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 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 8 12
Rank change year-on-year -1 +4 -9
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 65 30 14
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 22.81% 17.54% 17.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.64% 18.40% 18.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 24 9
10th Percentile £286 £356 -
25th Percentile £358 £393 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £523 £495
Median % change year-on-year -16.27% +5.56% -21.12%
75th Percentile £500 £565 £500
90th Percentile £539 £576 £547
Cheshire median daily rate £450 £495 £495
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -9.84%

All Process and 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 275 163 76
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 96.49% 95.32% 97.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 134 59
10th Percentile £312 £326 £444
25th Percentile £358 £360 £492
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £424 £560
Median % change year-on-year -0.24% -24.38% +14.29%
75th Percentile £489 £537 £593
90th Percentile £537 £626 £606
Cheshire median daily rate £445 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -6.32% -5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £18.87 £35.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -46.09% +34.62% +61.79%

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 15 October 2025.

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 5 (7.69%) JBoss
1 5 (7.69%) Tomcat
2 4 (6.15%) Confluence
3 3 (4.62%) CICS
4 1 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.54%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (9.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (4.62%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 23 (35.38%) AWS
2 10 (15.38%) Azure
3 5 (7.69%) GitHub
3 5 (7.69%) OpenShift
4 3 (4.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (4.62%) Amazon Glacier
4 3 (4.62%) Amazon Kinesis
4 3 (4.62%) Amazon S3
4 3 (4.62%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (4.62%) GCP
4 3 (4.62%) Serverless
5 2 (3.08%) BrowserStack
5 2 (3.08%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (3.08%) npm
6 1 (1.54%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.54%) AWS Data Pipeline
6 1 (1.54%) Datadog
6 1 (1.54%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.54%) OneDrive
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.62%) DynamoDB
2 2 (3.08%) Easytrieve
3 1 (1.54%) Big Data
3 1 (1.54%) DB2
3 1 (1.54%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 24 (36.92%) JIRA
2 16 (24.62%) Git
3 14 (21.54%) Jenkins
4 10 (15.38%) JUnit
5 7 (10.77%) GitLab
6 5 (7.69%) Cucumber
6 5 (7.69%) Gradle
6 5 (7.69%) Maven
6 5 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (4.62%) TestRail
8 2 (3.08%) Cypress.io
8 2 (3.08%) Grunt
8 2 (3.08%) gulp
8 2 (3.08%) Selenium
8 2 (3.08%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.54%) CircleCI
9 1 (1.54%) MLflow
General
1 39 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 26 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 16 (24.62%) Banking
4 14 (21.54%) Finance
5 6 (9.23%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.54%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 22 (33.85%) Developer
2 14 (21.54%) Architect
3 13 (20.00%) Java Developer
4 8 (12.31%) Business Analyst
5 7 (10.77%) Analyst
6 5 (7.69%) AWS Developer
6 5 (7.69%) Senior
6 5 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (6.15%) Governance Manager
7 4 (6.15%) Security Architect
7 4 (6.15%) Test Architect
7 4 (6.15%) Tester
8 3 (4.62%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (4.62%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
8 3 (4.62%) UAT Tester
9 2 (3.08%) Automation Test Lead
9 2 (3.08%) AWS Solution Architect
9 2 (3.08%) Lead
9 2 (3.08%) Mainframe Designer
9 2 (3.08%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (36.92%) REST
2 15 (23.08%) Spring
2 15 (23.08%) Spring Boot
3 10 (15.38%) Kafka
4 9 (13.85%) RESTful
5 7 (10.77%) React
5 7 (10.77%) SOAP
6 5 (7.69%) HTML
6 5 (7.69%) JMS
7 4 (6.15%) CSS
7 4 (6.15%) JSON
7 4 (6.15%) Spring Cloud
7 4 (6.15%) Web Services
8 3 (4.62%) ActiveMQ
9 2 (3.08%) Ajax
9 2 (3.08%) CSS3
9 2 (3.08%) HTML5
9 2 (3.08%) jQuery
9 2 (3.08%) LDAP
9 2 (3.08%) XHR
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.31%) Product Ownership
2 6 (9.23%) Cloud Native
2 6 (9.23%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 4 (6.15%) Management Information System
3 4 (6.15%) Public Cloud
4 3 (4.62%) Mainframe
4 3 (4.62%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.62%) Virtual Team
4 3 (4.62%) VSAM
5 2 (3.08%) Cyberattack
5 2 (3.08%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.54%) CMDB
6 1 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.69%) Linux
1 5 (7.69%) Unix
2 4 (6.15%) Android
2 4 (6.15%) Apple iOS
3 2 (3.08%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (38.46%) Agile
2 20 (30.77%) CI/CD
3 19 (29.23%) SDLC
4 16 (24.62%) Test Automation
5 15 (23.08%) Microservices
5 15 (23.08%) User Acceptance Testing
6 13 (20.00%) AI
7 12 (18.46%) Stakeholder Management
8 11 (16.92%) Strategic Thinking
9 10 (15.38%) Requirements Gathering
10 9 (13.85%) Containerisation
10 9 (13.85%) DevOps
10 9 (13.85%) Migration
10 9 (13.85%) Scrum
11 8 (12.31%) Business Strategy
11 8 (12.31%) Performance Optimisation
11 8 (12.31%) Unit Testing
12 7 (10.77%) Acceptance Criteria
12 7 (10.77%) Sprint Planning
12 7 (10.77%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 23 (35.38%) Java
2 12 (18.46%) SQL
3 7 (10.77%) Python
4 5 (7.69%) Shell Script
5 4 (6.15%) JavaScript
6 3 (4.62%) COBOL
6 3 (4.62%) JCL
6 3 (4.62%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.08%) Bash
Qualifications
1 10 (15.38%) Degree
2 5 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (6.15%) CBAP
4 3 (4.62%) Security Cleared
5 2 (3.08%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.08%) BC Cleared
5 2 (3.08%) CSPO
5 2 (3.08%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.54%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.54%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (21.54%) QA
2 10 (15.38%) SEPA
3 7 (10.77%) ISO 20022
4 5 (7.69%) GDPR
4 5 (7.69%) PSD2
5 2 (3.08%) Accessibility
5 2 (3.08%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (3.08%) COBIT
5 2 (3.08%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (12.31%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (9.23%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.62%) HP ALM
3 2 (3.08%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.54%) Ansible
4 1 (1.54%) Grafana
4 1 (1.54%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.54%) QRadar
4 1 (1.54%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (15.38%) Oracle
2 8 (12.31%) Microsoft
3 7 (10.77%) ServiceNow
4 3 (4.62%) HP
5 2 (3.08%) IBM
5 2 (3.08%) IBM Sterling
5 2 (3.08%) Perforce
6 1 (1.54%) ArcSight
6 1 (1.54%) Splunk