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 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 6 14
Rank change year-on-year -8 +8 -6
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 27 68 23
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 16.56% 24.29% 13.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.75% 25.19% 14.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 67 18
10th Percentile £291 £269 £362
25th Percentile £399 £358 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £438 £529
Median % change year-on-year +1.54% -17.30% +6.33%
75th Percentile £478 £500 £561
90th Percentile £554 £538 £576
Cheshire median daily rate £444 £456 £509
% change year-on-year -2.58% -10.37% +2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £14.90 - -
Cheshire median hourly rate £18.49 £30.50 -
% change year-on-year -39.38% - -

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 144 270 158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 88.34% 96.43% 94.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 259 131
10th Percentile £356 £310 £349
25th Percentile £402 £358 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £422 £445
Median % change year-on-year +5.92% -5.17% -24.06%
75th Percentile £515 £489 £550
90th Percentile £610 £537 £640
Cheshire median daily rate £475 £447 £476
% change year-on-year +6.26% -6.14% -3.79%
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 £35.82 £17.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year +101.80% -49.29% +14.60%

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 23 September 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 (29.63%) Confluence
2 2 (7.41%) Camunda
Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (33.33%) AWS
2 7 (25.93%) Azure
3 4 (14.81%) GCP
4 2 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (7.41%) AWS KMS
4 2 (7.41%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (7.41%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.70%) Apigee
5 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.70%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (3.70%) Azure API Management
5 1 (3.70%) Kong
5 1 (3.70%) OpenShift
5 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (3.70%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) Relational Database
1 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (29.63%) JIRA
2 3 (11.11%) GitLab
3 2 (7.41%) Git
4 1 (3.70%) Bitbucket
4 1 (3.70%) Claude Code
4 1 (3.70%) Cucumber
4 1 (3.70%) IntelliJ
4 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.70%) JUnit
4 1 (3.70%) Postman
4 1 (3.70%) Selenium
4 1 (3.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 19 (70.37%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (51.85%) Finance
3 12 (44.44%) Social Skills
4 8 (29.63%) Banking
5 1 (3.70%) Billing
5 1 (3.70%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.70%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.70%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (14.81%) Analyst
1 4 (14.81%) Delivery Manager
1 4 (14.81%) Technical Delivery Manager
1 4 (14.81%) Technical Manager
2 3 (11.11%) Developer
3 2 (7.41%) Business Analyst
3 2 (7.41%) Consultant
3 2 (7.41%) Designer
3 2 (7.41%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (7.41%) Security Consultant
3 2 (7.41%) Server Engineer
3 2 (7.41%) Solutions Designer
3 2 (7.41%) Unix Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) Data Analytics Analyst
4 1 (3.70%) Data Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) Finance Manager
4 1 (3.70%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 1 (3.70%) Optimisation Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (18.52%) OAuth
1 5 (18.52%) REST
2 3 (11.11%) JSON
2 3 (11.11%) OpenID
3 2 (7.41%) Kafka
3 2 (7.41%) SailPoint
3 2 (7.41%) SAML
3 2 (7.41%) Spring
3 2 (7.41%) Terraform
3 2 (7.41%) XML
4 1 (3.70%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.70%) HTML
4 1 (3.70%) Jest
4 1 (3.70%) JPA
4 1 (3.70%) JWT
4 1 (3.70%) Middleware
4 1 (3.70%) OAuth2
4 1 (3.70%) Playwright
4 1 (3.70%) React
4 1 (3.70%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Analytical Mindset
1 4 (14.81%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (14.81%) Product Ownership
2 3 (11.11%) Client/Server
2 3 (11.11%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (11.11%) Virtual Team
3 2 (7.41%) Algorithms
3 2 (7.41%) Data Centre
3 2 (7.41%) Data Structures
3 2 (7.41%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (7.41%) PKI
3 2 (7.41%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.70%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (3.70%) Cyberattack
4 1 (3.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.70%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 5 (18.52%) Linux
1 5 (18.52%) Windows
2 2 (7.41%) AIX
2 2 (7.41%) HPUX
2 2 (7.41%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (7.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (7.41%) Solaris
2 2 (7.41%) SUSE
2 2 (7.41%) Unix
2 2 (7.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (48.15%) Stakeholder Management
2 12 (44.44%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (33.33%) Agile
4 8 (29.63%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (25.93%) CI/CD
5 7 (25.93%) DevOps
5 7 (25.93%) Runbook
6 5 (18.52%) Architectural Patterns
6 5 (18.52%) Mentoring
6 5 (18.52%) Project Management
6 5 (18.52%) Scrum
6 5 (18.52%) SDLC
6 5 (18.52%) User Stories
6 5 (18.52%) Vulnerability Management
6 5 (18.52%) Workflow
7 4 (14.81%) Change Management
7 4 (14.81%) Cryptography
7 4 (14.81%) Information Security
7 4 (14.81%) ITIL
7 4 (14.81%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (14.81%) PowerShell
1 4 (14.81%) SQL
2 3 (11.11%) Java
3 2 (7.41%) Python
4 1 (3.70%) Bash
4 1 (3.70%) C#
4 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (25.93%) CISSP
2 5 (18.52%) Degree
3 4 (14.81%) CompTIA Security+
4 3 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (11.11%) CEH
4 3 (11.11%) CISM
5 2 (7.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (7.41%) AWS Certification
5 2 (7.41%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (7.41%) OSCP
5 2 (7.41%) RHCE
5 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
6 1 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.70%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Certification
6 1 (3.70%) CISA
6 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (3.70%) PMI Certification
6 1 (3.70%) PMP
6 1 (3.70%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (18.52%) NIST
2 3 (11.11%) GRC
2 3 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (7.41%) SLA
4 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 1 (3.70%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (11.11%) Ansible
2 2 (7.41%) WMI
Vendors
1 4 (14.81%) Atlassian
1 4 (14.81%) ServiceNow
2 2 (7.41%) HP
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.41%) Okta
2 2 (7.41%) Oracle
2 2 (7.41%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.70%) Google
3 1 (3.70%) MuleSoft
3 1 (3.70%) Snow
3 1 (3.70%) Veracode