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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 4 19
Rank change year-on-year -7 +15 -7
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 54 45 7
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 19.29% 25.28% 6.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.53% 25.71% 6.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 44 7
10th Percentile £313 £341 £307
25th Percentile £350 £399 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £394 £479 £405
Median % change year-on-year -17.80% +18.27% -8.99%
75th Percentile £492 £520 £606
90th Percentile £613 £603 £633
Cheshire median daily rate £402 £505 £463
% change year-on-year -20.40% +9.19% +2.78%

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 263 175 103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 93.93% 98.31% 91.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 164 95
10th Percentile £350 £338 £353
25th Percentile £402 £358 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £402 £489
Median % change year-on-year +14.30% -17.79% -11.09%
75th Percentile £588 £492 £606
90th Percentile £653 £537 £669
Cheshire median daily rate £455 £447 £492
% change year-on-year +1.79% -9.10% -0.41%

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 21 May 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 14 (25.93%) Confluence
2 1 (1.85%) Camunda
2 1 (1.85%) JBoss
2 1 (1.85%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.85%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.85%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (7.41%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 22 (40.74%) AWS
1 22 (40.74%) Azure
2 7 (12.96%) GCP
3 5 (9.26%) Entra ID
4 4 (7.41%) Apigee
4 4 (7.41%) Kong
5 3 (5.56%) GitHub
5 3 (5.56%) OpenShift
6 2 (3.70%) AWS KMS
6 2 (3.70%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (3.70%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.85%) Akamai
7 1 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.85%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (1.85%) Azure API Management
7 1 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.85%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (1.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.26%) Firewall
1 5 (9.26%) Kerberos
2 2 (3.70%) DNS
3 1 (1.85%) HTTP
3 1 (1.85%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.41%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.85%) MySQL
2 1 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (37.04%) JIRA
2 7 (12.96%) Git
3 6 (11.11%) GitLab
4 5 (9.26%) JUnit
5 4 (7.41%) Postman
6 3 (5.56%) Jenkins
6 3 (5.56%) Mockito
7 1 (1.85%) Gradle
7 1 (1.85%) IntelliJ
7 1 (1.85%) Maven
7 1 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 31 (57.41%) Analytical Skills
2 30 (55.56%) Finance
3 25 (46.30%) Banking
4 23 (42.59%) Social Skills
5 6 (11.11%) Retail Banking
6 4 (7.41%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.70%) Billing
7 2 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.70%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.85%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (31.48%) Analyst
2 15 (27.78%) Developer
3 14 (25.93%) Business Analyst
4 7 (12.96%) Java Developer
5 5 (9.26%) Architect
5 5 (9.26%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (7.41%) Payments Analyst
6 4 (7.41%) Payments Business Analyst
6 4 (7.41%) React Developer
7 3 (5.56%) Risk Analyst
7 3 (5.56%) Technical Analyst
7 3 (5.56%) Technical Business Analyst
8 2 (3.70%) Applications Architect
8 2 (3.70%) Banking Analyst
8 2 (3.70%) Banking Business Analyst
8 2 (3.70%) Designer
8 2 (3.70%) Infrastructure Architect
8 2 (3.70%) Salesforce Developer
8 2 (3.70%) Solutions Designer
8 2 (3.70%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (35.19%) REST
2 11 (20.37%) JSON
3 10 (18.52%) SOAP
3 10 (18.52%) Swagger
4 8 (14.81%) RESTful
4 8 (14.81%) Spring
5 7 (12.96%) HTML
5 7 (12.96%) Spring Boot
5 7 (12.96%) XML
6 6 (11.11%) CSS
6 6 (11.11%) OAuth
6 6 (11.11%) OpenAPI
7 5 (9.26%) HTML5
7 5 (9.26%) LDAP
7 5 (9.26%) React
8 4 (7.41%) CSS3
8 4 (7.41%) JMS
8 4 (7.41%) JWT
8 4 (7.41%) MobX
8 4 (7.41%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 11 (20.37%) Product Ownership
2 7 (12.96%) Cloud Native
2 7 (12.96%) Management Information System
3 4 (7.41%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (7.41%) Digital Wallet
3 4 (7.41%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 3 (5.56%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (5.56%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.70%) Data Centre
5 2 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.70%) PKI
5 2 (3.70%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.85%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.85%) Online Banking
6 1 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.56%) Linux
1 3 (5.56%) Unix
2 2 (3.70%) AIX
2 2 (3.70%) HPUX
2 2 (3.70%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (3.70%) Solaris
2 2 (3.70%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (57.41%) Agile
2 20 (37.04%) Stakeholder Management
3 18 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 15 (27.78%) Change Management
4 15 (27.78%) Requirements Gathering
5 13 (24.07%) Integration Patterns
6 11 (20.37%) Test Automation
7 10 (18.52%) DevOps
7 10 (18.52%) ITIL
7 10 (18.52%) Scrum
7 10 (18.52%) Sprint Planning
8 9 (16.67%) Computer Science
9 8 (14.81%) API Design
9 8 (14.81%) Microservices
9 8 (14.81%) Performance Optimisation
9 8 (14.81%) User Acceptance Testing
10 7 (12.96%) Translating Business Requirements
10 7 (12.96%) Unit Testing
10 7 (12.96%) User Stories
10 7 (12.96%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 13 (24.07%) Java
2 7 (12.96%) SQL
3 6 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 6 (11.11%) PowerShell
3 6 (11.11%) TypeScript
4 5 (9.26%) Python
5 3 (5.56%) Apex Code
6 2 (3.70%) Bash
7 1 (1.85%) Bicep
7 1 (1.85%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.85%) SOQL
7 1 (1.85%) SOSL
7 1 (1.85%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (24.07%) BPSS Clearance
2 11 (20.37%) Degree
3 8 (14.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (11.11%) CISSP
5 4 (7.41%) Security Cleared
6 3 (5.56%) CISA
6 3 (5.56%) CompTIA Security+
6 3 (5.56%) CRISC
7 2 (3.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (3.70%) AWS Certification
7 2 (3.70%) Azure Certification
7 2 (3.70%) CEH
7 2 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (3.70%) CISM
7 2 (3.70%) GIAC
7 2 (3.70%) PMI Certification
7 2 (3.70%) PMP
7 2 (3.70%) RHCE
8 1 (1.85%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 1 (1.85%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.81%) NIST
1 8 (14.81%) PSD2
2 6 (11.11%) GRC
2 6 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (9.26%) PCI DSS
4 4 (7.41%) ISO 20022
4 4 (7.41%) QA
4 4 (7.41%) SEPA
5 3 (5.56%) ISO 8583
6 2 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 2 (3.70%) SLA
7 1 (1.85%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (12.96%) Docker
2 5 (9.26%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.85%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (12.96%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.70%) Argo
2 2 (3.70%) Grafana
2 2 (3.70%) Terraform
3 1 (1.85%) Ansible
3 1 (1.85%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.85%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (14.81%) Oracle
2 5 (9.26%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.41%) MuleSoft
4 3 (5.56%) Red Hat
4 3 (5.56%) Salesforce
4 3 (5.56%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.70%) HP
5 2 (3.70%) Splunk
6 1 (1.85%) Google
6 1 (1.85%) Pure Storage
6 1 (1.85%) Snow
6 1 (1.85%) VMware