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 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 1 9
Rank change year-on-year -10 +8 +1
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 59 37 20
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 18.21% 31.62% 15.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.91% 32.74% 16.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 35 18
10th Percentile £313 £332 £368
25th Percentile £350 £380 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £489 £525
Median % change year-on-year -19.63% -6.86% +6.49%
75th Percentile £456 £561 £582
90th Percentile £553 £633 £597
Cheshire median daily rate £400 £497 £518
% change year-on-year -19.52% -3.96% +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 312 113 118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 96.30% 96.58% 93.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 291 103 100
10th Percentile £343 £318 £362
25th Percentile £393 £356 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £381 £500
Median % change year-on-year +19.42% -23.80% -9.09%
75th Percentile £581 £499 £582
90th Percentile £653 £600 £625
Cheshire median daily rate £450 £471 £500
% change year-on-year -4.51% -5.75% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £23.50 £32.50 £21.84
% change year-on-year -27.69% +48.81% -5.66%

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 21 March 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 (23.73%) Confluence
2 1 (1.69%) Apache
2 1 (1.69%) CMS
2 1 (1.69%) JBoss
2 1 (1.69%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.69%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.69%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (6.78%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 25 (42.37%) Azure
2 23 (38.98%) AWS
3 6 (10.17%) GCP
3 6 (10.17%) GitHub
4 5 (8.47%) Apigee
4 5 (8.47%) Entra ID
4 5 (8.47%) Kong
5 4 (6.78%) GitHub Copilot
5 4 (6.78%) Power Platform
6 3 (5.08%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (3.39%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.69%) Akamai
8 1 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.69%) Datadog
8 1 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.17%) Firewall
2 5 (8.47%) Kerberos
3 2 (3.39%) DNS
3 2 (3.39%) HTTP
4 1 (1.69%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.17%) Relational Database
2 4 (6.78%) MySQL
2 4 (6.78%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 22 (37.29%) JIRA
2 13 (22.03%) Git
3 9 (15.25%) GitLab
4 4 (6.78%) Jenkins
4 4 (6.78%) JUnit
4 4 (6.78%) Postman
5 3 (5.08%) Mockito
6 1 (1.69%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.69%) Gradle
6 1 (1.69%) Maven
6 1 (1.69%) Selenium
6 1 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 34 (57.63%) Finance
2 30 (50.85%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (45.76%) Banking
4 21 (35.59%) Social Skills
5 6 (10.17%) Retail Banking
6 5 (8.47%) Public Sector
7 4 (6.78%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (5.08%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (3.39%) Retail
10 1 (1.69%) Billing
10 1 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (32.20%) Developer
2 17 (28.81%) Analyst
3 15 (25.42%) Business Analyst
4 9 (15.25%) Java Developer
5 5 (8.47%) Architect
5 5 (8.47%) Technical Analyst
5 5 (8.47%) Technical Business Analyst
6 4 (6.78%) Payments Analyst
6 4 (6.78%) Payments Business Analyst
6 4 (6.78%) React Developer
7 3 (5.08%) Applications Architect
7 3 (5.08%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (5.08%) Programme Manager
7 3 (5.08%) Technical Manager
7 3 (5.08%) Technical Programme Manager
8 2 (3.39%) Banking Analyst
8 2 (3.39%) Banking Business Analyst
8 2 (3.39%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.39%) Infrastructure Architect
8 2 (3.39%) Risk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (37.29%) REST
2 13 (22.03%) JSON
3 12 (20.34%) SOAP
3 12 (20.34%) Spring
3 12 (20.34%) Spring Boot
3 12 (20.34%) Swagger
4 11 (18.64%) RESTful
5 9 (15.25%) XML
6 8 (13.56%) OpenAPI
7 7 (11.86%) HTML
7 7 (11.86%) JMS
8 6 (10.17%) CSS
9 5 (8.47%) JWT
9 5 (8.47%) LDAP
9 5 (8.47%) OAuth
10 4 (6.78%) Hibernate
10 4 (6.78%) HTML5
10 4 (6.78%) MobX
10 4 (6.78%) Spring MVC
10 4 (6.78%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.34%) Product Ownership
2 10 (16.95%) Cloud Native
3 7 (11.86%) Management Information System
3 7 (11.86%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 4 (6.78%) Digital Wallet
5 3 (5.08%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (5.08%) Onboarding
6 2 (3.39%) Mobile Banking
7 1 (1.69%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (1.69%) Graphic Design
7 1 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.69%) Online Banking
7 1 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.69%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.39%) Linux
1 2 (3.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (76.27%) Agile
2 27 (45.76%) CI/CD
3 23 (38.98%) Stakeholder Management
4 19 (32.20%) Requirements Gathering
5 16 (27.12%) DevOps
5 16 (27.12%) Integration Patterns
6 15 (25.42%) Change Management
6 15 (25.42%) Test Automation
7 14 (23.73%) Computer Science
8 13 (22.03%) Microservices
9 11 (18.64%) API Design
9 11 (18.64%) Containerisation
9 11 (18.64%) Scrum
9 11 (18.64%) Sprint Planning
9 11 (18.64%) User Acceptance Testing
10 10 (16.95%) Translating Business Requirements
11 9 (15.25%) Performance Optimisation
11 9 (15.25%) Validation
11 9 (15.25%) Workshop Facilitation
12 8 (13.56%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 18 (30.51%) Java
2 12 (20.34%) SQL
3 7 (11.86%) PowerShell
3 7 (11.86%) Python
4 6 (10.17%) JavaScript
5 5 (8.47%) TypeScript
6 3 (5.08%) Apex Code
6 3 (5.08%) Bash
7 1 (1.69%) Bicep
7 1 (1.69%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.69%) SOQL
7 1 (1.69%) SOSL
7 1 (1.69%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (25.42%) Degree
2 13 (22.03%) BPSS Clearance
2 13 (22.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (8.47%) Security Cleared
4 3 (5.08%) PMI Certification
4 3 (5.08%) PMP
5 2 (3.39%) CISA
5 2 (3.39%) CRISC
6 1 (1.69%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.69%) CEH
6 1 (1.69%) CISM
6 1 (1.69%) CISSP
6 1 (1.69%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.69%) GIAC
6 1 (1.69%) GSEC
6 1 (1.69%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 1 (1.69%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 1 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.69%) OCP
6 1 (1.69%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (18.64%) PSD2
2 8 (13.56%) QA
3 7 (11.86%) ISO 20022
3 7 (11.86%) SEPA
4 4 (6.78%) PCI DSS
5 3 (5.08%) GRC
5 3 (5.08%) ISO 8583
5 3 (5.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (5.08%) NIST
6 1 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 1 (1.69%) PMO
System Software
1 11 (18.64%) Docker
2 5 (8.47%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.69%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (20.34%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.08%) Grafana
2 3 (5.08%) Terraform
3 2 (3.39%) Ansible
3 2 (3.39%) Argo
3 2 (3.39%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.69%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 11 (18.64%) Oracle
2 9 (15.25%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.47%) MuleSoft
4 4 (6.78%) ServiceNow
5 3 (5.08%) Salesforce
5 3 (5.08%) Snow
5 3 (5.08%) Workday
6 2 (3.39%) Google
6 2 (3.39%) Splunk
7 1 (1.69%) Pure Storage
7 1 (1.69%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.69%) VMware