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 5 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 3 11
Rank change year-on-year -8 +8 0
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 64 35 18
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 20.51% 29.41% 15.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.33% 30.43% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 33 16
10th Percentile £313 £321 £352
25th Percentile £350 £368 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £394 £489 £538
Median % change year-on-year -19.48% -9.02% +8.59%
75th Percentile £492 £538 £582
90th Percentile £586 £635 £607
Cheshire median daily rate £402 £499 £518
% change year-on-year -19.36% -3.67% +16.29%

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 300 115 108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 96.15% 96.64% 91.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 279 105 96
10th Percentile £341 £317 £369
25th Percentile £393 £356 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £381 £519
Median % change year-on-year +19.42% -26.55% -5.68%
75th Percentile £586 £500 £595
90th Percentile £653 £603 £629
Cheshire median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £32.23 £33.40 £26.66
% change year-on-year -3.52% +25.28% -9.22%

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 5 April 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 (21.88%) Confluence
2 1 (1.56%) Apache
2 1 (1.56%) Camunda
2 1 (1.56%) CMS
2 1 (1.56%) JBoss
2 1 (1.56%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.56%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (6.25%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 28 (43.75%) Azure
2 27 (42.19%) AWS
3 8 (12.50%) GCP
4 6 (9.38%) Apigee
4 6 (9.38%) GitHub
4 6 (9.38%) Kong
5 5 (7.81%) Entra ID
5 5 (7.81%) Power Platform
6 4 (6.25%) GitHub Copilot
7 3 (4.69%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (4.69%) OpenShift
8 2 (3.13%) AWS KMS
8 2 (3.13%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (1.56%) Akamai
9 1 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.56%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (1.56%) Azure API Management
9 1 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.56%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.38%) Firewall
2 5 (7.81%) Kerberos
3 2 (3.13%) DNS
3 2 (3.13%) HTTP
4 1 (1.56%) Network Security
4 1 (1.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.94%) Relational Database
2 4 (6.25%) MySQL
2 4 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 23 (35.94%) JIRA
2 14 (21.88%) Git
3 9 (14.06%) GitLab
4 5 (7.81%) JUnit
5 4 (6.25%) Postman
6 3 (4.69%) Jenkins
6 3 (4.69%) Mockito
7 1 (1.56%) Gradle
7 1 (1.56%) IntelliJ
7 1 (1.56%) Maven
7 1 (1.56%) Selenium
7 1 (1.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 38 (59.38%) Finance
2 32 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (45.31%) Banking
4 23 (35.94%) Social Skills
5 6 (9.38%) Retail Banking
6 5 (7.81%) Public Sector
7 4 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (4.69%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (3.13%) Billing
9 2 (3.13%) Retail
10 1 (1.56%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (31.25%) Developer
2 19 (29.69%) Analyst
3 16 (25.00%) Business Analyst
4 10 (15.63%) Java Developer
5 6 (9.38%) Architect
6 5 (7.81%) Technical Analyst
6 5 (7.81%) Technical Business Analyst
7 4 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (6.25%) Payments Analyst
7 4 (6.25%) Payments Business Analyst
7 4 (6.25%) React Developer
8 3 (4.69%) Applications Architect
8 3 (4.69%) Programme Manager
8 3 (4.69%) Risk Analyst
8 3 (4.69%) Technical Manager
8 3 (4.69%) Technical Programme Manager
9 2 (3.13%) Designer
9 2 (3.13%) Infrastructure Architect
9 2 (3.13%) Salesforce Developer
9 2 (3.13%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (35.94%) REST
2 13 (20.31%) JSON
2 13 (20.31%) Spring
2 13 (20.31%) Spring Boot
3 12 (18.75%) SOAP
3 12 (18.75%) Swagger
4 11 (17.19%) RESTful
5 9 (14.06%) XML
6 8 (12.50%) HTML
6 8 (12.50%) OAuth
6 8 (12.50%) OpenAPI
7 7 (10.94%) JMS
8 6 (9.38%) CSS
8 6 (9.38%) JWT
9 5 (7.81%) HTML5
9 5 (7.81%) LDAP
9 5 (7.81%) React
10 4 (6.25%) Hibernate
10 4 (6.25%) Spring MVC
10 4 (6.25%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 13 (20.31%) Product Ownership
2 10 (15.63%) Cloud Native
3 8 (12.50%) Management Information System
4 7 (10.94%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 4 (6.25%) Digital Wallet
6 3 (4.69%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (4.69%) Onboarding
7 2 (3.13%) Mobile Banking
7 2 (3.13%) PKI
8 1 (1.56%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.56%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.56%) Graphic Design
8 1 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.56%) Online Banking
8 1 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.56%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.13%) Linux
1 2 (3.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (70.31%) Agile
2 26 (40.63%) CI/CD
3 25 (39.06%) Stakeholder Management
4 19 (29.69%) Requirements Gathering
5 16 (25.00%) Change Management
5 16 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
6 15 (23.44%) DevOps
6 15 (23.44%) Test Automation
7 14 (21.88%) Computer Science
7 14 (21.88%) Microservices
8 11 (17.19%) API Design
8 11 (17.19%) Containerisation
8 11 (17.19%) Scrum
8 11 (17.19%) Sprint Planning
8 11 (17.19%) User Acceptance Testing
9 10 (15.63%) Translating Business Requirements
10 9 (14.06%) Performance Optimisation
10 9 (14.06%) Unit Testing
10 9 (14.06%) Validation
10 9 (14.06%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 19 (29.69%) Java
2 12 (18.75%) SQL
3 6 (9.38%) JavaScript
3 6 (9.38%) PowerShell
3 6 (9.38%) Python
3 6 (9.38%) TypeScript
4 3 (4.69%) Apex Code
5 2 (3.13%) Bash
6 1 (1.56%) Bicep
6 1 (1.56%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.56%) SOQL
6 1 (1.56%) SOSL
6 1 (1.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 16 (25.00%) Degree
2 13 (20.31%) BPSS Clearance
2 13 (20.31%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (10.94%) Security Cleared
4 4 (6.25%) CISSP
4 4 (6.25%) PMI Certification
4 4 (6.25%) PMP
5 3 (4.69%) CISA
5 3 (4.69%) CRISC
6 2 (3.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (3.13%) AWS Certification
6 2 (3.13%) Azure Certification
6 2 (3.13%) CEH
6 2 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (3.13%) CISM
6 2 (3.13%) GIAC
7 1 (1.56%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 1 (1.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 1 (1.56%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (17.19%) PSD2
2 7 (10.94%) ISO 20022
2 7 (10.94%) QA
2 7 (10.94%) SEPA
3 6 (9.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (9.38%) NIST
4 5 (7.81%) PCI DSS
5 4 (6.25%) GRC
6 3 (4.69%) ISO 8583
7 2 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (1.56%) PMO
System Software
1 12 (18.75%) Docker
2 5 (7.81%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.56%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.13%) Argo
2 2 (3.13%) Grafana
2 2 (3.13%) Terraform
3 1 (1.56%) Ansible
3 1 (1.56%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.56%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 11 (17.19%) Oracle
2 9 (14.06%) Microsoft
3 6 (9.38%) MuleSoft
4 4 (6.25%) ServiceNow
5 3 (4.69%) Salesforce
5 3 (4.69%) Snow
5 3 (4.69%) Workday
6 2 (3.13%) Google
6 2 (3.13%) Splunk
7 1 (1.56%) Pure Storage
7 1 (1.56%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.56%) VMware