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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 3 18
Rank change year-on-year -12 +15 -5
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 35 66 18
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 14.29% 25.10% 10.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.15% 26.09% 11.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 65 16
10th Percentile £300 £313 £338
25th Percentile £357 £368 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £456 £523
Median % change year-on-year -6.80% -12.73% +5.56%
75th Percentile £482 £506 £565
90th Percentile £575 £580 £576
Cheshire median daily rate £450 £489 £520
% change year-on-year -7.98% -5.96% +15.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £14.90 - -
Cheshire median hourly rate £32.23 £32.00 £14.00
% change year-on-year +0.70% +128.57% -44.72%

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 231 253 158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 94.29% 96.20% 92.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 239 136
10th Percentile £364 £312 £327
25th Percentile £416 £358 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £405 £450
Median % change year-on-year +18.77% -10.05% -20.31%
75th Percentile £610 £491 £546
90th Percentile £657 £537 £616
Cheshire median daily rate £485 £445 £475
% change year-on-year +8.99% -6.32% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £14.90 - -
Cheshire median hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +9.38% -8.57% +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 28 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 9 (25.71%) Confluence
2 2 (5.71%) Camunda
3 1 (2.86%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.86%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 12 (34.29%) Azure
2 11 (31.43%) AWS
3 6 (17.14%) GCP
4 2 (5.71%) AWS KMS
4 2 (5.71%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (5.71%) Entra ID
4 2 (5.71%) GitHub
4 2 (5.71%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.86%) Akamai
5 1 (2.86%) Apigee
5 1 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.86%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (2.86%) Azure API Management
5 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.86%) Kong
5 1 (2.86%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.86%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.71%) DNS
2 1 (2.86%) HTTP
2 1 (2.86%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (2.86%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.71%) Relational Database
1 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.86%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 10 (28.57%) JIRA
2 4 (11.43%) GitLab
3 3 (8.57%) Git
3 3 (8.57%) Jenkins
4 2 (5.71%) Postman
5 1 (2.86%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.86%) Claude Code
5 1 (2.86%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.86%) IntelliJ
5 1 (2.86%) JUnit
5 1 (2.86%) Selenium
5 1 (2.86%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 23 (65.71%) Analytical Skills
2 21 (60.00%) Finance
3 15 (42.86%) Social Skills
4 12 (34.29%) Banking
5 2 (5.71%) Billing
6 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.86%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.86%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (20.00%) Analyst
2 5 (14.29%) Developer
3 3 (8.57%) Business Analyst
3 3 (8.57%) Consultant
3 3 (8.57%) Risk Analyst
4 2 (5.71%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (5.71%) Designer
4 2 (5.71%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (5.71%) Java Developer
4 2 (5.71%) Lead
4 2 (5.71%) Security Consultant
4 2 (5.71%) Server Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Solutions Designer
4 2 (5.71%) Technical Delivery Manager
4 2 (5.71%) Technical Manager
4 2 (5.71%) Unix Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) Agile Coach
5 1 (2.86%) Lead Consultant
5 1 (2.86%) Payments Business Analyst
5 1 (2.86%) Risk Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (20.00%) REST
2 5 (14.29%) JSON
2 5 (14.29%) OAuth
3 3 (8.57%) OpenID
3 3 (8.57%) Spring
3 3 (8.57%) XML
4 2 (5.71%) HTML
4 2 (5.71%) HTML5
4 2 (5.71%) Kafka
4 2 (5.71%) React
4 2 (5.71%) SailPoint
4 2 (5.71%) SAML
4 2 (5.71%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.86%) CSS
5 1 (2.86%) Jest
5 1 (2.86%) MobX
5 1 (2.86%) Playwright
5 1 (2.86%) Redux
5 1 (2.86%) SOAP
5 1 (2.86%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) Analytical Mindset
1 4 (11.43%) Cyber Threat
1 4 (11.43%) Management Information System
1 4 (11.43%) Product Ownership
2 3 (8.57%) Virtual Team
3 2 (5.71%) Algorithms
3 2 (5.71%) Client/Server
3 2 (5.71%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.71%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.71%) Data Structures
3 2 (5.71%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (5.71%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (5.71%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.71%) PKI
3 2 (5.71%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.86%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (2.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.86%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 5 (14.29%) Linux
1 5 (14.29%) Windows
2 2 (5.71%) AIX
2 2 (5.71%) HPUX
2 2 (5.71%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (5.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (5.71%) Solaris
2 2 (5.71%) SUSE
2 2 (5.71%) Unix
2 2 (5.71%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (37.14%) Stakeholder Management
2 12 (34.29%) Agile
3 10 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (25.71%) CI/CD
4 9 (25.71%) Cybersecurity
5 8 (22.86%) DevOps
6 7 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
7 6 (17.14%) Change Management
7 6 (17.14%) Runbook
8 5 (14.29%) ITIL
8 5 (14.29%) Risk Management
8 5 (14.29%) Scrum
8 5 (14.29%) Test Automation
8 5 (14.29%) User Stories
8 5 (14.29%) Workflow
9 4 (11.43%) Mentoring
9 4 (11.43%) Remediation Plan
9 4 (11.43%) SDLC
9 4 (11.43%) SIEM
9 4 (11.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 5 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 4 (11.43%) Java
2 4 (11.43%) Python
3 3 (8.57%) Bash
3 3 (8.57%) SQL
4 2 (5.71%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.71%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.86%) Bicep
5 1 (2.86%) C#
5 1 (2.86%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (22.86%) CISSP
1 8 (22.86%) Degree
2 5 (14.29%) CompTIA Security+
3 4 (11.43%) CEH
3 4 (11.43%) CISM
4 3 (8.57%) CISA
4 3 (8.57%) CRISC
5 2 (5.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (5.71%) AWS Certification
5 2 (5.71%) Azure Certification
5 2 (5.71%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (5.71%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (5.71%) GIAC
5 2 (5.71%) OSCP
5 2 (5.71%) PMI Certification
5 2 (5.71%) PMP
5 2 (5.71%) RHCE
5 2 (5.71%) Security Cleared
6 1 (2.86%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (22.86%) NIST
2 6 (17.14%) GRC
2 6 (17.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (5.71%) ISO/IEC 27005
3 2 (5.71%) PCI DSS
3 2 (5.71%) PSD2
3 2 (5.71%) SLA
4 1 (2.86%) ISO 20022
4 1 (2.86%) PMO
4 1 (2.86%) QA
4 1 (2.86%) SEPA
System Software
1 3 (8.57%) Docker
2 2 (5.71%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.86%) VMware NSX
3 1 (2.86%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (11.43%) Ansible
2 3 (8.57%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.71%) Argo
3 2 (5.71%) Grafana
3 2 (5.71%) Terraform
3 2 (5.71%) WMI
4 1 (2.86%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.86%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (14.29%) ServiceNow
2 4 (11.43%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.57%) Oracle
3 3 (8.57%) Red Hat
4 2 (5.71%) Atlassian
4 2 (5.71%) HP
4 2 (5.71%) Okta
4 2 (5.71%) Splunk
5 1 (2.86%) Google
5 1 (2.86%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.86%) Pure Storage
5 1 (2.86%) Snow
5 1 (2.86%) Veracode
5 1 (2.86%) VMware