Problem-Solving Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Problem Solving
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring Problem-Solving skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 1 11
Rank change year-on-year -8 +10 -2
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 62 33 24
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 24.22% 28.45% 20.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 25.20% 29.73% 21.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 28 19
10th Percentile £310 £343 -
25th Percentile £350 £356 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £493 £525
Median % change year-on-year -23.95% -6.08% -
75th Percentile £468 £557 £582
90th Percentile £538 £612 £592
Cheshire median daily rate £402 £493 £518
% change year-on-year -18.47% -4.72% +4.97%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 246 111 113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 96.09% 95.69% 96.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 92 90
10th Percentile £313 £351 £410
25th Percentile £358 £356 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £414 £390 £545
Median % change year-on-year +6.15% -28.44% +10.89%
75th Percentile £488 £538 £585
90th Percentile £592 £638 £627
Cheshire median daily rate £441 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -7.26% -5.00% +5.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £22.85 £25.79 £31.58
% change year-on-year -11.39% -18.34% +81.03%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Problem-Solving relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford.

Problem-Solving job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Problem-Solving.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Problem-Solving

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Knutsford over the 6 months to 1 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Knutsford

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Trend in Knutsford

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Problem-Solving.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Problem-Solving

Problem-Solving
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 14 (22.58%) Confluence
2 1 (1.61%) Apache
2 1 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.61%) CMS
2 1 (1.61%) JBoss
2 1 (1.61%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.61%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (4.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (6.45%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 26 (41.94%) AWS
2 25 (40.32%) Azure
3 5 (8.06%) Apigee
3 5 (8.06%) Entra ID
3 5 (8.06%) Kong
4 4 (6.45%) GCP
4 4 (6.45%) GitHub
4 4 (6.45%) GitHub Copilot
4 4 (6.45%) Power Platform
5 3 (4.84%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.61%) Amazon Glacier
6 1 (1.61%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (1.61%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.61%) AWS Data Pipeline
6 1 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.61%) Datadog
6 1 (1.61%) npm
6 1 (1.61%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.68%) Firewall
2 5 (8.06%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.61%) HTTP
3 1 (1.61%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.68%) Relational Database
2 4 (6.45%) MySQL
2 4 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.61%) Big Data
3 1 (1.61%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 26 (41.94%) JIRA
2 18 (29.03%) Git
3 9 (14.52%) GitLab
4 4 (6.45%) JUnit
4 4 (6.45%) Postman
5 3 (4.84%) Jenkins
5 3 (4.84%) Mockito
6 1 (1.61%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.61%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.61%) Gradle
6 1 (1.61%) Grunt
6 1 (1.61%) gulp
6 1 (1.61%) Maven
6 1 (1.61%) MLflow
6 1 (1.61%) Selenium
6 1 (1.61%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.61%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 35 (56.45%) Finance
2 28 (45.16%) Banking
3 27 (43.55%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (35.48%) Social Skills
5 5 (8.06%) Public Sector
5 5 (8.06%) Retail Banking
6 4 (6.45%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (6.45%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.23%) Retail
8 1 (1.61%) Billing
8 1 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (38.71%) Developer
2 18 (29.03%) Analyst
2 18 (29.03%) Business Analyst
3 12 (19.35%) Java Developer
4 6 (9.68%) Architect
5 5 (8.06%) Technical Analyst
5 5 (8.06%) Technical Business Analyst
6 4 (6.45%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (6.45%) Payments Analyst
6 4 (6.45%) Payments Business Analyst
7 3 (4.84%) Applications Architect
7 3 (4.84%) Programme Manager
7 3 (4.84%) React Developer
7 3 (4.84%) Technical Manager
7 3 (4.84%) Technical Programme Manager
8 2 (3.23%) Banking Analyst
8 2 (3.23%) Banking Business Analyst
8 2 (3.23%) Infrastructure Architect
8 2 (3.23%) Salesforce Developer
8 2 (3.23%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (45.16%) REST
2 16 (25.81%) Spring
2 16 (25.81%) Spring Boot
3 13 (20.97%) JSON
4 12 (19.35%) SOAP
4 12 (19.35%) Swagger
5 11 (17.74%) JMS
5 11 (17.74%) RESTful
6 9 (14.52%) XML
7 8 (12.90%) HTML
7 8 (12.90%) OpenAPI
8 6 (9.68%) CSS
9 5 (8.06%) JWT
9 5 (8.06%) LDAP
9 5 (8.06%) OAuth
10 4 (6.45%) Hibernate
10 4 (6.45%) HTML5
10 4 (6.45%) Redux
10 4 (6.45%) Spring MVC
10 4 (6.45%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 15 (24.19%) Cloud Native
2 12 (19.35%) Product Ownership
2 12 (19.35%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 5 (8.06%) Management Information System
4 4 (6.45%) Digital Wallet
4 4 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (4.84%) Onboarding
6 2 (3.23%) Mobile Banking
7 1 (1.61%) Graphic Design
7 1 (1.61%) Online Banking
7 1 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.61%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.23%) Linux
1 2 (3.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (75.81%) Agile
2 30 (48.39%) CI/CD
3 24 (38.71%) Stakeholder Management
4 22 (35.48%) Requirements Gathering
5 19 (30.65%) Test Automation
6 17 (27.42%) DevOps
7 16 (25.81%) Containerisation
7 16 (25.81%) Integration Patterns
7 16 (25.81%) Microservices
7 16 (25.81%) User Acceptance Testing
8 14 (22.58%) Change Management
8 14 (22.58%) Computer Science
9 13 (20.97%) Unit Testing
10 12 (19.35%) SDLC
11 11 (17.74%) Anti-Money Laundering
11 11 (17.74%) API Design
12 10 (16.13%) Integration Testing
12 10 (16.13%) Sprint Planning
12 10 (16.13%) Workshop Facilitation
13 9 (14.52%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 24 (38.71%) Java
2 16 (25.81%) SQL
3 7 (11.29%) PowerShell
4 6 (9.68%) JavaScript
4 6 (9.68%) Python
5 4 (6.45%) TypeScript
6 3 (4.84%) Apex Code
7 2 (3.23%) Bash
8 1 (1.61%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.61%) SOQL
8 1 (1.61%) SOSL
8 1 (1.61%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (22.58%) Degree
2 13 (20.97%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (19.35%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (8.06%) Security Cleared
5 2 (3.23%) CBAP
5 2 (3.23%) CSPO
5 2 (3.23%) PMI Certification
5 2 (3.23%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (24.19%) PSD2
2 13 (20.97%) ISO 20022
3 12 (19.35%) QA
3 12 (19.35%) SEPA
4 6 (9.68%) PCI DSS
5 3 (4.84%) ISO 8583
6 2 (3.23%) GDPR
7 1 (1.61%) Accessibility
7 1 (1.61%) PMO
System Software
1 16 (25.81%) Docker
2 5 (8.06%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (25.81%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.61%) Ansible
2 1 (1.61%) Grafana
2 1 (1.61%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.61%) QRadar
2 1 (1.61%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (24.19%) Oracle
2 11 (17.74%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.06%) MuleSoft
4 3 (4.84%) Salesforce
4 3 (4.84%) ServiceNow
4 3 (4.84%) Snow
4 3 (4.84%) Workday
5 2 (3.23%) Google
5 2 (3.23%) IBM
5 2 (3.23%) IBM Sterling
6 1 (1.61%) ArcSight
6 1 (1.61%) Perforce
6 1 (1.61%) Splunk