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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 20 16
Rank change year-on-year +16 -4 -11
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 61 15 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Knutsford 24.70% 8.43% 10.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 25.74% 9.09% 11.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 13 11
10th Percentile £331 £322 £400
25th Percentile £384 £393 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £533 £586
Median % change year-on-year -12.38% -9.04% -6.98%
75th Percentile £512 £567 £620
90th Percentile £627 £576 £680
Cheshire median daily rate £492 £510 £480
% change year-on-year -3.53% +6.25% -16.52%

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 237 165 107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 95.95% 92.70% 89.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 143 89
10th Percentile £317 £349 £450
25th Percentile £358 £391 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £475 £565
Median % change year-on-year -15.37% -15.93% +18.95%
75th Percentile £492 £580 £611
90th Percentile £537 £629 £680
Cheshire median daily rate £445 £476 £522
% change year-on-year -6.56% -8.68% +15.89%

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 3 July 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 5 (8.20%) JBoss
1 5 (8.20%) Tomcat
2 4 (6.56%) CICS
3 3 (4.92%) Confluence
3 3 (4.92%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.64%) Appian
Applications
1 6 (9.84%) MS Visio
2 4 (6.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.64%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 16 (26.23%) AWS
2 5 (8.20%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (8.20%) Azure
2 5 (8.20%) GitHub
2 5 (8.20%) OpenShift
2 5 (8.20%) Serverless
3 4 (6.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (6.56%) Amazon Glacier
3 4 (6.56%) Amazon Kinesis
3 4 (6.56%) Amazon S3
4 3 (4.92%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (4.92%) Microsoft Purview
4 3 (4.92%) OneDrive
5 2 (3.28%) BrowserStack
5 2 (3.28%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (3.28%) GCP
5 2 (3.28%) SaaS
6 1 (1.64%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.64%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (1.64%) npm
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.56%) DynamoDB
2 2 (3.28%) DB2
2 2 (3.28%) Easytrieve
3 1 (1.64%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.64%) MySQL
3 1 (1.64%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.64%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (24.59%) Jenkins
2 14 (22.95%) JIRA
3 11 (18.03%) Git
4 10 (16.39%) JUnit
5 6 (9.84%) Cucumber
6 5 (8.20%) GitLab
6 5 (8.20%) Gradle
6 5 (8.20%) Maven
6 5 (8.20%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (4.92%) Selenium
8 1 (1.64%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.64%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.64%) Grunt
8 1 (1.64%) gulp
8 1 (1.64%) SonarQube
General
1 34 (55.74%) Analytical Skills
2 25 (40.98%) Social Skills
3 12 (19.67%) Banking
4 11 (18.03%) Finance
5 4 (6.56%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (4.92%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (4.92%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.28%) Billing
8 1 (1.64%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (31.15%) Architect
2 17 (27.87%) Developer
3 11 (18.03%) Java Developer
4 8 (13.11%) Solutions Architect
5 7 (11.48%) Business Analyst
6 6 (9.84%) Analyst
7 5 (8.20%) AWS Developer
7 5 (8.20%) Senior
7 5 (8.20%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
8 4 (6.56%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (6.56%) Security Architect
8 4 (6.56%) Test Architect
9 3 (4.92%) Senior Analyst
9 3 (4.92%) Senior Business Analyst
10 2 (3.28%) Designer
10 2 (3.28%) Enterprise Architect
10 2 (3.28%) Incident Manager
10 2 (3.28%) Java Architect
10 2 (3.28%) Senior Security Architect
10 2 (3.28%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (31.15%) REST
2 12 (19.67%) RESTful
3 11 (18.03%) Spring
3 11 (18.03%) Spring Boot
4 9 (14.75%) Kafka
5 7 (11.48%) React
5 7 (11.48%) SOAP
6 5 (8.20%) HTML
7 4 (6.56%) ActiveMQ
7 4 (6.56%) CSS
7 4 (6.56%) JSON
7 4 (6.56%) Spring Cloud
7 4 (6.56%) Web Services
8 3 (4.92%) AngularJS
9 2 (3.28%) CSS3
9 2 (3.28%) HTML5
9 2 (3.28%) jQuery
9 2 (3.28%) LDAP
9 2 (3.28%) Node.js
10 1 (1.64%) DOM
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.48%) Management Information System
1 7 (11.48%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.56%) CMDB
2 4 (6.56%) Mainframe
2 4 (6.56%) Public Cloud
2 4 (6.56%) Virtual Team
3 3 (4.92%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.92%) VSAM
4 2 (3.28%) Cyberattack
4 2 (3.28%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.28%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.64%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.64%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.64%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (13.11%) Linux
2 5 (8.20%) Android
2 5 (8.20%) Apple iOS
2 5 (8.20%) Unix
3 2 (3.28%) Windows
3 2 (3.28%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (40.98%) Agile
2 16 (26.23%) Microservices
3 15 (24.59%) CI/CD
4 14 (22.95%) SDLC
4 14 (22.95%) Test Automation
5 11 (18.03%) Scrum
6 10 (16.39%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (16.39%) ITSM
6 10 (16.39%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (16.39%) User Acceptance Testing
7 9 (14.75%) Artificial Intelligence
7 9 (14.75%) Decision-Making
7 9 (14.75%) Migration
7 9 (14.75%) Performance Optimisation
7 9 (14.75%) Service Management
8 7 (11.48%) End-to-End Testing
8 7 (11.48%) Requirements Gathering
8 7 (11.48%) Risk Management
8 7 (11.48%) Service Catalogue
8 7 (11.48%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 22 (36.07%) Java
2 8 (13.11%) SQL
3 5 (8.20%) Python
3 5 (8.20%) Shell Script
4 4 (6.56%) JavaScript
5 3 (4.92%) COBOL
5 3 (4.92%) JCL
5 3 (4.92%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (21.31%) Degree
2 4 (6.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.92%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (4.92%) Security Cleared
4 2 (3.28%) CBAP
4 2 (3.28%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (1.64%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.64%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (14.75%) QA
2 4 (6.56%) SEPA
3 3 (4.92%) GDPR
4 2 (3.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (3.28%) COBIT
5 1 (1.64%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.64%) PMO
5 1 (1.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (8.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.28%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.64%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.64%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 11 (18.03%) ServiceNow
2 7 (11.48%) Microsoft
3 6 (9.84%) Oracle
4 2 (3.28%) Splunk
5 1 (1.64%) Perforce