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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 6 17
Rank change year-on-year -10 +11 -7
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 31 66 18
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 12.97% 25.10% 10.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.78% 26.09% 11.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 65 16
10th Percentile £304 £313 £338
25th Percentile £372 £368 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £456 £529
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -13.80% +6.87%
75th Percentile £491 £506 £565
90th Percentile £579 £580 £576
Cheshire median daily rate £450 £491 £523
% change year-on-year -8.35% -6.03% +16.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £14.90 - -
Cheshire median hourly rate £17.50 £32.00 -
% change year-on-year -45.31% - -

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 225 253 153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 94.14% 96.20% 92.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 241 133
10th Percentile £365 £308 £326
25th Percentile £417 £358 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £420 £455
Median % change year-on-year +14.52% -7.69% -19.47%
75th Percentile £599 £491 £550
90th Percentile £653 £537 £620
Cheshire median daily rate £484 £445 £475
% change year-on-year +8.76% -6.32% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £14.90 - -
Cheshire median hourly rate £32.23 £32.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +0.70% -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 8 August 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 7 (22.58%) Confluence
2 2 (6.45%) Camunda
Applications
1 4 (12.90%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.23%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 10 (32.26%) Azure
2 9 (29.03%) AWS
3 6 (19.35%) GCP
4 2 (6.45%) AWS KMS
4 2 (6.45%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (6.45%) Entra ID
4 2 (6.45%) GitHub
4 2 (6.45%) OpenShift
5 1 (3.23%) Akamai
5 1 (3.23%) Apigee
5 1 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.23%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (3.23%) Azure API Management
5 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.23%) Kong
5 1 (3.23%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) DNS
2 1 (3.23%) HTTP
2 1 (3.23%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (3.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.45%) Relational Database
1 2 (6.45%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.23%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (22.58%) JIRA
2 4 (12.90%) GitLab
3 3 (9.68%) Jenkins
4 2 (6.45%) Git
5 1 (3.23%) Bitbucket
5 1 (3.23%) Claude Code
5 1 (3.23%) Cucumber
5 1 (3.23%) IntelliJ
5 1 (3.23%) JUnit
5 1 (3.23%) Postman
5 1 (3.23%) Selenium
5 1 (3.23%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 22 (70.97%) Analytical Skills
2 17 (54.84%) Finance
3 12 (38.71%) Social Skills
4 9 (29.03%) Banking
5 1 (3.23%) Billing
5 1 (3.23%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (19.35%) Analyst
2 3 (9.68%) Consultant
2 3 (9.68%) Developer
2 3 (9.68%) Risk Analyst
3 2 (6.45%) Business Analyst
3 2 (6.45%) Delivery Manager
3 2 (6.45%) Designer
3 2 (6.45%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (6.45%) Lead
3 2 (6.45%) Security Consultant
3 2 (6.45%) Server Engineer
3 2 (6.45%) Solutions Designer
3 2 (6.45%) Technical Delivery Manager
3 2 (6.45%) Technical Manager
3 2 (6.45%) Unix Engineer
4 1 (3.23%) Agile Coach
4 1 (3.23%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.23%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 1 (3.23%) Lead Consultant
4 1 (3.23%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.13%) OAuth
1 5 (16.13%) REST
2 3 (9.68%) JSON
2 3 (9.68%) OpenID
3 2 (6.45%) Kafka
3 2 (6.45%) SailPoint
3 2 (6.45%) SAML
3 2 (6.45%) Spring
3 2 (6.45%) XML
4 1 (3.23%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.23%) HTML
4 1 (3.23%) HTML5
4 1 (3.23%) Jest
4 1 (3.23%) JPA
4 1 (3.23%) JWT
4 1 (3.23%) Middleware
4 1 (3.23%) OAuth2
4 1 (3.23%) Playwright
4 1 (3.23%) React
4 1 (3.23%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Analytical Mindset
1 4 (12.90%) Cyber Threat
1 4 (12.90%) Product Ownership
2 3 (9.68%) Management Information System
2 3 (9.68%) Virtual Team
3 2 (6.45%) Algorithms
3 2 (6.45%) Client/Server
3 2 (6.45%) Data Centre
3 2 (6.45%) Data Structures
3 2 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.45%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (6.45%) PKI
3 2 (6.45%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.23%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (3.23%) Cyberattack
4 1 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.23%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.23%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (16.13%) Linux
1 5 (16.13%) Windows
2 2 (6.45%) AIX
2 2 (6.45%) HPUX
2 2 (6.45%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (6.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (6.45%) Solaris
2 2 (6.45%) SUSE
2 2 (6.45%) Unix
2 2 (6.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (35.48%) Stakeholder Management
2 10 (32.26%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (29.03%) Agile
3 9 (29.03%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (22.58%) CI/CD
4 7 (22.58%) DevOps
4 7 (22.58%) Vulnerability Management
5 6 (19.35%) Change Management
5 6 (19.35%) Runbook
6 5 (16.13%) ITIL
6 5 (16.13%) Risk Management
6 5 (16.13%) Scrum
6 5 (16.13%) User Stories
6 5 (16.13%) Workflow
7 4 (12.90%) Decision-Making
7 4 (12.90%) Mentoring
7 4 (12.90%) OWASP
7 4 (12.90%) Remediation Plan
7 4 (12.90%) SIEM
7 4 (12.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 5 (16.13%) PowerShell
2 4 (12.90%) Python
3 3 (9.68%) Bash
3 3 (9.68%) Java
4 2 (6.45%) SQL
5 1 (3.23%) Bicep
5 1 (3.23%) C#
5 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (25.81%) CISSP
2 7 (22.58%) Degree
3 5 (16.13%) CompTIA Security+
4 4 (12.90%) CEH
4 4 (12.90%) CISM
5 3 (9.68%) CISA
5 3 (9.68%) CRISC
6 2 (6.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (6.45%) AWS Certification
6 2 (6.45%) Azure Certification
6 2 (6.45%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (6.45%) GIAC
6 2 (6.45%) OSCP
6 2 (6.45%) PMI Certification
6 2 (6.45%) PMP
6 2 (6.45%) RHCE
6 2 (6.45%) Security Cleared
7 1 (3.23%) GSEC
7 1 (3.23%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (3.23%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (25.81%) NIST
2 6 (19.35%) GRC
2 6 (19.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27005
3 2 (6.45%) SLA
4 1 (3.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (6.45%) Active Directory
1 2 (6.45%) Docker
2 1 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.23%) VMware NSX
2 1 (3.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (12.90%) Ansible
2 2 (6.45%) Argo
2 2 (6.45%) Grafana
2 2 (6.45%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.45%) Terraform
2 2 (6.45%) WMI
3 1 (3.23%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (16.13%) ServiceNow
2 3 (9.68%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.68%) Red Hat
3 2 (6.45%) Atlassian
3 2 (6.45%) HP
3 2 (6.45%) Okta
3 2 (6.45%) Oracle
3 2 (6.45%) Splunk
4 1 (3.23%) Google
4 1 (3.23%) MuleSoft
4 1 (3.23%) Pure Storage
4 1 (3.23%) Snow
4 1 (3.23%) Veracode
4 1 (3.23%) VMware