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

6 months to
5 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 16 6
Rank change year-on-year -7 -10 +8
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 913 590 1,039
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 13.26% 13.69% 16.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.65% 14.50% 18.51%
Number of salaries quoted 393 267 446
10th Percentile £25,818 £31,250 £30,787
25th Percentile £34,500 £38,433 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £62,342 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £79,000 £83,750
UK median annual salary £48,507 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.81% - +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 6,233 4,070 5,612
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 90.50% 94.41% 91.18%
Number of salaries quoted 2,512 2,039 2,866
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +12.24%
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 5 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 5 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 -15 545 £42,500 -15.00% 91
Edinburgh +2 182 £60,000 +9.09% 64
Aberdeen +11 41 £40,500 -31.06% 26
Fife +10 26 £50,000 +26.58% 8
Lanarkshire 0 17 £43,750 -10.26% 45
North Lanarkshire - 16 £13,000 - 6
Renfrewshire +2 13 £52,500 -
Stirling +3 12 £32,150 -1.08% 6
Dundee -3 11 £45,000 +13.22% 7
West Lothian +2 10 £26,250 -50.00% 9
Aberdeenshire 0 6 £37,500 +56.25% 9
South Lanarkshire +6 4 £72,500 +81.25% 3
Banffshire - 4 £22,000 -
West Dunbartonshire +1 3 £27,500 - 1
Falkirk 0 3 £50,000 - 5
Argyll and Bute - 3 - -
East Ayrshire - 3 £29,500 - 1
Clackmannanshire - 2 £51,500 - 2
Perth and Kinross -3 1 - - 2
Inverclyde -3 1 £50,000 - 1
Highlands - 1 - - 7
South Ayrshire - 1 - - 3
Dumfries and Galloway - 1 £23,000 - 4
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
1 149 (16.32%) Apache Spark
2 70 (7.67%) Apache
3 18 (1.97%) Confluence
3 18 (1.97%) FileNet
4 17 (1.86%) Cloud Foundry
5 15 (1.64%) IIS
6 13 (1.42%) SharePoint
7 8 (0.88%) 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 12 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (1.20%) Endur
3 4 (0.44%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.11%) Maximo
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.11%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 252 (27.60%) AWS
2 148 (16.21%) Azure
3 68 (7.45%) GCP
4 60 (6.57%) Microsoft 365
5 58 (6.35%) Cloud Computing
6 48 (5.26%) Power Platform
7 44 (4.82%) Amazon S3
8 34 (3.72%) Dynamics 365
9 31 (3.40%) SaaS
10 26 (2.85%) 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 12 (1.31%) BlazeMeter
15 11 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
16 10 (1.10%) Entra ID
17 8 (0.88%) Heroku
18 6 (0.66%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 26 (2.85%) Network Security
2 22 (2.41%) Firewall
3 21 (2.30%) WAN
4 19 (2.08%) VPN
5 17 (1.86%) Kerberos
6 14 (1.53%) Internet
7 12 (1.31%) IPsec
8 10 (1.10%) SNMP
8 10 (1.10%) TCP/IP
8 10 (1.10%) VoIP
9 9 (0.99%) LAN
9 9 (0.99%) SAN
9 9 (0.99%) Wireless
10 7 (0.77%) DNS
10 7 (0.77%) NAS
11 6 (0.66%) HTTP
11 6 (0.66%) MQTT
12 5 (0.55%) DHCP
13 4 (0.44%) IMAP
13 4 (0.44%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (17.63%) NoSQL
2 124 (13.58%) Big Data
3 61 (6.68%) Hadoop
4 44 (4.82%) Elasticsearch
5 40 (4.38%) Power BI
6 34 (3.72%) SQL Server
7 20 (2.19%) Relational Database
8 19 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
8 19 (2.08%) 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 9 (0.99%) Flink
13 9 (0.99%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 49 (5.37%) JIRA
2 30 (3.29%) Maven
3 26 (2.85%) Jenkins
4 24 (2.63%) JUnit
5 15 (1.64%) GitLab
5 15 (1.64%) LabVIEW
6 14 (1.53%) Git
7 11 (1.20%) CircleCI
8 10 (1.10%) Cucumber
8 10 (1.10%) Cypress.io
8 10 (1.10%) JMeter
9 9 (0.99%) Gradle
10 3 (0.33%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.22%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (0.11%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.11%) Mockito
12 1 (0.11%) Postman
12 1 (0.11%) Selenium
12 1 (0.11%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 428 (46.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 421 (46.11%) Finance
3 357 (39.10%) Law
4 284 (31.11%) Social Skills
5 212 (23.22%) Marketing
6 176 (19.28%) Analytical Skills
7 103 (11.28%) Legal
8 62 (6.79%) Banking
9 53 (5.81%) Influencing Skills
10 46 (5.04%) Investment Banking
11 29 (3.18%) Manufacturing
12 25 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
13 24 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
14 22 (2.41%) Electronics
15 21 (2.30%) Public Sector
16 20 (2.19%) Telecoms
17 17 (1.86%) Retail
18 16 (1.75%) Publishing
19 14 (1.53%) Aviation
19 14 (1.53%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 336 (36.80%) Software Engineer
2 204 (22.34%) Senior
3 191 (20.92%) Lead
4 152 (16.65%) Senior Software Engineer
5 145 (15.88%) Lead Software Engineer
6 108 (11.83%) Java Engineer
6 108 (11.83%) Java Software Engineer
7 101 (11.06%) Big Data Engineer
7 101 (11.06%) Big Data Software Engineer
8 95 (10.41%) Scala Engineer
8 95 (10.41%) Scala Software Engineer
9 94 (10.30%) Developer
10 84 (9.20%) AWS Engineer
11 83 (9.09%) AWS Software Engineer
12 77 (8.43%) Senior Java Engineer
12 77 (8.43%) Senior Java Software Engineer
13 75 (8.21%) Lead Java Engineer
14 74 (8.11%) Analyst
15 56 (6.13%) Java Scala Software Engineer
16 48 (5.26%) Senior Big Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (11.28%) React
2 92 (10.08%) Spring
3 64 (7.01%) AngularJS
4 59 (6.46%) GraphQL
5 54 (5.91%) Kafka
6 46 (5.04%) Spring Boot
7 44 (4.82%) CSS
8 42 (4.60%) HTML
9 41 (4.49%) .NET
9 41 (4.49%) Node.js
10 34 (3.72%) REST
11 31 (3.40%) PySpark
12 24 (2.63%) JSON
12 24 (2.63%) OAuth
13 21 (2.30%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 20 (2.19%) Hibernate
14 20 (2.19%) J2EE
15 18 (1.97%) JMS
15 18 (1.97%) jQuery
15 18 (1.97%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 83 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 61 (6.68%) Algorithms
3 51 (5.59%) Onboarding
4 47 (5.15%) Product Ownership
5 43 (4.71%) Public Cloud
6 30 (3.29%) Self-Motivation
7 25 (2.74%) Management Information System
8 19 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
9 18 (1.97%) Driving Licence
10 15 (1.64%) Data Structures
10 15 (1.64%) Distributed Applications
11 13 (1.42%) Data Centre
12 12 (1.31%) Clustering
13 10 (1.10%) Virtual Team
14 9 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
14 9 (0.99%) Market Risk
15 7 (0.77%) Hedge funds
15 7 (0.77%) Mobile App
15 7 (0.77%) Operational Technology
15 7 (0.77%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 60 (6.57%) Windows
2 49 (5.37%) Linux
3 24 (2.63%) Unix
4 18 (1.97%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.10%) Apple iOS
5 10 (1.10%) Data ONTAP
6 8 (0.88%) 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
1 437 (47.86%) Agile
2 387 (42.39%) Software Engineering
3 300 (32.86%) SDLC
4 250 (27.38%) Operational Stability
5 206 (22.56%) Decision-Making
6 194 (21.25%) Artificial Intelligence
7 191 (20.92%) Machine Learning
8 172 (18.84%) CI/CD
9 147 (16.10%) Continuous Improvement
10 145 (15.88%) Tech Ops
11 127 (13.91%) Computer Science
12 120 (13.14%) Risk Management
13 84 (9.20%) ETL
14 74 (8.11%) Scrum
15 71 (7.78%) DevOps
15 71 (7.78%) Microservices
16 68 (7.45%) Analytics
17 66 (7.23%) Mentoring
18 65 (7.12%) IT Strategy
19 61 (6.68%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 306 (33.52%) SQL
2 304 (33.30%) Java
3 210 (23.00%) Python
4 110 (12.05%) Scala
5 82 (8.98%) C#
6 72 (7.89%) JavaScript
7 64 (7.01%) TypeScript
8 38 (4.16%) C
9 36 (3.94%) C++
10 22 (2.41%) Bash
11 20 (2.19%) T-SQL
12 15 (1.64%) GLSL
12 15 (1.64%) Groovy
13 14 (1.53%) Go
14 13 (1.42%) Shell Script
15 12 (1.31%) PowerShell
16 10 (1.10%) Kotlin
17 7 (0.77%) PL/SQL
18 6 (0.66%) PHP
19 5 (0.55%) Swift
Qualifications
1 166 (18.18%) Degree
2 62 (6.79%) Security Cleared
3 49 (5.37%) SC Cleared
4 36 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.19%) Master's Degree
6 13 (1.42%) DBS Check
7 12 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (0.77%) CISM
8 7 (0.77%) CISSP
8 7 (0.77%) PhD
8 7 (0.77%) 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
11 3 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.22%) ACCA
12 2 (0.22%) CCIE
12 2 (0.22%) OCP
12 2 (0.22%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (6.90%) QA
2 40 (4.38%) Data Quality
3 16 (1.75%) GDPR
4 14 (1.53%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.20%) WCAG
6 10 (1.10%) NIST
7 7 (0.77%) 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 (3.40%) VMware Infrastructure
2 26 (2.85%) Active Directory
3 22 (2.41%) Docker
4 13 (1.42%) Firmware
5 12 (1.31%) VMware NSX
6 7 (0.77%) Embedded Firmware
7 5 (0.55%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.44%) vSphere
9 2 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 85 (9.31%) Kubernetes
2 48 (5.26%) Terraform
3 18 (1.97%) Ansible
4 10 (1.10%) Prometheus
4 10 (1.10%) vCenter Server
5 7 (0.77%) ZABBIX
6 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.33%) Grafana
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 (11.06%) Microsoft
2 56 (6.13%) Google
3 52 (5.70%) Databricks
4 41 (4.49%) VMware
5 40 (4.38%) Oracle
6 15 (1.64%) Dell
7 13 (1.42%) Cisco
8 11 (1.20%) NetApp
8 11 (1.20%) OpenLink
9 10 (1.10%) Palo Alto
9 10 (1.10%) Red Hat
9 10 (1.10%) SolidFire
10 9 (0.99%) SAP
10 9 (0.99%) TOWER Software
10 9 (0.99%) Twitter
11 7 (0.77%) Mitel
12 6 (0.66%) NVIDIA
13 5 (0.55%) Sophos
14 4 (0.44%) Citrix
14 4 (0.44%) Splunk