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 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 4 15
Rank change year-on-year -4 +11 -3
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 46 61 19
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 17.62% 24.30% 10.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.85% 25.42% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 60 17
10th Percentile £314 £331 £343
25th Percentile £364 £384 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £434 £467 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.07% -11.05% -10.41%
75th Percentile £503 £512 £567
90th Percentile £617 £627 £576
Cheshire median daily rate £449 £492 £523
% change year-on-year -8.84% -5.84% +8.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £14.90 - -
Cheshire median hourly rate £32.23 £51.00 £28.25
% change year-on-year -36.81% +80.53% +11.55%

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 244 240 171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 93.49% 95.62% 93.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 226 148
10th Percentile £358 £314 £343
25th Percentile £416 £358 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £402 £464
Median % change year-on-year +17.91% -13.36% -17.88%
75th Percentile £599 £492 £575
90th Percentile £653 £537 £618
Cheshire median daily rate £483 £443 £478
% change year-on-year +9.15% -7.38% -4.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £14.90 - -
Cheshire median hourly rate £35.82 £33.40 £35.00
% change year-on-year +7.25% -4.57% +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 18 July 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 12 (26.09%) Confluence
2 2 (4.35%) Camunda
3 1 (2.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (10.87%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (6.52%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 18 (39.13%) Azure
2 12 (26.09%) AWS
3 7 (15.22%) Entra ID
4 6 (13.04%) GCP
5 2 (4.35%) AWS KMS
5 2 (4.35%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (4.35%) GitHub
5 2 (4.35%) OpenShift
5 2 (4.35%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.17%) Akamai
6 1 (2.17%) Apigee
6 1 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.17%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (2.17%) Azure API Management
6 1 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.17%) Kong
6 1 (2.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.87%) Firewall
1 5 (10.87%) Kerberos
2 2 (4.35%) DNS
3 1 (2.17%) HTTP
3 1 (2.17%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (2.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.70%) Relational Database
2 2 (4.35%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.17%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 13 (28.26%) JIRA
2 7 (15.22%) GitLab
3 4 (8.70%) JUnit
3 4 (8.70%) Postman
4 3 (6.52%) Git
4 3 (6.52%) Jenkins
4 3 (6.52%) Mockito
5 1 (2.17%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.17%) Claude Code
5 1 (2.17%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.17%) IntelliJ
5 1 (2.17%) Selenium
5 1 (2.17%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 29 (63.04%) Analytical Skills
2 24 (52.17%) Finance
3 18 (39.13%) Social Skills
4 15 (32.61%) Banking
5 3 (6.52%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (4.35%) Billing
7 1 (2.17%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.17%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (19.57%) Analyst
1 9 (19.57%) Developer
2 5 (10.87%) Business Analyst
2 5 (10.87%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (6.52%) Architect
3 3 (6.52%) Consultant
3 3 (6.52%) Payments Analyst
3 3 (6.52%) Payments Business Analyst
3 3 (6.52%) Risk Analyst
4 2 (4.35%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (4.35%) Designer
4 2 (4.35%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (4.35%) Java Developer
4 2 (4.35%) Salesforce Developer
4 2 (4.35%) Security Consultant
4 2 (4.35%) Server Engineer
4 2 (4.35%) Solutions Designer
4 2 (4.35%) Technical Delivery Manager
4 2 (4.35%) Technical Manager
4 2 (4.35%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (23.91%) REST
2 8 (17.39%) JSON
3 6 (13.04%) Swagger
4 5 (10.87%) HTML
4 5 (10.87%) LDAP
4 5 (10.87%) OAuth
4 5 (10.87%) RESTful
4 5 (10.87%) SOAP
4 5 (10.87%) XML
5 4 (8.70%) CSS
6 3 (6.52%) HTML5
6 3 (6.52%) Lightning Web Components
6 3 (6.52%) Middleware
6 3 (6.52%) OpenAPI
6 3 (6.52%) OpenID
6 3 (6.52%) React
6 3 (6.52%) Spring
6 3 (6.52%) Visualforce
6 3 (6.52%) YAML
7 2 (4.35%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.04%) Management Information System
1 6 (13.04%) Product Ownership
2 4 (8.70%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (8.70%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (6.52%) Digital Wallet
3 3 (6.52%) Onboarding
3 3 (6.52%) Virtual Team
4 2 (4.35%) Algorithms
4 2 (4.35%) Client/Server
4 2 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.35%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.35%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (4.35%) PKI
4 2 (4.35%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (2.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.87%) Linux
1 5 (10.87%) Windows
2 2 (4.35%) AIX
2 2 (4.35%) HPUX
2 2 (4.35%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (4.35%) Solaris
2 2 (4.35%) SUSE
2 2 (4.35%) Unix
2 2 (4.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (39.13%) Agile
2 16 (34.78%) Stakeholder Management
3 13 (28.26%) CI/CD
4 11 (23.91%) Change Management
4 11 (23.91%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (21.74%) ITIL
6 9 (19.57%) Cybersecurity
7 8 (17.39%) DevOps
7 8 (17.39%) Scrum
7 8 (17.39%) Test Automation
8 7 (15.22%) Integration Patterns
8 7 (15.22%) Vulnerability Management
9 6 (13.04%) API Design
9 6 (13.04%) Computer Science
9 6 (13.04%) Performance Optimisation
9 6 (13.04%) Requirements Gathering
9 6 (13.04%) Runbook
10 5 (10.87%) Risk Management
10 5 (10.87%) Unit Testing
10 5 (10.87%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 10 (21.74%) PowerShell
2 7 (15.22%) Java
3 5 (10.87%) JavaScript
4 4 (8.70%) Python
4 4 (8.70%) TypeScript
5 3 (6.52%) Apex Code
5 3 (6.52%) Bash
5 3 (6.52%) SQL
6 1 (2.17%) Bicep
6 1 (2.17%) C#
6 1 (2.17%) SOQL
6 1 (2.17%) SOSL
6 1 (2.17%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (21.74%) Degree
2 8 (17.39%) CISSP
3 5 (10.87%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (10.87%) CompTIA Security+
4 4 (8.70%) CEH
4 4 (8.70%) CISM
4 4 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (6.52%) CISA
5 3 (6.52%) CRISC
5 3 (6.52%) Security Cleared
6 2 (4.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (4.35%) AWS Certification
6 2 (4.35%) Azure Certification
6 2 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (4.35%) GIAC
6 2 (4.35%) OSCP
6 2 (4.35%) PMI Certification
6 2 (4.35%) PMP
6 2 (4.35%) RHCE
7 1 (2.17%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (17.39%) NIST
2 6 (13.04%) GRC
2 6 (13.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (8.70%) PCI DSS
3 4 (8.70%) PSD2
4 2 (4.35%) ISO 8583
4 2 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 2 (4.35%) SLA
5 1 (2.17%) ISO 20022
5 1 (2.17%) PMO
5 1 (2.17%) QA
5 1 (2.17%) SEPA
System Software
1 7 (15.22%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.52%) Docker
3 1 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.17%) VMware NSX
3 1 (2.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (8.70%) Ansible
2 3 (6.52%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.35%) Argo
3 2 (4.35%) Grafana
3 2 (4.35%) Terraform
3 2 (4.35%) WMI
4 1 (2.17%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.17%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (10.87%) Microsoft
1 5 (10.87%) ServiceNow
2 3 (6.52%) Oracle
2 3 (6.52%) Red Hat
2 3 (6.52%) Salesforce
3 2 (4.35%) Atlassian
3 2 (4.35%) HP
3 2 (4.35%) Okta
3 2 (4.35%) Splunk
4 1 (2.17%) Google
4 1 (2.17%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.17%) Pure Storage
4 1 (2.17%) Snow
4 1 (2.17%) Veracode
4 1 (2.17%) VMware