Problem-Solving Contracts in Knutsford

Problem Solving
Cheshire > Knutsford

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Knutsford 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 13 12
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 -4
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 13 25 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Knutsford 12.26% 16.45% 16.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.54% 17.99% 17.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 24 17
10th Percentile £319 £403 £391
25th Percentile £398 £434 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £465 £630
Median % change year-on-year +25.19% -26.21% +42.05%
75th Percentile £582 £595 £632
90th Percentile £625 £680 £640
Cheshire median daily rate £525 £445 £510
% change year-on-year +17.98% -12.75% +3.03%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Knutsford

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 Knutsford with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 96 139 128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 90.57% 91.45% 94.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 115 100
10th Percentile £361 £342 £323
25th Percentile £401 £445 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £550 £462
Median % change year-on-year -4.86% +19.05% +7.32%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £630
90th Percentile £628 £680 £633
Cheshire median daily rate £500 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £63.00
Cheshire median hourly rate £26.66 £30.54 £23.50
% change year-on-year -12.70% +29.96% -22.79%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Knutsford

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Knutsford

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Knutsford over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Knutsford

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Knutsford 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 2 (15.38%) Mule
Cloud Services
1 11 (84.62%) AWS
2 7 (53.85%) Azure
3 1 (7.69%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (53.85%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (15.38%) Big Data
1 2 (15.38%) Hadoop
1 2 (15.38%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (76.92%) JIRA
2 9 (69.23%) Jenkins
3 2 (15.38%) Liquibase
3 2 (15.38%) Log4j
3 2 (15.38%) TeamCity
General
1 13 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (69.23%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (69.23%) Finance
3 4 (30.77%) Public Sector
4 3 (23.08%) Banking
5 1 (7.69%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (7.69%) Front Office
5 1 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Windows Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) AWS Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Consultant
2 2 (15.38%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Java Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Principal Consultant
2 2 (15.38%) Principal Security Consultant
2 2 (15.38%) Project Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Security Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Build Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Salesforce Project Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Build Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Hibernate
1 2 (15.38%) Kafka
1 2 (15.38%) REST
1 2 (15.38%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (69.23%) Virtual Team
2 7 (53.85%) Public Cloud
3 2 (15.38%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 7 (53.85%) Linux
1 7 (53.85%) Unix
1 7 (53.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) CI/CD
1 7 (53.85%) DevOps
1 7 (53.85%) Knowledge Transfer
1 7 (53.85%) Platform Engineering
1 7 (53.85%) Project Delivery
1 7 (53.85%) Server Building
2 4 (30.77%) SDLC
2 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (23.08%) Agile
3 3 (23.08%) Decision-Making
3 3 (23.08%) Risk Management
4 2 (15.38%) Critical Thinking
4 2 (15.38%) Kanban
4 2 (15.38%) Open Source
4 2 (15.38%) Project Management
4 2 (15.38%) Roadmaps
4 2 (15.38%) Scrum
4 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
4 2 (15.38%) Unit Testing
4 2 (15.38%) Virtual Team Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) Ruby
2 2 (15.38%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) PMI Certification
2 1 (7.69%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 2 (15.38%) NIST
1 2 (15.38%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 7 (53.85%) Ansible
1 7 (53.85%) CFEngine
1 7 (53.85%) PowerBroker
1 7 (53.85%) Progress Chef
1 7 (53.85%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Atlassian
2 2 (15.38%) Databricks
2 2 (15.38%) Teradata
3 1 (7.69%) Salesforce