Problem-Solving Contracts in Cheshire

Problem Solving
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring Problem-Solving skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Problem-Solving over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 15 10
Rank change year-on-year +12 -5 +3
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 140 57 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 24.39% 10.44% 11.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 26.12% 12.15% 13.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 33 32
10th Percentile £269 £302 £310
25th Percentile £388 £365 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £520 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% +6.67% -19.09%
75th Percentile £583 £567 £586
90th Percentile £698 £585 £620
North West median daily rate £480 £490 £483
% change year-on-year -2.09% +1.50% +1.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 4
10th Percentile £31.20 £14.00 -
25th Percentile £33.00 £20.81 £23.15
Median hourly rate £37.00 £42.50 £25.33
Median % change year-on-year -12.94% +67.82% +1.30%
75th Percentile £54.00 £43.75 £28.75
90th Percentile £63.60 - -
North West median hourly rate £28.75 £11.20 £27.50
% change year-on-year +156.81% -59.29% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Problem-Solving falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 536 469 466
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 93.38% 85.90% 90.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 398 318 295
10th Percentile £313 £311 £288
25th Percentile £358 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £439 £476 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.87% -9.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £537 £576 £587
90th Percentile £639 £638 £650
North West median daily rate £450 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 30 31
10th Percentile £12.82 £13.70 £17.50
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.72 £22.53
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.75 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% +17.06% +40.22%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.00 £44.13 £40.00
North West median hourly rate £30.00 £30.00 £30.54
% change year-on-year - -1.77% +29.71%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Cheshire

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Cheshire

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Cheshire over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Cheshire

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Cheshire

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem-Solving in Cheshire over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Cheshire

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 6 July 2025. 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
Knutsford +15 61 £467 -12.79% 11
Chester +3 23 £650 -10.34% 27
Warrington +2 13 £230 -38.67% 37
Macclesfield +8 9 £550 - 3
Crewe +7 6 £355 -29.00% 13
Alderley Edge - 2 - - 8
Problem-Solving
North West

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 10 (7.14%) SharePoint
2 8 (5.71%) Mattermost
2 8 (5.71%) Skype for Business
3 5 (3.57%) JBoss
3 5 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (3.57%) Tomcat
4 4 (2.86%) CICS
4 4 (2.86%) Confluence
5 1 (0.71%) Appian
Applications
1 7 (5.00%) MS Visio
2 5 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.43%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.14%) Remedy ITSM
1 3 (2.14%) SAP HR
1 3 (2.14%) SAP Payroll
2 2 (1.43%) SAP CO
2 2 (1.43%) SAP FI
2 2 (1.43%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.71%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.71%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.71%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.71%) SAP PP
3 1 (0.71%) SAP QM
3 1 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 22 (15.71%) AWS
2 21 (15.00%) Azure
3 11 (7.86%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (5.00%) GCP
4 7 (5.00%) SaaS
4 7 (5.00%) Serverless
5 5 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (3.57%) Entra ID
5 5 (3.57%) GitHub
5 5 (3.57%) Microsoft Purview
5 5 (3.57%) OneDrive
5 5 (3.57%) OpenShift
6 4 (2.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (2.86%) Amazon Glacier
6 4 (2.86%) Amazon Kinesis
6 4 (2.86%) Amazon S3
6 4 (2.86%) Anthropic Claude
6 4 (2.86%) Azure AI
6 4 (2.86%) Google Gemini
6 4 (2.86%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.71%) Skype
1 8 (5.71%) Softphone
1 8 (5.71%) Unified Communications
1 8 (5.71%) WebEx
2 4 (2.86%) Ethernet
2 4 (2.86%) Firewall
2 4 (2.86%) Intrusion Detection
3 3 (2.14%) BGP
3 3 (2.14%) EIGRP
3 3 (2.14%) IPv4
3 3 (2.14%) MPLS
3 3 (2.14%) OSPF
3 3 (2.14%) SD-WAN
3 3 (2.14%) WAN
4 1 (0.71%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (0.71%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (0.71%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (0.71%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (0.71%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.71%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.86%) DynamoDB
1 4 (2.86%) Neo4j
2 3 (2.14%) DB2
2 3 (2.14%) Power BI
3 2 (1.43%) Easytrieve
3 2 (1.43%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.43%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.71%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.71%) MySQL
4 1 (0.71%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.71%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.71%) Power Query
4 1 (0.71%) SAP HANA
4 1 (0.71%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (12.14%) Git
1 17 (12.14%) Jenkins
2 16 (11.43%) JIRA
3 10 (7.14%) JUnit
4 8 (5.71%) GitLab
5 6 (4.29%) Cucumber
6 5 (3.57%) Gradle
6 5 (3.57%) Maven
6 5 (3.57%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (2.14%) Selenium
8 1 (0.71%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.71%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.71%) Grunt
8 1 (0.71%) gulp
8 1 (0.71%) SonarQube
General
1 73 (52.14%) Social Skills
2 72 (51.43%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (20.71%) Finance
4 14 (10.00%) Banking
4 14 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
5 13 (9.29%) Manufacturing
6 10 (7.14%) Legal
7 6 (4.29%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (3.57%) Automotive
8 5 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.86%) Public Sector
10 3 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (2.14%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.43%) Billing
11 2 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.71%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.71%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.71%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (17.86%) Architect
2 23 (16.43%) Developer
3 19 (13.57%) Analyst
4 14 (10.00%) Support Engineer
5 12 (8.57%) Senior
6 11 (7.86%) Java Developer
6 11 (7.86%) Solutions Architect
7 9 (6.43%) Business Analyst
7 9 (6.43%) Operations Engineer
8 8 (5.71%) Messaging Engineer
8 8 (5.71%) Messaging Support
8 8 (5.71%) Messaging Support Engineer
8 8 (5.71%) Operations Support Engineer
9 7 (5.00%) Lead
9 7 (5.00%) Messaging Analyst
9 7 (5.00%) Messaging Support Analyst
9 7 (5.00%) Operational Support Analyst
9 7 (5.00%) Operations Analyst
9 7 (5.00%) Operations Support Analyst
9 7 (5.00%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (15.00%) REST
2 13 (9.29%) RESTful
3 11 (7.86%) Spring
3 11 (7.86%) Spring Boot
4 9 (6.43%) Kafka
5 8 (5.71%) SOAP
5 8 (5.71%) XMPP
6 7 (5.00%) HTML
6 7 (5.00%) React
7 6 (4.29%) CSS
8 5 (3.57%) AngularJS
8 5 (3.57%) JSON
8 5 (3.57%) Web Services
9 4 (2.86%) ActiveMQ
9 4 (2.86%) PyTorch
9 4 (2.86%) Spring Cloud
9 4 (2.86%) TensorFlow
10 3 (2.14%) LDAP
11 2 (1.43%) ADO
11 2 (1.43%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.86%) Management Information System
2 11 (7.86%) Product Ownership
3 7 (5.00%) Algorithms
3 7 (5.00%) Onboarding
3 7 (5.00%) Virtual Team
4 6 (4.29%) CMDB
5 4 (2.86%) Mainframe
5 4 (2.86%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.14%) Mobile App
6 3 (2.14%) Security Posture
6 3 (2.14%) VSAM
7 2 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.43%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.43%) Cyberattack
7 2 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.71%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.71%) Fibre Optics
8 1 (0.71%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 18 (12.86%) Linux
2 5 (3.57%) Android
2 5 (3.57%) Apple iOS
2 5 (3.57%) Unix
3 4 (2.86%) Windows
4 2 (1.43%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (35.00%) Agile
2 27 (19.29%) CI/CD
3 26 (18.57%) ITIL
4 22 (15.71%) Continuous Improvement
4 22 (15.71%) Decision-Making
5 21 (15.00%) Migration
5 21 (15.00%) SDLC
6 20 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
7 19 (13.57%) Test Automation
8 18 (12.86%) ITSM
8 18 (12.86%) User Acceptance Testing
9 17 (12.14%) Scrum
10 16 (11.43%) Microservices
11 15 (10.71%) Artificial Intelligence
12 14 (10.00%) Business Analysis
12 14 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
13 12 (8.57%) Mentoring
13 12 (8.57%) Risk Management
13 12 (8.57%) Service Delivery
13 12 (8.57%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (16.43%) Java
2 19 (13.57%) SQL
3 17 (12.14%) PowerShell
4 16 (11.43%) Python
5 7 (5.00%) JavaScript
6 5 (3.57%) Bash
6 5 (3.57%) Shell Script
7 3 (2.14%) COBOL
7 3 (2.14%) JCL
7 3 (2.14%) Scala
8 2 (1.43%) ABAP
8 2 (1.43%) R
9 1 (0.71%) C#
9 1 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.71%) Ruby
9 1 (0.71%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (17.86%) Degree
2 11 (7.86%) Security Cleared
3 9 (6.43%) ITIL Certification
4 8 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (5.71%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (3.57%) CCNP
5 5 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.43%) CBAP
7 2 (1.43%) CCNA
7 2 (1.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (1.43%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.71%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.71%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.71%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.71%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.71%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.71%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.43%) GDPR
1 9 (6.43%) QA
2 4 (2.86%) SEPA
3 3 (2.14%) AUTOSAR
3 3 (2.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 3 (2.14%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.43%) COBIT
4 2 (1.43%) PMO
5 1 (0.71%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (9.29%) Active Directory
2 10 (7.14%) Docker
3 1 (0.71%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (5.71%) Kubernetes
1 8 (5.71%) SCOM
1 8 (5.71%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (3.57%) Ansible
3 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.43%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 19 (13.57%) ServiceNow
3 12 (8.57%) SAP
4 11 (7.86%) Cisco
4 11 (7.86%) Splunk
5 8 (5.71%) Oracle
5 8 (5.71%) Red Hat
6 5 (3.57%) Fortinet
6 5 (3.57%) Infoblox
7 4 (2.86%) Remedy
8 3 (2.14%) BMC
8 3 (2.14%) Huawei
9 2 (1.43%) CyberArk
9 2 (1.43%) Google
9 2 (1.43%) Workday
10 1 (0.71%) Ariba
10 1 (0.71%) Cloudera
10 1 (0.71%) Computacenter
10 1 (0.71%) F5
10 1 (0.71%) Imperva