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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 16 6
Rank change year-on-year -7 -10 +9
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 916 592 1,003
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 13.40% 13.61% 16.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.76% 14.42% 18.10%
Number of salaries quoted 395 268 437
10th Percentile £25,818 £31,250 £30,442
25th Percentile £34,250 £38,000 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,543 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.91% -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £62,342 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £79,000 £83,500
UK median annual salary £48,900 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.09% - +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 6,205 4,105 5,541
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 90.74% 94.35% 91.10%
Number of salaries quoted 2,476 2,058 2,852
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,563 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £83,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -14 550 £42,500 -15.00% 92
Edinburgh +1 180 £60,000 +9.09% 71
Aberdeen +13 41 £40,500 -31.06% 27
Fife +10 26 £50,000 +26.58% 13
Lanarkshire +1 16 £43,750 -10.26% 45
North Lanarkshire - 16 £13,000 - 5
Renfrewshire +2 13 £52,500 - 2
Stirling +3 12 £32,150 -1.08% 3
Dundee -2 12 £45,000 +13.22% 8
West Lothian +1 9 £26,250 -50.00% 7
Aberdeenshire 0 6 £37,500 +56.25% 6
South Lanarkshire +6 5 £105,000 +162.50% 2
Banffshire - 4 £22,000 -
West Dunbartonshire +1 3 £27,500 - 1
Falkirk 0 3 £50,000 - 4
Argyll and Bute - 3 - - 1
East Ayrshire - 3 £29,500 - 1
Clackmannanshire - 2 £51,500 - 1
Perth and Kinross -2 1 - - 2
Inverclyde -3 1 £50,000 - 1
Highlands - 1 - - 3
South Ayrshire - 1 - - 3
Dumfries and Galloway - 1 £23,000 - 3
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
1 153 (16.70%) Apache Spark
2 72 (7.86%) Apache
3 18 (1.97%) Confluence
3 18 (1.97%) FileNet
4 17 (1.86%) Cloud Foundry
5 16 (1.75%) IIS
6 13 (1.42%) SharePoint
7 8 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.44%) OpenEdge
9 2 (0.22%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.22%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.11%) WildFly
Applications
1 17 (1.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (1.20%) Sketch
5 3 (0.33%) InVision
5 3 (0.33%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
1 11 (1.20%) Endur
2 4 (0.44%) 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
1 257 (28.06%) AWS
2 148 (16.16%) Azure
3 68 (7.42%) GCP
4 61 (6.66%) Cloud Computing
5 60 (6.55%) Microsoft 365
6 47 (5.13%) Power Platform
7 44 (4.80%) Amazon S3
8 33 (3.60%) Dynamics 365
9 32 (3.49%) SaaS
10 26 (2.84%) Miro
11 18 (1.97%) Google Docs
12 16 (1.75%) Figma
13 14 (1.53%) Amazon SQS
13 14 (1.53%) Lucidchart
13 14 (1.53%) Slack
14 13 (1.42%) BlazeMeter
15 11 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
16 10 (1.09%) Entra ID
17 8 (0.87%) Heroku
18 6 (0.66%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 26 (2.84%) Network Security
2 21 (2.29%) Firewall
2 21 (2.29%) WAN
3 18 (1.97%) VPN
4 17 (1.86%) Kerberos
5 14 (1.53%) Internet
6 11 (1.20%) IPsec
7 10 (1.09%) SNMP
7 10 (1.09%) TCP/IP
8 9 (0.98%) SAN
8 9 (0.98%) VoIP
9 8 (0.87%) LAN
9 8 (0.87%) Wireless
10 7 (0.76%) HTTP
10 7 (0.76%) MQTT
10 7 (0.76%) NAS
11 6 (0.66%) DNS
12 5 (0.55%) DHCP
13 4 (0.44%) IMAP
13 4 (0.44%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (18.01%) NoSQL
2 128 (13.97%) Big Data
3 62 (6.77%) Hadoop
4 44 (4.80%) Elasticsearch
5 40 (4.37%) Power BI
6 35 (3.82%) SQL Server
7 21 (2.29%) Relational Database
8 19 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
8 19 (2.07%) MySQL
9 18 (1.97%) Apache Cassandra
9 18 (1.97%) BigQuery
10 17 (1.86%) Amazon Aurora
10 17 (1.86%) CockroachDB
10 17 (1.86%) Looker
11 14 (1.53%) MongoDB
11 14 (1.53%) Redis
11 14 (1.53%) Scylla
12 13 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
13 10 (1.09%) Flink
14 9 (0.98%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 48 (5.24%) JIRA
2 30 (3.28%) Maven
3 26 (2.84%) Jenkins
4 25 (2.73%) JUnit
5 15 (1.64%) Git
5 15 (1.64%) GitLab
5 15 (1.64%) LabVIEW
6 11 (1.20%) CircleCI
7 10 (1.09%) Cucumber
7 10 (1.09%) Cypress.io
7 10 (1.09%) JMeter
8 9 (0.98%) Gradle
9 3 (0.33%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.22%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.11%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.11%) Mockito
11 1 (0.11%) Postman
11 1 (0.11%) Selenium
11 1 (0.11%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 434 (47.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 429 (46.83%) Finance
3 364 (39.74%) Law
4 280 (30.57%) Social Skills
5 217 (23.69%) Marketing
6 174 (19.00%) Analytical Skills
7 105 (11.46%) Legal
8 63 (6.88%) Banking
9 54 (5.90%) Influencing Skills
10 46 (5.02%) Investment Banking
11 30 (3.28%) Manufacturing
12 25 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
12 25 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
13 23 (2.51%) Electronics
14 22 (2.40%) Public Sector
15 20 (2.18%) Telecoms
16 17 (1.86%) Retail
17 16 (1.75%) Publishing
18 15 (1.64%) Financial Institution
19 14 (1.53%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 341 (37.23%) Software Engineer
2 207 (22.60%) Senior
3 193 (21.07%) Lead
4 155 (16.92%) Senior Software Engineer
5 148 (16.16%) Lead Software Engineer
6 110 (12.01%) Java Engineer
6 110 (12.01%) Java Software Engineer
7 104 (11.35%) Big Data Engineer
7 104 (11.35%) Big Data Software Engineer
8 97 (10.59%) Scala Engineer
8 97 (10.59%) Scala Software Engineer
9 95 (10.37%) Developer
10 86 (9.39%) AWS Engineer
11 85 (9.28%) AWS Software Engineer
12 78 (8.52%) Senior Java Engineer
12 78 (8.52%) Senior Java Software Engineer
13 76 (8.30%) Lead Java Engineer
14 73 (7.97%) Analyst
15 57 (6.22%) Java Scala Software Engineer
16 49 (5.35%) Senior Big Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (11.46%) React
2 94 (10.26%) Spring
3 65 (7.10%) AngularJS
4 59 (6.44%) GraphQL
5 54 (5.90%) Kafka
6 48 (5.24%) Spring Boot
7 45 (4.91%) CSS
8 43 (4.69%) HTML
9 41 (4.48%) Node.js
10 40 (4.37%) .NET
11 35 (3.82%) REST
12 32 (3.49%) PySpark
13 24 (2.62%) JSON
13 24 (2.62%) OAuth
14 21 (2.29%) Twitter Bootstrap
15 20 (2.18%) Hibernate
15 20 (2.18%) J2EE
16 18 (1.97%) JMS
16 18 (1.97%) jQuery
16 18 (1.97%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 85 (9.28%) Cloud Native
2 62 (6.77%) Algorithms
3 52 (5.68%) Onboarding
4 48 (5.24%) Product Ownership
5 45 (4.91%) Public Cloud
6 29 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
7 25 (2.73%) Management Information System
8 20 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
9 18 (1.97%) Driving Licence
10 15 (1.64%) Data Structures
10 15 (1.64%) Distributed Applications
11 13 (1.42%) Clustering
11 13 (1.42%) Data Centre
12 11 (1.20%) Virtual Team
13 10 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
14 9 (0.98%) Market Risk
15 8 (0.87%) IoT
16 7 (0.76%) Credit Derivative
16 7 (0.76%) Mobile App
16 7 (0.76%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 60 (6.55%) Windows
2 48 (5.24%) Linux
3 24 (2.62%) Unix
4 18 (1.97%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.09%) Apple iOS
5 10 (1.09%) Data ONTAP
6 8 (0.87%) Android
7 5 (0.55%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.44%) AIX
9 3 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.11%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.11%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 443 (48.36%) Agile
2 394 (43.01%) Software Engineering
3 307 (33.52%) SDLC
4 256 (27.95%) Operational Stability
5 211 (23.03%) Decision-Making
6 200 (21.83%) Artificial Intelligence
7 197 (21.51%) Machine Learning
8 176 (19.21%) CI/CD
9 149 (16.27%) Continuous Improvement
10 148 (16.16%) Tech Ops
11 129 (14.08%) Computer Science
12 122 (13.32%) Risk Management
13 86 (9.39%) ETL
14 75 (8.19%) Scrum
15 73 (7.97%) Microservices
16 71 (7.75%) Analytics
17 70 (7.64%) DevOps
18 66 (7.21%) IT Strategy
18 66 (7.21%) Mentoring
19 62 (6.77%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 311 (33.95%) Java
1 311 (33.95%) SQL
2 213 (23.25%) Python
3 112 (12.23%) Scala
4 81 (8.84%) C#
5 72 (7.86%) JavaScript
6 65 (7.10%) TypeScript
7 38 (4.15%) C
8 36 (3.93%) C++
9 22 (2.40%) Bash
10 20 (2.18%) T-SQL
11 15 (1.64%) GLSL
11 15 (1.64%) Groovy
12 14 (1.53%) Go
13 13 (1.42%) Shell Script
14 12 (1.31%) PowerShell
15 10 (1.09%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.76%) PL/SQL
17 6 (0.66%) PHP
18 5 (0.55%) Swift
Qualifications
1 167 (18.23%) Degree
2 63 (6.88%) Security Cleared
3 48 (5.24%) SC Cleared
4 37 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.18%) Master's Degree
6 13 (1.42%) DBS Check
7 11 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (0.76%) CISM
8 7 (0.76%) CISSP
8 7 (0.76%) PhD
8 7 (0.76%) PMI Certification
9 6 (0.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 6 (0.66%) HND
10 5 (0.55%) PMP
11 3 (0.33%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.22%) ACCA
12 2 (0.22%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.22%) MCSE
12 2 (0.22%) OCP
12 2 (0.22%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (6.88%) QA
2 41 (4.48%) Data Quality
3 16 (1.75%) GDPR
4 15 (1.64%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.20%) WCAG
6 10 (1.09%) NIST
7 7 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.66%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.44%) DICOM
9 4 (0.44%) HL7
9 4 (0.44%) ISO 13485
10 3 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
10 3 (0.33%) NCSC
11 2 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.22%) SLA
12 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.11%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.11%) ITGC
12 1 (0.11%) PMO
System Software
1 31 (3.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 26 (2.84%) Active Directory
3 21 (2.29%) Docker
4 14 (1.53%) Firmware
5 13 (1.42%) VMware NSX
6 7 (0.76%) Embedded Firmware
7 5 (0.55%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.44%) vSphere
9 2 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 84 (9.17%) Kubernetes
2 49 (5.35%) Terraform
3 18 (1.97%) Ansible
4 10 (1.09%) Prometheus
4 10 (1.09%) vCenter Server
5 7 (0.76%) ZABBIX
6 4 (0.44%) Grafana
6 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.33%) Oracle RMAN
7 3 (0.33%) SCCM
8 2 (0.22%) Rancher
9 1 (0.11%) Nessus
9 1 (0.11%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 101 (11.03%) Microsoft
2 56 (6.11%) Google
3 54 (5.90%) Databricks
4 42 (4.59%) VMware
5 41 (4.48%) Oracle
6 15 (1.64%) Dell
7 12 (1.31%) Cisco
8 11 (1.20%) NetApp
8 11 (1.20%) OpenLink
9 10 (1.09%) Palo Alto
9 10 (1.09%) Red Hat
9 10 (1.09%) SAP
9 10 (1.09%) SolidFire
10 9 (0.98%) TOWER Software
10 9 (0.98%) Twitter
11 7 (0.76%) Mitel
11 7 (0.76%) NVIDIA
12 5 (0.55%) Sophos
12 5 (0.55%) Splunk
13 4 (0.44%) Citrix