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

 6 months to
26 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 3 13
Rank change year-on-year -9 +10 +1
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 61 30 13
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 19.43% 24.19% 12.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.40% 24.79% 13.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 29 12
10th Percentile £313 £331 £319
25th Percentile £350 £391 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £460 £582
Median % change year-on-year -14.57% -20.96% +25.19%
75th Percentile £486 £504 £582
90th Percentile £593 £565 £625
Cheshire median daily rate £402 £497 £525
% change year-on-year -19.11% -5.33% +19.32%

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 299 121 96
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 95.22% 97.58% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 112 88
10th Percentile £350 £323 £361
25th Percentile £400 £358 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £402 £523
Median % change year-on-year +13.43% -23.17% -4.86%
75th Percentile £587 £492 £600
90th Percentile £653 £537 £628
Cheshire median daily rate £450 £470 £500
% change year-on-year -4.26% -6.00% +3.65%

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 26 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 (22.95%) Confluence
2 1 (1.64%) Apache
2 1 (1.64%) Camunda
2 1 (1.64%) CMS
2 1 (1.64%) JBoss
2 1 (1.64%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.64%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.64%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (6.56%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 27 (44.26%) AWS
2 25 (40.98%) Azure
3 8 (13.11%) GCP
4 6 (9.84%) Apigee
4 6 (9.84%) GitHub
4 6 (9.84%) Kong
5 5 (8.20%) Entra ID
6 4 (6.56%) GitHub Copilot
7 3 (4.92%) OpenShift
8 2 (3.28%) AWS KMS
8 2 (3.28%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (3.28%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.64%) Akamai
9 1 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.64%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (1.64%) Azure API Management
9 1 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.64%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.64%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.84%) Firewall
2 5 (8.20%) Kerberos
3 2 (3.28%) DNS
3 2 (3.28%) HTTP
4 1 (1.64%) Network Security
4 1 (1.64%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.48%) Relational Database
2 4 (6.56%) MySQL
2 4 (6.56%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 22 (36.07%) JIRA
2 13 (21.31%) Git
3 9 (14.75%) GitLab
4 5 (8.20%) JUnit
5 4 (6.56%) Postman
6 3 (4.92%) Jenkins
6 3 (4.92%) Mockito
7 1 (1.64%) Gradle
7 1 (1.64%) IntelliJ
7 1 (1.64%) Maven
7 1 (1.64%) Selenium
7 1 (1.64%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 35 (57.38%) Finance
2 31 (50.82%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (45.90%) Banking
4 24 (39.34%) Social Skills
5 6 (9.84%) Retail Banking
6 5 (8.20%) Public Sector
7 4 (6.56%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (4.92%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (3.28%) Billing
9 2 (3.28%) Retail
10 1 (1.64%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (31.15%) Analyst
1 19 (31.15%) Developer
2 16 (26.23%) Business Analyst
3 10 (16.39%) Java Developer
4 6 (9.84%) Architect
5 5 (8.20%) Technical Analyst
5 5 (8.20%) Technical Business Analyst
6 4 (6.56%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (6.56%) Payments Analyst
6 4 (6.56%) Payments Business Analyst
6 4 (6.56%) React Developer
7 3 (4.92%) Applications Architect
7 3 (4.92%) Risk Analyst
8 2 (3.28%) Banking Analyst
8 2 (3.28%) Banking Business Analyst
8 2 (3.28%) Designer
8 2 (3.28%) Infrastructure Architect
8 2 (3.28%) Salesforce Developer
8 2 (3.28%) Solutions Designer
8 2 (3.28%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (36.07%) REST
2 13 (21.31%) JSON
3 12 (19.67%) SOAP
3 12 (19.67%) Spring
3 12 (19.67%) Spring Boot
3 12 (19.67%) Swagger
4 11 (18.03%) RESTful
5 9 (14.75%) XML
6 8 (13.11%) HTML
6 8 (13.11%) OAuth
6 8 (13.11%) OpenAPI
7 6 (9.84%) CSS
7 6 (9.84%) JMS
7 6 (9.84%) JWT
8 5 (8.20%) HTML5
8 5 (8.20%) LDAP
8 5 (8.20%) React
9 4 (6.56%) CSS3
9 4 (6.56%) Spring MVC
9 4 (6.56%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 12 (19.67%) Product Ownership
2 10 (16.39%) Cloud Native
3 8 (13.11%) Management Information System
4 6 (9.84%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 4 (6.56%) Digital Wallet
6 3 (4.92%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (4.92%) Onboarding
7 2 (3.28%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (3.28%) Data Centre
7 2 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (3.28%) Mobile Banking
7 2 (3.28%) PKI
7 2 (3.28%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.64%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.64%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (1.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.64%) Graphic Design
8 1 (1.64%) Online Banking
8 1 (1.64%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.56%) Linux
1 4 (6.56%) Unix
2 2 (3.28%) AIX
2 2 (3.28%) HPUX
2 2 (3.28%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (3.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (3.28%) Solaris
2 2 (3.28%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (65.57%) Agile
2 25 (40.98%) CI/CD
3 21 (34.43%) Stakeholder Management
4 19 (31.15%) Requirements Gathering
5 16 (26.23%) Integration Patterns
6 15 (24.59%) Change Management
6 15 (24.59%) Test Automation
7 14 (22.95%) Computer Science
7 14 (22.95%) DevOps
7 14 (22.95%) Microservices
8 11 (18.03%) API Design
8 11 (18.03%) Containerisation
9 10 (16.39%) Scrum
9 10 (16.39%) Sprint Planning
9 10 (16.39%) Translating Business Requirements
9 10 (16.39%) User Acceptance Testing
10 9 (14.75%) Performance Optimisation
10 9 (14.75%) Unit Testing
10 9 (14.75%) Validation
10 9 (14.75%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 18 (29.51%) Java
2 11 (18.03%) SQL
3 6 (9.84%) JavaScript
3 6 (9.84%) PowerShell
3 6 (9.84%) Python
3 6 (9.84%) TypeScript
4 3 (4.92%) Apex Code
5 2 (3.28%) Bash
6 1 (1.64%) Bicep
6 1 (1.64%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.64%) SOQL
6 1 (1.64%) SOSL
6 1 (1.64%) VBA
Qualifications
1 16 (26.23%) Degree
2 13 (21.31%) BPSS Clearance
2 13 (21.31%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (11.48%) Security Cleared
4 6 (9.84%) CISSP
5 3 (4.92%) CISA
5 3 (4.92%) CompTIA Security+
5 3 (4.92%) CRISC
6 2 (3.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (3.28%) AWS Certification
6 2 (3.28%) Azure Certification
6 2 (3.28%) CEH
6 2 (3.28%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (3.28%) CISM
6 2 (3.28%) GIAC
6 2 (3.28%) PMI Certification
6 2 (3.28%) PMP
6 2 (3.28%) RHCE
7 1 (1.64%) GSEC
7 1 (1.64%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (16.39%) PSD2
2 6 (9.84%) GRC
2 6 (9.84%) ISO 20022
2 6 (9.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (9.84%) NIST
2 6 (9.84%) QA
2 6 (9.84%) SEPA
3 5 (8.20%) PCI DSS
4 3 (4.92%) ISO 8583
5 2 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 1 (1.64%) PMO
System Software
1 12 (19.67%) Docker
2 5 (8.20%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.64%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.64%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (19.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.28%) Argo
2 2 (3.28%) Grafana
2 2 (3.28%) Terraform
3 1 (1.64%) Ansible
3 1 (1.64%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.64%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 12 (19.67%) Oracle
2 6 (9.84%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.84%) MuleSoft
3 3 (4.92%) Red Hat
3 3 (4.92%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.28%) Google
4 2 (3.28%) HP
4 2 (3.28%) Splunk
5 1 (1.64%) Pure Storage
5 1 (1.64%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.64%) VMware
61 Problem-Solving jobs in Cheshire