solving Contracts in Scotland

Problem Solving
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 21 19
Rank change year-on-year +10 -2 -1
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 219 244 280
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 10.31% 8.99% 8.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.71% 9.73% 8.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 171 168
10th Percentile £172 £181 £162
25th Percentile £370 £413 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £445
Median % change year-on-year - +6.74% +4.71%
75th Percentile £575 £570 £504
90th Percentile £614 £625 £579
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 8 9
10th Percentile £12.09 £14.72 £35.65
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.93 £42.50
Median hourly rate £16.67 £21.47 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.34% -54.81% +265.38%
75th Percentile £18.75 £50.56 £55.75
90th Percentile £19.50 £66.82 £56.42
UK median hourly rate £16.50 £50.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -67.00% +100.00% +25.31%

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 contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,870 2,508 3,203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.00% 92.44% 93.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,150 1,773 2,261
10th Percentile £220 £260 £250
25th Percentile £369 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £471
Median % change year-on-year - +0.95% +10.71%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 55 50
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.92 £11.25 £17.56
Median hourly rate £19.50 £15.99 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -57.28% -6.43%
75th Percentile £42.71 £50.74 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.13 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Scotland

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Scotland over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Scotland

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Scotland

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram in Scotland

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem-Solving in Scotland over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Scotland

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 20 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +32 99 £525 +12.66% 70
Glasgow -7 78 £425 -15.00% 92
West Lothian -6 7 £178 +36.73% 4
South Lanarkshire +6 5 £370 -0.11% 2
Renfrewshire +2 5 £163 -63.89% 4
Aberdeen -3 4 £625 +106.61% 36
Fife +2 3 - - 12
Highlands - 3 - - 2
Lanarkshire +3 1 £488 - 41
Perthshire +2 1 £525 +5.00% 2
Perth and Kinross +1 1 £525 +23.53% 2
Stirling 0 1 £210 +68.67% 8
Aberdeenshire - 1 - - 10
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 7 (3.20%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.37%) IBM HTTP Server
2 3 (1.37%) WebSphere
2 3 (1.37%) WebSphere Application Server
2 3 (1.37%) WebSphere Portal
3 1 (0.46%) Apache
3 1 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.46%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.46%) Confluence
3 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 26 (11.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.37%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (0.91%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.91%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.46%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.46%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.46%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 25 (11.42%) AWS
2 19 (8.68%) Azure
2 19 (8.68%) Power Platform
3 15 (6.85%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (4.11%) OCI
5 7 (3.20%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (3.20%) SaaS
6 6 (2.74%) GCP
6 6 (2.74%) OpenShift
6 6 (2.74%) Snowflake
7 5 (2.28%) Entra ID
8 4 (1.83%) Power Automate
8 4 (1.83%) PowerApps
9 3 (1.37%) Google Data Studio
9 3 (1.37%) Google Sheets
10 2 (0.91%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.91%) IaaS
10 2 (0.91%) PaaS
11 1 (0.46%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (0.46%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.39%) Firewall
2 8 (3.65%) SAN
3 7 (3.20%) Internet
4 4 (1.83%) VSAN
5 3 (1.37%) HTTP
5 3 (1.37%) Structured Cabling
5 3 (1.37%) VPN
6 2 (0.91%) IPsec
6 2 (0.91%) LAN
7 1 (0.46%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.46%) WAN
7 1 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.46%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (9.13%) Oracle Database
2 15 (6.85%) Power BI
3 10 (4.57%) Tableau
4 9 (4.11%) Metadata
5 6 (2.74%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (1.83%) Big Data
7 3 (1.37%) BigQuery
7 3 (1.37%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.91%) DB2
8 2 (0.91%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.46%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.46%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.46%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 1 (0.46%) Oracle Database 10g
9 1 (0.46%) Oracle Database 11g
9 1 (0.46%) Oracle Discoverer
Development Applications
1 15 (6.85%) Oracle APEX
2 12 (5.48%) Jenkins
3 10 (4.57%) Git
3 10 (4.57%) JIRA
3 10 (4.57%) Maven
4 9 (4.11%) Gradle
5 3 (1.37%) IBM UrbanCode
5 3 (1.37%) JMeter
5 3 (1.37%) JUnit
5 3 (1.37%) LoadRunner
5 3 (1.37%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (1.37%) Selenium
6 2 (0.91%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.91%) GitLab
General
1 123 (56.16%) Social Skills
2 113 (51.60%) Analytical Skills
3 48 (21.92%) Public Sector
4 43 (19.63%) Finance
5 15 (6.85%) Organisational Skills
6 13 (5.94%) Banking
6 13 (5.94%) Legal
7 8 (3.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (2.28%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.83%) Back Office
10 4 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.83%) Italian Language
11 3 (1.37%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.37%) Police
11 3 (1.37%) Publishing
11 3 (1.37%) Retail
12 2 (0.91%) Law
12 2 (0.91%) Marketing
13 1 (0.46%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 57 (26.03%) Analyst
2 24 (10.96%) Senior
3 20 (9.13%) Developer
4 17 (7.76%) Lead
5 16 (7.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 15 (6.85%) Data Analyst
6 15 (6.85%) IT Engineer
7 13 (5.94%) Field Engineer
8 11 (5.02%) Field Service Engineer
9 8 (3.65%) Business Analyst
9 8 (3.65%) Designer
9 8 (3.65%) Project Manager
9 8 (3.65%) Security Engineer
9 8 (3.65%) Support Analyst
10 7 (3.20%) 1st Line Support
10 7 (3.20%) Administrator
10 7 (3.20%) Consultant
10 7 (3.20%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
10 7 (3.20%) Windows Engineer
11 6 (2.74%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.57%) Spring
2 9 (4.11%) React
3 8 (3.65%) Spring Boot
4 7 (3.20%) REST
5 6 (2.74%) CSS
5 6 (2.74%) Kafka
6 5 (2.28%) Spring Batch
6 5 (2.28%) Web Services
7 4 (1.83%) Oracle Fusion
8 3 (1.37%) HTML
8 3 (1.37%) J2EE
8 3 (1.37%) Middleware
8 3 (1.37%) XML
9 2 (0.91%) Android Jetpack
9 2 (0.91%) Dagger
9 2 (0.91%) Jetpack Compose
9 2 (0.91%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (0.91%) Regular Expression
9 2 (0.91%) RESTful
9 2 (0.91%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.39%) Analytical Mindset
1 14 (6.39%) Management Information System
2 13 (5.94%) Data Centre
3 10 (4.57%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.74%) Credit Risk
5 5 (2.28%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.28%) DTCC
5 5 (2.28%) Market Risk
5 5 (2.28%) Operational Technology
5 5 (2.28%) PKI
6 4 (1.83%) Smartphone
6 4 (1.83%) VxBlock/Vblock
7 3 (1.37%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.37%) Social Media
8 2 (0.91%) Clustering
8 2 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.91%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.91%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 37 (16.89%) Windows
2 17 (7.76%) Unix
3 14 (6.39%) Linux
4 8 (3.65%) Windows 10
5 6 (2.74%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.83%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.83%) Windows Server
7 3 (1.37%) Android
8 1 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.46%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (19.18%) Agile
2 24 (10.96%) Analytics
2 24 (10.96%) Computer Science
3 23 (10.50%) Customer Service
3 23 (10.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 21 (9.59%) Change Management
4 21 (9.59%) Continuous Improvement
5 20 (9.13%) Migration
6 19 (8.68%) Project Management
7 17 (7.76%) Decision-Making
7 17 (7.76%) ERP
8 16 (7.31%) Cybersecurity
8 16 (7.31%) Stakeholder Management
9 14 (6.39%) Business Intelligence
9 14 (6.39%) Data Analysis
9 14 (6.39%) DevOps
9 14 (6.39%) ITIL
9 14 (6.39%) Performance Tuning
10 13 (5.94%) Data Security
11 12 (5.48%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 30 (13.70%) SQL
2 22 (10.05%) Python
3 16 (7.31%) PL/SQL
4 13 (5.94%) Java
5 12 (5.48%) PowerShell
6 8 (3.65%) Shell Script
7 6 (2.74%) Bash
7 6 (2.74%) Groovy
7 6 (2.74%) Ruby
8 3 (1.37%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.91%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.91%) Perl
10 1 (0.46%) C#
10 1 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.46%) Scala
Qualifications
1 54 (24.66%) Degree
2 22 (10.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (6.85%) Security Cleared
4 13 (5.94%) SC Cleared
5 11 (5.02%) MCSE
5 11 (5.02%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (3.65%) A+ Certification
6 8 (3.65%) CCNA
6 8 (3.65%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (3.65%) Network+ Certification
7 7 (3.20%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.83%) CISSP
8 4 (1.83%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.37%) ACCA
9 3 (1.37%) CIMA
9 3 (1.37%) CISM
9 3 (1.37%) CTC Cleared
9 3 (1.37%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.91%) HNC
11 1 (0.46%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.39%) Disclosure Scotland
2 6 (2.74%) PMO
3 5 (2.28%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.83%) QA
5 3 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.91%) GDPR
6 2 (0.91%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.91%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.91%) ISO 8583
6 2 (0.91%) P3O
7 1 (0.46%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.46%) ISO 31000
7 1 (0.46%) NEBOSH
7 1 (0.46%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (5.48%) Active Directory
2 9 (4.11%) Docker
3 6 (2.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.83%) vSphere
5 3 (1.37%) Firmware
6 2 (0.91%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.46%) KVM
7 1 (0.46%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 11 (5.02%) Terraform
2 10 (4.57%) Ansible
3 8 (3.65%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (3.20%) Kubernetes
4 7 (3.20%) SCCM
5 4 (1.83%) vCenter Server
5 4 (1.83%) VxRail
6 1 (0.46%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.46%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 41 (18.72%) Oracle
2 33 (15.07%) Microsoft
3 12 (5.48%) Dell
4 6 (2.74%) Alteryx
4 6 (2.74%) Apple
4 6 (2.74%) Cisco
4 6 (2.74%) Splunk
4 6 (2.74%) VMware
5 5 (2.28%) Google
6 4 (1.83%) Nintex
6 4 (1.83%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.37%) Brandwatch
7 3 (1.37%) CheckPoint
7 3 (1.37%) Facebook
7 3 (1.37%) Hootsuite
7 3 (1.37%) IBM
7 3 (1.37%) Qualys
7 3 (1.37%) SAP
7 3 (1.37%) Twitter
7 3 (1.37%) Workday