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

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 17 6
Rank change year-on-year -7 -11 +10
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 936 599 903
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 13.96% 12.98% 15.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.09% 13.77% 17.12%
Number of salaries quoted 394 280 400
10th Percentile £25,818 £31,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £34,000 £39,829 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £51,743 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.03% +2.46% +12.22%
75th Percentile £62,306 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,480 £79,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +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 6,201 4,349 5,274
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.47% 94.22% 90.95%
Number of salaries quoted 2,420 2,184 2,787
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,375 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £54,145
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +6.20% +10.50%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,393 £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 11 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 11 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 -11 566 £42,500 -15.84% 67
Edinburgh +4 191 £60,000 +0.80% 60
Aberdeen +14 39 £42,500 -34.62% 36
Fife +12 26 £50,000 +29.87% 10
North Lanarkshire - 16 £13,000 - 1
Lanarkshire +4 15 £42,500 -12.82% 31
Renfrewshire +2 14 £52,500 - 3
Dundee -1 12 £45,000 +13.22% 12
Stirling +3 9 £26,637 -18.04% 11
West Lothian -4 8 £26,250 -50.00% 6
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 (17.95%) Apache Spark
2 74 (7.91%) Apache
3 21 (2.24%) Confluence
3 21 (2.24%) IIS
4 18 (1.92%) FileNet
5 17 (1.82%) Cloud Foundry
6 12 (1.28%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.43%) OpenEdge
9 2 (0.21%) JBoss
9 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.11%) SAS
10 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 19 (2.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (1.18%) Sketch
4 3 (0.32%) InVision
4 3 (0.32%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.11%) EViews
5 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.11%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 11 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
1 11 (1.18%) Endur
2 4 (0.43%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.11%) Maximo
4 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.11%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 278 (29.70%) AWS
2 153 (16.35%) Azure
3 77 (8.23%) GCP
4 66 (7.05%) Cloud Computing
5 61 (6.52%) Microsoft 365
6 52 (5.56%) Amazon S3
7 42 (4.49%) SaaS
8 40 (4.27%) Power Platform
9 35 (3.74%) Miro
10 31 (3.31%) Dynamics 365
11 27 (2.88%) Google Docs
12 23 (2.46%) Amazon SQS
12 23 (2.46%) Lucidchart
12 23 (2.46%) Slack
13 16 (1.71%) Figma
14 15 (1.60%) BlazeMeter
15 11 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
16 10 (1.07%) Entra ID
16 10 (1.07%) Serverless
17 8 (0.85%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 26 (2.78%) Network Security
2 25 (2.67%) WAN
3 20 (2.14%) Firewall
4 17 (1.82%) Kerberos
5 16 (1.71%) VPN
6 14 (1.50%) Internet
7 10 (1.07%) IPsec
7 10 (1.07%) SNMP
8 9 (0.96%) VoIP
9 8 (0.85%) SAN
9 8 (0.85%) TCP/IP
10 7 (0.75%) HTTP
10 7 (0.75%) MQTT
10 7 (0.75%) NAS
11 6 (0.64%) LAN
11 6 (0.64%) Wireless
12 5 (0.53%) DHCP
12 5 (0.53%) DNS
13 4 (0.43%) Intrusion Detection
13 4 (0.43%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (18.59%) NoSQL
2 145 (15.49%) Big Data
3 73 (7.80%) Hadoop
4 53 (5.66%) Elasticsearch
5 42 (4.49%) SQL Server
6 33 (3.53%) Power BI
7 29 (3.10%) Relational Database
8 23 (2.46%) Redis
8 23 (2.46%) Scylla
9 20 (2.14%) MySQL
10 18 (1.92%) Apache Cassandra
10 18 (1.92%) BigQuery
11 17 (1.82%) Amazon Aurora
11 17 (1.82%) CockroachDB
11 17 (1.82%) Looker
12 15 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
12 15 (1.60%) MongoDB
12 15 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
13 11 (1.18%) Oracle Database
14 10 (1.07%) Flink
Development Applications
1 51 (5.45%) JIRA
2 28 (2.99%) Jenkins
2 28 (2.99%) Maven
3 27 (2.88%) JUnit
4 25 (2.67%) Git
5 16 (1.71%) GitLab
6 15 (1.60%) LabVIEW
7 11 (1.18%) CircleCI
7 11 (1.18%) Cypress.io
8 10 (1.07%) Cucumber
8 10 (1.07%) JMeter
9 9 (0.96%) Gradle
10 6 (0.64%) JDeveloper
11 3 (0.32%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.21%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.21%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
13 1 (0.11%) Artifactory
13 1 (0.11%) Mockito
13 1 (0.11%) Postman
General
1 451 (48.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 436 (46.58%) Finance
3 373 (39.85%) Law
4 284 (30.34%) Social Skills
5 225 (24.04%) Marketing
6 171 (18.27%) Analytical Skills
7 110 (11.75%) Legal
8 67 (7.16%) Banking
9 55 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
10 45 (4.81%) Investment Banking
11 27 (2.88%) Manufacturing
12 24 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
12 24 (2.56%) Public Sector
13 23 (2.46%) Electronics
14 20 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
15 19 (2.03%) Telecoms
16 18 (1.92%) Retail
17 17 (1.82%) Financial Institution
18 16 (1.71%) Publishing
19 14 (1.50%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 367 (39.21%) Software Engineer
2 222 (23.72%) Senior
3 199 (21.26%) Lead
4 164 (17.52%) Senior Software Engineer
5 155 (16.56%) Lead Software Engineer
6 113 (12.07%) Java Engineer
6 113 (12.07%) Java Software Engineer
7 110 (11.75%) Big Data Engineer
7 110 (11.75%) Big Data Software Engineer
8 101 (10.79%) Scala Engineer
8 101 (10.79%) Scala Software Engineer
9 92 (9.83%) AWS Engineer
10 91 (9.72%) Developer
11 89 (9.51%) AWS Software Engineer
12 82 (8.76%) Senior Java Engineer
12 82 (8.76%) Senior Java Software Engineer
13 78 (8.33%) Lead Java Engineer
14 77 (8.23%) Analyst
15 57 (6.09%) Java Scala Software Engineer
16 51 (5.45%) Senior Big Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (12.18%) React
2 98 (10.47%) Spring
3 68 (7.26%) GraphQL
4 67 (7.16%) AngularJS
5 63 (6.73%) Kafka
6 50 (5.34%) Spring Boot
7 46 (4.91%) CSS
8 45 (4.81%) Node.js
9 44 (4.70%) HTML
10 40 (4.27%) REST
11 38 (4.06%) .NET
12 34 (3.63%) PySpark
13 26 (2.78%) JSON
14 24 (2.56%) OAuth
15 22 (2.35%) Hibernate
16 21 (2.24%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 20 (2.14%) J2EE
18 18 (1.92%) JMS
18 18 (1.92%) jQuery
18 18 (1.92%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 88 (9.40%) Cloud Native
2 72 (7.69%) Algorithms
3 55 (5.88%) Onboarding
4 51 (5.45%) Public Cloud
5 50 (5.34%) Product Ownership
6 27 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
7 24 (2.56%) Data Structures
8 23 (2.46%) Management Information System
9 19 (2.03%) Clustering
10 18 (1.92%) Driving Licence
10 18 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
11 15 (1.60%) Distributed Applications
12 14 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
13 12 (1.28%) Data Centre
14 10 (1.07%) Virtual Team
15 9 (0.96%) Market Risk
16 8 (0.85%) IoT
17 7 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
17 7 (0.75%) Mobile App
17 7 (0.75%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 61 (6.52%) Windows
2 43 (4.59%) Linux
3 22 (2.35%) Unix
4 19 (2.03%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.07%) Apple iOS
5 10 (1.07%) Data ONTAP
6 8 (0.85%) Android
7 6 (0.64%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.43%) AIX
9 3 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.21%) Windows 7
10 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.11%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.11%) Windows 8
11 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 456 (48.72%) Agile
2 422 (45.09%) Software Engineering
3 316 (33.76%) SDLC
4 267 (28.53%) Operational Stability
5 215 (22.97%) Decision-Making
6 207 (22.12%) Artificial Intelligence
7 204 (21.79%) Machine Learning
8 188 (20.09%) CI/CD
9 155 (16.56%) Tech Ops
10 145 (15.49%) Continuous Improvement
11 124 (13.25%) Computer Science
11 124 (13.25%) Risk Management
12 90 (9.62%) ETL
13 85 (9.08%) Microservices
14 77 (8.23%) Scrum
15 73 (7.80%) DevOps
16 71 (7.59%) Analytics
17 69 (7.37%) Actionable Insight
18 67 (7.16%) IT Strategy
19 65 (6.94%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 341 (36.43%) Java
2 323 (34.51%) SQL
3 232 (24.79%) Python
4 125 (13.35%) Scala
5 81 (8.65%) JavaScript
6 79 (8.44%) C#
7 64 (6.84%) TypeScript
8 39 (4.17%) Bash
9 38 (4.06%) C
10 33 (3.53%) C++
11 30 (3.21%) Go
12 21 (2.24%) T-SQL
13 15 (1.60%) GLSL
13 15 (1.60%) Groovy
14 13 (1.39%) Shell Script
15 11 (1.18%) PowerShell
16 10 (1.07%) Kotlin
17 9 (0.96%) Ruby
18 7 (0.75%) Perl
19 6 (0.64%) PHP
Qualifications
1 156 (16.67%) Degree
2 75 (8.01%) Security Cleared
3 55 (5.88%) SC Cleared
4 33 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (1.82%) Master's Degree
6 13 (1.39%) DBS Check
7 9 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (0.75%) CISM
8 7 (0.75%) CISSP
8 7 (0.75%) PhD
9 6 (0.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 6 (0.64%) HND
10 5 (0.53%) PMI Certification
10 5 (0.53%) PMP
11 3 (0.32%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.32%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.32%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.21%) MCSA
12 2 (0.21%) MCSE
12 2 (0.21%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (7.26%) QA
2 43 (4.59%) Data Quality
3 16 (1.71%) GDPR
4 15 (1.60%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.18%) WCAG
6 9 (0.96%) NIST
7 6 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.53%) 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 (0.21%) NCSC
11 2 (0.21%) SLA
12 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.11%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.11%) PMO
System Software
1 32 (3.42%) VMware Infrastructure
2 28 (2.99%) Active Directory
3 22 (2.35%) Docker
4 19 (2.03%) VMware NSX
5 14 (1.50%) Firmware
6 7 (0.75%) Embedded Firmware
7 5 (0.53%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.43%) vSphere
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 95 (10.15%) Kubernetes
2 51 (5.45%) Terraform
3 18 (1.92%) Ansible
4 11 (1.18%) Prometheus
5 10 (1.07%) vCenter Server
6 7 (0.75%) Grafana
6 7 (0.75%) ZABBIX
7 4 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (0.43%) SCCM
8 2 (0.21%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.21%) 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
1 107 (11.43%) Microsoft
2 64 (6.84%) Google
3 56 (5.98%) Databricks
4 47 (5.02%) VMware
5 44 (4.70%) Oracle
6 24 (2.56%) Dell
7 11 (1.18%) Cisco
7 11 (1.18%) NetApp
7 11 (1.18%) OpenLink
8 10 (1.07%) Palo Alto
8 10 (1.07%) Red Hat
8 10 (1.07%) SAP
8 10 (1.07%) SolidFire
9 9 (0.96%) TOWER Software
9 9 (0.96%) Twitter
10 7 (0.75%) Mitel
10 7 (0.75%) NVIDIA
10 7 (0.75%) Splunk
11 6 (0.64%) Dynatrace
12 5 (0.53%) Sophos