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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 13 5
Rank change year-on-year -4 -8 +1
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 8 24 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Knutsford 7.84% 16.78% 20.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.70% 18.32% 21.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 23 20
10th Percentile £308 £402 £403
25th Percentile £372 £429 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £445 £630
Median % change year-on-year +10.90% -29.37% +43.02%
75th Percentile £594 £586 £633
90th Percentile £632 £668 £636
Cheshire median daily rate £450 £450 £525
% change year-on-year - -14.29% +17.85%

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 92 131 127
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 90.20% 91.61% 94.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 108 98
10th Percentile £353 £408 £325
25th Percentile £400 £445 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £550 £465
Median % change year-on-year -10.09% +18.41% +7.90%
75th Percentile £601 £606 £630
90th Percentile £629 £680 £633
Cheshire median daily rate £489 £480 £460
% change year-on-year +1.88% +4.35% +5.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £63.00
Cheshire median hourly rate £26.66 £30.54 £22.50
% change year-on-year -12.70% +35.73% -10.00%

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 13 May 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 (25.00%) Mule
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (25.00%) Big Data
1 2 (25.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (25.00%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) JIRA
2 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (25.00%) Liquibase
3 2 (25.00%) Log4j
3 2 (25.00%) TeamCity
General
1 8 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Finance
3 2 (25.00%) Banking
3 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (12.50%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (12.50%) Front Office
4 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) AWS Developer
1 2 (25.00%) Consultant
1 2 (25.00%) Developer
1 2 (25.00%) Java Developer
1 2 (25.00%) Principal Consultant
1 2 (25.00%) Principal Security Consultant
1 2 (25.00%) Project Manager
1 2 (25.00%) Security Consultant
1 2 (25.00%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Salesforce Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (25.00%) Kafka
1 2 (25.00%) REST
1 2 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Virtual Team
2 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Unix
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) SDLC
1 4 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (37.50%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) Decision-Making
2 3 (37.50%) Risk Management
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Cost Reduction
3 2 (25.00%) Critical Thinking
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Information Security
3 2 (25.00%) Kanban
3 2 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (25.00%) Open Source
3 2 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (25.00%) Project Management
3 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (25.00%) Scrum
3 2 (25.00%) Server Building
3 2 (25.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Java
1 2 (25.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) PMI Certification
2 1 (12.50%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 2 (25.00%) NIST
1 2 (25.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Ansible
1 2 (25.00%) CFEngine
1 2 (25.00%) PowerBroker
1 2 (25.00%) Progress Chef
1 2 (25.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Atlassian
1 2 (25.00%) Databricks
1 2 (25.00%) Teradata
2 1 (12.50%) Salesforce