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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 6 12
Rank change year-on-year -9 +6 -4
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 25 66 26
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 15.63% 23.16% 15.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.73% 24.00% 16.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 65 21
10th Percentile £288 £269 £365
25th Percentile £402 £358 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £438 £533
Median % change year-on-year +1.31% -17.92% +7.14%
75th Percentile £467 £500 £567
90th Percentile £505 £539 £576
Cheshire median daily rate £443 £463 £519
% change year-on-year -4.16% -10.84% +4.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £14.90 - -
Cheshire median hourly rate £18.49 £30.50 -
% change year-on-year -39.38% - -

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 141 275 162
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 88.13% 96.49% 94.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 263 135
10th Percentile £362 £310 £349
25th Percentile £409 £358 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £423 £445
Median % change year-on-year +6.39% -5.06% -24.06%
75th Percentile £515 £488 £550
90th Percentile £605 £537 £639
Cheshire median daily rate £475 £447 £488
% change year-on-year +6.38% -8.41% -1.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £82.50
Median hourly rate £14.90 - £85.00
75th Percentile - - £87.50
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median hourly rate £35.82 £17.13 £35.00
% change year-on-year +109.17% -51.07% +27.27%

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 September 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 8 (32.00%) Confluence
2 1 (4.00%) Camunda
Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (28.00%) AWS
2 5 (20.00%) Azure
3 3 (12.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (12.00%) GCP
4 2 (8.00%) AWS KMS
4 2 (8.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (8.00%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (4.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (28.00%) JIRA
2 2 (8.00%) GitLab
3 1 (4.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (4.00%) Claude Code
3 1 (4.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (4.00%) Git
3 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.00%) Postman
3 1 (4.00%) Selenium
3 1 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 18 (72.00%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (48.00%) Finance
3 10 (40.00%) Social Skills
4 7 (28.00%) Banking
5 1 (4.00%) Billing
5 1 (4.00%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (16.00%) Delivery Manager
1 4 (16.00%) Technical Delivery Manager
1 4 (16.00%) Technical Manager
2 3 (12.00%) Analyst
2 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Business Analyst
3 2 (8.00%) Consultant
3 2 (8.00%) Designer
3 2 (8.00%) Developer
3 2 (8.00%) Security Consultant
3 2 (8.00%) Server Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Solutions Designer
3 2 (8.00%) Unix Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Automation Tester
4 1 (4.00%) Help Desk Technician
4 1 (4.00%) IT Technician
4 1 (4.00%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Security Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) Security Designer
4 1 (4.00%) Senior Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) OAuth
1 4 (16.00%) REST
2 3 (12.00%) JSON
2 3 (12.00%) Terraform
3 2 (8.00%) OpenID
3 2 (8.00%) SailPoint
3 2 (8.00%) SAML
3 2 (8.00%) XML
4 1 (4.00%) Kafka
4 1 (4.00%) Playwright
4 1 (4.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 4 (16.00%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (16.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (12.00%) Client/Server
2 3 (12.00%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (12.00%) Virtual Team
3 2 (8.00%) Algorithms
3 2 (8.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (8.00%) Data Structures
3 2 (8.00%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (8.00%) PKI
3 2 (8.00%) Security Posture
4 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (4.00%) Cyberattack
4 1 (4.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.00%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.00%) Linux
1 5 (20.00%) Windows
2 2 (8.00%) AIX
2 2 (8.00%) HPUX
2 2 (8.00%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (8.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (8.00%) Solaris
2 2 (8.00%) SUSE
2 2 (8.00%) Unix
2 2 (8.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (48.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 11 (44.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (32.00%) Agile
4 7 (28.00%) CI/CD
4 7 (28.00%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (28.00%) DevOps
4 7 (28.00%) Runbook
5 5 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
5 5 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 5 (20.00%) Scrum
5 5 (20.00%) SDLC
5 5 (20.00%) User Stories
5 5 (20.00%) Workflow
6 4 (16.00%) Change Management
6 4 (16.00%) Cryptography
6 4 (16.00%) ITIL
6 4 (16.00%) Product Management
6 4 (16.00%) Programme Management
6 4 (16.00%) Project Management
6 4 (16.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (16.00%) SQL
2 2 (8.00%) Java
2 2 (8.00%) Python
3 1 (4.00%) Bash
3 1 (4.00%) C#
3 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) CISSP
2 4 (16.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 4 (16.00%) Degree
3 3 (12.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (12.00%) CEH
4 2 (8.00%) CISM
4 2 (8.00%) OSCP
4 2 (8.00%) RHCE
5 1 (4.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (4.00%) AWS Certification
5 1 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (4.00%) SAFe Agilist
5 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.00%) NIST
2 2 (8.00%) GRC
2 2 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (8.00%) SLA
3 1 (4.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (8.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Ansible
2 2 (8.00%) WMI
Vendors
1 4 (16.00%) Atlassian
1 4 (16.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (8.00%) HP
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.00%) Okta
2 2 (8.00%) Oracle
2 2 (8.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.00%) Google
3 1 (4.00%) Snow
3 1 (4.00%) Veracode