Problem-Solving Contracts in Knutsford

Problem Solving
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Knutsford requiring Problem-Solving skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Problem-Solving over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 12 13
Rank change year-on-year +9 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 37 13 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Knutsford 25.34% 12.04% 16.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 25.87% 13.27% 17.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 12 24
10th Percentile £345 £319 £403
25th Percentile £399 £398 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £582 £465
Median % change year-on-year -20.53% +25.19% -26.21%
75th Percentile £520 £582 £595
90th Percentile £632 £625 £680
Cheshire median daily rate £505 £505 £445
% change year-on-year - +13.48% -12.75%

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 143 98 139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 97.95% 90.74% 91.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 90 115
10th Percentile £341 £362 £342
25th Percentile £358 £401 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £506 £550
Median % change year-on-year -20.59% -7.95% +19.05%
75th Percentile £492 £598 £621
90th Percentile £537 £627 £680
Cheshire median daily rate £455 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -9.05% +5.26% +5.56%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

Job postings citing Problem-Solving as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Knutsford.

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Knutsford

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in Knutsford.

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Knutsford

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Knutsford over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Knutsford

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Knutsford by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (10.81%) CICS
2 3 (8.11%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.70%) Appian
3 1 (2.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (10.81%) MS Visio
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.41%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 7 (18.92%) AWS
2 5 (13.51%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (13.51%) Azure
2 5 (13.51%) Serverless
3 4 (10.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (10.81%) Amazon Glacier
3 4 (10.81%) Amazon Kinesis
3 4 (10.81%) Amazon S3
4 3 (8.11%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Purview
4 3 (8.11%) OneDrive
5 2 (5.41%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (5.41%) GCP
5 2 (5.41%) SaaS
6 1 (2.70%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.70%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.81%) DynamoDB
2 2 (5.41%) DB2
2 2 (5.41%) Easytrieve
3 1 (2.70%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.70%) MySQL
3 1 (2.70%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.70%) Power BI
3 1 (2.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (13.51%) Jenkins
2 4 (10.81%) JIRA
3 3 (8.11%) Selenium
4 1 (2.70%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.70%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.70%) Git
General
1 13 (35.14%) Analytical Skills
1 13 (35.14%) Social Skills
2 12 (32.43%) Finance
3 10 (27.03%) Banking
4 5 (13.51%) Public Sector
5 4 (10.81%) Financial Institution
5 4 (10.81%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (8.11%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (5.41%) Billing
7 2 (5.41%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.70%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (29.73%) Architect
2 8 (21.62%) Solutions Architect
3 6 (16.22%) Analyst
4 5 (13.51%) Business Analyst
5 4 (10.81%) Senior
5 4 (10.81%) Senior Analyst
5 4 (10.81%) Senior Business Analyst
5 4 (10.81%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
6 3 (8.11%) Developer
7 2 (5.41%) AWS Architect
7 2 (5.41%) AWS Solution Architect
7 2 (5.41%) Designer
7 2 (5.41%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Java Architect
7 2 (5.41%) Java Solutions Architect
7 2 (5.41%) Mainframe Designer
7 2 (5.41%) Security Architect
7 2 (5.41%) Security Solutions Architect
7 2 (5.41%) Tester
8 1 (2.70%) Operational Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (16.22%) RESTful
2 4 (10.81%) ActiveMQ
2 4 (10.81%) Kafka
2 4 (10.81%) REST
3 2 (5.41%) HTML
3 2 (5.41%) Web Services
4 1 (2.70%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.70%) CSS
4 1 (2.70%) CSS3
4 1 (2.70%) DOM
4 1 (2.70%) HTML5
4 1 (2.70%) jQuery
4 1 (2.70%) JSON
4 1 (2.70%) Node.js
4 1 (2.70%) RAML
4 1 (2.70%) React
4 1 (2.70%) SailPoint
4 1 (2.70%) Spring
4 1 (2.70%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.70%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.51%) CMDB
2 4 (10.81%) Mainframe
2 4 (10.81%) Public Cloud
3 3 (8.11%) Management Information System
3 3 (8.11%) Security Posture
3 3 (8.11%) VSAM
4 2 (5.41%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.70%) Client/Server
5 1 (2.70%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.70%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.11%) Linux
2 2 (5.41%) Windows
2 2 (5.41%) zOS
3 1 (2.70%) Android
3 1 (2.70%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (43.24%) Agile
2 10 (27.03%) Risk Management
2 10 (27.03%) SDLC
3 9 (24.32%) Decision-Making
3 9 (24.32%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (21.62%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (18.92%) ITSM
5 7 (18.92%) Service Delivery
6 6 (16.22%) CI/CD
6 6 (16.22%) Microservices
6 6 (16.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 6 (16.22%) Test Automation
6 6 (16.22%) User Acceptance Testing
7 5 (13.51%) Business Analysis
7 5 (13.51%) Containerisation
7 5 (13.51%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (13.51%) Event-Driven
7 5 (13.51%) Focus Group
7 5 (13.51%) Service Catalogue
7 5 (13.51%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 8 (21.62%) Java
2 3 (8.11%) COBOL
2 3 (8.11%) JCL
2 3 (8.11%) PowerShell
3 2 (5.41%) SQL
4 1 (2.70%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.70%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (24.32%) Degree
2 5 (13.51%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.70%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.81%) QA
2 2 (5.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 2 (5.41%) GDPR
2 2 (5.41%) PMO
3 1 (2.70%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (13.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.41%) HP ALM
2 1 (2.70%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.70%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (21.62%) ServiceNow
2 5 (13.51%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.41%) HP
3 2 (5.41%) Splunk
4 1 (2.70%) Oracle
4 1 (2.70%) Ping Identity