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 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 9 8
Rank change year-on-year -6 -1 +3
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 21 65 30
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 13.73% 22.89% 17.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.67% 23.72% 18.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 65 24
10th Percentile £325 £269 £356
25th Percentile £402 £358 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £434 £438 £523
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% -16.27% +5.56%
75th Percentile £464 £500 £565
90th Percentile £469 £539 £576
Cheshire median daily rate £411 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -8.67% -10.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £14.90 - -
Cheshire median hourly rate £17.50 £30.50 -
% change year-on-year -42.62% - -

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 134 274 166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 87.58% 96.48% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 265 137
10th Percentile £364 £310 £327
25th Percentile £408 £358 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £425 £430
Median % change year-on-year +5.41% -1.16% -23.21%
75th Percentile £515 £490 £538
90th Percentile £604 £537 £619
Cheshire median daily rate £475 £445 £488
% change year-on-year +6.74% -8.72% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £82.50
Median hourly rate £14.90 - £85.00
75th Percentile - - £87.50
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median hourly rate £35.46 £18.31 £35.00
% change year-on-year +93.68% -47.69% +34.62%

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 11 October 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 8 (38.10%) Confluence
2 1 (4.76%) Camunda
Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (23.81%) AWS
2 3 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (14.29%) Azure
3 2 (9.52%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.76%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) MongoDB
1 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
1 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (33.33%) JIRA
2 2 (9.52%) GitLab
3 1 (4.76%) Bitbucket
3 1 (4.76%) Claude Code
3 1 (4.76%) Cucumber
3 1 (4.76%) Git
3 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.76%) Postman
3 1 (4.76%) Selenium
3 1 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (76.19%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (42.86%) Finance
3 8 (38.10%) Social Skills
4 5 (23.81%) Banking
5 1 (4.76%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.76%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (19.05%) Delivery Manager
1 4 (19.05%) Technical Delivery Manager
1 4 (19.05%) Technical Manager
2 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) Consultant
3 2 (9.52%) Developer
3 2 (9.52%) Security Consultant
3 2 (9.52%) Server Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Automation Tester
4 1 (4.76%) Business Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Help Desk Technician
4 1 (4.76%) IT Technician
4 1 (4.76%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Security Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) SQL Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Tester
4 1 (4.76%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) REST
2 3 (14.29%) JSON
2 3 (14.29%) Terraform
3 2 (9.52%) OAuth
3 2 (9.52%) SailPoint
3 2 (9.52%) XML
4 1 (4.76%) Kafka
4 1 (4.76%) Playwright
4 1 (4.76%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (14.29%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (14.29%) Client/Server
2 3 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (14.29%) Product Ownership
3 2 (9.52%) Data Structures
3 2 (9.52%) Security Posture
3 2 (9.52%) Virtual Team
4 1 (4.76%) Algorithms
4 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.76%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (4.76%) Cyberattack
4 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.76%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 5 (23.81%) Windows
2 4 (19.05%) Linux
3 2 (9.52%) Windows Server
4 1 (4.76%) AIX
4 1 (4.76%) HPUX
4 1 (4.76%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.76%) Solaris
4 1 (4.76%) SUSE
4 1 (4.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) Continuous Improvement
1 11 (52.38%) Stakeholder Management
2 8 (38.10%) Agile
3 7 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 7 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 7 (33.33%) DevOps
4 6 (28.57%) Runbook
5 5 (23.81%) Architectural Patterns
5 5 (23.81%) Scrum
5 5 (23.81%) SDLC
5 5 (23.81%) User Stories
5 5 (23.81%) Workflow
6 4 (19.05%) Analytics
6 4 (19.05%) Coaching
6 4 (19.05%) Mentoring
6 4 (19.05%) Product Management
6 4 (19.05%) Programme Management
6 4 (19.05%) Project Management
6 4 (19.05%) Software Engineering
6 4 (19.05%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (19.05%) PowerShell
1 4 (19.05%) SQL
2 2 (9.52%) Java
2 2 (9.52%) Python
3 1 (4.76%) Bash
3 1 (4.76%) C#
3 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) Degree
2 3 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (14.29%) CISSP
2 3 (14.29%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (9.52%) CEH
3 2 (9.52%) CISM
3 2 (9.52%) OSCP
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.76%) RHCE
4 1 (4.76%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) NIST
1 2 (9.52%) SLA
2 1 (4.76%) GRC
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Ansible
2 2 (9.52%) WMI
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Atlassian
1 4 (19.05%) ServiceNow
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.52%) Okta
3 1 (4.76%) Google
3 1 (4.76%) HP
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle
3 1 (4.76%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.76%) Snow
3 1 (4.76%) Veracode